326/Telepathic Help

Telepathic Help
Date of Scene:	07 May 2017
Location:	Xavier's Schook, Westchester, New York
Synopsis:	Summary needed
Cast of Characters:	207, Deadzone, Psylocke

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David Akenda (207) has posed:
David has for the most part been a model guest. Polite, and well mannered as is expected for one of Japnese heritage. He's currently in the medical bay trying to meditate, to try and restore his center his balance to push the night terrors out of his mind, but every time he tries it just snaps him out of his meditation.

Frustrated and anger at himself for it he comes to the conclusion he will need some form of Psychic help to resolve it, or allow it to take the normal weeks for it to fade.

So for now all he is doing is munching on the small simple snacks he has been given to get his energy up so he won't fall to sleep. He's still tired, and not able to rest well mentally at night.

Deadzone has posed:
Came down to the medbay in a much better mood that when she left the nigth before. It had been David's first night on his own, Tate taking the opportunity of David's improving health to have a night in her own bed.

"Okay, David, Ms. Braddock should be here sometime today. I just wanted to remind you that she will be diving into your head to help with the nightmares. But, I'll be right here, so if you feel at all uncomfortable, you just say the word. Okay? Oh, and Ms Braddock? She can be... how to put it... She can sometimes be ... intense! Yes, that's the best word for her. Don't let it get to you. I promise, she's a really nice person once you get to know her. And if she seems angry at all, I guarantee its all aimed at me."

David Akenda (207) has posed:
David listens to Tatum and swallows. He's nervious about someong fooling with his head. But it's going to be weeks of exhaustion. And he doesn't even know why he has the nightmares and finally he does ask. "So once the nightmares are taken care of I will be getting a room with other students and my sword back?" he says.

"I understand I hope that I won't be too difficult for her. I'm... nervious.

Deadzone has posed:
The goth nods her head slowly with a warm smile. "Yes, once we have dealt with the nightmares, you will get a room and your sword back. You're only a sophmore, so you will have to share it with three others, but it will give you a chance to get to know some of the other students here and maybe make some friends. Oh, Thursday nights are depowered nights. I host a movie night for the students and let my field go so it covers everyone there. Some of the students really like it. Others? Avoid it like the plague. You are welcome to join us."

David Akenda (207) has posed:
as he listens and nods to her and says. "Well you can't really stay all tight and inverted. Even my father made sure that he had..." and he trains off as a look of sadness and longing hits him and soon a tear runs from his eyes as he wipes them away. He's not cried in a long time. He hasn't had the time. "Well I haven't seen a movie in a while I will be interested in attending." he says.

Psylocke has posed:
"Well, let's see what we have going on here," Psylocke says as she enters the medical bay. She is wearing a very conservative white blouse and blue skirt, and half-moon spectacles. She is carrying a clipboard, and her heels make noise as she approaches. Her violet eyes skim David up and down, then looking over to Tatum with a "really" sort of look.

Psylocke exhales, as she pulls a chair around and takes a seat in it. She crosses her ankles demurely, and she looks at David directly in the eyes, "David, I need you to listen to me very closely, and give me your full attention."

David Akenda (207) has posed:
When Ms Braddock comes in he turns to look at her. She might very well be used to it, but David's not ignorant of her beauty but he closes his eyes after she explains she needs his full attention so he closes his eyes and then centers himself before looking into her eyes directly. In Japan prolonged eyecontact is concidered rude but he nods some showing he is listening to her. Maintaining eye contact. "Yes Ma'am."

Deadzone has posed:
Tatum notices that look that Betsy gives her and smirks with a shrug. What? He's a 15 yr old boy. And he needs help. It's not Tatum's fault that Betsy is smoking hot. "It's okay, David. Just relax and let Ms. Braddock do what she can. She won't go anywhere or do anything in your head that doesn't need to be done."

Psylocke has posed:
"Except the fact that I must warn him," Betsy says, interrupting Tatum, "Is that if I feel that he is irrecoverable, I will render him mentally retarded." Psylocke does not break eye contact with David the entire time she says this, and she carries no emotion. She then adjusts one of the parts of her hair, bringing it up to a pony-tail.

"Do you consent to this?" Psylocke asks as she braces herself.

David Akenda (207) has posed:
As she says that and then he pulls back and says,. "And what is your terms of irrecoverable?" he asks before he just allows a woman into his mind to accept that she might just labotomise him. He's not a killer, not yet. A petty thief but he does it out of survival.

Narrowing his eyes as he doesn't want to simply attack or walk out. He wants to be free of the nightmares. But not at the hands of someone who will simply consider him a lost cause.

Psylocke has posed:
Psylocke purses her lips, "I was told your nightmares make you dangerous to other students." She turns her eyes on Tatum, "Unless /someone/ told me something so that I would make a point to come down here before my next appointment."

Deadzone has posed:
Tatum groans as Betsy just oh so casually says she might have to turn the boy into a vegetable. Maybe going for the irish heritaged woman would have been a better idea. She reaches up to pinch the bridge of her nose. "I *think* that was her idea of a joke, David. I mentioned intense, right?"

"Please do not lobotomize the boy without consent from Xavier at the very least?" she asks.

Psylocke has posed:
Psylocke actually stops to think about that. Actually stops.

"Is he easily reachable?" She asks.

Deadzone has posed:
"You know, we could just have him sleep in one of the guest cabins by Logan. He's not so dangerous he needs killing. We just want to integrate him with the class?"

Tate leans back and folds her arms over chest, cocking a hip as she gives Betsy a withering look. "You're a goddam Psychic! If you can't reach him easily, we're kinda fucked."

David Akenda (207) has posed:
as he listens to her he blinks and he seems to stop flexing his hands some. "Dangerous yes, perhaps not in the way it was discribed to you. My nightmares leave me in a paniced state. They only surface when I cut someone with my wires I feel their pain as my own when I cut them. It triggers intense nightmares of pain and fear. Rest is difficult, waking up to a start. It is possible I may react out of that nightmare. Normally it takes several weeks but the nightmares do fade and I don't react in such away."

He explains. Considers

Psylocke has posed:
Psylocke clicks her tongue, and then refocuses on David, "All right, David. I will not lobotomize you. It's a matter of easing you out of your trauma state so that you can tell the difference between reality and your dreams." She brings her fingers up to her temple and presses them there.

Purple luminescent lights appear in front of her face in the shape of a butterfly. "David," She says, her voice taking on a different quality. To Deadzone, she won't notice a difference, but David will hear the difference.

"I need you to close your eyes and relax, this won't take but a moment." If David accepts, a warm feeling comes over him as though he were falling into a deep sleep.

Deadzone has posed:
The goth pops herself up on the second medbay bed, and lets out a soft sigh. Yes, for her, this is going to be boring as hell, but then she gets to sleep in her bed every night. so boredom is a small sacrifice for a good and comfy night sleep.

David Akenda (207) has posed:
the touch to David's mind takes him by surprise. He is a Psychic something she could tell from the sensation. And it takes him a moment as he allows the touch to happen and he closes his eyes swallowing hard, and then his own disipline comes in and he doe shis best to relax his mental guard. The sensation of sleep makes him jump some reactively wanting to avoid it, fearing, dreading the nightmares.

And as he does managed to allow her access it comes triggered almost reflexively, a slash of pain, slicing, cutting, the image of him as a child, seeing his mother and father under attack from killers, his powers coming out, fuill strength, his wires cutting them to shredds, all the pain they felt was given to him. so powerful traumatic it's like he feels them dying....

Everytime he sleeps the memory is there on the surface. his mind can't process the trauma of what he felt. The brain did what was needed to protect his sanity, it supressed it deep, dark... and when he cuts someone. Brings the memories to the surface forcing his mind to rebury them.

Psylocke has posed:
Psylocke flinches slightly when she finds that this kid's mind is a lot more fragile than she had anticipated, because her mind comes in like sledgehammer, which cannot be avoided. She finds the memories, and she breathes calmly. She speaks again:

"All right David, you're gonna have to set these memories aside. They aren't present to you any longer. They are in the past.." Psylocke's mental hand "reaches out" and briefly brushes the memories, and then suddenly, her hand pushes on them so hard so as to press them so far back into David's mind, that if he tried to think about them while she does this, he'd get a major headache.

"Leave them there until you need them, and no sooner. You touch these memories, and you will regret it. There's no need to go back to them."

David Akenda (207) has posed:
For Tatum, the reaction is that David actually drops to his hands and knees in shock, blood drips from his nose. the sheer level of trauma that he had to deal with is enough combined with approach of Besty is enough to push into him. And then as the memories are pushed back the memories fade and are placed into a lock reburried, but for ever connectwed to his powers still it is enough that David looks up eyes almost blood shot as he feels better, the torment has been resealed and finally he collapses onto the ground.

Psylocke might have been a sledgehammer but she has dealt with the trama.

Deadzone has posed:
As David falls, Tatum jumps off of the gurney she is sitting on. She starts to approach but then stops. What if her touching David messes up with what Psylocke is doing. She bites at her lower lip, looking from the young man to the more experienced teacher, not really sure what to do.

Psylocke has posed:
Psylocke lowers her fingers, and the butterfly disappears. She withdraws her hand, and then reaches forward to pull the young man back up. She glances over at Tatum, and then back at David.

"David," Psylocke says ever-so-gently. Her edge is gone, and in fact sounds concerned, "Can you hear me?"

David Akenda (207) has posed:
David Closes his eyes as he had collapsed on the floor and he lays there. Now that he is fre of the nightmares the sensation of the dread of sleeping gone he looks up at Psylocke and finally he syas, "Yes.... so tired." and he actually falls to sleep. And for the first time in days he does fall into a slumber. And this time it is not the nightmare filled traumatic dream. Now he can truely rest, truly begin to heal and recovery mentally and physically.

Deadzone has posed:
As the boy starts falling asleep in Betsy's arms, Tatum smiles and helps her to get him into the gurney he's been sleeping in for the last week. Well, trying to sleep in. This si the most relaxed she has ever seen him slumber. "I don't know what you did. But it worked. Thank you." Tatum runs her fingers through David's hair, a comforting, almost maternal gesture, odd in one as young as she is. "How bad was it? No adolescent boy fantasies to deal with, I hope."

Psylocke has posed:
When David is fast asleep, Betsy pulls back, and looks over at Tatum.

"The kid is ****ed up," Psylocke says, losing her gentle demeanor from just a few seconds ago. She gathers up her things and begins to walk away. "So, that means he will fit right in. Make sure he's got some Aleve or something when he wakes up. He's gonna have a ****ing killer of a headache. Also, make sure we give him the day off from classes. He's going to be useless, and I do not want him in my class unfocused."

Betsy stops right before leaving the medbay, looking over at Tatum. She skims the goth up and down with her eyes, "And you. Get some sleep, or I'll make sure you do." An evil glint twinkles in her eye, "And I'll make sure you see Beast naked in your dreams. -- With nipple tassels. --"

Deadzone has posed:
Tatum looks to the boy as Betsy describes him as f***ed up. She doesn't disagree. "Well, just another one of the very disfuctional family here."

"And Betsy? for what it's worth? Thank you. I know we haven't always seen eye to eye... wait, different world. Never mind. You're not that Betsy. Who knows, you might not hate me in this world. Anyway, thank you."

Psylocke has posed:
Betsy is already halfway up the stairs when her voice floats down:

"Oh, think everything of it, my dear," And with that, the dual-identity psychic disappears.