WHO: Horatio/Timothy/Brain Doctor..my bad.."Relationship counselor". Bah.
WHEN: Most recent.
WHERE: Doctor's Office. Well, in front of it. Still outside.
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Timothy would not shut up. This went on for days, his constant whining. He hated this idea. Hated it more than anything in this entire world. More than Nico, and that was a lot of
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She's satisfied when Tim finally sits, and rearranges her cardigan on her lap. She nods to Horatio. "You're most welcome to do so. But I've found that with regards to relationships, it's better for both partners to be in the room. By hook or by crook," she adds, with a smile.
"So. How would you characterise your relationship with Lieutenant Caine?" she asks Tim, head to one side. "Do you think that he's justified in requesting you join him here?"
She looks at Horatio. "How would you characterise your relationship with Mr Speedle?" she asks.
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Looking away from her he clears his throat anxiously, dragging his fingers through his hair. "Jesus. If it'll shut you the fuck up.." He frowns, glaring at the floor.
He gestures with his hands, rolling them as he tries to find the right words, looking over at Horatio for a moment, trying to figure it out. "I dunno. Sex? I guess?" He sighs, stroking his palm across his stubbled cheek.
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Horatio is much more eloquent, and she feels a swell of sympathy for him. It isn't easy to make oneself vulnerable in front of a stranger, or a resistant partner. She turns to Speedle, her voice neutral in tone.
"How does Mr Caine's words make you feel?" she asks, curious. "Do you agree with his assessment?"
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Horatio met Tim's surprised, annoyance tinged gaze and he looked at him with pleading eyes.
"Of course it bothers me. It always will."
He shifted his lithe frame over towards Speed when he leaned close but he could only shake his head, tossing his ember-coloured hair.
"You make me terrified being so reckless."
He reached out and touched his lover's hip, bare since he was off duty.
"Wearing the badge is reckless enough."
Not that Horatio Caine was one to lecture another on being reckless. The man who tried to out-drive explosions and shot at helicopters with a hand gun. But H felt justified in the way he acted. Tim, well, Tim was just being unreasonable. Careless. His obsession with Nico was perhaps Speed most dangerous act however. Even moreso than speeding down the highway at rush hour on his bike. Even more than carrying a partially operating fire arm. Death by Nico was horrific way to go. H lowered his voice, the words quiet and rumbling.
"You need to let him go. He will screw up someday. He will make a mistake. For now we have ( ... )
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"I wanted to die," she says baldly. "I missed him. I missed the funny things he'd say, I missed the way he'd smile at me before going to sleep, I missed the smell of him. There's a poem that before that I'd always thought was sentimental and over-the-top."
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good. It's by Auden. That kind of summed it up for me. But I was wrong of course, young and selfish in despair. And life went on. And good things happened in their course ( ... )
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She thinks for a while, and then offers a summary of what she's heard.
"Okay, so what we have here is, on the one hand, Mr Speedle - Tim - you feel protective and possessive of Lieutenant Caine. You fear losing him, either to a work accident, or to someone else.
On the other hand, you act in a way that seems to hurt him, and could be seen almost as a desire to drive him away, because it makes him feel unloved."
She lets that hang. "I've got no problem with promiscuity," she comments. "But it seems that it is a partial cause of the tension between you." She cocks her head to one side, and studies Tim, a little like a bird. "Do you hurt him deliberately?" she asks, provocatively.
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"You've never told me that before." He says softly, nearly under his breath actually, unsure or uncaring if either of them heard him.
When he turns, Horatio was looking right at him and Timmy steels himself, frowning even more now.
"I have no issue with it." He growls then his eyes snap back to her. He was getting irritated again. This game was stupid. Frustrated once more his cheeks burn in almost ..embarrassment? As she faces him again. Dark eyes roll back to Caine and he shakes his head.
"I think it's time to go.." Because Jesus that's a fucked up question and he refuses to fucking answer. "This whole thing is a waste of goddamn time." He snaps out angrily. Now in tantrum mode once more.
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Her questions riled Tim and Horatio frowned. He was actually hoping for an answer. Instead he was going to get a snit. Speedle looked at him and H only gave his lover a blank stare. He stood, not so much to consense with Speed's desire to leave but rather so he could put his hands on his hips and set himself steady. He commented dryly to Dr. Hendersen.
"I am afraid, Doctor, that Mr. Speedle only likes to ask difficult questions, not answer them."
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She looks at Tim. "I don't think it is a waste of time," she points out. "Lt. Caine just told you something that he never told you before. He spoke about his childhood. Didn't you know you were so important to him?"
She looks at her fingers, laced together in her lap. "Maybe the question of Mr Speedle's promiscuity is difficult because he has no control over it. He thinks that he's in the driving seat, doing what he wants, but in fact his sexual drive controls him." She flicks a glance at Horatio. "Maybe he doesn't mean to hurt you, but he simply can't help himself."
"How does that sound, Mr Speedle?"
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Two against one.
Shaking his head he snarls at Horatio then curses over at her. "Fuck you both. I don't need to take this bullshit." And he was nearly breathless he was so worked up from what the Doctor said.
Turning away from the both of them he prowls about the room, seething mad now. Fingers locked across the top of his head he continues to curse and growl. He felt trapped, he didn't know what to do or how to end this.
Without thinking he snags a book off of any random shelf and hurls it towards her, though missing by a few feet quite on purpose it smashes against the opposite wall.
"I have control. I'm always in control. I control Horatio and Greg and Ray and whoever the fuck else i'm in contact with! So fuck you!" He bellows out in a fit. Practically seeing red as he turns his real anger towards Horatio. Just ( ... )
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