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| Branching Out [Open]; Febuary 26 5151 | |
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| yew | Sep 14 2012, 07:35 PM Post #16 |
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"I don't want to." Jewels gritted out, grinding her teeth. She didn't want to trust the psychologist. She'd already done enough with one psychologist, belting all that out again was something she didn't want to do. Opening up was hard for her. Even more so when it felt like a massive pity party. It made her feel absolutely pathetic. And not the sad pitying pathetic. The angry kind. The hostile kind where she wanted to have a screaming match with some random pony on the street just because they'd looked at her funny. But she had held that in. She couldn't have her son hearing about any such incidents. He was already so afraid. He had a bold face, but he was afraid of everyone killing themselves. And it was her fault. |
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| Masterweaver | Sep 14 2012, 07:52 PM Post #17 |
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"And why do you not want to trust me?" The desk clock ticked in the resulting silence, as the multicolored lamps shone in the background. This was the crux of treatment, in Flying Minx's opinion. This was where all the progress was made, where all the real work was done. Patients had a comfort zone... no, a stability zone, a place where they felt nothing would change, and they need to learn to trust they therapist if they were to be guided out of their own pain and turmoil. Anypony could fake cooperation, but only ponies who believed that the psychiatrist had their best interest at heart would actually find a path to healing. Edited by Masterweaver, Sep 14 2012, 08:09 PM.
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| yew | Sep 14 2012, 08:04 PM Post #18 |
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Why why why? Ugh. "I'm leaving." Truth was Jewels didn't want to say the reason. It was pathetic, and she didn't want to feel pathetic. She was pathetic, but it didn't mean she really really wanted to feel the weight of that. Jewels couldn't stand being pathetic. Pathetic wouldn't bring depression. It would bring anger. Like it was already. She felt mad. |
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| Masterweaver | Sep 14 2012, 08:15 PM Post #19 |
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Flying Minx sighed. "I can't stop you. In fact, if you really want, I can pull you completely from therapy sessions like this. All I would need is your signature." She pulled the proper paperwork from a drawer, placing it on the desk. A pen floated telekineticly to Jewel's grasp. "This is your decision. I won't try to sway you one way or the other. But if you leave without signing, you will be required to attend another three months of sessions at the very least." The zunicorn, against her better judgement, meant every word of what she had just said. |
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| yew | Sep 14 2012, 08:27 PM Post #20 |
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Jewels just starting leaving without another word, not even glancing at the paperwork. It was strangers that she couldn't stand, but her actual psychologist was alright. It'd probably take more than three months at the very least to try and fix the issues she'd made with herself. Flight Risk was attending a few sessions as well. And how to fix the issues she made with him she had no idea. It was her fault that he feared every second of every day that everyone was thinking about committing suicide. And she couldn't figure out how to fix that alone. She opened the door then slammed it shut, not leaving. "I guess I'll just stay here for a little while longer." She said, turning around and pressing her back against the frame so that Flying Minx couldn't even attempt to open it. Her smile was forced, and the first actual one she'd had so far. Mostly because if she weren't smiling she'd be doing something else. Probably freaking out majorly. "So. How soon until the sun rises do you think?" She asked, forced conversation that wasn't focused on her. |
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| Masterweaver | Sep 14 2012, 08:49 PM Post #21 |
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"Princess Luna has her own issues to work through. But this... false light seems to be an improvement." Flying Minx tapped her chin thoughtfully. "Maybe she is starting to come around. I don't think it will be too long..." After a moment, the zunicorn locked eyes with the pegasus. "Jewels. I cannot help you if you don't trust me. So now I'm asking out right: what would help you in trusting that I can help you?" She did not break her gaze even for a second. The false smile was not a distraction from her goal; rather, it served to push her on. |
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| yew | Sep 14 2012, 09:00 PM Post #22 |
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Jewels would rather eternal night than this light. It was unnatural. It came from everywhere at once, not from the sky. It made some of her ideas quite implausible. And boy she was dying to try them. It had been years. Decades. This wasn't the sun. There was no sun, just this eerie light. "I don't know." All she had to do was stall for about five minutes or so… Or… Longer? Jewels didn't know. But five minutes sounded like a safe number. "Stand on your head for five minutes?" She said, clearly distracted and saying the first thing that came to mind. |
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| Masterweaver | Sep 14 2012, 09:21 PM Post #23 |
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She'd heard of crazier things, being a psychologist and all, but this actually made sense; a trust exercise to earn trust. Granted, one that would be painful, but that was a minor sacrifice. "All right." Flying Minx stepped out from behind her desk, crouched down, and extended her head. "Get on." The zunicorn braced herself to support the full weight of a formerly suicidal pegasus mother. |
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| yew | Sep 14 2012, 09:27 PM Post #24 |
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"Wait? What?" Jewels paused for a moment, trying to think what Flying Minx was doing. "No, I meant you standing on your own head. Like, on your forehooves and all hooves in the air. Like that." Jewels scrambled for the right words to say, pulling the curtains shut. There was no way she would stand on someone's head, that sounded weird. And painful. And she couldn't believe that the changeling was actually going to do it. What a strange girl. Or thing. Jewels wasn't sure which it was. She was just glad that she wasn't trying to get out or look out the windows. Though the curtains may have been pushing it a little now that she thought about it. |
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| Masterweaver | Sep 14 2012, 09:45 PM Post #25 |
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"Oh, I'm sorry." Headstands were much easier for Flying Minx to accomplish, as she demonstrated almost immediately. "I did not mean to misinterpret your request." Five minutes of this would be easy, if awkward, and she could use the time to further understand Jewels. "So... are you dating anypony?" |
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| yew | Sep 14 2012, 11:22 PM Post #26 |
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"No. Not at all." Jewels said, casting a glance back to the curtains as she said this. She was worried that they may have opened or something. But… Even if Fly Minx could see, it wasn't really right. Jewels meant… The thing wouldn't be able to tell what she was nervous about. As far as anyone else was concerned, it'd just be a regular day(ish) outside. Nothing weird. But still… There was a reason why she was in here and not out there. She'd rather face the new counselor than who was out there. Why were they even here at all? "What would make you think that?" She said as she looked back to the zunicorn. |
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| Masterweaver | Sep 15 2012, 09:23 AM Post #27 |
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Somehow Flying Minx managed to shrug without losing her balance. "No particular reason. There was a Johnagold in your reports, though, he seemed to be a pony you admired." She smiled slyly. "From what I have read you two would make an adorable couple!" And there was also the fact that Johnagold had been the primary pony to pull her out of her funk. The zunicorn highly suspected that the only reason the two weren't in a relationship was Jewel's own self-loathing and stubbornness; she wouldn't be surprised if the whole town was secretly conspiring to ensure that the two of them got together. |
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| yew | Sep 16 2012, 06:13 PM Post #28 |
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"Uh huh. Sure. Whatever." Jewels said, trotting around the room nervously, glancing at the clock. Damn. Fifteen seconds hadn't even passed. TIme was going so slowly. "He took me and my foal in after the…. Incident." Johnagold was very nice. And generous. But she just didn't feel that way about him. She doubted she could feel that way about anyone. There was just too much to do. Her son to fix and trying to lift a business of the ground. It was hard. But Jewels knew those were just excuses for the mere fact that Jewels just didn't' feel that way about him. She just didn't. |
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| Masterweaver | Sep 17 2012, 09:41 AM Post #29 |
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"He must have a good heart, taking in a filly and her son without asking anything in return." Flying Minx blew a bit of mane out of her face. Maybe if she followed this line of questioning she could find exactly where Jewels had lost herself. "You must feel very grateful to the stallion. I understand your son considers him to be his real father..." Wisdom from the mouth of foals, in her opinion, but she knew better then to force Yew to come to that conclusion. No, the pegasus had to be guided gently, express herself without fear of needing to conform. |
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| yew | Sep 17 2012, 01:14 PM Post #30 |
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"I know." Jewels said. that was a debt she hoped to repay. When she had the money. With things as they were now her business was having a hard time getting off the ground. The world was practically ending, eternal night, Celestia gone, people dying by the hundreds in Pundani. People were too busy with serious stuff to bother with the more pretty things in life. So she was more going off on making food right now. Like before. Not the best thing in the world for her, but she had to feed her foal and pay the rent somehow. |
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