Dr. Hall knocked on the door to announce himself before Qelli opened it for him. He spoke up as he stepped inside and looked toward the bed, “Ms. Wilson? I am Dr. Hall. I got a message you might be ill, can you sit up and talk to me?”
Claire sat up in the bed and looked at Dr. Hall, shivering and hugging the blanket around her legs. “I don’t feel good. It hurts all over.”, she said weakly.
Dr. Hall nodded and moved to the edge of the bed, offering a small cup and bottle of water to her, which he loosened for her before handing it over. “This is for the fever. Does it feel achy, or like actual pain?”
Claire took the pills and water from him with a grateful nod, swallowing them and drinking some water before responding to him. “It feels like the flu and a hangover had an ugly baby.”
Dr. Hall chuckled a little, “Oh, you and Alexander are going to get along swimmingly.”, he said before leaning in a little to give her a cursory examination. “I think I am going to take a blood sample, and we’ll go from there. I suspect this may be caused by your exposure to SV01 when you were talking to Dr. Vale.”
Taking another drink of water, Claire tried to process that without much success. But as he took out a vial and syringe, she nodded and held out her arm for him.
He saw the look of confusion and spoke up as he took a sample of her blood for testing, “I don’t know how much you know about vampires, but the organism that causes it also carries a secondary infection that humans sometimes react to. It is harmless and usually passes quickly, but does tend to be more acute in those with a magical predisposition.”
Claire watched intently as he took the sample, but remained quiet. She vaguely understood what he was saying, but at the same time, she was still feeling far too sick to care.
Dr. Hall moved back toward the door, nodding to her. “You look like you need to rest. Get some sleep and we’ll stop by to check on you later, okay?”
Claire nodded to him, setting the bottle beside the bed. “Okay.”, she said as she flopped over onto the pillows again, not even fully waiting for him to leave.
Dr. Hall stepped out and Qelli closed the door up behind him before he walked off down the corridor with the sample in hand to be sent off for testing.