Lost

Lost Part 4

Adam sat and stared as a conservatively dressed man with curly black hair walked into the office. “Are you crazy? Do you think this is ok? Jeff you aren’t Normal!”

<*<* “Adam Copeland You are the most disgusting depraved person I’ve ever met and I can’t believe I married you! I’m taking my son out of this!”

“But….”

“Goodbye Mr. Copeland I wash my hands of you!”>*>*

Adam didn’t notice when Jeff got out of the chair or anything else as his head started spinning. He let out a low moan which drew Shane’s attention to him. He kneeled in front of Adam and took his hand.

”Adam?” Adam blinked hearing his name and finished the sentence.

“Copeland,” He whispers blinking.

“What?” Shane says confused. As Adam turns to look at Jeff and the other man who’s pulling Jeff out of the room as he laughs.

“Hey what’s your name anyway?”

“Adam Copeland.”

“I’m sorry, Adam is it? My little brother Jeff…anyway how can I help you?”

“So you’re Dr. Hardy?” Matt nods. “Um where’s Christian?”

“He had to fill out some forms I told him we were up here and he got a little weird. So I guess he’ll just be downstairs.”

“Um, okay.” Adam turns to Matt who is calmly waiting. “Uh, I seem to have amnesia.

“Have you experienced any trauma recently? Stress?”

“I guess, I was kidnapped by my ex-husband. I can’t really remember anything… and I get these head aches.”

“Well it sounds like retrograde amnesia, it may last anywhere from a few hours to a few months. It’s brought about by periods of high stress though total amnesia is… What do you remember?”

“Well I just remembered my last name.”

“Did you remember your first name?”

“No Christian told it to me.” Matt nods.

“Well I would like to set up formal appointments so we could get to the bottom of this. There is more going on here… and have you had a CAT scan?”

“I don’t know; not that I can remember.”

“Would you be able to come in Tuesday?”

“Well I’ll have to talk to…oh man I don’t even know if I have a job.”

“Are you sure we can’t bring Christian in to this?” Matt says glancing at Shane.

“I’ll try,” Shane says leaving the room.

“What do you remember?” Matt asks.

“Well I keep having these dreams I’m not sure what they could mean.”

“Tell me about them.”

Shane gets off the elevator and sees Christian on his crutches handing the nurse the forms he had to fill out. Shane smiles as he walks over to the man.

“Uh Christian?”

“Yeah?”

“Well since you were done, I was wondering if you could come and help answer some questions about Adam.”

“What kind of questions?”

“Just basic stuff about him you know all the stuff he doesn’t remember, what hospital he was at before, even his age and birthday.”

“I guess, where is he?” Shane gives him a strange look, hadn’t he just told him that?

“Upstairs in the psych ward, he’s meeting with the resident Psychologist.”

“No thanks.”

“Excuse me?”

“I’m not going up there.”

“Why not?”

“I’m… tired, I just want to go home maybe another time.”

“Oh okay, well you could come get Adam.”

“That’s alright, I’d rather just wait here try to get used to these crutches.”

“Okay, I’ll be back in a few minutes,” Shane says wondering what is up with Christian and not liking the vibe he’s getting and wondering how much more there was to Adam’s story.

Christian nods as Shane presses the button for the elevator. Christian shook his head he wasn’t stupid, there was no way he was going back to the Psych ward. They were never locking him up in one of those rooms again. He’d show Adam for trying to lock him up again. When they got home…

“Hey Christian,” Adam says smiling and Christian can barely force a grimace.

“You’re foot hurts that bad?” Adam asks concerned looking down at the bandaged foot.

“Yeah, so what went on up there?”

“I was talking to Dr. Hardy and he wanted me to set up another appointment. He said I should go to work too, you know get back into things. He seems pretty nice. What do I do anyway?”

“Whore around,” Christian mutters.

“What? What around?”

“You get around, you’re a freelance reporter, mostly you’re an online sports reporter.”

“Oh… well I guess I can make my appointment for anytime, when are you free?”

“Why?” Christian says hailing down a cab.

“He wants you to help me remember things.”

“Oh I’ll help you remember alright.”

“Christian you feeling okay you sound a little off?”

“Yeah it’s just my foot let’s just get home.”

“Okay.” Adam looks at Christian. “Um…”

“What?” Christian says staring out the window.

“Never mind…” Adam says then takes a deep breath about to start again.

“Just say it,” Christian says.

“Were we going to get a divorce?” That gets Christian’s attention and he whirls to face Adam.

“What?”

“I remembered something, well I think I did when I was up in the office. You were saying you were going to take AJ and that I was disgusting.”

“What else do you remember?”

“Something in a bar it doesn’t make much sense and…” Adam turns bright red and just turns away. “Nothing.”

Christian looks over at Adam, he knew what he was talking about it was Jason’s last straw until he stepped in to take care of things. But things were going too fast, Adam must have remembered more than that to have been trying to lock him up for just showing him what happens when you misbehave. Adam had been bad and Jason had been too weak to take care of it so he had showed him what it was all about.

He knew one thing Adam was never going to see that doctor again. There was no way he’d let someone interfere and try to get in touch with Jason or worse let Adam in on the little secret. He wasn’t giving that body up, and Adam hadn’t learned his lesson. What had they told him? Just because you don’t know something is wrong doesn’t make you innocent.

“Do you have the doctor’s number?”

“Yeah he gave me his card to call him cause I didn’t know our phone number and stuff,” Adam fishes the card out of his pocket and hands it to Christian.

“That’ll be 17.85,” The cabby says pulling up in front of their house.

Christiullsulls out his wallet and pays as Adam gets out of the car and opens the door for him on the other side. Christian smiles weakly. ‘Too late now, you won’t ever forget tonight if you make it out alive.’

Christian hobbled into the house as Adam held the door thinking the crutches could come in handy later. It took him a second to notice that Adam had vanished. ‘What the hell?’ He couldn’t have got far he though as he started hobbling through the dark house. He heard him before he saw him.

“Yeah, he’s okay… he’s on crutches but nothing bad. AJ asleep? Okay yeah I don’t see why he can’t stay with you for the night, you can take him to school right? Okay bye Trish.”

“So AJ’s not coming home?”

“He’s already asleep and it is late, besides I’m not sure I can drive and with your foot.”

“Alright, hey I have a surprise for you.”

“Okay…”

“Come on it’s in the basement.”

To be Continued…