Perse dragged Two along by the arm to the part of the chateau that had the doctor's office. She held the twin tightly while reaching to open the waiting room door.
"I don't wanna go to the doctor!" Two shouted, while trying to pry Perse's hand loose from his arm. "I feel better, honest I do!"
"Now, now. The doctor isn't going to hurt you." Said Perse, picking Two up and carrying him inside. Before she could go far, Two grabbed onto the doorway and held on tight with both hands.
"I don't wanna go!"
"You haven't even been to a doctor before. How do you know it's all that bad?" Perse tried to loosen Two's grip as she spoke.
"One told me all about it."
"Oh? And what has One been telling you this time?"
"He told me all I needed to know, to know I don't want to go!" Two tightened his grip on the door. The other people in the waiting room couldn't help but stare at Persephone and Two, some of them trying to hide a giggle or two.
"C'mon now, let go of the door." Perse gave one last pull that sent Two letting go, and the door slamming closed, the glass window in it rattling. Two grabbed onto Perse's arms and started to shake with fear.
"I've never seen such. You should be ashamed of the way you're acting." Perse frowned at Two as she sat him down in a chair. Two lowered his head at the scolding.
"I don't want them to turn me inside out!" Two sniveled.
"Turn you inside out?" Perse turned a puzzled look at Two.
"Yeah! One said that the doctor sometimes looks at your insides. How else can he, unless he turns you inside out?"
Perse had to almost hide her laughter at the young child's words.
"Two, the doctor isn't going to turn you inside out." Perse answered, not knowing of what else to say.
It wasn't long before the doctor called them into the examination room. Perse walked into the cold room while the doctor closed the door behind her.
"My husband will be here in a few minutes." She said, still holding onto Two. Two curiously looked the room over and shuddered. His eyes soon met the nurse standing over by one of the counters. Not liking the way she looked, Two started to growl at her.
"Two!" Perse gently shook Two. "That's enough."
"Nice kid you've got there." Said the doctor. "We'd better get this started, I have more patients waiting." The doctor motioned to an examination table. Perse walked over to it and placed Two down on it, rubbing his back to comfort him. At that moment, the Mero opened up the door and walked in, followed by One.
"Well? Is he gonna live?" the Mero said, sarcastically. Perse frowned and motioned for the Mero to shut up. One jumped up in a chair that was next to the table and smiled at Two.
While the doctor talked to Perse and Mero, the nurse Two had growled at walked up to him while carrying something in her hands.
"Open up." She said.
"O-open up what?" Two stuttered as he eyed the gadget the nurse held.
"Your mouth." The nurse gently grabbed onto Two's cheeks and tried to force his mouth open. "C'mon, open."
Two finally gave in and opened his mouth. The nurse stuck the thermometer under his tongue and told him he could close his mouth again.
"And don't you take it out."
Two turned a disgusted face towards One.
"What's wrong?" One asked, leaning his elbows on the table. All Two could do was point to the thermometer in his mouth and make a displeased face. A few minutes passed and the nurse came up and took the thermometer out of Two's mouth, looked at it and handed it to the doctor.
"I can't believe she stuck that in my mouth!" Two wiped his mouth on his shirtsleeve. "No telling where it's been!"
One smiled.
"You're enjoying this aren't you?" Two frowned at One.
"No." One smiled more.
Without a word, the doctor came up to Two and started to look him over, feeling around his neck.
"Your throat hurt?" the doctor softly asked Two. Two nodded. The doctor reached to feel of Two's forehead.
"He's got a fever alright. High temperature too." The doctor said out loud. "He looks a little too pale, doesn't he?"
The Mero rolled his eyes and sighed, "He's supposed to be that way. They're albinos."
"Oh!" the doctor mused.
The doctor suddenly grabbed hold of Two's face and rapidly hit his fingers on his cheeks, right under his eyes, then moved to his forehead. He stopped, Two looking as wide-eyed as he could possibly look.
"Did that hurt?" the doctor asked.
"W-was it supposed to?" Two softly and shakily answered.
"Good, it's not sinus." The doctor turned to Perse and Mero.
"What's sinus? Is it a brother to a virus?" Two asked timidly.
"Never mind." The doctor sighed. He then reached and took out his stethoscope. Two's eyes grew big.
"Ahhhhh! It's gonna suck my brains out! One! Help Me!" Two screamed, while backing up. Perse grabbed onto him to calm him down. One quickly jumped off the chair he had been standing in and bit down hard on the doctor's leg to protect Two. The man screamed and knocked poor One away from him.
"You all right?" the Mero asked the doctor, while holding onto One.
"Yes." The doctor gasped, rubbing his leg. "I'm quite all right."
"Two, that's not gonna hurt you. The doctor just wants to listen to your heart." Perse whispered to Two.
The doctor sighed and reached for Two's shirt and pulled it up. Two squirmed a little, but Perse continued to rub his back to comfort him.
"It's alright. It's not gonna hurt." The doctor said to Two, whose chest was heaving.
"You promise?" Two whimpered.
"I promise." The doctor smiled. The doctor breathed on the end of the stethoscope and placed it on Two's chest.
After awhile of examining Two, the doctor finally thought that what Two had was some kind of infection in his throat.
"A shot of antibiotic should clear it up in no time." Was the doctor's reply.
The nurse walked into the room (after walking out a few minutes before), while carrying something in her hand, and closed the door behind her.
"W-what are you gonna do to me?" Two shakily asked while eyeing the nurse.
"Lift up your sleeve." Said the nurse.
Two looked at the nurse hesitantly then slowly pulled his sleeve up. The nurse took the cap off the syringe she held and grabbed hold of Two's arm. Two began to squirm and push the nurse away from him with his feet at seeing the needle.
"Get away from me with that thing!" He shouted. "You're gonna stick me, that's what you're gonna do!" Two turned and prepared to jump off of the table, but Perse, the Mero, and the doctor grabbed onto him at once and held him down.
"It's not going to hurt. Now be still." The nurse said, while reaching for Two's arm again. Two squirmed even more and started to cry. In the midst of the confusion, the nurse injected the medication into what she thought was Two's arm, but…
"Yeeeeeeow!" the Merovingian shouted and jerked back from holding onto Two. He turned and looked at the dazed nurse, while rubbing an area of his arm.
"You're supposed to give HIM the shot, not me!" the Mero pointed toward Two.
"I thought I did."
"Well you didn't! Do I look like him?"
"I'm awfully sorry, sir. I…"
"Go get your eyes examined!"
The nurse hurried out of the room while Perse and the doctor continued to hold Two down on the table. Quick as the nurse had left, she returned with another syringe. She took the cap off again and reached for Two's arm, making sure she got the right person this time.
"Now as I said before, it's not going to hurt."
"If it's not gonna hurt, then why did Daddy scream like that?" Two whimpered. The nurse sighed and looked at the Mero with one of those 'Nice going' looks.
"Besides, I'm not Two." Two suddenly blurted out the best he could with everyone on top of him. The doctor and Perse eased up on him. "That's Two over there!" Two pointed in poor One's direction. The nurse turned and walked towards One, who jumped up out of his chair and started to run. The nurse grabbed onto his arm.
"I'm not Two!" One screamed. "I'm not even sick!"
"He's lying! He is so Two! And I'm One." Two insisted.
"That's Two on the table! Honest it is!" One sniveled and tried to get away from the nurse and the needle she held.
The nurse looked at the twin under the doctor and Perse's arms then back at the twin she held. Looking closer at Two, the doctor finally confirmed that it was Two. The nurse let go of One and walked back to where she had been.
"I knew this was a day I should have stayed in bed." The nurse breathed before taking hold of Two's arm again.
"That makes two of us!" said Two. "I don't wanna be stuck!" Two sniffed and sniveled.
