EnsTren:
EnsTren: anyways, I suggested Sarah Konoha
EnsTren: konoha = leaf
Edmondia: heh
Edmondia: poor girl
EnsTren: EnsTren: hehee
EnsTren: and she thinks that Yami is Yugi and Yugi's the twin
and Seth is Seto
Edmondia: well, Seth's rather a bit more tanned and redheaded,
but I can understand that
EnsTren: cause Seto = guy, this person who is the new twin is a
girl, therefore not Seto
Edmondia: is she ever gonna get to see Seto?
EnsTren: Edmondia: and talk to her and... stuff?
EnsTren: dunno
Edmondia: Seth's all antsy
EnsTren: and I think when she hears more of it she says bluntly
that he fucked himself over
Edmondia: and he's all, "I KINDA FIGURED THAT OUT BY
NOW!"
EnsTren: she explains that when he touched her in the deal it
most likely produced anxiety very much like an all out rape would
EnsTren: EnsTren: and that he's probably made her phobia
worse
Edmondia: this is about the point where he starts beating his
head against the wall
EnsTren: and then she starts outlining the treatment plan
Edmondia: and they all go 'poing'
EnsTren: logically counter act her detrimental statements
EnsTren: Edmondia: Seth's sweatdropping and looking put
upon
EnsTren: point out past achivements of men that had nothing to
do with sex
Edmondia: "Killing other men?"
EnsTren: "Inventions, you know a lot about those Kaiba-san."
EnsTren: "Police force, Ghandi, Buddah."
Edmondia: "Um... of course I do."
EnsTren: EnsTren: "Also, to get her acclimated to touch I
would suggest you lie on your stomach or back facing her, and tell
her that you're going to touch her hand."
Edmondia: "She'll bite me. And not in a good way, either."
EnsTren: "Tell her that she needs to co-operate if she wants to
get better. And that if she says "stop" you will stop, and if she
says "let go" you will release her."
Edmondia: He sighed. "Okay..." EnsTren: EnsTren: "And assure her that you're only going to
touch her hand, and once she's calm ask her if you can touch
her wrist."
Edmondia: Another sigh. "All right."
EnsTren: "Also, once you are, say above the elbow, get her
acclimated to you holding both her hands."
EnsTren: "You'd also want to start on the legs before
then--however do not go above the knee or she may view that
as sexual."
EnsTren: Edmondia: "So start going up the arms and then
start the legs?"
EnsTren: "Variate. If she gets nervous of you holding her hand
ask to touch her feet. Give her a foot rub to help her relax.
When doing that you may want to bind your legs together with
a belt, so she feels that it will be harder for you to pursue her if
she wants to run."
EnsTren: "And never, ever ever block the exits."
Edmondia: They all exchanged a long-suffering look at that.
"Believe me, we know that."
EnsTren: EnsTren: "Give her something to hold that will
comfort her, and if she runs, let her. Perhaps follow at a
distance and wait outside the room she has hidden herself in.
Talk to her through the door and ask her why she didn't ask you
to stop."
Edmondia: They all turned to stare at Mokuba.
EnsTren: The boy shrugged and smiled at them.
Edmondia: "You're gonna be used as a plushie, you know that,
right?"
EnsTren: EnsTren: "Yes Onii-sama."
"Uhm... If you must be out of sight, say behind her, make sure
there are mirrors so she can see you. This would be about the
time when you got to her shoulders--a shoulder rub would be
good--it should help her relax."
Edmondia: "Or make her bite me."
EnsTren: "Tell her you are going to give her a shoulder rub and
ask if that's okay."
EnsTren: Edmondia: "Aaaaaaaaaaand that's about when she'll
bite me."
EnsTren: "Then don't touch her until she says yes. You also
want to coax her into shorts slowly, pants, then three quarter
pants, then long shorts and by that time maybe normal shorts.
Because then the difficult part will start."
Edmondia: Seth looked like a doomed man. "Tell me."
EnsTren: "Arms and back and lower legs, all is left are parts that
she would consider sexual, buttocks, stomach, chest, thighs and
uh..."
EnsTren: She flushed slightly.
EnsTren: Edmondia: He shrugged. "The other bits?"
EnsTren: "Yes. You need to keep in mind her growth
now--getting to this point will take a long while but she should
be more open and able to control herself. And since these areas
are danger zones you don't want to move your hand. If you're
putting your hand on her stomach just rest it there lightly--don't
rub, don't press."
Edmondia: He sighed. "Cousin, will you cut off my hand for me
please?"
EnsTren: EnsTren: "You should calm down, getting that far
could take more than a month--or don't you think she's capable
of growing as a person and controling herself?"
EnsTren: Her tone and look was sharp--espically considering
that she was still tied to a chair. EnsTren: Edmondia: "It's not her control that concerns me."
EnsTren: "Ah yes, it was your lack of self control that degraded
her condition to this point, bravo."
EnsTren: "Anyways, you know it doesn't have to be you
touching her, just a sexually mature male." And she looked at
Yami.
Edmondia: Yami looked cornered. Yugi looked pissed. Seth
growled. "Oh HELL no."
EnsTren: EnsTren: "In fact it might help, so she is able to
tolerate and accept touches, not just you specifically."
EnsTren: She continued blithely.
Edmondia: "The fact remains, however, that she is absolutely
terrified of me," Yami said shortly, "And would much sooner
have Yugi touch her than me."
EnsTren: She looked confused, "But you're Yugi," and she
looked at the girl twin.
EnsTren: And then back at the boy. Yugi Mouto was definetly
a boy.
EnsTren: Edmondia: "...we forgot to tell her about that, didn't
we?"
Edmondia: Yugi stood up. "I'm Yugi."
EnsTren: "Uh... Yugi Mouto is a boy however--there is no way I
can imagine you flattening your breasts enough to get into that
outfit," she jerked her head at the pharaoh.
Edmondia: Yugi turned to glare at said pharaoh. "This was
YOUR idea, yami-chan."
Edmondia: (sankyuu!)
EnsTren: EnsTren: "I'm going to ignore this for the sake of
my own sanity, I hear nothing I see nothing I speak
nothing--cause I've heard about the twin thing in Domino."
Edmondia: Yugi stomped his foot. "Dammit, turn me back into a
guy!"
EnsTren: "Three monkeys over here. Lalala."
Edmondia: Yami grumbled. "Okay, okay..."
Edmondia: A flash of light later, and Yugi happily patted himself
down, "Much better!"
EnsTren: EnsTren: The tied up person was in her own little
happy world for the moment.
Edmondia: Yugi glomped his yami happily. "Thank you,
yami-chan!"
EnsTren: "I didn't see that, I'm not here, la la la."
Edmondia: Seth wandered over and poked her. "Yugi's better
for hugging my hikari. Keep talking."
EnsTren: "Uh, improve your self control, and
uh... ShemghtaveVaginpmhmus."
EnsTren: Edmondia: "I don't speak Japanese very well." He
poked her again. "Talk louder."
EnsTren: "ShemighthaveVaginimus!"
Edmondia: "...vagi-whatsis?"
EnsTren: "Vaginimus."
Edmondia: Seth looked around. "Does anyone here know what
that is?"
EnsTren: Head shakes.
Edmondia: Yugi blinked and pulled away from his yami. "I'm
guessing it's a... sexual problem?"
EnsTren: EnsTren: "uh...It's when a woman's vaginal
muscles spasm or clench due to psychological reasons and
makes entry painful and difficult if not impossible."
EnsTren: "Like myth of penis captivus, but not inside."
EnsTren: Edmondia: They all winced.
Edmondia: "Um... good luck, cousin," Atemu murmured, and
gave him a consoling pat on his shoulder.
EnsTren: "We--err have ways of treating that though."
Edmondia: "...yay?"
EnsTren: "Yes, I suppose."
Edmondia: Yugi smiled. "So... she'll be okay?"
EnsTren: "I hope so--but uh... to just get over the
phobias... could take a very long time."
EnsTren: Edmondia: Seth sighed. "We knew that already."
EnsTren: "For what it's worth--I'm sorry."
Edmondia: "Cousin, stop thinking of jumping out the window."
EnsTren: "So you want to leave her like she is?"
EnsTren: "After all the emotional pain and trauma you've
caused her, unable to deal with her normal life because of you?
You'd rather run away than make it right?"
EnsTren: Edmondia: He sighed. "I don't seem to be helping
her much anyway, now do I?"
EnsTren: "Well now you know how to help her, and encourage
her to touch you as well, your hair, your hand."
Edmondia: "She doesn't like me. Don't you get that."
EnsTren: "If you betrayed my trust like that I wouldn't like you
much either! But with how she is, even before you messed her
up worse, she couldn't like any man, at all."
EnsTren: Edmondia: "...I understand that feeling..."
EnsTren: She looked at him, suspicious and worried, and
continued to talk earnestly but softer, "So tell her that and
explain it to her," and me if you want to, "Words are good."
EnsTren: "Make her see you as a person, not a man."
EnsTren: "Because right now men are the scum of the earth to
her."
Edmondia: His lips curled. "Men are the scum of the earth."
EnsTren: "To her you all are men."
Edmondia: His spine stiffened, and he looked about ready to
bite.
EnsTren: "She can't differentiate between men that do crimes
and men that do not. She thinks they all wish to be filthy and
horrible as the one that hurt her."
Edmondia: He flinched as though struck.
EnsTren: "She thinks that they all want sex and to be cruel
and to control."
EnsTren: "To her, you are a man, and you are the worst kind,
the kind that desires her."
Edmondia: He drew in a sharp breath, biting his fingers.
Edmondia: Yami rose to his feet and gently withdrew them
from his mouth.
EnsTren: She looked at Yami, "The kind that can force her," a
glance back at Seth, "the kind that knows her secrets and so
can take things from her."
Edmondia: He drew in a shuddering breath. "I - I
understand..."
EnsTren: "You took something important away from her,
control. From what you all have told me control and possession
of her own body was taken from her at an early age."
Edmondia: His eyes slitted, shame forgotten in the face of
familiar rage. "Yes."
EnsTren: "But by all you knowing what you do she no longer
has control over you, and even lack of autonomy from
you--because you control her, and she hates that and fears that.
You know what the last man in control of her did."
EnsTren: "Appeal to her this way, to regain some control
over herself though mastering her fears."
Edmondia: Yugi sighed. "Seto-kun... isn't the easiest person
to get along with."
EnsTren: "Why would she be? And why would she want to
be?"
Edmondia: Yugi shook his head. "I'm just saying it'll take
some time to convince her to even listen to us."
EnsTren: "Which is what you are going to be doing, showing
her that she can trust you by doing what she says, stopping
when she says stop, letting go when she says to, letting her run
if she wants."
Edmondia: "...but it hurts."
EnsTren: "How do you think she feels when you don't?"
Edmondia: He shook his head. "That's not what I mean!"
EnsTren: "Then what do you mean?"
Edmondia: He stared stonily at the wall.
EnsTren: She waited patiently.
Edmondia: "Um... I think what Seth-kun means is... not - not
having constant contact with her... um... is both emotionally
unsatisfying and... well, makes him physically ill."
EnsTren: "So then he is tripally encouraged to help her."
She thought about it, "Assuming I'm in the Kaiba mansion,
there's plenty of forests and things in the backyard so to speak.
Go outside and hold hands and explore."
EnsTren: "Hold hands."
Edmondia: "Um... neesama doesn't really like the outdoors as
much as niisama does..."
EnsTren: "...Give her a paintball gun and point out if he does
anything she doesn't like she can use it on him without
worrying about the walls and carpet."
EnsTren: "I don't know, you know her best--bonding
activities where she will feel safe."
Edmondia: "She feels safe whenever I'm not there!" he
groaned, and seemed to seriously be contemplating bashing his
head into the wall again.
EnsTren: "Find an activity or place she feels is inherently
safe and go there with her."
Edmondia: They all turned to stare at Mokuba.
EnsTren: "Eh... she likes to go to the mall with Mai."
Edmondia: "We can't go out in public together anyway."
EnsTren: "Disguises, hair dye and colored contacts and
whatever."
Edmondia: Yugi and Yami grinned somewhat evilly at Seth.
EnsTren: That window was looking pretty good again.
Edmondia: He took a cautious, discreet step towards it.
EnsTren: "So you're just going to abadon her."
Edmondia: "It's what she wants."
EnsTren: "But is it what she needs?"
Edmondia: "She certainly doesn't need me."
EnsTren: "You doing that is only going to remove the closest
threat--not the phobia."
Edmondia: "And, cousin, I let you slide once - but reclaimed
you. Your life is still mine."
EnsTren: "For her I would deny you, cousin."
Edmondia: Ruby eyes narrowed in warning. "You could try."
EnsTren: "If I did it wouldn't by jumping out a window in
your presence."
Edmondia: "I know, dear cousin. I know."
Edmondia: Yugi rolled his eyes. "Stop posturing at each
other and get back to the problem at hand."
EnsTren: "I don't see why we have to Yugi-kun. The lady
already gave us how to start, so let's start."
Edmondia: He arched a thin brow. "Oh? And we're just
going to suddenly run in and start babbling at her, is that it?"
EnsTren: "Don't be a baka. I'm going to go talk to her, we're
going to sit down someplace with me wrapped around her waist
and Yugi is going to watch her thoughts and you're going to
beg like a dog to touch her hand."
Edmondia: "...great, now she's gonna think I'm Jounouchi."
EnsTren: "I'd say he's an improvement on you."
Edmondia: He pouted. "But I'm prettier!"
EnsTren: "Jou hasn't done anything to Oneesama yet."
Edmondia: "And yet they're both somehow equally childish,"
Yami murmured, and picked up his omote, who squeaked.
EnsTren: Mokuba growled like a lion cub and went to find his
sister.
Edmondia: Seth stared at the wall.
EnsTren: He didn't know what to do.
Edmondia: "Do what the nice lady said, Seth-kun."
EnsTren: Seth wandered out after Mokuba.
Edmondia: Yami pinched Yugi's butt.
EnsTren: "Uhm not infront of the psychologist, please?"
Edmondia: He pouted, then frowned. "Should we untie her?"
EnsTren: "Only if I get to tie you up."
Edmondia: Yami blinked.
Edmondia: "As appealing as that sounds, aren't we supposed
to be watching Kaiba?"
EnsTren: "Meep."
EnsTren: And off they ran.
Edmondia: Leaving the poor kidnapped psychologist sitting
on the couch, still tied up.
Edmondia: "Well... this sucks."
EnsTren: A few weeks later she rescinded that statement. She
was untied, got more than a thousand channels of TV, and was fed
anything she wanted by French chefs.
Edmondia: But for now... she was stuck on a couch.
EnsTren: "Sigh..."
Edmondia: And she idly wondered how her erstwhile patient
was doing.
EnsTren: When she rescinded her statement she was letting
Seth hold her hand three quarters of the time, and letting him
touch halfway up her elbow half the time she allowed any touch
at all, and enjoying the occasional foot massage.
EnsTren: But now? Now she was crying.
Edmondia: And Mokuba was wrapped around her waist and
petting her hair, whispering to her and kissing her cheek.
EnsTren: And she cried.
Edmondia: "Neesama, it's okay, I promise it's okay - you want
to get better, don't you?"
EnsTren: His Neesama didn't like this at all.
Edmondia: But his Neesama needed to do this.
EnsTren: And she did.
Edmondia: He hugged her and petted her hair while Seth kept
a light, gentle grip on her fingertips.
EnsTren: She didn't want this, could see how she was afraid
he would pounce on her at any moment.
Edmondia: Even if he was laying very quietly on the ground
at her feet.
EnsTren: He knew she would have been able to stand it a
week ago. But that poison, Yugi said that he could only repair
her physically...
Edmondia: He didn't want to think about that. That had not
been his most precious beloved - that was not her.
EnsTren: But whatever it was had hurt her badly, in her mind.
Edmondia: And now it would take even longer for him to find
her smile.
EnsTren: He was going to find the one who gave that
poinson to his light and stole her smile. He was going to kill
them slowly.
Edmondia: Very, very slowly.
EnsTren: And he'd enslave their soul.
Edmondia: ...he could give it to her.
EnsTren: Would she smile then?
Edmondia: ...maybe? For him?
EnsTren: He could hope.
Edmondia: So he would.
Edmondia: He smiled.
EnsTren: And her sobs tripped and choked before starting
again--and maybe they were quieter.
Edmondia: He wondered why.
EnsTren: He hoped it meant she felt a little better.
Edmondia: He hoped she was getting used to his touch.
EnsTren: So he asked, very very softly if he could hold her
hand a little bit more? Pretty please? Just her fingers still. And
may he pet them? Because they were very fine fingers, very
pretty and elegant.
Edmondia: And Mokuba squeezed her gently and asked if
that was okay with her.
