The DT Files

The DT Files
408: Psycho Therapy
by SSJ04 Mewtwo

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"God, why don't you throw me under a bus?" Quinn says trying to play the roll of her sister.
"C'mon, it can't be that hard." the female doctor encourages.
"I just did." Quinn replies. Helen, out of the corner of her eye, sees what she termed 'detonation'. This was mostly used when Jake when into rant mode, but it looked as if her eldest was about to go off.
"you want me to play Quinn's roll?" she snarls at both her sister and the doctor, "then here's Quinn." Helen bites her lip seeing her daughter take off her jack, hike her skirt up about three to four inches and roll her shirt so that her midriff was showing. "Hello, I'm Quinn." Daria begins doing a very good impression of her sister. Helen winces again. this wasn't going to be good. "You boys can look at me all you want and take me out and spend all your money on me, but unless you can make it past the 29th date, you can't even hold my hand. Oh, you can go into the boys' bathroom and masturbate to my image just as long as I don't know about it." Daria finishes. Helen's eyes widen at that last remark as Quinn blushes from emplacement.
"Uh," the doctor begins but is cut off.
"I'm not finished!" she snaps adjusting her clothes back to their normal state. "Hello," she now says impersonating her mother by putting an invisible phone to her ear. Helen was about to stop this whole think, but Daria plows on. "Yes, I'm always available to do your bidding, Eric. I mean, I've done everything the firm has asked of me, but they still haven't made me partner yet." Helen stops herself from stopping Daria. It might be better for her daughter to get this out. "What? I've got to sleep with you?" Now this even gets Jake attention. "I'm married and if it got out that I slept my way up would hurt our clients so I'll just stay a drone and work while you get all the credit." Daria finishes. "Now, I'll go wait for my execution." she says in her normal voice and walks out. Three minutes pass before anyone says anything.
"Daria!" Helen shouts running to catch up with her daughter.
"My wife's boss wants to sleep with my wife...,gaaah!" Jake rants.
"Oooh, at least no one I know heard her." Quinn complains to herself.

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She sits on the hood of the car waiting for her mother to come out and kill her. She hears footsteps and sighs to herself.
"I'm ready for the chopping block." Daria says dryly.
"Is that how you see your sister?" Helen questions.
"I exaggerated a little, but the masturbation thing is true. You can ask Jodie's boyfriend, Mac, to confirm that. She can't date one boy for more than one week."
"Are you jealous?"
"No. She can have those sheep. None of them could keep up with my intellect. What does make me mad is the fact that she goes out of her way to avoid anything that would have any depth just so that she can stay popular." Helen sighs. She had her sister down to a tee.
"None of them?"
"There are only three, Ted didn't work, he was too sheltered, Mac is taken, and the third would wear small mirrors on his shoes to look up girls' skirts." she replies and Helen lets out another sigh.
"Trent?" Helen asks. This makes Daria go quiet for a couple of minutes. The longer they didn't deal with Daria's impersonation of Helen the better.
"It wouldn't have worked."
"What led you to that conclusion?"
"First, he couldn't deliver on a promise he made to me and Jane. He was supposed to come up with thirty seconds of music for a project in O'Neil's class." she explains.
"And second?"
"Second?"
"Yes, you said 'first', so there has to be a second." Helen says smiling. Daria looks down at the concrete.
"You would never had approved of me going out with him anyway. Too old, no real job...," she quietly trails off.
"Meaning that you didn't like him enough to try and go behind my back then?"
"He wouldn't have noticed me in that way anyway."
"You really believe that Eric's using me?"
"The number of times he calls you, he's using you and you'll never advance your career with him in the way." Daria states thanking whatever controlled the universe that the subject had changed.
"I'm not sleeping my way to the top...," she begins. "That's Linda's job." she adds and Daria smirks. "This was a waste of time and effort wasn't it? I'm not going to be made partner by going to this therapy session....,and why in the hell would they want me to bring my in tire family?"
"Setting you up for a fall?"
"Perhaps...,you think you might have given up a little to quickly?" she asks and Daria bites her lower lip. She didn't want to talk about Trent, but her mother was forcing the issue.
"Too many differences....,it wouldn't work."
"Is that your true opinion or is that your cynically look on life giving you that opinion?"
"As I said, you'd never approve."
"Unfortunately, you're seventeen and I need to start letting you make your own mistakes. Unlike your sister, I think you could learn from any mistakes you make."
"Well...,I can't disagree with that." she begrudgingly agrees.
"Good, Now, let's go retreve your sister and dad and get the hell out of here. I'm going to stick a hot scuer up Eric's ass for this one." Helen vows.