- 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]

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.

[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]

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.]

[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.]

[brushoff]

[ it's Chilton's lot in life to be framed for errything. ]

Which in normal people speak means...?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Oh, Dorian, I would never accuse you of normalcy. But -- in other words -- journal writing is a reflective tool. I hope you will find insight in the action.

[brushoff]

The Diary of Dorian Gray. It certainly has a nice ring to it, at least.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Doesn't it just?

[-- Then there's that brief glance towards the clock.]

And now that you're bubbling with anticipation, I can formally let you go. This was a good session, Dorian.

[brushoff]

Really? [ don't look so shocked, buddy. ]

See you next week, I suppose.