Us Against All Odds (En)

The eighth week

He understood then that she was the one he might spend the rest of his days looking for, with no hope of finding her.'

Nicholas Sparks

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Maya was in her hospital bed. She had been in a coma for eight weeks now.

It was a Thursday, the nurses had been alerted by the electrocardiogram coming from Maya's room that was going off.

Amelia: Carina, Maya is awake, but I need you to come by my office before you go to see her. Please, this is really important.

Carina: ok, I'll be right there

Carina knocked on her neurosurgeon friend's door just three minutes later. Her heart was pounding.

- "Come in."

- "Tell me? So I can go and see my wonderful fiancée" she said, entering the office with a huge smile.

- "Carina... Can you... Sit down please?"

- "Amelia, what is it?" Her tone had changed

- "Please sit down"

- "Amelia...." She said, raising her voice

-"Well okay, Maya she... She... She has... Amnesia."

- "What?...she forgot about her assault?"

- "she forgot the last 18 months"

Carina, who had just absorbed Dr. Shepherd's words, sat staring blankly into the distance.

- "she... She forgot me"

/A few minutes earlier/

-"Maya, calm down, you can breathe on your own. Maya, calm, calm. Do you know what you are doing here?"

-"I ... I was in a burning building and ... And I fell. My leg it hurts"

- "Are you in pain? I'll increase your painkillers".

- "no!"

- "Maya, do you know what date it is?"

- "the 17th"

- "of what month?"

- "January 17."

- "Maya you have been in a coma for almost 9 weeks"

- "it is the beginning of March... 2020?"

- "no Maya we are in August 2021"

- "but you just told me I was only in a coma for nine weeks?"

- "you had a concussion as a result of an assault you suffered in a park around 4:00 a.m. Don't you remember?"

- "no ... I..."

-"Maya placed her fingers on her cheekbone, which was tickling her. "and a broken wrist. Your concussion and coma have set you back the last 18 months."

Maya began to panic.

-"Maya, Maya calm down, it's okay, it could come back at any time. It could be the backlash. We have to wait the next 24 hours."

- "or never?..."

-"or never... But let's not see the glass half empty just yet. Do you want to see someone?"

-"Andy? Andy Herrera, we're both lieutenants at Station 19," she said, before adding, to herself mostly, "although maybe she's a Captain now..."

- "you have great friends, they came to see you every day. I'll contact them."