DISCLAIMER: I don't own the characters, although I have had this jab. (It really was painless for me.)
Flora wrung her hands nervously as she sat in the waiting room. Well, it was sort of like a little classroom; there were lots of posters and leaflets lying around but she couldn't focus on any of them.
Luke glanced over from the opposite side of the room. They were both waiting to be vaccinated against three separate diseases: polio, diphtheria and tetanus. He was slightly nervous at the though of the injection, but no where near as bad a Flora was. He saw her scratching her palm- it was already very red. Resisting the urge to just get up and hug her, he caught her attention and smiled.
'It'll be alright,' he mouthed. She smiled a very small smile and then went back to her nervous state. A voice over the intercom made her jump, it called out her name and she rose from her seat. Luke put his thumb up and smiled at Flora again before she walked into the room where the nurses were set up.
A kindly-looking lady told her to take a seat and clarified her date of birth.
"No chance of you being pregnant?" The nurse asked this in a jokey way, but it was procedure. However, Flora looked taken aback by the question.
"I have to asked, lovey, just in case." Flora shuddered; she did not appreciate being called 'lovey'.
"No, there is no chance of me being pregnant." She asserted this and her frustration grew slightly. Then she saw the needle. Her breathing became erratic, and the nurse put her hand on her arm.
"Don't worry, you'll probably feel a slight prick and then it will be over." Flora took a deep breath and then nodded. She barely felt the metal go into her flesh and then be removed. It was painless, although her arm bled slightly.
She laughed at her stupidity back in the waiting room, dabbing her left arm. Everyone had told her it would be fine, and it was. She certainly didn't expect what happened next. Luke came through the door, escorted by one of the nurses and looking a very sickly green. His eyes glistened with tears that she could tell he was holding back. He was put next to her and given a drink of juice. She let go of her own cotton wool bud and took Luke's from him. He looked at her as she pressed softly on his arm.
"It'll be alright," she assured. They smiled weakly, glad they were there for each other.
AN: So, I ship these two sometimes, and sometimes I see them as brother and sister. I really can't tell this time… Review please (or don't, I'm going to post either way…). Fun fact: The word 'Vaccination' comes from the Latin 'Vacca' meaning 'cow'. It originates from the first vaccine, which used Cow pox to vaccinate against Small pox.
~Ema
