RP: Monday meeting Who: Derek, Callen, Sam, Eliot and April Where: Counseling office When: February 20, 2012 Summary: They are meeting to deal with Nick
They met bright and early. It was obvious that they all wanted this out of the way, but for very different reasons. Derek waited for everyone to get in and closed the door, before sitting at the round table he used with Nick.
"My office, my rules. So let's start with those. Anyone starts a shooting match, they'll be out of here and will have no say in Nick's treatment, training, housing or anything else related to him. With that out of the way, let's get to the rest," he said. "My first and more immediate concern is his housing arrangements. I appreciate what you've done for him, but at this point, i can't say that I'm convinced that it's in his best interest. You're both trying to install beliefs that would possibly work in someone else, but they'd never work on Nick. You're also treating him as a child. He's a minor, but he's not a child. He's a very immature soon-to-be seventeen year old, but he's still seventeen year old, and if you want to compare, that's Alexis and John's age when they arrived. They were never babied and neither should Nick.
"Finally, you called him a special kid, Eliot, but he's not. He doesn't have a mental illness. That would be treated completely different. He has a psychological syndrome, one that can't be treated," he said. "Whether he's afflicted with Antisocial Personality Disorder or Dissocial Personality disorder, it makes no difference, because neither can be treated. You can't make him better, you can't fix him, you can't make him love you, you can't make him give a damn about you or anyone else. Don't get me wrong, that doesn't mean that he has no feelings. He does, but they are all about himself, his ego, his needs and wants. He will never care for anyone but himself. We're not trying to make him a better person, better soldier or better teen. We're trying to make sure he doesn't hurt anyone. You two are negating this by trying to turn this into a family. It's not a family. His parents could have possibly helped when he was five, six, but by junior high there was nothing that could be done. So the first thing is whether you can have him in your house and not treat him like someone in your family. You can't afford to love him, because eventually he will use that love against you and the other people in this team."