fandom_clinic | Special Office Hours (as always NFB)

Beka knocked on the door to Jonathon's office. "Jonathon?" she asked quietly. "Illyana's here with me, but I need to speak with you for a minute first."

Jonathan motions Beka inside, "All right then, please by all means,"

((ooc: you do have Bristow-mun's permission yes?))

Beka steps inside, with a quiet, "Wait here, Illyana. It'll be OK."

"Beka? is everything okay?" he asks, concerned.

((just checking))

Illyana did as Beka said. She didn't want this counseling and she didn't know this Jonathon, but if Beka said it would be OK, she would trust Beka. She always trusted Beka.

Beka blew out a long sigh. "Honestly and off the record? No. Everything is far from OK. My roommate is my sub. I'm banging Angelus and Angelus's ex, about whom he is totally tormented, wants to bang me. One of my best friend's omg-soulmate kissed me on Sunday when we were pretending I was her and it was hot. On top of that the radio is broadcasting my every sexual move. Then there's the entire 'oh my god, Kitty Pryde is dead and whatever are we going to do because there's a killer on the lose' hysteria, the fact that my roommate went insane from seeing Kitty the first time and now she's dead, everyone looks like they're going to burst into tears or explode into rage, and all I've got is my brain to deal with it."

Her eyes went wide, and she shook her head. "Fuck. Sorry. I don't know where that came from."

"WoW," Jonathsn tells her, "Are you sure you don't want to talk to me? I mean, it's what I'm here for."

Beka couldn't help but laugh. "It might not be the worst idea, huh?" She sat at the edge of his desk, grinning. "Nah. I'm not one for emo, usually. I just need to blow once in awhile. Guess my subconcious mind just figured you were safe. Promise if I do need to talk that way, I'll come to you, OK?"

Jonathan doesn't look terribly pleased with Beka's casual dismissal of her problems, but you couldn't force therapy on the unwilling.

"Yeah, you do that," he tells her shaking his head, "let's talk to your friend then, shall we?"

"Jonathon, honest. I'm OK. I don't need therapy. I just need a friend or two who can help me keep my head straight because they don't need anything from me. And the person I usually look to for that - Angelus - is out of town. I'm worried about Illyana, that's all."

She smiled, eyes clear and not haunted. "Before you talk to Illyana, I need to tell you that she doesn't know about Kitty. She doesn't know anything about Kitty. She's done a spell to block her mind from that for now. And please believe me when I tell you that it's for the best."

"Okay, I understand now, can you please step out of the room and let me talk to your friend alone?" Jonathan asks, firmly.

Illyana was leaning against the wall. She was hesitant about this and she was scared, but Beka wouldn't let anything happen to her. Beka wouldn't let anyone hurt her.

"Hello, Illyana,"Jonathan says gently, "I'm Jonathan Crane. I'm sure Beka's already told you why your here, but let me explain things as I see them.

You've been having a rough time lately, and as a result, you aren't able to complete your class assignments or even go most times. You're here for an excuse from a psychologist. Right?"

Illyana looked at him, eyes haunted and worried. She swallowed and then nodded. "Yes sir. Some things..." she wrinkled her forehead. ""Some things happened."

"Please, call me Jonathan," he tells her, "would you like to talk about them? Or at least give me a vague idea about what they might be?"

Illyana nods.

"Where I come friends, things work a lot differently. I'm a demon sorceress raised by a hellspawn called Belasco. I came here, to try experience what it was to be human. Sawyer...he reacted badly to who I am...something happened in one of my classes..."

"I'm sorry Illyanna, but you'll have to be more specific. Boy trouble isn't going to be enough for Dean Bristow"

Illyana looked at Jonathan, and frowned. "Boy trouble? Sir, I would not crack over merely boy trouble."

Illyana started pacing.

"Do you know the psychology teacher?"

"That's what I meant, clearly there's more and I'll need it for the Dean.

Yes, I know her. I have Pschology with her."

Illyana's eyes darkened and she felt herself start trembling.

"She...she messed with my mind. She left me trapped among the mirrors that have always sliced at my soul and at my mind."

"The project on psychological disorders? She hypnotised you with the others?"

"Hypnotised? Is that what it's called? She played with my mind. But...I got lost and I couldn't find my way out of it."

Illyana dropped into a chair, tightening her arms around herself as she started shaking and getting agitated.

"I have always walked two words, demon and human...but then I was trapped in the mirrors of who I was. They kept reflecting myself back at me...and then the mirrors shattered."

"Okay then, see this is something I can work with. Dean Bristow wasn't exactly pleased with Professor Drusilla's behavior that week either," Jonathan tells her gently.

Illyana looked at him, but she still looked scared.

"She was a teacher," she said softly, staring at the wall. Her face had gone pale and there were tears in her eyes. "I have all of this power and I can take care of anyone that I care about. I've always fought by myself...but then I came here. I trusted, because everyone told me you're supposed to trust your teachers...but she left me there."

"It's possible she didn't know. I mean, the extenuating circumstances. I could talk to her?" he asks.

Illyana jumped up and looked even more scared. "No...no there would be too much truble...she might...she might do it again."

"Or she might be able to fix you, undo what she did? We won't if you don't want to of course."

"Please..." she begged. "Please, no."

"All right, all right, I'll talk to Dean Bristow about you just going to thearapy then, all right?

Illyana nodded slowly. "Yes, sir."

OOC: I would have appreciated being warned of this plot before it began.

OOC: I didn't mean any harm and would have no problem just deleting it. When Illyana starts therapy, her mirrored mind will be found to have been totally messed up before she came to the school. I don't want you upset and I didn't really have a plot in mind. I honestly do not have a problem just deleting it.

"Yes, of course." On impulse, she turned back with a smile, and said, "Thank you. Really. For caring. Maybe we could have coffee or a drink some time."

Beka opened the door again and stepped out into the hallway without waiting for him to answer. "Illyana, love? Dr. Crane will see you now. Please be honest with him. He won't ask you anything too uncomfortable. I'll wait here for you."

Illyana looked at Beka and then nodded. She slipped into the office and looked around.

((online now. Why's Beka mad? eep!))

I win at tags *rolls eyes*

OOC: I would have appreciated being warned of this plot before it began.

umm, there's stuff, wherin this is in no way your fault. I'm not clear, but Beka and I are very, very sorry! It wasn't you, and Jonathan loves you!))

OOC: Thank you. Depending on the fallout from this, Jonathan and Dru need to talk about next semester's classes, BTW.

[OOC: All right, I don't want there to be hard feelings anywhere because of this. There are a lot of people, myself included, who have a lot of RP experience, and a lot of people, including several people included in this plot, who have none or very little experience and don't understand how their actions can affect other players so strongly. I wasn't involved that much in the initial plotting, but I definitely should've caught the ramifications of Dru being the catalyst. For that, I'm sorry. I should've caught that and talked to you. I hope you won't let the inexperience of some of the people involved to sour you on them or their characters. They didn't know, and I should've caught it, like I said.]

OOC: Thank you for that explanation. I had no warning whatsoever that anything was happening until I got an IM from Bristow last night stating that he was going to have to call Dru into his office again. I am normally perfectly happy for Dru to be a villain in a plotline. If you'd like Dru as a bad in a plot, please email me as a group and we can discuss the possibility.

OOC: Oh Goddess no! I had honestly not planned on having Dru in any way be the villain as I love you and I love Dru/Janet. Honestly, Dru was going to be the one Illyana came to after she got calmed down enough to talk because she has heard the way Dru talks sometimes and it makes perfect sense to her as it is the way she usually sees the entire world around her.

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