Keeping a Promise

[anotherbwayne.livejournal.com]

Brenda came home from the Nexus, telling the girls to take Ace out and throw the ball for him for awhile and then wheeling wearily toward the elevator. The slight cough she'd wakened with that morning was worse, and her head was ringing slightly as though she had a fever, but she pushed away the symptoms as she rode down to the Cave. The formula that she hoped would restore Kat to her proper age was completed, and she'd finished the initial testing. Trials on adult mice had shown no effect, but trials on mice that had been regressed with the formula that Kat had been exposed to had returned to their proper appearance.

She'd done those tests seven days ago, and the mice continued healthy. So all that was left now was for human testing.

Brenda wheeled into the lab and scrubbed her hands, then removed the container of de-aging compound from the locked cupboard and set it in her lap while she also got the antidote. This done, she wheeled toward a containment room and locked herself inside.

One whiff of the compound had her blinking disorientedly at the change in perspective and a little sick to her stomach, but she steeled herself and injected the antidote straight into a vein.

Perspective changed again, and Brenda managed a smile before her eyes slipped shut and she toppled from the wheelchair.

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[dbattyones.livejournal.com]

"I can take care of her. You can go," she smiled gently, settling next to Brenda and stroking her hair.

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He nodded, giving Brenda a last look as he turned and walked out of the room.

Brenda coughed and frowned without opening her eyes. "I'm sorry."

New word of her new life. It was probably still a shock for her old friend to hear it.

[dbattyones.livejournal.com]

Leslie sighed and stroked her hair.

"It's not your fault, dear. But I'm going to have to insist you stay in bed for the next few days, until we start seeing an improvement."

[anotherbwayne.livejournal.com]

She nodded, then tried to lift her hand to cough on. "I was trying to be good."

[dbattyones.livejournal.com]

"I know," she said gently. "Just nothing but bedrest and a good diet, alright?"

[anotherbwayne.livejournal.com]

"More work for Alfred." She screwed her face up, then sat. "I'm going to be sick."

[dbattyones.livejournal.com]

"Here," she got a bucke quickly. "In here, darling."

[anotherbwayne.livejournal.com]

"I can make it to the bathroom. No need for you to deal with that smell."

[dbattyones.livejournal.com]

"Trust me, I've smelled worse. You're not moving from the bed," she said sternly.

[anotherbwayne.livejournal.com]

She grimaced, but reluctantly obeyed before laying back and squeezing her eyes shut against the reeling of her skull.

[dbattyones.livejournal.com]

Leslie took the bag liner of the bucket and tied it, putting it in the bathroom for the time being before washing her hands and going back to her, offering more medicine.

"This will make you sleep, and stop your stomach from heaving again," she said.