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I Wish I Could Remember
I Wish I Could Remember
by Nalaniangel
rated G
Summary: Shalimar looses her memory and it kills Brennan.
Shalimar studied the man in front of her. He was well built and tall, messy hair, worried look on his face. He didn't look like he had shaved or slept for a few days. He slowly drank his beer, watching her too.
"Who are you?" she finally asked.
"Brennan," he answered softly. He looked hurt, sad that she didn't remember him. Shalimar wished she could. The other man, Jesse, had almost cried. She had cried a little too. Each time she met with one of them, she prayed that their faces would bring back some kind of memory to who she was. They told her facts, her favorite color, her favorite food, Emma had told her about her clothing style. They talked about her personality, her ticks, memories she couldn't remember. "How have you been?" he asked, trying to avoid being miserable.
"Fine," she answered, looking down at her own drink.
"What's wrong?" Brennan asked.
"Nothing," she insisted.
"You're lying. Every time you're sad, you look down at your drink. You used to do it all the time," he said.
"That was then," Shalimar said, standing up. He stood up with her.
"Where are you going?" he asked.
"Anywhere I want," she said. "I'm sick of hearing about myself, what I used to be and all of you trying to change me back! I'm sick of listening to all of you talk about me like I'm the same! You can go back and tell all your friends that I'm different now. I can't remember who I am, so I have to be different. Now, I'm leaving and if you follow me, I swear I'll kill you."
A smile quickly flashed across his face, but he hid it. Shalimar sounded exactly the same, threatening and loosing her temper like that. Tears started streaming down her face and walked out.
"Shalimar!" he shouted, starting after her. Shalimar broke into a run towards she park. A few minutes later, she arrived and looked behind her and started to walk. He wasn't there anymore. She started to wipe her face with the backs of her hands.
"Why can't they just understand that I don't know them!" she shouted in frustration. She started to cry again and sank to the ground next to a tree.
"Here," she heard. Shalimar looked up to see Brennan standing above her, holding out a Kleenex. She took it, but didn't use it, wadding it up in her hand.
He sat down next to her. "I'm sorry, Shal, I really am. But you've gotta understand that we're all dealing with this too."
"You're doing a pretty bad job," she commented.
"I know," he said, tentatively, putting his arm around her. She relaxed and put her head on his shoulder and kept crying.
"I don't even know you, but this feels so right," she whispered.
"I don't know if you want to hear another memory," he said, "but we've been here before at sunset. We used to come here a lot, just us. The others didn't know about it. We would just sit and talk, sometimes all night."
"What did we talk about?" she asked.
"Well, sometimes we would come here to complain. I was usually complaining about having to save everyone's butts all the time. You would usually complain about how unfair life is. Usually, we would move onto talking about Jesse, Emma, and Adam. It was mostly good stuff. Sometimes we would talk about missions that we had to do, or what we would eat the next day. Sometimes we talked about our pasts."
"Were we in love?" Shalimar asked suddenly.
"I loved you," he said. "More than life."
"Did I love you?" she asked.
"I don't know," he said, trying to hold back his own tears. "Sometimes I thought you did, sometimes I wasn't even sure if you liked me."
"I guess we'll never know," she said.
"Yeah," Brennan echoed. "I guess we wont."
Shalimar stood up and looked down at him. "I'm sorry," she whispered, before turning around and walking out of their lives forever.
Last edited by Nalaniangel24, 4/24/2004, 8:26 pm
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