Allison Turned To a very agitated Jo, her professional mask in place and hiding just how worried for her friend she really was. "Ok, Jo." Seeing Jo raise her eyebrows at her Allison started again. "Uh, Major Lupo. I need to ask you a few basic questions, they're standard for a possible concussion."

Seeing that Jo was waiting patiently for her to continue Allison began. "Alright, What is today's date Major?"

"January 8, 2005." Jo replied, a little bored.

"Who's the current President?"

"George W. Bush"

"What is your full name?"

"Josephina Eileen Lupo. "

"Why are you in Eureka?"

Jo glanced around the room. "Sorry Dr, but that's classified. Only Dr Stark and his team know exactly why I'm here." Jo's face closed off, she had her own mask in place now. " And I sure don't feel like discussing it with someone I've only seen around once or twice."

Upon hearing this Henry stepped forward. "It's alright Jo, Dr. Blake is the interim Director of Global Dynamics. She's been fully briefed."

Jo glanced around the room again, looking at where Zane and Carter stood. "Yeah, maybe, but they haven't. Who's the new sheriff? What happened to Cobb?" Jo looked at the tall, thin man that was obviously the new sheriff and sighed. She'd liked Cobb, he'd always seemed like a decent man. Life in the infirmary was boring and she was really going to miss having Cobb visit her. Now she'd be stuck talking with Stark's assistant Fargo. "Good Lord, Fargo is a nice enough kid, but he is such a geek. And the obvious crush he has on me is both annoying and painful to see."

"That's True Major. Why don't we skip that question." Henry replied, giving Allison a look to make sure she understood.

Allison nodded back at Henry but to Jo she said "Why don't you just rest for a while Major. Dr Deacon and I need to confer with Dr. Monroe and the sheriff about what has happened tonight."

Jo sighed with relief. "Yes Ma'am." She was tired and really could use the rest. "Plus it has the added bonus that they'll stop running tests on me. Christ I hate all the tests." Jo layed down on the bed and closed her eyes. She was still a little dizzy and her head hurt worse than before.

Allison and Henry walked over to the others and quietly indicated they should all step out into the hallway, away from were Jo could hear them talking. Just as Fargo came up to the group Zane rounded on Allison and Henry demanding answers. "What's wrong with her? Or maybe I should ask who is she?"

Understanding what Zane was referring to Henry spoke up to try and reassure the younger man, at least reassure him as much as possible considering what had happened to Jo. "That's Jo…I mean that's our Jo."

Zane wasn't convinced and he was starting to worry that Jo was going to be lost to him forever. "How can you be sure? She thinks it's 2005 for Christ's sake. She has no idea who I am or even who Carter is. Hell she barely seemed to know who Allison was. How can you be sure that she didn't take another..uh, trip."

Henry smiled a little. This was actually the one good piece of news they had. "No exotic particles, in fact there's nothing to indicate that Jo went anywhere other than out into the woods."

Carter spoke up "Then what's wrong with her, amnesia? She was looking at me like she wished I was someplace else or someone else. It was kind of like when we first met, she just really didn't seem to be happy to see me." Carter thought back to when he'd first met Jo. "God, I don't want to have to go through that again with her. She wasn't exactly the easiest person to get to know the first time around."

Allison layed a hand on Jack's shoulder trying to comfort him. "Yes, that seems to be exactly what it is, amnesia. What I don't understand is why, her concussion really is pretty mild. In fact if it wasn't for the memory loss I'd send her home."

Grace stepped out of the infirmary and joined the group. She had been doing her own analysis on the equipment Jack had brought back from the woods. Equipment that Grace, herself, had loaned Jo. The tension within the group rose higher as they saw the look on Grace's face. Whatever Grace had found out the others could tell that she was very upset by it.

Henry moved closer to his wife putting his arm around her and drawing her close. "Grace?"

Grace pulled away and began to pace a little, trying to get her thoughts in order. She didn't understand how this could have happened. They'd been so careful about putting multiple fail safe's in place just to keep this from happening. "Jo…Jo doesn't have amnesia. The memories she's missing aren't locked up somewhere inside her brain." Grace took a deep breath before continuing. She…she doesn't have those memories at all anymore. At least not.. not inside of her. They're all recorded on the hard drive for the bio cortex recorder, but they've been wiped from her memory."

Zane was stunned and angry. "Why in the hell would you let her use one of those if you knew it could erase her entire life?" he snapped at Grace. He hated it when something messed with his brain, he liked the idea that something had done just that to Jo even less. His eyes drifted to the window where he could see Jo sleeping peacefully. "She's right there. She's right there and I'm even farther away from being able to reach her than I was before."

Grace felt terrible. She'd been working on adapting the bio cortex recorder to work with people that had suffered a serious trauma. Ones with a trauma so bad that their minds wouldn't allow them to deal with the memory of it. It was part of her PTSD program. The idea was that they would download a specific memory from the patient and erase it from their mind. That way the patient could simply view it on a screen without having to relive the experience over again. But the device was only supposed to target specific memories that had been programmed into it, not erase years of someone's life.

"I'm sorry." Grace said softly. "Jo said that she wanted…" But Grace stopped short. Memories or not Grace doubted very much that Jo would want her to share what she'd told her with everyone. Grace had given Jo one of the newer prototypes of the bio cortex recorder to use because Jo had said she needed to work a few things out and face a few fears. Jo had confided in Grace that she wanted to deal with her past so that she could figure out her future.

Henry stepped between his wife and a very angry Zane. "You know that Grace would never have given the device to Jo if she hadn't thought it was safe."

"Well apparently she thought wrong!" Zane yelled back, but then all the anger seemed to drain out of him. Henry was right. Grace would never have given Jo something she thought was dangerous. "I'm sorry, that wasn't fair."

"Couldn't you just download the memories back into her?" Carter asked, the solution to fixing Jo seemed simple enough to him.

"No…at least not yet." Grace replied sadly. "I never designed a way to put the memories back. I never thought anyone would want those types of memories back." Grace was feeling incredibly guilty and a little stupid . "I never anticipated things going this wrong. I'll…I'll get to work on it right away, but I could use some help."

Zane let out a disgusted snort. He was back to being angry with Grace and was about to ask how she could have not anticipated something like this when Fargo cut him off.

"I'll help." Fargo said finally joining the conversation. "Jo shouldn't have to be stuck in 2005 any longer than necessary." Fargo shuddered at his own memories of back then. "It wasn't pleasant the first time around."

"Alright" Jack said. "In the mean time we'll just tell Jo what's happened over the last six years and explain that we're going to get her memories back for her."

"No, I don't think that's a good idea." Henry cut in quickly. Seeing the stunned expressions on everyone's face expect Fargo and Allison, Henry continued. "Jo…Jo had a lot to deal with back in 2005. More than anyone should really have had to handle. I think it's alright to tell her she's suffering from some memory loss, she seems to be figuring that out on her own anyway. But we should only talk about her life since then in the vaguest of terms with her. "

"Why?" Zane asked clearly frustrated with how things were progressing." What do you want me to do, walk around and pretend like she means nothing to me?" Zane didn't like Henry's plan at all and he didn't see why it would be necessary. He'd hacked Jo's file, nothing in it indicated there had been some deep dark secret with her life back then. "There's no fucking way I can do this. No fucking way do I walk around and pretend like I don't care about her. What I'm just supposed to act like we never…that I never." A picture of Jo in his arms, the two of them making love swam before Zane's eyes. "How in the hell am I supposed to pretend that never happened!"

Allison looked at Zane her face displaying all the sympathy she was feeling for what he was going through. She didn't know all the details of what had been wrong with Jo when the DoD had arranged for her to be brought to GD, but she knew it had been really serious. Allison took Zane's hand as she spoke to him. "I think Henry's right. For Jo it wouldn't mean anything other than someone telling her a story or her watching a movie. All the emotions, experience and knowledge she gained from any of the events of her life wouldn't be there. All we would do is upset her."

"Trust me, Jo is vulnerable enough right now as it is. We can't risk it." Henry told them sadly. He'd worked with Nathan and Jo's medical team when Jo had been brought to Eureka and he remembered vividly just how bad things had been for Jo back then.

"Fine, I won't say anything to her." Zane managed to ground out. He was unhappy with the decision Henry and Allison had made, but he didn't have enough facts to go against them just yet. "But you are not stopping me from seeing her." He said over his shoulder as he pushed his way through the infirmary doors.

Grace glanced through the window watching Zane approach Jo. "I don't understand how this could have happened. That particular function of the device can only be activated by a password. A password that only I know."

Jack was relieved to finally have something to do other than worry about what was happening to his friend. "I'll go back to where Zane found her. Maybe something happened out there that triggered the device."

"I'll go with you." Henry said. "The faster we can get Jo's memories back the better. She's already lived through this once, she doesn't need to do it again."

Jack and Henry headed off into the woods while Fargo went with Grace to her lab. Allison walked back into the infirmary and after checking Jo's vitals she moved away to give Zane some privacy.

Zane sat beside Jo watching her sleep. "We're going to fix this JoJo." Zane had listened to what Henry had said and he'd play along for now. But he couldn't help himself, he reached out and took Jo's hand in his while he continued to watch her sleep.

AN: I know there's a lot of discussion in this chapter about how difficult Jo's life was back in 2005. I've decided to explore a little of what might have made Jo leave the army and stay in Eureka and also what might have made "Enforcer" Jo different from Jo. Plus I needed a reason for Zane not to be able to simply tell Jo about them being together.

Please review and let me know what you think.