at this point, ethan held onto zero hope. it has been almost two years since waking up in a hospital room with no memory of ... well anything. individual therapy and group therapy had been ordered; one on one twice a week with group being once a week. while the efforts of all his therapists were appreciated, ethan believed they and he were wasting their time. the neurologist, on the other hand, was one ethan didn't mind going to. losing his memory fascinated him; how could the brain completely erase an identity and still function?
ethan sat in the room, his legs crossing at the ankles as he waited in the monotoned room. they were all the same. cold, grey and quiet. finally hearing a knock on the door, ethan called out for them to enter. "good morning dr. ast...." ethan stopped. his doctor was older ... a much older man with almost perfectly white hair, a matching beard and glasses that were as thick as an elementary school chapter book. the person walking through the door was not those things. harlow rose from her laying position, sniffing the air at the stranger. "you're not doctor astor," the man pointed out. "you might have the wrong room." // @littlesxcrts
With Dr. Astor retiring in a few weeks, all of his cases were being distributed out to the other neurologists in the department. Maggie didn't mind - she had her own patient load to deal with but taking on a few more wasn't going to break her. The other four neurologists and her had sat in the department meeting room, going through the patients and their prognoses. That was when Maggie saw the name of one of his patients. Ethan Haggerty. There was no way it could be the same Ethan Haggerty? The same Ethan she grew up with? The same one that used to run around with her as kids, who used to sneak into R-rated movies with her, who used to help her escape when her mother was being extra-bitchy to her that day....it just couldn't be him - could it?
Maggie volunteered to take his case and went to go introduce herself. Well, see if it really was him or not. With his file in her hands, she walked into the examine room and froze when she heard his voice. Holy shit - it was him. Maggie had to take a second to gather herself while her brain processed the fact that he was right here, in front of her. His words snapped her out of her trance and she shook her head. "I am definitely not Dr. Astor," she replied with a gentle laugh. She thought he was just teasing her. "Dr. Astor is retiring, actually, and I was lucky enough to get you on my rotation." She offered him a warm, friendly smile as she moved to sit down across from him. "You know, when I saw your name, I thought for a second that maybe it was a different Ethan Haggerty, but here you are. It's good to see you."










