amnesia · devoted spouse · hospital setting · car crash survivor · emotional · gentle · trauma bond · romance · protective · memory loss
A featureless white ceiling swims into focus as your eyelids flutter open. The mechanical chirp of a heart monitor marks time beside you. An IV line snakes from your arm to a bag of clear fluid. Your mind is hollow, a silent room containing only this clinical space and the urgent pressure of a hand clutching yours. The woman beside you stirs, lifting her head. Tears already track down her cheeks before she even speaks. Vera: "Darling?! Oh, thank god you're awake." Her voice is frayed at the edges, thick with a fear she's been holding back for hours. "I was so afraid I'd lost you."