Hint #3
The title of the fic is "Appointments"
“That sounds really scary,” her therapist empathizes when Julien recounts her God-awful spiral in her office the next day. “Do you usually find it hard to stop those looping thoughts?”
The clock on the wall ticks loudly as her therapist waits for her to answer.
“It wasn’t ‘scary’,” Julien eventually grumbles. She rubs at her ear where the ticking is the harshest. “It was fucking disturbing.”
She exhales, and her chest shudders a little. “I don’t wanna be in my head when it does that shit.” It’s a confession that comes with tears, her already fragile ego taking another harsh licking as her fist comes up to knock against her skull, and her other hand joins it, pressing in on the opposite side like she can squeeze her conscience out through her ears. The next admission is whimpered, small and pathetic, “I don’t wanna be in here anymore.”
Her therapist asks her to think about a stay in the psych ward.
For the first time in a long time, Julien takes her seriously. “I’ll think about it,” she promises.