[Since very, very recently. He's dizzy and unsteady on his feet and seems like he's moving through water, but he did manage to get the handcuff off and is now managing to bind his counterpart and at least assist Cesar with the task. The doppelganger wails in panic and pain at the sudden wrench, shuddering in Cesar's grasp and panting hard.
Lazarus rubs at his eyes. He knows how his own medications work and affect him, and it confirms what he had suspected through all of his strange dreams and near-waking interspersed throughout long periods of blackness.
He understands, and he nods. He reaches for the pill bottle, shaking two into his hand without hesitating and staring wanly at Cesar.]
Keep his head from moving.
[Though his doppel glares at him, with Cesar more able to devote his grip to one task, it's a fairly easy matter for L to pinch his nose, forcing him to open his mouth. He jams the pills between his lips and then staggers slightly, pulling the metal folding chair dazedly forward and sinking into it as he leaves Cesar to hold the furious doppel's mouth shut until he's swallowed or the pills have dissolved.]
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Lazarus rubs at his eyes. He knows how his own medications work and affect him, and it confirms what he had suspected through all of his strange dreams and near-waking interspersed throughout long periods of blackness.
He understands, and he nods. He reaches for the pill bottle, shaking two into his hand without hesitating and staring wanly at Cesar.]
Keep his head from moving.
[Though his doppel glares at him, with Cesar more able to devote his grip to one task, it's a fairly easy matter for L to pinch his nose, forcing him to open his mouth. He jams the pills between his lips and then staggers slightly, pulling the metal folding chair dazedly forward and sinking into it as he leaves Cesar to hold the furious doppel's mouth shut until he's swallowed or the pills have dissolved.]