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[edsidlemirth]

Eddie looks forward to his visits, from his doctor and his friends, both. It improves his mood for the day. He's not any less cooperative when he knows there's a visit coming, but he's certainly happier and more talkative. Getting him to be talkative again after the incident with Crane has been an ongoing process. Sometimes he's chatty and like

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[ducttape_hero]

Well, Peter's brought him another gift, because he feels a little weird about coming empty-handed. Aaaand it's a notebook, one he thought Eddie might like.

"Hey." He tosses the wrapped package across the table in the visiting room gently, sitting down. "How are you today?"

[edsidlemirth]

Eddie tries to catch the package, misses on account of his wrists, but snaps it up off the table quickly enough. "Oh cool... haha, emails." He flips through the pad. "Not really much in the way of virus protection, though. Pff... Peter! I'm alive! How are you?"

[ducttape_hero]

"Yeah, sorry. Next time, I'll bring the Avast sheet protectors." He grins, scooting his seat in. "I'm good. Aced my AP-chem test."

[edsidlemirth]

He thinks about that statement more than he should. "Mmmno... Oh, hey, that's awesome. Did you go get pizza for it?"

[ducttape_hero]

Peter might be being paranoid. But he's rather be paranoid and wrong than oblivious and miss something important, right? So from the visitor's rooms, he goes straight back to the front desk.

"Hi there," he says to the receptionist, smiling a little weakly, showing his visitor's pass. "I just was up there talking to my cousin, Edward Nigma, and I'd really like to talk to his doctor. I think it's Doctor McCoy; is he here today? I can wait. I have all day. I just really need to talk to him."

[notatvcharacter]

Peter's in luck. Dr. McCoy is, in fact, in today. She has someone check down to see if he's in a meeting, or with a patient, and after a few minutes, the news comes back that he isn't, and he'll be right down to see Peter. Another few minutes...

[ducttape_hero]

Peter waits by the bottom of the elevator. It's a fact that worry increases the longer you wait.

[notatvcharacter]

It certainly does. Luke makes it to the ground floor in due time, though, the elevator gleefully ding-ing in his arrival.

He looks around, and zeroes in on Peter. "Mr. Parker. You wanted to talk with me?"

[notatvcharacter]

Luke goes straight from the lobby to maximum security, already mentally preparing for the worst. The calls he'll need to make, the tests he'll need to run. The task of reassuring and keeping Eddie calm...

He slows before entering the hall itself, calmly walking down to the redhead's cell.

"Mr. Nigma?" Knock, knock. Housecall.

[edsidlemirth]

Eddie is sitting on his bed, with his notebook and loose notes spread out in front of him, tapping his notebook with his pencil, with a rather confused expression (facing away from the camera). When there's the knock at the door, he startles, and pushes all his notes into a pile

[notatvcharacter]

He makes note of all of this, and doesn't comment on any of it.

Just asks, "Can I come in?"

[edsidlemirth]

"Uh, yeah..." What, like he's going to say no? Actually... "But you could come back later."

[edsidlemirth]

So, now Eddie's back at the hospital. Great. Seeing as how he has no control over anything in this situation, and how he knows very well that it's in his best interest to go along with whatever tests need to be done (well, he's allowed to freak out when they're actually being done, but freaking out is entirely different from being poorly behaved!) he makes his highest priority trying to get someone to find a way that he doesn't have to be handcuffed to the bed. That should be illegal. Apparently people can bring him juice, but they can't make that happen.

The difficulties with words come and go, and overall, he's much more hesitant to speak, because he can't predict it, and that makes him look very stupid. It's not a good time, here.

[notatvcharacter]

Well, the good news is, all those tests have served a purpose. They've figured out what's wrong. The bad news...

Well, Luke'll have to break that to him.

Knock, knock, on the door frame to let Eddie know he's there, then he strides right in, file tucked underneath his arm. "How've you been holding up?"

[edsidlemirth]

Eddie looks up at him and smiles, and immediately rattles the cuff. Seriously, he's not going anywhere. Make it go away, for the love of Pete.

He decides to not talk, and shrugs instead. He'll pretend it just looks like there's really nothing to say. It is pretty obvious how he's holding up. He's here, but he smiled.

[notatvcharacter]

He really wishes Eddie would talk. He can't gauge the severity if he's censoring like this. But hopefully, it won't be an issue for much longer.

"The good news is, we figured out what's wrong." He pulls over the chair, and sits down, flipping the file open and offering it for Eddie to see. The little dark spots on the latest scan are circled in highlighter. "It is the cancer come back. But it's in an operable place again, and we can have you in surgery first thing tomorrow morning."