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Doctor Carlisle Cullen (doccullen) wrote in labyrinth_rpg,
@ 2009-04-15 08:58:00

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carlisle cullen, complete, day six, severus snape

WHO: Carlisle Cullen and OPEN
WHEN: Day six, afternoon
WHAT: Hospital preparations
WHERE: First floor of the main building
RATING: PG
STATUS: Incomplete

After the fiasco with Juniper, Carlisle decided something very important. What this place was lacking - well, one of the many things it was lacking - was a proper hospital. What did have, he found, was a set of interlocking rooms that seemed perfect to create one. It gave Carlisle a purpose again, gave him hope, and gave him what he had never lost the need for. Helping people. And in a place as dangerous as this one could be, there was no doubt in his mind that this was something that was going to come in extremely handy, for as long as Jareth continued to drag people to this place and throw them into situations that they couldn't handle.

After an admittedly odd discussion with some goblins, Carlisle had what he needed, and the promise of equipment when that need arose. Then he got to work. The sound of furniture being moved, cots being set up, and things being cleaned could be heard down the hall, and Carlisle left the door open for a bit of a breeze, taking off his lab coat and tie, and loosening the top button of his shirt, his sleeves rolled up.

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doccullen
2009-04-24 10:12 am UTC (link)

Because he could certainly be productive and attentive at the same time, Carlisle shifted, going back to stocking the medical cart to his liking while the two men spoke. And really, it was so ingrained in him by now, that his gold eyes never glanced at what his hands were doing, but stayed politely on Professor Snape as he spoke.

"Magical medicine?" he asked with something of a laugh in his voice. Then he remembered what Edward had said about this place, and the people that lived in it.

The billowing robes, the lofty attitude..."There's magic in your world," he finally said with a little nod, and then smiled. "There isn't any in mine. I'd be very interested in at least learning the theory though," he admitted. Carlisle, of course, wanted to learn everything. It was a great deal of what had kept him going all these years.

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severelyseverus
2009-04-25 11:55 pm UTC (link)

Snape had miscalculated. The man had no knowledge whatsoever of magic. It was disappointing, but to be expected, the wizard supposed. That ruled him out as a personal physician. But what about his long life? That was still unusual for a muggle. Perhaps he had had magical assistance and did not know it. Such a thing had been known to happen.

"Oh, there's magic in your world, Carlisle. You just have no knowledge of it. It is generally kept hidden from ... non-magical folk. Still I daresay you have encountered it if your life has truly lasted over three hundred years. I am not trained in medicine myself, and could not, therefore, train you; however, I am an accomplished brewer of potions, and could, should you be interested, supply you with various concoctions of a medically-assistative nature."

Despite his disappointment at not finding a proper wizard doctor, Snape still saw an opportunity to put his skills to use. Cullen had already suggested he was open to the idea of magic, so it remained only to be seen if he would accept magic's products for use in life-or-death situations.

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doccullen
2009-04-26 02:04 pm UTC (link)

Maybe, maybe not. But Carlisle had been around long enough to have at least gotten wind of a rumor, and given that he was strange and unusual himself, he was pretty up on all that fell in that same category. As for using this magician's potions in his clinic, Carlisle was wary. After all, he didn't know whether or not he could trust this man, and so why would he put the very lives of his patients in his hands?

"Perhaps," he said with a smile and a noncommittal nod. "You'll have to forgive my not jumping on it straight away. After all, your method of healing is quite a bit different than mine, and I do have the well-being of my patients to look after," he explained, not being rude, just cautious, which certainly couldn't be faulted.

At the very least, he could be honest with him though. "And my life, I'm sure, hasn't been touched by magic. I'm just a vampire," he said with an easy smile and a one shouldered shrug.

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severelyseverus
2009-04-29 12:11 am UTC (link)

Snape looked Carlisle over again, forced a third time to reassess the man before him in light of a new piece of knowledge. He was a continual surprise, Dr. Cullen was. The appearance of another vampire was no shock to the wizard, who had met several of that race even before he had first been abducted. It did surprise him that one should wish to act as a healer to the non-vampiric. That was not at all typical, in his experience.

"A vampire? I see. Well, I suppose that does explain things. I further suppose you wouldn't have told me of your nature if your plan were to use this clinic as a covert way to harvest blood. Curious. Well, Carlisle, if you truly are ignorant of magic, then I don't blame you for not trusting in the efficacy of my potions; nevertheless, I spent years at school for witchcraft and wizardry, where I supplied many beneficial concoctions to the school infirmary. If they were good enough to heal children, they'll be good enough for you. I will bring some by in a few days and demonstrate their powers to you."

It occurred to Snape that he was prepared in this project to go to a lot of effort to contribute to the communal good. He would not, if you had asked him in passing, have mentioned that virtue as one of his notable qualities, but this evidence of it could not be ignored. He hoped Cullen would be appreciative, but the potions would be useful even if he were not.

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doccullen
2009-04-30 12:34 pm UTC (link)

Carlisle had to laugh at that. "No, I wouldn't have. But as it is, I don't feed from humans. I'm a vegetarian, as it were," he said with a little crook of his lips at the family's inside joke. "I've never fed from a human, actually," he admitted. Well, not unless you counted the minute amount of blood he'd tasted from each of his family members in their turning, with the obvious exception of Alice and Jasper. Which, Carlisle didn't. At least on his good days.

"I would like that very much," he nodded at the other man's offer, feeling better about the situation. While he could never be fully confident in that there was no risk in allowing this man to treat his patients with alternative medicines, a demonstration of their capabilities would help greatly in Carlisle's understanding of the situation, and for that he was grateful.

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severelyseverus
2009-05-02 11:13 pm UTC (link)

Snape raised an eyebrow, finding Carlisle's joke odd, and not particularly funny. Even if he never fed on humans, which was very unusual for his kind, to Snape's knowledge, the vampire surely still needed to feed on blood. Even if he fed on the lowest of animals, he wasn't really a vegetarian, was he? Snape felt is was more polite not to offer a fake laugh to the doctor.

"Excellent. You shall not be disappointed, Docto--Carlisle." Snape gave a sharp respectful nod to the man--whose sincerity and skill with muggle medicine he had no reason to doubt. "Now, I must be going. I have been able to accumulate more ingredients for my potions here than I expected to, but there are more I must find if I am to produce for you the elixirs I wish to. Good day, Carlisle."

With that Snape gave the doctor one last penetrating stare of watchful respect, turned, and strode away the way he had come, out of the incipient clinic and down the hall. He felt motivated and purposeful about his new project, and had meant what he had said to Cullen. There were many reagents he had not yet been able to collect, but which he would need for restorative draughts. Were, for example, was he going to find arctic caterpillers?

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