empathicfault: (Talk Therapy)
Will Graham ([personal profile] empathicfault) wrote 2023-02-20 12:57 am (UTC)

[ Will stares at Daniel, evaluating for a moment. But this is something he can talk (at least somewhat) openly about, now that he's here. It doesn't have to be all vampires and superpowers. ]

Well. It's a long story, but I get the feeling that you like those. But the basic gist of it was that people kept getting murdered in ways that mimicked the cases I was working on for the FBI. They called them the Copycat Killings.

And to ruin the mystery- it was the therapist that had been working with me the whole time, a prolific serial killer that had been named the Chesapeake Ripper. He was supposed to keep me steady, since I have a- [ He looks to the side. ] It's an empathy condition. Let me look into the mind of the killers we were after.

So, drug me up, plant a bunch of evidence, and- viola. I clearly didn't know what I'd been doing all that time. I got too close. I 'lost' myself.

[ That last part is said very flat and sarcastically. He's still a little bitter about how that all went down. ]

Or at least that's how the journalists framed it.

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