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FTEC - Tuesday, 06/22

"You should probably talk to a vet," Hawkeye said, rummaging around for an appropriately-sized bandage. "I'm not an animal doctor. There could be bones in there that I don't even know about."

He turned back around and started to gently bandage the squirrel's paw. "No, I don't think it's broken. Of course I'm telling you the truth, don't give me that look. You're one of my favorite squirrels. Why would I lie to you? You're right. There are plenty of reasons I'd lie to you, but not about this. Try to keep off it. Write with your other paw if you have to. You could probably get worker's compensation. You should look into that." He fastened the clasp and sent the squirrel on its way.

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Where the squirrel was but is no longer.

Taking a quick break from the gym, Rose wasn't going to the clinic for any other reason than to satisfy her curiosity. Well, and to say thank you.

"Hey, Doctor Hawkeye?" Rose said as she poked her head into the clinic. "You got a minute?"

"I have dozens of minutes. Hundreds, even. Thousands, but not today. Headaches back?"

"You could have thousands of minutes today," she shot back. "Maybe you just lost 'em." But she shook her head quickly, stepping further into the clinic and immediately feeling like she'd been right. "I have 'em under control. Just have a question for you. Other than the minute one."

"Thank goodness for that. I can't handle math at a time like this." And thank goodness for her headaches, but that went without saying. "I'm all ears."

"This is gonna probably sound stupid," Rose said, walking over to lean against the front desk. "Do you know anything about magic and stuff?"

"As a doctor? No. But I was Vice Principal for a year, so you learn a few things."

"Seriously?" she asked, getting a little distracted. Okay, he probably wasn't going to call her insane immediately if he had some Fandom experience. "Why'd you quit? I mean, they couldn't've fired you since I heard there was, like, the God of Hell here for a while."

Upon further thought, she probably shouldn't have just asked that.

Hawkeye adjusted his white coat. He knew he didn't have to wear it, but did anyway, like he knew he didn't have to answer that truthfully, but was going to anyway. "It's not as bad here as it used to be. Not long after I got here the first time, there was a knock at my door. Woke me up, being the middle of the night, and there was a student telling me there was a group of them in trouble and that they didn't want to go to the clinic because they'd been doing something that they weren't supposed to. I must have patched up five or six kids that night - one with a pretty badly damaged lung - because they'd been out hunting something, vampires maybe, on their own and got their tushes handed to them. That whole year it happened over and over. Surgery on a kid whose chest was shredded by icicles shot at him. Kids sneaking back to their rooms beaten up and bleeding, mentally stressed and scarred. They all wanted to fight their own war and they were just kids. I'd seen enough of that before I even came here. By the time New Year's rolled around, I'd seen enough of it here as well. That's why I quit."

Rose frowned a little, vaguely annoyed by the idea of amateurs trying to fight vampires and probably getting themselves killed or turned for the trouble. Sometimes things should be left to the professionals. And yes, her tattoos meant she counted herself among that number.

"But you came back?"

That she could understand more than quitting.

"The island disappeared the second I stepped off the causeway. Five years of thinking I might have been crazy and taking a hint from a job ad in a small town newspaper that never should have been there and here I am. Not for long, but for a while. We're getting off track. Why do you need to know about magic?"

Off track was way more interesting though now that she was pretty sure of the answer.

"Cause going crazy's no fun at all," she agreed wholeheartedly. Rose twisted her lips for a moment as she considered how to phrase the question. "Do you know? Is the clinic warded or something?"

"Warded," Hawkeye repeated. "As in some kind of magical protection?"

Rose nodded, giving him a sidelong glance. "Yeah, like that. Something to keep - things that aren't alive out."

"Doctor Jones would know the details better, but the last I checked, there's protection here and Caritas."

"Okay, okay, cool," Rose said, thinking a little. "That - makes a lot of sense. Thanks."

"Anything else I can do for you? There's an x-ray machine back there to play with."

"...seriously?" she asked, smirking a little. "Can I?"

In case it's needed.

Late? What is this late you speak of?

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Exam One

OOC