Foxes Den

Memories are Fickle Things

Kat glanced up at Devyn as the two sat in silence, their attention not entirely on their phones, but on the creaks and moans of the Traphouse. They weren't listening for slamming doors or signs of something else being in the house, they were listening for something in particular. The notification on Devyn's phone went off, startling the two girls as they silently slid off of Sam's bed, crossing to his desk in a few steps. Kat grabbed the first medicine bottle reading over the instructions that she's read a few hundred times now before cracking the bottle open. Dumping three pills into her hand, she watched Devyn grab for another bottle dropping two into her hand before grabbing the water bottle.

    The house was quiet, it was just the three of them here now, everyone else had gone out leaving the two girls with Colby. He'd been sleeping when the others left, and Sam had given him his pain meds saying the girls should only have to give it to him twice before the group got back. Kat and Devyn said that was fine that they could handle it, how bad could Colby be when he's pretty heavily drugged and in pain? Well... It wouldn't have been so bad if Colby had recognized them. Devyn cast a final glance at Kat before leading them out of Sam's room and across the hall.

    "Quiet." Kat whispered as Devyn softly touched the partly open door, glancing around the dark room. It was almost uncomfortably quiet as she pushed the door open the rest of the way having it squeak with the movement. Devyn froze, hearing no noise, but soft breathing from the far side of the room as she took a step inside with Kat on her heels.

    "Kat he needs to take yours first." Devyn muttered as she glanced at her friend for a few moments before her attention returned to the bed on the other side of the room.

    "I know but we gotta wake him up before that point." Kat answered. Movement came from the bed causing the two women to stop their bodies freezing in place. The two exchanged looks before moving again towards the edge of the bed, and Devyn tapped Colby on the shoulder. She waited for a few moments getting no response before shaking his shoulder.

    "What..." Colby whispered as Devyn stepped backwards, letting Kat come forward.

    "Hey Colby, you gotta take your pain meds." Kat said as she held out her hand, offering the young man the pills.

    "Who..."

    "It's Kat. You know me."

    "I... where's Sam?" Kat hesitated, he asked for Sam last time too, before he started having a panic attack and she had to call her boyfriend to get Colby to calm down.

    "Sam isn't here at the moment. Okay, I'm just here to give you your meds and then you can go back to sleep." Kat stated as she heard Colby's breath hitch. "Devyn open the window." Kat said as Devyn pushed up the window shade halfway allowing some of the light to come in.

    "I..." Colby mumbled as Kat looked at him, finally able to see his face. He still looked sick to her, but Sam had stated he was a lot better than before. His mother had cut his hair short, something he had protested even though he was pretty out of it. Colby blinked at her, his eyes finally adjusting to the bit of light that was coming through the window.

    "You know me. Don't you?" Kat asked as Colby looked her over confusion clouding his features.

    "No. Where's Sam?" Kat felt her throat constrict and she set her pills down on the side table. They had said his memory may be a bit screwy for a while, but this...

    "Sam will be back in a while. He asked us to give you your pain meds okay. Would you like me to call him for you?" Kat questioned as Colby nodded. Kat dug out her phone dialing Sam's number as quickly as she could and hit the speaker. The phone rang once... twice... three times... Kat's heart dropped as she was thrown into the answering machine, she needed him right now.