Ty nodded, feeling himself tense up as he heard the story from Tses's point of view. He'd lied. He knew why Regan didn't like her. But this...

"It's me. I'm the one who left you. It was all my fault. That day, to why you have amnesia now...I did nothing but leave you when you needed me most...you're the one I hurt, Tses. More times than one...I want you to get better...I don't care if you forgive me or not anymore...I just want to see you okay...I'm sorry for everything...The first time I left you, when you met Regan...it was unintentional...the second...was on purpose. I was wrong..." He let go of her hand, leaning against the fence and sobbing.

Holy crap there were tears.

Tears should not be allowed.

Tses glanced around at the other zoo patrons, and a handful of them looked as terrified as she did of the situation. There was a rather scruffy looking red-head breaking into tears at the tiger exhibit. The zookeepers were probably wondering what code to punch in their walkie-talkies.

She shuffled on her feet, and some of her bewilderment kept her from the pain of what he was really saying. He had been the one who left. He made her that sad? But how could he? He left her... maybe that's why he looked so sad coming back. She wanted to be mad, she wanted to be hurt, or angry, but the part of her that remembered those things, the part of her that would be sad... it was missing. It was like that broken little shattered piece of her just wasn't here right now to be upset. So she just felt very very uncomfortable. "Ty....Whatever happened, I can't be mad about it. Not right now, maybe someday... but I don't remember. I don't know the person who upset me. You can say it was you but to me, that's just some empty space in the back of my head right now. I only know the you who has been helping me, and I can't really be all that upset at that you right now. So, please, stop the whole crying thing k? Tears are really no fair...."

She thought she heard him cry a little harder. This was toootally not going to work. Quickly, her mind scrambled for something to say, something to do.

"Hey look, penguins!"

She darted for the penguin exhibit with a flash of a smile.

Plan P= penguins.

Had to work.

Ty cried harder at the tears comment, then forced himself to calm down. "I just feel awful about everything..." he murmured. And then...she was gone. Well, going. And apparently she wanted him to follow. This brought a chuckle, and he wiped his eyes, walking up to catch up to her.

"Thanks," he murmured softly. "You know what? This day, this right here, is for you. You need to have fun today." He looked over at her and smiled as he watched the penguins waddle around.

Tses was distractedly watching the penguins scoot around when she heard footsteps catching up. There was still some sniffling but beyond the whole tear-stained face and slightly red eyes, he looked more normal, and thus, less dangerous.

Tears were a complicated adversary.

"See? Penguins! Everything's better with penguins! You just one and two and waddle waddle, do the penguin poooolkaaa!. And it will be not so frownnny...nesssss." She trailed off after the outburst of singing, letting her arms drop to her side and giving a cough then quickly looking back to the penguins, putting her arms against the cold metal. The penguins turned their beady eyes her way for a moment, then went back to their contented waddling.

"If you wanna have fun you gotta not worry so much. Watch the penguins, and no more tears. Everything will work out how it works out." She flashed him a smile for a second, then turned back to the exhibit with a little shrug of her shoulders. Her posture and excitement matched the behavior of some of the much younger zoo patrons, but her slim figure and childlike expression made it seem more normal.

Ty laughed at her singing, listening to her speak. She was actually making alot of sense to him. Just take life as it comes, but enjoy what you can in the meantime. It felt like a burden had been lifted from his shoulders. No need in worrying about the future, he should just focus on the now.

"Thanks," he whispered softly. "I just hope when you do remember me, you'll remember me for the better times. I guess we all have our moments." As he finished speaking, the penguins waddling about began to one by one dive into the water.

Outwardly, Tses had it all together. Inwardly, her brain was still trying to process the information that had been dumped on her moments before. Little flickers of memories were trying to crawl into her mind, but rather than reach for them, she kept pushing them away. She was afraid, suddenly, of what she would find. Just what she felt remembering Regan terrified her. There was so much rage, so much pain and hurt. Were all her memories like that? If they were, she didn't know if she wanted them back.

"Let's go find some foxes!" She declared, and tried to navigate her way around a crowd of children. A few moments later, she came out to a clearing, and froze, staring at an empty space in the middle of the walkway. It felt like she had hit a wall as her eyes skimmed over the area as if desperately looking for something.

"Christmas tree...." She whispered, a frown crawling across her face. She pushed her hair from her face and felt a strange feeling of disappointment she couldn't place. It was already March, why was she so sad there wasn't a Christmas tree in March?

Ty chuckled, following her, though he was surprised she was actually going the right way. It was as if she remembered. He stopped when she did, and it broke his heart to see her sad, but at the same time...she remembered, and to this day it was one of their happiest moments. Christmas.

Ty put a hand on her shoulder gently. "It's March, Tses. Christmas was a long time ago," he said softly. "It was Christmas the last time we were here. Everything was lit up and beautiful," he murmured. "Light traces of snow....It was the best date--day we ever had together." He froze, instinctively trying to cover for saying the d-word. Something he'd grown all to accustomed to doing while dating her.

It didn't feel like it was so long ago. It felt like it should have been yesterday as shadows of the memory filled her mind. She could still see the twinkling lights, the serene glow, the tower figure of a tree that should be there. Now there were just mothers and children and grumpy dads trying to get from one end of the park to the other. This spot meant nothing to them. But it meant something to her. Even if she didn't remember exactly why, the emotions were still there. It was like staring into the darkness, knowing something was there you just couldn't see.

Then Ty put his hand on her shoulder and she jumped. And he said that word.

She felt a glare cross her face then it vanished when she couldn't remember why she was glaring. "I... don't remember. I just... I feel. It's....hard to explain." She sighed, and shrugged, wandering more slowly towards the next exhibit. "I keep feeling lots of things. But they're all tangled like a giant ball of yarn and the more I tug on it the more tangled it gets." She gave him a look, and put her hands in the pockets of her jeans. "You said date though. I thought we were friends? I don't think friends date." She dropped the sentence like it was one of her little explosives. The way she was walking was like a cat on it's toes, almost daring him to say the wrong thing.

Had he lied?

If he had, it was starting to get old by now.

"We were friends. Close friends," he explained as they walked. "Eventually, yeah we got together. But we fought. A lot. Our sweeter moments were usually after something bad happened. Except for Christmas. Christmas was our first real date. We snuck in when it was closed, and it was just the two of us. It was the one time I remember us being completely....happy. I know I said friends earlier. I just wanted you to focus on the good. To be happy...I mean, I didn't think the best thing for me to tell you was 'Hey! I'm your ex boyfriend and I'm going to be taking care of you.' Ya know? I'm sorry, I really am. I'm trying to do what's best for you, but....it's so confusing. I just want things to be okay between us." He looked away, sighing. He felt like he screwed this one up too...

Tses kept a cautious expression on her face as she listened to Ty. It seemed like he was telling the truth this time, although she was a bit irked at the white lies. It made a bit more sense when he finished though. Ok, maybe the 'I'm your x-boyfriend' thing would have probably made her turn tail and run. She still might turn tail and run. But at least knowing there had been something there let her know she had to be careful, or both of them would end up hurt in the end.

Suddenly, all the sad emotions made more sense.

"She...I....Me...I don't even know how to talk about myself. Us? I ... I know there were happy times. I can feel it, remember pieces. I still don't remember you though. And part of me feels like, the part of me you hurt... she doesn't want me to. Not right now. Because if I'll remember, I'll be hurt. Yeah, you messed up. Not gonna sugar coat it. But the other memories I get to have, they are happy. So I enjoy them. I think, that's the you she wants me to remember. I'm supposed to remember... for now." She stopped at the fox exhibit, and grinned as one of the foxes walked past, flicking it's tail at her on the other side of the glass. Her smile softened a bit as she glanced at Ty. In a way, she was Tses. But in a way, she wasn't. It was like that little piece of Tses that was always buried was the only part that was here now, and it was trying to comfort him while the rest of her healed.

"I wish I could make you forget the sad feelings too. Because the nice ones aren't so bad." She turned back to the foxes and folded her arms awkwardly, trying to get comfortable with the broken wrist. Her arms, neck and face were still colored by bruises, some deeper than others, and when she moved, little twinges of pain still jabbed at her.

"I understand. I just...my main concern right now is your well-being. I don't care how this makes me feel right now. Doesn't matter how sad I am, not to me. What matters is you," he replied sincerely.

He smiled at the foxes, removing his hand from her shoulder."As long as you want me around, I'm here. Well, you're stuck with me til you get better, because I promised." He chuckled lightly, smiling over at her.

Tses watched his reaction, and gave a little smile at the sincerity. Some of the pressure seemed to be gone now, and that was nice. She hated dealing with all the sadness. Then she chuckled at his remark.

"Well, no promises. I like having you around for now though. You just have to keep up. Panda time!" She flashed a grin and took a dash for the next exhibit, a little skip to her step as she did. All the running was making her a bit thirsty, but she kept getting too excited by the animals to really stop for a break.

A few moments after stopping at the Pandas, she was over by the falcons, then she was looking at the meercats. She paused a bit longer there at least, trying to see down the tunnels some of the creatures were hiding in.

Ty smiled, brushing his hair aside. "Fair enough to me," he replied, taking off after her. Just as they used to, Ty kept up with her rather well, following her from exhibit to exhibit.It was actually rather nice, just the two of them, enjoying time together. Even better than they used to, even if the circumstances were a bit different this go round.

When they got to the meercats, he stopped beside her, slightly out of breath, but that was only thanks to his poor stamina."You know, I never really had alot of trouble keeping up with you," he teased lightly, winking.

Tses shot him a look with a glint in her eyes, and chuckled slightly. "Maybe you can keep up, but I bet I can still outrun you. You're too tired. You need to get out more." She remarked with a smirk. She skipped over towards the cheetah, pigtails giving a slight bounce as she did. There was something bratty and sassy about it.

"You're a fish though. Fish aren't fast on land." The sentence slipped out, and a confused fuzziness drifted through her head. She wasn't sure why he was a fish...

"We never figured out which of us was faster in the first place/" Ty quipped, getting competitive. "I only ran fast enough to keep up with you. Besides, I have poor endurance when it comes to running. Not that that's stopped me before."

He smiled softly when she called him Fish. She still remembered his nickname, the one she'd revived. She was the only one who called him that and he liked it.