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Xavier eyed them, then her, as Loki quietly coached her through slowing her breaths.
“S-sorry,” she said once she was calmer.
“There’s no need to apologize, sweetheart,” Xavier told her. “Is it because it’s me? Do you want a different doctor?”
“No!” She reached for him as though he would disappear.
Then she realized how silly she was being. Closing her eyes, she took a deep breath. “Loki.”
Loki understood what she was asking. He always did. He told Xavier about her stupid fear of doctors and hospitals.
“Aww, sweetheart. I’m so sorry. Is there anything I can do to help?” Xavier asked.
She opened her eyes and stared down into his kind ones. “A lobotomy?”
“Sorry. I didn’t train in brain surgery.”
“Tell me everything will be all right,” she said.
“Everything will be all right,” he repeated.
“You can’t say that!” she cried, even though she’d been the one to ask him to say it.
“Of course I can. I’m the doctor. That’s why they gave me this hickory-doo-dah.” He tapped at the stethoscope around his neck. “Fancy, huh?”
She snorted, relaxing slightly. “It looks like one that came out of Juliet’s play-box.”
He gasped. “It did not. That one is pink. Mine is a manly gray.”
A smile twitched at her lips. “Do you know how to use it?”
“Sure do. You just hold this piece here up to your lips and blow. See?” He held the round, flat disc to his mouth, blowing on it.
All right, he was officially ridiculous.
And it was helping relax her. Maybe Big Isa couldn’t handle the doctor. But what about Isa-Bee?
“Baby girl, would this be easier in Little headspace?” Remy asked.
She could feel her cheeks heat as she stared at Xavier.
“You can be Isa-Bee with Xavier,” Loki added.
“You certainly can. You know I can take good care of a Little,” Xavier said soothingly.
“It’s not weird?” she asked.
Loki stiffened and when she glanced at Remy, he was frowning down at him.
Poor Xavier, if he said the wrong word, he was in for a world of trouble.
“Absolutely not,” Xavier said firmly. “And I’ll be unhappy if you think that.”
“Then, okay, yes. Thank you.”
“No need to thank me, sweetheart. Now, just a few questions.”
She answered everything as best she could. Loki and Remy remained quiet, but she could feel how upset they were.
