The Tests Come Back

Susan, Gina's mom (who was a bit perturbed when she found Gina had been admitted), and Tom were gathered in Gina's room. Gina was horrified that they had come in as a nurse was changing her diaper.

"No shit you weren't faking." Tom said in disbelief, there being no other explanation for why he would be seeing her hairless cunt getting wiped clean.

The door opens yet again with the clack-clack of the Doctor's heels coming in. "So great to see you all during Gina's difficult time. I'm sure you all have questions so let me just show what we found."

Susan grabbed Gina's hand, giving her a reassuring squeeze.

On a smart board a few files were brought up. "On the left you can see a typical fmri recording of a healthy brain. On the right is Gina. You can see at rest they are identical, now what when I asked some basic questions." Said the doctor.

A caption came up, count to five. The left side had some areas light up, on the right, Gina's, the same areas would brighten briefly before a red surge appeared and disappeared.

"These are markers that are symptomatic of aphasia, but unlike typical aphasia, these are brief, small, and go away. I have no explaination for why they are there. There is nothing bacterial, viral, or genetic that can explain this. While here, she has been helpless. We have all of the data we can get and are submitting them for review and study under the working name "Gina's Curse" as it is inexplicable, but she is otherwise healthy. Active scans show she is still listening and understanding, so capable to finish schooling, but acting on that information flips a neurological switch and the command can't be executed. Now we did check her autonomic functions and they were 100% so there is no reason to worry about her 'forgetting to breath' but her quality of life is seriously impacted."

Gina was tearing up. Of course she knew what the doctor was going to say, she was present at every test, but that didn't make it any easier to hear, and now she could see the pity in her mother's eyes, and the cold indifference of Tom, maybe if she hadn't started the rumor he was gay the football team wouldn't have ran a train on him. Susan was still holding her hand, Gina couldn't let it go, and Gina had treated her like a dog, and now everyone would know she couldn't defend herself.

The adults went off to talk about care, disability, benefits programs, and Susan knelt to be eye-level with Gina.

"I'm going to support you, whatever that means. You have been a very aweful person to many people, but your mom is going to pay me to make sure you finish school, and I'll be sure you get what you deserve."

(Feel free to comment things she deserves, I know it was a slow burn to get to this point, but the prompt deserved better than just "her ass was endlessly stuffed with candy bars")