"Where does it hurt?" the doctor inquired.

Moira instinctively glanced at Barclay. "She drank a bit, and it's possible someone slipped something into it."

The doctor frowned. "Any symptoms? Let your wife speak," he instructed.

This time, Barclay remained silent as the doctor spoke first.

Moira, feeling guilty as the culprit, hurriedly spoke up. "I feel overheated, constantly thirsty, and unable to sleep."

"Anything else?" The doctor continued his examination, listening to her heartbeat and breath.

Moira hesitated to speak of the rest. Under the doctor's scrutinizing gaze, she clasped her hands, her voice trembling. "There's this strange sensation in my body, hard to describe, just not quite right." 'Did you catch my drift, doctor?' she wondered.

"It shouldn't be anything major. Let's run an ECG, check your blood pressure, and do some blood tests. If the results come back clean, you should be good to go." The doctor glanced at the paperwork. "For a couple like you, this discomfort doesn't warrant a trip to the hospital."

The doctor's words were elusive, yet Moira grasped their meaning.

It was plain: a few sips of love potion and a night together would do the trick for a couple like them. Why rush to the hospital's emergency room?

examination room, akin

came for blood tests, Moira hesitated to offer her

you scared?" he

up at him, neither admitting nor denying

the courage to speak of

any lingering effects of the love potion, leaving her unusually clear-headed. "Moira?" The nurse repeated her name. Moira

was cradled in a warm embrace, filled with

encircling her in his arms and

in her thoughts, Moira sensed a faint sting on her wrist, followed

hand loosened, Moira raised her gaze to meet

Just moments ago, it felt

his gaze

he rose to his feet. "The blood test results will take half an hour. Let's head over there

her gaze, nodding as she followed him to the nearby

entirely dissipated, and her thoughts were still sluggish. The potion's effects hadn't completely worn off yet, but Moira dared not make any moves on him beside

her stillness didn't

on her forehead, and Moira shivered slightly. "I'm not running

feeling unwell?" he asked,

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