Not again...

Dammit. He had really hoped he could avoid getting to the hospital now that the school had gotten everything in place to be able to do his transfusions for him so he didn't need to go here every time he needed more infusions. But, of course - when he had a major injury, he still needed to come here. He had asked if he couldn't just go to someone he knew who could heal him, but no - the school insisted that he come here instead of going back home and letting Yakov heal it. Sigh.

So here he was, in quite a bit of pain, sitting on a gurney in the emergency room with a broken leg as he'd fallen off of the horse during riding lesson, as the horse had been spooked by a bee coming way too close for comfort. Not that he really showed a lot of the pain - he had been used to worse pains without even having anything broken, as he grew up. But still, his disease was very apparent even with as well-medicated as he was, since it was obvious that his leg was very darkly bruised, much more than anybody else's leg might be, as he even with the extra clotting agents still took a lot longer to stop bleeding than anybody without hemophilia. Sighing, he laid back down and looked up at the ceiling, waiting for the doctor to enter the room he had been carried into.

Caine had taken a little time off from his own clinic to go help at the hospital in Aston. Normally helping out in a hospital seemed really odd for a Demon bargaining with souls, but he was a well renowned Doctor and being in a place where peoples lives were on the line at times, he found it as a very efficient place to get souls.

He had only just gotten his Doctors Coat in before a young nurse came with a clipboard for him, smiling. She had always had a fascination with Caine as did alot of the staff at the hospital. "Good Af.... ternoon Dr. Rothwell..... We already have a patient for you.... Alexei something..... I can pronounce his other names.... " Caine took the clipboard and smiled at her followed by the words: "Lucilla right? Good to meet you again... Show the way and i'll have a look...."

The nurse escorted him to the room where Alexei was and smiled to Alexei. "Mr... Romanov?..... Dr. Rothwell is here to see you...."
The nurse was called to another part of the Hospital so Caine walked in and saw a face of which he had only caught glimpses of before in the past. "Now there is a name i wouldn't think to see here... How many years has it been Alexei?.... Or would you prefer Mr. Romanov?" Caines keen eyes scanned the information on the clipboard and said: "So a riding accident... What happened?"

Soon, though, he heard footsteps approaching the door, and as such, sat back up, with the injured leg stretched out in front of him, almost the entire shin some shade of blue or purple due to the heavy bruising. He sort of thought he recognized the doctor when he entered the room, but he couldn't quite put his finger on exactly who the guy was.

What he could see, however, was the slight glow around him indicating his moral code... And it made him slightly wary to see it being the way it was, but he calmed himself down. Yakov's wasn't much different now, and he was still a good guy, deep down.

The name rang a tiny bell as well - but if he had ever really met the guy, it was only fleeting glimpses. But hearing what he said - it was all too clear that the man remembered him. "I'm told it's been a little over a hundred years..." the angel said, shrugging. He had no memory of anything happening between his execution and waking up in November last year, after all.

"And Alexei is fine." he then said, with just a small smile on his lips, despite the pain in his leg. "During the riding lesson... Well... A bee spooked my horse, and the horse took off too quickly for me to calm him down again, so I fell. He's a big one, too - I'd say he's 1,70 at the shoulder, if I had to guess. And I landed on my shin. My records should tell you I have hemophilia B, as well. Which is why the school nurse insisted I come here."

Caine knew the energies of an Angel right away yet the young man did not have that the few times Caine saw him in Russia. Rebirth? Wouldn't be the first time he heard about that. Even though that was usually with some kind of purpose which the young man would find out at some point.
"Sounds just about right.... It has been a very long time since i was in Russia myself..."

As the young Alexei started to tell about what happened, Caine noted the details which was not already on the clipboard. Nothing out of the ordinary from what he could hear.
"Such a big stallion was spooked by a bee? Not a horse expert myself of course...." Caine looked up from his clipboard and smiled almost like he had a good idea all of a sudden. Here was a Romanov. And Angel at the same time? Possibilities were many.

"It was good of the nurse to get you to go here. But i have to ask.... You sound alot like you had another idea as of what to do after your accident... A more practical solution than here perhaps?"

"Well, it did land right next to his eye, so I think that's what scared him so." he said, and shrugged. Of course, the Russian accent was quite noticeable, since he'd only been in the country since January. But at the very least he had been taught English from a very early age, what with his mother's British roots.

"... I did. I sort of... Live with someone who has healing powers. I know he could heal this in a very short time. But I guess the nurse just wanted to be completely sure about it all." he said, and shrugged, then smiled up at the guy. He wasn't going to name-drop Yakov here. he knew the other angel valued his privacy, he always had, even when he'd lived with the family... And so he just said it like this instead.

"And well - of course it hurts, but really... I've been through a lot worse." both the execution and the excruciating pain he'd had from swollen joints due to his hemophilia back then. Now, the treatments made sure he wasn't going to go through those pains again.

"That could of course be a reason... Then again, i dont know anybody who would want a bee right next to their eye...."

Caine thought about it for a short while before he came up with a possible solution to Alexei's problem.
"Tell you what Alexei.... I have an idea that will benefit you alot more than lying here.... I will put the treatment for this time in your journal and we can get you home... If there is a faster solution, there is no reason for using space here....."
Caine wrote some more on his clipboard before he looked back on Alexei.

"And should anything happen of similar nature, hospitalizing you, ask to be brought to my clinic instead... That way it is easier to get the paperwork sorted and have you live your life with no prying eyes in your journal.... I am a specialist in treating other species so no one will bat an eye anyway"

Alexei merely shrugged and smiled at that. He loved each and every type of animal, even the more dangerous ones - he wasn't afraid of bees and was pretty sure that he'd be a bit shocked, but not freak out, if it happened to him. Then again, he wouldn't know unless it did.

When he heard that the guy was willing to let him go home sooner, he sighed with relief. Yakov's blood could heal it so quickly... So yes, it did seem pointless for him to have to occupy a bed in here for any longer than absolutely necessary, with how many injured people got through here every day. Better free up the bed for someone with no other alternative than the hospital.

"Thank you... And I'll remember for the future. Your name was Rothwell, right?" he just wanted to make sure. It was a fairly uncommon name, so there shouldn't be any problems finding his clinic, at the very least.

It was both for practical reasons and for Caine's alterior motives but no sense in telling the young Angel what they were. Caine had to figure out alot of details first, but establishing a good contact could be powerful in itself.
"Yes.. If ever need be, have this... I had them made but some people insist on using every single title when making these.."

He handed Alexei a business card with an address on for Lord Caine Rothwell, Dr. Rothwell.
"There is a number there to use should it ever be needed. I do make the occational house call in case the need arises"

Alexei took the business card, glancing over it quickly, and nodded. Happy to know that he could just call, didn't need to send an email or other such stuff - as computers were still mostly a mystery to him. He had tried his best, but he was only on the very most, basic level of using them, and had often needed to have someone else in the dorm help him, before he moved in with Yakov.

Even though Yakov wasn't an expert at them either, he still knew more than Alexei as he had been there from the every start of computers, whereas Alexei was just dumped straight into it all. "Alright. I'll make sure to use it if there's ever anything again." he said with a small smile. He was still slightly wary, but he also was just... A person to have faith in others, and always had been. Always believing that there was something good in everyone. Perhaps that would screw him over sometime, but right now... He was just happy that he could get discharged and go back home to Yakov.

Caine was lucky to get into the world when he did, it gave him the possibility to learn about the advances in the world right when they happened. He knew alot that was not so fortunate. He had treated patients that were run down by a car, simply because they didn't know what a car was.

Caine wrote down some more details before looking at Alexei followed by almost too calm words.
"Alright there we go.. I'll just get this handed over to a nurse... You will get a last treatment just for the sake of your journal, then you can be out of here in about an hour or two..."
He put away his pen before pushing a button to call for a nurse.
"So any last questions before i am off?...." He needed to follow this young mans developement

"That sounds lovely. I... Thank you so much. I really do want to avoid hospitals as much as I can." there was a reason he had talked with the school nurse and they'd figures out a way to get the transfusion materials he needed, sent to the school so she could put in the drop for the transfusions with the few weeks interval he needed it to be, so he could avoid having to go to the hospital in the capital multiple times a month.

"I don't really have any questions, no. I just... Thank you, again. I really appreciate you helping to have me checked out of here as soon as possible. It really is much more comfortable to just go back home and have my friend heal me instead."

"I understand that very well Alexei.... I am lucky enough to have no ailments myself.... "
It would be alot less stressful for all parts if he could get the needed treatments at the Academy instead of constant hospital visits. And as far as what Caine knew, the Academy should have plenty of competent personel.

Caine nodded to the young Angel and replied with an almost royal calmness in his voice:
"Think nothing of it, i just want the best for all parts.... But i would still advise you to come into my clinic every once in a while at least for the paperwork... " Caine winked at him and said: "It keeps curious noses out of your journal...."
And it would give Caine the possibility to find out why an Angel was reborn with such an ailment

"Alright. I will." Alexei said with a small, still very thankful smile. "I mean... I really just want to live as normal a life as I can, now." he never could have, before - one thing was he had been royal, another thing entirely was his illness having made sure that he couldn't even do most of the things the rest of his family had, seeing as even just a little bit of rough play could have been potentially fatal and Yakov couldn't just keep on feeding him blood every day either. "I'm just happy there's actually treatments for it now, too... There wasn't any back when.. When I last lived."

Caine nodded as the young Angel told about his wish to live a more normal life. He himself was mostly satisfied about his life, only some complications of being a Demon at the time.
"I can understand that very well... Besides the time of the Romanovs is over, so it will be much easier to be Alexei..."
Caine got a little glimpse of an idea when the young Angel spoke of the treatments. "Yes there was actually.... Most just never took the step to get it.... Not exactly a treatment the Church would approve of... But it was and still is there"

"... Of all people, I don't think I'm one you need to tell that my family's time is over. I remember everything of our execution, after all." he sighed and looked a bit gloomy for a bit, remembering all of that searing pain... Both mental and physical... Execution wasn't even the word for it. Massacre, was more like it, as messy and brutal as it had been.

"... Well I guess magic could've helped, yes. I mean... our guardian angel's blood did heal me time and time again. But the type of modern treatment the hospitals have today, wasn't available back then..." he had read up an awful lot about it, with how much had been figured out about the disease now, compared to back then.

Caine nodded to the young Angel and replied with a calm yet saddened voice: "So do i... Massacres like that is rarely possible to stop.... I have only done that one time in Japan...." Caine was well versed and had travelled most of the world so he had seen far more than most. He wasnt too bothered, he was created in Hell afterall

As Alexei talked about their Guardian Angel, Caine had a discreet moment of disbelief yet he did not show it.
"True the research was only taking form back then at it took many years to get something constructive going...."

"When it's almost all of the people who wants you dead... Then yes..." Alexei sighed. "or well, they all wanted my father dead. Nobody really blamed us kids... The bolsheviks just thought we were too dangerous to keep alive, I guess..." he sighed, as he swung his legs out over the side of the bed, to get ready to leave as soon as Caine would do the proper paperwork.

"Yeah... Takes some years to get medicine approved... And more time to get it distributed, especially back then..." he sighed.

Caine nodded before releasing a silent sigh before he answered: "True.... I will not comment on your fathers rule but i suspect the bolsheviks wanted the entire family gone to ensure that the Romanoffs would not return...."
Then Caine turned to the papers before writing the needed information.

"Indeed.... I managed to create a few medicines to aid but nothing that would be distributed among the people... That was dangerous they suspected"

"I guess so..." he sighed, and rubbed the back of his neck, before he finally got up from the bed - seeing Caine writing on the papers, he assumed he would be discharged within the next few minutes.

"Everyone everywhere in Russia thought everything was dangerous in that time..."

As the young man got up from bed, Caine finished up his notes and smiled.
"It sure seemed like it... In a sense it was i suppose..." He put his pen away and stuck out his hand for a handshake while saying: "There we go, all done.... When you feel ready, you are free to leave... And remember to call me for future treatments... It will go by alot easier"

As expected, Alexei had been right in thinking the guy was finished making his notes, and he gave a small smile in response, before he did shake the hand that was offered to him. "I'll make sure to. Until we meet again... Take care," he then said with a broad smile, giving a low nod, sort of like a very light bow, his old manners still there... Before he went out the door, and left the hospital.

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