A doctor in the house?
The Proxies didn’t believe in car-seats or helmets or carpets in the rundown castle, but they did believe in vaccines.
Or rather, Eyeless believed in vaccines and to hell with everyone else.
“He’s a Proxy! What the fuck does he need that for? He’s healthier than any normal fucking kid out there!”
Liu was the one sitting there to actually fill in the paperwork because while Eyeless may be a genius, he was still a blind one. Jeff was there to complain about it.
“We need a real name for him.”
“This is fucking ridiculous!”
“You have the next ten minutes to name your brat before I do it for you.”
“Can we name him Nemo? Please? Pretty please?” at the furthest end of the table from Liu because he couldn’t be trusted to keep his hands to himself.
“Shut the fuck up Toby!”
Standing in the doorway, Boy watched the bickering continue. Eyeless pressed his shoulders back so that he was standing up straight against the doorframe, Eyeless then gouging a mark deep into the wood where the top of Boy’s head drew even.
“He’s too short for his age.”
“He’s four! He’s supposed to be fucking short!”
“Are you having a tantrum because we’re getting him vaccinated, or because we decided to do it without you?” Masky was curious to know as he shoved Toby off the table. “Knock it off Toby!”
“I’m bored!”
“Go bother Ben in the living room!”
Boy twisted around again to see what the older boys were doing, Toby crawling under the table to lay there in a defeated heap (while tying Liu’s shoelaces together). Jeff and Liu were having a staring contest which was why Liu hadn’t noticed yet and kicked Toby in the face. Masky was tilted back in his chair with his feet on the table and flipping through the other documents he’d stolen from the Doctor’s office.
Jeff finally growled and yanked the pencil out of his brother’s hand to scrawl something across the top of the page. Liu raised an eyebrow. “...fine. Should I bother asking for a middle name too?”
“Did we ever figure out how to explain the demonic red eye thing?” Because Masky was bigger than him and why the hell not, he grabbed Jeff as he stalked by and wrangled the angry boy onto his lap. Arms pinned to his side, Jeff hissed in a very similar fashion to a pissed off cat and tried to squirm free. “You are so cute when you’re ups- FUCK.”
“You deserved that,” Eyeless shook his head. He picked up Boy and set him on a corner of the table before trying to help. He jammed his thumb deep into the corner of Jeff’s jaw and pried his teeth out of Masky’s neck.
No blood, but Masky was going to have a hell of a bruise.
“MEDIC!”
“Shut up Toby!”