Chapter 106: What Ramifications Entell

The Recreational Room, East Wing, Cedar Pine Mental Care Facility...

The wheelchair had been a nice change of pace from lying on his back and being strapped via the metal bed back in the room he'd been in ever since he'd come from having his brain filled with volts of electricity. He still didn't speak as he sat across from his tearful wife who held his hand and rambled on and on about things of little importance to him at the moment. She told him over and over again that he'd been sick and that she'd finally gotten him treatment and that she was pregnant, although he had not recalled the last time they had sex for it to have been so. He had not recalled a great many things, but he sat and listened and listened harder in the hopes of her finally getting done and allowing him to go back to staring at his ceiling. He had not cared one way or the other about a thing she had to say, being his wife or not. He simply wished to take his leave of the recreational room and the rest of the crazies that seemed to hang about and stare at him as if they knew something he didn't.

"The girls miss you terribly." Julia Rawsone went on.

Hadrian's attention returned after this. He had known he had daughters, twin daughters and they were both off to college.

"Do they know?" he asked finally breaking his long-held silence.

Julia had been so caught off guard that she quit speaking herself.

"W-What?" she said near tears again at the implication that he was speaking again after so long in silence.

"Do the girls know I am in this place?" asked Hadrian sounding relatively flustered.

"N-No," replied Julia. "I've managed to keep that part under wraps, a business trip is an excuse I gave them."

"Good," replied Hadrian in an even tone.

He blinked and turned his attention toward the door where he vaguely recalled vending machines being located.

"You seem to be making good progress with your recovery," said Julia delighted to see the improvements even if she'd been terrified beforehand.

"So it would seem," replied Hadrian his deep baritone voice sounding oddly little used. "Is it a boy or a girl?"

Julia was once more caught off guard by his line of questions.

"I beg your pardon?" she asked confused.

"The baby," replied Hadrian indicating that he had heard her rambling. "Is it a boy or a girl?"

"I haven't been told yet," replied Julia with a sad smile. "Although I'm hoping it's a boy, and I can finally give you the son you've always wanted."

At the mention of the word son, Hadrian winced in reaction to the images and the memories of a young boy, he'd been a blond with sorrowful blue eyes.

"Hadrian?" said Julia concerned for him as she got to her feet. "Are you alright?"

Hadrian sighed as the image passed and he no longer felt the pain from the bombardment of the memory.

"I'm fine," he replied more than a bit frustrated by his predicament. "Just tired is all."

Julia sighed and sat back down across the table where she held his hand in hers. She kissed his fingers and leaned her weary head against it as he watched her not at all shifting his blank expression as he sat there allowing her to rest against him.

"I miss you," she said sadly. "I miss us."

Hadrian had not known if he had believed her or if he had even felt the same as it appeared his emotions were more or less nonexistent as he sat beside her in the wheelchair.

"Are you eating well?" asked Hadrian making conversation despite not truly caring if she had or not.

"I try to," replied Julia with a sad smile. "You know me, healthy menu time and time again."

Hadrian nodded recalling that much about her.

"How are you feeling?" asked Julia wanting to know at least some form of an update about him.

"Don't know," replied Hadrian unable to tell her much.

He had felt like a part of him was missing somehow, that he'd been incomplete as he sat there with her hand in his and the news of yet another baby is on the way for them.

"Doctor Reed says to give you a few days before I can bring you home," said Julia.

"Fuck Doctor Reed," said Hadrian in something of an emotionless tone.

Julia was caught off guard by this but smiled just the same as she recalled that Hadrian had despised the hack in a white lab coat long before she brought him to the facility.

Still, it was rather strange to hear him speak in such a vulgar fashion, it was something left over from the awful Lonnie Collins she guessed. In Reed's case, she could make an exception, but she wouldn't stand for anything more. The last thing she needed was for her Hadrian to become as low and degenerate as that monster that had hijacked his life.

Julia seemed pleased with herself as she continued to cling to Hadrian's hand. It appeared she had her husband back and at the present moment, he knew next to nothing about her affair with his best friend or the fact that Gary was potentially the father of the baby growing inside her belly as well. While she hoped it had not been the case, she wanted to go on with her life as if the past few months of the horrid year had never even occurred.

It wasn't long before Hadrian was escorted back to his room after he and Julia parted ways and he was put back into bed in the same order as before. He had stopped for a bathroom break along the way feeling nothing in the wake of embarrassment as the bald man not only dropped his trousers and held him up toward the toilet bowl, but aimed his cock for him due to his lack of range in mobility for the time being.

He had nothing, but time as his body slowly set about recovering and lacked the emotional impulse to be upset about how long it had been taking if at all. He simply went back to staring up at the ceiling in the darkness of his room as the bald orderly closed and locked the door. He had heard talk of a new arrival from the other orderlies who had been something of an on-the-fly transfer.

It mattered nothing to him as he continued to stare up at the ceiling noting the changing of the shifts for the night as he sat in darkness as silent as he was before he visited with his wife.