"M'hardly cute..." he says, enjoying her tone. It was almost like they were calling each other at college so long ago, just to say hi.
"There is something..." he fumbles around in his pockets for a second. "If you think you could work on it without anyone knowing." It wasn't a big thing, but he really didn't have many resources at the moment. He finds the bit of paper he had written on. "There's a book on nerve conduction that just came out, a Dr. Crowley wrote it. He lists different kinds of experimental anesthetics and there's a few that are compatible with radiation therapy specifically." He's had an idea bouncing around in his head, another cure idea.