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Previous parts(please read first (3,4 found below. 1,2 found on last week's page.)):
-Part One: Meet the Family
-Part Two: It Comes in Waves
-Part Three: Box of Memories
-Part Four: Do I Know You?

Eddie sat on a chair in the kitchen as Emilia affixed a bandaid to his cheek. It was the last one after the numerous others all over his body. She closed the box and shook it, rattling the remains around inside. "With one to spare." She stood up and picked up Eddie's black t-shirt that was lying on the table. Falling into a stack of cages did a number on the thing, tearing it essentially to shreds. Nothing worth wearing. She tossed it into the garbage bin in the corner of the kitchen causing the lid to rapidly flip around.

"What was that?"

"Oh. It was your shirt, Eddie. It was pretty torn up and a little bloody."

Eddie slammed his fist into the wall he sat beside, leaving a dent. "I hate this," he said, "I hate being blind. I didn't even see that guy. Yeah, sure I heard him coming, but how could I have known he was going to do this to me?"

"Ed, you couldn't've..."

"He knows something. I need to find Bucho." He was barely listening to Emilia at this point, heading into his own little dark world. "But how do I get around his hatred of me?" He was starting to stand, but sat back down, "I can't find this guy. I wouldn't even know where to start."

"He was a tourist, Eddie," Emilia was still in the room. "Wore a tropical shirt."

"You saw him?!," Eddie grinned, sitting for a moment in his tangle of thoughts. "Tourist, huh. Is there a cruise ship docked today?"

"Yep." Emilia smiled. She was happy to see him excited about something in a way she hadn't seen before. Perhaps this was the Eddie she never knew... before she gave him that name.

He stood up again. "Can you get me my scarf? Since my shirt's all torn up, I can wear that."

Emilia was a little shocked at his request. "I thought Paulie only showed you the labcoat."

"He did, but my scarf's in the bottom of... I mean it has to be, right? Cause of the... coat... holy crap!"

She started heading toward the hallway closet. "How about I just bring the box."