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The Mole
Tru looked into the lab, through one of the small panes of glass in the door as she tried to ascertain where the professor was. A quick glance at her watch told her that she was ten minutes late for class, and this time she didn't even have the excuse of being on a rewind day. Waiting a few moments until the professor was engaged with a group of students away from her own group, Tru eased the door open and slipped quietly into the room to join Jensen, Avery and Tyler at the cadaver they were assigned to work on.
"Tru, you can let me borrow Jensen for the evening can't you?" Avery asked as soon as Tru had taken her seat.
"Sure," Tru replied with a frown of confusion aimed at Jensen. "We don't have plans for this evening do we?"
"He was planning a surprise dinner for you," Avery replied before Jensen himself had chance to speak.
"Was being the key word there," Jensen said with a roll of his eyes at Avery. "I'm still not sure I want to spend the evening being your guinea pig anyway."
"Guinea pig for what?" Tru asked, feeling a bit lost having come into the conversation part way through and wondering just what it was that she had happily agreed Jensen could do instead of arranging their surprise dinner.
"Regression hypnosis," Avery said with an enthusiastic smile. "I've been looking at alternative forms of medicine and therapies, just to keep up to date on what is out there as another option for potential patients. Regression hypnosis is often used for therapy purposes, childhood traumas that have been repressed for example. I've read up a lot but need someone to try to hypnotise. Would you want to volunteer Tru?"
Tru felt herself grow cold at the thought of what could be found at the back of her mind if she underwent hypnosis, her mother's murder was the first thing that sprang to her mind. Although she was becoming closer to her new medical school friends, she didn't feel comfortable enough to talk about all of that with them, at least not yet.
"I think that's a no from Tru," Jensen said upon seeing her face. "Anyway wasn't Tyler supposed to be helping you?"
"Tyler isn't a very good test subject," Avery said with a sigh.
"I did exactly what you said," Tyler replied from the opposite side of the cadaver.
"I told you to focus on the candle, relax and let your eyes close as you went into a trance. You fell asleep."
"I wasn't asleep," Tyler argued as Jensen and Tru snickered and averted their eyes.
"You were snoring," Avery countered.
"Ms Bishop," the professor's voice interrupted from behind the group and Tru jumped guilty along with the others. "Whilst Mr Li's nocturnal habits might be very interesting to you, I would thank you not to discuss them in the lab and concentrate on your work."
"Yes, professor," Avery replied, suitably contrite, her head bowed, although Tru could see the telltale smile on her lips behind the fall of her long blonde hair.
"And Ms Davies," the professor continued, "so nice of you to finally grace us with your presence. I would have hoped your New Year Resolutions might have included one that says you will start to show a proper commitment to your future profession."
"Sorry professor," Tru replied ducking her own head to avoid the gaze of the still smirking Avery.
The professor continued to hover for a minute but on finding nothing wrong with their actual work he finally left to check on another group of students.
"So are you going to help me this evening?" Avery asked Jensen as soon as the professor was engaged in raining criticism on one of the other students.
"Okay," Jensen agreed. "So long as Tru doesn't mind?"
"Go ahead," Tru replied. "I was planning on going over to my brother's new apartment this evening anyway. He's been dying to show off all the stuff that dad's decked it out with ever since he saw the place."
"You haven't seen it yet?" Avery asked in surprise. "I'd have thought he'd have dragged you over there before now, the way he was raving about it at your Christmas party."
"We've just been really busy over New Year," Tru replied with a shrug.
"So we've heard," Avery joked with a quick glance at Jensen and the entire group burst out laughing, drawing the attention of the professor to their table once again.
"Have you told her yet?" Carrie asked as she strolled into Davis's office.
Davis looked up from the computer with a frown. She had asked him the same question every day since he had confided in her about Tru's ability to relive days, and every day he had given her the same answer…not yet. He shook his head and sighed. It looked like today was no different.
"You have to tell her sooner or later," Carrie pointed out. "What if she relives a day without knowing that I know? I might be able to help but she'll not even know."
"I know, I just haven't found the right time to tell her yet." Davis looked away and began re-arranging things on the desk as he avoided eye contact. She could tell that he regretted telling her about Tru, but there was no going back and the sooner it was all out in the open the better it would be for everyone, especially her.
"She's been really busy since Christmas," Davis continued with a shrug. "She and Jensen have barely been apart and he doesn't know about her ability."
"He doesn't?" Carrie asked, feigning surprise. She was well aware from Jack's own comments that Jensen was out of the loop about Tru's rewinds, but she could hardly tell Davis that.
"She'll probably tell him eventually, but Tru is very careful about who she tells."
"She told you," Carrie pointed out. "And her brother."
"She told Harrison but not me. I figured it out for myself." Davis finally looked her straight in the eye and Carrie quickly schooled her face into an expression of admiration at his admission.
"Really?" Carrie asked. "You figured out that she was reliving days without her telling you?"
"Yes," Davis nodded. "I'd been saved by her mother and working here and seeing the patterns…"
His voice trailed off and Carrie bit back a small sound of mild impatience. Things would be so much easier if Davis was a little less nervous around her, a little more open and a lot less vague about his own role in helping Tru. She itched to tell him that she knew exactly how much help he gave Tru, that she had known ever since Jack had told her, that he was Tru's first port of call in the storms that arose on her rewind days. But she couldn't tell him that, no more than she could tell him that she knew about the rewind days long before he had confided in her.
"That's quite impressive," Carrie said with a smile as she moved slightly closer and perched on the end of his desk. She watched him shift uncomfortably in his chair and cast about for a safe subject to put him at ease again.
Tru and Jensen came to a halt outside of the morgue.
"You're sure you don't mind postponing our dinner?" Jensen asked with a concerned frown.
"It's fine," Tru assured him with a matching smile. "I've been neglecting Harrison for the last few days anyway. It'll give us time to catch up. And it's not like I knew about the dinner."
"I promise I'll make it up to you," Jensen said as they lingered outside the building. "I'm sure Avery 'll soon give up on this hypnosis idea. She'll run out of volunteers eventually."
"You sound like you mind giving up your evening for this?" Tru commented.
"No, I'd do anything for Avery, but I don't think she'll find anything of interest in my head."
"I'll have to get her to tell me whatever guilty secrets she finds out," Tru teased.
"You can still sit in if you want," Jensen pointed out.
"That's okay," Tru replied with a quick shake of her head. She had already ducked Avery's suggestion at volunteering herself once today, if she turned up tonight she would no doubt be asked again, especially if Jensen turned out to be as poor a test subject as Tyler had. "I really do have to see Harrison's new apartment, before he kidnaps me and drags me there to see it."
Jensen laughed and shook his head with a smile. "Well I'd better be going to the medical centre."
"Okay," Tru nodded. "I've got to catch up with Davis, someone else I've been neglecting a little recently."
"Okay," Jensen agreed before ducking his head to give Tru a goodbye kiss. "I'll call you later."
Tru nodded and smiled as she watched Jensen walk off towards the medical centre. She waited until he was out of sight before pushing open the door to the morgue where she knew Davis would be waiting for her.
She frowned slightly as she walked down the corridor. She had a feeling that Davis had been wanting to talk to her about something since just after Christmas but she hadn't seen him alone in all that time. Either Jensen was with her or Carrie was with him and the timing had just been bad. She wondered what it was he so obviously wanted to talk to her about as she walked into his office, only to find that Carrie was leaning casually on the desk and it looked like they wouldn't have the chance to talk today either.
"Hi Tru," Davis greeted her with what looked like a guilty start.
"Jensen not with you today?" Carrie asked as she cast a meaningful glance at Davis. Tru frowned at the look and wondered at its meaning.
"No, he's at the medical centre," Tru confirmed. She looked at Davis and Carrie, felt the slight unease in the atmosphere and wondered what it was that she had interrupted. She hoped they hadn't had an argument and she was thankful there had been no rewinds since Christmas Eve so Davis lying on her account could not be the cause of it if they had.
"Well I should get back to my office," Carrie said with a bright smile. "I'll see you later Davis?"
"Yes, sure, later," Davis stuttered as Carrie left him with another meaningful glance that Tru didn't fail to pick up on.
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