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Do I think Manuel will fuck with Amanda's head? Absolutely. I hope she survives the experience. Is there anything I can do about it? I'm doing everything I can to make Manuel a functioning member of society, darling, but I'm not the sex police, even if I do happen to have the right uniform for the job.
We're still discovering the limits of Manuel's powers - ah, how often have we heard those words before? - but if you're asking me if he can force someone to think they're in love with him, I think the answer is yes. Could he make someone believe they want to sleep with him? Yes. So could I, my sweet, but in my case I suppose they already do.
Does that mean he doesn't have the right to make his own mistakes in life? I don't know. If he's doing anything of that sort, it's not necessarily voluntary. It's not quite the same as slipping Rohypnol into someone's cosmopolitan at a nightclub. I don't think so, anyway.
All I can do think to do is to put all new students through the same psychic defense classes that the established students have been through. If any of the girls - or boys - have cause to be nervous, they are welcome to attend extra sessions. But I won't add a course to the curriculum entitled, 'How to defend yourself against Manuel de la Rocha'. Not unless we're adding one for Marie, one for Jono, one for Alex - should he ever return - and so on. You see my point?
One last thing. You mentioned drugs. Please bear in mind, Manuel is little more than a recovering addict after what Shaw put him through. So am I, actually, but I'm a little more experienced than our resident Casanueva. Let's look for alternative solutions before we resort to better lobotomies through chemistry, shall we?
Much love,
Emma.
Do I think Manuel will fuck with Amanda's head? Absolutely. I hope she survives the experience. Is there anything I can do about it? I'm doing everything I can to make Manuel a functioning member of society, darling, but I'm not the sex police, even if I do happen to have the right uniform for the job.
We're still discovering the limits of Manuel's powers - ah, how often have we heard those words before? - but if you're asking me if he can force someone to think they're in love with him, I think the answer is yes. Could he make someone believe they want to sleep with him? Yes. So could I, my sweet, but in my case I suppose they already do.
Does that mean he doesn't have the right to make his own mistakes in life? I don't know. If he's doing anything of that sort, it's not necessarily voluntary. It's not quite the same as slipping Rohypnol into someone's cosmopolitan at a nightclub. I don't think so, anyway.
All I can do think to do is to put all new students through the same psychic defense classes that the established students have been through. If any of the girls - or boys - have cause to be nervous, they are welcome to attend extra sessions. But I won't add a course to the curriculum entitled, 'How to defend yourself against Manuel de la Rocha'. Not unless we're adding one for Marie, one for Jono, one for Alex - should he ever return - and so on. You see my point?
One last thing. You mentioned drugs. Please bear in mind, Manuel is little more than a recovering addict after what Shaw put him through. So am I, actually, but I'm a little more experienced than our resident Casanueva. Let's look for alternative solutions before we resort to better lobotomies through chemistry, shall we?
Much love,
Emma.
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Date: 2004-02-09 11:09 pm (UTC)Don't get me wrong, I'm not looking to demonise the poor bastard - well no more than I want to demonise half the other students anyway. I've gotten some reassurances out of Amanda that she at least knows what she's getting into, but I'm just checking that, y'know, he's aware that the sky will fall on him if he screws with Amanda (or anyone else, but I've got to answer to Romany about Amanda, so that's a little more personally urgent) too badly, in anything other than a physical sense.
And I think you misread me about the drugs. I was actually thinking for my own use - not on a regular basis, but I'm supposed to be one of the boy's quidance counsellors, so I figure it might be helpful if he can have sessions with me without picking up on whatever interesting crisis is raising my blood pressure on a given day as well as whatever he has to bother him.
Pete.
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Date: 2004-02-09 11:38 pm (UTC)We have a psi-damp lab, you know. Manuel hatest it. Actually, most psions hate and love it in equal measure. It's a place to escape to, but it also leaves you feeling slightly dead. It does rather lack subtlety, though. I'm sure I can rustle you up a prescription if you want it.
Next time I have a session with Manuel, I will make it clear to him that certain modes of behaviour will lead to my castrating him with a brick. Will that suffice?
love,
Emma.
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Date: 2004-02-10 03:32 pm (UTC)The mood suppressants - I've just been doing me homework on the run-in time and side-effects of the bloody things, and I think I'll have to give 'em a miss for now, until medical science comes up with something I could take just for the afternoon, as it were. Bollocks. Looks like it's deep breaths and happy thoughts...
Thanks for having a word with him, as well. I see he's not terribly happy about the insinuation, but I find I can live with his bruised ego.
Pete.