- IC CONTACT POST FOR MASKORMENACE -

[slightlyoffchilt]

"Hello.

You've reached the direct line of Doctor Frederick Chilton. As I am not available at the moment, you might assume I'm quite busy with something pressing. State your name and business, and I will return your call."

Comments

[brushoff]

It can't be Raina. She's smart enough not to sign up to be analyzed to begin with. [ at least, he hoped she was. ] Who else...surely it's not someone from your own world. None of them seem like your type.

[ he is just going to continue poking and bothering and prodding at Chilton. ]

[slightlyoffchilt]

Useful to know. I feel exactly the same way -- as in, I don't want to sleep with you. It's a pretty predictable scenario, isn't it? Almost like I anticipated your reaction and used it in this dilemma.

Like you said: exploitation. Except without the mutual part, what are you getting out of this again?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Did you just implicitly insult yourself, while complimenting Raina?

[It was an amusing tangent, and Chilton found it suitable enough distraction -- but then Dorian said that.]

If we discount Abel Gideon for obvious reasons, the only other from my world who was my patient is Will Graham -- and he is as much a married man, I'll have you know. [Beat.] Married to a woman.

[He hoped that clarified.]

It isn't anyone from my Baltimore, no. I'm not going to discuss this with you!

[brushoff]

[ Right, he is married. Dorian remembers getting that postcard in the mail.

and like hell he's going to stop talking about this when it's making Chilton so uncomfortable. ]

I'll just put out an all-call to the network. Something like 'if you don't mind asking, how many of you have sought psychiatric help either here or at home?' Couch it in sympathetic terms, see the responses roll in, I'll have my answer relatively quick.

[ferrisbuellean]

That's the great thing of getting to know people, Frederick. I don't have to get anything out of our relationship immediately, but I know I'll have the possibility of calling on you whenever I want. It's basic synergy.

[slightlyoffchilt]

[This proposal, no matter the jest it was spoken in, clearly gnaws at Chilton.]

You'll do no such thing. And I'm just about to send you home with psychiatric homework assignments, if you aren't going to focus on your favorite topic again.

[brushoff]

[ Dorian is counting this as a victory. And, something that if he ever got too annoyed with Chilton, he gladly would pull out from his back pocket.

Still, homework assignments? Gross. ] By my favorite topic, you mean myself, right?

[slightlyoffchilt]

What a great perspective, Jeff. I'll be happy to discuss it in length during one of our sessions.

Which you are still obligated to attend.

[ferrisbuellean]

I wouldn't miss the opportunity to see you again. We can discuss it all you want. And maybe we can discuss why you hate sharing.

[slightlyoffchilt]

We won't be discussing that.]

[Jackals don't share!!]

[ferrisbuellean]

[Not even from one sly dog to another?]

Is it her you don't trust or yourself?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Naturally I mean yourself. How else would anyone hold your attention, if that were not the foremost topical content?

[Maybe he's teasing, a little.]

I want you to keep a journal. Of, specifically, what you think about the people you encounter in your daily life. For a week.

[Chilton is issuing Dorian to make a BURN BOOK basically.]

[slightlyoffchilt]

[Tempting... But...]

Are you analyzing my motivation, Jeff? And without a couched sedan?

[ferrisbuellean]

I'd never do such a thing, Doc. I'm not the pysch major. My job isn't to judge, merely to defend. And maybe just occasionally accuse.

[slightlyoffchilt]

So I should reframe? What are you accusing me of, exactly?

[ferrisbuellean]

Nothing, except being overly defensive. Maybe one day it'd be nice for us to have a talk where we both learn a few things about each other, that's all. You know. Like a normal conversation.

[brushoff]

[ Frederick Chilton is a FUGLY SLUT ]

What, really? [ but he's pretty much close to grinning all the while because ahahaha what ] How on earth is that going to help?

[slightlyoffchilt]

[DORIAN DON'T YOU PULL A REGINA AND FRAME HIM FOR THIS -- like really, hasn't he been framed enough?]

It will crystallize your socially inclined emotions. [And Chilton will be reading it for the sake of refining where to push Dorian next, but he doesn't clarify that part.]

[slightlyoffchilt]

A normal conversation? In the company of canned beers, and "the game"?

[ferrisbuellean]

You don't exactly strike me as an avid sports viewer.

[slightlyoffchilt]

I have formally referenced "the game", I think that qualifies me for the experiment.

[ferrisbuellean]

[It's a difficult thing to decline without displaying his general disinterest in sports viewing. He's created this whole persona for himself, he has to stick with it.]

I know a few good sports bars. Or we could go to your place. I bet you have a good TV.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Would this be my government housing, or the new place I'm about to move into?

[ferrisbuellean]

Whichever has the better TV. Yay sports.

[slightlyoffchilt]

What sports are we watching, again?




Golf?