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WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, CHEERYCHERRY. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 019.46.820.17 * CHEERYCHERRY has joined 019.46.820.17 <CHEERYCHERRY> It's Riley! <CHEERYCHERRY> Please leave a message! <CHEERYCHERRY>** Please be someone with their priorities sorted out properly!

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Ho ho ho! Merry freaking Christmas!

Your Secret Santa recipient this year is Alex Drake ("drake" on the network). Please buy, make, or otherwise procure her a nice gift before December 26! You can give this directly, or label it clearly and drop it off at Crowe Clinic C/O Hawkeye Pierce. (Or drop it off at Crowe Clinic C/O Alex Drake, I mean... she's a doctor too)

Remember: Saint Nick is watching, and he knows where you live!

Happy Holidays, etcetera, and so forth,
Santa Claus

[ Riley stares at the message and just— ]

I think there's been a mistake! I signed up my friend for this, not myself!!

Ho ho ho! Don't question Santa Claus!

The knife cuts both ways, kiddo. You sign people up, they get to sign you up too.

Not fair!! You know, you should really implement a rule where you can ONLY sign up yourself.

Fine, I’ll play along this year… Do you know her? Any hints, tips? I’ve kind of been a little unplugged for awhile here.

[ The only times she looked at the network all of November it was in a feverish haze where the letters all started doing a do-si-do. She knows so little about what’s gone on outside of her immediate circle. ]

But then how would all the Scrooges be dragged kicking and screaming into the holiday spirit? I'm doing you a favor, really.

She's a psychologist. Pretty new here. I think she's a lich now? That's all you're getting.

[ Normally Riley would make a show of saying how she’s not a Scrooge, and how dragging people into this against their will could be considered a form of harassment, and how not everyone celebrates Christmas and didn’t they have this discussion last year, Santa Claus, and he’s going to get himself in hot water one day—

But the second part of that message. It stops her. ]

A psychologist?
I wasn’t aware there were any of those here.

[ A lich scares her. It shouldn’t, she knows not every lich is the same, she’s had good experiences with some, but—

From the very start, she’s thought that would be the worst sort of monster to become. ]

Does she work anywhere?

They come and go a lot. It's good, though, right? God knows we all need some psychological help around here.

(Except me, obviously. I'm fine. But we can't all be magical spirits of Christmas cheer!)

She's not working anywhere officially as far as I know, but I hear Crowe Clinic's trying to snap her up.

Is she going to be vetted?
It’s important if she’s vetted.
People need to know if they can trust her.

[ She ignores part of the message entirely. She has no desire to play pretend right now, not when she knows this is the man who let Fabius Bile have access to a whole clinic of vulnerable people. ]

[That's fair. He can't even argue the point, that's just... that's fair.]

Yes. Thoroughly.

We're not letting it happen again. I promised Steve, and I'm promising you. I'm not letting anything like that slip through ever again.

And sessions monitored.
Or something.

Someone else’s judgment if she talks to patients about their personal problems.
They would be incredibly vulnerable.
They might not be able to tell if she doesn’t have their best interests at heart.

That sort of thing doesn’t go away. If she betrays their trust.

[Okay, yeah, screw trying to have this conversation as Santa Claus. It feels... wrong, somehow. He quickly switches username.]

I understand that. What I'm not sure of is how you balance that with patient confidentiality. I mean, if people are seeing a psychologist, they're not going to want me or Lust listening in, are they? Especially not if they want to talk shit about us.

If we take her on as an employee, I'll give it some serious thought. But I don't know how we monitor sessions safely. I'm open to any ideas you have.

I don’t know. But patient confidentiality doesn’t seem to matter if your therapist is just going to go and spew your whole life to the guy who want to kill you and then act like you’re a nutcase on the network.

[ —Er. Shit, wait. ]

Psychiatrist. Whatever. Look, I don’t know. I’ve never done anything like this before. The only time I’ve tried, it went poorly. All I know is if that happens again to anyone i won’t let it slide. And I won’t forgive anyone who could’ve prevented it.

[He doesn't respond for a few moments.]

Good.

Maybe some things shouldn't be forgiven.

You're right. Some shouldn't.

[ A moment. ]

I'll still get something for her. It's the holidays.
I'm not going to ruin someone else's.

Glad to hear it. She didn't have anything to do with all the mess that happened.

But I maybe should have paired you up with someone else. Sorry about that.

[ She didn't. But only time will tell if she proves to be trustworthy. ]

You probably should've. But it's fine. I don't expect you to consider all of the aspects of our lives when putting together a little gift exchange.

We live and learn, I guess.

Well, for some value of "live", anyway.

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<CheeryCherry> shoots this back rq im sorry

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<CheeryCherry> | cw: medical abuse/therapy malpractice discussion

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<CheeryCherry> cw: internalized ableism

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