I blinked. I had been about to say something, but got distracted for a second and lost my train of thought. Or had I fallen asleep? I looked around the room. It was spartan, white, except for the monitor that kept beeping softly. I looked down at myself. I was sitting up in a bed, a hospital bed, and what was I wearing? Was it a...
"Yes, it's a hospital gown. You are in the hospital."
A young black woman approached me with a kind smile on her face. She was dressed in a form fitting pencil skirt and a billowing lilac blouse that accentuated some generous curves, and... a white doctor's coat.
"Who are you?"
She smiled again, her spectacles framing her face in a way that showed off her sparkling eyes.
"You know who I am. Think."
I furrowed my brow. At first, fog, but then, a name.
"You are Dr. Phillips."
"Yes that's right. I am Dr. Angel Phillips. Very good. Do you remember who you are?"
"Yes. Yes of course. I'm..."
I paused. The fog was back.
She leaned over the bed and softly caressed my forehead.
"Come on now, you know this one, too."
"James, London James. I'm London James. I'm 24 years old. I live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I'm a...student, a medical student..."
She frowned, but her eyes were soft.
"Yes, London, you were 24 years old, but now you are 28, and you are no longer a medical student. You remember why, too."
I did remember, suddenly.
"I was in an accident."
"Yes, a very bad one. It took the lives of three of your classmates, including your girlfriend Melissa, and left you with a critical brain injury."
I thought hard, trying to remember. Nothing came back. I could remember no details, no classmates, no Melissa. I looked up at Doctor Phillips.
She nodded.
"Your memory has many gaps, and it is difficult for you to form new memories. In fact, the memories you do have are difficult for you to access. Not that you remember this, but we have had this conversation many times before. Many, many times.
You have been working so hard, though, both mentally and physically. You are incredibly intelligent, and your short term memory loss has allowed you to work out at an intensity to get you in the kind of physical shape that most people only ever dream of."
She sat on the bed and moved my gown aside to reveal bulging pectorals and a perfect, six-pack abdomen, In fact, everywhere I looked on my body, there was lean, rippling muscle. She lightly stroked the skin on my thigh.
"Tomorrow, we will begin a procedure that may help return your memories to you. London, you are the first of the study group to have the kind of injury that fits the work we have been doing. Yes, I know that you don't remember the study."
Her hand slid up and found my erect cock.
"There is another side effect to your brain injury, one I'm sure I will miss. It's made you an enthusiastic and inexhaustible lover."
She bent down and wrapped her plump lips around the head of my cock, her tongue hot and wet on the underside of my bulbous head.
"Dr. Phillips, Oh my God!"
"Angel, call me Angel, baby."
I closed my eyes and let the bliss envelop me.
I blinked. I had been doing something, but got distracted for a second and lost my train of thought. Or had I fallen asleep? I looked around the room.
"Angel?"
Wait, who was Angel?
~ ~ ~
The subject was wheeled into the OR suite. Dr. Angel Phillips felt nervous, almost giddy. Neuroscience had been her passion since she was eight. It was what drove her to finish college at age 14 and medical school at age 18. At age 30, she was an MD triple boarded in neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, with a PhD's in neuroscience and artificial intelligence. London James was the culmination of eight years of work, hundreds of scans on first year medical students, thousands of hours in the lab, uncountable hours writing code to handle the huge streams of information. And with London himself, she had spent day after day, working with him, practicing, answering the same questions over and over again. She admitted to herself, with a wry smile, that it hadn't been all work. London had some very large physical advantages, advantages that had helped her through many, many long work days.
The electrodes in London's brain had been placed in 42 different procedures over the last 18 months. Altogether there were 600,000 electrodes, which branched into 3.6 million nanoelectrodes, each one painstakingly placed by a team of neurosurgeons. The multiple scans taken over that time had served to augment and complete the initial scans that London had given them each week as a first year medical student. All that information had been mapped in a very powerful neural net computer to create a 'virtual London' that Angel hoped would give him back to himself.
Today, they would be activating the wireless relay implanted in London's skull, itself a remarkably powerful computer, that would link him up with his virtual twin.
Everything was ready. Angel nervously looked around the room at her colleagues, who, like her, had spent so much of their lives working for this moment. She activated the touch screen.
"Okay, everything go? I am now activating base routines. Everything looks good. Let's initiate temporal lobe data transfer. Good. Can we clean up some of that interference? Reroute the lateral thalamic pathways. Perfect. Everything looks nominal. Okay, supratentorial data transfer, this should wake him up."
She pressed the touchscreen a final time.
Nothing.
And then...his eyelids fluttered, then opened. He looked around the room. Cleared his throat.
"Dr. Phillips. Dr. Chan. Dr. Jones. Nurse Paski. Nurse Nkongolo. I believe your procedure has been a success."
Angel Phillips gasped. As did the rest of the team.
London sat up and looked directly at her.
"Angel, um, Dr. Phillips, I need to see you in private. It's rather urgent."
Angel couldn't help but notice his huge erection.