The promise of a doctor to her patient is based in understanding. I am here to understand you.
[ It is not what textbooks teach you. Books don't offer humanity. Tests do not measure empathy. There was something in the way Angela guards herself, falling to a doctor and patient relationship when it was insulting to ignore that it was more. That they had become part of her. That she still feels it inside of her, the phantom feeling that expands like a black tar over her mind at times.
Angela knew as much as anyone did before – the assumed perception of what Venom was. What he would bring to this world. Yet, she orders her wards out of the building when she monitors him. Demands the wing be shut down and only she be his point of contact. This could have went other ways: a test subject and a scientist or a prisoner and their warden. She is neither of those, not as she watches over him. Not as she cares for him.
He confirms the suspicions – the truth she knew was there. Since awakening, since healing... it was there. Breathing down her neck and now as the 'monster' approaches... She doesn't yield. She doesn't step back. He's bigger than her, menacing and if he wanted to harm her – he would have. Was it her idealistic and hopeful nature that keeps her rooted? Or was it – was it something else? The connection they feel... the bond that binds them?
Angela closes her eyes at his question, remembering quite clearly the moments before their 'union'. What grave instance, what horrifying risk was presented... ]
I do. It does not show on any test... does not show an abnormality on any scans. I feel it, yes, but I do not understand it. Do not... understand how it is possible.
no subject
[ It is not what textbooks teach you. Books don't offer humanity. Tests do not measure empathy. There was something in the way Angela guards herself, falling to a doctor and patient relationship when it was insulting to ignore that it was more. That they had become part of her. That she still feels it inside of her, the phantom feeling that expands like a black tar over her mind at times.
Angela knew as much as anyone did before – the assumed perception of what Venom was. What he would bring to this world. Yet, she orders her wards out of the building when she monitors him. Demands the wing be shut down and only she be his point of contact. This could have went other ways: a test subject and a scientist or a prisoner and their warden. She is neither of those, not as she watches over him. Not as she cares for him.
He confirms the suspicions – the truth she knew was there. Since awakening, since healing... it was there. Breathing down her neck and now as the 'monster' approaches... She doesn't yield. She doesn't step back. He's bigger than her, menacing and if he wanted to harm her – he would have. Was it her idealistic and hopeful nature that keeps her rooted? Or was it – was it something else? The connection they feel... the bond that binds them?
Angela closes her eyes at his question, remembering quite clearly the moments before their 'union'. What grave instance, what horrifying risk was presented... ]
I do. It does not show on any test... does not show an abnormality on any scans. I feel it, yes, but I do not understand it. Do not... understand how it is possible.
[ And for a scientific mind, this was torture. ]