Eva had a headache, a headache by the name of Neil Watts. The Neil who was, at this very moment, stuck in a tree, AGAIN.

"Neil for the love of cabbage, you are an adult!" With how often she found herself facepalming, she wouldn't be surprised if her hand somehow glued itself to her face.

Neil hugged the tree a little tighter. "EVA PLEASE JUST GET ME DOWN!"

"How did you even get up there?! You hate heights!" She was going to need some ibuprofen for this... Maybe if she threw the bottle hard enough at his head it would knock him out of the tree.

She vaugley heard him mumble something under his breath. "What? Sorry Neil, for some reason I just can't seem to hear you. Almost as if you were in some high, unreachable place."

He shot her a pointed look, his cheeks puffing out in anger. "...ROBERT SAID HE BET I COULDN'T MAKE IT TO THE TOP OF THE TREE!"

...What. Eva blinked up at him, face completely blank. "And you just... fell for it?"

Neil practically deflated, and started fidgetting under her unrelenting gaze "...When you put it like that..." He suddenly seemed to remember where he was again, and gripped the tree anew.

"OK LOOK JUST, HELP ME-"

She couldn't help it, and promptly burst into laughter. Leaning forward while clucthing her stomach, she felt herself devolve into loud, hiccupy chuckles. Neil had gone silent above her again, so she glanced up at him while wiping tears from her eyes. His mouth was hanging open, and Eva thought she saw his cheeks tinged red, though it was hard to tell from this distance.

She took in a few more shaky breathes, trying not to laugh again. "OK, OK... I'm coming up to get you, moron" Taking off her labcoat and placing it folded neatly on the ground, Eva marched up to the tree, it couldn't be THAT hard to climb... it was.

It took her not one, not five, but TEN WHOLE MINUTES to climb the twenty feet up to Neil. Ten minutes of her life wasted getting smacked in the face by branches, her sweater snagging on the rough bark. Neil attempting to give her tips as she ascended didn't help either. It was her turn to shoot him a look, now neither of them were laughing.

Finally, FINALLY, she managed to hoist herself onto the same branch Neil was perched on. The second she stopped swaying, she suddenly had a new problem. Or rather, a Neil problem. Specifically, he was now clinging to her like a scared baby koala.

"NEIL LET GO!" She could feel herself losing balance, if she just kept her focus, this is fine, just gotta... pry Neil off and- A sudden flash of light caught both the doctor's attention, and they turned simultaniously towards the source.

In a second story window stood Roxie, holding up a camera sheepishly. Standing next to her-

"F*$^ING ROBERT!" Neil's war cry rang in her ear, enough to cause her to sway violently backwards, right off the branch. Neil was still clinging to her torso, and was thus pulled after her.

Their high pitched screams echoed throughout the small plaza. Eva landed hard on her back, and a second later Neil landed right on top of her.

He was the first one to move, practically throwing himself to the side away from her.

"Oh god, Eva? Eva, I'm so sorry, are you alright?!" He worried outloud, a pained wheeze was her only response. They both looked disheveled; leaves stuck out of their hair, skin covered in scratches, Neil's glasses were all crooked.

Eva decided the ibuprofen wasn't gonna be enough for this one.