Slavery RP Post XVIII

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This post is for prompts that focus on crossovers between various slavery AUs, with the crossover wizards.

Please put the use name of your slave Matt in the subject line of your comment eg. "Feral: Fuck or 'die' AGAIN!"

I'll move a couple of prompts over to start us off, but feel free to ignore them and put your own.

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Toffee, DA Barba, Ivannya, Hendrick, Jamie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

Instructor Marnie was correct when she thought that Toffee would be overwhelmed with his classes and work, and as Toffee struggles with pet literature, protocol, working to fit into the household, his PT, his trauma classes with her, exercising at the pet parks, and steeking class on top of everything, he gets more and more overwhelmed until one day after Marnie's session he ends up deep in flashbacks and is in awful pain for an entire day, until he has to admit to the rest that he needs to dial back to prevent him from collapsing more.

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

Marnie spent her time before her next session with a pet preparing the room physically and contemplating his situation. She ran a brush through her hair before carefully re-plaiting it, and arranged the pillows and cushions and blankets to be more artfully messy. Then she began to assemble a plateful of cookies, and a second of various fruits, cheeses, crackers, and dried meats.

Toffee was sometimes a little difficult to help. It had taken them about four weeks, at one two-hour session a week, to really open up to her about anything less superficial than his current knitting projects or what he'd had to eat that day or if she thought he was appropriately polite or how absolutely wonderful and perfect his new family was. Sometimes he had quickly tested her, tossing out tidbits from his captivity to see how she'd react, if she'd be disgusted or angry or terrified, and when she was calm and didn't regard him any less positively he would often look confused.

But last week, he'd started breaking down to her and truly being emotionally open. She'd noticed the pattern before that, but he had voiced it himself last week: he felt overwhelmed, and was incredibly terrified that he was going to fail at everything he was doing. His exercising, his new classes, his integrating into the household, his attempts at trauma healing, and even his knitting social time were all suffering, and he had confided in her he didn't know if he could keep going like this.

She'd listened, and asked him if he wanted her to intervene and call a meeting with his owner and other pets, and when he'd vehemently said 'no', she'd helped him calm down and suggested ways to tell them he needed to pull back. But he hadn't wanted to quit at all, so she'd also worked with him at rehearsing time management and looking at ways to prioritize. He'd left her much more hopeful, and determined to do better.

Time would tell, she knew, if he'd actually gotten better or if he was worse. But all she could do was prepare.

The tea (floral and fruity today, a cranberry and rosemary mix) was hot and fragrant as a knock came to her door and she rose in her silk robe to open it, smiling gently.

Toffee: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

When Instructor Marnie opened the door to him he couldn't help it, he burst into tears. Nothing he'd tried to do had worked to make it easier.

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"Oh, darling," she murmured, hugging him close to her bosom and gently petting through his hair with one hand. "Things have been hard, Toffee? Come on, let's go and sit down," she said softly, stepping backwards and elegantly shutting the door behind them, leaving them in the privacy of her warm, cave-like private healing room, and she led him to sit down with her, still in her warm embrace.

"It's alright, cry as much as you need to," she said, endlessly gentle and patient. She knew how these things could be.

Toffee: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"Didn't work, I'm getting all the pet protocol wrong, I can't keep up with the reading for the discussion class, or the knitting for the steeking class, and I'm getting worse at being handfed!" His voice rose almost to a wail as he admitted the last, but he'd choked the last time Hendrick fed him.

(OOC: Toffee sees Hendrick most as an authority figure among his pet sibs)

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

Marnie stroked his back gently. "Let's talk about this over tea," she said softly, pouring him a cup first from the teapot and then one herself. She always used the more generic cups with Toffee, out of respect for his strange nervousness about breaking them. These had bluebells and yellow daises on them, and were larger than ordinary cups. She added two cubes of sugar, as was his preference, and said, "Don't worry about protocol here at all. I don't mind in the slightest."

When he had taken the cup, she said softly, "Tell me what you mean by 'worse'. That sounds like it's very upsetting."

Toffee: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"We were playing that game you taught us, each taking turns feeding one of the others, but then Hendrik fed me a bite of scone, and I choked." He was letting Hendrik down so much.

(OOC: Toffee perceives Hendrik as being mostly in charge of picking the classes he was enrolled in)

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

She nodded in acknowledgement. "It's not too surprising," she said tactfully. "I know you see him as more of an authority than Jamie or Ivannya."

She cleared her throat. "How is everything else--eating, sleeping, classes, PT, pet parks?"

Toffee: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"I'm having more problems with my balance at PT, all the classes except yours are so much harder for me than they seem to be for the others, pet parks are overwhelming sometimes, and Ivannya and Jamie take me to them so much that I don't have time to keep up with my classes, and...sometimes I can't sleep, then sometimes I can't wake up in time."

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"And how have you been feeling emotionally?" she asked gently. Now Marnie was starting to see what would need to happen, but she needed to have all the information before acting. "Have you been feeling more afraid? Last week, you told me you felt anxious constantly, and when you were alone, you cried or hid from the others. Is that the same, or worse?"

Toffee: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"A bit worse." He admitted it unhappily. "Hasn't got bad enough to stop me eating yet, but..."

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"But if it gets any worse, you won't be able to eat enough," Marnie finished quietly for him. This was worse than she'd feared.

"Toffee," she said softly. "This isn't sustainable. You sound like you're going to snap."

Toffee: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"Uh...you said you'd advocate for me last week?" He half asked hopefully.

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

Marnie nodded, pleased he was no longer in denial. "I will," she said. "But I need to know what to advocate for first. How do you feel about taking a medical withdrawal from all classes except this one?" she asked him simply.

Toffee: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"Oh,please. I know I said I was interested in a class on steeking, but I meant something a year or so down the line, so I'd have plenty of time to get stuff knitted in advance and concentrate on the steeking techniques."

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

She nodded calmly. "We can get the forms ready to be signed for a medical withdrawal from the steeking class, the pet protocol class, and the pet literature class. Do you want me to speak to them regarding the pet parks as well? I know you've said you find it very difficult to tell them you don't want to come and they don't seem aware of how badly you are impacted by having no free time."

Toffee: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"Please?" He reached up and hugged her, so grateful that she was willing to help now that he'd asked for it. "I do like going to the pet parks sometimes, just not as often as they want to take me."

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"I know, Toffee," she murmured. He was so sweet, but so very passive, and it interfered with his ability to communicate any of his desires. "I think I shall tell them only once or twice a week, at most." She took a soft breath. "There's also the matter of your sleep. When was the last time you had a full night's sleep, eight hours, without waking up or nightmares?"

Toffee: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"Umm...a couple weeks ago." He admitted unhappily. "That's not just the stress though, it happened even in that first week with nothing on."

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"If you cannot get enough sleep, you can't function well," she said firmly. "Toffee, you have been visibly getting more and more exhausted, your emotions are becoming more difficult to deal with, you say you can barely think, and you certainly cannot adapt and heal to an entirely new life this way." She held him very close to her, gazing into his eyes. "What you seek to do here, with me, it is enormous work. And you can do it. But only when you are given the tools to succeed, and the time to relax and process, and the space for rest and leisure in your life, at least a little. When was the last time you had time to just do whatever pleased you, or nothing at all?"

Toffee: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"I get to go to the knitting evenings at my yarn shop, and I get to knit sometimes during the day and evening, but..." Only really when someone else suggested it, or he pointed out that he had knitting homework.

(OOC: It's not malicious, but each of them only really sees how much of Toffee's time and attention they take up, not how much the rest of the household takes up, like how in a lot of schools if there's a policy on how much homework kids can be assigned each night every teacher assigns the total maximum for their class without thinking about it)

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"But you aren't resting," she said softly, and nodded calmly. "Toffee, I also want to recommend to them that the attempts at normalizing handfeeding be discontinued for now. Even a month-long break will help a great deal."

And another concern came to her.. "How is your physical therapy going? Have they communicated anything to your owner or family?"

Toffee: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"Not yet. I get up with master and use the exercise machines with him, so my strength's getting better, it's mostly balance that's the problem. They want to arrange a meeting with master, but they're willing to give me another week to try to get the changes I need made myself."

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

She nodded calmly, controlling her concerns. Worrying outwardly would do him no good. "Alright, then we will also have to discuss that with your household. If your balance is steadily getting worse, that means that this is all getting to be far too harmful, and that will help our case." She took a soft breath, forming plans. But she needed to take care of his immediate needs. "Now, Toffee, how much did you sleep last night, and have you eaten breakfast yet?"

Toffee: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"I was knitting to midnight," As homework, and he hated that his knitting was starting to turn into a chore. "and got up with master, but my sleep was broken...maybe five hours? I did eat breakfast though."