The bottle he had filched from his other self's room tucked into the pocket of his open jacket, Loki entered the library. Gabriel had mentioned that he could drop by if he needed to read up on something, so here he was. He just had no idea of how to find what he was looking for.
Looking around a bit more, he spied Gabriel seemingly in intense conversation with a book. Some people really had a strange taste where converation partners were concerned! He even seemed to stroke that old tome he held.
It would have burned rather prettily, that much was sure.
"You, librarian," Loki said in a voice as if he was trying to covertly call someone away from a meeting with a lover, "Gabriel. Am I interrupting something?" He grinned mischievously.
"I'm looking for a piece of information," Loki said, and the quality of his grin changed. "Some guy with big wings told me this was the place to look for it."
Loki racehd into his pocket and drew out the bottle. He set it down in front of the angel. "I found this in my bag." He told him. "But I didn't put it in there."
Gabriel frowned, picking up the bottle. "It looks like medicine." He unscrewed the cap and peered inside, before shaking some pills out onto his palm. "Definitely medicine. Or... I suppose it could be drugs." Ishtar, after all, was around, though he doubted she would leave drugs in people's bags.
There was a multisyllabic pharmaceutical name on the label, though; it was evidently some sort of medicine, and he said so. "Why would someone put medicine in your bag, though?"
Loki ignored that last sentence, because he didn't want to explain just yet that it hadn't technically been his bag, but that of the other Loki. Well, they had already gotten into the habit of referring to each other almost as if they were one person after all.
"I'd rule out the drugs," Loki said. "I tried one, and it didn't have any noticable effect."
"Well, it might have been some drug. I didn't even eat a whole one. And besides, I have an extremely strong antidote in my room."
The Apples in his holdall, of course. They would counter anything, he thought. But really - he hadn't been in his room when he had tried the 'drug', so the angel was probably right. He didn't need to know, though.
"Yes, let's check." That might satisfy his curiosity and also give Gabriel something else to think about.
"An antidote to any drug?" Gabriel was a little sceptical. He stood and walked around the desk, pointing down a row of shelves.
"We don't have many medical texts, but they're down there." He picked up the bottle and led Loki towards the medical shelf; having organised this library himself, he knew where everything was.
Loki followed the angel, scanning the book titles as he went. Most of them seemed rather dull. He had his doubts that these tomes would provide any kind of useful information, but one could never be quite certain...
Gabriel paused at one of his new additions to the library, pulling out a book with a white cover. It was large and heavy; he slipped the bottle into the pocket of his robes so that he could support the book properly.
"There. Let's hope the index includes pharmaceutical names." He opened it and flipped to the end, running a finger down the list of words in the index. "Aha. There it is, with page numbers."
He carefully flipped to the correct page and raised an eyebrow. "Apparently it's used to treat cancer. Leukamia, to be precise."
"No," Gabriel answered. "Leukaemia is cancer of the blood, or bone marrow. And I'm not the Healer, but I do know that while cancer is very serious and often deadly, it's not contagious. Some people might have a genetic predisposition, but I rather doubt that that's a problem for you."
He took out the bottle and looked at it again: 6-mercaptopurine, and a dosage. "This particular type of medicine is for the later stages of treatment, according to the book. Considering the dosage, this is for someone who is seriously ill and at high risk. Where were you when you found it? Perhaps it got into your bag by mistake. That person might be in serious need of this right now."
OOC: Going by Loki's symptoms, I assume he has acute lymphocytic leukaemia and is undergoing consolidation therapy; therefore I gave him the proper medicine for that stage. If I was wrong, please tell me and I'll edit it to change the medicine.
Looking around a bit more, he spied Gabriel seemingly in intense conversation with a book. Some people really had a strange taste where converation partners were concerned! He even seemed to stroke that old tome he held.
It would have burned rather prettily, that much was sure.
"You, librarian," Loki said in a voice as if he was trying to covertly call someone away from a meeting with a lover, "Gabriel. Am I interrupting something?" He grinned mischievously.
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He slid a bookmark into place and carefully set the book down.
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It wasn't even a lie...
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There was a multisyllabic pharmaceutical name on the label, though; it was evidently some sort of medicine, and he said so. "Why would someone put medicine in your bag, though?"
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"I'd rule out the drugs," Loki said. "I tried one, and it didn't have any noticable effect."
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He studied the label again. "If you'd like, I can check the medical books to see if any of them mention this."
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The Apples in his holdall, of course. They would counter anything, he thought. But really - he hadn't been in his room when he had tried the 'drug', so the angel was probably right. He didn't need to know, though.
"Yes, let's check." That might satisfy his curiosity and also give Gabriel something else to think about.
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"We don't have many medical texts, but they're down there." He picked up the bottle and led Loki towards the medical shelf; having organised this library himself, he knew where everything was.
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"There. Let's hope the index includes pharmaceutical names." He opened it and flipped to the end, running a finger down the list of words in the index. "Aha. There it is, with page numbers."
He carefully flipped to the correct page and raised an eyebrow. "Apparently it's used to treat cancer. Leukamia, to be precise."
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"Is that catching?" he asked. If so, and if his other self had it, he might be susceptible to it, as well, after all!
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He took out the bottle and looked at it again: 6-mercaptopurine, and a dosage. "This particular type of medicine is for the later stages of treatment, according to the book. Considering the dosage, this is for someone who is seriously ill and at high risk. Where were you when you found it? Perhaps it got into your bag by mistake. That person might be in serious need of this right now."
OOC: Going by Loki's symptoms, I assume he has acute lymphocytic leukaemia and is undergoing consolidation therapy; therefore I gave him the proper medicine for that stage. If I was wrong, please tell me and I'll edit it to change the medicine.
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