House

[poison_isley]

They'd figured out a time to meet up when the labs were basically empty in the middle of the night. Ivy was getting worse. The pills just weren't working. She wandered the halls until she fucking gave up and pulled out her phone.

I'm in the cafeteria and I can't find where the fuck I'm going. Come and get me

Comments

[drfeelbad]

House was in his office playing Mario Kart on his Switch. He'd started to get concerned when she didn't show, so he just sighed, got up, and walked to the cafeteria.

"I'm here to rescue you," he said flatly.

[poison_isley]

"My hero," she replied dryly. "You ready for this shizz?"

[drfeelbad]

"Oh yeah," said House. "I've really been looking forward to poking you... with a needle. Come on, I've got a hazmat suit and everything, were you serious about that?" He gestured for her to follow him.

[poison_isley]

"Deadly," she replied as she followed him into the lab. "You're going to want a respirator. And cover all your skin."

She wasn't exaggerating. She knew what flowed in her veins.

[drfeelbad]

"... seriously?" said House. "You're airborne?"

[poison_isley]

"I can be," she replied. "You are, too. Pheromones. Viruses. Don't be judgy."

[drfeelbad]

"Fortunately I've never been known to be particularly careful with my own well-being," House said dryly, and swiped a key card to let them into a lab.

[poison_isley]

"I just don't want to accidentally kill you," she replied. The key word being accidentally. He was Klaus's friend somehow and she'd never hurt her boy.

[drfeelbad]

If he'd known what she was thinking House would have told her that Klaus probably would not give a shit, except maybe to the extent Fin was upset, but even then he wasn't sure.

He was suddenly wondering if he should have told Danny what he was doing.

"I'm just drawing blood, not performing open heart surgery," he said. "I'll be careful."

[poison_isley]

Ivy went to a chair with a convenient arm rest and sipped off her jacket. Today she was wearing a Ramones shirt with the sleeves ripped off and a pair of skin tight jeans. She finished the look off with a pair of Solovairs.

"Go for it, doc," she said, laying her arm out.

[drfeelbad]

"You don't actually think I should put on a hazmat suit just for this do you?" he asked as he slipped on some gloves and grabbed a surgical mask.

[poison_isley]

"You do you, man. I'm just giving you fair warning," she replied.

[drfeelbad]

House decided that the mask and gloves were sufficient.

He sat down in a rolling chair and rolled up beside her. He snapped a tourniquet onto her arm. "You squeamish about needles?"

[poison_isley]

"No," she chuckled softly. "Just stick it in me, doc, let's get this over with."

Her impatience said that maybe, maybe, she wasn't that comfortable with needles.

[drfeelbad]

"You are not the first woman who's said that to me," House quipped, and slid the needle in. Easily, painlessly, he knew exactly what he was doing. Green liquid filled the vile, and he couldn't help but still be a little surprised.

[poison_isley]

There was an odd quality to the blood in the vial. It seemed to swirl and looked much more transparent than blood should. Ivy didn't even wince.

"If you want to kill someone, that's your best toxin," she said. "But, you know, I'd like to know why."

[drfeelbad]

House was slightly disappointed she hadn't even reacted to his joke, but he just put a band-aid on her arm and snapped off the tourniquet.

"I prefer to murder people with my words," he said dryly.

[poison_isley]

"Pussy," she said, bending her arm to keep any escaping drops to herself.

"Maybe now you can tell me what's going on, though."

[drfeelbad]

"I'm eager to have a closer look," said House. "Do you want to stick around?"

[poison_isley]

"I'd actually love to," she said. "I can help with some of it. I used to have my own research lab."

[drfeelbad]

"Good," said House. He wheeled the chair he was sitting into to a nearby table that had a microscope at it. He kept the mask and gloves on as he took out an eye dropper to put some of the blood onto a slide.

[poison_isley]

The blood was much less viscous than red blood and under the microscope the cells had distinct walls and little spots of chlorophyll inside. Just lookign at it, it looked like it could be a liquid...plant.

"Looks weird, huh?" she said.

[drfeelbad]

House moved away from the microscope and looked up at her. "Have you seen this before?"

[poison_isley]

"Have I seen my own blood? Yeah. On more than one occasion," she said. "The furthest I got is it's a photosynthetic mutation. I, uh, had an accident. In the lab. With an enterprising scientist who decided to run a live experiment. On me."

[drfeelbad]

"Well I'm not a botanist," said House, "but fuck, yeah those look like plant cells to me."