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Episode 3: The Detective With No Memory

"Who....who are you?"

Rachel's eyes widened at the question. If it was Jimmy, he surely wouldn't ask her that, right? Unless...

"My name is Rachel," she said, smiling softly down at him. He looked back up at her, blinking before taking the oxygen mask off his nose. He didn't feel like he needed it anymore, and sat up in bed.

"You...look familiar..." he said quietly, holding onto his head. Her face paled. She didn't know any seven year old boys that looked exactly like Jimmy. He said she looked familiar, and his clothes were....but HOW?

"Do you remember your name?" she asked hopefully, but her hopes faded when he shook his head after a moment. "Oh. Well, let's go through the alphabet and see if one sounds familiar to you!" Rachel smiled. "How does that sound? If I look familiar to you then you might remember your name if I say it."

The boy stared at her a few moments more, wondering why she looked so familiar and also why when she was so close like this his little heart started beating faster. That wasn't normal for a kid, right?

"O-Okay," he finally replied.

"Great! Now.." she so desperately wanted to say the name Jimmy first but she didn't want to scare him or anything, so they did indeed go through the alphabet. "Let's see....Adam? Alan? Bryson? Colin? Dennis? Eli?" She said a few more names until she got to J, and he frowned. Didn't his name start with 'J'?

"Jim...J-Jimmy...Joh-"

"Wait!" he looked up at her, startling her when he stopped her so suddenly. "I have a feeling my name starts with 'J'... what were the names again?"

Her own heart beating faster, she repeated them. "Jim...Jimmy, Jo-"

"That's it!" he smiled up at her. "Something's telling me that's my name! It's Jimmy!"

Rachel didn't even get a chance to say something after that because the doctor came in then, a smile on his face. "Ah, she helped you remember your name?" he asked, and he smiled and nodded. "Good, but what about your last name?"

He suddenly frowned, shaking his head. "I.. don't know," he said, glancing at Rachel. She knew, why wasn't she telling the doctor?

The doctor wouldn't believe her. That's why.

Who would believe that the famous teen detective, Jimmy Kudo, was laying right before them in a hospital bed, somehow reverted back to age seven?

"E-Excuse me a moment..." Rachel stood up, bowing slightly to the doctor before leaving the room. She sighed once the door was closed behind her and leaned back against it.

That...that little boy is...is really... Rachel thought, tears stinging at the corners of her eyes. But -how-? That's...impossible!

But it wasn't. The proof was right there in front of her. If it wasn't enough that he looked like Jimmy, his clothes from the amusement park had been beside his bed. And those eyes...

She shook her head, walking over towards the vending machine. There was no mistaking it.

That little boy was really Jimmy Kudo.

After getting a drink from the machine, she walked around, trying to find a payphone. Finally finding one in the hallway, she inserted a coin and dialed a number.

Come on, come on...

"Hello? You've reached Dr. Agasa!" a cheery man's voice answered on the other line. She sighed.

"Dr. Agasa, do you think you could come down to the hospital? After calling Jimmy's parents?" she added. He frowned on the other line.

"Oh dear...what happened?"

"...I... He has amnesia," she finished. She didn't know how to tell him that he had shrunk, he probably wouldn't even believe her. It was best for him to see for himself.

"What?" he asked in disbelief.

"He doesn't remember who I am, even his own name! We went through the alphabet so that he'd remember it, but..." she was starting to get upset now.

"Calm down, Rachel. Don't worry, I'll give Booker a call, and then I'll be right over."

"T-Thank you, Dr. Agasa. He's on the second floor, room five."

She waited not too far from the door, sipping at her drink, but her hands were shaking. How was it possible that he was able to go back a few years in age? She was sure it had something to do with those men in black he followed. That was the last time she'd seen him, after all.

"Rachel?" asked a slightly out of breath Dr. Agasa as he walked over. "Is Jimmy alright?"

Rachel's head was bowed, noticing the doctor leaving Jimmy's room. She said nothing, but took him over to the room in which the doctor had just left. She quietly opened the door.

"....see for yourself..."

A/N: Uh oh! And Booker and Vivian will make an appearance, either in the next chapter or the one after that.