Chapter 7: Forgotten In Dreams
 Theme Song: Leave Out All the Rest- Linkin Park -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking around, he began taking in the sight before him. Yellow walls, with rainbow borders and some teddy bears dancing around; Cute and fluffy!he thought to himself smiling as the man standing near him burst out into tears.
“Hold on…” the man said, as he rushed out of the room, leaving Lukas by himself. Huh… he’s acting weird. He doesn’t normally act like that… Lukas considered to himself, confused about how he knew about the actions of someone he’d decided he’d never met. Noticing the IV in his arm and began picking at it. Huh, I must be in a hospital… he mused, his thoughts continuing as he noticed the giant cast running up his other arm and stopping at his chest, and that must be part of the reason.
Startled, his attention suddenly turned to the fleet of hospital staff running into the room followed by the man. He watched as one of them made his way right next his bed and kneeled over him with a pen light in his hand. “Lukas, my name is Dr. Baum,” the man began, clicking on the light and shining it into his eyes as he continued, “We need to do a few tests. You’ve been in a coma for quite a while and you’ve had all of us worried. I need to you to follow this light with your eyes first, ok?” “Um, ok…” Lukas trailed off, looking at the doctor and he looked around at all the people before a wave of panic began to spread over him. “What happened? Where’s my brother? What are all you people doing in here?” Lukas began to yell, the wave of panic finally taking hold. Trying to get up, he suddenly found himself being held down by several of the people that had entered the room. Suddenly, the man with dark hair rushed to his side and grabbed his hand. “Lukas, just calm down…” the man began to softly say to him, rubbing his arm, “ Your brother is downstairs in the cafeteria getting food. Just calm down and let the doctor…” Cutting him off, Lukas began to scream and cry. “WHO THE HELL ARE YOU? WHY CAN’T I REMEMBER ANYTHING?! HELP! PLEASE, SOMEONE!!!” “Somebody, grab me 4mg of Atavan and 25mg of Thorazine!” Dr. Baum called out as the man with dark hair froze and stared at him. Still flailing, he watched as someone injected the clear liquid brought to him. Suddenly feeling drowsy, he stared in confusion at the man crying next to his bed as he quickly drifted asleep. ------------
Looking over, he watched his brother and the strange man chatting quietly out in the hall. “Lukas, I really need you to try and pay attention…” the doctor sighed out, drawing his attention back to the x-ray on the computer in front of him. Nodding, he turned his head back to Dr. Baum. “As I was saying, besides your shoulder, scapula, and humerus being broken and having a perforated abdomen, you suffered serious head trauma. We can see from the CT of your skull here that you suffered some severe swelling in the temporal region here, and some slight swelling here in the amygdale and hippocampus. However, with the lack of blood you didn’t have near as much swelling as a typical trauma such as this. Also, the cold temperatures outside that day acted as a form of therapeutic hypothermia, further…” “And all this means?” Lukas asked, quickly getting bored as the doctor droned along. Shifting in the bed, he winced as he felt the stitches along his stomach pulled slightly. “Essentially, you had some brain damage from the crash. Honestly, we aren’t sure how much damage there is, but you definitely are suffering from severe memory loss. From what your psychological evaluation is showing, it looks like you’re suffering from mixed amnesia, as well as source amnesia and regarding your inability to remember some of the people in your life, a minor form of dissociative fugue.” Dr Baum explained, as Lukas tried to wrap his head around what he was being told. “But will I remember anything?” Lukas asked, frustrated. “We’re hopeful that most of the trauma is temporary, but you’ll most likely not remember anything that happened during and before the accident that day. The worst case scenario here is that you won’t be able to remember anything that you’ve lost. The good news is, however, that you seem to have almost all your cognitive skills, and there doesn’t seem to be any damage to your brain other than your memory loss,” replied the doctor, slowly walking to the door, “That’s about it. I’m going to go talk to everyone and explain where we plan on going from here.” Lying back on the bed, Lukas nodded and closed his eyes. Turning his attention to the door, he strained his ears to listen to them outside. “Well, I told him everything I told you both and he seems to be taking it well…” Lukas could hear the doctor explain to his brother and that man. “Doctor, where do we go from here? Will he be able to come home?” he could hear Sebastian ask, the worry clear in his younger brother’s voice.
“Honestly, I don’t really see why he can’t go home in a couple of days. Everything we can do has already been done, and now we just have to wait until he gets his memory back. Honestly, the best place for him to do that is to be around things he might remember. So, I’m going to put in his charts that unless we find something that requires his stay to be longer, that he be released into to your care. I take it you have made arrangements with where he will be staying?” he heard the doctor reply. “I’ve taken care of it. He and his brother will be moving in with me at my house. I’ve already made arrangements to have their things moved into my home out at Heatherwood, and I can promise that he’ll be taking it slow if and when you clear him to come back to work…” confusion spread across Lukas’ face as he heard the last bit from that strange man. Why was it he knew that what the guy was doing was so out of character? Why was it he didn’t know the man’s name and how was it he knew him, but had no memory of ever meeting him? Defeated at his own questions, he continued to listen. “Why doesn’t he remember me? Or what happened?” “Honestly, we have no idea. The brain is a strange organ. It does weird things to protect itself. Sometimes it blocks out certain things while under extreme stress. Other times, just one little wrench is thrown in and the whole machine goes out of whack. I just don’t have a good answer for you,” he heard the doctor answer. “Well, if you both don’t have any other questions I’m going to call it a night. Brian, Sebastian, if either one of you have any questions, just ask the nurses to page me. I’ll let them know you both will be staying here tonight with him.” With the doctor’s parting words, Lukas heard him turn around at the door and walk away. So his name is Brian… Lukas thought to himself in his half awake state, as he heard his brother and the man settling back into the room quietly. Finally succumbing to the remains of the sedatives in his system, Lukas relaxed and slowly drifted to sleep, barely registering it when felt a warm hand enclose his. |
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