Lore/A hard way to remember

I woke up and automatically I put my hand in the right side of the chest, where a horrible pain was biting my lung. Moaning, I tried to sit on the edge of the bed. I couldn't control my breathing and the process of getting up of the bed took 10 minutes. Tired, thirsty, sore...

Aiden: *Whe... where am I? Anyone?*

Complete silence.

Slowly, I recovered the consciousness, and I started to hear rain outside... but outside where? Two tubes were attached to my arms: one with a transparent substance in the left arm, in the right a tube with a red substance. "*Blood I suppose... what happened?*". Two more cables, this time connected to an oscilloscope: that was the moment when I started to hear the beep.

I said to myself that I was completely stunned and unable to use all my senses at the same time... what was happening? An accident of course... a blood transfusion, a pain in the lung.

Aiden: *Fuck... FUCK. C'mon Aiden, try to get up. Try to walk, get out of here...*

???: *What's going on in there?*

A door opened, and a men with a combat suit came to me. Immediately, I stood up, dizzy, but I was able to stand up.

???: *Aiden, relax, you are safe now*

Aiden: Don't make move. Stay where you are. Why I'm here again?

Hades: What the? Aiden, It's me, Hades Winchester, can you recognise me?

Aiden: This is... this is Panau?

Hades: Yes, the Enforcers Headquarters, you are in the Hospital, now relax please, you are critical

I dunno why but I was looking reasons to think he a liar. I was paranoic. I did not trust even my own senses.

Aiden: *Hades... what, happened, to me? What the hell it's going on, why I have my right side of the chest covered in bandages?*

Hades: You were on a motorcycle and you fall off.

Aiden: That doesn't explain the the lung pain and-

Hades: Let me finish. You broke some bones, but that it's not the crucial fact. You had a piece of shrapnel located near the lung, and the hit moved that metallic piece and perforated the organ.

Aiden: How did you know about the shrapnel?

Hades: Aiden, what the hell is wrong with you? First, you told me that years ago you-

Aiden: No, I'm pretty sure I have never explained you the shrapnel thing, I've never told that to anyone.

Hades: Well, you did before fall unconscious. Second: you were spitting blood, so I suppose that something perforated your lung.

I was astonished. The shrapnel was... gone? And I told Hades the shrapnel story? No, impossible, no one knew that story, not even... they

Hades: *I know, it has been traumatic. You could use some sleep. It's late, and you are not recovered yet*

Traumatic... so he knew about what the shrapnel represents?

In the next morning, when I woke up and take a coffee in the lounge with Hades, he told me how went the operation. Yes, he extracted the metallic piece, and he asked me about why I was so anxious when I woke up and I saw him. "*I thought I was kidnapped... or worse*". Immediately he ask who was looking to kidnap me. I didn't answer.

"*Only a very specific group of people knew about the shrapnel story*". I said to Hades that I was paranoic: when I woke up and I saw the bandages in the chest, I thought about the metal, and why someone just opened my chest to remove the piece. "*Anyone except me and a group of people know about the shrapnel. And... I'm afraid of that group*".

Hades: *So that's why you were so nervous about my presence. You thought I was that... people you told me. But why? If they want to remove the metal piece, doesn't mean they are good guys?*

Aiden: Look, I don't have any idea if they want to remove the piece. They just know about it, no one else. I just related the piece removal with that group of people, that's why I thought I was kidnapped.

Hades: They want you back with them?

Aiden: Yes... I think

Hades was about to say something but then I stoop up and walk outside the lounge.

I need to think about this... I need to tell someone about this...