The Girl From the Car

3.1

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"Wait, why are we watching the kids?" Harry asked Liam thorough to phone

"I'll explain later, just do it" Liam said hanging up the phone and throwing it in the passenger seat as he drove to the hospital. He had a tight grip on the steering wheel, to where his knuckles were white and his hands were sore.

He's being hoping for this day since the day of the accident, but now that it's here he didn't know how to feel. You could say he was nervous to see her reaction.

But he was mostly nervous about if she remembered him.

He was worried that he was going to get there and she wasn't going to remember him, or she wasn't going to remember their kids, and that broke his heart.

But he was probably overreacting.

They have known each other for 10 years and Cecilia for fourteen, there is no way even with severe amnesia that she could forgot that long ago. When doing all his research there was maybe one out of eighty that had cases of amnesia where they forgot stuff more than ten years back. Of course there is cases that forget their whole lives but those where very unlikely.

He couldn't think about it anymore because he was pulling into the parking lot of the hospital. He quickly grabbed his phone and keys and rushed out of the car. He quickly went to the front desk and told the lady Sophie's name.

She gave him a sympathetic smile as she gave him the room number that Sophie switched to because she woke up.

He walked quickly to the hallway but stopped when he saw the doctors standing outside her room talking quietly.

"What happened? What's wrong?" Liam asked panicked coming up behind the doctor.

"No nothing happened Mr. Payne, we were just waiting for you. Don't worry" one of the female doctors smiled small

"So what happened?" Liam asked skeptically

"Well your wife woke up and we haven't done the amnesia test on her yet, we have to wait for your consent." The original doctor told him

"But we also wanted you to see her because it gives us a base line of what she remembers by looking at you" the female doctor explained

"So we can go on in if you want, I may warn you your wife freaked out of bit, which is normal, but we had to sedate her to calm down and she still is slightly sedated" The doctor said opening the door for him. He walked in slowly looking around the corner seeing Sophie stirring slightly while looking at the wall. He walked in the rest of the way into the room and sat down in the familiar chair.

Sophie looked over at him and he expected her eyes to light up and her face to show joy and for her to say 'I love you' or 'I missed you.' He expected her to recognize him and for her to be awake and aware. He expected her to ask about the kids and see how they were or even ask how he was.

But that didn't happen

She turned to him and her eyebrows knitted together and confusion was clear on her face

"Who are you and what are you doing here? What am I doing here?" she asked confused, her voice a bit scratchy from not talking for two and a half months

"I'm Liam, your husband" Liam said slowly trying not to get worked up

"No I don't have a husband" she said confused

And that's when Liam lost hope.

His breath got caught in his throat as he started at her hurt. He watched as she looked at him blankly and blink at him. He put a hand over his mouth and stood up going to leave but the doctors stopped him.

"We need your consent to test the severity of her amnesia" the doctor said sympathetically

"Yeah go ahead, I don't care" Liam waved them off trying to leave again but they held him back

"We need your help too sir" the doctor said trying to keep him calm

"No please don't make me stay" Liam begged looking at the female doctor with puppy dog eyes. He didn't care if it was desperate, he just wanted to leave.

"We have his consent sir, I don't think he should stay" the female doctor stepped up

"Ok, you can go but keep your phone on you" the doctor said hesitantly letting him go. He left quickly but not without looking back and seeing Sophie looking around the room confused. They made eye contact in which Liam saw her blank hazel eyes and that put him over the edge.

He ran out of the room keeping his tears in as he passed the front desk lady and left the hospital going to his car. He sat down and just sat there, didn't start the car, just looked ahead out the windshield. He laid his head on the steering wheel and cried.

He cried and cried and cried. He let all of it and didn't hold anything back. He heard his phone ring and he shakily took it out of his pocket seeing Zayn calling him. He hesitated before answering and putting the phone to his ear.

"Liam? Liam? Are you ok? Louis just called and said they had the kids, what happened?" Zayn rushed

"Z" Liam sobbed through the phone

"Liam? Oh my god what happened? Where are you?" Zayn asked worried rustling heard in the background

"I'm at the hospital" he hiccupped

"I'll be right there don't even think about moving, ok? I'll be there as fast as I can" Zayn said before the voices got muffled "I'll be back Liam needs me. No I don't know what happened. Perrie I have to go"

"Zayn" Liam whimpered

"I'm right here buddy, don't worry" Zayn said soothingly as he started his car.

Liam just stayed on the phone staring blankly at his feet through the steering wheel, Zayn tried getting him talk but Liam couldn't talk.

Soon a car pulled up next to him, but he still didn't look up. He just stared at his feet even after his door opened and Zayn shook him. He slowly looked up at Zayn with tear filled eyes.

"Oh Li" Zayn sighed sympathetically at the pitiful boy. He grabbed Liam gently pulling him out of the car and pulling his close. "Liam what happened?"

"She- she doesn't remember me Z" Liam cried even more making Zayn pull him closer

"Oh my god Li" Zayn gasped pulling Liam as close as he could hugging him tightly

"She looked me straight in the eye and said she doesn't have a husband" he whimpered

"Shh, it's ok Li" Zayn rubbed his back giving the people who passed a small smile as they looked worried

"No" he yelled pulling back "No it's not ok, her eyes were so empty Zayn" he cried "Her eyes were so blank and empty" he cried getting softer with each word before he fell back into Zayn's arms

"Liam you just have to be patient and hope for the best" Zayn said softly brushing his fingers through Liam's hair

"That's the thing, I'm running out of hope"