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Excerpts From An Interview
by Ornery
Jim and Blair investigating a Sexual Assault:
Interview
Woman: I'm Bi-Polar as hell, for one thing. And the sad thing is, I enjoy it. How many bi-polar people enjoy it?
Jim, thinking: Now you're starting to sound like Roseanne Barr
Woman: I don't have a "valley", I get two "peaks". No depression, just hyper and hyper-er....
Jim, thinking: Do not to look at Blair.
Blair, thinking: Lovely, your a therapist's dream
Woman: There was one screener down in Texas that said they didn't even have a name for my particular variation on the disorder.
Jim: Neat, peachy keen. Great. NOT!
Woman: And I think I know why, too.
Blair: Finally! "Why would that be?"
Woman: Mine's not genetic. I've had three seperate serious brain traumas, two were concussion, one of those had me in a coma for three weeks, and the third..." *pause* "That was Encephalitis."
Jim, softening. "Sounds like you got hurt a few times."
Woman: My shrinks seem to think MY version is the result of actual INJURY to a gland in there somewhere.
Blair: "Yeah, well, DUH!"
Woman, smiles slightly: "Yeah, that's what I said." Smiles more. "Yeah, well it didn't help that I was six when the bug bit me, and was just recovering from Chicken Pox at the time. Because of that it took the docs a while to recognize it. <<sigh>> The coma, that was the result of being hit by a car at age 13...the other, comparatively mild concussion was the result of being in a semi when it flipped over on it's side."
Jim, alarmed: Jesus, she sounds just like....
Woman: "That doesn't count the cuts, scrapes, breaks...hey, I was the youngest of 7 kids, the only female, and I was absolutely convinced that anything they could do, I could do better....and was HONOR BOUND to try." Grins at _expression_ on Ellison's face.
Jim: Translation: Accident Prone Tomboy From Hell.
Woman: Point I was making, and have been known to patiently explained to shrinks (in the tone usually reserved for moronic 5-year-olds) Is that the brain is basically all nerves. Nerves, when damaged, regenerate slowly, if at all. Ergo....
Blair: "Right, oh man..."
Jim: "That more than likely explains quite alot of it."
Woman: So I figure, if I can't fix it, I have to go with it: If I have to go with it, I may as well enjoy the ride!
Jim bows head in dispair: "It scares the hell out of me, but I think I have to agree with that accessment."
Woman: Which brings us back to the reason you're here tonight: This isn't the first time I've been known to scare the hell out of a would-be rapist: But all I did was make him finish what he started....
Blair : Starts laughing.
Woman: Smiles a little, chuckles, "You know you're frightening when your assailant calls the cops...to protect them from you."
End