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Tweak says, "Are you my mummy?"

Dora Ollivander (braveryshines) wrote in nexusthreads,
@ 2017-12-30 18:56:00

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~lisa cuddy

Who: Dora and Cuddy
What: Help
Where: The medical centre
When:Backdated to their texts

Dora had found even leaving her apartment hard. Even though the wizarding world barely recognised depression as a real condition, as it was considered a Muggle malady. However she knew she was falling deeper. She didn’t even want to see Archie, she didn’t feel like she deserved the attention of anyone, particularly not the love of her life. She’d wanted to die when she’d taken on the identity of Bellatrix LeStrange, and even now she was a little disappointed she’d made it through.

But she owed Archie to try. As she walked into the medical centre, downplaying every aspect of her quirkiness, in jeans and a plain white t shirt, with her hair dark blonde.

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proud_miserable
2018-01-14 07:54 pm UTC (link)

"Communication is important in a relationship. The next time he tells you that you're wrong, express to him how that makes you feel. He might think telling you that you're wrong is a way of reassuring you that your worries are misplaced, when it may actually make you worry more." Cuddy suggested. She didn't have a psychological background, being an endocrinologist, but she did know a lack of communication had held her back with House and with Lucas. Good communication might be that difference that allowed things to work with Giles.

Cuddy nodded. "Good. I think everyone else will like it too."

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	braveryshines 2018-01-14 08:04 pm UTC (link)
	"Can I ask you though, the fairytale ending when the other person never seemed interested in a different environment, would you trust it?" Dora asked softly (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	proud_miserable 2018-01-17 03:55 am UTC (link)
	"I wouldn't trust in any fairytale ending." Cuddy answered. "Things will never be perfect and relationships take work." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	braveryshines 2018-01-18 08:09 pm UTC (link)
	"I just can't believe in it. That he'll stay and take all this, or that this can end," Dora replied. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	proud_miserable 2018-01-19 08:24 pm UTC (link)
	"Most of what happens in life doesn't have a guarantee." Cuddy said. "I can tell you that if you're willing to work on your own depression, things will start to feel better." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	braveryshines 2018-01-20 07:38 pm UTC (link)
	"That's why I came to you, at home they offer potions, short term fixes that don't properly fix anything and I want to be able to help myself instead of just doing one off short term repairs," Dora replied (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	proud_miserable 2018-01-21 02:07 am UTC (link)
	Cuddy smiled. "That's the best attitude to have and the fact that you reached out to me is a very good sign. I think we can help you feel better, simply by talking and getting you connected with more people here. There's also eating right, exercise, good sleep, and possibly medication down the line." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	braveryshines 2018-01-21 04:17 pm UTC (link)
	"We'll have to get the boy trained too, Archie's solution to so many things is bacon," Dora grinned. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	proud_miserable 2018-01-22 10:04 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, I've never tried it myself of course, but it's not the worse thing." Cuddy said. "Do you think he'd come with you to see me?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	braveryshines 2018-01-26 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm fairly sure he'd do anything he could to help me. I think he thinks he can fix me. It's a lot of pressure," Dora replied (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	proud_miserable 2018-01-26 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	"That's good that he wants to help. And he can help." Cuddy promised. "The most important person in making things change for the better is you. Which sounds like more pressure, but it doesn't have to be. We can break things down into small pieces, one small change at a time." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	braveryshines 2018-01-26 08:58 pm UTC (link)
	"I just want to be good enough, does that make sense? Good enough for him, and for myself," Dora replied (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	proud_miserable 2018-01-26 09:17 pm UTC (link)
	"You are good enough." Cuddy told her. "The first step is for you to see that." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	braveryshines 2018-01-26 09:22 pm UTC (link)
	"Other versions of me always were," Dora replied (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	proud_miserable 2018-01-26 09:25 pm UTC (link)
	"How do you mean?" Cuddy asked. "Literal other versions, like the Jakes, or something more personal?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	braveryshines 2018-01-26 09:28 pm UTC (link)
	Dora shut her eyes and allowed the Bellatrix LeStrange face she had inhabited for so long flow over her. "Like this," the lisping voice she had needed to take time to perfect left her lips. "She's crazy but I think she's beautiful in her way." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	proud_miserable 2018-01-27 05:40 pm UTC (link)
	Cuddy watched. Fortunately, after all her time of the island - very little surprised her. "Is that the identity you took on as a spy? Do you think of her as a separate person?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	braveryshines 2018-01-27 08:02 pm UTC (link)
	"She existed as her own person, she died, but many refused to believe it, so I took her identity and spied on her organisation. She was not a good person," Dora replied. "I like to think I am." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	proud_miserable 2018-01-28 07:08 pm UTC (link)
	"You are. Pretending to be someone else for your career doesn't change who you really are." Cuddy said. "We're not all spies, of course. But we all put on masks of our own sometimes. To be nice, to get ahead, or for other reasons. As long as you remember who you really are, that's the important thing." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	braveryshines 2018-01-28 07:11 pm UTC (link)
	"I am Eladora Ollivander...the First, good shapeshifter, bit of a weirdo, not so good at actual magic," Dora replied (Reply to this) (Parent)

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