"Yeah, well, even I won't be banging around in the boo boo bus once the semester starts, if the OC isn't swallowed into a black hole first."
Satisfied now, Alex went on to the next step: getting an already made syringe out. He pulled on a pair of gloves, screwed a small needle onto the syringe, uncapped it, then beaded the deadener inside. "On the upside, I don't actually need to stick you as long as you hold the fuck still," he said, and then very carefully used the needle to spread the deadener just inside the wound.
Once he was finished, he capped the needle and tossed it all into a safe container. He pressed gloved fingers just underneath the wound. "Feel anything here, baby?" he asked, almost sweetly as fingers of his free hand rested at the side of Leon's neck. Leon scared him a lot. There were times when he wondered if he was going to see Leon again.