Ezra followed Gabriel out, looking up and down the line of eight cars, all black, and intimidating, his look becoming more of confusion. "Umm, Gabriel, why an escort? What exactly did you bring me?" Gabriel opened the door for him, motioning with his free hand for Ezra to get into the vehicle, Ezra willingly climbed in and slid over, allowing the other man plenty of room for his entrance. Gabriel closed the door and gave a quick nod and motion with his hand for the driver to get them back to Ezra's lab. "You'll see Ezra; it's nothing we have ever seen before, and well, with you being you, with the way you deal with these types of specimens, things, you were the only one that any of us could agree on getting involved with this. So when getting there, we will leave you too it. No one in, no one out, except for one assistant, of your choosing, and yes, before you say anything, we already have a car picking up Ms. Device."
Gabriel smiled at Ezra as he saw the smile and relief across Ezra's face. "I have known you since school Ezra; she's the only one I have ever seen you let touch anything in your lab without a panic attack." He grinned knowingly and with the love of a friend of many years passing. Ezra blushed and looked down at his feet, a small smirk still danced on his angelic face. The car came to a halt in front of the building, Gabriel getting out and holding the door for Ezra, both men walking in. Ms. Device was waiting at the labs' main entrance door, that was locked her key didn't work, seeing the two men approach she gave a little uncertain wave and went to stand closer to Ezra.
"Locks have been changed, Ms. Device, new security was put in overnight, nothing the two of you haven't had to deal with at one time or another, shall we?" Gabriel handed the keys to Ezra and then opened the door, walking in. Ezra cautiously walked in and looked immediately to his right, seeing a three-sided glass room, the back wall was a newly erected concrete addition to his already somewhat large lab. Both Anathema and Ezra looked at Gabriel as they approached the glass looking in, stopping short and breath hitching something large, black and iridescent slithered across the floor of the encasement. Anathema stepped back as Ezra stepped closer, his interest thoroughly intrigued, the exact reaction Gabriel needed to see.
"What do you think, Ezra?" Gabriel looked at him; Ezra put his hand up, hushing the man who, in turn, smirked and turned to walk out. "Ms. Device, please let me know when Dr. Fell is capable of speech again; make sure I get reports, and when he figures out what that thing is exactly, let me know." Anathema agreed and said her and Ezra's goodbyes as the Doctor was quite unable to notice anything but what was slithering on that floor. Ezra watched still only seeing a color, the slither, and the absolute length of it, he was entranced by the beauty of what he could see, and it was alive.
Anathema stood next to Ezra and looked into the containment area, the glass reflecting the coloring when whatever it was slithered past it close enough. "Ezra, what do you think it is?" Ezra smirked with a loving grin as he watched that living specimen slither around the floor under the growth that was placed there. "I am not sure yet, but going with some type of snake," he laughed as he walked away from her and looked at her ~I am so done with you~ face. Ezra picked up the folder and read what little information was there.
"Well, let's see shall we m'dear?" he thumbed through the pages reading quickly, spewing out important information that he deemed useful. "It was captured in Colombia. La Guajira, to be exact, apparently it was in the bottom of a ruin, sleeping?" Ezra looked up from the folder and at Anathema, "Sleeping? Well, that was convenient, noting was used to knock it out, the just moved it and it slept...guess it likes sleeping." Ezra laughed from his chest and sounded lovely, even Anathema looked at him and smiled, the slithering stopped as the creature heard that laugh, peeking its head up just slightly to see where it came from.
Ezra was looking up from the paperwork when he laughed, and into the glass area, he saw the top of an iridescent black head pop up and look in his direction, the eyes blinked only once, molten gold, beautiful. Ezra smiled heart-breakingly angelic as he saw what he would call his new friend and not just a specimen, placing a hand against the glass he said ~Hello~ in that particular Ezra way that made everyone feel safe and somehow loved. What Ezra couldn't tell was that inside that glass cage, the snake's heart raced at that laugh and it's breathing stopped at that smile. Quickly it lowered itself to the floor and slithered to the make shirt tree that was placed there for it.
Ezra and Anathema watched as the snake slithered around and up the tree, dwarfing oak with the sheer size of it. Ezra stood in awe of its size, of its beauty, Anathema just stood with her jaw slightly hanging not sure to fear or be in awe of the Doctor next to her and his reaction. "Ezra, what is that?" he stood there entranced by what he saw. "That, that is simply beautiful. I have only heard of and seen skeletons, but, but that m'dear its absolute beauty." The snake hearing the praise shivered slightly and proudly showed itself just a little more, twisting in the tree to show off its bright red underside, the colors of flames, as its iridescent black scales shimmered under the lighting of the lab.
Anathema looked over at Ezra and smirked, giving him a nudge. "Hey, stop staring. We need to figure at least out what it is so that we can feed it." Ezra blinked and tore his eyes away from it and nodded in agreement. "Quite right, m'dear, quite right." Both went to check on the new security, there was no more paperwork to read, and now it was up to them. "Anathema? You are the best with bloodwork.." her eyes widened as she looked over at him.."Absolutely not, are you kidding, Ezra...please." her panicked looked caused another bought of laughing, she threw a balled-up piece of paper at him, the snake watched.
"No, no m'dear, I will get a sample, but you can do the testing of it, no one else can have any knowledge of this." He looked quite serious, and she answered with an affirmative answer to leave no question of she understood. Ezra looked back at the snake, grabbing the kit to take blood he brought everything over to the glass and left it where the snake could see it. "Hey Ezra, you have any idea of which way you are leaning with this?" Ezra just looked at the snake while he answered back to her.."Believe it or not, m'dear, it might be a form Titanboa, but until we get the bloodwork back, I can't be positive. They are very much extinct, so how this one is here right now, I have no idea."
Ezra just looked whispering of its beauty and strength, the snake never moving as it sat in the tree seemed to watch Ezra and where he went about the lab. It listened to his whispers without him knowing, it heard everything he said. "You are simply amazing...hmmm," Ezra looked back at Anathema, "M'dear, I am never very good at names, we need to call it something, and I refuse to call it specimen, thing or it...we need a name." Anathema was setting up her area for bloodwork and spewed out.."Call it Crawley, that is how we met it, crawling on the floor.." she grinned at herself, seeing Ezra look shocked at her reference. "M'dear, it was not crawling, it was slithering...snakes slither...but, Crawley it is, seems fitting and also cute." Ezra looked back at the snake and introduced himself through the glass.
"Umm, hello, m' dear. I am Dr. Ezra Fell, but everyone calls me Ezra. If it is alright with you, I would very much like to call you Crawley, for now, at least." he smiled angelically at the snake, which, as the introduction was happening, slithered out of the tree and raised its head to the same level as Ezra's. Both looking at each other through the glass, Ezra could have sworn he saw the snake grinned at his name and give a slight nod at the name they had given it. Ezra's breath had hitched at the nod, and a rather cheeky snake flicked its tongue out at the glass before slithering back up its tree.
Anathema saw the whole thing and stood next to Ezra, both looked in wonder at the snake, both in awe. "This is going to be an adventure Ezra, what in god's name did they bring us?" Ezra couldn't help the smile that danced on his lips. "I have no idea m'dear, but whatever comes our way, this is the greatest thing we have ever had here." Crawley coiled at the top of tree hiding its head under a thick coil, the coil resting on top of its head, it's eyes watching the two at the glass.
