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: 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."

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"Then here is what we shall do," she said, deciding on a plan. "You and I will contact your household and schedule a meeting with them and I here, or at your home, whichever you think will work better. And then we will drink tea, and I will lead you into restful meditation, and while you rest I will complete the necessary forms for medical withdrawals, and if there is a long gap between now and the meeting, then you can knit, sleep, or we can keep talking." She could see his anxiety rising again, how he was tensing up all over.

Toffee: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"Better here maybe, so they don't feel threatened." He answered, feeling anxious about the idea.

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"Then we will schedule it here," she said, and squeezed Toffee's hands. "It's safe here for you too," she told him. "They will be upset that things have gotten very bad, but none of them strike me as cruel or indifferent." Or else she would be doing it all very differently.

With that, she picked up her office phone and dialed for Barba as Toffee visibly grew terrified, whimpering and begging silently.

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

She paused, halfway through dialing.

"I have some noise-cancelling headphones, if it would be helpful for you not to have to listen to this conversation?"

"Yes please." Toffee sounded so relieved.

Barba: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

Barba looked up from his desk at Hendrick suddenly climbing to his feet. "Sir," he said, "The phone call, it's from the Instructor Marnie of the Academy, she says it's urgent and about Toffee," and he handed it over immediately.

"Hello?" Barba said, gut clenched. His mind raced with possibilities for Toffee--hurt, dissociating, flashbacking, suicidal.

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"Hello DA Barba, I need to set up an appointment with you, and ideally the rest of your household to discuss some issues regarding Toffee's schedule, both for classwork and in the more general sense." She made sure to remain polite, but she didn't hide her concern for Toffee.

Barba: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"How urgent does this need to be? Today, or a different day?" Barba asked, a little less worried now, but not by much. "Does he need to go to a hospital? Is he safe with you right now?"

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"He's safe with me, and he doesn't need to go to hospital yet, but today would be best." She couldn't resist the urge to put the slightest emphasis on the word yet.

DA Barba: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

Yet. It sent chills down his spine.

Barba checked his calendar immediately, and almost snarled at it when he saw that he had two mandatory meetings with the ADAs and a victim's family. Neither could be rescheduled. "The earliest I can be there is about four o'clock. I know that's six hours from now, but we can't get there sooner," he said, frustrated. "Can you ensure Toffee stays safe with you and has some lunch, perhaps? Jamie can't come and fetch him today, but if the situation is dire-- is it safer for him to stay put there?" he asked, mind racing. "I know it's beyond the scope of the scheduled sessions, but if he needs to go, do I need to send Hendrick out? I can't send him until noon--" he tried to think, who'd he put as the safety contact? "Danny Rand and Matt could also, if he can't stay there with you--"

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"I can keep him here with me, certainly." She agreed. She kept her full morning free for Toffee, and she could rearrange her afternoon sessions today. "He needs a medical withdrawal from his other classes, do I have your approval to get the paperwork ready for your signature before you arrive?"

Barba: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"A medical withdrawal?" Barba repeated, feeling almost light-headed. "I--we'll discuss it when I'm there, but, I suppose you can fill the forms out, but they need my signature before being filed." He'd had to medically withdraw Jamie from an Academy class before, and Ivannya from another, which was how he knew how to do so, but how bad could Toffee be? He'd seen him just that morning, working out quietly and happily with him, and then Toffee had showered after and Barba had gotten in a few pecks on his cheeks before having to go to work.

He took a breath. "Can I speak to Toffee for a moment?" he asked, getting a firm hold of himself. He'd need to make sure his sweet, sensitive pet wouldn't spend the entire waiting time panicking about it all. He knew at this point that Toffee was prone to mounting spirals of terror when he had to wait for things to be said, and could work himself up to tears when he wasn't gently reassured at least a little.

Instructor Marnie: Overload and Burnout

[(Anonymous)]

"Of course sir. I'll just get him to take his sound cancelling headphones off." She put the DA on hold and went to kneel in front of Toffee, a hand on his knee.

"Instructor Marnie?"

"He won't be available until four, but he'd like to talk to you before I clear my afternoon. I'll keep you here and you can nap or knit or do whatever else you want to. If you don't want to talk to him it's okay, as your advocate I can tell him that, but he is concerned for you."

"I'll talk to him, but...can you listen please?"

"Of course." She helped Toffee up and guided him to her little desk, putting the phone onto speaker mode.

"Hello DA Barba, Toffee's here, and he asked me to listen in, so I've put you on speaker mode."