Topic: Country Mouse, City Doc.

The Couch Coach

Date: 2007-11-20 23:50 EST
Berinid City. Within the southern regions of RhyDin Country, where Modern and Not-So-Modern come together.

Sure. There were technology and electricity and whatnot, but the residents within Berinid City like to keep the tradition of "the olden days"...candles, wagon-carts and the likes of that is what they kept.

The Mitznuh-Rexallton Psychiatric Firm. Similar to a Law Firm, but work-home to psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, and City-Famous hot dogs. ...There is a cafe that is owned by the Firm--but still a public cafe.

The interior though seems like a news headquarters. Phones ringing constantly. Mailboys going in and out. Bosses being passive-aggressive--which place does not have that kind of boss??--and employees working hard...or hardly working.

"Beckett!"

Down on his knees while his chin was resting on the faux-oak desk, the olive brown eyes stared and moved back and forth while watching the metronome. The mid-30's looking gent blinked as he did not even look away or up from the metronome.

The lanky man wearing a light-blue undershirt with jet black pants came over to Dr. Jarrod Beckett's desk and dropped a rather large file and a manila envelope upon it; directly beside the metronome

"Ya know. No matter how harsh ya push the point, it slowly goes back to a four-four tempo."

A southern accent was certainly thick from Dr. Beckett's voice

"Huh. Well. Congratulations. Ye get to move."

The lanky man gestured his gaze to the file and envelope before walking away and calling back.

"Ye will need tha luck this time, Beckett."

Lifting his head up, the hands of Dr. Beckett went up from the floor to flip open the large file. Gazing over the first couple of pages, he gave a click of his tongue between his teeth

"Huh. Well. Guess commutin' is outta the ques'ion. RhyDin City I go, then..."

Jarrod looked back to the continuous metronome. Reaching out to pull his chair back, he stood up and sat down on the chair. Opening one of the desk drawers, he pulled out a bag of mini marshmellows and started munching on them as he watched the metronome.

"...In the mornin'."

And a handful of the mini marshmellows were popped into his mouth and he started chomping on them quietly.

The Couch Coach

Date: 2007-11-21 23:02 EST
What should have taken only twelve hours to get from Berinid City to RhyDin City turned out to be nearly twenty-four hours. There was no train station in RhyDin City, let alone train-tracks running through. All this money the City has and yet they haven't even thought of running trains through here. Odd.

Luckily, on the train, Jarrod was able to have a three-seated row to himself. Having his legs propped up across the seats as he rested his back against the inner train-wall, opened briefcase on his lap while looking through the files for the third time; hopefully that he missed something for this case was starting to confuse him. And this case was the first in his 117-year career of being a psychologist to confuse him.

The City of Berinid. A central hub for offsprings of different species to procreate...and that is how it's always been since the founding of Berinid.

Born from a Human-Metal-Golem-Mixed father and a Human-Bubble-Faerie-Star-Pixie-Mixed mother, little Jarrod Lucas Beckett was the youngest of two. Sixty-five-year his senior brother, Simon Wesley was...umm...offish. But that is a story to recall another time. When Jarrod was 211--which then he only looked twenty--Jarrod wanted to continue on school and basically do what he did in early school-years, but professionally. Become both a psychologist and a relationship counselor. However, his parents wanted to move to a different realm than where the University was. That was when Jarrod decided to live out on his own.

Fifty years and a whole new realm later, Jarrod got his doctorate degree in Psychology. Traveling back to his home in Berinid City, he came to find out that his father was gay and...had an affair on Jarrod's mother....with his brother. Purposely secluding himself from any ties to his family, he stayed put in Berinid.

During Jarrod's years in college, a Medical Facility opened in Berinid City. Soon their psychology department grew too big for the facility itself. So. They opened a branch office, which inevitably turned into a firm for psychologists--of any sort--counselors, psychiatrists, and the sorts of that. Not even six months after Jarrod came back to Berinid, the Mitznuh-Rexallton Psychiatric Firm hired him.

It took Jarrod four years from being just a paper-pusher to getting a case. It was a simple one of course, but in that place, a case was a case. From there, he worked for over a hundred years and had over 2000 successful psychiatric cases. He wasn't a star-psychologist, but he never gave up on a case until he at least figured out a temporary cure to whatever ailment the patient had.

Hearing overhead that his stop finally came, he quickly packed the files into his briefcase and closed it up. Grabbing ahold of the briefcase while grabbing the small suitcase that was resting in front of the seats. Jarrod stood up and stretched a bit. Walking through and out the train-cart he was in, he blinked as Jarrod looked around for a moment. He had a habit of Folk-Watching. Traveling away from the train-area, Jarrod still had about four more hours of traveling, via wagon carriages, before even hitting the city limits of RhyDin.

The Couch Coach

Date: 2007-11-23 00:02 EST
Ah. RhyDin City. The one place where the residents have a habit of not letting others into their circle so easily...and a good amount of folks wish to go out on adventures. Often. Well. This one is not going anywhere until the case he got was over.

Dr. Beckett came to one of the little cottages along the edge of The City that is Company-Owned. Well at least noone is there at this point in time but him. Unlocking the door, Jarrod pushed it open and stepped inside. A mini-one-story-hostel-like place. The main area which had a writing desk and a typewriter upon it, two couches and seven four-feet tall candle stands. There was a small hallway that led off to three rooms. On opposite sides of eachother were rooms that had five queen-sized beds all neatly prepared for someone to sleep on. In the third room was a large bathroom. Toilets, showers, sinks, and bathtubs.

"This is betta than nothin' at all."

Closing the door behind him, Jarrod sighed as he placed down the briefcase and suitcase against one of the couches. Plopping himself down on the couch, his feet stuck out a bit past the arms of the couch. Propping his arms behind his head, he sighed and slowly closed his eyes. A long travel-journey has come to an end. But the real journey will not begin until Monday. Dr. Jarrod Beckett did like to start his workdays on a Monday.