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Playful Trickster 101 wrote: Who is John Hawthorne?

To the Town of Salem, he used to be a loyal protector who is willing to protect the others, a parent figure and mentor for Samuel, and a best friend for Ann, Samuel, and Mary. Sadly, the John Hawthorne they knew had gone. He is nobody for them, he is just a empty husk of the old John Hawthorne, with no job, no memories, nothing.

Everyone remembers what he used to be, but he doesn't remember everything about him, all thanks to a mistake done by the Vigilante. He mistakes John as the Godfather, and decides to shot him. He is shot in the head and goes into a comatose state for three months. After a long sleep, John wakes up in Ann's clinic, confused with how he ended up here. "What happened... And where am I...?" He looks at Ann and Samuel, but he can't recall what are their names. Ann, with her always calm and serene tone, speaks "you were shot by a Vigilante, but you are safe right now John. Do you remember anything?"

John can only shakes his head.

Frustrated, Samuel goes out angrily and blames himself for what happened to his precious mentor. After a week, John goes home, and lives as the Amnesiac. He always asks to himself, "Who am I?" as he wants to remember what he is before the Vigilante incident. The morning after the day he is allowed to go home, he sees two things that caused fuzzy memories to come in his mind: the crying and grieving Ann Rose, holding Samuel's dead body, and also the body of Steve, the pyromaniac with a bullet wound on his head. Her crying echoes bitterly in the morning,  making John remembers more and more, but he still can't recall who he is.

Only that night, when he visited the graveyard, he remembers everything. He stands in front of the grave of Steve, reading his name and occupation. "No, I can't possibly be the pyromaniac who wants to burn everybody..." Shaking his head, he goes to the grave of Samuel, which engraved, "Here lies Samuel Parris. He died with honour, protecting this Town from the Arsonist. He is the Bodyguard of this Town. May he rest in peace." As he finishes reading the words, a shock pain attacks his head, but he endures it and holds his head.

"I... I am the Bodyguard... I am the mentor of Samuel, and also a friend of Ann and Mary." He releases the hold on his head, and takes the revolver that belongs to Samuel, he cleans it with great care and looks at the grave of his pupil. "Rest in peace now, my child. I'll finish the job myself. Ann will be okay from now on." He walks away from the grave with solemn expression, saddened with the death of his pupil. But sadness is the thing that always be with him. For the rest of his life.

Who is John Hawthorne? You know who he is now...

End of Amnesiac Story Great story.

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