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E-mail Therapy. Does it count?

Feb 01, 2011 21:56

Date: 1 February
Characters: Libby Weaver, Tobias Whitehall
Location: Here and There over the Internet
Status: Private
Summary: Weather prevents a real session, so Libby makes virtual contact.
Completion: Complete

( The best that is in us... )

character: tobias whitehall, post: email, character: libby weaver, february 2011

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tobiaswhitehall February 2 2011, 03:04:19 UTC

Tobias was dozing on the couch. Classes had been canceled and most of his patients had already called to say they couldn't make it. The delicate chime he'd set up to alert him to new e-mail on his phone rang out, startling him. He fumbled with the phone and then with his glasses and all told it took him a few minutes to read the e-mail. It pleased him inordinately that Libby had thought to contact him in this way and the contents were promising as well. He fished his laptop out from under the dog. She gave him a baleful look and then let out a long sigh as he typed a reply ( ... )

libby_weaver February 2 2011, 03:26:41 UTC

She wasn't sure why she'd been so sure he'd be too busy to reply. She couldn't be the only patient who was stranded, therapy-less, by the nasty weather, could she? She minimised the photography site she'd found and clicked on the blinking envelope on her desktop ( ... )

tobiaswhitehall February 2 2011, 03:31:52 UTC

He settled back down and opened up a few newspaper sites in other tabs to keep himself busy between responses.

To: Libby Weaver {eaweaver@yahoo.com}
From: Tobias Whitehall {twhitehall@gmail.com}
Subject: re: Does this count as a session?

I had indeed noticed the temperature. Perhaps you should turn up the heat if you are losing feeling in your toes? It doesn't matter who spoke first, merely that you had a productive conversation. In my experience, ignoring math homework is a totally normal part of being a student.

What is it about the phone that bothers you?

The kitchen is lovely. And photography is most certainly art. If you put thought and feeling into it, it can even be very good art. Certainly, many people have made their living taking photographs, sometimes of very mundane things.

-Dr. Whitehall

libby_weaver February 2 2011, 03:47:58 UTC

Libby dropped into the chair again, pulling the memory card from her camera and sticking it into the computer. She'd found the macro setting and taken pictures of the flowers she'd bought at the grocery. She scrolled through the photos on the card, dragging them into a folder one by one. Pancakes. Bacon. Trees. A pencil. Flowers... The envelope blinked again and she smiled, paging to the e-mail ( ... )

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