God damn it, Thor had performed an experiment to determine whether or not Carlos was blushing. Carlos cannot in good conscience falsify data and skew Thor's results. He stands there in his just-a-bit-too-big lab coat which has sleeves that stretch down past his fingertips and tries hard to think of a way around this.

He can't come up with one.

"...no," he says, begrudgingly. "No, I'm not running a fever."