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A sign outside hung and tapped gently against the small brick house as the wind blew through its old squeaky hinges. The sign was decorated with entricate golden detail, and in a metallic white paint read: Dr. Olivia Theodore PHD

Olivia removed her scarf as she closed her front door in time to hear someone speaking. She froze and her heart pounded in her ears as her eyes narrowed. She turned slowly, yet her eyes danced wildly in an attempt to catch the intruder. When her eyes landed on the answering machine with the recording light still blinking in confirmation, Olivia leapt towards the telephone excitedly.

"Hello, are you still there? I'm here, I'm at home. If you want to, you can bring 'Avice' over as soon as it fits into your schedule."

Olivia pulled her blonde hair back into a quick and sloppy ponytail.

Olivia smiled in self-satisfaction. "Of course, It's no problem. Remember, my house is on that one street that I showed you. Only one with a red roof, you can't miss it."

After Olivia hung up the phone, she blinked and rubbed her hands together as if saying: Okay, now what? "Ah." She mumbled to herself when she caught sight of her blue porcelain teapot sitting idly over the stove burner. She quickly poured in some water and turned the knob in preparation of tea for her first patients.

Olivia ducked under the curtains when she heard the car pull up and saw the lights shine in through her front window. It was true, this Avice girl really looked under the weather, and how ironic that it was raining. Her boyfriend looked just as sick as well, though with worry, not bacterium. Olivia pranced to the door and swung it open, beckoning them inside quickly.

"You two; if you ever need anything, don't wait for me to come to the door, just come inside! You're crazy to wait outside in weather like this, especially when one is sick! Oh here I am rambling on about all this nonsense about the weather when you two need to come inside! Oh...."

Olivia backed away from the doorway leaving them room to move indoors.

He steps into the warmth of the house, slipping out of his coat and hat. "Good morning, Doctor. Thanks for seeing us at a time when any sane human being would be a lump under the covers." Olivia notices a few things about him, off the bat. Everything he is wearing is a knock-off of a designer label, except for the Nevermore family ring on his finger. He has a bit of a hollow look to his face, and though his demeanor is amiable, she can sense a weight on his shoulders, depression, perhaps.

And there's something else, something in the way he looks at her. She can'f figure it out, but he is looking almost as though he recognizes her from somewhere long ago.

"Where should we...?"

Addition: He looks then to Avice, his brow creasing desperately. "The doctor's house, dear. We're at the doctor's." He looks back to Olivia. "She's still drowsy."

Nodding her head as if in a fog, Avice followed the doctor named 'Theo'. "Tea? Where? Hey, the monkeys are gone!" Smiling happily, Avice moved for a cup and breathed deeply of the strong scent coming form the small tree.

"HEY! You know what, I like you Nevi. I dunno, I just, like, do." She flipped her hair and grabbed the tea cup and took a sip, gasping when it burned her tongue. Shaking her head she looked at Theo, "I think some thing is wrong. I think this is effecting my aura." Her eyes went wide on the last word.

He squeezes Av's hand. "Now, darling, just answer all of her questions as well as you can."