[He was currently working on something when the pig had led him there, so when he saw her, he dropped his clipboard in suprise]
"...Lydia...what are you doing?"
{Lydia stared at him, caught off guard by him suddenly entering their room, certain she locked the door.}
"Nothing, just running a quick experiment, that I would prefer to do in peace and quiet, by myself."
{Lydia said, her voice lacking its usual edge, and just sounding tired.}
[Normally he'd just leave her to it but the situation just felt...wrong, especially with how off shes been lately, he grabbed the syringe from her and inspected it, he didnt know exactly what to do sense he wasnt yet sure if it was what he thought it was]
"...and whats it supposed to do? Should I use it on myself and find out?"
"no, that would ruin the experiment, this only works because it will interact with something else in my system."
{Lydia said, lying. And she reached out to take the syringe back, her arm looking shaky and thin when her sleeve moved as she reached for it.}
[He holds it behind his back]
"I would like to further examine it before you use this mysterious substance on yourself, or any other ones for that matter, especially because I dont believe your in the physical condition necessary to be using yourself as a test subject....though I am curious, does this already have a name? Or is it a new substance of your creation? What's in it?"
"that's.....none of your business, now hand it back, this experiment is time sensitive!"
{Lydia said, standing up off the bed despite feeling off balance, and tried again to grab the syringe.}
"No. Why are you so eager?, what is it?", he said making sure it was still out of her reach, "if you dont tell me im just gonna run tests on it and find out for myself...is it a cure for whatevers going on with you?"
"nothing is wrong with me! Just give it to me."
{Lydia said, almost pleading for it now, as she held on to the edge of her dresser as her legs threatened to go out from under her.}
"Your being quite unreasonable and a tad bit Insane right now, there is no chance until after further inspection, if theres truly nothing wrong with this then ill help you remake it sense its so time sensitive", he said leaving the room with it
{Lydia slowly sat on the ground and started crying while rosebud came over and sat in her lap, that was her one chance to get this done and she didn't have the means or strength to do it again, so unless they wanted to do a different method, she just had to deal with this.
Meanwhile, Baxter took the syringe back to his lab and began running tests on it to find out what was in it, and it was a very high dose of painkillers, and other such drugs, with what appeared to be microscopic bits of angelic steel mixed in, and would have been 100 percent fatal.}
[He came back into her room and didnt give her time to react before he saw her crying on the floor and he just hugged her at first]
{Lydia tensed up at him hugging her but didn't push him away and just kept crying.}
[He let go and looked at her]
"why?"
{Lydia wiped her eyes and struggled to find the right words to explain everything, they had always been bad at being vulnerable and stuff, so she just handed Baxter her notebook which contained very detailed reports of everything. Her symptoms, what made them worse, what triggered them, what helped, a timeline of her rapid decline, and her formula for what was in the syringe and what she entailed to do with it.}
[He looked at it, resting the urge to cry also]
"...im sure we can find a cure, theres no need for suicide, we can do anything"
"I don't want that, logically speaking there's a very low chance of finding a cure, especially not with the short time I have left, and I don't want to do test after test."
{Lydia said, being very clear about this.}
[As the realization sinks in what the reality it is, he just starts crying, trying to wipe away the tears but they wouldn't stop]
"....just...live your life to the fullest then?...fuck"












