Latent Blood

[Charity Croft]

Charity sighed as she entered the Side-Effects Specialist lab. She'd been down here before, talking to various people, usually about various students and how she was worried about their particular powers and the side effects that would come with them. She'd very rarely needed to come down here on her own: she'd mastered her power and it wasn't like she had any research skills or anything along those lines. But SPRITE had changed that. Charity had ended up helping some with analysis, which had dropped some hints for Seiji Lockard.

And now Charity was coming at a sort of mutual request, the idea being that her now freaky blood needed to be analyzed. She took a deep breath, letting it out slowly, her bangs ruffling with it. Then she simply gathered her courage and pushed through the door, entering the lab proper. "I'm here, Seiji!" she called, forcing more cheer than she felt. "Definitely ready to have my blood drawn and analyzed," because they'd noticed those few little things thanks to SPRITE, and thus they had fun little regular appointments like this.

But hey, if they could figure it out, then maybe they could do something to help a wider group of people. That would be cool. Charity just had to suffer through some needles first.

[Seiji Lockard]

Seiji had been told to take it easy, but he could at least do a few things here and there, right? He had to! This was an appointment that was made so he could not just skip out on it, when a time had already been set and it was very important. So he was in his lab, dressed up as usual, and his lab coat hanging over the back of his chair. He normally wore it when he was in the lab but he got caught up trying to make sure everything was in order since he was running a bit late.

He had at least been listening to what he was told in terms of getting more rest, since he had needed up sleeping in late. Then again, that was probably in fault of the fact that he had been working too hard and the medication that he had been given to help him fall asleep was really working it magic. He felt a lot better than he had in a while, but he still knew that he did need to actually do better about taking care of his body. That was something to worry about later as he heard the knock at the door, followed by the voice. "Welcome Charity, please come have a seat right here." Seiji responded as he moved so he was in her view and directed her to a chair he had waiting for her.

Everything was set up for him to be able to draw several samples of her blood, which was necessary for the different test he was going to perform on her blood. Most of them pretty basic but there were some that he had been sort of creating on his own; and with the help of Jason, to best fit test specifically for mutants and those affected by SPRITE. "How are you doing today?" Seiji asked, trying to be pleasant and polite as he slipped on his gloves. He could have sworn Charity had a fear of needles, but that might have been the fear of his snakes and not needles.