I do not own Sanctuary. If i did Ashley would still be alive.

On The Couch

Ashley Magnus sat in the waiting room of the Therapist that the stupid jugde had forced to attent for therapy sessions. She didn't belong their she thought to herself, therapy is for crazies and suicidal people and she was neither of them at least according to her. Now if you asked her friend and roommate Kate Freelander she might tell you something different, that what she told the cop the night of the accident or what Ashley called an accident.

'Stupid Jugde, i'd much rather been tossed in jail for reckless endangerment then talk aboutme feeling to some Therapist' she thought. She looked at the other people in this room, one was some goth chick and the other was some teenager. The Goth lit and cigerette and began smoking but the recption stopped her. "Excuse me but " she said pointing to the no smoking sign.

The goth stuck out her pierced tongue and extinguished it on her tongue. The receptionist turned to Ashley and said "Dr. Zimmerman will see you know Ms. Magnus". 'Finally ' Ashley thought 'The sooner i see this guy the sooner i can leave'

Ashley walked down the hall and to the room with Dr. William Zimmerman imprinted on the window. She opened the door and looked around. It was what she expected, a friendly open envirnment with large window that the sunlight poured through. There were several picture and comemerents on the walls several of with were dipolmas. It even came with a couch and chair sitting opposite the couch.

In that chair sat a man in his late 20's whom she assumed was Dr. Zimmerman. He seemed nice enough, nice shirt, messy hair, glasses. In High school he was probable the shy kid that no one really noticed or bothered.

"Are you Dr. Zimmerman?" Ashley asked. "Yes, are you Ms. Magnus?" he asked politely. "Yes but Ashley fine" she replied. " So Dr. Zimmerman " she began. "You can call me Will" he interupted. "So Will, were do we begin" she said smiling.

"Were do you want to begin ? " he asked. " I don't want to be here " Ashley said "I don't care what anyone say I didn't try to kill myself, it was an accident"

"Your refering to the car accident you and your friends were in last week" he said. "Well duh, what other accidents have i been in " she replied snarkly. Instead of being offended Will simply said "In their statements to the police your friends who were in the car with you at the time indictated that you saw the car coming towards you but instead of hitting the breaks you pressed the excelorating"

"Well I was drunk, it's not like i could tell the difference" she said angrily. "Your friend Kate Freelander told the police that when you saw the car coming towards you, you got a strange look in your eyes, and your other friend Henry Foss said that when he tried to stop you, you pushed down of the gas harder" he said.

"Yeah well they were drunk too, they couldn't have known what they saw" she said. "Why were you drinking so much that night" he asked calmly. "It was Friday, i was starting my weekend" she said. "According to your friend you don't usually go out on a friday night, so what made last friday so special? he asked

"Nothing, i just needed to unwind after a long week" she said plainly. "Why did you need to unwind after that week" he asked. "That none of your business" she said annoyed at the question he was asking " Isn't this usually the part when you asked which one of my parent abused me"

"You seem like a well adjusted young women, so i don't think either of your parents abused you, if you don't want to talk about the accident we don't have to, this time is about you" he said "We can talk about whatever you want"

"Really " she asked. "Of course we can talk about the weather or movie if you want" he said "How about we talk about your friends if that alright with you".

"Fine" she said "So who do you want to talk about first Henry or Kate? ". "Why don't you start with who you met first" Will said.

"That be Henry, we meet when we were kids, he moved to the house next to me with his uncle B.G. He and my mom were old friend and me and Henry became got friend, we had the whole Joey and Dawson thing except without the romance, we've always been just friends, he's like a brother to me" she said thinking fondly on her friend.

"And Kate" Will asked. "Me and Henry went to Old City University 2 years ago, he studing computers and i'm studing zoology, anyway I got this roomate, she was messy, blunt and Stubburn so as you can imagine we became the best of friends, then she meet Henry, they became friend and the rest is history".

"I notice you didn't mention your Father " Will said. "Oh well, he abandoned my mom while she was pregnant with me, so she raised me nearly single handed except for B.G. Keeping an eye on me when mom was at work. He worked as a repairman and had a lot of free time so was able to babysit me while mom was at work, she was a doctor at the Old City General, Now she's the Head of the Hospital.

"Well maybe he knew he'd be a lousy dad, thought he was doing what was best for you" Will said. "That bastard did what was best for him, but how could you understand" she said angrily.

Will seemed surprised by this outburst "Actually Ashley I do you understand you, I never knew my father either" he said solomnly. Ashley turned to look at him and knew this wasn't something he told all his patients. "My mother raised me by herself until a camping trip we took when i was 6" he said. "What happened ?" Ashley asked.

"She was killed by a wolf, I would have been too if a park ranger hadn't arrived when he did, I was taken in by my grandparents, They recently past away" he said checking his watch.

Ashley was speechless, she felt so much sympathy for the man in front of her. "It appears our time is up" he said "Same time next week". Ashley agreed to this and left.

As she made her way back to her dorm she was deep in thought. She couldn't stop thinking about Will and how he opened up to her. Why had he done it, was it some mind game to gain her trust so she'd opened up to him, no something insode her told her that he was telling the truth and it wasn't some Jedi mind trick her was playing on her.

Her train of thought was interupted by her phone ringing. It was her roomate Kate. "Hey Ashley how was your meeting woth the shrink" Kate asked. "It was fine" she said. "So when's your Lobotomy" Kate asked jokingly. "Shut up" Ashley said. "So are you going back next week or are you going to play hokey" Kate asked.

Ashley thought about this for a moment before replying "Yeah i think i will go back"