Experiments 2

Nora sat up on the chair, staring at a spot on the opposite wall and trying her hardest to think about nothing else. Cisco fiddled with his computer for a minute before turning back to her.

Nora swallowed, feeling both his eyes and her mother's prickling against her skin despite her best efforts to distract herself. Her smooth, long legs were pressed together, and her arms resting on the arms of her chair, reluctantly leaving her chest bare as Cisco fitted blood pressure cuffs around each one.

"Do you really need to do both arms?" Nora said.

"Oh, yes, yeah, absolutely," Cisco said. "For reasons."

Nora bit her lip, and resumed to trying to distract herself. Her nipples were still hard from Frost's parting wind, trembling a little.

She felt a hand feeling up her chest, and a cold circle of metal. She squeaked.

"What are you doing?" Iris said.

"Stethoscope," Cisco said. "Just the basics."

"Her heart isn't in her boob," Iris said.

"Are you the doctor here? No!"

"You're an engineer!"

There was a pinch. Nora swallowed.

Focus on the wall. Just focus on the wall. Ignore the fact she was naked. Forget that her mother was watching her be groped. She gulped.

"Okay, now take your temperature," Cisco said.

"Okay. Wait, where are you putting that thermometer-"

An hour later and Nora was sitting with her arms at last crossed over her chest, and her bare feet pulled up onto the chair to better hide. She peered nervously over her knees. "So?" Nora said.

"Can she get dressed now?" Iris said.

"Er, test results..." Cisco said. "No trace of your connection to the speed ****. Actually, no trace of any dark matter. There's definitely something weird going on."

"Something weird?!" Nora said. "That's all you concluded from all that?!"

"Well it's not everything," Cisco said defensively.

Nora opened her mouth to retort, then caught herself, prioritizing. She shook her head, cheeks burning.

"Well, if the test's done, I don't need to be like this any more, right?" Nora said hopefully.