"Don't make this harder than this has to be..." She says in her nicest voice, just like the doctors on TV.
She pats Steven's front paw comfortingly.
"Your legs are no good, Steven, they're all infected and we have to cut them off otherwise you're gonna die. It'll be okay, I found you a donor legs so you can walk just like normal once you heal up. Now, are you going to stop being such a crybaby and let me do this?"
The glint in Steven's eyes seems to concede to his doctor's good sense.
"Alright I'm gonna put you under ana-steez-shuh, time to go to sleep."
She helps Steven lie back before tying a scarf across her mouth.
"Nurse! Scissors!" She calls out, but because Jimmy wouldn't play because he couldn't be the doctor (there was no way she was going to be the nurse), she has to grab them herself.
She's just made the last in-siz-shun when her mother comes in the door--
"ALEXANDRA CAROLINE EAMES!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?"