Inside the school's "Basement"...
Pietro nervously watched as Dr. Yinsen, accompanied by two curvy Ukrainian nurses and dressed in a terrifying-looking hazmat suit, repeatedly drew blood from him for tests.
With every test result, the two Ukrainian nurses' expressions grew more grave. They looked at Pietro as if he were a dying patient on his deathbed.
"What's wrong with me?
What's happening to me?
Can you please stop scaring me?"
Crying, Pietro turned to Bourne beside him and asked in despair, "Am I an idiot?
I just wanted to check out the Sewers in Harlem. I thought I could help!
Bourne, I really just wanted to help!"
Bourne rubbed Pietro's head without changing expression. "It's okay. I know you were just trying to help..."
When Pietro realized Bourne had stopped lecturing him, he covered his face with a pillow and sobbed into it. "I'm an idiot. I hope my stupidity doesn't affect the whole school...
Bourne, what do I do if Wanda asks where I went?"
Bourne looked at Pietro, lying in the hospital bed as if he really were at death's door. His mouth twitched. Then he glanced at Nick in the next bed and said, "Other than Nick, you haven't affected anyone else at school.
We'd already made preparations, but you caught us completely off guard!"
Then Bourne looked at Nick, who seemed unconcerned, and said, "Now I see who the brave one is.
You're handling the prospect of 'death' much better than Pietro!"
Nick glanced sideways at Pietro, who had buried his head beneath the pillow as if he wanted to smother himself. At Bourne's praise, he said disdainfully, "Is this the kind of sick joke you adults enjoy?
Scaring minors is against the law!"
When Bourne saw Pietro peek out from under the pillow after hearing