Don't Judge Her

Returning

Laura was still in shock that her love had just left her. She lost sleep, didn't eat, but pulled through. Weeks had gone by. One day, she was out in the garden and heard the horse and ghouls coming back. She ran to Papa Nihil.

"Where's Cardinal?" Her voice quivered with fear.

"Hospitalized. One of the Catholics knocked him off his horse and he broke his arm. Maybe more" He was surprisingly calm. That night, she went to go see him. She brought him flowers and wore her nicest clothes.

"Cardi...?" She said peeking in. He looked at her and cocked his head.

"Do I know you?" He asked confused. Laura looked at him confused as well.

"It's me...Laura" She showed him the picture of them together.

"I've never seen you before...are we friends?" Before Laura could answer a doctor came in and told her the last thing she wanted to hear.

"Amnesia. But over the years, he will slowly remember" The doctor said. He eventually left after checking his blood pressure. She sat down next to her.

"Do you know your name?" She asked calmly. He nodded as he picked up a paper. 

"The doctor told me"

"What about where you live?"
"A house, I assume"
"Actually, you live in a church down town..." She said tearing up. He grabbed her hand.

"I'll be fine. But who are you?"
"I told you...my name is Laura and you're my...well...lover..."
Cardinal just looked at her. She couldn't believe what was going on. The man that she knew will never be the same.