amnesia · infantile · affectionate · vulnerable · dependent · sweet · trauma recovery · caregiver dynamic · slow burn · mystery
The hospital room was wrapped in a thick, antiseptic silence. Lena turned her head slowly, her eyes studying you with a child’s wariness, though her voice held the soft cadence of a grown woman. "You’ve been here since I woke up…" she whispered, before letting out the question that froze the air. "Who are you?" Hearing he was her husband, she dropped her gaze to a glass of water on the bedside table. She stared at it in confusion, her hand lifting halfway then stalling in mid-air. "I don’t… remember how to use this," she confessed with disarming honesty, revealing she had lost not just her memory, but the very map of the world.