Kairi and Molly sat at Molly's desk, flipping through results for blood and tissue tests from St. Bart's toxicology unit. Molly was frowning as she studied the information supplied regarding the alleged second victim and Kairi flipped through her copy, highlighting anything that seemed important. Kairi wasn't an expert and it wasn't exactly necessary, but she wanted to be useful.
"Molly, what's this about increased intraocular pressure?" Kairi mumbled, highlighting the measurements indicating the raised levels. "Is that important? Do eyes only swell when people get murdered or something?"
Molly shook her head slightly, highlighting something in her own pages, "Well, it's literally just the fluid pressure inside the eye."
Kairi shrugged, "Oh, I guess that's pretty straightforward. But why order tests on the eyeballs?"
Molly looked up, smiling pleasantly. If Kairi would have asked Sherlock it would have been a vigorous display of eye rolls and sighing before berating her stupidity. Molly just shrugged, "It's a pretty common practice actually, but I thought the eyes themselves looked a little odd and asked the techs to run some extra tests on them."
Kairi nodded and looked back down at the figures, "So there weren't any results indicating toxins in eye fluid? But you were right, the —" Kairi flipped back to see the abbreviation, "the IOP was raised — pretty drastically it seems. Could that be a result of the trauma?"
Molly scrunched up her face in thought, "Not likely the trauma, I'm a little lost with those results. No contamination, but increased IOP. Increased IOP usually an indication of someone suffering from glaucoma, but it's odd in this case because the victim didn't have glaucoma."
Kairi nodded, "That is kind of weird. Heart attack in an otherwise healthy heart. Increased fluid pressure in the eye indicative of glaucoma without glaucoma." She tapped her nails against her teeth for a moment and then addressed Molly again, "Did she take any medication that could cause increased IOP? Is that a thing? God, I hope it's not a thing… Medication to make your eyes burst!" Kairi gave a full body shudder at the thought.
Molly chuckled and was about to reply when the door to her lab crashed open and Sherlock and Lestrade came bounding in looking seriously pissed off, both of them jostling through the door at the same time, trying to fight for purchase. Molly glanced at Kairi whose own eyes looked to be a bit swollen as she took in their combined testiness. Molly tried not to chuckle and reached down to her desk to gather up two more copies of the lab results.
"Hello boys." Molly smiled a bit mischievously and it seemed that neither of them were in the mood for teasing.
"Results, Molly." Sherlock spat as he walked forward, whipping off his coat with a flourish. He stopped in front of Molly tossing the coat on her desk and reached out an expectant hand. She tried not to grin and she placed the stack of papers in his grasp. He glanced at Kairi and frowned at her shocked face. "What's wrong with you?"
She had been looking at Lestrade. He seemed irate compared to his usual air of nonchalance. She wanted to be concerned, but she was nervous over all of last night's happenings. She looked at Sherlock and then remembered to breathe, "Uh, nothing. Talking about eyeballs makes me squeamish."
He glared at her for a moment and his eyes ticked up and down her frame. "Oh." He sounded severely disinterested. Sherlock turned to the results in hand and opened up the packet to read through them quickly as Kairi shuffled over to Molly's desk to sit and hide.
"Give me a summary Molly?" Lestrade said, slightly glaring in the direction of the retreating Kairi. He knew it wasn't the time to be bringing up any of the drama of the last twenty-four hours. He cleared his throat, finally shook off most of his ire, and gave Molly a small smile.
