FTEC, Friday (1/10)

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John had spent the past few weeks trying to figure out how to best describe this place he'd wound up in, for his blog. In the process, many a placeholder post had gone up.

If he was going to be entirely honest, he'd been avoiding letting Harry know where he was so she wouldn't turn up for Parents' Weekend the way Mycroft had. Now, though, he was out of subconscious excuses, and so during his shift at the clinic, he'd been writing. His new netbook was most useful in that regard. I've moved to the strangest, most mysterious--

You have one message.

He sighed and clicked the blog away.

Oh come on tell me where you are!!

You're still with that Sherlock bloke aren't you?? Are you sure you haven't hopped the fence?
Harry Watson

John banged his head on the desk. He was so very, very glad his sister wasn't here.

[[ clinic is open! ]]

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[trigons_child]

Raven felt she owed Watson a better apology than what she'd said in the library, especially after talking to Anakin, so Friday morning she headed down to the clinic. "Dr. Watson?" she said hesitantly as she stepped inside.

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John's eyes flitted away from his netbook, halfway into a scathing retort he'd been planning to send Harry's way. "Yes?" he said. "Oh! Raven, yes. Can I... help you with something?"

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"I wished to offer you an apology," Raven said, shaking her head. "What I said in the library was rude and an improper use of my gifts and I should not have done such a thing."

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"Apology accepted," said a combination of politeness and reflex buried deep in John's mind since childhood. "We're just really, really not."

No matter what his sister, Sherlock's brother, half of Scotland Yard and most of the restaurant owners in London might have thought.

[trigons_child]

"What I said about his feelings was true," Raven clarified helpfully. "But I should not have tried to imply anything about it. Professor Sherlock upset me enough that I was not thinking as clearly as I should."

Funny, that seemed to happen to a lot of people around him.

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Oh, and their landlady. Their landlady who seemed rather violently set on seeing a young her-and-her-dead-husband in them, which wasn't creepy at all.

"He does have a habit of that," said John, who was really trying not to go it's true? because all right, that was a bit of a mind twister. "I'm a bit surprised no one's tried to hit him yet, truth be told."

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Raven frowned a tiny bit. "I told Professor Skywalker what I did," she said, "and I know he went to see Professor Sherlock Wednesday according to the radio. There may have been punching involved." Because she knew Anakin.

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"...Well, he didn't come home with a black eye," John said, "Or a broken nose. Or any other signs of blunt trauma..."

He should know.

[trigons_child]

"That is a relief," Raven said. "Professor Skywalker can be very...forceful in the defense of his students. And while I do not like Professor Sherlock, I do not wish harm upon him."

Except when she was in his presence, and then the urge to wish a large rock to fall out of the sky and land on him was difficult to resist.

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Yes. Her, and most of the population of the Earth. John was used to it.

"Really?" he hence asked, quirking a brow in doubt.

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"I am a pacifist," Raven said. "Though he sorely tests my beliefs."

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"He tests everyone's beliefs," John said, rubbing at his brow. "Sometimes for sport, I think."

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"But why?" Raven said, her brow furrowing with confusion. "Why is he so unpleasant to others?"

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And now John was poking at the bridge of his nose. "Raven," he said, "Do you know what a sociopath is, by any chance?"

[trigons_child]

"It is a personality disorder, is it not?" Raven said. "I have heard the term, but I am not entirely familiar with what it means."

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"Yes. It means... that someone doesn't have a lot of empathy," he began. "And they can't control their emotions very well, and they don't understand... right and wrong the way we do. Most of all," John added, "They get bored. They get very bored."

Though he had no idea about what to do with the information that apparently Sherlock's lack of empathy and emotions towards others took a bit of a day off around him.

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"And I am an empath," Raven said, frowning more at the description. "He is almost the opposite of me." And somewhat terrifyingly so.

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John should probably have a decent answer to that.

"Yes."

Or he could just state the obvious.

"I mean, he's not a bad man." John had to say that, if simply because of his continuing discomfort at certain Met officer's convictions regarding the likelihood of Sherlock turning into a serial killer. "But if you're going to deal with him, you have to accept that there are some things he just won't understand."

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"I do not intend to deal with him if I can help it," Raven said, though she was concerned about someone who grew bored easily and had no control over their emotions. She knew it was a dangerous combination. "He makes me feel very uncomfortable, and he has already caused me to do things I regret." Causing John distress and almost losing her temper. "I will not let such things happen again."

She paused, then added, "Unless perhaps I could heal him of his affliction." Your sociopathy, give it to her.

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John stared at her, maybe more than a little aghast. "I don't think it works like that," he said, "Personality disorders. They're not-- healed, they're managed. I'd have to ask my therapist, but..."

Yes, he had a therapist. What of it.

"...I don't think it works like that."

[trigons_child]

"I can heal almost anything," Raven said. She hated saying "almost" now. "Any injury to the body, mind, or spirit. I think it would merely be the matter of healing his brain."

No, Raven.

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John might have stared, just a touch.

"It's a part of who he is," he said, finally. "Frustrating as he may be."

He was a little surprised by how uncomfortable he felt about the thought of a kinder, calmer Sherlock. "It's not an injury."

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"But it is not healthy," Raven said. "Though you need not worry, I would never force a healing upon him."

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"No, good," John said, drawing a slow breath. "That would end... badly. I know he's abrasive, and frustrating, to say the least. But it's just who he is."