Indiscriminate Happenings
Fandom: xxxHoLiC
Characters/Pairing: Doumeki/Watanuki, Himawari, Yuuko
Prompt:8:6- Falling in Love Again
Rating: T
Chapter Genre: Romance/Angst(...?)
Summary: He wouldn't say it but he was a second away from hunting the drunk bastard down and slamming his head into the pavement.
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The accident had taken everyone by surprise. It had happened during the evening, when he was walking home from Yuuko's shop and carrying the groceries he had to pick up for supper that night. A driver, obviously inebriated by the nights activities, squealed around the corner as he crossed the street, the noise alerting him and giving him enough time to turn his body just so, in a way that had saved his life. His right side was clipped and he was sent veering to the left, his head striking the ground. One of the witnesses, an older lady that worked in a flower shop, had enough sense to immediately call the authorities and get an ambulance to the scene.

She saved his life.

The doctors said that he had broken half the ribs on his right side and his arm in three places. One lung was punctured, but his organs remained intact, eliminating the threat of dangerous internal bleeding. His skull had been fractured and he was concussed though they would have to wait to see if it had put him in a coma.

He had never been so worried.

When he did wake up, two weeks after the incident, he was the first one there, Himawari and Yuuko joining him soon after. The lack of reaction to them concerned him, a sense of dread building within him, accelerating when he caught the look on Yuuko's face. It was blank as she observed the interaction between Himawari and the man in the bed, the polite smile on his lips so far away from the one that used to grace them.

There was resignation in her eyes.

Eventually they left but he remained, watching his bedridden lover with narrowed eyes, picking at the ways things were different about him. He no longer bristled at the feel of his gaze, no longer glared defiantly in return, no longer flailed and demanded to know what the hell was wrong with him, no longer had the soft look in his eyes as he called his name. He didn't even know his name, or who he was, or what they were. He only remembered up to the last year of middle school, all of the memories of them, all of him, lost in the recesses of his mind.

It hurt.

But still he returned to the hospital as he recovered, getting them reacquainted and protecting him from the things that strove so strongly to hurt him. There was silent thanks every time those bi-coloured eyes looked at him, so far away from the way they used to be, and he shook his head.

He didn't like it.

When Watanuki was healed he brought him home, setting him up in the guest room beside the one they used to share, his parents greeting the boy with strong hugs and parental doting, having just returned from a trip that had taken them to France. A business venture, his father said, and part vacation for his mother. The two of them had seen them off and returned to the temple. The accident took place three days after that and their homecoming had been earlier that morning.

They had opted to stay at the temple and ready it.

As the months went by, more and more of his Watanuki returned, though the incessant need to be overly polite to the people who had 'taken him in' remained, ever present and ever annoying. Though he supposed it was progress and, as the smaller man came to him after a particularly harsh nightmare, he couldn't help but feel that, slowly but surely, they were falling in love again.
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Yeah, classic amnesia plot? I guess, but it was still fun. =3 I actually wrote this one before most of the ones before it. Note to all: I have not been to medical school and I have no idea of which part of the brain would need to be damaged for memories to be lost, so bear with me, ne? By the way, when Doumeki says, 'he didn't know who he was,' he's talking about himself. Just though you might like to know. :)

By the way, fanfiction was being absolutely annoying and wouldn't let me upload this for two days. Two days! I even updated my openoffice to see if it would work! And it didn't! I'm so mad!!!! .