18. Seeking For Professional Advice

"Are you alone?" the mom asked his son with obvious expectations.
"I don't remember saying I am coming with someone," Lucien eyed his dad. He just said maybe not for long when he was asked if he was coming alone again. He did not say he was coming with someone right away.
His dad, Levi Michaelson, bulged his eyes in denial as he shook his hands, saying he didn't say anything. But Lucien knew his mom would only have the idea coming from his gossiping dad.
"Alright, alright, we can wait until you bring her along," Sandra excitedly held her son towards their table on the balcony. Lucien lets his mom do as she wishes. 
"Have you had your breakfast?" Asked the mother to her son. The husband felt totally ignored. But he is used to such scenarios. He is always second to his son when they are both around, which happens too rarely nowadays, and so he lets his wife be. 
"Mom, I am here for your professional advice, and I am afraid I don't have much time," Lucien spoke softly to his mom. He was sure the lady would be upset again, but he really has a lot of things to deal with today. But hearing his words mentioning something about their professional advice, the couple felt a little alarmed.
"What is wrong?" The two almost spoke in unison. Worried faces suddenly focused their son's face closer. 
"Not me, but I really need your medical advice," Lucien's face became seriously worried. He was not aware of how he looked, but his parents were totally astonished to see his worried face. It was almost like he was lying to see it wasn't him who needed the advice. The reaction is quite personal. It seemed like. But then they also pray silently they were wrong. The father cleared his throat when he realized both he and his wife were somehow overreacting.
"Honey, he said not for him," Levi tapped his wife's hand to his side. 
"Then for who?" She asked, looking at her husband. Levi was speechless. Why would she ask him? Didn't she remember they both know nothing? He gave Lucien a helpless look, silently telling his son to explain for him.
"Can I ask first?" Lucien sighed. "I will tell you everything later. The situation is quite urgent, mom?" Lucien gave his mom and dad a pleading look. The two elders were even more astounded. They gave each other a meaningful look. They have never seen their son like how they are seeing him today. If not for his serious, like life-and-death matter face, the two would have made fun of him. But they can sense he is in no laughing-matter-kind of circumstances. They cannot play around as they would usually do. 
"Okay," Sandra answered,
"Sorry," his dad apologized.
"What do you wanna know?" His mom seriously and professionally asked.
"Can a serious headache result in amnesia?" Lucien did not want to explain so much, so he asked the question directly.
"It depends on what causes the pain," Sandra gave him the most simple answer to his question because she did not know the whole situation, the reason, and the details of the pain Lucien was talking about.
Lucien nodded. 
"In case a person becomes amnesiac, how long can it take to regain memory?" 
The two elders were again surprised to hear him sound like he was talking nonsense. His questions are actually too shallow. His normal self would never need any professional's input of information to realize the answers to them. But he was no doubt genuinely asking like he didn't know anything as for answers to his inquiries. His emotions were clearly clouding his rational mind to realize such simple facts. And the two only have a single reason in mind for their son to become this "foolishly brainless" as to how he appears to be. But then they cannot be sure either, they have to ask him to clearly explain everything for them to understand. And so they carefully asked. 
"Honey, can you please tell us what is going on?" His mom could not help feeling worried. She was almost scared. She wanted to convince herself that the person in front of them is not her son, Lucien. He sounded totally different.
Lucien paused. 
He was startled to see his mom almost paled in honest fear. He was contemplating whether he should tell them what happened to him today or not. But to fully explain Brianna's situation, he will have to tell them what happened and how he thinks she is having a memory problem. His mom is a neurosurgeon. She knows a lot and almost everything about brains, so she is the perfect person to ask. But he will only get an accurate answer if he tells her the complete details of her case. Even better if he turns her over to his mom and lets her professionally take care of Brianna until she recovers. But he doesn't want to let her stay in the hospital. He wants to personally take care of her as his repayment for her saving him from a tragic death.
"I was saved by a woman earlier today," Lucien spoke without lifting his eyes to meet his parents' gazes, he held a cup of coffee in his hand. 
"What do you mean you were saved? What happened?" His mom, who was almost calm from her panicked state earlier, felt horrified this time. But Levi held her in his arms to pacify her emotions and let Lucien continue. And like magic, it worked for the freaked-out mother. 
"I was heading to a meeting in the morning when my car got collided with another car," he started. "But I was not alone, I was with my on-probation secretary, as you know, Vicky can no longer keep up with my speed in dealing outside the office affairs, we interviewed a few applicants today, and the best choice among them was given a chance to have probation. She was driving too slow, so I asked her to pull over on the side, and I will be the one to drive, but when I was about to walk around to the driver's seat, she saw the other car approaching that she grabbed me and jumped us together towards the side to avoid the car from crashing down on me." 
The two were so focused on listening to his story. They weren't saying anything to butt in, so he looked up, just to see them looking so shocked. He did not want to be distracted, so he kept going.
"When I realized what just happened, I saw her crying so pitifully," Lucien was trying to look back in his mind on what he saw in Brianna at the scene. 
"But I was sure she wasn't hurt from the accident. She wasn't crushed as we landed on the ground either because I was the one beneath her. If anyone were hurt, that would have been me, but I am fine." Lucien was like talking to himself as he tries to analyze what could have happened.
Levi and Sandra gave each other a questioning look again, but Lucien was too busy being immersed in his own thoughts to notice their exchange of glances.
"Then she suddenly cried so agonizingly, and after less than a minute, she fainted. I brought her to my Villa and waited till she woke up, but when she did, she seemed to have forgotten what happened, and as she tried to recall, she screamed in excruciating pain and fainted again." 
He looked at his mom pitifully. Not even aware of how he looked at that very moment. But his heart felt like it was bleeding in pain for the person who saved him. He asked his mom.
"Tell me, mom, what could have happened to her? Why would she feel so much pain when she wasn't injured even in the slightest?"