Markus sighed and squeezed the stupid stress-ball as he lay on the cot. "This was not how I expected it to go," he grumbled. "Heroing or how you were gonna call in that favor." He thought it was a cheesy PR stunt, a TW member donating at the drive and all. And yeah, plenty of people were right to be worried about what was done with theirs. But maybe, maybe someone would be less scared if he did it first and step up. He could live with that.
The phlebotomist cheerfully announced his iron levels good to go and started wrangling a mile of tubing. "Hey, can you like... accidentally on purpose stand in the way of any photographers when you do it?" he asked them and smiled. "No one needs to see my braced-for-a-needle face, ya know?"