The next chapter will be the LAST chapter!

Sorry this one's so short...

Let's see how the story unfolds...

John and Abe carefully carried an almost unconscious Laura to an infirmary room. Abe had figured out that it was her head, so he ran a quick MRI. He was right.

"Her brain is swelling. The pressure is what caused her to black out. I have something to relieve it, but it has some not-so-great side effects," Abe explained.

"What are the side effects?" John queried.

"She'll lose her memory. It will only be the more recent things, so she won't remember any of her time here."

"No." They looked down in surprise at Laura. She was conscious enough to tell them her thoughts. "I don't want to forget anything that's happened."

"If I don't give this to you, you'll die." She held his hand.

"Then get my journal. I've written everything down in it. Write it as a story for me."

"I'm not good with things like that."

"I will," John offered. Abe met his eyes and John smiled. "I'm good at compiling things."

"Thank you," Laura said, then passed out again.

"You didn't tell me all of the side effects, did you?"

"No," Abe said quietly. "This drug counteracts the one I gave her that healed her eyes. She'll be blind again."

"Isn't it out of her system?"

"Doesn't matter. It counters the effects."

"If she won't remember her time here, she won't remember being able to see. Give it to her." Abe nodded and gave the shot to Laura. After he had placed a bandage over the injection site, he rested his hand in hers.

"Since she won't remember me…I'll have to do something about…about…" he couldn't finish, but John knew what he meant. "I shouldn't even be upset. It's just a group of cells right now."

"But it's still life." Abe was watching Laura; her face had tensed, and he could tell she was in pain, but it had lessened. "Look at it this way: if we don't abort it now, how are we going to explain it to her? She won't remember what happened."

"I know, but we just found out. She was so happy."

"What about you?" Abe nodded.

"I'll do what's best for her." He fixed the needle and gently injected it into Laura's lower abdomen. "I'll be back in a moment." John nodded and Abe left him to watch Laura.

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He returned almost an hour later. In his hands was a thick notebook, almost like a journal, which he handed to John.

"Here's her journal. I watched her write in it after she could see again. How she remembered it all, I don't know."

"You remember a lot more than normal people would." Abe shrugged and John flipped through it, scanning the pages. "Will you help me write this last part?"

"When you weren't here?" John nodded. "Yes."

"What were you doing?"

"I packed all her things, so she's ready to go when she's conscious."

"Are you going to be all right with this?"

"I'll have to be. I have something that will make us all forget, but I don't know if I want to use it."

"It would save you the misery."

"Yes. I shall wait until you have left and have finished her story; you don't need to forget her." John nodded and turned his gaze back to Laura, who was beginning to stir. He grasped her hand as she awoke. Abe hung back.

"John?" she asked. "Where am I?"

"At—" he stopped as Abe shook his head; "—a hospital."

"Why?"

"You blacked out and wouldn't wake up. They said you could go home when you were awake and could walk, though." Abe quietly left the room.

"Who was that?"

"Your…doctor."

"Why'd he leave?"

"Now that you're okay, he's giving us some privacy."

"Well, I want to thank him."

"Hang on."

TBC

Poor Abe!

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