Getting Them Back

Waking up to the bright sunlight that showed through the curtains in the bedroom. The morning was peaceful, until two little children came sneaking into the room where their parents slept. The kids got to the foot of the bed, before jumping onto the parents. Jolting up, the man started to laugh when his wife was still asleep.

“Mackenzie, Jared, wake your mother up.” Marcus rubbed his eyes, giving his kids a nice smile. Watching them climb on their mother, chuckling as they lay across her.

“Guys…it’s only…” Rose peaks at her clock to read the time. “9:30 am. Can I sleep more?”

“Come on momma, we wanna go play outside.” Jared shook Rose to wake her up, only to have her roll over. Marcus, still laughing, stopped to try to get his sleepy wife out of bed. He leaned over and whispered something in her ear. She turned to look at him, before rolling her eyes.

“Come on, you promised them you’d take them out.” Kissing her cheek, Rose got up from her bed. “Am I right, kids? She said she’d take you guys out.”

“But daddy, I thought you both said you would take us.” Mackenzie said, looking at her father in confusion, maybe she didn’t hear them right last night. Marcus nervously chuckled, hoping his wife didn’t hear their daughter. Jared began jumping on the bed, with Mackenzie joining in. Marcus laughed, but stopped when Rose came back all dressed and ready to take them out.

“Come on kids, it’s time to let daddy get dressed so he can come with us.” Rose brought the kids out of her room so Marcus could get ready too. Once he was, they all went over to the park near her parents' work. It was a nice park so she thought it was a good idea to go there. They sat down in the grass as the kids went to play on the playground. It was a pretty nice day, the sun was warm on Marcus and Rose’s backs. There was nothing that could mess this day up. Or so they thought, Rose’s phone began to ring so she picked it up.

“Rose Shepherd speaking…Oh?....That's the police job isn’t it?....Okay I’ll go check it out…alright bye.” Hanging up, she looked at her happy little bundles of joy. “Babe, I have to go tend to something really quick. Tell the kids I’ll be back and that I love them.”

“Okay, be safe honey,” Marcus kissed her goodbye as she went to work. She borrowed Derek’s car to go to take this call. There was a call from the police to go check out a building that is closed to the public. There was a man in black lurking inside so she was going to check it out. Upon getting there, she saw the shadow of a person walking inside. She got out of the car and snuck inside to see what was going on up there. The building was pretty unstable and it was pretty dangerous for people to be inside. She watched her steps, but she heard someone behind her when she was on the second floor.

“Ma’am! It’s not safe here! You need to leave!” Turning around to see one of the construction workers inside looking to see what they could save from this building.

“I’m sorry sir, I’ll leave.” She went to go towards the man when the floor gave out under her. She tried to grab something but she couldn’t, the next thing she knew she was in a white room with things beeping around her.

“She was standing on the second floor when I saw her. The floors aren't really the best unless you know where to step. She was looking at me when the floor gave out from her weight. Because of that she fell through the floor and I believe her head met the floor but I’m not quite sure.” Sitting up she saw the guy from inside the building talking to one of the doctors.

“Thank you, we’ll make sure she's alright.” The doctor said, turning to see Rose sitting on the bed. “Look who’s up.”

“Where am I? Who are you?” She asked, looking around the room, when her head started to ache.

“Ma’am, you’re in the hospital. You fell and a kind man brought you here to make sure you got the help you needed.”

“I fell?” Looking around some more, she grew even more confused about what was being said. She doesn’t remember falling down anywhere. Holding her head, she watched as a little girl came running up to her. Following the girl was a little boy and then an older man. The girl’s hair was a dark brown that was darker than the two guys. The man’s hair was darker than the little boy’s but lighter than the girl.

“Mommy! Mommy!” The girl cried, running up to the bed where Rose sat. Curling herself up as the girl stood next to her bed.

“Honey?...You okay?” The man asked, taking Rose’s hand. She just pulled her hand away and looked at them in confusion. “Rose?...Honey?...”

“Get away from me!” Shouting in fear, pushing herself into a ball on the bed. Looking at them standing next to her brought tears to her eyes. “I don’t know you, please leave me alone!”

The doctor heard her shouting and went to talk to the man. He tapped the man’s shoulder, guiding him away from Rose as she panicked.

“Sir, listen you can’t be bugging the patients.” The doctor pointed out, the man just stopped in his footprints.

“I’m Marcus, her husband, and the kids I brought are her kids.” He explained, turning back to the kids.

“Oh, I’m sorry but your wife had an accident. We are still running tests but we believe she has post-traumatic amnesia. Which is memory loss following a significant trauma.” The doctor explained, with Mackenzie breaking down into tears over her mother.

“Sweetheart, it’s okay. Mommy will get better, right doc?” Turning back, hoping for a good possible outcome.

“We can hope she recovers but only time will tell if she pulls through. If you do have pictures you can try showing them to her or explaining things to her. But it’s only time for her.”

Marcus took the kids home to find some pictures of the kids with Rose. He even had Sophia and Derek come to help him with the kids and Rose. They looked through the pictures and even went through Rose’s phone for some that she had.

“I hope this works,” Derek sighed, standing up from the floor after he played with Jared.

“Me too….me too.” Marcus took the pictures he had and her phone to the hospital to where she was. She curled up when she saw him, it almost looked like she was about to cry. She kept curling herself up into a smaller ball.

“Why is everyone trying to shove things at me,” she wined. Marcus put her phone on the bed in front of her feet. “What’s that?”

“It’s your phone, your password is 292021 by the way.” He watched her pick up her phone and she put the numbers in. Seeing that she could see the things on this phone, made her curious. She looked at the pictures and the numbers in the contacts. She couldn’t figure it out. “I’ll leave you to it.”

Rose spent weeks in the hospital, still not remembering who her family was. She looked at everything on her phone and kept asking who they were. In the second week, Marcus couldn’t go see her after she shouted at him to leave her. He had the kids go with their uncle Dillen instead, since the kids really wanted to see her.

“Rose? How are you doing?” Dillen asked, walking over to his older sister who was laying in bed. She looked at her brother, not quite remembering who he was to her.

“I’m okay and you?” She sat up, looking down to the little ones who sat on the edge of the bed.

“I’m doing fine, it’s Marcus that isn’t doing okay.” Dillen sat next to his sister hoping she would remember him.

“Oh…he came here two weeks then stopped coming. I feel like I know him but at the same time I don’t.” She pulled out her phone and showed a picture of her and him together. “He’s in every picture I have.”

“Do you know who he is tho?” Dillen took her hand as she looked at him, giving her a warm smile.

“I feel like he’s my boyfriend or something.” She looked at the picture of him proposing to her, that brought a smile to her face.

“That’s a start, you’re remembering something.” Looking over to his niece and nephew, who were looking at the picture of their parents.

“Are you their father?” Watching the kids play around on her phone made her chuckle.

“Uh…no. You’re the kid’s mother and the father is your wallpaper.” Showing the wallpaper to Rose, after taking it from the kids.

“He’s their father? He kinda looks nice, I guess.” She laid back down in bed, when Mackenzie got up and laid next to Rose. She found it very sweet of the little girl to snuggle up next to her. After another week, Rose got up from her bed and left the hospital. She put her clothes back on along with her other things before disappearing. She went down the street with some of the police officers looking at her in confusion.

“Rose? What are you doing?” One of the officers asked, watching her walk down the road.

“I’m going home to see someone.” She replied, before turning around the block to her house. The officers ran after her, knowing what had happened to her, they had to make sure she was alright. She had just opened the door to her place, and went looking around for something.

“Rose! Wait!” The officers called, chasing her inside. They stopped when she broke down in tears, sitting on her knees when she realized she could find them.

“They’re not here! They’re gone!” She cried, with the officers coming to her side.

“Who’s not here, maybe we know where they are.” Trying their best to comfort her, she wiped her tears away.

“My family! They’re not here!” She shouted, as the officers tried to get her to go out of the house. She turned around and punched the one that had their hands on her arm. She tried to run outside but someone was in her way.

“Rose? What are you doing?” A man stood there in the doorway, as the officer that she punched put her in restraints. “What did you do?”

“Marcus! Honey! Listen to me, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to leave you! I swear! I love you and the kids! Please don’t leave me!” Crying her eyes out, the officers along with Marcus felt awful. She hasn’t cried like this in years, let alone in front of people. When she did, it pulled on their hearts to see her like that. The officer took the cuffs off her as she stood there in tears.

“Rose…y-you remember?” He reached his hand out for her and she pulled him to her as she cried on his shoulder. He just held onto her while trying his best to calm her down.

“Honey, I’m so so sorry for forgetting you! I’m so sorry!” Crying her eyes out still, she held him while he stroked her hair softly.

“It’s okay, it wasn’t your fault. It’s honestly okay. I still love you more than anything I could ever have.” Wiping her eyes, she stepped back so she could love Marcus in the eyes. He just smiled warmly and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

“Where are the kids?” The concerned mother starts to come out. Rose glanced behind him to see the two little ones standing with their uncle. “Kids, come give your mommy a hug please.”

The kids run right to her, holding their mother in a tight hug. Crying their little eyes out, with their mother who finally remembers who they were. Mackenzie looked up to her daddy, seeing him smiling through his tears. Jared letting go of his mother, went up to Marcus and gave him the ups grab to him. Marcus picks up his little boy, when he did Jared held onto him.

“Mommy is okay, daddy. She knows us.” Holding on tight, Marcus couldn’t help but feel happy

to have them all back together with nobody forgotten.