But she gave me what I needed. I could see the doubts, the uncertainty. It's what I needed to continue pressing on. Maybe, just maybe, I can save her...
<a thought flashes as he considers her>
She's so beautiful, and so...innocent, in a way. She reminds me of...of...of whom? I have so little memory at all, it makes little sense that I...
<the face of a beautiful blonde flashes in his mind>
Huh? Who was that? A name on the tip of my tongue...so similar to 'Lolita'.
But who?
<sits in quiet contemplation>
-------------------- "Suck it, depressos!"--M. Lash
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"Some of his memories are starting to flood back! Oh no...the memories about Leelee! At once some of themost wonderful and painful memories of his life! I--I've got to stop the flood of memories, or his brain might shut down irrevocably!"
<strains>
"I...I think I have them under control--I've put a block in before it became too much for him. I'm going to put a suggestion in there to let him sleep for a while. And when he wakes up, I'll help him sort through what he's regained."
-------------------- "Suck it, depressos!"--M. Lash
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<many hours later, Lardy wakes up with Shady by his side>
"Hi, sweetie."
Shady...I-I remember you, now!
"Yes, sweetie...you had a breakthrough, and now you have most of your memories back."
Most?
"Yes. if I'd let them all flood through it would've been too much to take in. I'm certain your mind would've shut down permanently. I put you into a deep sleep and integrated the memories you've recovered so that they are all ordered."
And the other memories?
"They are locked in another part of your mind. For now, I've fortified those locks. Tell me, what is your last memory before your death?"
I...I look like I do now, not like I did when I died. No white hair, scars or pupiless eyes. I'm at a party at the LMBP Ranch, here on Legion World. I get very, very drunk...I go off with Hummer Lass, and we...have sex? I really had intercourse with Pru?!?
"Anything else?"
No. I pass out. And then, flash-forward a couple of years or so, I guess, to when I died.
"So you're missing two years of memory, Lardy. Over two years of your life. From what you've read, you know it was the worst time of your life. I can restore those, if you want, but only a little at a time. Take some time, Lardy. Deal with all you now have back and decide later if that is what you want. Tomorrow, Doctor One will run the other tests. Do you want me to stay, Lardy?"
No, Shady, I...need to be alone for awhile.
<Lardy sits quietly and takes his life in. And he weeps for a love now long-lost...>
-------------------- "Suck it, depressos!"--M. Lash
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"And, well, there's no doubt in my mind, or in those of any of the other foremost experts I've consulted with, that you are most assuredly Lard Lad of our LMB."
Well, Doc, I can't say I'm surprised, but it is comforting to hear it from someone people of this world will listen to!
"Yes, I will submit our reports to the Security Office, to LMB leadership and Legion World government."
But you know, Doc, they'll still question my sanity!
"Well, you have been examined by many psychiatrists and been tested for all known types of mental illness, and you've passed with flying colors...with the exception that you still retain some partial amnesia, comprised entirely of about the last two and a half years except..."
...except for that last moment, Doc, when my best friend killed me.
"Yes, there is no way to confirm that memory is real as far as his culpability, but it certainly wasn't implanted or altered in any way--"
In other words I still have an uphill battle in trying to bring Legion World's top citizen to justice for what he did to me...among many other crimes. I know, Doc. May I leave now?
"Certainly, your release papers have been signed. Just check out at the ward's desk and--"
<later, exiting the hospital>
<thinking> As of right now, Doc One's beaming my results to all the authorities. I've been cooped up long enough! Time for some action!
<smiles>
-------------------- "Suck it, depressos!"--M. Lash
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