Buried Too Deep [Sean]

Adrienne Tatum
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?In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.?

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Buried Too Deep [Sean] May 2, 2013 16:50:06 GMT -5

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Post by Adrienne Tatum on May 2, 2013 16:50:06 GMT -5

Adrienne tried to keep a strong smile despite the butterflies thrashing around her stomach and her heart thumping wildly. Ren took a deep breath, but nothing sliwed down. When she was as nervous as this, she focused too hard on smaller sounds around her. Hums, buzzes and hisses all drilled into her ears and she could feel the vibrations going through the ground through her feet. She sighed. Did she really need to see Dr. Neville? Maybe all her anxiety was caused by her deep seeded need to be popular. Oh my, I'm cured!

Sit down

She frowned and obeyed the strict, rational part of her mind. She breathed in and out. Exhale, inhale. Inhale, inhale. Exhale, exhale. Wait, this wasn't right. Once she remembered how to breathe properly, all the noises blended in around her.

Ren wrung her hands and fingers were dancing over her knees. It wasn't any secret that she tried to hide from herself. She was insecure. About her personality, her body and her skills. All her life she had been insecured abd worried. Always worried about every little thing. She shook her shoulders, physically attempting to "shake off" her bad feelings. She tried her hand at another smile. She caught her reflectiom in the window. Under all the black hair that looked like it had been hit by a whirlwind there was a poor girl hiding everything behind a smile. She held it. Yeah. Her fake smile. She knew it well. It was her best accessory.

Finding she hadn't have anything to do with her hands, she began to "fix" her black crop jacket. Looking down at her green Florence and The Machine t-shirt, she began to sing softly, altering it so it was even quieter, but not to her.

"Happiness hit her like a train on a track.
Coming towards her, stuck still, no turning back"

For the first time while sitting waiting for Dr. Neville, she felt a lot calmer. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad. Talking could even help her. But maybe what she was feeling was buried a little too deep for her to dig it up...

Last Edit: May 2, 2013 16:58:01 GMT -5 by Adrienne Tatum

Dr. Sean Neville
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Buried Too Deep [Sean] May 5, 2013 10:33:35 GMT -5

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Post by Dr. Sean Neville on May 5, 2013 10:33:35 GMT -5

Sean’s schedule was filled with a variety of duties, because he wore many hats. As the Hammel psychiatrist, he was tasked with the mental and emotional wellbeing of the student body and the other staff. While he was also charged with other tasks, including dolling out discipline, acting as a chaperone for field trips and dances, instructing students in sexual education each summer, and generally being the voice of reason on the faculty – his primary duty was his deepest passion.

As a telepath, the psychiatrist was more easily able to plug into the lives of the students and other staff at Hammel. He was aware of the students, even when they hadn’t explicitly introduced themselves to him. Likewise, he knew of their personalities through telepathy and their files, and it was through these methods that he determined whether someone might benefit from meetings with him.

Students could self-select to visit, to do so of their own initiative, but he also had the ability to nudge them in the right direction by taking the first step himself.

Sean knew that it wasn’t easy to be an adolescent, and it was particularly difficult to be an adolescent girl with levels of insecurity. His desire was to help students with those insecurities. As such, his attention had turned to Adrienne, who projected insecurity if one knew where to look.

He knew where to look. Such was his interest in helping her.

When he heard her arrive outside of his office, he took one last glance at her file. Then, setting it aside, he called for her, “Adrienne, you can come in when you’re ready.”

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Buried Too Deep [Sean] May 6, 2013 8:18:28 GMT -5

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Post by Adrienne Tatum on May 6, 2013 8:18:28 GMT -5

Ren sighed once more. Half of her was still stuck wondering why she had come. She couldn have gone to see Dr. Neville earlier, but she had put it off until now. If she thought too hard about it, her head began to hurt. She winced and lay back in her chair, breathing in and out. She blinked and bounced up when Dr. Neville called for her. Her mind began to ramble randomly when she was anxious.

When I'm ready? So I could stay out here for like another hour and he wouldn't mind? No Ren, stop being so stupid and go in... But I don't know if I want to now. Oh God, I've stood up though, it'll look silly if I don't walk in! Argh, Dr. Neville has telepathy right? Oh God, if he's listening to you he'll think your insane. I'm a lost cause!

Ren didn't seem to realise that her feet had walked on and she wasat the door. She swallowed and lightly tap the door with her knuckles. She stepped in slowly , closing the door softly with her palms. She gave the psychiatrist a big smile. Although she had never been as close to Dr. Neville as she was to other teachers- like Mr. Lucas, her drama teacher- she saw him around and knew "of" him really. She took a seat, still smiling. It felt good to smile genuinely, "Thanks for seeing me Dr. Neville." she began with, begin to knot her fingers together.

Trying hard not to gulp, her eyes quickly glanced around the room. Finally, after darting around but taking in no detail at all, the made eye contact with him and her lips curved in a shy smile. She was unsure what to say. Then she blurted out, "If my thoughts get all weird, they do that." she pursed her lips and any heat of embarrassment thankfully left her face alone. She tried again, "Sorry about that I'm just... very nervous." She laughed weakly and began to play with the end of her hair. Well, that went well...

Last Edit: May 6, 2013 8:43:51 GMT -5 by Adrienne Tatum

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Buried Too Deep [Sean] May 9, 2013 9:27:42 GMT -5

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Post by Dr. Sean Neville on May 9, 2013 9:27:42 GMT -5

Sean turned to face her when the door opened and Ren stepped inside. However, he didn’t rise to his feet as some schools of manners dictated; due to his height, he found it disadvantageous to tower over students who were already nervous about meeting with him. Since he wanted to foster a trusting environment, it was better not to flaunt his authority coupled with appearing physically imposing. As such, he offered her a gentle, welcoming smile and gestured at the chairs littered around his office, an implicit request that she make herself comfortable.

“You’re welcome.” The psychiatrist found it was easier to simply return one courtesy with another than it was to explain that student meetings were the most important aspect of his job. Such phrasing straddled a thin line between reassurance and sounding as though he didn’t actually care and this was merely part of exchange for his paycheck.

At her remark, the smile reappeared on his lips, intended as reassurance, while he returned the eye contact. “You needn’t apologize for your thoughts.” Sean had been a psychiatrist for thirty years, and was familiar with the psychology of nervousness and adolescence. He had been a telepath for more than forty years, and, while thoughts could hurt at times, he was extremely forgiving of what people thought in the privacy of their own mind. As opposed to what they actively projected at him.

Erratic thought patterns were to be expected, particularly when someone was in his office for the first time. “You won’t be the first person to feel that way, and you won’t be the last. However, I promise that I’m nowhere near as scary as I might look.”

He self-identified as a hippie, after all.

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Buried Too Deep [Sean] May 10, 2013 2:50:02 GMT -5

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Post by Adrienne Tatum on May 10, 2013 2:50:02 GMT -5

With a deep breath, Ren straightened the back of her denim skirt as she sat down. She always sat down on the edge of the seat with left hand sitting on top of her right. She felt a kind of calmness rush through her when he smiled at her. This was going to be alright. She began to say this over and over in her head.

Her face began to go back to its normal complexion. She pursed her lips in a kind of shy smile. OKay she would try to keep random out loud bursts of her thoughts under control, but it was good to know he was used to this kind of thing. Heck, maybe this wasn't even close to the worse reaction he had ever seen. Her shoulders began to shrug back and her legs didn't feel as tense.

She blushed a little and couldn't hold in a small giggle, "Well that's pretty reassuring." Ren just sank back completely into the chair, tension and any unease having left her body. Without really her brain giving the order, her fingers began picking at the threads on her black tights. Clearing her throat, she gave him another smile, "So, um, what do we have to start with?" Would she shave to start talking about her childhood? Her family? She swallowed. She had no idea why that freaked her out as much as it did. She had a wonderful family and her childhood was as average as you could get. Maybe it was just the thought of having to talk it out with someone she wasn't particularly close to.

Dr. Sean Neville
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Buried Too Deep [Sean] May 19, 2013 10:59:35 GMT -5

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Post by Dr. Sean Neville on May 19, 2013 10:59:35 GMT -5

Sean overheard her mantra, and he chose to do nothing to disturb it – neither to interrupt nor to encourage her verbally. He couldn’t always provide others with complete privacy, as telepathy often made that impossible. What he could do was to provide them with a sense of privacy, by leaving them the sanctity of their own thoughts without comment unless invited or in other narrow circumstances.

As such, he didn’t acknowledge the mantra verbally, telepathically, or by non-verbal gestures. Instead, he continued to wear the gentle smile on his lips and waited for her to give indication that she was ready to actually begin.

That indication came soon enough.

“We don’t have to start with anything in particular,” he explained, as he rested his hands on the arms of his chair. “We can talk about classes and how you enjoy Hammel. We can talk about your family. If you want, we can talk about a movie that you’ve seen lately and need to share opinions about.”

The psychiatrist always tried to make it plain that there was no single way to delve into a session. The time was hers, and he was here to work at a pace that she found comfortable.

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