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Jimmy had begun to wonder if perhaps he'd filled out the wrong section of a form when DCorp had again called him and asked him to administer another batch of vaccinations.

It gave him a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach, but...on the other hand, at least it was a chance to meet another of the potential students. And so he'd agreed and had arrived about twenty minutes ago to begin the long elevator ride up to Dcorp's medical wing.

And now here he sat, awaiting the arrival of Delta.

Jimmy straightened his glasses and perked up at the knock and greeted Delta with a friendly smile.

"Hi there!" he told her warmly. "You must be Delta, huh?" he could tell already that she didn't want to be here and he didn't blame her. He remembered what it was like having to get shots as a kid and imagined some things never changed.

Jimmy's brow knitted a bit with concern. Oh geez, she didn't just look uncomfortable, she looked ready to bolt if he made the slightest wrong movement. Still smiling, he patted the examination table in invitation. "You want to have a seat right up here for me, pumpkin?" Best to keep it casual. If he acted like this was some big deal, she'd treat it like it was.

For now, he made no mention of shots. She knew what she was here for, after all. He looked at his clipboard again, skimming her information summary. "Looks like you got your egg not too long ago. That must've been exciting, huh?"

"Copper, huh? I bet you and your dragon are going to be really good friends." he told her. "I kinda wish I could've had a dragon at your age. Maybe I wouldn't have been pushed around so much." he chuckled a bit.

"Well, Delta..." he began, still keeping his warmth. "Let me tell you a little bit about what's gonna happen here....ordinarily we'd give the vaccinations one at a time, but since you need some extras, you get something special. How about instead of a bunch of big nasty needles, we only have one little one?"

He hated to bring the shots up again, but he didn't want to surprise her too badly when they actually had to get going with the reason she was here. "So how was your first visit?" he said, trying to keep the previous conversation going as he quietly uncapped the small IV needle and set it where she wouldn't have to look at it while he fussed with the rubber tube that would be attached to it. "I hear they actually let you hold the egg if you're careful, is that true?"

He'd not actually been to the incubation facilities himself yet, though DCorp had informed him one of his duties would later be to bring children to meet their eggs, so he presumed they would be showing him around soon enough.

Well, that wasn't good...any attempt at friendly conversation seemed to be gone now that she was focusing on the matter at hand.

"I'm not a fan of needles myself, Delta, I know how it is..." he told her. "But I've had one of these before and I'd take it over a normal shot any day, I promise." He offered her another smile, still warm, though twinged with sympathy.

"When I was about your age, my neighbors had this really REALLY nasty fence." he continued as he quietly prepared the needle, covering it with a piece of medical tape both so it could be held in place once it was affixed and so she woudln't have to look at its point anymore.

"I went to climb over it one day when I came home from school and cut up my leg. Mom took me to the clinic when she got home for stitches and they said I was going to need a tetanus shot. She made it worse by saying I hadn't had my immunizations for middle school yet, they said we could get it all taken care of in one visit and...well, I really wasn't happy about it." he chuckled, tearing the foil off of a sterile wipe to dab off a small portion of her upper arm.

"I mean, you might think you're being a wuss, pumpkin, but compared to me, you're a regular Achilles The Brave. Crying, begging, you name it, I did it. I did NOT want those shots."

"You're doing super." he assured her. "You know, my mom STILL likes to talk about how I crawled into the little trash cubby under the examination table and wouldn't come out...so what they agreed to do for me was take one small needle, and just put it under my skin. They said it would just be a little pinch and then all it would do was itch while they gave me the medicine through a little tube. And you know what I thought? I thought 'Yeah right, its going to hurt. You're just saying that so I won't squirm.'"

He had a feeling she was probably thinking similar about then. People would tell kids anything these days to shut them up, and he thought it was kind of sad. "But you know, Delta? They were actually right. Just a pinch, some itching, and then sitting still for a little bit until they were done. I even took off the bandaid before we got home."

"Just a pinch, I promise." he assured her. He was quietly grateful she'd closed her eyes. Somehow, even if it didn't hurt, SEEING it was enough to convince your mind it was painful and make you react accordingly.

He felt her upper arm with the ball of his thumb for a minute, seeking a good place before quickly and carefully easing the IV needle where it belonged. "There we go...the worst's over." he told her, securing the tape into place. Even if she chose to look now, all she'd see was the tape on her arm and the bit of plastic tubing, but all the same, he waited for her reaction before he actually began the vaccinations.