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"'sohkay. Gimme a minute."
Jacob heard some hushed conversation and he pushed up off of the arm of the sofa and walked over to the windows that overlooked the entryway into the apartment complex.
There were some people milling about in the courtyard in the center of the complex. A couple of business people on their way in.
A family of three heading out toward the street dressed for an evening out.
And passing the family on their way in, an elderly couple, holding hands. They were moving slowly beside each other and before that day, he would have assumed that they were walking that way because one or both of them needed to slow their speed for the other.
But now, after just a couple of eventful days with Molly, he wondered if they were walking slowly so they could enjoy their walk together.
"Jacob? Is that you?"
"Yeah. Sorry for waking you up." He did feel sorry about it. Jacob knew how difficult it was for Kate and Rock to find time together, since they both worked long and exhausting hours at their jobs. "I have some information that I wanted to run past you, but if you want to call me later-"
"No. We can talk now, I'm up. Rock and I were just... getting some rest."
Jacob thought he heard a smile in her voice.
She was happy.
Good for her.
"I closed the bedroom door." Her voice was louder, easier to hear. "So I can talk and not wake him back up."
Jacob nodded.
"Okay. I'm making a cup of coffee. Tell me what's up."
"Molly had... well, I guess I could say that she had some kind of episode and passed out." He heard Kate swear and rushed to continue on. "I call Doc Webb to come down to my apartment and when he got here, she came around."
"Did she get her memory back?"
"No." He ground his back teeth together. "But I have a better understanding of why her memory loss is stressing her so much."
"Like losing time wouldn't freak anyone out?"
He let out a long breath. Kate had a point.
"When you were a kid or a teen, how did you sing along with your favorite songs on the radio? Did you read the lyrics?"
Kate laughed, but the sound was a little rough given that she'd just been asleep a few minutes before.
"Not that it's any of your business how old I am, but when I was a teen, we didn't look up the lyrics on the computer. If we were lucky to buy the album in the store, we could read the lyrics on the album liner in a cassette or the booklet in the front of the DVD. What's your point?"
"Sometimes you had to listen to the song to learn the lyrics, right?"
"Well, shit, Jacob. I love this trip down memory lane, but-"
"Kate? Answer the question."
"Wow, you're grumpy and I'm the one you woke up. Yes, I would hear the song on the radio and listen to it a few times and maybe I'd learn a good amount of it. The chorus and some catchy lines, but-"
"When Molly hears a song, she memorizes the lyrics right then and there."
"Ohhhkay." He heard the soft sound of coffee dripping into the pot on her end of the phone.
"The reason she's so fast on her transcripts is that once she's heard the tape, she remembers the words."
