Family Therapy: Rhyne Hentzel
#6 of Family Therapy
This was inevitable...
Every year since Rociel and Celestine were ten years of age, her father has scheduled a week of the year dedicated to visiting a family therapist to help learn of any problems within the family to allow Rhyne to address them properly as well as have certain members of the household who are normally hesitant to visit a psychological professional such as Rociel or her Mother Jacklyn. The man himself, Rhyne Hentzel, is due to come in, he sits down in front of the therapist with somewhat a carefree vibe to him...
Hello Dr. Hentzel!
You can call me Rhyne since your the Doctor of the Hour, besides, The only time people call me doctor is when I am working.
Are you the Devil?
Rhyne laughs at the Therapist's joke
You're learning, Humor is the best way to start a friendship and end it. Patients will appreciate the usage of humor after waiting in the lobby for five freaking hours!
Thanks for the advice.
Well it isn't of any use to me if I don't pass it on.
So why do you schedule these family therapy sessions?
To see what they have been thinking and to know what they feel about certain things. How are things with my darlings and dear children?
Not any major concerns except rociel wanting more privacy in the house for personal reasons, other than that, they are pretty happy. I had some interesting conversations with your partners, One was about money and the other was about sex.
Understand Rociel's desire for privacy to masturbate, That's normal behavior. Obviously the conversation about money was Jacklyn and the one about sex was Kaina, Nothing out of the norm.
Umm... aren't you a little upset about what she talked about?
No, I am more upset that you're getting me into to "trouble" when I get home.
Is your partner Kaina always that sexually focused?
No, She is rather intimate with us most of the time, very loving but it isn't difficult to turn her on to the idea of sex or getting into the bedroom for a fun time.
Has she always been like this since you first met her?
Kaina was a confused individual when I initially met her, She didn't know what to do with herself so I figured to take her in with me, I was there for Kaina in her darkest hours.
How did you bring her out of those times?
I have known the pain and misery of her darkest hours for a portion of my life, you feel the coldness it brings, the feeling that there isn't anyone there to pull you from it, you feel your heart turn to cold without hope. I set her heart ablaze with passion and kindness...
Wow! Your quite the silver tongue, you are the wrong line of work i think...
I am exactly in the proper career i thought my oratory skills would be the most useful. People need something comprehensive to think about, to question themselves and their actions, to understand who they are themselves, otherwise, they are alien to the individual within them.
The therapist begins to seem a little uncomfortable, feeling intimidated by the philosophical approach to psychology
Relax, I am not your enemy, you're worst enemy is yourself if are unable to understand your feelings and thoughts, analyze the emotions that are coming along with what your are thinking. Organize them then you can feel free to tell me what's on your mind...
My fiance is pissed at me because she feels that I don't appreciate her at home and she thinks that I think that other women are more important to me than her. I try to understand...
Pardon me, I hate to interrupt but that is the issue with your relationship, you try understand the feminine aspect of your life, you are supposed to cherish and love that aspect of your life because most men have a difficulty reacting to it when they find that aspect, it is an aspect that is supposed to remain a mystery, the minute that a man tries to understand the feminine aspects in his life, it feels under appreciated due to his attempts understand it.
Oh now i get... Wait a fucking minute, You were psychoanalyzing me you son of a bitch! That's not fair!
All is fair when it comes to the topics of the heart's desires, your heart is more honest than your mind...
Quit doing that! It's getting to me when you start talking that way. Do you do that to your partners?
They rather enjoy it when I whisper into their ears that way.
What did you mean that little speech?
As a famous writer once said, "Women are meant to be loved, not understood, your treat her anything else from special, she will scorn you".
The hell, Why do I feel like it's so easy to tell you about my life! Gah!
Rhyne laughs once more, finding humor in therapist's words.
Well, I tend not to have a lot of patients come back after couple sessions.
Yeah, I can tell, your efficient at what you do.
I like to solve practical problems basically, every day i learn something new.
Anyways, lets get back on track, How do you manage to interact with multiple partners?
You have to know one another for a long time and have a big heart. All three of us love each other equally and we share that love with our children.
What do your daughters think of your relationship?
You didn't bother to ask them yourself, Shame on you. Rociel believes it takes a man's man's man to have a healthy relationship have multiple partners and my Little celestine thinks that I can change the world.
She really thinks that?
Celestine does, but I have already changed the world in more ways than you can think of...
How?
Ideas that I have spoken, The Dangerous Ideas that have motivated people for quite some time now. Do you remember the "Burning Coast" Incident 20 years ago?
Yeah that was all over the news when I was a kid, Riots, protests, and a ton of people shouting for change. I heard it was started by someone in one of Rio's Favela neighborhoods by a man they called the "Saint of the Rose" because the way he spoke to the people there.
Rhyne smiles at him
Yeah very funny, I don't think your the Saint of the Rose.
It was also the news that several south american cartel heads and their advisors died in an explosion during the initial period of the Incident; The forensics stated that their heads were sliced clean off prior to the explosion, their collective bounty was worth 5 million dollars...
They didn't mention the bounty on their heads... wait, is that the money that your partner Jacklyn is sitting on!?!
It was her final assignment before she stopped being a mercenary, I helped and the company got 4 million as part of the contract with Interpol.
Did she decapitate them?!
No, I did... She provided cover fire though while I severed the cancerous tumor from society.
You killed for her?
I had the last one pray before I sliced his head off, it was a beautiful prayer.
Does Kaina know?
Yes, She had me commit the blade I used to a Zen Bhuddist temple.
Why?
Kaina said it felt different from when I came back.
Are you disturbed by the fact that you killed those men?
Nope, I did what needed to be done, I ensured their deaths were quick and painless. I sleep peacefully knowing men that have caused countless moments misery have been sorted out to their appropriate destinations.
Did your partners view you any differently after you came back?
Kaina thought I was a Hero and I earned a place in Jacklyn's heart for doing it.
So this is basically your happy ending? Do your children know?
Yes, I wouldn't keep a secret like that from them, They learned doing the right thing is important from telling them what I did, I even told them prayer the last one uttered.
What was the prayer?
"God have mercy on our souls and mercy on this man for doing God's righteous work, I wish to be forgiven as die by this harbinger of his lord's hand, May he live in peace for fulfilling his will" is what he said to me.
wow... Am I seriously having a conversation with the devil?
Do I look like the devil, Am I carrying a pitchfork and have pointy horns with a whip-like tail?
Sorry, Do they think of you negatively knowing the fact that you killed someone?
Rociel thinks I was right for doing it and Celestine thinks I am some sort of superhero, though RoRo is trying to figure out how I was able to slaughter 17 men in an hour.
Does it have to do something that might get me abducted and somehow have my memory inexplicably erased?
Yes, Why did my daughters slip or something.
Almost... Are you some sort of superhero though?
Maybe, as long as I am a hero to my family but I want my daughters to find out my dirty little secret for themselves.
What secret? I thought you didn't keep secrets from your family?
My partners know the secret though, my Daughters don't because i have a feeling one of them is hiding a secret from me.
Rhyne grins as he looks at the clock as barely changed from the moment he came in
It appears our few minutes is up.
Wait? It's been an hour.
Check the clock, its been a few minutes.
The Therapist looks at the clock then checks his watch, the two times differ by an hour
Can I say this... Your family is fucked up!
I know, I love them for it!
Well, they are fucked up in a good way...
Thank you.
Rhyne takes his leave of the office, proceeding to take his family home
There goes the one man the devil won't make a deal with...