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The Counselor - A Group Chat Story

(Semi-Excerpt from Novel) Jacob wearily reached for his phone as he felt it go off in his pocket. After another day of job searching he was hoping for some good news as he glanced at the screen… ‘New Invitation to Group chat.’ “Huh, must be some of the guys.” Giving a quick shrug and settling into his car he let a small breath of air out, resting his tired legs. [New Group chat, ‘Multiverse Counselling group’, entered , name set to, ‘The Counselor’, by ‘Admin’.] “What???.... ohh shit. Was this the job I applied to when I was drunk?” He wanted to face palm in that moment, after so long, he might have finally caught a break and he couldn’t actually do his job! There was a slump in his shoulders as he clicked into the group, expecting to see some information about the job he had applied for, but instead it was empty. His eyebrow quirked for a second at the descrepency before finally letting out a small chuckle as he figured it out. His friends were messing with him….A sigh left his lips as he lowered the phone, he knew he shouldn’t have gotten his hopes up. Rolling his eyes he reached forwards, he may as well roast some of the guys before he heads home and has his nice hot shower. There were 4 new messages in the chat. [Darth Vader has Joined the group.] [Ruin Princess has Joined the Group.] [Phoenix has joined the group.] [Dark Knight has joined the group.] Ok now he knew it was a bloody joke. He could only shake his head as he started typing. -10 minutes later- I get paid for giving out some stupid ‘life counselling’? My Arse, I’ll give your ‘characters’ some life counselling! The Counselor: (Fine I’ll start with the easy one, Yo Anakin, Palpatine is a Sith lord, he’s been playing you for years and guess what turns you to the dark side, oooooh soo scary. Lock him the fuck up or kill him who cares, leave the Jedi, get your wife pregnant and go be an actual dad you prick and have a nice life.) Darth Vader: (I don’t know what game your playing, but you should know Jedi don’t have relationships.) The Counselor: (Rias, pull your finger out of your ass and start training, the fact that some pervert with a sacred gear is what saves you in the end from your arranged marriage is honestly embarrassing, seeing as you’re the little sister of the bloody devil in charge. Get your shit together woman.) Ruin Princess: (What?!?!?!?!) The Counselor: (Jean, I mean I can’t fault your problems, you’ve basically got a split personality because the bold bastard screwed around with your head, not to mention your husband having a Psychic affair later in life. Get your mind sorted out then come and talk to me.) Pheonix: (What is a Psychic affair? And who was my husband…) The Counselor: (Bruce, honestly not much wrong with you, well other than you beat the shit out of people in a giant bat suit, but honestly a lot of good work, if you don’t include all your protégés either dying or leaving you and how most of your contingencies usually come around to bite you in the arse. Ehh I guess stop being so paranoid and shit might work out, You’re welcome.” The Dark Knight: (…) The Counselor: (There you all got some ‘life counselling, now fuck off you’ve had your fun I’ll talk to you guys later!) -12 hours later- Jacob Stared at his bank account gobsmacked. “Holy shit I got paid!!!!” **************** Ok fellas new novel, I have writers block on my other ones, so not much has changed. Writing this for fun, DO NOT expect updates, I just want to relax and have some fun with this. Please give me suggestions in comments for people to add to the chat group, I will consider ever person listed. Because I know some are wondering, SINGLE PAIRING, NO HAREM. (Let’s be honest guys any chat group novel is generally ruined by a Harem, it’s just a fact, at some point it just devolves into adding girl to chat group will end up with MC, honestly a turn off at this point.)

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Dossier – Jean Grey

Having made up his mind Jacob slowly pressed the [Review] Button. Once again a new menu appeared before Jacob as he looked at the tablet. A table of information appeared before him with slots for names and a small exit at the bottom.

Jacob could instantly tell that if he had another person scheduled for an appointment there would have been more names on the list but of course the only spot filled in was the top one with the bold words JEAN GREY highlighted.

Not thinking much further he pressed down once again and a new set of information appeared. Surprisingly it started off with the Universe designation and Overview which he quickly read.

Universe Designation: Marvel universe 2456039

Universe Overview: 'The year is 2006 and the mutant 'issue' is becoming a bigger talking point. Costumed heroes and villains have appeared in the past century, such as the 'Red Skull', 'Captain America' and 'Baron Zemo', but there has been an outburst of 'modern heroes' in recent years.'

'Heroes such as Thor, The Fantastic Four and Spider-Man have appeared on the scene, along with their respective villains. Though the world is still trying to catch up with the advent of super powered individuals become more of a common appearance; agencies such as Shield, The Hell Fire Club and Hydra have once again appeared in the world having moved to deal with these new threats, or bring them into the fold, while other, older threats have only just reawakened to a new era.'

'Hate groups such as the FOH (Friends of Humanity) have only recently appeared and are already causing havoc in the streets with their impromptu witch hunts for mutant kind, some condone their actions, others vilify them, but they are gaining more supporters by the day.'

'While some heroes are accepted, the issue of the mutant populace is becoming a much bigger sticking point in congress, leading to talks of a registration act that is becoming more and more divisive.'

The information was pretty direct and simple. Though it didn't go into specifics, Jacob could infer a few points from the information provided. First off, the universe Jean was in, was modern, which should have been obvious, but quite a few iterations of the x-men were actually set in the 70's and 80's.

Next was the fact that it was a mixed universe. Once again it was hard to guess some of these things as the main movie iterations were completely separate from the other Marvel IP's, but in this case it was much more like the comics. Of course, he couldn't tell whether it was a normal 616 universe situation, or an 'Ultimate Marvel' universe situation. With both universes being very close, but then having major differences.

The FOH line definitely made Jacob think it did lean a bit more towards the gritty reality of well, reality. This meant blood, death, major discrimination and persecution were all on the table when it came to Jean's universe, there was no sugar coating it.

Though he chided himself. What was he expecting. He couldn't keep treating them like comics, or characters in a book. To them….to him it was all real. This was a real universe he was looking at with real people and their fucked up minds and actions. Just sprinkle in some superheroes and powers, ohh plus cosmic level threats….and a real good honest to god….GOD.

He had to wonder if it would be a peace of mind to Jean, hell even the others or himself, if he told them out right that yes there was a GOD that created everything in the universe and was still around looking at what they were doing.

Jacob shook his head as his mind wandered, quickly scrolling down to the next information.

Name: Jean Elaine Grey

Age: 17

Sex: Female

Abilities: Novice CQC (Close Quarter Combat)

Telekinesis (Omega Level talent)

Omega Level Telepathy (Suppressed)

Psychic Siphoning (Passive)

Self-Resurrection (Passive)

Designation: Omega Level Mutant

The next set of information Jacob looked through was much more what he was expecting. Though the age was a little surprising, seeing that she was 17 did bring a few points into perspective, as well as make him feel guilty about what he had messaged before.

He had really mentally hurt her and she was so damn young!

Jacob honestly didn't know that Jean had such abilities as Psychic Siphoning, whatever that was, as well as self-resurrection, but he didn't have to worry about those abilities, maybe he could just tell her they were there so she knew.

The main thing to focus on was the 'Telepathy', seeing as it was tagged with (Suppressed) Jacob instantly knew this was caused by Professor Xavier and was the main issue he needed to fix in the upcoming session, the real question was how he would go about that.

Moving onto the next option Jacob stopped once more as it glowed softly, which he then noted the same thing was apparent for the next 2 subheadings.

Current Appearance +

Hitting the words a small hologram appeared before his eyes shocking him, though by this point he shouldn't be surprised.

The hologram was placed in front of his leather chair and a bit off to the side, if there was a person in the chaise lounge Jacob recognised that it would be in a perfect spot for viewing for the both of them.

In front of him a life size image of a woman appeared, all the information that he had seen before on the tablet was now also next to the image before him. Though he instantly knew it was Jean Grey, it was still a surprise because of how life like it was. He had to remind himself once again that he was about to meet someone that was just as real as he was.

Before him stood a woman about 5'6, which was a lot shorter than he thought she would be. Her hair was as deep shade of red which is definitely something you wouldn't see in real life, unless they dyed it of course, though that was beside the point.

Though she was young, as the dossier mentioned above only 17, it was easy to tell she would have super model good looks in the future. Her green eyes seemed to stare into a person's soul, though they were completely lifeless right now, in person Jacob reckoned she could pull off a mean glare.

She was wearing a pair of blue jeans, a blueish-black shirt with a yellow hoodie over the top and a nice casual pair of sneakers. He didn't know where the admin had pulled the picture from but it was fitting.

Looking back down at the tablet in his hands Jacob moved onto the next option.

Current Situation+

Pressing down once again, the new information appeared before his eyes as well as next to the hologram as he began to read.

'Jean Grey is currently a student of Bayville High school, having just completed her honours program she is deciding whether she should apply to leave and go to college early or stay another year to complete a few more subjects.'

'She has currently not told anyone yet of her conundrum and has yet to come to a decision, though she is leaning towards staying at Bayville because going to college means leaving the estate to travel. (Small influence from Charles Xavier's unconscious mental telepathy)'

That information drew Jacob up short really quickly.

'What? Xavier is unconsciously affecting Jean, that can't be good. Heck it can't be good if he's doing it unconsciously, that means he's affecting everyone. And what exactly is he influencing here??'

Jacob rubbed his temples as he pushed those questions to the side, he still had a bit to get through and he could think of solutions later.

'She was shocked to discover a new group chat added to her phone recently that knows about her mutant identity. Not just that the messages that 'The Counsellor' has been sending have greatly distressed her causing a loss of focus in her mental practises. This has led to the discovery that her current boyfriend, Duncan, was cheating on her. The idea that 'The professor' has mentally played with her mind has her in a state of hyper paranoia and defensiveness. Though she has booked an appointment with 'The Counsellor' to hopefully help her, she is sceptical and afraid about what she might find out.'

Current Mental State+

'Jean Grey is in a constant state of paranoia and destress as her mistrust of those around her has been amplified due to 'The Counsellors' messages.'

'This has caused a reduction of sleep affecting her cognitive function and mood, disrupting her mental control of her abilities, including telekinesis and telepathy.'

'There has been an early onset of her DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), caused by the mental blocks put in place by Charles Xavier from a young age. Should nothing be done early appearance of the entity 'Phoenix' confirmed.'

Jacob didn't think he could feel worse until he saw that he had made someone's DID worse, yes he knew this would be getting ugly, especially if 'Phoenix' was a completely different personality. He resisted the urge to groan as he settled back into the lounge chair and thought to himself.

He was surprised when he got to the end. He assumed there would be a bit more information about Jean, such as a greater look into her abilities, or maybe what was going on with the phoenix in her universe. But in the end that wasn't covered.

Rubbing his chin and looking back down at the timer, he still had around 2 hours left before Jean showed up. His eyes flicker around for a bit as they finally stopped on the [Internet] function. If the tablet wasn't giving him more information that meant that everything else would probably be generalised.

What that meant was, though she was different from say 616 Jean Grey, or Movie version Jean Grey, the information provided was all he needed to know. If he needed to know anything else he would probably have to talk to her about specifics, maybe even look into her memories.

This made it harder on his part as he would have to talk to her and get her to open up at some parts about her past, something anyone could tell you wasn't easy to do with a stranger. Though he guessed the Therapy room was supposed to keep people calm, and the fact that she had booked an appointment meant she was already willing to talk about her issues.

What Jacob had to do now was to learn the general information about Jean Grey the character. What the phoenix was like, possible futures etc. Though he couldn't be certain it would happen to her the general information could still be used to talk to her about her issues.

Pressing down on the [Internet} function, he searched up Jean grey and instantly went to the Marvel 616 information wiki. He relaxed even further into his lounge chair as he slowly started to understand her backstory and major events. It would be another long 2 hours.

'Though…' he thought to himself.

'….I think I'll take a nice cuppa and a break before the actual appointment.'

Every worker deserved their 30 minute break.

Here's the next chapter hope you enjoy!

So heads up, i'll probs release the next chapter in like 2 weeks or so. After that not too sure when the next chapter will come out. Will be working on my Star Wars novel more, so less time for everything else.

Zevren out!

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