Galvin brushed the hand aside. “It is called fatigue doc.” He said falling on his bed and hiking up the sleeve so the other could draw some blood. The man had some how become Galvin's confessor as of late as well. “My family is in the middle of an important investigation, and I must shake my ass for Rent money.”

he bit back his first thought reflexively though taking a breath he offered it to the young man as he tore open the packet with the needle. "i have told him to go easier on you. to not demand so much but there is only so much i can do but you are one of the richest young men in the city galvin, your parents will not support you?" gently he pressed the needle in

"Doc, my parents funds come with a price, some of that price is my lovers head. I tried for weeks and you remembered how that turned out." He gestured to his neck. He had no fancy to die. "Do you need to do a rectal exam?"

it made sense though it left a bad taste in his mouth. "love from a parent should not cost anything more than love from a child.....if you don't mind, we have to fix any possible damage from last week or next week it will be my behind not yours"

He was still digesting the words off the good doctor when he heard the snap of latex and felt the cold finger press against his insides. He allowed himself to relax before speaking again. “Are Ambrosia's parent's like that?I have only met Maia and lived to tell the tale.”

"i am afraid i would not know the answer, i am ambrosia's doctor. i have not met mister and missus gargarin but twice, once when the boy caught the mumps and once when he broke his pinkie." finding no damage he pulled away and discarded the gloves. "turn over please." when the man did as he asked he did a brief scan for bruises and found one on galvin's hip, lightly he touched it. "do you feel pain?"

It did not hurt as badly as when he got it so he lied to the doctor telling him it did not hurt at all. He lay there thinking, about anything thing other then the inspection. “What can you tell me about the other siblings?”

he knew he could get fired for his next words but he trusted the other not to tell. "brats all of them, from the oldest to the youngest though i am sure you can tell that without my telling you." finding nothing else to check he stepped back to gather his things. "we are done galvin, would you like me to stay a little longer or would you prefer to rest more?"

Shaking his head, Galvin let his answer fall from his lips. “Would you like to stay for a cup of coffee?... Unless you have other appointments.” He pulled his pants back up latching them to his waist striding to his rarely used kitchen appliance. The small machine had become somewhat popular with him as of late.

he nodded. "if you would let me wash the latex dust from my hands and set my bag somewhere where agamemnon will not try to get in it for more treats i would be delighted to have coffee with you."

There was no safe place from the large dog, however Galvin found one atop his desk near his computer . Galvin prepared two cups of the dark liquid half amused at the doctor trying to fend off his pet. He slid him the mug and offered up sugar and cream to the others liking before bringing his own liquid adrenaline to his lips. “Doc? Does everything we talk about stay between us?”

he expected the question as he had the last time it was asked though the bluntness of it led him to believe he would not like what the other had to say. "of course, like i have said before, as long as it does not hurt ambrosia or his family i am mum." to emphasize he lightly ran a finger over his lips in a mock zipper

He was certainly easier to talk to then most people Galvin knew, the added bonus was being free of charge. A laugh rolled from his lips before he could stop it. His elbows came down to the counter and he peered into the muddy liquid. “I am just tried, I am still slaying bad guys, working and trying to get a degree. Saturday is the only night for me. Was it like this for you growing up?” Though his smile never faded, one hand left the cup and fell to the side of his face.

"not so drastically but for a while. i must be honest in saying a lot of the stress left when i started working for the gargarins, did you know being a doctor actually pays very little? a lot of the money we make comes from pharmaceutical companies. if you pitch pills at unsuspecting people who do not know any better you can pay off your school debts before you are fifty, i didn't want to do that. pills are dangerous and kill thousands every year and telling people it is good for them to eat a little fat now-and-again and ease up on the morning jogs is the quickest way for them to ask to get another doctor." he frowned softly. "i know you don't want to hear it but there is no shame in giving up your apartment, that would at the very least keep you from having to work a second job, you don't need the added stress on your body"

He considered the mans words for a long time, most of the medical advice went in one ear and out the other, but the rest is what brewed in his stomach. “I...” The more he thought about it, the more it sounded like a laundry list of excuses. “No offense, but I do not, … I do not know or trust the Garagins enough to want to live under Ambrosia's thumb. I don't want to continue to live under my parents either. I do not know Ambrosia, and I still do not like the idea of how easily he could kill me when he is jaded with me. I feel like these nights are just a drug addiction, and when he moves on I will be left battling withdrawals and then have nothing. I prefer to have my distance.”

the man's words made him sad and he felt like reaching out to ruffle the other's hair but like all the other displays of affection and humanity he felt over the years he pushed it down and tried instead to comfort with words. "he may not seem like it but ambrosia is very lonely, i do not believe he would discard you so easily as long as you continue to offer him....well frankly, the closest thing to love he knows how to receive. you would have been left behind months ago otherwise not having coffee with his personal doctor discussing whether or not you should move in rent free to the apartment he has provided you"