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Mike knocks and after a moment, Jeremy opens the door, the man looks like he hasn't gotten much sleep and it takes a fool to not know why. "Can I come in?" Mike asks, ever since the rescue, Jeremy has refused to return to Freddy's. In fact, the man did not trust himself and has refused Hope to live with him so she is currently living at Freddy's with Mike. Truth to be told this does worry everyone at Freddy's from how Jeremy has sealed himself away in his own house. Mike can somehow relate to this as he too has been tormented by a black spirit, there is a major difference though: Nightmare wanted to kill him while Twisted One aimed to break its victim's mind.

Jeremy does not answer him, he simply lets him inside and returns back to sit on the couch and stare emptily at the television. Mike notices right away the spirit sitting on the couch's backrest and is sort of happy that Martin has been with his brother in these hard times, even if his help is rather limited.

Turning away from the spirit Mike tells the painfully quiet man. "You might not like what I am about to tell you, but I think you should see a psychiatrist." He tells the man. "I know a good one—"

"If I tell anyone but the main staff at Freddy's what that spirit put me thought; I'll end up in a mental hospital. And no way in hell I will tell you, bad enough I am dealing with this crap." Jeremy interrupts him, he might be mentally broken but he still has his pride. "It broke me but I am not insane." He drops his head, letting out a defeated sigh. "...At least not yet…"

"This one won't think you insane." Mike points out and explains before Jeremy can snap at him again. "Mrs. Grey helped me after the death of Vincent and before that— well according to her, Marion had sessions with her." As hoped this caught Jeremy's attention, the blond eyes him surprised. "She treated that murder puppet?" He asks and turns back to the television, with an angry frown more like his old self. "She didn't do a very good job…"

"I think her sessions was what made Marion tolerable." Martin's spirit points out from his spot.

Hearing Martin speak like Calem catches Mike very off guard. "When did you learn to do that?" And Martin replies a bit confused. "Learned to do what?" Which only makes Mike the more confused.

So Jeremy explains for both. "Martin's power surge gave him a few perks, this:" He points at the visible spirit. "Is one of them, but his memory is still like a fucking strainer."

"What did you expect from one not having a brain anymore?" Martin retort in his usual playful tone.

"Point taken but explaining you stuff over and over is starting to get one hell of a nuisance." Jeremy points out but he is still glad he can talk to his brother, it has really helped him stay sane these past days.

Mike has a feeling about that as well, he knows how close those two are and how much they depend on each other when things get tough. "I still think you should try this. You can't sit and let the Twisted One keep control over you." He would really hate to lose another friend after Steve got killed by Vincent only a year past.

Mike got a point, even if he's not trapped by that monster, his dreams are still tormented by the torture it put him through, sometimes he even hallucinates its voice demanding him to obey it. Jeremy is terrified by that thing and knows he won't stand a chance if it tries to catch him again but… hell, he does not want to become like that woman! He does not want to be another hunter for those two kids. They have enough crap to deal with already. "Alright..." Jeremy sighs. "I talk to this Mrs. Grey." Mike smiles. "Where does she want the session to be?"

"At Freddy's."

Jeremy blinks. "The fuck?" Completely ignoring his brother lecturing him that he shouldn't swear that much. He turns to the other man and asks dumbfounded. "Why the hell does she want the sessions there?"

Mike can't do anything else but laughs of Mrs. Grey's reason. "She was starting to get bored and figured the place could use one with her talent." But he thinks it's more likely that Mrs. Grey rather want to be around the place where her granddaughter is haunting, maybe also be closer to people she cares about. Mrs. Grey is getting up in the years and going places are getting hard for her. Jeremy throws up his arms, exclaiming exaggerated. "Sure, why the hell not?!" Mike can only laugh in agreement.

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Scott opens the door and helps Mrs. Grey out from the car. "Thank you." She smiles and walks towards the doors of Freddy's, it goes a bit slow but it's not like she is bothered by it and those waiting for her arrival all are thankful that she does all of this to help them out, so none of them complains her taking the sweet time doing stuff.

Inside the restaurant, Mrs. Grey greet Mike as if he was a grandchild of hers and hugs the young man. "So good to see you again Mike, how is business going?"

"The same like last time." Mike replies with a small smile. The moment she releases him from the hug, Mike introduce Mrs. Grey to her new patient. "This is Jeremy Fristgeral." Jeremy offers her his hand and they shake. Before he can speak, Mrs. Grey comes with a rather weird yet hilarious remark. "Ah, Marion mentioned you a few times. Said you were one of the easier ones to recognize thanks to your fierce temper."

….He is not sure if that should be taken as a compliment or insult. "Uh…" Mrs. Grey chuckles and tells him still quite amused. "He said a few other things about you, but those I will not say. He might be gone but I still have patient/doctor confidentiality with him as well I will with you Mr. Fritzgeral. Whatever you speak during our sessions will stay between us and I will only reveal our conversations if you give me clear words that is your wish." Jeremy has been to a psychologist before so he already knows about this law but to hear this old woman saying it as well as her being calm about the spirit world. That eases his thoughts. He nods and by her request, they head into the office.

Mrs. Grey takes a seat on the manager's chair, ready her notebook in case there are subjects they both wish to return back to in the future. "Mike told me you are dealing with serious nightmares and sincere trauma from your encounter with—" she checks her older files, one of them are the notes from her sessions with Marion. He too had great trauma with one of those things. "A black spirit, nasty creatures. They know nothing else than causing harm on others, empathy is not in their nature." She eyes Jeremy behind her reading glasses and does not blame him one bit in showing signs of terror of the mere mention of such a creature. "If you are not ready to speak about it, we perhaps should speak about something else. Your encounter with it is still very resent, after all."

"Isn't that's the reason why you are here?" Jeremy asks a bit confused, he fully expected he had to talk about his encounter with the Twisted One. Mrs. Grey smiles, a warm, understanding smile. "Only if you wish, the goal of our sessions is not to 'fix' you but to figure out how you best can handle your personal problems." Her smile fades and watches him seriously but not in a manner that makes him feel she is judging him. "Do you think you are ready to return back to what it did to you?" He wants to say he is, show he is not weak but… he is so scared, the mere thought of having to relive that again… "No…" He muses weakly and feels like such a coward. The only saving grace in all of this that Mrs. Grey shows no sign of irritating or disappointment, she simply nods and asks. "What about we talk about something else? Your family perhaps?" He blinks at this and she elaborates. "I know you lost your twin brother to a terrible accident."

"Yeah, but I have already gotten over that- I mean I am still angry the management didn't pay more attention to the safety precaution. If they had then my brother would still be alive today and not being stuck as a robot hare. Of course, he doesn't really mind, idiot can see the silver lining in everything."

Mrs. Grey writes a few notes, for a moment Jeremy thinks she writes her thoughts on his words but checking he realizes she simply write what he has been saying, her own thoughts are not included at all.

"Tell me how you dealt with this unfortunate loss." Mrs. Grey requests her current patient. "You weren't aware of his entrapment in Spring were you?"

Jeremy shakes his head. "No, I thought him to be gone for a long time." He didn't really mean it but he told Mrs. Grey about his messy experience of trying to get to terms that he never would see his brother again and with that loss of his twin brother… he lost a part of himself. He told her on how angry he felt, at Freddy's, the world, and himself. But that anger, in reality, hid the mind-breaking grief and loneliness he felt from losing his other half and the only thing that kept him sane all those years was his iconic anger and his determinating to keep Martin's memory alive.

Before he realized it, he has spoken for hours and only took notice when a knock on the door reminded him of the time.

"I'm sorry to interrupt, but dinner is ready" Scott speaks through the door, he feels a bit bad interrupting this very important session but Jeremy and Mrs. Grey need something to eat.

Mrs. Grey packs her notes. "Thank you." and turns to her patient. "I would like we returned back to this topic next week."

He nods in agreement. Jeremy is not sure but talking to this woman about his reaction on the death of Martin made him aware of how much he depended on his brother— how much he still depends on him.

He didn't talk much with the others during dinner, nor when he returned back home and for a small hour, Jeremy just sat on the sofa, staring out in space. He only reacted when he spots a ghostly figure over at the shelf filled with the pictures of him and Martin. The newest one is showing him getting almost crushed by Spring's hug. "Hey, Martin." The ghost takes a sharper form and Martin turns to him with those white dead eyes, Jeremy completely ignores the fact he is talking to a dead guy. "Do you remember the vacation to Spain we went with our parents?"

"Heh, yeah." Martin's spirit laughs softly. "It was just after the barn incident. Man, I felt like you when mother kept telling me to keep the shirt on so my wounds wouldn't get a sunburn."

Jeremy laughs, remembering how glad he felt he could go in the scorching heat without a shirt and simple has to wear a cap. "I think that was the first time I actually heard you use a swear word."

"Mother was not happy."

"Can you blame her? You used it on her!" Jeremy laughs and when done pouting, his brother follows suit. Talking nostalgia with his brother like this really lighten his mood, and not even Martin's lousy memory could ruin it.

things will get better for Jeremy, he has people who want to help him and giving enough time, he will recover from what Twisted One did to him.

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I hope you will help me out with that, if not then you just have to be patient.

until next time.