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Posted: **Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:33 am**

The wood is firm in Louie's hands, the mop holding up his weight as he awakens to himself with a brief start, with the queer sinking sensation of a micro-sleep. His blue janitorial uniform is clean but for a few bleach stains. The air is warm and clean with the hospital tang of detergent and sterile plastics.

Jill awakens with a jolt as her chin slides off her fist, her elbow on the cabinet at the foot of the bed, her body sitting on a chair. She wears a nice daisy-print dress that her husband has always loved. A children's book lays open on her lap - Ronald Dahl.

The curtains on the Children's Ward have been pulled back, allowing the waning light of the dying day to fill the room. The television set is on. A children's show involving dinosaurs is on the air. Several of the children are sitting up in their beds, watching the show eagerly. Others watch her and Louie curiously. A few of the children - Alisha, Brianna, Corey, Dahlia - are all still asleep.

Posted: **Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:26 pm**

Jill tries to hide her shock, and manages to keep her jaw from dropping open, yet she can't help but run a hand down her leg, where her wound is ... was? She glances around the room, half expecting to see some new monstrosity emerging from the corners. The children she remembers from her--was it really a dream?--are asleep ... should she wake them? Had they really shared her nightmare? As she looks out of the window at the beautiful sunset, she barely manages to keep tears from trickling down her cheek. Of course it was just a nightmare. Of course it was.

It is then that her eyes catch those of the janitor, what was his name? Louie. He had been there. Does he remember? Is that even possible?

Posted: **Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:39 pm**

Louie looks around and grabs his wrists automatically. He sees Jill sitting in the chair. His infatuation with her is suddenly not so important. It was too real, but did it happen. He see's Jill checking for something on her leg that's not there just like he did with his wrists.

"Jill? Are you ok? I think I'm losing my mind."

Louie see's Brianna lieing in the bed and starts to weep.

"She's ok....I didn't....She didn't. I won't do it Brianna. I promise."

He sinks to his knees beside Brianna's bed and hold her hand.

"I'll take care of you."

Posted: **Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:51 am**

"Yeah, of course I am. I just nodded off, nothing really happened."

Jill is unnerved when Louie begins weeping and, worse, she's afraid that the children will be disturbed by his strange behavior. Although if his behavior is the worst thing they have to worry about right now, that's not so bad. She moves over to him and awkwardly pats his shoulder. "C'mon, Louie, these kids are trying to watch TV. Let's go out into the hallway, okay? We should leave them in peace, right?" She tries to keep a reassuring smile on her face so that the children are not worried.

Posted: **Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:36 pm**

Louie rises and follows Jill into the hallway.

"I don't know if I just had a nightmare or if I'm getting a second chance to set things right. My gut feeling is telling me to get all of those kids out of there before the metal wires come out of the toilet and start killing the children." Louie pauses and looks at Jill for a second. Unsure if he is sounding like a madman. Maybe he is mad. "I know I probably sound crazy, but it was so real."

Posted: **Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:02 pm**

The breath catches in Jill's throat at Louie's mention of the wire thing and whatever she was about to say is lost for a moment. "You could go check out the toilets, see if there's anything suspicious." It must have been a dream, ... but it doesn't hurt to check things, right? Especially if it helps shake off this sense of dread. "But I'm more concerned about the children who are still asleep. They could still be there, or, you know what I mean. But is it safe to wake them? What were you doing there before you woke up here?"

Posted: **Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:35 pm**

Louie notices Jill's reaction to the mention of the wires. The fact that she didn't out right call him crazy makes him think it might not have been a dream.

"You're not going to believe me, but I was outside the hospital surrounded by the spirits of children covered in water. It looked like a nuclear bomb had gone off and everything was covered in ash. The next thing I knew I was here. It was a bad dream right? Tell me I'm crazy. I'd rather be crazy than for all of that to be true. It was so real....and the things I did......I....."

Louie trails off and seems to be lost in his own thought. The geeky comic book, starwars loving guy isn't what he used to be.

Posted: **Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:01 am**

Jill looks at Louie with concern. "I ... I'm going to assume that it was a nightmare. I don't think that we have to be crazy or think that it was true. Somehow we both shared a weird dream. Maybe something's gone bad with the food in the vending machine..." Jill doesn't seem like even she's willing to believe that, but she presses on. "Anyway, it's over now, right? So let's gently wake up the kids who are still asleep in case they're still stuck in that nightmare too. Okay?" She's not quite sure why, but it seems very important to Jill that they wake the kids soon, before something bad happens to them in the dream. It could get worse.

Posted: **Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:03 pm**

Louie looks back into the room with a sad look on his face.

"Something tells me that we aren't going to be able to wake some of them. I think another doctor has sedated them, and if they shared the same dream as us.........well...I don't think..."

Louie trails off like there is something that he wants to say, but can't get the words out.

"I guess your right though we should wake the kids. If this is a second chance we need to be prepared. Dammit I'm just a janitor. There is something you should know, but.........I...promise you won't hate me...please."

Louie looks genuinely scared. He has something to say, but is afraid it's unforgivable.

Posted: **Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:16 pm**

Jill looks confused. Why would a doctor have sedated them? That was just in the dream. The longer she's awake, the more willing she is to believe that it really was just some nightmare. How could it have been otherwise? Sure, it's strange that the janitor had the same dream, and the kids who were in her dream are still asleep ... but Louie interrupts her train of thought with his plea. "Why would I hate you? Louie, are you okay? What's the matter?"

Posted: **Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:46 pm**

Louie stares at Jill in the eyes deciding what he wants to say. Finally he takes a deep breath and let's it out before beginning.

"It wasn't a dream. If anything it was a vision. My family has been part of an organization that meets below the hospital for generations. There are caverns below that are hundreds possibley thousands of years old. My mother has been pushing me into it since I was a small child. I have a title, but that's not important. What's important is that this group has been trying to keep the spirits that inhabit this place under control. What we saw is what happens if they fail. My job was to bring a sacrifice.......Louie looks back into the room, and then back at Jill........the problem is I can't do it. I'm a failure and everyone is going to suffer for it. Brianna was supposed to be the one. She's like a daughter to me, and she hates me. I did some terrible things to try and protect her. The problem is she thinks I'm out to hurt her. I won't do it. There has to be another way. I know you think I'm crazy, but I'm telling you the truth. I don't know why, but I trust you. I swear to you that I don't want to hurt anyone.

Louie stops talking and stares at Jill, giving her time to let what he said sink in. She hates me. She thinks I'm a monster. I didn't want to tell, but I couldn't keep it in anymore.

Posted: **Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:31 pm**

Jill stares at Louie, dumbfounded. She opens her mouth, realizes she doesn't know what to say, and closes it again. She glances around the hallway, but there's no one near enough to have overheard.

The easy answer would be to assume that Louie was crazy, or maybe just that he still was caught up in the nightmare ... but some of what he said seemed to make sense of bits of the dream. She couldn't believe him. What he said was crazy, and if it was true, it means the dream wasn't just a dream, and she doesn't know if she could handle that.

She looks into the ward, where the children were happy and peaceful, and then brings her gaze back to Louie. Staring him straight in the eyes, she challenges him to make her believe him.

"Show me the caverns."

Posted: **Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:46 pm**

Louie gulps when Jill asks to see the caverns. The last place he wants to go is back there. There wouldn't be time to set everything else right.

"What about the children. If what we saw comes again the children will be ripped apart. Plus Carson hasn't been infected yet we might still be able to save him. There are so many people we could help. The only thing going down there would do is possibley get us into trouble. They don't take too kindly to outsiders intruding where they shouldn't be. I'll take you if your set on it, but we need to make a stop on the way down. There is a room that has some guns in it. We may need to protect ourselves.....well I'll be fine, but I would rather you were protected. Dammit.......you don't know what your asking. I don't know if I can protect you. The cult has members everywhere, you even know some....like nurse Hammond for one."

Louie stops talking abruptly fearing he is sounding like a lunatic and just stares at Jill waiting for her reaction.

Posted: **Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:00 pm**

The more Louie says, the harder it is for Jill to dismiss it as crazy rantings. The talk of guns and protection shakes her, as does the mention of Nurse Hammond. "If I remember right, there wasn't much we could do to keep the kids from being ripped apart." Jill stops and takes a deep breath at the memory. Somehow she seems more angry than afraid, and this gives her strength. "Besides, I don't see why what happened in the nightmare has to be the future. For one thing, I don't have a big bag full of construction materials with me." At least, I don't think I do. "And I can't believe what you're saying unless you show me somehow that it's true. And if it is, then I guess we have to figure out some way to stop it, right?" Jill swallows a sudden desire to start crying. It wasn't fair; she had woken up from the nightmare, it was just a dream, and now here's a guy who's trying to tell her that it's not--that it's real.

Posted: **Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:36 pm**

Louie nods his agreement.

"Your right. I don't know if there is anything I can do to prove this to you other than take you with me. The thing I'm most concerned with is this real. I mean is this another trick done by this god foresaken hospital. The last thing I knew I was surrounded by the spirits of past sacrifices, and I refused to hurt them. I have the ability to stop one supernatural attack if I need it. Kind of like a get out of jail free card." Louie pulls out the vial from around his neck and shows Jill. It's full of a almost glowing blue liquid. " I had a shotgun and a black cloak too. I'm assuming they are back in that room I got the gun in. That's the room that it happened in......where Brianna killed her."

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:25 pm**

The blue liquid unnerves Jill.

"Wait, what? What happened with Brianna?"

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2007 5:16 pm**

imme wrote:Wait, what? What happened with Brianna?"

Louie closes his eyes and he appears to be crying softly as the memories wash over him. In a calm voice that contradicts his appeance he tells his storey.

"We were in a room. A room I knew to be safe from all of the weirdness. It turns out we should have stayed away. Brianna, me, and childrens preformer name Ronald left and I took them there. When we got to the room it was full of members from the cult. I tried to get them to play along. They knew how important my job was, but Ronald was out of control. He was yelling at them, telling them they should be out there helping people. I went back into the hall to get Brianna some pain medication, and when I got back Ronald was still yelling. Poor Brianna was so scared. I put my shotgun down on the bed, and that's when Dr. Sutcliffe shot Ronald with a tranquillizer gun. Brianna panicked, and grabbed the shotgun. Before I knew it there was nothing left of Dr. Sutcliffe. Brianna was ruined for the sacrifice. They wanted to kill her and Ronald, but I wouldn't let them. I knocked Ronald out with the butt of a shotgun and then threatened them, and told them to make sure Brianna and Ronald weren't hurt. They had to listen to me. None stood higher. I didn't know what I was going to do. I just knew that people needed help. That's when Nurse Hammond and I set off into the hospital. She was set on getting another sacrifice, but I wanted to help as many people as possible. The next thing I knew I was here. Now you know everything. It would have been better if I had been killed. With everything I've been a part of I deserve nothing less. Brianna hates me now. She thinks I'm a monster, and I can't help but think she might be right."

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2007 5:33 pm**

Shivers run up and down Jill's spine as she listens to Louie. As if speaking to herself, she mutters, "When Nurse Hammond appeared to help us move the children ... she was really only there to collect another sacrifice?" She sighs deeply. She recognizes that Louie is in pain, but can't bring herself to comfort him. If what he says is true--and it's getting harder for her to deny it--then he has been involved in some horrible business. But she doesn't fear for her own safety; he does seem authentic in his repentance, at least.

Jill runs a tired hand through her hair. "Louie, listen. What happened in the dream hasn't really happened yet, okay? So let's try to stop this all before it can begin." I can't believe I'm saying this. "What can we do?"

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2007 6:50 pm**

Louie shrugs and looks at Jill with a look of hopelessness.

"That's the problem. I don't know. You see the one thing I forgot to tell you is that the people in this group are not violent by nature. Most of us are pacifists. We have been researching for generations how to stop this without a sacrifice, and so far no other option has presented itself. There may be one or two violent people associated with the cult, but that is it. We are made up of mothers, fathers, sons and daughters all trying to stop the world as we know it from ending. That's why I feel like such a failure. Every other person in my position, in the past, has done thier job. With one exception, but that is why there are more than one betrayer. Just in case one of us fails. Even though none of us enjoy the sacrifice, it is still a necessary thing. Without it everything we have experienced is doomed to repeat itself, but I can't do it. I can't hurt a child. I thought I could. I knew I should, but I couldn't. And as far as I know the other betrayers have failed, or we would not be going through this. So if you have any ideas I'm up for hearing them."

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:23 am**

Jill takes another couple of steps away from the door to the ward. Questions pour into her mind faster than she can decide which to ask. "I don't understand any of this. Why are there caverns under the hospital? Why does a sacrifice have to be made to stop ... whatever it is? And what is it, anyway? What do you mean 'with one exception'--did the sacrifice not happen once? Does the sacrifice have to be a child? And why isn't this all just a bad dream?"

Jill's face brightens for a moment. She grabs her upper arm between thumb and index finger and gives it a hard pinch. She looks up at Louie again and groans in frustration.

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:35 am**

Louie trys to take in all of Jill's questions and answers them as best he can.

"I don't know fully how the caverns came to be. That was never my area of expertise. To be honest I'm not allowed to know all of the history. I had one task that I was assigned that I focussed on fully. There are other members that have the knowledge that you want to know. The one exception was my father. He was the head betrayer back in his time. He couldn't bring himself to do it and there was almost a disaster. Another betrayer stepped in and did the sacrifice for him. He was shamed and I never saw him again. I think my mother had him killed. She is one of the exceptions that I referred to earlier. She lives for violence. I think it angers her that I'm so much like my father. The one question I can answer is yes, it does have to be a child. Not only that but they need to be innocent, and most importantly they can't know what is going to happen. They have to trust the betrayer fully. This is why I have the title betrayer, and once again someone from my family can't fulfill his duty."

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:09 am**

Corey's back arches up off the mattress and he exhales loudly. He begins to tremble and seize up, his limbs flapping about in different directions as though he were trying to hold someone off. His eyelids flutter open, revealing eyes that had rolled up to the back of his head.

"Doctor!" cries one of the children, a little boy who goes rushing for the door. Jill and Louie don't recognise the little boy. In fact, they don't recognise most of the children in the room.

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:41 pm**

Louie looks at the little boy for the first time and realizes that he doesn't know him. Things are getting stranger. He knows all of the children in the ward. He puts up a hand to stay Jill, just in case her instinct to help the children takes over.

"Something isn't right. I don't recognise most of these children, and the ones I do recognise are asleep. I suggest we get out of here. I don't think that this is one hundred percent real. We should be skeptical of everything we see. This hospital is messing with out minds."

Louie grabs Jill's hand and tries to drag her away. This just seems wrong and he doesn't want to get suckered into a trap.

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:52 pm**

Jill does take a step toward Corey, but Louie's hand and, more importantly, his words, stop her in her tracks. "You're right, I don't know these kids. And come to think of it, I don't know a Nurse Hammond either. That is, not outside of the dream." Besides, there's nothing I could do for Corey that one of the doctors here couldn't do better.

As she allows herself to be dragged off, Jill seems to wake up more. "Wait, your special magical vial? They sell them at the gift shop! What in the world is going on? And what happened to Corey?"

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:20 pm**

Jill's words puzzle Louie.
"How can they sell these at the gift shop. This was created to keep me safe. This dam hospital is playing with our minds, and if you don't know Hammond then which one of use is loosing it. I have full memories of everything I've told you. How are your memories. Are they clear or fuzzy. We have to determine what is real before we continue. The one thing we can agree on is that something is desperately wrong here."

Louie let's go of Jill's hand and sits on the the floor. He puts his head in his hands and tries to concentrate.

"How could she not remember? I'm not going crazy. There are too many things out of place. We don't know the kids, We both have memories of what we are assuming was a dream. How could we have had the same dream?

Louie stops and looks up at Jill.

"What were you doing before you woke up here?"

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:43 am**

"Well, Hammond could exist, I've just never met her."

"Um, Nurse Sarah and Aidan, who with child protective services or something, went up to the roof to try to catch the helicopter so we could start loading the children into it. Hammond and I stayed with the kids, to figure out how to transport them, and to take them out of the room so they wouldn't wake up and find the gore everywhere." Jill shudders again at the thought. "And, well, I'd lost a lot of blood, I guess. I just kind of ... passed out. And woke up here."

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:31 am**

Doctor Sutcliffe comes running into the Children's Ward at the sound of the children's cries. She barely glances at Jill and Louie as she moves toward the bed, but then she pauses, her eyes twitching from one to the other. A few nurses enter behind her. Louie recognises only one of them. "Awake?" she murmurs, but turns her attention to Corey.

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:03 pm**

Louie see Dr. Sutcliffe and starts to panic inside. The urge to flee is overwhelming.

"Let's get out of here Jill. We need to talk. Anywhere you want to go I'll go." Louie leans closer and whispers to Jill" Dr. Sutclilffe is supposed to be dead, and I don't recognise those other nurses, and I know most of the one's in the hospital. It makes me wonder if this isn't the dream, but that's rediculous.....isn't it?"

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:12 pm**

Jill whispers back. "I don't know, but why should they be surprised that we're awake? Something weird is definitely going on." She also feels the desire to flee (on her miraculously healed leg?), but waits for a moment to think. "You said there was a room that was immune to ... whatever this hospital does. Take us there."

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:09 pm**

Louie starts to lead Jill down the stairs.

"Now keep in mind that nothing is what it is supposed to be. I wouldn't be suprised if this room was different. Right now nothing would suprise me. Its on the bottom level right by the stairs. It's not immune to the effects, but it has wards set to protect us from the effects. Nothing is fool proof."

Posted: **Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:04 am**

Jill nods and follows Louie in silence. As she walks she tries to order the thoughts flying through her head, unsuccessfully.

Posted: **Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:00 pm**

Louie leads Jill down to the room that he is sure should be there. At least he thinks he's sure. His mind races as all of the possibilities run through his mind. This is just like one of those on line roll playing games I'm part of, only real. I'll never play one of them again.

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:32 am**

The SDK room is unlocked. Inside are three computer-laden desks, one of which is being used by a rather frantic pair of youths. The computers look different somehow... Slimmer. Judging by the youths' uniforms, they're students here. There's a pair of bookcases, a filing cabinet and other odds and ends. The calender on the wall says something odd.

May, 2008.

Not 2005.

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:17 pm**

Louie stops dead in his tracks as he sees the calendar. He turns to Jill an motions for her to leave.

"It's official. I've lost my mind....and about three years if that calendar is correct. That would explain why I don't recognise half of the people here. How could I have no memory of the last three years. I woke up mopping. I've fallen asleep on the job before but three years. I say we go check out the caverns and see if they are still there. If they aren't then I think I'll go the psych ward and check myself in. Something of my memories has to be real."

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:23 pm**

Jill looks shocked and follows Louie from the room. "But I've lost three years, too! Sure, go check for the caverns, but I've got to call my husband." She looks around, trying to remember where the nearest phone might be, or was 3 years ago, and checks to see if she has any change. I really should ask him again for a mobile phone.

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:03 pm**

Louie stops in his tracks.

"I'm so sorry Jill. I got caught up and have been thinking only about myself. If it's just the same to you I'd like to stick together untill we figure something out. Let's go find a phone. I'll give you your space so you can talk in private, but to be honest I'm really scared right now."

Posted: **Fri Sep 28, 2007 8:40 am**

There are payphones on the first floor in the waiting area, in the emergency area, and sitting aboard wheeled tables for movement into the various wards - but these would probably be kept in a store room somewhere.

Posted: **Fri Sep 28, 2007 1:55 pm**

"Thanks, Louie. Let's go to the waiting room." Jill turns and leads the way. Now that she's decided to call her husband, all sorts of fears have started to crop up. Anything could have happened in three years. What if I really have forgotten three years of my life?

Posted: **Fri Sep 28, 2007 5:13 pm**

As Louie walks with Jill his mind races. To keep from going crazy he decides to talk as they walk.

"We should discuss what we know and see if we can come up with some clues as to what happened. What we know is, both of us have memories of a catastrophe. Something supernatural that seemed to want to kill everyone. We both seemed to wake up and now it's three years in the future. Everyone that we recognise is asleep, and people we thought were dead are still alive and here. Could everyone we saw before we woke up be sharing the same dream, and if so how. Or are you and I the ones who are dreaming. Are we dreaming at all. I've seen enough movies to know that something ain't right, and nothing should be ruled out. Maybe there is some kind of time flux which moves us from time to time, but that wouldn't explain why someone I thought was dead would still be alive. What do you think?"

Posted: **Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:08 am**

Jill reaches the payphone in the time it takes for Louie to finish his contemplation.

Posted: **Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:17 am**

Louie gives Jill her space to phone her husband privately, and looks for any familiar faces he thinks he can trust. I need some answers. Even if they think I'm crazy. I'm not crazy.....am I? What happened to the last three years.

"I'll be right back Jill. I'll see if I can find some answers. I'm not going out of site though. Even if I have to wait for someone."

Posted: **Sat Sep 29, 2007 6:38 am**

Both Louie and Jill feel quite tired. What little distance they have walked has exhausted them and Jill can hardly reach for the hand-set. Louie's clothes pull and tug at his limbs and joints, as though the uniform were somewhat too small for him.

It is only then, in the silence of separation, that the two realise they have lost a surprising amount of weight.

Posted: **Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:04 pm**

Jill listens to Louie with only half an ear, her thoughts being completely occupied in frantically flowing guesses as to what's going to happen in this phone call. She pushes several coins into the slot, dials her husband's work number, it's too early for him to be home ... I think, and leans against the wall, exhausted. What's happened to me?

Posted: **Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:58 pm**

Louie takes a seat over by the nurse's desk and looks for a familiar face. Even if he doesn't recognise anyone he decides to ask.

"Excuse me nurse. I don't know if you know me, but I'm one of the Janitors here. I just woke up and I don't know what's going on. I've seem to have lost three years of my life, but that's not possible right?"

There it is. Louie lays all his cards on the table. All he knows is that he is so tired and can't run anymore. If they kill him then maybe he'll have some peace, and if they don't maybe he'll have some answers. He doesn't point out Jill. If this goes wrong he doesn't want her getting hurt.

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 3:13 am**

Louie: The nurse looks at him with a shocked expression. "Bu..." She looks up and over at the others at the reception desk, then over at the various patients milling about. Then she looks back down at him. "We... A doctor needs to examine you. See how you're..." She shakes her head. "Yeah, let's go." She reaches down to help him up.

Jill: "Look, if that's you Malcone, I'm warning you, stop calling!" says a familiar voice.

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 3:55 am**

Jill swallows hard and in a strained voice says, "No, Charlie, it's me." She finds that it takes a lot of effort just to remain leaning upright against the wall.

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:02 am**

Jill: "Me? Who's me?"

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:06 am**

Jill wipes a treacherous tear from her cheek and clears her throat. "Jill." Your wife.

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:08 am**

Jill.

There is a long silence on the phone. "Is this a joke?"

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:13 am**

Now the tears are flowing freely. "No, it's me, it's really me. I don't know what happened but I'm here ..." Her voice trails off into sobs.

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:15 am**

Jill.

"You at the hospital?" Charlie asks excitedly. "Why'nt the nurses call me that you woke up? I'm coming right over. Look, you at the hospital. For God's sake, it's been three years!"

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:27 am**

Louie: The nurse looks at him with a shocked expression. "Bu..." She looks up and over at the others at the reception desk, then over at the various patients milling about. Then she looks back down at him. "We... A doctor needs to examine you. See how you're..." She shakes her head. "Yeah, let's go." She reaches down to help him up.

Louie politely shrugs off the helping hand.
"If it's all the same to you I promised Jill I would wait for her. I'm not going anywhere without her. When she is done talking to her husband you can have a doctor talk to both of us at the same time. That is the least we can do for her, if three years have really gone by then she has some explaining to do. The biggest thing you can do to help me right now is tell me how come three years have gone by, and where did all the ash go?"

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:31 am**

"Ash?" the nurse asks, confused. "Well, erm, at least the rough part of the news has passed. You see, three years and four months ago, over 500,000 people world-wide fell into a coma. No problems with breathing. You and Jill are the first people to wake up."

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:36 am**

Louie has seen too much to believe that right now. He looks at the nurse quizzically, and with an edge of skeptisizm to his voice he continues on.

"So if what your is telling is true. Then why do Jill and I have the same memories. We've talked for a while since we've been awake and both experience the same things while in our so called comas. Lastly if I've been in a Coma for that long how did I manage to walk down two flights of stairs."

Something occurs to Louie and he looks down at himself for the first time since waking up to see if he is wearing hopital pajamas or his janitor uniform.

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:41 am**

He's excited. With the sudden relief also came an extreme weariness. "Yeah, I am. I ... can't stand here anymore, I'm too tired. So I'm going to sit down. In the waiting room. I'll wait for you there." She pushes herself away from the wall and listens for any last words before hanging up and precariously making her way to the nearest chair.

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:44 am**

Jill.

"Yes, yes, sit down. I love you," Charlie says with feeling.

Jill realises that while the clothes she is wearing are most certainly hers, they aren't what she remembers wearing in the 'dream'.

Louie.

"I'm not qualified to say. Perhaps the words you were both saying were building together a dream you thought you shared. After all, you can't be certain that the memories you have now existed before one or the other of you mentioned them. Perhaps Jill mentioned ash and you added that to your dream, then you mentioned something else and she added that to her dream." The nurse shrugs. "I'd better go talk to the front desk and get a doctor over here."

Louie wears a janitor's uniform but judging by the namebadge, it's not his. That would explain why it was so tight despite his weight loss.

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:51 am**

Louie see Jill sit down and gets up to go sit beside her.

"Something isn't adding up here Jill. This nurse tells me we've been in a coma for three years. If that is the case then why do I have on a janitors uniform instead of a hospital gown. It's not even my uniform. I'd rather this be real than what we remember, but it doesn't seem likely. Let's stick together for now. We should not completely dismiss what they say, but be on guard. Oh ya watch for inconsistancies in what they say.....Ha and mom said I was wasting my time watching Columbo

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:06 am**

Jill works to dry her face as Louie babbles at her. He still loves me. I missed three years, but at least I'm not alone. Slowly, however, Louie's words sink in. She looks down at her own apparel. If Charlie's been waiting for me for three years, he must have visited often and made sure I was dressed in the pretty dresses he always liked. And yet, a thought occurs to her. "Didn't we wake up in the Children's Ward? Yes, because when I woke up I had a book open on my lap. I can't have been sitting in there for three years!" She turns to Louie with fear in her eyes. "What's going on?"

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:12 am**

The nurse returns to the two of them. "Doctor Sutcliffe is waiting for you two in her office. Would you like to follow me?"

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:19 am**

Louie looks up at the nurse with a look of shock.

"Dr. Sutcliffe? I think that we are going to stay right here for a little bit. You can have a doctor come here if you think it's that important.........but not Dr. Sutcliffe."

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:20 am**

Without realizing she is doing so, Jill grips the edge of her chair and nods. "I just talked to my husband. He's on his way and I told him I'd wait for him here." As an afterthought she adds, "Besides, I'm really tired."

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:24 am**

"Ah, Dr. Sutcliffe is the person at this hospital who has learned the most about your, uh, condition," said the nurse. "Her office is on this floor and is more private than... Examinations normally aren't done in public. I can bring a wheelchair or a stretcher if you like?"

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:27 am**

"Can't we wait until my husband gets here? I'm sure he'll arrive soon."

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:28 am**

The nurse sighs. "I'm sure your husband can ask at the front desk. It's vital that the doctor sees you to ensure you're well enough to be out and about. There may be all sorts of side effects of the coma... It's best to have it sorted out now."

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:28 am**

Louie looks at the nurse with a look that borders on anger.

"I don't think you understand. I don't care what her expertise is I'm not going to her office. I don't want a wheel chair or a stretcher. We are waiting for Jill's husband. If you want us examined the doctor can come to us."

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:32 am**

The nurse gives him a level look. Bursts of emotion were hardly going to faze a public healthcare worker. "We have fifteen coma patients who are like you in this hospital. Three of those have died of seizures within the past week. Now maybe you're fine and healthy, or perhaps you're willing to risk it regardless, but I have children in one of the wards and the only advice we have is to keep them with the others just so that the noise might rouse them. You two are awake. The clue to waking them up may reside with you. 500,000 people. And you two are the first to wake up."

"Now if you truly believe that making sure this lady's husband can see her the moment he walks in the door, rather than waiting an extra few minutes and talking to the front desk, is worth more than 500,000 lives - 36% of which are below the age of sixteen - then be my guest. I'll walk away now."

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:37 am**

"Wait, nurse, did you say 500,000 people? And we're the very first to wake up?" She looks at Louie, as if trying to gauge his anger, and turns back to the nurse. "Maybe Dr. Sutcliffe could come here to tell us more?" She gives Louie a hesitant smile. "We should hear more, at least, right?"

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:41 am**

Louie returns the nurse's look, and speaks with every bit of conviction that she just did.

"If what you say is true, and these people have been in comas for over three years then I don't see how another fifteen minutes is going to matter. You can tell Dr. Sutcliffe whatever you like, but we are the ones that have been throught the trama, and I for one will not be bullied ever again. No turn around and find another Dr. to examine us, and let me make myself clear. I don't want Dr. Sutcliffe. She can be present, but you will not split us up."

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:48 am**

"As you wish," says the nurse with a stiff smile. "If you won't see Dr. Sutcliffe, I'll ensure an equally suitable doctor with plenty of experience in this area comes to see you." Two burly men and a gangly one come up behind her - orderlies. "These three fellows will make sure your emotions don't get the better of you," she says to Louie.

To Jill, her smile is more genuine and her voice warm and sympathetic. "You probably will be here to greet your husband when he first arrives. It will take quite some time to get an equally distinguished doctor over here. Probably for the best, Corey's on the operating table. Dr. Sutcliffe is probably best supervising the operation." She turns to Louie. "If only he had another fifteen minutes..." She goes over to the front desk.

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:53 am**

Probably for the best, Corey's on the operating table. Dr. Sutcliffe is probably best supervising the operation."

"Corey? The little boy? If he is gone I wonder how the others are doing. Nurse....Any word on a boy named Joel? He was desperate to find his mother when we parted. There were........"

Louie realizes how he must sound and shuts up.

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:56 am**

The nurse mutters something over the front desk to a lady behind it who nods in response. Listen check - halved - to overhear it over the bustle of people. The nurse then turns back to Louie. "Joel? Yes, there is a boy on the ward suffering the same condition with that name. Perhaps he has the fifteen minutes to spare that Corey did not." She smiles briskly and goes to leave.

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:03 am**

Jill fails to overhear the nurse. Once she leaves, Jill turns and whispers to Louie. "Wouldn't it be better to cooperate with them? Or at least not be so antagonistic. I know you think Dr. Sutcliffe is part of this ... group of yours, but she's not going to do anything if we stick together, right? If you're so aggressive, people won't be willing to help at all."

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:10 am**

Louie can almost hear the nurse. He turns to Jill and says

"Maybe your right. I guess I'm just scared. NURSE.....Take me to the doctor. If I can do anything to help Charlie I will. I just hope it's not too late."

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:11 am**

The nurse sighs, signals to the front desk nurse, and turns to the orderlies. "Mack, take them to Dr. Sutcliffe's office. I'll see if she's able to see them soon."

The orderlies nod to the duo and motion for them to follow.

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:15 am**

Louie looks at the orderly and askes with a sad smile.

"I'm really tired. Would you mind getting some wheelchairs for us? I didn't mean to be difficult earlier, but I lost three years of my life, and it's quite disheartening

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:16 am**

Jill nods, relieved, since she doesn't think she could walk anywhere right now.

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:18 am**

"Sure, sure," says the ginger-haired wiry fellow. He nods at one of the other orderlies. "Two wheelchairs, huh?"

The other orderly just grunts and moves off.

"Yeah, well, not a lot has changed if that makes it any better," says the ginger fellow.

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:52 pm**

Jill tries to smile at his friendliness, but doesn't really find any comfort in his comment. Still, he seems chatty enough, so she ventures a question. "Why were we in the Children's Ward?"

Posted: **Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:24 pm**

Louie perks up a bit at Jill's question.

"That's a good questioin. I'm sure Dr. Sutcliffe(said with a little sarcasm) has a perfect explination for that. Seriously though, you seem like a nice fellow. Do you know what happened to another orderly named Leroy. Is he still asleep or is he one of the ones that died......yes I know he's in a coma. You'd be suprised at the names I could rattle off of people in a coma."

Posted: **Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:55 am**

The ginger-haired fellow frowns. "Well, I know you went and put on that uniform in the janitor's closet. You were wearing some street clothes before. Probably placed in your bedside cabinet by someone. I dunno. I guess you two walked in? Best ask the kids about that, really. They're the ones who watched you enter."

He turns his head to regard Louie. "Yeah, Leroy, I remember him. He's still sleeping."

Posted: **Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:26 pm**

Jill finds his answer unsatisfactory, but realizes he probably doesn't know anything more. We didn't walk in, that's where we woke up. She keeps glancing toward the entrance to the waiting room.

Posted: **Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:59 pm**

Louie remains quiet taking in his surroundings, trying to understand what is going on.

Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:55 am**

The two are taken into a doctor's office. It is unusually tidy for such an office, the files neatly placed on the shelving, the books carefully placed on the bookcase, the desk neatly ordered into In and Out piles. Other than the electrical hum of the computer, there is very little to hear or see in here. The two are left alone - the orderlies going outside and shutting the door behind them.

Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:04 am**

Louie looks over at Jill.

"For your sake I hope this is real. I don't know you really well, but from what I've seen your a good person. I just want to see someone happy, and I couldn't think of a more deserving person than you. With that said though. This still doesn't feel right. It feels very real, but somethings just aren't adding up. I guess part of me liked the other reality better. At least there I made a differnce. I actually helped people. Here I'm just that janitor that nobody notices. My mother rules my life and long for work. At least here I can try to pretend I do something important. I just don't know what to believe. Tell me I'm crazy. I'd believe you, and at least then I have somewhere to start."

Louie trails off and stares out the window lost in thought. He doesn't feel like himself. Why couldn't they have just killed me?

Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:21 am**

Jill remains quiet for a moment, obviously having difficultly choosing her words. "But horrible things were happening there. I can't explain what's happened, but doesn't it make more sense that we were in a coma and now are disoriented and misremembering things? The things that happened," she shivers, "they were just, just horrible." She glances at the closed door, and then leans forward to whisper. "And if all of that was just some bad dream, then there's no reason to distrust Dr. Sutcliffe, right?"

Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:26 am**

Louie seems to snap out of it when Jill speaks.

"Uhm........ya. Even in the other reality....I guess that's what to call it now. Well even then Dr. Sutcliffe was a caring woman. A little agressive and bossey, but still had most people's best interests at heart. Brianna killed her because she was scared. I guess I blame her for that."

Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:30 am**

A few minutes pass. Dr. Sutcliffe has yet to arrive.

Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:33 am**

"So ... how long have you worked here? Uh, as of three years ago, that is." Jill grimaces at her own failed attempt to make small talk.

Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:42 am**

I started here in grade 11. My dad died when I was young, and my mother never held onto a job for more than a few months. People say I live with her, but the truth is I took her in. I guess I've been her about 20 years, wow has it been that long already. So what brought you to the hospital. I know you read to the children and play with them, but why. Everyone seems to have a different answer to that. Some like the joy, some feel obligated, and others are running from something and just needed a place to go.

Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:48 am**

Jill seems surprised when Louie speaks so candidly about his life, and looks uncomfortable when he asks about why she comes to the hospital, seeking more than just a simple answer. She gives him a simple answer anyway. "Well, I guess I just love kids. And these ones need people to visit them, so it makes a happy combination."

Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:53 am**

Dr. Sutcliffe enters the room, panting as though she had been hurrying about. "So sorry ... I thought they'd put you two somewhere useful like in an exam room." She holds the door open and scowls at the orderlies. "Don't you think these two should have a nurse observing them or something? All right? Oh!" She takes hold of the back of Jill's wheelchair as one of the orderlies comes to take hold of Louie's wheelchair. "Let's take you somewhere better equipped. Are you feeling any pain? Dizziness? Can you feel all parts of your body? How is your breathing? Your heart rate?"

Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:10 pm**

Other than being really tired, and waking up wearing clothes that obviously aren't mine. I'm fine. How's Charlie doing? Is he going to be alright? You're supposed to be the expert at this, and I have some questions. I'm sure Jill does too.

Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:09 pm**

"Yeah, I feel very weak, and I'm ... a bit confused." Jill glances down the hallway as they are rolled out of the office. "My husband is supposed to be coming. Do you know if he's here yet? I want him to be able to find me."

Posted: **Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:59 am**

"The Front Desk will know where to send him," says Dr. Sutcliffe. The group soon reach an examination room after passing through an office at the south of the floor and Dr. Sutcliffe looks from one to the other. "Who wants to go first? The other can sit on the lounge in the office. We can talk while I make sure you two are reasonably healthy."

Posted: **Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:12 am**

Louie looks over at Jill and gives her a knowing look.

I'll go first. Just incase Jill's husband comes. He should be here any minute.

Louie thinks to himself. If anything happens I'm going to scream. I hope that's enough for her to get away.

Posted: **Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:19 am**

Dr. Sutcliffe nods and wheels Jill into the lounge room. "Would you like a magazine to read? Feel free to sit on the couch if you like but try not to move too much. I'm surprised you both have managed to walk ... the muscular atrophy should have made that much far too difficult." She returns to Louie and helps him get up onto the examination table and proceeds to do the rudimentary procedures to listening to breathing, heart rate, checking the pulse and blood pressure, pupil dilation, peering in his ears and mouth and testing his reflexes.

Posted: **Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:16 am**

Jill initially declines the magazine, but later picks it up. She eyes the couch, but decides it would be too much effort to move there. I might as well try to figure out what things are like now that it's 2008. But she finds herself reading the same page over and over, taking in nothing. Her mind is instead occupied with many disjointed thoughts, forming no coherent pattern, providing no extra insight.

Posted: **Sat Oct 06, 2007 2:49 am**

Louie goes along with the examination.

"So tell me Dr. Sutcliffe. How many patients are unconcious. I can only think of a handful. Me, Jill, Brianna, Dahlia, Nurse Sara, Joel, Leroy, and others. How is it that I know that. There are so many questions I have that seem to weird to ask."

Louie lowers his voice so only Dr. Sutcliffe can hear him.

"Was it all a dream or are we really part of a group that meets under the hospital? I just don't know what is real right now."

Posted: **Sat Oct 06, 2007 2:54 am**

Dr. Sutcliffe regards him with confusion. "Meet? What for?"

Posted: **Sat Oct 06, 2007 2:56 am**

Louie shrugs and looks at himself.

"Oh it's nothing. Must have been a dream. So how am I doing? You know for being in a coma for three years and all."

Posted: **Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:06 am**

"Surprisingly well," says Dr. Sutcliffe.

Posted: **Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:37 am**

Louie look Dr. Sutcliffe in the eye and asks her a question.

So earlier when I listed off the names of people in comas. Was I right? Jill and I have the same memories from when we were unconcious, and it only took place over a few hours. I bet if others wake up they too will have similar memories. Everything is covered in Ash. Undead people chasing you. Ghosts of children covered in water. Is this part of the sickness. Group dreams, and mass haleucinations. Don't take my word for it, but if others wake up, you may want to question them as to what they remember.

Hmm.....she seems nicer than I remember. Maybe there is an explination for all of this. Still I'm going to be careful.

Posted: **Sat Oct 06, 2007 5:04 am**

Dr. Sutcliffe looks thoughtful. "It is more likely that you both fabricated this dream together. Perhaps she mentioned a dream containing ash, you mentioned ghosts, but as each element was listed off, they were absorbed into the memories of the dream. A sort of de ja vu, if you like. Are you familiar with the scientific reasoning behind de ja vu? Where experiences are made memory before they are consciously realised, thus provoking a sense of familiarity? And as to the names, you have said yourself that you don't remember how you got into the Children's Ward or how you stole your uniform. You probably came across a list of names while you were wandering around in a daze."

Posted: **Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:15 am**

Louie looks at Dr. Sutcliffe blankly.

"I know that must be what they tell you in your psychology handbook, but what I saw was different. All I ask is that when someone else wakes up you question them. Talk to them before anyone has time to plant a storey in their head. I'm willing to bet that you'll be suprised. Nothing can be that detailed and be fabricated by glancing at a list of names. I know it must be hard for you to believe. I guess you'd have to experience it to know. I'd probably think you were crazy if our spots were reversed."

Posted: **Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:20 am**

Dr. Sutcliffe just smiles pleasantly. "True, you have to admit, it is far more sensible for one's own mental health to accept my version of events than of yours. If it makes you feel any better, I will be very alert to any dreams from any other people who awaken. There, you seem to be perfectly healthy, though you should of course allow us to run a few tests and you should spend a few days in observation at the hospital in case anything further happens. Now to see to Jill..." She helps him back into his wheelchair if he is willing and takes him out to the lounge.

Posted: **Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:02 am**

Louie makes his way off of the examining table without a word and gets back into his wheel chair. As he is being wheeled out he turns to say something to Dr. Sutcliffe and then thinks better of it. Once he is back out in the lobby he says to Jill.

"It's alright. You'll be just fine. I'll wait out here for you and we'll talk again later."

Posted: **Sat Oct 06, 2007 5:53 pm**

Jill looks up from the magazine and smiles, glad that Louie doesn't think Dr. Sutcliffe is an evil cultist anymore. As the doctor rolls her in, she asks, "Is Corey going to be okay?"

Posted: **Sun Oct 07, 2007 5:10 am**

A shadow passes across Dr. Sutcliffe's face. "I'm not sure. I had to leave the surgery..."

The examination begins with conscientious efficiency as Louie sits in the little lounge room just to one side of the main room. His stomach growls loudly. There seems to be a tin of biscuits - or something similar - on one of the bookcases.

Posted: **Sun Oct 07, 2007 5:35 am**

Louie flags down a nurse passing by.

"Excuse me nurse. May I have one of those biscuits over there. I haven't eaten in three years and I'm wasting away to nothing over here. Oh fish and chips. That's what I could go for, or a steak....ya ya a steak. Nurse do you know where i could get a steak, and baked potato......or maybe just one of those biscuits for now."

Louie your smooth. You can kill a zombie and walk through a dark ashy hallway, with razor wires trying to get you, but as soon as you talk to a woman you babble like an idot.

Posted: **Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:41 pm**

Jill sits in silence for a moment, and then asks, "So, three years ago thousands of us just ... fell asleep?"

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:36 am**

"Got it in one," says Dr. Sutcliffe. Hearing Louie, she frowns. "Sure, but nibble it first. Give it a few minutes and then nibble some more. Your stomach hasn't held anything in it for quite some time."

The nurse whom Louie had flagged looks relieved that she didn't have to answer, and she hurries off.

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:38 am**

Louie takes the biscuit from Dr. Sutcliffe, and blushes a little.

Understood, sorry I just get a little excited about food sometimes.

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:44 am**

"After three years, I'm not surprised," says Dr. Sutcliffe. "Be careful, though, that's chocolate and macademia and far too rich for you right now. Have a little bit and I'll have some blander, safer food brought up. Perhaps a jelly wouldn't trouble your tummy too badly."

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:46 am**

"Joel and Leroy are awake," says a nurse, rushing into the room. "I mean, Dr. Sutcliffe, two more patients are out of their comas. They're in their rooms now. I-I... Are they all waking up, do you think?"

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:50 am**

Louie get's excited at the mention of Leroy and Joel awakening.

"Dr. Sutcliffe they were with me in that dream. I say talk to them now ask them if they saw me when they were sleeping. If you could bring them here to examine them I know it would calm me a little. Afterall they are in my recent memories."

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:07 pm**

With all the talk of food Jill's stomach growls. She smiles embarrassedly, but luckily the nurse runs in at that point. She is excited by the news, but meekly keeps silent.

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:05 am**

"You two seem fine," says Dr. Sutcliffe. "But you must stay here for a week under observation. I'm sure the researchers might like to take a look at you as well. Nurse, escort these two to the foyer to await Jill's husband. I'm going to go check on the other two."

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:00 am**

A week?! Jill is about to protest this confinement, but old habits kick in and she thinks to herself, I'm sure the doctor knows best. I guess the transition forward three years will be difficult anyway; maybe some time spent in the relative safety of the hospital will be good. Besides, she was going to get to wait for her husband's arrival now. She instinctively looks for a clock, trying to estimate the amount of time it will take him to get here from work ... only to realize that she doesn't remember what time it was when she called him. A faint smile appears on her lips.

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:11 am**

"We should get you two some jelly then, not too sweet, mind," says the nurse, as she and the doctor wheel them out into the busy waiting room. Several staff stare openly at Dr. Sutcliffe, then at the duo, and a few start whispering as they walk by. The nurse asks at the front desk for some jellies to be sent up. Then she stands by the two wheelchairs - there are no spare seats - and waits. "So..." she says. "Good dreams?"

Dr. Sutcliffe leaves the trio.

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:18 am**

Jill glances at Louie and speaks up before he has a chance to reply. "Actually, not at all. I was so relieved to wake up to the normal world again. Although it is disconcerting to have missed three whole years ..."

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:21 am**

"Yeah, yeah, would be, but, uh, least your husband's coming and all, that'd be good, big homecoming I expect, you'll be well popular you will be, could write a book, ooh yeah, you'd make a lot of money if you did that, be rich, never be poor again if you were the first to write a book, get on that if others are waking up before they could, get on Oprah, get on everything, get everywhere, make a movie out of it they will, I expect, darn Hollywood capitalises on everything, don't mind my saying darn do you?" She smiles pleasantly.

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:37 am**

"No, of course not." Jill smiles, but butterflies have suddenly appeared in her stomach. Famous? The last thing she wants right now is to be the center of attention. She's never wanted that. Charlie will be here soon, and he'll protect me. He won't let anyone stick a microphone in my face or stare at me with a camera. ... I do hope he gets here soon.

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:27 am**

Louie starts to wheel after Dr. Sutcliffe.

Wait Dr. Sutcliffe. I need to see Leroy and Joel if only for a minute. Please take me with you. I promise not to say anything untill you question them. I just need to see them with my own eyes. After all I've been through I need the peace. I need to hear with my own ears that it was just a dream.

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:34 am**

Dr. Sutcliffe frowns. "As you wish... Would you like me to push you along?" she says, gesturing to the elevator.

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:38 am**

Louie perks up a bit and turns to Jill.

Go meet your husband in private. I promise I won't be long. Hopefully I will have some more answers when I see you again.

He turns back to Dr. Sutcliffe and nods.

If you wouldn't mind pushing me I would apreciate it.

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:41 pm**

Jill nods, and stifles an impulse to wave goodbye.

Posted: **Sat Oct 13, 2007 4:21 am**

The double doors open and four men in suits enter the hospital. They approach the front desk in a very brisk manner.

"They look like they got a big stick where they shouldn't have," says the nurse cautiously. She checks her watch. "So where's your husband work anyway?"

Posted: **Sat Oct 13, 2007 4:36 am**

"At one of the big financial firms downtown, or at least he did three years ago." I'm already tired of being three years behind in everything. Jill eyes the suits with unease. "Are they some kind of officials?"

Posted: **Sat Oct 13, 2007 4:46 am**

"Military if I remember rightly," she says. "They're interested in the coma patients, funnily enough, probably interested in you, too, now y'all woken up they'll wanna know why."

Posted: **Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:13 pm**

Sudden panic strikes Jill, but she has no idea why. "Oh! Please, nurse, could you keep them away from me? I really don't think I have the strength to talk to anyone right now. I just want to see my husband." She finds herself on the brink of tears at the thought of having to deal with military men. I must really be exhausted.

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:17 am**

The nurse says nothing, merely clasps Jill's hand tightly. Two of the suited men come over to Jill. The other two start heading towards the direction Louie went. They spot him before he's a dozen feet from the door.

Louie simply sees two men in dark suits break off from a group of four and stride briskly towards him.

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:23 am**

Louie wheels into the waiting room and notices the army uniforms. Shit they can't be here to take us already, and what the hell was with that note. He casually wheels his way over to Jill and speaks in a low voice so that only she can hear. At the same time he slips Jill the note trying to keep it casual.

We need to get out of here. If they get their hands on us we are done for. Don't panic just act casual and let me lead.

Louie stands up and makes his way around to the back of Jill's chair. He begins to slowly push her out of the waiting room and tries to find some place safe.

We'll try to contact your husband somehow, but we aren't safe. Something tells me this reality isn't any better than the last. I saw Joel. He knew me. He called me Obi Wan. That's the name he gave in the dream. It was real. We're not crazy. Let's go figure this out.

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:26 am**

The two suits (they're not military uniforms but it is a sensible assumption that they're bad-ass government officials judging by their musculature). Louie manages to wheel past them as they approached, causing one of the men's lips to quirk into a smug smile. The two men come up from behind as the other two men move to the front of the pair. There's no way they could easily recognise the pair unless they had been given photographs of them, surely?

One of the pairs, the ones that had headed for Jill first, are only six or seven feet away.

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:30 am**

Louie stops and looks around for something to use as a weapon, but speaks to them calmly.

What do you want with us. We didn't do anything. Just let us go back to our rooms so that we can rest.

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:40 am**

"Jill Adams, Louie Armstrong," says one of the two suits as the other two suits come up from behind. "I am Mr. Williams and this is Mr. Scott, Mr. Ranch and Mr. Wiles from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. We've got much more comfortable, state-of-the-art one would say, beds in one of our hospitals. We would like to invite you to the safety and security of state-of-the-art treatment and diagnosis at one of our main sites."

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:51 am**

Louie relaxes a little, but not much.

Well that's all fine and dandy, but I'm quite happy where I am. Dr. Sutcliffe is a very capable Doctor. I apreciate the offer, but unfortunately I must decline.

Louie smiles at the men and start pushing Jill around them, not really expecting to make it around. He eyes them carefully looking for a gun that he might snatch if he has to.

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:54 am**

"This hospital is hardly equipped with the level of diagnostic equipment that our hospital has," says the lead man. "And unfortunately, with the least bit of protest and coaxing from myself, the hospital administrator will see no other choice but to hand you over. Many families have loved ones who are at stake. It is imperative that we discover the course of the ailment so that we can reverse it - as has happened apparently with you."

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 4:04 am**

Louie looks the agent up and down and smiles. He stands up to his full hieght and speaks slowly.

I don't think that you are going to find what you are looking for with me. You see I just woke up. I wasn't in a coma, I was just really tired. Now if you will excuse me I've tried to leave twice, and the last time I checked this was still a free country. Now kindly step out of my way.

Louie continues on. This time not stopping, pushing through if need be.

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 4:07 am**

"Actually, we do have the power to quarantine you," says Mr. Scott, putting a hand on his elbow. "And everyone you come into contact with for up to three months. Would you like to put that sort of burden on the people you approach? Force them into a quarantine? Now we've tried to be helpful and friendly but we're scientists and not politicians. Please, would you kindly come along with us?"

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 4:16 am**

Louie shrugs off the man's hand.

Listen...I've been poked and prodded already, and if I was that much of a risk I don't think they would have let me wander around like they have. You people are just like vultures. You don't care that this woman's husband is on his way here right now. Never mind that they haven't seen each other in three years. Or maybe there is someone in my life that would like to know I'm alive. I hear that people all over the place are waking up. Go bug one of them. Now on the other hand if you gentlemen would like to take a different aproach and treat us like human beings rather than fugitives or better yet lab rats. Then maybe I would be more inclined to be cooperative. You goverment people think that everything you do is more important than the people. Well let me tell you this I for one have been through enough. Now take your hands off of me and treat me with the respect and dignity that I deserve. For fuck's sake you haven't even told us your name. What the hell do you expect me to act like. Now we are going to sit here and wait for her husband to show up and you can scurry along and talk to the hospital administration about us. It's not like either of us has the enegry to run away.
Wow I've never talked to people like this before. It feels good. After fighting the undead these living people don't seem as scarey.

Louie waits a couple of seconds and leans down to Jill.

Don't worry Jill. I promised that you would see your husband, and I intend to keep that promise.

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 4:31 am**

"Do you feel the same way, Mrs. Adams?" asked Mr. Scott, ignoring Louie. He takes something from his pocket and passes it to her.

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:13 am**

When Louie passed Jill the handwritten note, she quickly read it and stuck it beneath her thigh before the military men came over. What is this? Where did Louie get it? Before she can ask him, the suits come within earshot.

Jill remains quiet; Louie seems happy to do all the talking, and she's just getting more confused about everything.

Jill takes the ID from the man and carefully reads it. (She's not concealing it, but she's not showing it to Louie either. I guess he can roll Spot.) Her brow furrows and she looks up at Mr. Scott. "But I thought he did financial work."

Suddenly her hold on the ID becomes a grip and she gets a determined look in her eyes. "Look, Mr. Scott, I spoke with my husband not too long ago and he told me he was coming here. He told me to wait. So I would prefer to do just that, and once he arrives ... well, then we can figure this out."

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:16 am**

"But there's nowhere to sit," says Mr. Scott, seeming rather less military and mechanical in that one complaint. "And we told him to wait over there. We were considerably closer to your location than he is. Come on, it'll take twice as long if we wait for him."

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:30 am**

"Well ..." sudden inspiration strikes through the fog of exhaustion and confusion, "if he's waiting there, can't I call him to speak to him before we leave? I do miss him; it has been three years." With some hidden little bit of pleasure at the spectacle, she allows a few tears to slide down her cheek.

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:32 am**

"Of course," the man says, smiling at her. Then he turns to scowl at Louie before moving toward the doors. "Come along now you two, can't use mobiles in hospitals."

OOC: Have to wait here. Charlie Adams will likely be played by SuAside.

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:06 am**

Louie goes along with Jill.

See guys was that so hard. You talk to us like humans and we respond in kind. Oh ya, and don't scowl at me, I wasn't the one that walked in and acted all rude. I'm not a bad guy. I'm just tired of being pushed around. If your can understand that we will get along just fine.

I think Jill's husband is one of these secret agent guys. This is just like that Arny film True Lies.

Louie turns to a Nurse as he walks by, and in his best Arnold voice he says.

I'll be back.

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:08 am**

"Pushed around?" scowls the fellow as they leave through the sliding doors. "Didn't you just wake up? This is a matter of national security. Hold on... Yeah, can you put me through to Charlie Adams?"

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:13 am**

Louies anger begins to boil over.

Listen asshole I told you to stop scowling at me. Yeah I've been pushed around my whole life, and since I've woken up I've been treated as a degenerate. I've had enough. Now I don't think I'm asking for too much. You're nice to me and I cooperate. You're a dink to me, and you may still get what you want. But I promise you this it won't be easy.

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:18 am**

Mr. Scott simply turns his back on Louie, putting a finger in one ear as he listens into the mobile phone. The other three, sensing the tension, ready themselvees.

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:14 pm**

Louie leans down to Jill

Are you sure about this. I'll go along with you, but I don't know if I can keep you safe. He whispers in her ear. The note says not to let them take us. I think it means these guys. I won't let them hurt you if I can, even if it costs me my life.

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:20 pm**

Jill nods slowly, uncomfortable with the seriousness of Louie's words. She whispers back. "That's why I'm waiting to speak to my husband. I'd rather listen to him than a random note you hand me. If I can't trust him, who can I trust?"

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:15 am**

Louie notices that she seemed to be uncomfortable with his words and, thinks carefully about her words before responding.

"We're not even sure if this is completely real yet. If he's with them you may want to chose you words carefully. Listen and try to see if anything he says doesn't sit right. I'm going to go with you on this one seeing as I don't know him. I'm sorry if what I said bothered you. You're the only thing I'm sure is real, and I don't want to lose that right now.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:45 am**

Dr. Sutcliffe emerges into the waiting area and spots Jill and Louie with the government types. She marches across toward them, leaving Carson trailing along behind her in her wake (unless he lengthens his stride or speeds up).

"C'mon, look I..." begins Mr. Scott. "Yeah, well... Look, he's being pretty paranoid here."

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:28 am**

Louie looks at Mr. Scott puzzled.

Paranoid.....who's paranoid? I bet your talking about me. You know it's not right saying someone is paranoid. What would make you think that. You government types are always making people like me seem paranoid. The truth be known I'm just confused, and I don't like the feeling.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:29 am**

Mr. Scott just frowned. "What? Yeah, all right. All right. Look, all right, damnit! F'fuck's sake."

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:51 am**

"Is there a problem?" Jill softly asks. She doesn't want to interrupt Mr. Scott if he's still on the phone.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:55 am**

Mr. Scott turned off the telephone. "They're refusing to let my call through but they won't let me know why. Look, I know your husband, ma'am, and I'll bet they didn't let him come on the way through to here. You can stay here at the hospital with Mr. Paranoid over there if you've got your heart set on it but they'll be sending the police to guard you and then the actual military to come and get you." He took out some I.D. "I'm just a chemist. I've got nothing to do with the comas, we were just closer. I've got a convention I want to attend and this is gonna take forever."

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:04 am**

Carson increases his pace until he meets the doctor. "Doctor...uh, doctor? Do you know where Leroy is? I heard he just woke up."

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:07 am**

Dr. Sutcliffe moved through the automatic front doors. "Now, what do we have here? Hmm? Removing my patients already? They've only just woken up."

"Ma'am?" Mr. Scott said.

"Do you have Leroy in that vehicle of yours?"

"Ma'am?"

Dr. Sutcliffe marches over to the big, black van and starts peering in windows.

"It's just a car, ma'am," says Mr. Scott, quite confused now.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:13 am**

Jill stares at Mr. Scott, trying to decide whether to trust him or not, but can't completely make up her mind. "How could I call him before? And why did he pick up at the old office phone number I remember, which I thought was some financial company? And why would they stop his coming here? And how do you know him anyway?" Jill is a little embarrassed by her stream of demanding questions, but she was getting tired of the world not making any sense. Louie may seem drastic, painting everything as life or death and big conspiracies ... but it does seem like something weird is going on here. Maybe Dr. Sutcliffe is on our side; maybe she'll make them keep us here.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:17 am**

Mr. Scott looked confused. "He must have had the old phone line transfer to his new office. He's only been working there since the ... the comas." He circles in front of Dr. Sutcliffe. "Ma'am, what about Leroy?" He looks back at Jill. "We're pals. He works at ..." He turns back to Dr. Sutcliffe as she attempts to peer around him. "Ma'am! They probably stopped his coming because it'd be quicker if you just took a lift with me. I don't know, maybe the government thought that most survivors would jump at the chance to help find a cure for the rest of the coma patients. Maybe they thought that we wouldn't be treated like the enemy here. How the hell do I know?" He seems plainly exasperated now.

The other three men in suits shuffle uncomfortable. They look a whole lot more like science geeks and a lot less intimidating right now.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:24 am**

Louie calms down a little.

I'm sorry for my out burst. It's just that since we've woken up no one will tell us the real storey of what's going on. We've gotten vague answers to our questions. I'm really not ussually like this. You seem like a nice enough guy, and I probably sound like a raving psyco. If your willing to start over so am I.

I got to stall this guy. Just until I get some answers. Now they are looking for Leroy. I hope they don't find him. Louie leans down and whispers to Jill again.

Listen Jill. I honestly don't think we should go anywhere until we get more information.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:26 am**

"We don't have Leroy," says Mr. Scott, apparently not hearing Louie.

Mr. Scott and Dr. Sutcliffe spend a moment glaring at each other with raised eyebrows. They look like two birds fronting up, feathers ruffled, crests raised.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:29 am**

Louie laughs out loud.

Good for you Leroy. Keep them guessing. Sucks to not know what's going on doesn't it. If your nice to me I might tell you where he is, but probably not.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:30 am**

Jill nods. I wish I could just trust these men to take me to Charlie, but I can't.

"I'm really sorry, Mr. Scott, but Charlie told me to wait here, that he would come and get me. I really don't think that he would be willing to wait around while someone else brought me to him. If they've managed to deter him, I'm sure it will only be momentarily. I don't want to leave, only to have him arrive and discover that I've gone. So, I'd like ... I'm going to stay here until he arrives. Or at least until I can talk to him again and figure this out."

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:34 am**

Mr. Scott shrugs and raises his mobile phone. "Yeah, me again. They're being uncooperative and I'm hardly in the position to refuse. Send the paperwork and the goons. I'm returning to the convention." He hung up and smiled at them all. "Don't push too hard, Sutcliffe, or you might just get a quarantine on your hands." He paused and looked respectfully at Jill. "Sorry, Jill, you know how it is." He then turns to get into his car.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:38 am**

Carson prods Dr. Sutcliffe, frustrated that she has ignored him. "Doctor, I'd like to know where Leroy is!"

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:39 am**

"So would I," says Dr. Sutcliffe, equally annoyed.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:40 am**

Louie bends down to Jill again.

Ok we've bought ourselves some time, but not much. We need to find a place to hide before the so called goons get here. Any ideas.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:51 am**

"What? What room was he in?" asks Carson, anxious to see his friend.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:54 am**

"Same room as Joel but he wasn't there," says Dr. Sutcliffe. "Unless he was hiding in the toilets..." She turns to look at Leroy. "Was he? Wait, how would you know?" She turns and starts marching into the hospital. "Carson, roll Jill in with me. Leroy, you should take a seat before you fall over."

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:58 am**

Louie does not give up the wheel chair to Carson.

Well Well Carson. You are looking pretty good. You've really pulled yourself together. If you don't mind I'll push Jill..

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:45 pm**

A well-built man in a suit walks towards the hospital with a swift pace, coming from the parking. His trenchcoat has a badly overturned collar, as if put on in a rush, and forgotten. In his hands he carries a boquet of red roses.

As he comes into sight he comes to an abrupt halt, nearly fumbling and dropping the roses as he stops.

"Jill." he simply says trying to suppress tears, almost afraid from coming near or touching her.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:02 pm**

Jill manages to gasp out "Charlie!" before her own tears begin to fall. She struggles to stand up and holds out her arms to him.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:09 pm**

Charlie succeeds in shedding his fear and closes in for a hug, forgetting all about the flowers he still holds in his hand.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:32 pm**

Jill buries her face in his shoulder and in between sobs manages to get out, "Your colleague Mr. Scott ... tried to get us to ... to come with him ... but I said I wanted ... to wait ... because I knew ... that you would ... be here soon."

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:39 pm**

"Well, not really a colleague, though we've met eachother workrelated." Charlie quickly says.

"But that's not important. You're important now. How do you feel?" he asks after he pegs a kiss on her cheek and straightens himself.

"Oh, and I brought you this." he adds with a funny smile, as he realises that he's still holding the flowers.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:45 pm**

Jill sniffles a little, and manages to bring her tears under control. "I'm okay, I think. Just very tired, is all."

"Oh, they're beautiful! Thank you." A smile breaks across her face. "They're lovely."

She gets an odd look on her face as she goes to take them and realizes that she's still holding the ID in her hand. "I, um, Mr. Scott gave me your ID." She hands it back to him.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:55 pm**

"Hmz, why would he give you my visitors badge?" Charlie asks puzzled, frowning as he reads the ID card "Well, no matter. We'll find out later."

"Tired? After 3 years of sleep?" he jokes with a kind smile "That's sleeping in longer than I'm used of you!"

"I take it others are waking up as well?" he asks, half looking at the doctor "Still no hint as to why this all happened?"

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:59 pm**

Dr. Sutcliffe stiffens, then relaxes with a deep exhalation. "...no."

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:02 pm**

"Well, no matter..." Charlie says as he caresses Jill's cheek "I'm just happy to have you back."

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:08 pm**

Jill smiles lovingly at her husband, but then her eyes go wide. "Oh! Mr. Scott, before he left, he said that since we weren't going with him, they'd have to send 'goons and paperwork'. The military wants to take us away. Please don't let them."

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:23 pm**

"There's not much that I can do... The company only did some financial audits for the DSTL, so it's not as if I have any power over them when it comes to their containment protocols..." Charlie explains "But if the doctor says there is no reason for you to stay here at the hospital, then we can just leave after signing a few papers."

"Right, doc?" he asks the doctor.

"Besides, it's impossible to contain all people that went into a coma like you. There are far to many." he says "And since the doctors have found nothing in the past 3 years, I doubt they'll find anything now."

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:28 pm**

Dr. Sutcliffe frowns. "But they're not wanting to contain them all. Only the ones who have awoken. Today, several at my hospital have died. Several have awoken. If the government really wants to put us all under quarantine, there is very little we can do. The new anti-terror laws were bad enough... People became so frightened when so many fell into a coma. So many children..."

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:42 pm**

"Well, I wouldn't worry until you actually see a governement official..." Charlie shrugs "Mr Scott doesn't exactly have the authority to quarantaine anything. If I recall correctly, he's just a chemist at the DSTL, which raises the question why he would be picking up anyone at all at your hospital."

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:19 pm**

"He said they just happened to be closest... Oh! I forgot, Charlie, meet Louie. He just woke up, too. We met ... in our dreams, I guess."

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:20 pm**

Louie reaches over and picks up the piece of paper off of Jill's wheel chair, and then puts it in his pocket. He looks at Charlie and extends his hand to shake it.

Hello Charlie. I'm Louie, one of the other patients that just woke up. It must be nice for her to see a familiar face. I'm glad you're here.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:28 pm**

"Hi. Charlie Adams." Charlie replies as he shakes the man's hand "What do you mean, met in your dreams?"

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:32 pm**

It's a long storey, but it seems that we have the same memories from when we were in the coma. I haven't been able to ask anyone else who's woken up if they experienced the same thing.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:33 pm**

Jill frowns. "Yes, it doesn't really make any sense, but there you go."

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:47 pm**

Needless to say, I'm grateful you are here Charlie. For some reason I felt the need to protect her, but that's more of a job for a husband than an aquaintance.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:50 pm**

"Protect? From who?" Charlie replies.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:51 pm**

Dr. Sutcliffe merely watches silently.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:06 pm**

Well from no one, and every one. The dream we shared was not a pleasant one, but it was very real. It's too painful to go into detail, but some people have been acting strange since we woke up. We shared this experience and kind of feel like we want to stick together until we have it figured out. I'm glad you're here though she needs someone who loves her right now.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:22 pm**

"Well, if you feel the same way, I suppose we can have your friend come with us, if he has no family to be reunited with." Charlie says to Jill "I believe that this shared memory thing, is just a shared psychosis. Though we never found out what was causing this and how, so you might actually have experienced something together."

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:28 pm**

I have one family member who probably would like to know I'm alive, but that's only so she can charge me three years worth of storage fees on my belongings.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:30 pm**

That's sad. I hope Charlie realizes that it would be unkind to leave Louie on his own. "I think we are both disoriented to say the least. Confusion likes company? Our nightmare was ... unnerving and then to wake up and find that three years have passed ... it's hard to try to adjust." She turns to Louie. "You found other people who woke up? And they remember the same things we do?"

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:10 pm**

Louie looks a Jill with concern

Actually I never got an answer from him. I asked and then kind of left right away. I didn't feel right leaving you by yourself.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:15 pm**

Charlie observes silently. Worried that Jill might have suffered more than a 3 year dreamless coma, which is bad enough in itself.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:18 pm**

Jill turns to Dr. Sutcliffe. "Could you ask the other people who have woken up what they remember, to see if they share the same memories that Louie and I do?"

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