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Total Darkness-Chapter 2
Topic Started: Thursday Feb 25 2010, 05:49 PM (362 Views)
luvinglumi	Thursday Feb 25 2010, 05:49 PM Post #1
Keeping the LUMI love alive Posts: 9,952 Group: Assistant Managers Member #1,233 Joined: February 6, 2009 Lucas & Sami are destined!	The characters belong to NBC/Corday/Days of Our Lives. The story is all mine. Permission to archive given to Second Chances Author: Luvinglumi Rating: PG-13 Total Darkness (Chapter 2) Philip had been keeping Sami abreast of the news regarding Lucas. Since Philip didn’t know where he was relocated to, all he heard was what Kate wanted to tell him. She made it a point to tell him his brother didn’t remember anything about Sami, didn’t remember who she was, didn’t even remember that they use to be close friends once upon a time or that they shared a child. Philip placed a call to Sami trying to alert her of what was going on. “Hi, it’s Philip.” “Oh, hi Philip, is Lucas okay? Did something happen? “ “I have good news and bad news Sami.” “Oh, fire away with the bad news first please.” “Well according to my mom, Lucas has awoken out of his coma, and he is responsive but he can’t see and he can’t remember anything past 2002.” “Wow, he can’t see? He’s blind?” “Yes, Sami and it might be long term too, his optic nerve was severely damaged during the crash and if he ever gains back his sight it will likely be after he undergoes extensive reconstructive surgeries and those aren’t guaranteed to bring back his sight either.” “Oh God, Philip that is horrible, I can’t imagine Lucas not seeing anything, and what is this that he doesn’t remember anything after 2002?” “Well Sami, it’s more than that, he not only remembers nothing past 2002, but he seems to not remember you at all. He knows he has a son and remembers his name but he doesn’t remember who the mother is, he thought it was Carrie at first. He doesn’t even remember he has a daughter.” The news hit Sami like a ton of bricks. She was shocked. If there was ever a moment that she was caught off guard it was now. ‘How could Lucas not remember me?’ Sami felt her eyes fill with tears and she didn’t know what to do. She tried to carry the conversation with Philip but she couldn’t, she just broke down. “Sami, I know it might be hard to hear, but it’s not his fault you know.” “I know Philip, but it still hurts. Even if we aren’t together , with all we’ve been through, I thought Lucas would never be able to forget me at all. I thought I was always part of his subconscious, always in the back of his head. I guess this accident has affected so much more than I ever thought it would. If I could only see him, speak to him again, maybe that will trigger his thoughts, or memories, but your damn mother has made sure that I will never be part of his life, it’s as if she thought that with him not regaining his memory he would be able to forget about me. Philip, why doesn’t she even let you visit him? What possibly can you do to hurt your brother.” “Oh, it’s not anything she fears that would hurt him, it’s that she fears that you and I will come to an agreement like we did the last time and I’ll let you in to see him.” “If she cared at all about Lucas she wouldn’t mind that, but her hatred toward me is so overpowering that she isn’t thinking straight. Does she really think that it would be better for him never to know that we were married, or that we have not only Will but Allie? How about the rest of his life? I might not have liked him with Carrie, but she was also his wife, and Chloe. Maybe these women can bring back memories that would help him regain what he’s lost. He might not be able to have his sight back but it’s so unfair to Lucas to lose his past eight years, and in those eight years we had so much.” “Listen Sami, I am going to speak to my father, to see if he can help me locate where Lucas was transferred to. He has friends in high places and he has connections everywhere, I'm sure he can help. If I find out then I will let you know and we’ll go see him together whenever we can.” “Thank you so much Philip. You are an awesome brother, you truly care about Lucas and I will be grateful for anything you can do. I just long to see him again and try to help him regain some if not all of what he’s lost.” “What about Rafe, I bet he’s enjoyed the few weeks that you haven’t been leaving him at 9pm to play wife to Lucas at the hospital.” “Rafe needs to understand that I will always be part of Lucas’ life, if not through me, through my kids. A part of me will always be connected to Lucas, and he knows that.” Lucas had made some progress at the school for the blind and he was learning his daily activities. Brushing his teeth without looking into the mirror was a task, but locating the tube of toothpaste was an even bigger challenge. Something the nurse had instructed him to do was to always remember where he put things, or to have a specific location for the tube of toothpaste, or the hairbrush. Doctor Lucielle Romanio approached Lucas as he was getting ready to put on his shirt for his daily string of “learning the ropes while you can’t see” classes. “Lucas, I have someone I want you to meet. She will be your individual personal daily instructor. Her name is Emilia Sorrento and she will be a great help in the weeks and months ahead.” Lucas thought to himself, great another chick I can’t see, I wonder what this one looks like. Those thoughts were very typical to him. He never appreciated his eyesight until he couldn’t see women. That was the biggest problem for him. He was a very visual human being. “Hello Ms. Sorrento, Lucas exclaimed as he extended his hand to shake hers.” Emilia extended her hand and it met Lucas’. She proceeded with a firm grip and then he took her hand as if that of a maiden and gently kissed the top. He was too funny though, because since he couldn’t see her hand as it approached his mouth, he didn’t realize that his nose would hit the hand before his mouth. He chuckled and finally pecked the top of her hand. “Sorry for that, still getting use to being blind you know.” “Oh Mr. Horton, it does get easier with time, and I will make it even better for you as I teach you how to overcome your handicap and live with the hand you have been dealt. At least you have a positive outlook and that only helps in this case.” “Thank you, I am in good spirits and I’ve always been easy to train and a quick learner so this won’t be any different.” “Perfect, you have a very good attitude and I believe that in itself will help you a lot.” As Emilia spoke Lucas wanted to picture her, but he couldn’t. Was she blonde or brunette, was she tall or petite. What color were her eyes. Was her skin fare or olive? What bra size was she? Just then he snapped back to reality, ‘let her teach you what she needs to Lucas, you don’t need to picture her now you know.’ Emilia proceeded to sit next to him and tell him everything important. How to place everything he needed always in the same place because it would be easier for him to find it. How the long sleeve shirts would be in the same location in the closet, how the short sleeve shirts would be opposite them at the other end of the same closet. How to distinguish the brown shoes from the black ones. It was so much of a learning activity for him that he was exhausted at the end of just the first hour. “Lucas.” “Yes, Ms. Sorrento.” “Please, call me Emilia or Emily if you wish, you and I will be practically living together when we are finished, I can’t take the formality in all of this.” “Okay, Emily it is.” “Well at times you might find it difficult to talk to someone you can’t visualize especially since you were once able to see. For many people that are born blind this isn’t an issue, but for someone who didn’t have this disability before they might find it difficult to actually speak or carry on their daily activities unless they are able to somehow see who is in front of them. Do you understand what I mean.” “I totally get it, I was actually just thinking that when I was introduced to you by the doctor.” “You were visualizing me?” “No, not really, a bunch of questions were running through my head though?” “I can just imagine?” Emilia chuckled as she was use to doing this and she was use to men and women asking very personal questions about her in an effort to get to ‘visualize' her. She noted what a handsome man Lucas was. She looked at his physical appearance and she noted how fit he seemed. She scoped him out from head to toe and really liked what she saw, but he was her patient and she knew that it was not acceptable to think about him as anything else but that. “Okay we are going to do an exercise Lucas so you can get a better picture of what people might look like.” “Okay, I’m ready to visualize away.” “When one of your senses is weaker or non-existent as in your case, the other 4 senses are more alert and can work wonders for you. Since you have lost your ability to see you will need to use the ability of touch to help you in your endeavor.” “Touch, right.” Lucas smirked and thought to himself, ‘ this can’t be what I’m thinking. Surely it can’t be.’ At that moment Emilia took Lucas’ hands and held them in her own. She took his hands and slowly placed them on her face. “Okay Lucas, I want you to run your hands along my facial lines. By doing that you can visualize my face size and if it’s oval or round and how big or small it is. Then I will close my eyes and you will be able to gloss over my eye lids with your fingertips. It can give you an idea if I have small eyes or large ones. If they are round, almond, or oriental shaped. From there you can touch my nose, from that you can gather if I have a long, short, fat or hooked shaped nose. You can then take your fingers and run them through the outer layer of my mouth. You will be able to tell the shape of my lips by doing that and of course if they are chapped or smooth. From that you can take your hands and feel my hair, let me know if it’s long or short, curly or straight and if it needs a gentle conditioning treatment or not. On the rest you will be able to ask me questions, for example ask me what color my eyes are, or my hair color. Let’s begin this exercise will we?” Lucas was apprehensive, but he was willing to give it a shot. The thing about it is that he didn’t realize everything he had to do when he couldn’t see. As instructed by Emilia he started outlining her face, as he was doing this he asked her what skin color she was. “I am a very fair skinned woman, If I’m not careful during sun exposure I get lobster red instead of tanned.” An image suddenly flashed in front of Lucas, this image was of a beautiful fair skinned blonde woman’s face with golden wavy hair that landed just above her shoulders. The image left as quickly as it had come. He continued feeling Emilia’s face. Then she closed her eyes and proceeded to tell him to move from her facial outline to her eyes. Lucas obliged and then noted that her eyes were rather large but not almond shaped as he was picturing her another image flashed before him, it was that of a pair of large blue eyes staring at him through an opening in a door. Lucas quickly shook his head. Emilia noticed something had bothered Lucas but she couldn’t tell what it was. “What is it?” “I just got a memory of a pair of bright blue azure eyes looking back at me through an opening in a door. It appears to be one of my past memories or something, I know those eyes, but I couldn’t tell who’s they are.” Lucas was clearly taken back by the image he saw. “Well one thing I had to tell you this exercise does have the possibility of triggering some memories, simply because you are using the sense of touch and working with your mind to create an illusion of what you think is real.” “So are you saying this flashback wasn’t real.” “Oh no, I’m not telling you that, what I’m trying to say is the longer you do these types of sensory exercises the more flashback memories you might receive. It’s very normal, so take it one memory at a time.” “Okay, but it’s odd because I feel those eyes were part of me, but I know they weren’t mine, but, I don’t know how to explain it, it’s as if they belonged to me.” “I understand Lucas, don’t worry, I know exactly what you are going through. It happens to many of my patients.” “Can I ask you one question?” Lucas hesitated as he tried to get her to say yes. “Ask away.” “What color are your eyes?” “They are brown” Emilia said brown, but Lucas heard blue. He couldn’t get the image of those eyes that flashed before him out of his mind and he pictured that the woman standing before him had those very eyes. That was the least thing he could do, to visualize those eyes on Emily. There was something special about those eyes, he knew it, he just wished that he could remember who they belonged to. This was so ironic for Lucas, the image of those eyes had made such an impact on him now that he was blind, had he ever cared about them before? He didn’t know the answer to that as he couldn’t remember who’s eyes they were. Something told him in time it would all come back to him, he just wished that it would come back now. (to be continued)
	There’s someone I’ve been missing I think that they could be The better half of me They’re in the wrong place trying to make it right But I’m tired of justifying So I say ... Come home Cause I’ve been waiting for you


CanuckDaysfan	Thursday Feb 25 2010, 09:49 PM Post #2
Keeper of the Clips Posts: 13,746 Group: Managers Member #1 Joined: November 22, 2005 Lucas & Sami are inevitable.	Great chapter! Dare I hope that Emilia/Emily is the Emily? I hope Victor is able to help Philip find Lucas.



FreakyGoodGirl	Friday Feb 26 2010, 12:03 AM Post #3
Lumi Sophmore Posts: 108 Group: All Access Lumi Member #1,347 Joined: May 5, 2009	To quote Phil Collins: "I can feel it coming in the air tonight." This is going to be a good one, and I can't wait for the next chapter.



luvinglumi	Friday Feb 26 2010, 11:05 AM Post #4
Keeping the LUMI love alive Posts: 9,952 Group: Assistant Managers Member #1,233 Joined: February 6, 2009 Lucas & Sami are destined!	Norma Thursday Feb 25 2010, 09:49 PM Great chapter! Dare I hope that Emilia/Emily is the Emily? I hope Victor is able to help Philip find Lucas. Ah....you will see down the road if you are right about Emily... I am trying to make the point that IF they wanted to write a good story which involved a lot of the "key" Tomlin players they could have.....if they weren't lazy.
	There’s someone I’ve been missing I think that they could be The better half of me They’re in the wrong place trying to make it right But I’m tired of justifying So I say ... Come home Cause I’ve been waiting for you


shawubble	Friday Feb 26 2010, 12:30 PM Post #5
Lumi B.A. Posts: 1,500 Group: All Access Lumi Member #1,202 Joined: January 19, 2009	I am loving this. I look forward to the rest.



true_love_soulmates_forever	Friday Feb 26 2010, 09:48 PM Post #6
Lumi Masters Posts: 4,314 Group: All Access Lumi Member #133 Joined: March 24, 2006	What a wonderful chapter and Lucas starting to remember Sami yeah I am so glad he is. If this is Rafe's Emily Sami is not going to like her hanging around her Lucas and will be jealous and find any excuse she can to stay with Lucas once she finds him with help and will not want Emily hanging around Lucas and Rafe will feel the same way as well once he sees Emily once more for Rafe is all about Emily and not Sami and Sami is all about Lucas not Rafe. I think Rafe's thoughts will shift to Emily once more and he too will want to be with Emily once more and try to keep Lucas and Emily apart also and he and Sami will have the same goal in mind his to reunite with Emily once more and hers to renite with Lucas and to keep Lucas and Emily apart and get them both back and succeed and be with them once more. Lucas feelings for Sami are starting to resurface already and I love it and Sami's are resurfacing for Lucas as well. Lucas will remember Sami and will want to be with Sami once more. Rafe's will resurface once he realise his dead fiancee is alive and he will realise he never stopped loving her and that he wants to be with Emily once more as well. This was a wonderful second chapter and I can't wait to see what happens next for this story truly rocks and I can't wait to read what happens next. Edited by true_love_soulmates_forever, Friday Feb 26 2010, 09:50 PM.
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Medea	Sunday Feb 28 2010, 01:37 PM Post #7
Hibernating until Lumi return Posts: 6,155 Group: Managers Member #731 Joined: March 17, 2007 Lucas & Sami have been simply Lumi-nous since 1993	LOL, I'm so detached from Days that I didn't even register Emily's name until Norma pointed it out. Looking forward to seeing more of Lucas' journey, even if he's without Sami for part or all of it. Maybe Lucas' mind is blocking out most of his Sami-memories because he NEEDS a break from her, and who can blame him? Of course, I would never want the Days PTB to do that because they would end up destroying Sami in order to focus on Lucas rather than having her worrying over him and wanting to help/visit him.
	Do you remember what she told him? She took her lover’s hand, and she said, “just because something is intangible doesn't mean that it's not real.” Lucas, no matter what happens, no matter what we’ve been through, no matter what I say, you will always be in my heart. -- Sami Brady, November 2007


luvinglumi	Sunday Feb 28 2010, 09:51 PM Post #8
Keeping the LUMI love alive Posts: 9,952 Group: Assistant Managers Member #1,233 Joined: February 6, 2009 Lucas & Sami are destined!	Medea Sunday Feb 28 2010, 01:37 PM LOL, I'm so detached from Days that I didn't even register Emily's name until Norma pointed it out. Looking forward to seeing more of Lucas' journey, even if he's without Sami for part or all of it. Maybe Lucas' mind is blocking out most of his Sami-memories because he NEEDS a break from her, and who can blame him? Of course, I would never want the Days PTB to do that because they would end up destroying Sami in order to focus on Lucas rather than having her worrying over him and wanting to help/visit him. Your second paragraph pretty much sums up why he can't remember Sami, that and the fact that his feelings for her are too overwhelming to even deal with so like a victim of a violent crime, he's blocked them out...blocked out some of the best years and some of the must hurtful ones as well, at least some of the ones he's been hurt by her.
	There’s someone I’ve been missing I think that they could be The better half of me They’re in the wrong place trying to make it right But I’m tired of justifying So I say ... Come home Cause I’ve been waiting for you


generalscami	Sunday Mar 7 2010, 12:26 AM Post #9
Lumi Senior Posts: 806 Group: All Access Lumi Member #62 Joined: March 22, 2006	I love this fic!! Great Update!! Can't wait to see what happens next... Please Update Again SOON!!



MercScraps	Monday Jun 28 2010, 04:23 PM Post #10
Lumi B.A. Posts: 1,519 Group: All Access Lumi Member #777 Joined: June 7, 2007	I'm hooked, going to go find more!



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