Chapter 14:

I ran behind James and Katie and met them in front of a strange looking shop. On the window was a sign that read Doc. Mitchel's treatment center and pharmacy. The cheetah that was Katie decided to change back into a semi human form.

"In here." Katie said pushing the door open. A bell rang and I looked around. Shelves stocked with various medications and salves lined one wall. On the other side a medical library was overflowing and more books sat on top of the desk. I ran my fingers along the rows of Jars as Katie made her way to the desk and rang the bell that was there. A door in the back opened and a boy who didn't look that much older than me looked around the door. His Lab coat suggested he was the "Doc. Mitchel" Mentioned on the sign. However I was a bit worried because he had a sort of mad scientist look about him.

"Katie, James! How can I help you guys today?" He asked.

"Not us Logan." Katie said. She pointed at me. "Her."

He raised his eyebrows and briskly walked around the desk and up to me. He walked around me in a circle looking me up and down. "Hello. I'm Doctor Mitchel but you can call me Logan." He stuck out his hand for me to shake and I did.

"Kalen." I said.

He crouched a little so he was eye level with me. "Well Kalen what seems to be the problem?"

"I don't remember." I said.

Logan frowned. "Why don't you come with me." He stood up and addressed Katie and James. "I'll take care of her and send her back to town hall when I'm done."

"It's okay I'll wait here." James said. "I have some things to pick up anyway."

Logan nodded. And motioned for me to follow him into the back. Through the doorway was a small hallway at the end of it was a staircase that I assumed led up to an apartment and to either of my sides was a door. The one to my left had a sign on it reading stores and Logan ushered me into the one on my right. In it I saw an examination room. I walked over to the bench and sat down.

"I'll be right back." Logan said. "I'm going to get someone to help James.

I nodded and looked around the room it was how I would imagine any doctors office would look accept that it had wooden walls and a chrome panel with lots of buttons on one of the walls.

Logan walked into the room with a clip board and sat down on a rolling chair "So when you say you can't remember what do you mean?"

I thought for a second before I answered. "I… Well I don't know anything."

"What's two plus two?" Logan asked.

"Four."

"If you knew that then you know something." He said.

"I mean I don't know anything about myself."

"You know your name." he pointed out.

"That was a guess." I told him.

"Why did you guess Kalen?"

"That's what the voices keep calling me."

"Voices?" He gave me a skeptical look.

"I woke up one day just outside of that forest and voices keep on talking to me. The only thing that was constant was that they called me Kalen… so I assume it's my name."

"I see. Do you know a last name?" He asked.

"No." I said.

"Alright. I'm going to try something." He rolled over to the panel and pressed a button. From the celling and floor a machine began to come together.

"Can you lie down please?" Logan asked. I lied back as he explained what was going on. "I'm going to use a few machines to take different kinds of pictures of your brain. I don't think anything is wrong but I'm just trying to see if I can find out why these… voices are pestering you."

The various machines hummed and buzzed. Logan clicked a few more buttons on the wall and the last machine disappeared. The pictures of my brain were printed and he put them up on the wall where a black light made them glow. I watched as he investigated each picture. "Oh…" He said.

"What?" I asked. "What is it?"

"Do you see this?" He pointed to a dark spot on one of the pictures.

"Yeah." I said. "I don't know what it is though."

"I had guessed." He said with a grin. "This is a bruise on your brain. "It could be what's causing you're amnesia."

"Oh… will it go away?"

"Well the bruise itself will fade but as to weather or not your memories return is another question." He said.

I frowned. I wanted to know what had happened. Shy had I jumped out of a window and who was the voice that kept talking to me. "I can answer some of your questions though."

"What?"

"You are fifteen years old. I took a few other x rays and they told me your age. And you have an ancestry from English, Irish and French roots." He said.

"Oh…" I said. "I was hoping for a name…" I said with a grin.

"I know." He picked up another slide. "This is a scan of the part of your brain that is responsible for interpreting your thoughts.

"Part of it has the bruise…" I observed.

"Your right." He continued to explain. "But other than that it's significantly larger than a quote unquote 'normal' brain."

"So?" I asked.

"Well if the part of your brain that interprets thoughts is larger theoretically your hearing is better and since I can't see anything wrong with your ears I assume that is the case." He continued to ramble as if it was the most exciting thing ever. "I think that the voices in your head were a figment of your imagination. Your brain was so used to constantly having sound stimulate it wherever you were before that it just made up sounds for you to hear after you were alone in the quiet."

"So they should go away?" I asked.

"Yes with time exposed to sound they will go away." He said. He stood and motioned for me to follow him. "I want you to check back with me if you begin to remember anything."

He walked out the door in front of me and as I stepped through behind him I heard it.

"Hey Kalen."

I stiffened slightly. You are a figment of my imagination. Go away.

"It's me again."

You are not real if you were you would have a name.

This time a different voice popped up. It was more feminine than the usual one. Hey I know I haven't talked to you in a while… There hasn't been much to say…

I shook my head for a second trying to ignore the voices. When I looked p Logan was talking to a fairy. It took me a second to realize that the she was about my age.

"Kalen I want you to meet my sister, Callie." He said.

James was sitting by the desk with a bag next to him. "She's your age and wants to be your friend!"

"I'm Callie." She said. "It's nice to meet you. Hey after you get checked in at town hall you should come back and I'll introduce you to my friends!" She was loud and talked fast so it kind of overwhelmed me but I was glad there was someone like her here and wanted to be my friend.

"Kalen. It's nice to meet you."

Please if you can hear us WAKE UP!

So the idea of this dream is her brain trying to make sense of what happened and the fragments of memories that she has left after the "Accident". I hope I'm doing an okay job of introducing each person as she is reintroduced to them. Tell me what you think. She's going to meet Christopher and Jack next if anyone has a suggestion on how they should be in the… dream? Hallucination? Whatever you want to call it…

Till next time.

~PtbK