Eleanor snuggled in against Joker, pressing a breathless kiss against his cheek.
"All right, I suppose you've impressed me," she allowed. She could play at being coy. He already knew how much she'd enjoyed that. So, presumably, did all of Joker's neighbors.
"If we actually shattered one of your femurs and you're pretending otherwise, I'm going to be very cross with you."
She still worried -- he'd said these new treatments were highly experimental, after all, and that meant they could come with unknown side effects. But she was packing all of that away at the sheer joy of seeing Joker walk so well, unaided. And how happy that made him.
"Trust me, if one of my femurs were shattered, you'd know," Joker pointed out. "I guess it turns out the doc's computer simulations were right -- I feel a thousand percent better!"
It pained him to lie to Eleanor like this, especially about something that was so much a part of who he was. But what else was he going to do? Tell her what really was fixing his bones?
Yes, Joker's narrative! Being honest with Eleanor was totally a better choice, here.
"Are you having any side effects?" Eleanor asked, her fingers playing idly over his chest. "Please don't ignore those, if you have them. The doctors need to know right away, if you are. All right?"
She leaned over to kiss him again. "Sorry. I -- still worry about things like 'experimental treatment.' Promise me you're being careful?"
Her fingers on his chest, near the necklace, made Joker a little nervous. What would happen to him if she touched it? Would she absorb all the magic? Would she find out about it???
"Yeah, no, look, my doc is getting this stuff from the best Salarian xenobiologist at their top university. I'm not going to be in better hands. And it's a Turian plant enzyme -- aside from depositing calcium in my bones, it should just pass right through the rest of me without interacting with anything."
"And trust me, I know to watch for side effects. There was this one time, when I was six" -- when a Salarian who'd never seen a live human before had tried out a Turian plant enzyme on him -- "when I got kidney stones the size of golf balls. I was in the hospital for weeks. Now, I don't trust anything completely, ever."
Except the necklace. Science had failed him, but magic was working!
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"All right, I suppose you've impressed me," she allowed. She could play at being coy. He already knew how much she'd enjoyed that. So, presumably, did all of Joker's neighbors.
"If we actually shattered one of your femurs and you're pretending otherwise, I'm going to be very cross with you."
She still worried -- he'd said these new treatments were highly experimental, after all, and that meant they could come with unknown side effects. But she was packing all of that away at the sheer joy of seeing Joker walk so well, unaided. And how happy that made him.
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It pained him to lie to Eleanor like this, especially about something that was so much a part of who he was. But what else was he going to do? Tell her what really was fixing his bones?
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"Are you having any side effects?" Eleanor asked, her fingers playing idly over his chest. "Please don't ignore those, if you have them. The doctors need to know right away, if you are. All right?"
She leaned over to kiss him again. "Sorry. I -- still worry about things like 'experimental treatment.' Promise me you're being careful?"
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"Yeah, no, look, my doc is getting this stuff from the best Salarian xenobiologist at their top university. I'm not going to be in better hands. And it's a Turian plant enzyme -- aside from depositing calcium in my bones, it should just pass right through the rest of me without interacting with anything."
"And trust me, I know to watch for side effects. There was this one time, when I was six" -- when a Salarian who'd never seen a live human before had tried out a Turian plant enzyme on him -- "when I got kidney stones the size of golf balls. I was in the hospital for weeks. Now, I don't trust anything completely, ever."
Except the necklace. Science had failed him, but magic was working!
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