Brooke and Lucas spent the next 3 hours sitting beside October's bed in the ICU. They cast the occasional glance at each other, but were otherwise acted as if the other weren't in the room.
"Brooke," Lucas said.
"Yes," Brooke said looking up.
"I mean it, I do love you," Lucas said.
"I meant it too," Brooke replied.
"So, what are we going to do about that?" Lucas said, squinting.
"Hello," October said, weakly.
"You woke up," Brooke said, jumping out of her seat.
"What happened? Who are you?" October asked looking around.
"That's Lucas, your dad," Brooke said confused.
"I don't have a dad," October said simply.
"Well, of course you do," Brooke replied, "And that's him."
"When is my mom getting here?" October asked, looking Brooke in the eye, "I'm scared."
"I'm your mom, what are you talking about?" Brooke said, growing extremely worried.
"How old are you?" Lucas asked randomly.
"I'm, um, I'm..something,"October replied.
"You don't remember anything do you?" Brooke said.
October said silently.
"I'll go get the doctor," Lucas replied, walking out of the room.
"Sweetie, can you tell me your name?" Brooke asked.
"Nope," October replied after a few seconds of silence.
"Can you think really hard, and remember who I am?" Brooke asked.
"I don't know you," October said frustrated.
"Yes you do," Brooke whispered, "I'm your mom, you have to remember me."
"You're not my mom, you don't feel like her," October said, "Where am I?"
"The hospital, in Tree Hill North Carolina," Brooke replied.
"I don't live here though, how did I get here?" October said panicking.
"Hello October," Dr. Miller said as he walked into the room.
"Um, hi," October said tears forming in her eyes.
"Can you tell me what day it is?" Dr. Miller asked.
"No," October said, mad. Why was everyone asking her questions? Why was everyone here strangers? Where the hell was Tree Hill? What happened?
"Think as hard as you can, what was the last day you remember?" Dr. Miller asked.
"Um, I think it's..November," October replied, hopefully.
"No, actually it's June 19th," Dr Miller replied.
"How did that happen?" October asked.
"Do you know you have HCM?" Dr. Miller asked.
"Yes," October replied.
"Well, your HCM caused you to have trouble while you were swimming, and you almost drowned," Dr. Miller said calmly, "But you are fine now, except you seem to have some memory loss going on."
"So, she is my mom?" October asked pointing to Brooke.
"Yes," Dr. Miller replied, "And that's your father."
"Why can't I remember people that have been around me since I was born?" October asked, trying to understand what was happening.
"It's hard to determine the cause, but it's most likely because of a lack of oxygen while you were under the water," Dr. Miller replied, "Hopefully your memory will come back, but we are going to need to keep you here to determine if it is or not."
"Okay," October replied, as Dr. Miller left the room.
There was a soft knock on the door and Lilly's head hoped in.
"Hi Luke, can I come in?" she whispered.
"Yeah, come in," Lucas said moving over to give Lilly room.
"Lilly?" October asked sitting up.
"October!" Lilly said, bursting into a wide smile.
"I remember you!" October said excitedly, which resulted in Lilly giving her an odd look. Lilly was told what had been going on, and she hugged October.
"It's going to be okay, alright?" Lilly asked.
"Promise?" October asked, hugging Lilly tightly.
"Promise," Lilly stated.
"Who's Keith?" October said suddenly.
Lucas, Lilly and Brooke looked at her at once.
"Keith?" Lucas asked.
"Yeah, I saw him, he said he's Keith, and that I'd be okay, and that he wished he could've seen me and his daughter," October said, wondering who Keith, along with his daughter, was.
"Keith's my dad," Lilly replied.
"But your dad died," October said.
"I know," Lilly whispered.
"I'm not lying to you Lilly, I never would, I met your dad," October said, with a sad look on her face.
"I know your not, it's just weird," Lilly whispered.
"Do you remember anyone else?" Lilly asked a minute later.
"You're Lilly, Keith's your dad, and Peyton is..there, and Jamie from the party, and I can remember other people, but I don't know their names, or who they are to me," October replied.
"You remember Peyton but you can't remember me?" Brooke asked.
"I'm sorry," October replied, looking at her feet.
"I'll be back in a minute," Brooke said, standing up.
"Brooke," Lucas said following her in the hall. He closed the door before he began speaking again, "You can't be mad at her."
"I'm not," Brooke said defensively, "It's just..hard. How can she remember..HER, and not remember me?"
"I don't know," Lucas said softly, "But you can't hold that against her. She didn't choose what she does or does not remember."
"Is she ever going to remember?" Brooke asked.
"We will just have to wait and see," Lucas replied, "But I have something I need to ask you."
"What is it?" Brooke replied.