Cameron blinked at the question and wondered who the doctor reminded him of. "My eyes deciding all of a sudden that I can't see any colours is a bit annoying?"
Christian chuckled. "Sorry, force of habit. That's usually the question I'm asking my patients. I should say 'Tell me what's wrong,' which in this case is your eyes? You're colorblind?"
"Oh! Uh, nothing like that, no." Cameron smiled. "Uh well, I didn't used to be until suddenly the world decided to go blawk and white on me. I'm not sure I'm into retro that much."
"Black and white?" Christian repeated. "That's extremely rare. Most people who are colorblind had trouble distinguishing between red and green, or blue and yellow. Is anyone in your family colorblind?"
Christian leaned forward thoughtfully. "Colorblindness can be hereditary, but for it to suddenly affect you and with no history of it in your family, it could be an eye disease affecting the optic nerve or retina. Color blindness occurs when light-sensing chemicals in the eye don't work properly, and disease or damage can cause an inbalance. Have you had any other eye trouble lately?"
"Not unless it dislocated into your eyesocket," Christian said. "Let me do a few tests."
He *handwavey* examined Cameron's eyes and frowned. "Your eyes look perfectly healthy," he said, puzzled. "There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with them."
"It's amazing how that actually sounds possible," Cameron sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "I don't think I pissed off anyone magical, though. I hope not."
"I have no idea how that kind of stuff works," Christian said. "So you should find someone who does. Your eyes look perfectly healthy to me, so it has to be something else affecting your eyesight." He paused, then asked, "You been hanging around with the girls at the Fourth Sin? Maybe whatever makes them black and white is catching."
Cordelia had woken up that morning and groaned, as her head was still pounding.
First she tried to sleep it off, completely ignoring the fact that she was supposed to be in Creature Languages. When it was early afternoon and she'd had some time to think about it, she begrudgingly made her way to the clinic.
Cameron gulped and blushed. "There was movie night there, but I didn't see any of the err girls," he squirmed a bit. "You don't think I'm going to turn completely black and white?"
"It could have something to do with them, but no one else is complaining of vision problems like this, so maybe it's just a coincidence," Christian mused. "You may want to stop by there to ask just how they become black and white, though." He slapped Cam on the back and grinned. "Or to just have a good time."
"I er..." Cameron scratched the back of his neck. "I'm kinda broke." Not that he would have done it otherwise. "But thanks, I might do that. Go talk to them, I mean."
Cordelia can always tell when she's being checked out. She grins, then realizes that this guy looks pretty much exactly like Bel. Remembering the Fandom Hightimes, she shook her head.
"I don't know," she said, and immediately stopped because she realized that she was still speaking with that pesky British accent. "First off, I suddenly developed a British accent last night and can't stop. But that's not really why I came down here."
"After that, I went back to my room, and...there was a flash of light, and I think I'm going crazy. My head was pounding and there was a flash of pain and I...saw things. A girl. I think she was about to be attacked," she said, wringing her hands together.
Chicks with accents were hot unless they were British cops having an incestuous affair with their sexually deformed psycho killer brother. "Are you sure you weren't dreaming?" he asked as he ushered Cordelia into an exam room. "As for the accent thing, if you hang around with someone with one you start to talk like them after awhile."
"It wasn't a dream. Okay, I ended up sprawled out on the floor, but it was definitely not a dream. I have never had a headache like that before," she said, only mildly annoyed that the hot doctor didn't believe her.
"And I definitely didn't just decide to randomly start speaking with a British accent. I can't stop it!"
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