Transcending limitations

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Who: Doctor Whale and his victims test subjects or lab assistants
Where: Mainly his laboratory but probably other places too
When: During the science event
Rating: R more than likely
Summary: Doctor Whale doing science things and experimenting on people
The Story: He was always seeking answers, always wanting to push the limits. All this time in Wonderland and he never tried to really push those limits. But something about this particular weekend made him forego any restraint. He wasn't going to stop until he found answers.

If people got hurt in the process, he did happen to have Adam's healing blood. But before he got ahead of himself, he needed to find his subjects... Hopefully Luke wasn't too squemish, because Whale would need his assistant.

[Ed | Vincent | River | Helen and Luke | Fear Gas (OTA) ; If I forgot you or want to make your own section, feel free to tag in anyway]

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Ed forces himself to stop moving, giving him a resentful glare.

"I. Hate. Needles," he snarls. He watches it warily, pretty sure that letting Whale inject him with random substances that he doesn't know what will actually do to him wasn't actually a good idea.

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"I don't believe you need to be conscious for the blood to have an effect," Whale said. "Though a boy of your age should be able to stand a small prick on the arm."

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Ed transfers his glare to Whale. "Being knocked out once was more than enough."

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"Then I suggest you hold still." There was no empathy in his tone at all. He reached to grab Edward's flesh arm for the injection. Honestly, all this fuss over a little needle when Whale could do so much worse to the boy if he chose.

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Ed grits his teeth as Whale grabs his arm, not looking forwards to this. "Aren't blood types supposed to be the same when you're sticking blood in someone?"

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"I guess we'll find out," Whale concluded. And with that, he pushed the blood through Edward's system. He had no idea how long it was supposed to take before it began working. If it was even going to work at all. If Adam was to be believed, his blood could heal anyone of anything. So an injection like this should heal the burn marks left from the taser.

Whale focused on the marks, watching for a change. Another triumph of science over magic if it worked. And of course it did, the burns fading and the wound closing as if it never existed.

"Incredible," he breathed out.

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Ed gritted his teeth as he felt it work, realizing this was probably similar to how Greed felt when his healing kicked in. "Are you finished?"

He's rather hoping that Whale didn't decide to hurt him further to see if the blood would fix that as well.

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It would be a waste to use the blood again when it already proved to work. Whale only had the one sample, and he needed to save some of it for actual healing if possible.

Truthfully he wanted to examine those automail limbs at greater length, but he didn't want to render Edward immobile. He did tap his knuckles on Edward's automail knee just to hear the metallic sound it made.

"An incredible construct. If only there was someone like your mechanic in Storybrooke."

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"Why, so you can harass her too?" Ed watches him, wondering when he gets to get loose. Right now, he's torn between hitting Whale a lot and getting away.

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"That's my business," Whale replied vaguely. He could tell from Edward's expression that were he to release the boy, he would get a punch in the face at the very least. Not an action he wanted repeated. How, then, to release Edward?

"Are you familiar with deals, Edward? They're a popular transaction where I come from."

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It's probably just as well that Ed doesn't have laser vision, otherwise, he'd be a pile of ashes. "What do you want?"

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"I want to release you without suffering injury," Whale answered. "I've done what I can without damaging your automail, and feel satisfied in my experiment. Admittedly there isn't much I can offer you in return, but we are both scientists. I'm sure you can come up with an adequate price."

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"You should have thought of that before you decided to experiment on me," Ed points out snippishly.

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"I hardly did anything to you at all." There was a chilling lack of compassion in Whale's voice. As if he didn't even care that his methods were less than orthodox. "I could have done much worse, but I'm giving you the chance to walk away from this unscathed."

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After a minute of simmering, Ed's mind focuses on something to be the price to protect Al. "I want you to promise not to touch my brother. I don't want you doing this to him."

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No one respected the bond of brothers more than Whale. If that was all Edward really wanted, it was a simple price to pay. "Deal," he agreed, and unstraped Edward. Not that he ever intended to harm Alphonse in the first place.

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Too bad Ed didn't know that. Otherwise he'd have tried to think of something else.

As it is, Ed sits up and looks for his clothes before slipping off the slate to get dressed, not turning his back on Whale. Whale caught him off-guard once, he didn't want it to happen again.

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Too late now, the deal was struck. Whale was putting on his glasses to study the sketch he made of Edward's automail arm. He clearly was done with the boy and expected him to find his own way out of the laboratory. Not even apologizing for the kidnap, sedation, threats or any other thing he did in the name of experimentation.

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Whale probably should have knocked Ed out again and left him somewhere so he couldn't find the lab or point anyone else at it.

Once Ed's dressed, he's out before Whale can change his mind and decide to do something else to him.

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Yes, he probably should have done that. But honestly, he wasn't in the mood to drag two hundred pounds out of the lab again. And he was deeply emmersed in what he managed to gather from Edward, not even thinking of the consequences.