Niall Hughes - Mind Healer ~London

[Yukina101]

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

Ⓐⓖⓔ ⑤ Ⓟⓤⓡⓔⓑⓛⓞⓞⓓ Ⓗⓔⓛⓟⓔⓡ

❀●•♪.。Nasim had assumed that when Kalin told her they'd be going out somewhere special that he'd met she'd be going back over to Milo's house or maybe his bird office. She didn't mind it over there, he was always nice and snuggly with her and while he didn't make her peanut sandwiches the way her mummy did (with just a dabby dab of honey) he did play her favorite songs. Thane and Kalin didn't do that. Everything was different and she didn't like it one bit and told them so almost everyday. She sometimes felt bad because it wasn't completely their fault, but then it didn't because yes it was. Her bedroom was different, her school was different (that wasn't too bad because she hadn't actually liked her other teacher that much), even the sounds were different! At her old house, her mummy always had one of her songs playing or she was singing or something! The new house still had sounds but they weren't the ones she wanted to hear. And then the worst possible thing had happened.

Her favorite blanket had gotten washed and all the smell had been replaced by something else and she absolutely hated it. It was like they were trying to take her mummy from her, but she wouldn't let them! She had yelled and cried and thrown the biggest tantrum ever saying that she hated them and cried some more until she fell asleep. Just not on her blanket. Going somewhere away from the blanket was a good idea so she didn't argue about it when she was told to get dressed but was surprised that instead of Milo's she was in front of a completely different building. Where were they? Were they gonna give her away?! Nasim was so scared that she couldn't even ask, she just clung to Thane's hand as tight as she could and followed him and Kalin into the building where they were met with a stranger.

"Good morning, could you point us in the direction of ah, Michael Davenport's office? We have an appointment with him." Kalin asked the stranger who gave him a nod and pointed him towards the hallway.

"Is this an orphanage?" she finally asked not able to keep calm any more. Thane looked down at her surprised and shook his head which made her feel a tinsy bit better. "No, this is...we're gonna meet someone to talk to for a little bit." he explained slowly which made no since to her. Why were they in a weird building just to talk to someone? They could've done that at Milo's!

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Diamond Wales

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

 

[Yukina101]

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

Ⓐⓖⓔ ⑤ Ⓟⓤⓡⓔⓑⓛⓞⓞⓓ Ⓗⓔⓛⓟⓔⓡ

❀●•♪.。Nasim was still confused and curious as they waited before another older man came and started talking to her. At his question of whether she wanted to help him with something, her immediate answer would probably be yes, if he hadn't called Thane and Kalin her parents. She was pretty sure that was just a grownup word for mum and dad and no they weren't! "They're not, I have a mummy and daddy and they're not them!" Nasim figured she should explain everything first before they did whatever he needed help with so she could finally go to Milo's. She missed the wince and dismayed looks on Thane and Kalin's face at her words and instead focused solely on Michael. "What do you need help with?" she asked cautiously. Wyatt had tried something like this with her to make her eat her veggies so she wondered if this new man had a bag of soggy carrots somewhere he needed eating because if that was it then no way!

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Diamond Wales

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

 

[Yukina101]

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

Ⓐⓖⓔ ⑤ Ⓟⓤⓡⓔⓑⓛⓞⓞⓓ Ⓗⓔⓛⓟⓔⓡ

❀●•♪.。Nasim was going to say she was great at keeping secrets, like she hadn't told Wyatt how many times Milo really took her out of school or let her skip last year to go to his shop and play with the owls visit her mum, but then he said that he'd had to change names before too which made her curious. "Why'd you have to change names? Did your mummy die too?" she asked sadly already sort of feeling bad for the other adult. No one should lose a mummy or daddy, that should be an ultimate rule somewhere. When he finally asked if she could help by coloring pictures for his new office she even offered up a small smile before nodding enthusiastically. Coloring she could definitely do! "I can help with that!" Nasim left her place by Thane to go into the office looking around for this coloring book while the adults stood by the door fidgeting awkwardly. "Should we come in also, or do you want us to wait?" Kalin finally asked in a low tone to not alert the little girl. After reading up on child therapy on google, despite all his husband's eye rolling, he'd found that sometimes there would be group sessions with them or alone time with Nasim and he wanted to know which it was so he didn't step on anyone's figurative toes.

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Diamond Wales

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

 

[Yukina101]

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

Ⓐⓖⓔ ⑤ Ⓟⓤⓡⓔⓑⓛⓞⓞⓓ Ⓗⓔⓛⓟⓔⓡ

❀●•♪.。Nasim didn't understand, why would he have to go away from his mummy? Had she been sick too? But he said she didn't die so if she'd been sick, wouldn't he have gone back to her when she felt better? None of that made any sense to her, but she did feel bad when he said that his new mummy and daddy had died a few years ago. He'd lost two mummys?! She couldn't even think about that! While she was focused on that and the search for coloring supplies, Kalin nodded at his explanation while Thane looked conflicted for a brief moment before pulled away by his husband. Nasim took a seat the small table once Michael came back in his office and brightened when he finally pulled out the coloring book and crayons. When he offered for her to choose a page she excitedly took the book and began flipping through it liking all the different patterns she was seeing. Finally she stopped on a page that had different lotus flowers on it.She recognized the flower since her mummy had a skirt that had flowers like it all over it and it had been her second favorite of her mum's. Her favorite skirt had been shimmery and looked like lightning bugs had were twinkling in it. "This one please." Nasim told him pointing it out.

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Diamond Wales

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

 

[Yukina101]

𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘳 // 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 // 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳

I want to live a life like that
Live the life of the faithful one
Wanna bow to the floor
With everybody else want to be someone
I want to make some love

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Despite the late hour, Niall was still at his office attempting to make a dent in his paperwork before heading home. Thankfully it was the good kind so he didn't mind staying later to finish it. One of his patients was finally well enough for a lower dosage of potions, which meant for them finally being able to go back to work which they'd been explicitly worried about throughout their sessions with him. But at their next visit, he could tell them the good news and then begin creating a new schedule around their work hours; good news and all but they still needed some healing. Plus it kept him from going home to an empty house, which really he should technically be used to after nearly two years but it still feels like only yesterday he was bringing Elvira home for the first time. He wondered how his other friends did it. In fact Gracie's oldest had graduated! But now she had the twins at home before she had to worry about empty nest syndrome...okno. There was no way he was considering children when he hadn't even told Rubin of his, ahem, realization. He was still pretty miffed that he said it first to his annoying and brash younger brother but he also hadn't found the right moment to finally tell him. Was there even? Maybe he could ask one of his friends for advice. He was sure that'd be a pleasant surprise for them. Niall was just doing a final once over when he heard the door open and shut and grew curious since, had he forgotten to lock the door? s**t. He really hoped it wasn't someone actually looking to rob the place. He was about to get up and go look when surprisingly Virgil came into his office and sat across from him as if he'd called him in and randomly mentioned their previous talk about reintegration. Niall blinked a few times to make sure he was seeing what he was seeing before slowly nodding because apparently this was happening.

"Well, that would involve getting to the root of the split, what caused the personality to emerge I mean. Disassociation happens when the primary, at the time the only, psyche can't handle what's happening to it and creates one that can. We've discussed this with what happened with Dante and Virgie but we haven't really hit the nail on the head about their formation. Or rather, when we get close I start getting attacked." he mentioned dryly before getting serious again. "I'm guessing something's happened for you to suddenly start asking about it. Especially when we don't have a scheduled visit for another...forty-eight hours."

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Diamond Wales

I don't want no enemies
It's the curse of a man
Always living life, living live, living just to please
On the mouth of the river
And the wrath of the giver

 

[Yukina101]

𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘳 // 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 // 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳

I want to live a life like that
Live the life of the faithful one
Wanna bow to the floor
With everybody else want to be someone
I want to make some love

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Niall wasn't surprised something had happened for Virgil to come to him willingly, but "startled" didn't even cover his emotions when the exact reason was that apparently Virgie, of all the alters!, had gone and impregnated someone. As horrid as it sounded, if he had to have guessed which alter would do something like that, he would've put his money on Dante if only because the man oozed that sort of charisma men and women could potentially fall for. (No, he was not speaking from experience, having a coffee table flung at one's head pretty much put a damper on any positive feelings he might've had towards him thanks very much.) This was very bad. In their sessions, they had come to certain estimate terms on Virgie's personage, one of the most important being that he was definitely a prepubescent child. They hadn't gotten very far with him besides that since he had the awful habit of pushing Dante and Virgil's wrong buttons when it came to their former...when it came to Meghan. This was very bad indeed.

Niall let out a deep sigh as he dropped his head in his hands trying to think of how he could help not knowing Virgil had basically done the same. He lifted it as Virgil began speaking of how he wanted his alters gone so he could live a fuller life, and he felt for the younger man. However this didn't just happen overnight.

"I understand, I do but you have to know, Virgil, that there isn't this magic potion that can cure you otherwise we would've already had it. The sad thing is, I truly thought we were making progress on working with the coexistence of your alters. But if Virgie can somehow slip past both of you to do something like this, I agree that the best course of action is to work on integration. I'm supposing that you would want to get a jump start on this tonight since you're actually here." Niall added as an afterthought getting up from his seat. The bad thing about Virgil's disorder was that there weren't many practices that involved in complete integration so it had taken him a while to compile enough research on the subject.

Luckily though, he had whittled it down to about two techniques that he could try, though their amount of success, he had no idea. It really all came down to Virgil. That said, he began ruffling through his files in his desk and behind it to try and find his research for once thankful his daughter wasn't at home so he wouldn't have to send his brother to stay the night with her. He was feeling that this would be an all-nighter sort of session.

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Diamond Wales

I don't want no enemies
It's the curse of a man
Always living life, living live, living just to please
On the mouth of the river
And the wrath of the giver

 

[Yukina101]

𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘳 // 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 // 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳

I want to live a life like that
Live the life of the faithful one
Wanna bow to the floor
With everybody else want to be someone
I want to make some love

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Niall barely heard whatever words Virgil was saying to him while he scoured his office for his notes and began organizing and looking them over. He had originally planned to bring this up at a later session, perhaps even a group one with the other's boyfriend, but time was of the essence now. There was a very slim minuscule of a chance they could somehow get rid of Virgie tonight, what he was mainly hoping for was that they got to his root core quicker. He was created in a time of horrible stress and consequence but he still maintained a naive and childlike air of existence; in comparison to Dante, Virgie had to be the most complex and therefore most dangerous. It'd already been pretty proven by the current existence of a lovechild and he'd rather not allow him to get another chance at something else.

He had just found the last of his files and was muttering to himself as he rearranged them accordingly when Virgil asked what exactly he had planned, which reminded Niall that not everyone could hear his insane muttering. Well, Virgil actually might but he probably has other things on his mind to try."Yes actually, I was planning on telling you about this at a later date, possibly even at a group session consisting of you and Dominique but um, well as you know that's rather shot to hell now isn't it?" he chuckled nervously.

"Basically what we're going to do is a type of hypnosis that will regress you to the period of the split and have you work though your feelings and emotions so we can understand why it happened. For muggles, the basic hypnosis has apparently worked but for your circumstance, and our time limitations, we're also going to be crossing it with a process called EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. Pretty much what it means is while your under, I'll make a series of quick movements in front of you that will hopefully give way to repressed memories that will force your regressed state to deal with. For you and for where we're going, this will probably be very...nerve wracking to say the least. Had we had the time, I'd walk you through it much slower than I am now." Niall said apologetically with a sad look. "There are other ways, of course, but this was one I believe would help you the most despite its rather forceful beginnings. Do you still wish to continue?"

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Diamond Wales

I don't want no enemies
It's the curse of a man
Always living life, living live, living just to please
On the mouth of the river
And the wrath of the giver

 

[Yukina101]

𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘳 // 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 // 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳

I want to live a life like that
Live the life of the faithful one
Wanna bow to the floor
With everybody else want to be someone
I want to make some love

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Niall shot a mild look towards Virgil at his added commentary to his "shot to hell" assessment but since this was his life, he figured he had a right to do so. He had a feeling that the other would be skeptical to the whole hypnosis part, but honestly despite his aversion to the technique (pretty much every cornball comedy had ruined hypnosis for the general population) he had been pretty impressed with his findings on its affects with people in the vampire's position. As he began pulling out his notes and everything he would need to begin he listened as Virgil made note that his nerves were already pretty wrecked and that this technique couldn't do much harm which rather saddened the man. "I only added that because it might become difficult for you having to even partially experience your past in order to heal and so it'd be understood if you'd want to try something different. But since you're sure, or rather since there's apparently no nerves left, we'll just have to go forward."

Niall sighed and directed Virgil to turn in his chair to face the door before handing him a potion vial. "Due to your enhanced nature I concluded that it'd be a little harder to get you into the right state, so I ask that you take about a sip of that calming draught before we begin. Alright, don't look at me or anything else but the dark spot on my door. Do you see it? It's rather noticeable against the tan wood, right? Keep your eyes only on that spot, nothing right now is more important than my voice and that spot." Niall had been forced to change up his script when he remembered that Virgil had no reason to slow his breathing considering the man never actually had to take a breath. Or blink really. He kept directing him like this for about five minutes until he was sure they were ready to proceed. "Keep focused on that spot Virgil, my voice is nothing but white noise. Keep...focused...the darkness of the spot is growing, don't be alarmed. Just allow it to overtake you. The darkness is seeping in, you see nothing but that darkness, how are you feeling?" His voice had progressively gotten softer to a murmur as he stood just behind the vampire staying out of his peripheral vision.

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Diamond Wales

I don't want no enemies
It's the curse of a man
Always living life, living live, living just to please
On the mouth of the river
And the wrath of the giver