-body found on New York sidewalk
-taken to hospital
-bloodwork shows annesthesia in her system
-day later on stimulants, she wakes up
-woman (I switch to first person here) is perfectly lucid but doesn't know anything about herself
-she becomes famous with the help of a New York Times journalist, but nobody, no one even on the other side of the globe, knows her name
-she is staying with the journalist, not having any money or other means of supporting herself.
-she is Vox Nihili, as she calls herself, a voice of nothing.
-Vox hears the journalist and her fiance fighting over whether or not Vox can still live with them after they're married
-Vox runs away, spends a night on the street.
-She eventually shows up on the doorstep of a famous psychologist who now takes her in
-psychologist tries to help her unlock her past.
-no luck at that...
-psychologist helps her buy a house and to get started living on her own.
-she starts settling in, gets a job, a pet dog maybe...
-right when things start going her way, she's found a belief system, a sort of person, started a life of her own...
-a routine visit to the doctor's office turns into a nightmare.
-they tell her to come back the next day for an MRI, which shows she has a brain stem tumor.
-she has brain surgery despite the risky nature of the procedure, which could potentially paralyze her, make her forget everything again, even kill her.
-when she wakes up, everything went well
-but she has some unnexpected bedside visitors--strangers
-they come back a few days later when she's a little stronger and more coherent
-they tell her, these strangers who are wearing all-black tuxedos, that she doesn't know anything at all about her past.
-tell her that other than annesthesia, when she was found unconscious, there was a chemical called U0126 in her bloodstream.
*U0126 is a chemical shown to selectively erase memories in lab rats, yes, in reality! but is unapproved for human use, so I decided to play out the scenario that somebody bad got some of it...*
-tell her she had her memory, essentially, erased, by a criminal ring
-they tell her she's in danger
-she goes into wittness protection...
I will not let myself spoil the end, partially because I am not sure what I will do with it. That is the most I think you can take in, anyway? Feedback very welcome indeed. Rip it apart, tell me if plot outlines are allowed to be posted, whatever you want to!
Cheers!
--Voxina
