Chapter 11 Remember Me
Paris Hospital
"Doctor, we have a problem. My husband thinks it's 1990!" Isabella says.
"We know. We're trying to determine if his memory loss is permanent or not".
"When will you know?"
"We need to run more tests on Chris. At this time, everything indicates that his memory loss is permanent. He has gone through a lot of trauma."
Isabella thinks to herself, what's she going to do now? What about Zak? Isabella goes back to Chris's room and he's asleep. She decides to go home.
Isabella's House
Isabella arrives at home. Jean is up waiting for her.
"What's wrong?" Jean asks her.
"He doesn't remember me! He thinks it's 1990!" Isabella tells her.
"What?"
"The doctors don't know if his memory loss is permanent or not. What am I going to tell Zak?"
"You'll have to break it gently to Zak. Did you tell Chris about him?"
"No, he had a hard time believing that we're married", Isabella says.
"Well, the divorce is due to be final in January. So, you guys won't be married for much longer", Jean says.
"I'm stopping the divorce petition", Isabella says.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Jean asks.
"Yes", Isabella says. She goes to bed. She decides to put off telling Zak until the next day.
Paris Hospital - Next Day
"Chris, you're awake", Isabella says as she comes into his room.
"Yes, the doctors told me that it's 2008 and not 1990. They also let me look at a mirror! I didn't recognize the old guy staring back at me", Chris says. Isabella laughs - at least he hasn't lost his weird sense of humor.
"What else did they tell you?"
"They said that you're my wife. What's your name?"
"Well, you always called me Izzy", she tells him the story about how he gave her that nickname.
"Well, then Izzy it is. What do you do?" Chris asks.
"I'm an actress. That's how we met - you wanted to produce a movie of mine", she tells him.
"I broke one of my cardinal rules – I never produce a movie to get close to a woman. You must be really something", Chris says.
"Well, I like to think so", Isabella says.
"How long have we been married?"
"15 years"
"Wow! I've never been married to a woman for that long"
"I know about the whole MI5 thing. That's how you ended up in the hospital"
"I'm sure they'll stop in and want to debrief me", Chris says. He really looks Isabella over and thinks that she's really hot. At least he hadn't lost his taste in women.
"There's something else that you need to know. We have a 10 year old son."
"Are you serious? Was it an accident?"
"No, we planned Zak"
"Zak? What kind of weird name is that?"
"Well, you created it". Isabella tells him about how he came up with Zak's name.
"Zak will be here to see you this afternoon. I'll tell him about your memory loss"
"I'm surprised that I agreed to have a child with you. Uma and I divorced because I didn't want kids.", Chris says. At that moment, the MI-5 people come in and tell Chris about his mission and the agreement between them and him. They also fill him in on the recent happenings between him and Isabella.
In the meantime, Zak and Jean arrive at the hospital. Isabella talks to Zak in a private room.
"Zak, your dad has hurt his head. Some of his memory is gone. He thinks it's 1990", Isabella says.
"Mom, he doesn't remember you or me?" Zak asks.
"No"
"Wow. What do we do?"
"We need to be really patient with him and remember that he loves us both". Isabella takes Zak and Jean to see Chris.
"Chris, this is my sister Jean and this is our son", Isabella says as she ruffles Zak's hair.
"Hello, nice to meet you both", Chris says.
"Dad, you don't remember me?", Zak says. Chris can see that the boy is really upset.
"I'm sorry I don't remember you", Chris says.
Zak, Jean, and Chris talk for a few more minutes. Isabella can tell that he's exhausted, so they leave.
Meanwhile, Chris is thinking...
It's so weird - I feel such a strong connection to that boy. What a strange feeling that I have when I look at his mother. I don't want to love her - I've been through two emotionally taxing divorces and I don't want to go through another one.
Paris Hospital - A Week Later
Chris was going to be released today. Isabella wanted to take him home with her and Zak. She had sent Jean home to Canada.
"Well, today is the big day! Are you ready to go home with us?" Isabella asks.
"Yes, I'm ready to leave this place. The food is awful. Are you a good cook?", Chris asks.
"You always ate my cooking", Isabella says.
Chris checks out of the hospital. He has to use a wheel chair. He has to stay off his leg for the next month. So he's bed-ridden. They arrive at home.
"Does any of this look familiar to you?" Isabella asks.
"No", Chris says. She wheels him into the house and takes him to their bedroom. Isabella has hired a male nurse to help her with Chris. They get him settled in bed.
Zak is excited to have his Dad home. He and Chris seem to be getting along very well. Isabella just wished she could say that about their relationship. She gets ready for bed and joins him in bed.
"Umm, I don't know how to say this..." Chris says this.
"What's wrong? Married people sleep in the same bed" Isabella says.
"Well...Umm If you join me in here, we're not going to sleep for a very long time", Chris says.
"What do you mean?"
"To be frank, I'm just about ready to leap on you!", Chris says.
"What? Your leg is a mess, you have two broken ribs, and your head is killing you and you can think about sex?" Isabella asks astonished.
"Have you looked in the mirror lately? Any man that's in a bed with you and doesn't want to have sex with you is either dead or insane. I'm neither", Chris says.
"Well, I'm not leaving", Isabella says. She hopes that he'll remember her if they make love.
"Listen, to me we're going to have sex and to you we're going to make love. I don't want you to misunderstand what's going to happen here", Chris says.
"That's fine with me. It's been quite while", Isabella says as Chris kisses her. Even with all of Chris's injuries, they didn't get much sleep that night...