Ivan's little world in his room (special 28 attn. anyone)

Feliciano lay a hand on Ivan's shoulder, scanning the pretty garden. "So Ivan... Or Vanya, or whichever part of Ivan you are. Can you tell me why Ivan retreated again?"

Ivan looked at the petal in his hand, and ran his finger tip along the petal slowly and lightly, liking the texture if it.
"Ivan...... Vanya isn't sure really about Ivan sometimes.... But.... Vanya thinks that Ivan is scared actually sometimes.... But Vanya gets more scared and more easily..... Vanya doesn't want to Ivan to hurt him, so Vanya gets away.... Not wanting to get hurt......"

"Vanya, do you know what Ivan is afraid of?" Dr.Vargas asked, his brows creased with concern. "I know I've asked this before, but have you found out anything else?"

"Vanya thinks that...... Maybe... Ivan if afraid of the life itself...." He thought a bit before continuing.
"It's almost like....... Ivan is afraid of living sometimes..."

"Why is Ivan afraid of living? Can you tell me anything that happened Vanya?"

"Ummm..... Ivan thinks that..... This world that we are living in... It's a bad place... Not worth living for..."

"Oh! That's terrible! There are plenty of things worth living for!"

Ivan nods.
"Vanya knows, but Ivan doesn't think so..."

"Well what made him think that Vanya?" Feliciano asked, petting Ivan and snuggling closer to the big man, hoping his hugs would make it easier to talk. "Why are you optimistic and not him?"

"Vanya isn't sure....." Ivan said while he leaned a bit against Dr. Vargas.

The doctor patted Ivan's head, petting his hair quietly. "Well I guess we'll have to figure that out then, won't we?"

Ivan nodded a bit and closed his eyes for a moment.

It was there again. The speacial friend that Vanya and Ivan have. It didn't have a name. Well yet. They weren't sure what to call it exactly, but it was something. It was something cat-like. It moved a lot like a cat but it didn't exactly look like a cat. More like a lizard or snake, having three legs; two front and one back.
They thought that it was weird that it could move so gracefully around the place. Not making a sound while walking. It never tripped, it never missplaced a step and it certainly did not go the wrong way. Ever. They thought it was really strange for it. It always seemed to know a better way to go to places and also how to get to places quicker. It sometimes shared these routes, but not many.
They actually thought that it was hard to say what it looked like exactly because it seemed to change forms sometimes. But the cat-like movements and three legs never went away.

This time it was a lizard. Or maybe a snake. Having the three legs and cat-like movements.
Opening eyes, they looked at it as it moves along the trail not so far. Then it stopped and looked at them, starting to come towards them.

It never spoke to them but it sometimes showed them pictures of different things it has seen, or when it needs to say something to them.

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Of course, IT was only something Ivan could see.

Feliciano observed his patient who was staring into empty air like something solid and tangible occupied the space, he stared at the spot himself trying to discern what might be holding Ivan's interest. For a second he could almost make out- No. That was silly, people couldn't see things that weren't there and being a doctor he should no better than to let his mind play tricks on him. He smiled and tapped Ivan's shoulder, "Focus Vanya, you've been doing such a good job so far! Do you think we could try talking to Ivan for an itty bit?"

Vanya blinked and looked at Feliciano, tilting his head a bit to the side. "Talk to Ivan..? ... Vhy...?" Vanya didn't really like the idea, he never did.
He slowly moved his gaze back to the creature in front of him, tilting his head a bit more as it looked at him. What did it want this time?

Feli patted his patient on the head, gently petting his hair. "To see if he has anything to say and if he's calmed down at all since he last took over. Because our goal is to someday have all parts of you cooperating Vanya."

"Ee... Ee guess..." Vanya said after some thinking and hesitation, while leaning to the touch.
He closed his eyes, his face changing in a matter of seconds to something more adult like, not looking so child like anymore even though his face still had child like features. He pulled away from the touch, taking more straight sitting position and putting one leg over the other, while putting his hands on his lap.
"What do you want?" Ivan asked with a slightly deeper voice as he looked forward, not looking at the doctor.

Feliciano smiled, drawing his legs up to rest his chin on his knees. "Bonjourno~ I want to talk Ivan. How are you?"

"What do you want to talk about?" Ivan asked, ignoring Feliciano's question. He wasn't really in the mood for chatting.