i do not own the legend trilogy all rights go to Mary Lu

5 months. Day has been in hospital for 5 months now. For the first 3 weeks I never leave. After that I just came first thing in the morning until late at night. Today is not different I check in walk up to day's room and sit in the waiting room with yet another book. I sit and read and don't look up until I see doctor Kann walking up to me. I expect the usual 'not much change today, I'm afraid, but at least he's still stable' god I have gotten way to used to hearing that. Doctor Kann greets me and as a reply I ask how Day is – still nothing unusual – until he hesitates to answer, now the news being different isn't even the biggest shock to me, the biggest shock is the news that I get to hear. "He's awake" doctor Kann says. I simply cannot believe my ears, after 5 months of waiting Day is finally awake! "Can I go to him?" I ask. "Of course you can Ms. Iparis" says doctor Kann, and my heart jumps a hundred miles up in the air, until he continues "But I'm going to have to warn you Ms. Iparis, Day has made a remarkable recovery, we have run some tests and all seemed fine. When he woke up he asked for some water and then for his brother. In almost every aspect, the Day that we know is back…" before he can continue I interrupt him "Almost?" "Uhm, yes Ms. Iparis that's the point I was getting to. You see the hippocampus stores memories both long and short term. Day's long-term memories seem to be intact but unfortunately Day cannot remember the past two years of his life…" the doctor says trailing off. It's like something turns in my head, I met Day less than two years ago, "he won't remember me?" I ask in a tiny voice. "Probably not Ms. Iparis, but I'm positive that with time and patience we will be able to get his memory back with some help of triggers." "OK" is all I can say. After a while I find my words "can I go see him anyway?" I ask. "of course Ms. Iparis." He says and I begin to walk towards Day's room. When I hear the doctor call behind me "just be careful don't scare him with all of this information right away." I shout back an "of course" and walk straight into Day's room.

As soon as I see Day I want to run over to him and kiss him, but remembering the doctors words I just walk over to his bed and sit on the side of it. Day just looks at me politely, no recognition in his eyes whatsoever. "hello" is all I manage to croak out. "good morning" he replies politely. I look at him sadly "you don't know me do you?" "no" - that one word breaks my heart into a million pieces – "should I?" he asks. And now I see, this is it, this is the sacrifice I have to make to let Day live, I have to let day go. "no" I reply "they just sent me to check up on you, see how you were doing. The thought it might be nice to have someone the same age around." I lie. "oh" he says "well, thank you" with this I get up and start leaving, just before I make my way out of the door he asks "how far along are you?" pointing at my now protruding belly. Oh yeah I might have forgotten to mention that I am pregnant, the night I shared with Day left me a little surprise. "about 5 months." I answer quietly before leaving

after leaving the hospital i just wonder around, in the end i end up just going home. the next 2 weeks are very depressing i just lay in bed all day only getting up to eat - so i don't starve the baby - and go to the bathroom. after these 2 agonizing weeks the announcement is made that Day and his little brother Eden are leaving for Antarthica this afternoon. so while everyone else is saying goodbye to Day and Eden, i instead go to the place where i first met this boy. the boy that changed my life forever, because it is only fair to end this right where it started