Think In Shades of Purple, Instead of Red and Blue [tag]

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"Cancel all my other appointments, this one is going to take a while." She was confident that she could get through to them but it was not going to be easy. One had a history of parents who would rather walk over hot nails on fire than go to therapy and the other one, well had her for a mother and a father that had cut her off though he had always called her his treasure. She knew and acknowledged the fact that she could have been a better parent in that particular situation and helped to handle it better but then again she was consumed with her own things. This was not even her trying to rectify it but she thought that they could use a little time to talk and her office was always a judgement free zone. "I can do this." She straightened her dress and let out a sigh. It was not the fact that it was a two person session but the fact that she could not guarantee that the temper of her own daughter would not get out of control in which case she would have to gather that together before the session could continue. She hit the button. "Tell them, Dr. Richards-Carter will see them when they are ready."

Ribbon Harmony
Mila Richards

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Her back had went out which she had found unusual and on the day of the appointment with Mila and more than that Gigi. Gigi had always welcomed her into the household and it was good even when everything with Mila had went down. She stood in front of the mirror and seen the tears coming down but that was not going to stop her from showing up. She wanted this to go off without a hitch and the best way for that was to show up. She got dressed but chose to go with a something that actually let the air hit her back. Normally she would not be caught in something backless but today seemed to call for it.

She also had decided to arrive alone and as soon as she did she knocked on the door. "Gigi I will be right in. I need to go to the bathroom." The pain that was surging through her was bad but she had been not sleeping well lately. It would not surprise her if that had thrown her scales and herself out of balance. This was harder than it looked and even harder than the pain felt but she had it. She wiped a few more tears and then let out a sigh. She'd always had a dislike for therapy because it helped a lot but it also brought out a lot and she was not so sure she was ready for that.

Mila Richards
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To her this was natural and something that was looked upon greatly and though she normally did not do sessions with her own mother this one did not seem to count because it was being done alongside Ribbon but still with that in mind Mila knew that she had a few things that she needed to address herself as well. She made her way in and gave a wave and was sent to her mother's office. It was strange and odd having her mom actually want to talk. "Hey" she said making sure to remain calm. She took a seat on the sofa and looked around before speaking again. "How have you been?"

She did not know what this was going to lead to but she knew that both her and Ribbon needed this as well and sometimes you just had to stop putting everything off with the fear that the world was going to open up and explode and slowly push forward. "Have you heard from Ribbon? Did she chicken out?" She would not be surprised so but she was going to wait for her mother to answer first before she reacted as she removed her device from her mid-section and watched as her human apperance faded and the purple skin took over. "That feels one hundred percent better" she said and noted how her tail relaxed and seemed to agree.

@gigi
Ribbon Harmony

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"I think she has therapy jitters." While she had been a whole lot more relaxed than Faye because she understood love on a different scale she could not afford to have that cloud her judgement today. "It's good to see you more in your natural purple state than using the device that your father designed for you." She had thought that maybe her daughter was not comfortable in her natural skin and she had viewed that as a problem but she seemed a little better with it now at least as far as Gigi could tell.

"What would you like to try and cover today?" She turned and pulled a couple of her desk drawers out and handed her daughter a pen and paper. "Just write it down and check it off if we come to it." She did not know if she was going to dive into how they felt about one another because if it was anything like she remembered that was too complicated. "Has Ribbon had anything strange going on while you have been around that you may have noticed?" She liked to get the other's person's thoughts as well because it was true that a lot of times we did not notice our own quirks.

Ribbon Harmony
Mila Richards

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This was just one of the many times that she felt like a coward and every time that she felt like she was out growing it and maturing these scales were right there to remind her that no matter how hard she wanted it, the time to mature and to have it happen and embrace the woman that she was meant to be was so far off even still. At this rate she did not imagine it would happen before her 25th birthday but she did not want to wait. Patience it was after all the reason that she had not been to gymnastics in so long.

She got up and made her way in not having heard a single word of the conversation. "Sorry I needed to realign myself." There it was, the words that were always showing signs of her mother raising her and her father too because he had allowed her mother to do this in the first place. It was true that her mother did not think that it would stick but the tattoo that had turned itself into her flesh and created these scales was nothing to sneeze at. "I'm going to take a seat because my back is out of it's mind today."

She sat down and immediately wanted to kick herself for referencing her scales as if they were anything other than an inanimate object. "Gigi my scales seem off balance. Lately they have been hurting and I can't take the pain, do you have something I can do, perhaps something I can take to ease it up since you were the last one to do anything that centered around them?"

Mila Richards
@gigi

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She started to speak to her mother when Ribbon came in. This was the hard part of therapy because she wanted to answer her mother but she did not want to mess things up with Ribbon and she immediately felt like that SHE did not want to be here. "Ribbon has not been acting strange to me at all" she finally said more confident in her speaking than she felt. "Also I have been good and I suppose if we had been better at keeping contact then you would already know that but I have never been good at it."

She did not blame herself but she was allowing herself to be more open than she had before. "What do you think is the best way for us to handle this? I mean we are not exactly in a relationship but the best that I can tell we like to be around one another is that a good thing or not?" It had always been more of a problem than a solution with her. She had questions and her parents had answered them but they had also hid a lot and as she got older, upon that realization it had brought a lot of anger but not without cause. "I just don't want to break the little bit that is here is what I mean. This is a crazy canvas but at least it is doing something which I think is better than nothing."

@gigi
Ribbon Harmony

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She loved how the things that she chose to do both excited and scared her at once. "Your scales are giving you trouble? It's probably because I forgot to schedule for a follow up after the surgery. I thought that your mother would have taken care of it but I once again must have forgotten who I was trying to depend on." She was not upset but she did look at Mila. "I tried to talk to you but apparently I am low on your list and with good reason."

Love was cute and she still believed in it. This was something that she shipped but it was because she knew it was difficult. "I will look them over while we talk. I think that it will be easier because talking should relax you and then I can see how the scales do." They had always interested her and she thought that they would grow with Ribbon but being imprinted on her she did not know if that still remained true. "It will probably be easier if you start us off Ribbon also I need to commend you on this shirt choice. It will make it easier to see." Gigi pulled up a seat and looked at them and so far she did not see anything wrong. "So what do you think of your current relationship with Mila?"

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Mila Richards

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"It's developing," she said as she tried to watch what exactly Gigi was doing but they were here to talk and nothing hurt at the moment so she went on. "I mean I showed up so that shows just a bit of minor growth on my part and well I have been meaning to talk to you anyway." She stood up straight to make sure that Gigi could get a good look at them. "Ever since I got to Oregon these damn blasted things have been locking up and I just want, need really for it to stop." It hurt and she was not good with pain.

"I mean it might make it easier if I actually started carrying my phone with me but I am so forgetful that I just..well is there a way that you could make my phone not so attached to the charges that the scales need to spin out the ribbon?" That reminded her. "Take now for example, no idea where my phone is and I could have swore that I grabbed everything that I needed at the house this morning." Actually the last time that she had actually seen her phone was a little before the attack on the city. "I last remember using it to contact Micah, do you think that he could have taken it from me?"

Mila Richards
@gigi

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"Mom she's killing me with the yin and yang. The will they won't they is so played out when truthfully tell her she's need to just get with me." Honestly she was wasting her good years or so she had thought. "However she is right it's better than it's worse and progress is progress right?" She took a minute to watch her mother and see what she was doing next.

"I think if we both open up to the idea of incorporating therapy into our lives on a schedule bi monthly then it will help our relationship period." She was not holding out her hopes to be exclusive or anything but you never really knew. She looked around her mom's office and noticed some of the pictures were missing bu she could not exactly place which ones. "Mom are you taking pictures down?" As far as she knew her mom did not plan to move and she found that odd. "Is there anything going on that you want to tell me. Ribbon can step outside why we talk since we both know that she could care less about the whole family dynamic when it comes to things like this." She hoped that her mom was not hiding anything.

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Ribbon Harmony

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"Nothing out of the ordinary no. The scales are exactly what they say, and if something else is hooked to them if there was some sort of pull to them that is something that you would have to ask Faye about." She had performed the surgery that was true but the scales were there before that. "They look fine, but it would probably help to keep your phone. It is how they keep themselves "charged" so to say. Not in an electrical way so maybe balanced is the better word that I should use. A little coconut oil on them here and there should also ease the locking up and of course keeping your emotions in check." She looked at Mila. "I hope that you can help her with that Mila."

She had done surgeries, experiments before and had no complaints so far so she knew this one would go the same. "Have you talked to Micah much since having them? It could be something off with your twin experiences too." She had seen Micah here and there and as far as she recalled he hardly brought up his sister. "In my experience twins and other babies that are born as multiples share stuff from the womb naturally so maybe you need to work on your relationship with your brother."

Ribbon Harmony
Mila Richards