Revenge? (RP)

- Emma -

Name, phone number, and address in hand you return to the car, where Charles is still looking for a parking space. "It's no trouble." Charles says, but he does not argue, he does not want you to be late, either.

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Titanias is on the third floor of an old, old building. The carpet leading from the elevator is old and worn. This does not feel like the sort of place to find a plastic surgeon's office, and feels more appropriate for lawyers or accountants... and, indeed, the old, dull plaques on the doors you pass list lawyers and accountants within.

Titanias is at the end of the corridor, its bright magenta sign clashing with the general aesthetic and looking very out of place.

From within you can hear a raised voice and a calm one. As you enter the waiting-room you find a expensively-dressed older lady looking indignant and clutching her pearls (literally). "... I mean, do you know who I am?" She is saying. "No." The receptionist replies blandly, making that one word sound like it kind of carries the point.

"Emma!" The receptionist says when she sees you. "Dr Moss is ready to see you. We just have a few forms for you to fill out." She hands you a clipboard with very standard-looking medical forms, and gives Charles a welcoming smile. Their treatments are not covered by the NHS, and there is place for elusive medical aid.. which you don't have.

The artwork on the walls is abstracts of flowers that somehow manage to be suggestive.

What do you do?

- Persephone -

"I still don't like it!" Circe says petulantly, encompassing the job, and the tattoo-patch, and a general dislike for SSRIs that is so common among those who have not needed them. The argument about your breakdown at least gets her off you back for right now.

"What are you doing about it?" She demands, probably talking about getting out of the job, the fact that you died and are returned and are having trouble coping with such a fundamentally altering experience is beyond her ability to process.

Circe has picked up a folder from the table nearest the door and is scrunching the end, possibly damaging the papers inside.

• Which of you two notice that this is the information Henry promised he would have his research people dig up on the Ivy Club?

What do you do?

- Emma -

"Government requirements, you know." The receptionist says apologetically, taking the clipboard and not even looking at it.

"Of course, of course." Charles says. "I have my book." He takes a book from his coat pocket and sits looking around the waiting room and noting the lack of any magazines. He gives the older woman a friendly smile, but she glares at him and at you, wondering what you have that she doesn't.

"Come this way." The receptionist says to you, ignoring the other woman. She leads you to a back room, it is set up like a doctors rooms —with the chair and the dreaded stirrups— but does not smell like one. It is more apparent in the surgical part, but the place smells more earthy than disinfectanty, it is clean though.

"Thank you, Blossom." Dr Moss says when the receptionist —'Blossom', apparently— brings you in. He then turns to you.

"How are you doing?" He asks, all concern, looking at your crutches. Dr Moss is an older man, all wiry sinew and bird-like bones. His bald head shows some liver spots, but he looks healthy.

"We will need to have those pants off." He says apologetically. "So we can take a look." They seem to know were the bite is an everything, but that was in your medical records, so it is not all that strange. "Blossom can help you get situated." He says. "Would you like a cup of tea in the meantime. I am making myself one."

What do you do?

- Emma -

"It will probably all need to come off." Blossom says. "So the is no pulling on the skin. Don't worry, though Dr Moss is a doctor... and also gay." She has a slight speech-impediment that makes some of her gs soft enough to almost be make 'gay' sound like 'fae'.

What do you do?

- Emma -

Even gay professional beauty doctors can't look away when you put on your performance. Dr Moss has returned with a large, still full, mug of tea held in both hands.

"Ankle in the stirrups, please." Moss says, then he carefully removes the bandage. His hands are gentle and warm from the tea.

"Tut tut." He says as he surveys the damage. "We can't be having that, now can we." He probes carefully with his fingers and you feel a pleasant warmth spread out from where he touches and the pain fades to the background.

"Breath." He says, his eyes focused on yours as he leads you in slow breathing, his hands have settled over your wound, lightly touching and covering the whole injury. You might notice that he is not wearing gloves.

• Did you look at the hideous wound when the bandages came off? Or did you let him distract you away from that grisly sight?

What do you do?

- Emma -

"Oh, yes." Dr Moss says, sounding unconcerned and still maintaining eye contact. "It's just your everyday vampire bite, nothing to worry about. We will have your right as rain in no time." He does not seem to think it a particularly frenzied biting, which might speak volumes about just how careful Elliot was with you.

"It will just take some time," he says, "to smooth things over and get you back to perfection." They have not brought up the topic of how you are going to pay for these visits.

What do you do?

- Emma -

"You can sleep, if you want to." Dr Moss says after you close your eyes.

You do feel tired.

What do you do?

- Persephone -

"That sounds more like a hope than a plan." Circe mutters, your still not having answered her question about what you are actually doing. She has not noticed that you also did not answer her question of 'exactly what do you have to do for your job', hopefully the seeming proactiveness of having a file of details will be sufficient distraction.

You are not completely sure why Henry brought this information, maybe he could have explained if you had given him a chance, but he is at work now, and, if you check your phone, Viviana has enthusiastically replied with the fact that 'her scissors feel broken, but she wants you to check it out this evening'.

Henry's file is mainly about real-estate transactions in the area South of Hyde Park, including competitive offerings between some guy called Elliot and what he thinks are the factotums of The Ivy Club. Henry is a money guy, so his reasons for thinking this noteworthy are a bit opaque, but it may be a start?

What do you do?

- Emma -

"Hmm... You are remarkably well primed for receiving healing energy." Moss comments. "But this could still take a few hours, but that is better than a few weeks, which it might otherwise be."

'A few hours' is a long time, but Charles did know he was bringing you for 'surgery', and brought his book for this very reason. If Dr Moss is disappointed he does not let on, but you can almost feel him wanting to expound on the links between sleep and healing.

What do you do?

- Persephone -

"Oh... OH!" Circe says, her eyes going round like the sound she just made. "Yes..." She says, pulling her clothes close around herself, as though suddenly uncomfortable with the possibility of being watched in her own home, even though she knew she was on camera at the hospital and possibly even knows that, in London, everyone is being watched everywhere on the street.

"So..." Circe says, trying to appear casual while changing the subject. "When do we get to meet your girlfriend again... or your boyfriend?" She amends, the mention of Henry having confused her again.

What do you do?

- Emma -

"It largely depends on you." Moss says with a shrug in his voice. "You can leave whenever you need to. But good results take time."

What do you do?