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After the Tess incident

[worthallthis]

The call for someone to go clean up blood on Steve and Ellie's level of course sends B down there, taking the mop and bucket himself. They're both so small and squishy, he has to make sure they're both okay.

He's distracted part of the way down by blood on the stairs, scowls at it and mops it up, then continues the rest of the way down.

The blood trail leads from Ellie's door to Steve's. Ellie's room is empty. He is not encouraged by this. As always, Steve's door is unlocked, so he checks inside there, as well. "Ellie?"

Guess what, Ellie, your former inmate is nine feet tall and blue, stooping to look through the door. The expression of concern on his face is probably familiar-ish, though.

[vaccination]

The amount of blood and Ellie's pale complexion probably helps anyone figure out something of what happened.

She assumes it's Steve, come to make sure she's napping and not dead.

Ellie is suddenly unsure if she's losing blood again. She touches the bandage at her neck. Dry.

"Uh," she begins. "Steve...?"

She's tripping balls or something.

[worthallthis]

"No. B." And he's guessing she, too, remembers the human version of him. This is getting a little annoying. "I know. I am not quite as you remember me."

She's got... a bandage on her neck, she's clearly lost blood, and the blood outside smells like the blood in here, which means-- "Who hurt you?" If it's one of the vampires, he will... well, okay, he will not wring their necks. He can't go about killing people anymore. But he'll give whoever it is a long stint in Zero, if Steve hasn't already managed it.

[vaccination]

"... B? Dude, you really gotta... stop with the drastic changes."

She must be dying. Weird. Thought the blood loss was done and over with.

"Shit's gone all weird again? Good."

She'll answer his question in a minute.

[worthallthis]

"Yes, shit went all weird again," he agrees, and ducks inside, keeping his head down so he doesn't bang it on the ceiling. "And you were attacked." This is important, Ellie, he needs this story to make sure she's not in further danger. That nobody else is.