doctor doctor gimme the news

[greenisnteasy]

Who: Bruce and Sam, and also Loki
When: Afternoon of Day 16
Where: The clinic
What: Sam checks in with Bruce.

Bruce doesn't have any idea how many people might expect to walk through the door today, but he's dutifully here and only moderately bored. He dug through the library to try to find books on norns, whatever they are, or wood fae in general, and he tried to check indexes but "scary black goo" isn't generally listed. Unsurprisingly, not a lot of progress is being made in attempting to find out what the hell's going on with Kenzi's arm, but he's trying. He's starting to think about people he might be able to talk to who might be more familiar. Mina, maybe, but he keeps coming back to Loki and wondering.

Maybe the Sex and Candy Loki would be a better option.

He leans over his desk and pulls over another book. His hair is getting bigger with his frustration.

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[greenisnteasy]

He keeps his face as impassive as possible as he starts cleaning Sam's arms up, swabbing them with cotton, and giving them a good examination. What he finds isn't all that unexpected, considering who took him, but he's not happy to see the confirmation. People are running experiments on them, and Sam was maybe hooked up to an IV, maybe injected with things... Or had samples removed from him. It's a totally selfish worry in the middle of Sam's examination, but if they take Bruce's blood, it could become a big problem.

"I don't know," he says, looking up over the top of his glasses. "I'm going to take some blood samples with the hope I can test them properly here. Wherever they had you, they were... running tests on you, studying you."

[likely_evil]

"That's fine. I figured you probably would. Just um... warn me first? I'm not a big fan of needles."

He gave Bruce a sheepish look.

[greenisnteasy]

"Yeah, of course." He nods and gently turns Sam's arm over to work on the other side. "I'm just going to finish getting you cleaned up, then I'll get a sample, then I'll patch you up." He flashes a smile up at him as he switches to the other arm, his hands deft and careful.

"In the meantime, why don't you tell me everything you can remember?" That one he's less sure of; he can't and won't make Sam tell him anything he doesn't want to, but he is curious.

[likely_evil]

"I.. uh... I don't remember anything." He rubbed at his head with the arm that Bruce wasn't working on. "I don't know if it was because of Kenzi's hit... or something else... but I barely remember anything."

[greenisnteasy]

He nods gently, glancing up at Sam over the tops of his glasses.

"That's probably for the best." He really does believe that, but it would have been convenient to be able to talk to Sam about what happened to him outside of cryptic and creepy only half-sensical sentences.

"Have you been having any nightmares?"

He turns around to start arranging the needles for a blood sample.

[likely_evil]

"I've had nightmares all my life. But lately... just kinda weird. Bright lights, freaky masks... things I can't really make out much of, but wake up trying not to scream."

He looked at the needles and bit his lip a moment. "Um... just so you know, there may be something weird in my blood when you analyze it."

[greenisnteasy]

Masks? Surgical masks? Deformed through a dream filter, maybe...

He's pulled out of his thoughts by Sam's question, and he smiles faintly.

"Something weird other than what they did to you?"

[likely_evil]

Sam took a deep breath. "Do you believe in angels and demons, Doctor?"

[greenisnteasy]

Awkward. Bruce lifts his eyebrows, debates briefly, and then just goes with truth.

"Afraid not. Why?"

[likely_evil]

"Well... I um... there may be a level of sulfur in my blood. I have a condition."

Yeah, that's about the only way he can think to explain it to someone who doesn't believe.

[greenisnteasy]

Congratulations, Sam. You have Bruce's attention.

"What kind of condition?"

[likely_evil]

"There's... there's a sulfur count in my blood. I've had it since I was a kid. It may look weird on some of your tests, but it was there before I was kidnapped."

[greenisnteasy]

"And... what does that have to do with whether or not I believe in angels?"