Marik sat on the couch looking at his lap wishing this session would be over. Not that Dr. Collison wasn't nice and all, but he still rather be doing something else.
Dr. Collison looked up from his note book. "And when did Melvin start hiding your motorcycle keys?"
"Around last week." Marik replied.
"Can you think of anything that might have provoked into doing this?"
"No!" Marik shouted looking up. "It was completely uncalled for and he always taught me about how I can't seem to find where he put them."
"Mhm." The Dr. Collison wrote this down. "I suppose that makes you feel trapped."
"Yes!" Marik exclaimed. "That motorcycle is the only little bit of freedom I have in my life. I was the only decision I made all by myself and he's stealing it from me!"
Dr. Collison nodded. "Is there anything else?"
"Yes." Marik looked down. "We had that nightmare again."
Dr. Collison gave Marik a look of pity. "the one about your father?"
Marik nodded.
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"Not really."
"Ok." Dr. Collison nodded. "I see you aren't wearing a rubber band on your wrist. Does that mean Melvin isn't using it?"
"Actually, we had to take it away from him after he started using them to try and shoot birds out of the sky." Marik said. He looked down at his lap again and put his hands in it.
Collison sighed. Now they had to find a new anger management technique. "How are you and Ishizu getting alone?" He asked.
"I tried to shadow realm last week but it didn't work."
Collison sighed. "Why did you try to banish her to the shadow realm?"
Marik looked down. "She said that Bakura's a bad influence on me."
"and why does she say that?"
"Because he tried to cause the apocalypse."
"Well that is a pretty bad thing to do Marik." Collison looked at the clock. "I would like to speak to Melvin now please."
Marik sighed and closed his eyes. He became taller and more muscular. His shoulders became brooder and his hair spikier. Melvin opened his eyes and leaned back and put one arm over the back of the couch. He was looking out the window if a bored expression on his face.
When Dr. Collison first met them the Jekyll and Hyde transformation had startled him at first, but now he was used to it.
Collison cleared his throat to get Melvin's attention. "So, Marik has told me that you have been stealing his motorcycle keys."
"Yes?" Melvin asked.
"Would you like to tell me why?"
"Not particularly."
"Melvin, please tell me why you have been stealing and hiding Marik's keys."
Melvin gave the doctor a look. He turned his head to the window and replied "Because he started dating Bakura."
"And this bothers you?"
"It does when I wake up next to Ryo."
Collison gave a sympathetic look. "Ryo told me about that last week. He was absolutely terrified."
"And how did it make you feel?"
"Upset and a little disappointed."
Collison raised an eye brow. He wasn't expecting that answer. "Why were you disappointed?"
"I think Ryo's cute and I didn't want to be reminded that he was scared of me."
Collison kept his expression calm but inwardly he was excited. Melvin never opened up this much before. "But why did this make you want to hide Marik's keys?"
Melvin started fiddling with his bracelets. "So that he doesn't go to Bakura's house again."
Collison nodded, finally finding the logic behind he Egyptian's actions, even if he didn't understand it. "Is there anything else you want to talk about?"
"Yes, how do I get Ryo to like me?"
Collison was surprised at thought of Melvin asked him for dating advice. "Well you could always ask him why he's scared of you. And after you work that out, see if you can become friends first."
Melvin nodded, accepting this answer. "But that sounds long and tedious, can't I just force him to like me?"
"You can't force people to like you Melvin."
"Why not!"
Collison sighed. "Because it doesn't work that why."
Melvin crossed his arms with a loud 'humph'. "Well it should."
"Yes well I suppose that would make life easier, wouldn't?"
"I guess it doesn't help my case that when I first met him in person I hugged him and told him his eyes looked like chocolate and I wanted to eat them."
Collison shook his head but wasn't all that surprised Melvin did something like that. He had a habit of saying things without thinking and not explaining them after words.
"Melvin, you have to be more careful about what you say. And if something you say doesn't sound quite right, explain what you mean." Then he thought for a moment before asking "What did you mean when you said that?"
"I was still psychotic then so I said to make piss his pants. It worked, he totally pissed his pants. Now I wish it hadn't." Melvin then said as an afterthought "I wasn't actually going to do it!"
Collison sighed. Melvin still had a long way to go before becoming a stable member of society.
