A/N: I kinda threw Booker and Vivian in randomly here...didn't know how else to do it. ^^ Oh, please look at the end of my profile at the important notice...there will be no updates at all until the end of next week and its explaining why. I didn't want to do it for every story so I just put it in my profile.

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Episode 4: Mom and Dad?

"What is this you're trying to pull on me?" Agasa asked, sounding just a little bit angry as he looked into the room and saw a young boy resting on the bed. He was seven, ---not seventeen! He was looking at them as if he'd never seen them before. "That's not Jimmy! He's just a young boy."

"It is him, I swear it is, doctor!" Rachel tried to pursuade him. She pointed at the chair next to his bed. "Look, those are Jimmy's clothes from the amusment park earlier. And when we were going over what his name might be, he said the name Jimmy sounded familiar!"

"That is probably just a coincidence," Agasa said, clearly not believing just yet.

Rachel sighed. "And are his clothes just a coincidence too? I highly doubt that a normal seven year old boy wears clothes way too big for him."

Agasa had to admit, the clothes were a big giveaway. He'd seen Jimmy in them earlier before he left to the amusment park. But, even to his mind, it was impossible. How did someone just go back to their childhood like that?

"He doesn't remember anything?" Agasa asked.

"He says I look familiar and something tells him that his name is Jimmy...that's all," Rachel frowned. "He's no clue what his last name is, and I didn't want to tell his doctor because I know he'd think I was crazy. But I know...I just know its him, doctor Agasa." She was starting to get upset. Tears were starting to form in her eyes, and Agasa tried to calm her down.

"Alright, calm down my dear... I'm sure Booker and Vivian will be able to tell by a first glance if it is in fact Jimmy or not."

"They're here already?" she asked in surprise.

"Well, they are on their way...they were conveniently stopping in town today to pay a visit to Jimmy so I just called them and told them to come to the hospital instead. I told them he had amnesia, nothing more because you didn't tell me this other little problem."

She sweatdropped. "Sorry, but I knew you'd think I was crazy. I wanted you to see for yourself before."

Agasa nodded in understanding. "But still, its amazing! I wonder if I'm familiar to him..." he said, taking a peek into the room again.

"I don't see why you wouldn't be....you're his next door neighbor and close friend," Rachel said. "Just go in and-"

"Doctor Agasa?" a familiar female voice interrupted Rachel. Panting could be heard, and as the two turned around, they saw Vivian rushing over. Once she was standing in front of them, she had her hands resting on her knees momentarily. She blinked in surprise at seeing Rachel there too. "Oh, hello Rachel dear."

"Mrs. Kudo," she said, just a bit awkardly. It had been a while since she'd seen Jimmy's mother. Booker wasn't too far behind, but he hadn't run up the stairs like his wife had.

"What's happened to my baby?" Vivian asked, looking back and forth between the two, demanding an answer. When suddenly...

"Rachel?" a small voice called from inside the room. Doctor Agasa and Vivian both looked at each other, not sure what to think as Rachel quickly rushed into the room to the boy's side.

"Jimmy, are you alright?" she asked, placing a hand on his shoulder. She noticed he was holding onto his head.

"My head is pounding..."

She immediately pressed the help button, calling for the nurse. Vivian peeked her head inside the room, her eyes widening as Rachel was fussing over the little boy in the bed.

"That's...that can't be..." she stammered. She looked back at Agasa. "Please tell me that's not..." she couldn't finish. She couldn't believe it.

"What's wrong?" Booker asked. He knew Jimmy had amnesia, but he hadn't taken a look into the room just yet. However, when he did...

"Rachel insists that he is," Agasa said with a frown, explaining things to the worried parents. "He has no memory of anything prior to whatever happened to him at the amusement park. His clothes from that time are resting on the chair, and he thinks Jimmy is his name when Rachel went through the alphabet with him to try and find out what it was."

"Well...he certainly looks like Jimmy when he was that age," Booker said, looking at the boy.

"Excuse me, sir," a voice came from behind him, making him turn around slightly. A nurse went into the room quickly, holding some files and putting them down on a desk in the room before rushing to the cabinets to look for something for the boy's head.

When the nurse left, he was starting to feel sleepy. Whatever the nurse gave him must of done it, he thought. He looked up at the girl called Rachel. She was smiling down at him, but he could see that she was worried. For him?

His eyes were starting to close. However, just before he did, three other faces appeared above his head. One was an old, balding guy with grey hair, one was another beautiful woman with light brown hair, and the other was a man, with short dark hair and dark eyes.

"...W...Who are you?" he asked tiredly.

The other pretty woman started to cry after that. She gently brushed some bangs away from his eyes.

"Don't worry, sweetie, mommy and daddy are here."

"Mom...? Dad...?"

His eyes fully closed after that, and everyone watched as the young boy who was the supposedly shrunken detective Jimmy Kudo fell into a deep sleep, his headache long forgotten.

TBC