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2013-02-21
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2013-04-03
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Amaryllis

Summary:

The old asylum in the hospital basement hadn't been opened in years, but after the issues with the sinkhole, the town thought it was best to inspect the foundations of all the buildings. They were expecting to find water damage and moldy pipes... not a half-starved and delusional woman.

Notes:

Set in the aftermath of "That Still Small Voice" and "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" in Season 1, and is obviously completely AU.

This is also the result of excessively listening to one band for an entire week and drawing inspiration from one song... then another... and another...

Chapter 1: Hello (Prologue)

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Hello
Let me introduce you to
The characters in the show
One says yes, one says no
Decide
Which voice in your head you can keep alive

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Rosanna French walked out of the hospital hesitantly, a small plastic bag with a few belongings inside in her hands. She didn’t know what to do. The only reason she even had anywhere to go was because Archie set her up with an apartment above the library.

Well, “apartment” was a little relative. It was more like a very large attic space that had been converted into living quarters for a previous occupant by adding heat and indoor plumbing.

“Are you ok?” Archie asked from beside her. He’d agreed to walk her out of the hospital, take things slowly, try to help her adjust to her new life.

“Yeah, it’s just… it’s big.” Rosanna blurted. She felt like a tiny child in front of a mountain. The hospital basement was almost all she remembered, and the world (even the world as seen from a tiny town in Maine) was foreign to her.

“Do you want to go back inside?”

“No!” she said, a little too quickly. “Please. Don’t make me go back.”

“Don’t worry,” Archie said, patting her hand gently. “I won’t make you if you don’t want to go.”

Rosanna sighed with relief. That was the last thing she wanted. It had been eight months since they found her in the basement of the Storybrooke Hospital, delusional and suffering from extreme amnesia…

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In a while now
I will feel better
I will be better