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Just because they can't feel it too doesn't mean that you have to forget | OPEN
Who: ??? Robert "Bobby" Lyon (James Potter) [pottershotter] and OPEN
Where: Storybrooke General Hospital (10/24-10/25), The Lyon Household (10/26-10/27), and then assorted other locations for the rest of the event (10/27-10/28).
When: 10/24-10/28 - Catch all for the Storybrooke Event!
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Bobby Lyon, senior at Storybrooke High and son of Coach Lyon (Beiste), has been missing for the better part of a week. Pre-event he was found unconscious in the woods by Narukami Yu (Souji) and brought to the hospital. When he wakes on the first morning of the event, he won't remember anything at all - not even his own name.
The Story:
1. 10/24 - Hospital
He feels heavy when he first wakes, and when he blinks his eyes open the world is a blur. With a groan, he shoves himself up onto his palms and tries to look around, but the blurriness isn't just from fatigue. He spies a table near the bed and the vague outline of glasses sitting on it. It takes a bit of reaching but eventually his fingers brush against them, and he's able to grab them.
He turns them over in his hands, and lifts them close to his face so he can examine them. It seems odd that there would be a random pair of glasses by his bed. He doesn't recall ever needing glasses, but he supposes they're worth a try. Sure enough, when he slips them on his vision clears completely.
He's in the hospital.
...Why is he in the hospital? There has to be a reason he's there. People don't just wake up in hospitals, so something must have happened to him, but when he tries to think about it it's like looking into a dark void. If he stares too long, he feels a bit like he might fall in.
Unsatisfied with the lack of answer, he tries to look through the door from where he's sitting. By sheer luck, he's alone at the moment, but he doesn't recognize anyone passing the door, and in the minute or so he peeks, no one looks in on him. The longer he's sitting in bed, the more he realizes how ungodly uncomfortable it is. He looks around again and sees there's a tiny needle in his arm, hooked up to an IV. He figures he probably shouldn't yank the needle out since he's not sure what happened or if he needs it - but he feels like he's probably okay. He leans over the side of the bed and finds that ah - the IV stand has wheels.
Feeling confident in this plan, he pulls the IV over to the correct side of the bed and swings his legs over the side. He grips the IV stand tight, half-wondering if there's going to be something wrong with his legs, but then decides to give it a try anyway.
He was not prepared for a bed alarm.
When it goes off he curses pretty loudly and frantically looks for something that might shut the thing off, but he can't find the switch or the button or whatever it is, and he can hear footsteps coming a bit more quickly now. So, deciding to call this a loss he scrambles back into the bed, hoping it will silence the alarm, and offers a sheepish smile at whoever comes into the room.
"Err. ...Hullo."
2. 10/25 - Hospital
He learns his name is Robert Lyon, and it doesn't sound familiar.
He also learns that his mother and his friends all call him Bobby, which feels even stranger. He can't recall his birthday, and when he woke up he had no idea what day it was or what he'd been doing before he was in the hospital. He's been missing for days and absolutely nothing rings a bell.
People worried about him, apparently, and he feels sort of bad. He's met the woman who's supposed to be his mother, and he feels even worse about that. When he looks at her, he doesn't see someone he recognizes and when she looks at him she sees someone she's raised and loved for years and years. Seventeen years, he's told, though somehow that surprises him. He thought he might be older.
The hospital staff keep quizzing him, but he comes up with no new answers. He's able to tell them who they are, and what he's experienced since waking up. There's a red-headed volunteer that he's particularly talkative about, but nothing from his past remains. He only knows his name because it's what he's been told. He's given activities to do, little things to assess his ability to make new memories and what sort of information he still remembers. He learns he's not physically hurt at all (no concussions or brain damage of any kind), and he's been taken off the IV since he's capable of feeding himself. They do not, however, take the alarm off his bed, as two more escape attempts reveal.
Mostly though, he's discovered that being in a hospital is dreadfully boring.
3. 10/26 - Discharged from Hospital; The Lyon household.
Since he's not actually hurt and has proven to be able to make and hold onto new memories, he is discharged into his mother's care to recover (though he's still excused from school for the time being). They don't receive a straight answer when they ask how soon to expect a recovery, but the hospital staff assures them that it might help to be around objects from his past, and in the house he grew up in. Look at photographs, they suggest.
It doesn't help.
They get into a car he doesn't recognize and drive through a town he's never seen before (though he watches everything as they drive, trying to absorb every detail about this town that he's apparently grown up in. They pull up in front of an equally unfamiliar house, and when they enter it's full of things he's never seen before - or thinks he's never seen before.
The photographs are the most baffling. There are pictures of them together, in moments he should remember but nothing comes to mind. He stares at them for a long time, as if he expects them to start moving.
He has a room and it's green, which doesn't feel right. There are trophies scattered along shelves with books - all of them are from various sports from over the years. Nothing seems like anything he actually owns though, so somehow he feels like he's staying in the guestroom of someone else's home, while their real son is away.
He doesn't want to ask his mother where various rooms in the house are, so he explores himself. She's reluctant to let him far out of her sight though, and he's pretty sure he can feel her heart breaking when she realizes what he's doing. He wishes he knew how to help, but without his memories all he can really do is make sure he remains within earshot.
4. 10/27 - The Lyon Household; assorted places in Storybrooke.
He dreams about running in the woods on four legs, and it's the first dream he's been able to remember since he woke up a few days ago.
As much as he wants to be kind to his apparent mother and not give her a heart attack, he's feeling incredibly restless. He wants to go out and explore this town he's heard he's lived in all his life, so he begs and pleads and whines to go out and explore the town, on the grounds that maybe he might remember something out there.
He's granted two hours, and he planned to make the most of it, but it winds up being very odd. Strange things keep happening to him. Objects float around him. When he grows cold, his gloves warm up like there's a furnace inside them, and burn so hot he has to take them off. At one point a window shatters near him, and when he runs so no one will assume it was him (though what proof would they have?) he goes from running down the street to being on the roof of a nearby building very suddenly, and he has no idea how that happened at all. He comes home a little shaken, and later decides it might be good to call it an early night. Once he lays down though, he can't sleep.
When the curse breaks, it's very sudden. The wave washes over everyone in town and it crashes into him abruptly. He bolts upright and wide-eyed in bed and his hand goes straight to his mouth, like he might be sick. He trembles. Everything he lost rushed back to him and once, and he can feel tears streaming down his face.
He's James.
He's James Potter and this event took so much from him this time. This event took everything he's fought so hard for in Wonderland. Everything.
5. 10/28 - A note on the fridge
When Coach Beiste (or Lyon, or whichever her memories are telling her she is) wakes up in the morning, she will find an empty house and the following note on the fridge, in shaky handwriting:
Coach,
I remember who I am, but I'm not who you think (I think?)
I'm sorry I'll be gone when you get this but I have to go
I must find Lily
It's really important - I remember everything now
I promise, I'll be back later
You made a fantastic Mum, Coach
If I could've picked anyone in Wonderland, I'd have picked you.
Sincerely,
James Potter
[ooc: If any of these don't work for you, feel free to make up your own as long as it's somewhere he'd actually be! On the last day he'll be running around town looking for Lily and Sirius and anyone else he knows at all, and he'll be leaning on his Wonderland memories (since he never really had full Storybrooke ones). Anyone's welcome to visit him either in the hospital or at his house, or run into him in town on the last two days. Either prose or [action brackets] are fine - I'll match!]
pottershotter] and OPENWhere: Storybrooke General Hospital (10/24-10/25), The Lyon Household (10/26-10/27), and then assorted other locations for the rest of the event (10/27-10/28).
When: 10/24-10/28 - Catch all for the Storybrooke Event!
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Bobby Lyon, senior at Storybrooke High and son of Coach Lyon (Beiste), has been missing for the better part of a week. Pre-event he was found unconscious in the woods by Narukami Yu (Souji) and brought to the hospital. When he wakes on the first morning of the event, he won't remember anything at all - not even his own name.
The Story:
1. 10/24 - Hospital
He feels heavy when he first wakes, and when he blinks his eyes open the world is a blur. With a groan, he shoves himself up onto his palms and tries to look around, but the blurriness isn't just from fatigue. He spies a table near the bed and the vague outline of glasses sitting on it. It takes a bit of reaching but eventually his fingers brush against them, and he's able to grab them.
He turns them over in his hands, and lifts them close to his face so he can examine them. It seems odd that there would be a random pair of glasses by his bed. He doesn't recall ever needing glasses, but he supposes they're worth a try. Sure enough, when he slips them on his vision clears completely.
He's in the hospital.
...Why is he in the hospital? There has to be a reason he's there. People don't just wake up in hospitals, so something must have happened to him, but when he tries to think about it it's like looking into a dark void. If he stares too long, he feels a bit like he might fall in.
Unsatisfied with the lack of answer, he tries to look through the door from where he's sitting. By sheer luck, he's alone at the moment, but he doesn't recognize anyone passing the door, and in the minute or so he peeks, no one looks in on him. The longer he's sitting in bed, the more he realizes how ungodly uncomfortable it is. He looks around again and sees there's a tiny needle in his arm, hooked up to an IV. He figures he probably shouldn't yank the needle out since he's not sure what happened or if he needs it - but he feels like he's probably okay. He leans over the side of the bed and finds that ah - the IV stand has wheels.
Feeling confident in this plan, he pulls the IV over to the correct side of the bed and swings his legs over the side. He grips the IV stand tight, half-wondering if there's going to be something wrong with his legs, but then decides to give it a try anyway.
He was not prepared for a bed alarm.
When it goes off he curses pretty loudly and frantically looks for something that might shut the thing off, but he can't find the switch or the button or whatever it is, and he can hear footsteps coming a bit more quickly now. So, deciding to call this a loss he scrambles back into the bed, hoping it will silence the alarm, and offers a sheepish smile at whoever comes into the room.
"Err. ...Hullo."
2. 10/25 - Hospital
He learns his name is Robert Lyon, and it doesn't sound familiar.
He also learns that his mother and his friends all call him Bobby, which feels even stranger. He can't recall his birthday, and when he woke up he had no idea what day it was or what he'd been doing before he was in the hospital. He's been missing for days and absolutely nothing rings a bell.
People worried about him, apparently, and he feels sort of bad. He's met the woman who's supposed to be his mother, and he feels even worse about that. When he looks at her, he doesn't see someone he recognizes and when she looks at him she sees someone she's raised and loved for years and years. Seventeen years, he's told, though somehow that surprises him. He thought he might be older.
The hospital staff keep quizzing him, but he comes up with no new answers. He's able to tell them who they are, and what he's experienced since waking up. There's a red-headed volunteer that he's particularly talkative about, but nothing from his past remains. He only knows his name because it's what he's been told. He's given activities to do, little things to assess his ability to make new memories and what sort of information he still remembers. He learns he's not physically hurt at all (no concussions or brain damage of any kind), and he's been taken off the IV since he's capable of feeding himself. They do not, however, take the alarm off his bed, as two more escape attempts reveal.
Mostly though, he's discovered that being in a hospital is dreadfully boring.
3. 10/26 - Discharged from Hospital; The Lyon household.
Since he's not actually hurt and has proven to be able to make and hold onto new memories, he is discharged into his mother's care to recover (though he's still excused from school for the time being). They don't receive a straight answer when they ask how soon to expect a recovery, but the hospital staff assures them that it might help to be around objects from his past, and in the house he grew up in. Look at photographs, they suggest.
It doesn't help.
They get into a car he doesn't recognize and drive through a town he's never seen before (though he watches everything as they drive, trying to absorb every detail about this town that he's apparently grown up in. They pull up in front of an equally unfamiliar house, and when they enter it's full of things he's never seen before - or thinks he's never seen before.
The photographs are the most baffling. There are pictures of them together, in moments he should remember but nothing comes to mind. He stares at them for a long time, as if he expects them to start moving.
He has a room and it's green, which doesn't feel right. There are trophies scattered along shelves with books - all of them are from various sports from over the years. Nothing seems like anything he actually owns though, so somehow he feels like he's staying in the guestroom of someone else's home, while their real son is away.
He doesn't want to ask his mother where various rooms in the house are, so he explores himself. She's reluctant to let him far out of her sight though, and he's pretty sure he can feel her heart breaking when she realizes what he's doing. He wishes he knew how to help, but without his memories all he can really do is make sure he remains within earshot.
4. 10/27 - The Lyon Household; assorted places in Storybrooke.
He dreams about running in the woods on four legs, and it's the first dream he's been able to remember since he woke up a few days ago.
As much as he wants to be kind to his apparent mother and not give her a heart attack, he's feeling incredibly restless. He wants to go out and explore this town he's heard he's lived in all his life, so he begs and pleads and whines to go out and explore the town, on the grounds that maybe he might remember something out there.
He's granted two hours, and he planned to make the most of it, but it winds up being very odd. Strange things keep happening to him. Objects float around him. When he grows cold, his gloves warm up like there's a furnace inside them, and burn so hot he has to take them off. At one point a window shatters near him, and when he runs so no one will assume it was him (though what proof would they have?) he goes from running down the street to being on the roof of a nearby building very suddenly, and he has no idea how that happened at all. He comes home a little shaken, and later decides it might be good to call it an early night. Once he lays down though, he can't sleep.
When the curse breaks, it's very sudden. The wave washes over everyone in town and it crashes into him abruptly. He bolts upright and wide-eyed in bed and his hand goes straight to his mouth, like he might be sick. He trembles. Everything he lost rushed back to him and once, and he can feel tears streaming down his face.
He's James.
He's James Potter and this event took so much from him this time. This event took everything he's fought so hard for in Wonderland. Everything.
5. 10/28 - A note on the fridge
When Coach Beiste (or Lyon, or whichever her memories are telling her she is) wakes up in the morning, she will find an empty house and the following note on the fridge, in shaky handwriting:
Coach,
I remember who I am, but I'm not who you think (I think?)
I'm sorry I'll be gone when you get this but I have to go
I must find Lily
It's really important - I remember everything now
I promise, I'll be back later
You made a fantastic Mum, Coach
If I could've picked anyone in Wonderland, I'd have picked you.
Sincerely,
James Potter
[ooc: If any of these don't work for you, feel free to make up your own as long as it's somewhere he'd actually be! On the last day he'll be running around town looking for Lily and Sirius and anyone else he knows at all, and he'll be leaning on his Wonderland memories (since he never really had full Storybrooke ones). Anyone's welcome to visit him either in the hospital or at his house, or run into him in town on the last two days. Either prose or [action brackets] are fine - I'll match!]
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"Don't freak out, okay? Freaking out ain't gonna help anything."
After a brief hesitation, she reaches out and takes his hand. "You seem sane enough to me. Well. Sane as you ever are."
She manages a weak smile and squeezes his hand.
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She must be though, to take his hand and try to comfort him this way. It doesn't fix things, but it helps a little. He squeezes her hand in return. It's nice to have a hand to hold.
"...Thanks," he says. "I. I suppose you'd know better I would right now. Right?"
He's trying to joke about it, but he sounds so genuinely uncertain that it doesn't feel very funny when he says it.
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She wonders if he'll have some brain damage. Will he have to stay back in school? At least he seemed pretty physically okay, jumping out of the bed like that.
"You want to wake up a little more before you talk to a doc about it? Who knows, maybe if we wait a bit, stuff'll start to come back."
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"...Maybe," he says.
He doesn't sound sure about that, as if he's not really sure he wants to be left alone again. It feels worse, since he doesn't even have his identity to keep him company. At the same time though, this is all horribly overwhelming. It's too much at once, and it's crushing, and it's enough to finally make him nod.
"Yeah. That might be good. ...Maybe it'll help."
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Although, now that she's said it, she isn't sure what to talk about. She shifts uncomfortably for a moment. "Maybe start with any questions you have. Figure you're gonna have folks asking you plenty, so it might help to get some answers yourself first. Might feel more...fair."
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It's surprisingly hard for him to come up with questions. After all, it's hard to know what he's missing if he can't remember anything to begin with. He can't think of what to ask. After a moment though, he looks at her curiously.
"So...you're my mom." He hesitates. Why does that sound so wrong to him? Either way, he pushes forward with his question. "What about my dad then? Is he here too?"
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"He's...not in the picture. Hasn't been since before you were born."
And this is all stuff he knows, or should know, so it seems weird to stop there, as if he isn't allowed all the information, but still she hesitates to continue.
"He was...when I was pregnant. He was rough with me." And before that, but maybe that isn't important now. "Didn't want you growing up with someone like that."
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Disappointment isn't really the right word for it. It doesn't feel true for reasons he can't explain, but he has no reason to believe otherwise. He can't be disappointed that a father he doesn't remember - a father he never knew, apparently - isn't part of his life.
So it's not that. It's the fact that it's obviously a painful subject. He never could have known (or rather, he should have known but couldn't) but he still feels badly for bringing it up.
"We don't have to do this," he blurts out. "It can wait. ...Really."
It's a lot for one day, and clearly not just for him.
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"I...can get the doctor."
She feels weak. Weaker than usual. But that look on his face-- almost just pity, pity for her --is too much. She can't do this by herself. She's going to have to.
She needs a break.
Dot stands and leans over, pressing a kiss to Bobby's forehead. "I'll be right back, okay? You take it easy. No more escape attempts, got me?"
She gives him a weak smile and, on weak knees, she heads out of the room.