Counseling Hours

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

*Johnathan is set up in a room at the clinic. He'd been awfully busy yesterday with the preparations for his experiment and as such hadn't been able to hold office hours. He figured he should make up for it by holding them now. That way if anyone needed help with their omgemo they wouldn't have to wait for his weekend hours to talk to him.*

Comments

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

OMG SIGN ME UP Errr... doctor?

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

yummy, arms! It's just Jonathan. Please come in, have a seat.

What can I help you with?

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

You're a ...um... therapist, right? Help people deal with their emotional and mental troubles?

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

that's right. Is there anything bothering you today?

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

I think too much. I just get clouded by all these thoughts and worries and emotions and issues and I can't think clearly sometimes.

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

so if I'm understanding you correctly, you're telling me that to much thinking, keeps you from being able to think?

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

I think I didn't express myself correctly -- I think too much which makes me feel so frakking emo helpless and confused that I just can't think straight, maybe? And sometimes I just focus so hard on one thing that I feel like it's driving me mad.

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

hmm, can you give me examples? Or would you feel more comfortable speaking hypothetically or in generalizations?

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Well. I think I'm in love with this one girl. And that's driving me insane because I can't really talk to her about it because she would laugh in my face and never speak to me again. That's one. I'm also furious at my father for being such a terrible father and husband to my mother that I fear that ... well, that messes everything up. I also hate that my brother has a super crush on that one girl I'm love with. And I don't know how to quanitfy my feelings for my BFF...who's a boy. And I fear that I write too much emo poetry and eat too much toast and work out too much and don't... you know... help people or something.

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

So would it be safe to assume there is a great deal of friction between you and your family?

And this girl you're in love with are you two dating or is it unrequited?

How much toast do you eat? And do you have these toast binges immeadiately preceeding your large workouts?

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

A lot of friction between me and the family, yes. Nothing we really talk about, of course, but yes. Friction.


We're... well, I can't even ask her if we're dating without getting shut down. So, I'll say ' a qualified yes '?


... a lot of toast. Me and my toaster go way back, way back. And yeah, I do work up quite an appetite after a long workout...does this mean anything?!

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

Your family doesn't talk much? So, you are unable to confront your father about your feelings towards him? That must be very difficult for such a sensitive young man as yourself.

A 'qualified yes'? Lee, you are clearly under a great deal of stress and having your affections trifled with can't be helping. If your ladyfriend isn't ready for a commitment of any sort and you are than perhaps you might want to think about where you expect things to go between you and the object of your affections.

Hmm, not necessarily. Why do you work out so much Lee? What is the toast doing for you? Do you feel you have to work out for a set period of time in order to enjoy your toast binges?

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Yes, I don't talk to my father hardly at all.


You mean I should break up with her?


I work out because I must be strong and virile and manly qualified to go to War College on Caprica and because it's relaxing and gets out some of my aggression, I suppose?

The toast is comforting as my mother loved to make me toast in the morning.

I ... no, I'm not anorexic, Dr. Crane.

[brambless.livejournal.com]

"Jonathan?" Tara knocks on the door (after Lee has left). "Do you have time to see me today?"

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

*Jonathan stands up and indicates the vacant couch*

I always have time for you Ms. Maclay.

[brambless.livejournal.com]

"Thank you, Jonathan." Tara sits, resting her hands on her knees as she leans forward.

"I just want to check, before we talk, whether you're okay with this. I don't want to make class awkward for you now that you're my student, but... well, last time really helped me, and I'd like to continue talking to you."

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

I'd also like to continue and help in any way I can. It won't really be any different than seeing my classmates around campus after sessions if you think about it. And I'm well used to that.

It's just like Ethics class. What happens in counseling, stays in counseling.

[brambless.livejournal.com]

Tara nods. "That makes sense. Thank you."

She bites her lip. "Um, I'd like to talk to you about my last relationship. Because, um, it went kind of... really bad. And my girlfriend, she... um, she was a witch? And she used a spell on me. Without my consent. To steal some of my memories."

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

All right. How did you first come to realize that your girlfriend was using her powers on you without your consent?

[brambless.livejournal.com]

Tara swallows. "My... I guess you could call her my little sister, except we're not actually related - she mentioned that we'd had a fight. And I didn't remember it, at all. Um, we'd actually - my girlfriend and I - just had a wonderful day, and, um, made love," she blushes bright red.

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

And did you confront her about it?

[brambless.livejournal.com]

Tara nods, slowly. "I did. And she apologised. But then she did it again, to make me forget that the first one had happened."

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

So how did you find out about it at all?

[brambless.livejournal.com]

"Those memories were locked into a crystal. Someone stepped on the crystal, and it broke. So I know about those two, but... I have no way of knowing if there were other times." Tara looks down at her hands, which tremble a little.

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

And you can't ask her because clearly she doesn't trust you with the truth.

Do you think it's adversely affecting the way you interact with people now?