Edit 20.06.2016: I've changed some things in the layout. Please review if you like it (though I myself cringe at my own writing from a couple of years ago... oh well, I suppose that's the writer's curse!)

"Molly, you gotta help me."

I looked up at my... friend? Colleague? He looked very excited. His eyes were glowing, his beautiful, wonderful eyes, and for once there was a flash of colour on his usually pale cheeks. He had found something amazing, I could tell.

"What do you need?" I asked, abandoning my work. He actually smiled at me.

"Would you mind putting up the newest chemistry set?"

I was truly shocked. When was the last time he'd asked for something? Not in the years I had known him, for sure. But I did like he wanted while he searched the cupboards. I decided to ask the question I was wondering about.

"Why don't you do this at home?" I asked, putting a test tube in its right place. He frowned at me, and as he looked me up and down I could tell he was deducing me again.

"Because," he answered slowly, in his sweet deep voice. "I haven't got the ingredients." I nodded, satisfied with the answer. "And besides, John isn't half the scientist you are."

I stopped, tilted my head to the left and thought hard. Yes, it was actually the first time he'd complimented me. How weird. I shook the confusion off, filled a test tube with water and went to find some blood. In his experiments we often needed it, and it was better if it got time to defrost, rather than we put it in the microwave oven.

As he started experimenting, I analysed things and fetched him this and that. I was a little worried when some kind of acid started to bubble and smoke, but my fellow scientist only smirked at it. For him it was just a game, a great game in which you could get hurt as a result of the tiniest little mistake. He thought it was fun. As he finished two acids, he asked for some carbon. I gave it to him, watching fearfully as he dropped it into one of the acids. That was going to go "boom". However, right before the impact he put the other acid in too, and it all stopped bubbling. He smiled.

"Give me five blood samples." I knew he would need that. He dripped a drop of his... mixture? into each of them. Then he went to where we kept the worst illnesses. Five bacteria: cancer, tetanus, the flu, mumps and the common cold. He put them into the different blood samples, one in each, and waited. And to my astonishment, the illnesses all tried to get away from the blood. They started to... disappear. There was a look of victory and pride on my friend's face.

"Molly," he said. "You're now seeing a vaccine against all illnesses in the whole world. No one will ever be ill again." He hugged me, pulled away and smiled. "It's a great day." And then he kissed me softly and passionate. It was awesome.

(A/N-ish: Also, I didn't have any knowledge about this kinda stuff back then, and I'm not that much wiser now either. Something is definitely wrong about my description of the experiment, but that's to be expected ;P)