He blinked in the blinding sunlight, dazed, confused, and with a splitting headache...

He registered that he was in a hospital ward... That didn't explain much...

He looked down to find an IV in his arm; something was irritating his face, and with the limb that had no IV attached, he reached up to his face, and found a bandage covering half of it. Well, that was what was irritating him and why he was in a hospital...

A nurse came running. 'Oh good, you're finally awake! We were beginning to worry, you took a nasty bullet to the head, you're lucky to be alive, really, it was extremely close.'

'Mmmmmmhh...' He blinked some more. '... I can't think clearly... My head hurts... Where... Where am I? How did I get here?... Better yet, who am I? I don't... Remember anything...'

'It'll take a while for you to remember, especially small details, so just relax; you can't really do much else while that's healing.'

He went to touch the bandage again, and saw his arm was shaky as he lifted it.

The nurse spoke again. 'Yeah, you'll have to rehabilitate your movements, but that's the easiest part, so you'll be moving again in no time!'

He felt like he could think more clearly now, so he asked about his headache. 'I have a splitting headache; is there anything I can take, or am I already on too much... Whatever it it?'

The nurse looked at the chart on the end of the bed. 'The word is 'medicine' and... Yes, you're on waaaay too much to give you more, but one is a heavy narcotic, and its around time to give it to you again; you must have woken up because it wore off...'

'Narcotic?..'

'It'll make ya go to sleep when you take it.' She smiled wide.

'That would be great...'

The nurse checked the clock on the wall at the end of the ward and left. She came back with a syringe. 'Well, here's your narcotic; you shouldn't have to take this for much longer.'

The nurse gave him the shot in the arm without the IV, which happened to be his left arm; there was something important about a left arm, but he couldn't put his finger on it...

A few days passed with this as the schedule, that he would wake for an hour and then fall back into sleep when the nurse gave him the narcotic, but he woke suddenly today.

He jumped awake and could only say and think one thing, even though he didn't understand why.

'...Allen...'

The nurse assigned to him ran over, trying to stop him from getting out of bed and pulling his IV out; it proved to be easy enough, but he still tried to explain why he had to leave.

'Allen... My Idiot, I have to find my Idiot.'

The nurse tried to calm him down. 'Well, first why don't we say who you're looking for, besides just a name...'

He looked up at her a little confused. 'I don't remember anything but a name, and that I called him Idiot all the time... There was more to the name, Idiot something... But, I don't remember anything else... well, I remember another name, Tim, but nothing about that name either...'

The nurse sat down on the edge of the bed, this might be a long conversation.

'Do you think they were the names of your children, maybe? But if that were the case, they would be looking for you...'

He looked down in thought for a moment, then looked back at the nurse. 'No... That's not right, I remember having a lot of... Mistresses, if that's what you want to call them, and I don't remember having a kid that was mine, just a kid that I took care of... I can't remember if that was 'Allen' or not...'

'Well, it'll all come back to you in time; today's the last day for you to take your narcotic, so you'll have a lot more time to piece everything together.'

The nurse stood up to go about her day.

'How long do I have to stay in here?' The nurse turned back to look at him.

'Until you're healed, with remembering everything and physically.' The nurse smiled at him and left for the time being.

Just a little intro to a new series :3 It's what I think could have been after Cross got shot. I tried to make it realistic, I figure someone who had been shot in the head would forget some stuff... Or is that the reason he's forgotten stuff? I suppose we'll see... :3 We'll see Allen and people later on, but it's just Cross for right now :3