[Friday, June 20th, immediately after the session!] [Rose had just left off with saying she had a request for Jamie! Whatever could it be! Quick, let's find out. Mini start/session continue.] * Jamie looks up at Rose expectantly. * Roseli moves her arms so she can grasp her ward by the shoulders, and she looks into Jamie's eyes. It almost looks like she's searching for something, then she immediately turns on her heel and walks for her office. "Come with me, please." * Jamie shifts uncomfotably and looks confused and worried when Rose stares at here, but follows promptly. * Roseli enters her office, which likely hasn't changed since they left. There's been no time, and if people looked for anything there, there wasn't anything to find. She closes the door after Jamie enters, then paces towards her desk and looks at the plant there. "Scan and deactivate." * Jamie nods and bows her head for a moment as she listens for the unwanted counting, silenceing any she finds. * Roseli runs her fingers on her desk, then turns her attention to Jamie, watching her again. After a long enough moment that she figures Jamie's managed to complete her task, she asks, "How are you feeling? About being back here?" * Jamie blinks, and fidgets for a while before coming up with an answer. "I uhm. I aah. I don't. It's better than not being here?" * Roseli nods, moving again now. "What do you think?" she asks, clearing some paperwork along her desk. Outdated paperwork now, probably. "About what Chamberlain said a while back, about what the drugs are doing to you?" * Jamie doesn't fidget before responding this time, but a touch of worry creaps into her voice. "I don't?" * Roseli sighs and tries a more direct question. What do you think about having free will? * Jamie swallows. "It frightens me." * Roseli nods and gestures for Jamie to continue. * Jamie goes back to fidgiting as she tries to continue. "I. ... I'm not the one who. who is supposed to have it." * Roseli watches Jamie for another long moment, then she replies softly, "I disagree." * Jamie blinks at Rose, and opens and closes her mouth a few times but no words come out. I think you deserve more than what was given to you. I think you deserve your own life. * Roseli falls silent, thinking again, and then asks, slowly, "If someone were to approach you with the drug - the one that forces you to obey - would you want to take it?" * Jamie manages to push the previous statements to the side so she can deal with the latest one, slowly anyway. "I... can't know?" Why can't you know? * Jamie looks at Rose. "It's. It isn't something I can or can't want?" Of course it is. Keiko wants it. Keiko wants it all the time. * Jamie blinks and answers slowly and with puzzlement. "I'm not Keiko?" But you're not so different, you and Keiko. You're both humans, and you're both wards. For a while, in the beginning, you... * Jamie blinks a few times and waits. * Roseli trails off, stops, and considers her words. Then she starts again: "You can't force freedom on someone." It doesn't look like she's talking to Jamie; not quite. "But..." Jamie? I have a request. * Jamie nods. I... would like you... to resist further treatments. If Blitzkrieg tries to give them to you, can you let me know? Would you mind doing that? * Jamie blinks. "Okay." * Roseli looks at Jamie for a long moment before she follows up with: "Then I order you to resist further treatments. Report to me if anyone tries." I will. * Roseli breaks her gaze. "Dismissed. Spend your time as you will." * Jamie nods and wanders out of the room. * Roseli sighs, sinking down to sit on her partially cleared desk and placing one hand over her eyes. [Minisession End! (Finally.)]