Amy watched as Halcyon set to work, remaking their little testbed after they had killed it by accident again.
Watching him work was really interesting. It reminded her a lot of how she worked, but cruder? Almost? It didn't have the same natural flow that her power did, it almost felt mechanical, like he was processing it in some sort of invisible factory instead of twisting it to become what he wanted.
She watched at he took another stab at it, creating an interesting set of things, a mutated TB bacteria that would flow through the arteries, veins and capillaries spreading a wave of counter-agent through the lung as she watched. It worked quite quickly, reaching saturation a lot faster than anything she had worked on before.
But she could see areas for improvement. She took charge of another lung and started work on another solution, implementing the same directionality system she had before to optimise travel through the lungs. It was a little more complicated this time, since it needed to take the branching nature of the vascular network into account, but she managed to make it work.
As she was about to set it to go, Halcyon looked up, "Um… so… it's getting late."
"What?"
"We've been here for about four hours. It's nearly eleven."
"FUCK!" Amy yelled "Mom's going to be so pissed!"
As Halcyon carried her out of the window and streaked through the sky, her worries paused for amoment as she saw Halcyon pour on the speed. She hadn't ever seen him fly this fast before, but as he held her close and she buried her face in the leather of his costume as he outsped the cars on the highway below them. It was only a few minutes before he started descending, dropping out of the sky like a rock, speeding p in freefall before she felt that strange sense nausea as her eyes saw her slowing down even as her body felt nothing.
She carefully combed her hair out of her face, "Thanks, maybe we can finish up some time soon?"
"I'll see if I can set up a proper lab… um… Can I get your number so that we can work out a time?"
Amy quickly rattled off some numbers before he launched himself through the air, speeding of down one of the streets. She opened the door and braced as I saw mom standing there.
"Where were you?"
After ignoring her mother for a while, Amy eventually made it back up to her room, where Vicky was waiting for her.
Vicky smiled, "So… how was it?"
"How was what?" She asked in confusion.
She looked up, and saw herself, in a princess cary as Halcyon carried her through the air to her clinic, a walmart bag hanging from his arm.
"So, how was your date?"
Amy blushed, "It wasn't like that, he ust showed me his clinic, and we worked on a few things!"
"I dunno~ it definitely seems like there's something going on." Vicky sang.
Amy's heart sunk, "It's not like that okay! It's just… Halcyon can heal people too, and he's working on a lot of stuff. He jut wanted to show me how he heals." and to show me his biotinkering. But she couldnt say that. Her powers were a secret, one that Halcyon had somehow discovered, but hadn't een scared about at all.
She eventually managed to get Vicky out of her room and collapsed, relaxing as her mind turned back to the TB counter-agent project. They had made a lot of progress that night. It wasn't completely done, but it worked. They could probably inject it into someone with TB, and they would be cured. Not quickly, it would probably take days, maybe even weeks of intensive care during the treatment, but it was already better than what existed.
She fell asleep dreaming of healing, but this time it wasn't a nightmare, it was different. It was new.