A zillion billion infinite hearts forever. <3^8 Good luck forging ahead!
(The therapist seems perfectly adequate to me. Not perfect, not necessarily a shining star of the field, but a good one. Owning up to missteps, being apologetic about the more difficult questions which are probably necessary for a military report, staying submissive/unthreatening, showing him information he wants but refusing to discuss other patients... there are several schools of theraputic technique, but no matter which school she's trained in, she needs to establish a rapport and be trustworthy. There are bad therapists out there, the kind with agendas about "fixing" people to whatever extroverted/heterosexual/cisgendered definition of "normal" the therapist and often parents deem fit, and there are Hollywood therapists, but yours is neither of these nor is she pinging any other red flags for me.) (She's facing challenge enough in the fact that none of her patients are voluntary, so they're all starting at various levels of "hostile". It's not uncommon, though-- I had a therapist when I was thirteen, and we started off with me sticking my tongue out at him behind Mom's back. I didn't know ruder gestures at the time.)
As for the house, at this early stage they could very well have the ranch surrounded by snipers on rotation and some sort of chemical-bomb-bazooka brigade, rather than risk too many normal soldiers on an in-house detail. I bet there's very few spots inside the house that aren't in range of some weapon or other. The most optimistic projections would be something along the lines of "permanent bazooka garrison" and "ranch occupants coalesce into a pack who are totally not beholden to the military just in case, of course not" and "lots of ranches all over, one pack each".
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(The therapist seems perfectly adequate to me. Not perfect, not necessarily a shining star of the field, but a good one. Owning up to missteps, being apologetic about the more difficult questions which are probably necessary for a military report, staying submissive/unthreatening, showing him information he wants but refusing to discuss other patients... there are several schools of theraputic technique, but no matter which school she's trained in, she needs to establish a rapport and be trustworthy. There are bad therapists out there, the kind with agendas about "fixing" people to whatever extroverted/heterosexual/cisgendered definition of "normal" the therapist and often parents deem fit, and there are Hollywood therapists, but yours is neither of these nor is she pinging any other red flags for me.) (She's facing challenge enough in the fact that none of her patients are voluntary, so they're all starting at various levels of "hostile". It's not uncommon, though-- I had a therapist when I was thirteen, and we started off with me sticking my tongue out at him behind Mom's back. I didn't know ruder gestures at the time.)
As for the house, at this early stage they could very well have the ranch surrounded by snipers on rotation and some sort of chemical-bomb-bazooka brigade, rather than risk too many normal soldiers on an in-house detail. I bet there's very few spots inside the house that aren't in range of some weapon or other. The most optimistic projections would be something along the lines of "permanent bazooka garrison" and "ranch occupants coalesce into a pack who are totally not beholden to the military just in case, of course not" and "lots of ranches all over, one pack each".