#memory loss

Steve and Eddie have been together for years, decades, even. They live a good life, but when Steve is about to turn 50, his memory starts to go. It's different every day what he remembers. Sometimes he has almost all his memories and the days are peaceful.

Others, he finds himself in various stages of life. Because of their impact, he often finds himself in the mind of his late teenage self, someone still in the middle of fighting for his life. Someone who barely knows Eddie and doesn't even like him.

whumpee who has adjusted since their whump and they aren't doing too bad, considering everything. they have friends who maybe don't even know about anything they've had to go through.

but then an accident causes them to lose their memory, regressing into the time when they were with whumper. they dont remember any of the "new" life they had built up. their old habits terrify their friends/caretaker.

"are you sure i can do this? you know what whumper will do if they find out.."

"are you friends with whumper? please, let me see him, I don't want him to get angry again."

(bonus points if they end up going into detail of what whumper had done, and the friends had no idea about it and are now horrified, on top of having to help whumpee realise that all of this is over now)

I don't think it's normal to forget every word both me and other people say right after it's said, I don't think that's normal at all.