A/N: Needed characters for plot so here they are:
Henry-Stahl's stepfather
Helen-Stahl's deceased mother.
Henry is making Stahl an offer he can't refuse.
Stahl is leaning against his desk, arms folded in front of him. He is only half-listening. The other part of his brain is wondering how many fibers the carpet is losing with Henry's incessant pacing.
"You understand this is not for me?" Henry stops and stares at Stahl pointedly like a professor lecturing a wayward student.
"Henry, you know as well as I do that I haven't touched this in a million years".
"Pff, like that would ever stop you! Nonsense. Don't tell me you are still considering keeping that job of yours! I thought you got better. Don't disappoint me. Justin needs you. Marta needs you...Or do you want to see the whole thing disappear? I don't think Helen would have appreciated that".
"Naturally, you would bring mother into this".
"I lov..."
"I know, I know. You loved my mother."
Henry ignores the sarcasm in his voice:
"What do you want me to do then? Leave it to your sister? That's like sending it to hell in a hand basket!"
"Don't be so melodramatic, Henry".
"Robert, do you not want to do it because it's coming from me and not your mother? You yourself know that's what she would've wanted. And it's time for you to give up blaming me for your father".
Stahl slams the door at that.
Therapist's office.
"Well, that was mature, Robert".
"I don't know what you want me to do, Sylvia."
"The question is what do you want to do? Are you going to push it away or accept it? You wanted to work on control, Robert, here's your opportunity".
He shakes his head at her minutely, gets up from the chair and slides onto the couch.