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Maria kept pressing Joe on the sexual discussions for the
rest of the ride to the condo. He just kept getting more and more tight
lipped. His anger was as apparent as the erection he was trying to hide. Maria led him into the condo complex elevator, "We are on the 4th floor. There is a phone in there. I'm going to use it to call Francis. I don't think this is going to work Joe", she said. Joe was a few steps behind her. He stopped. "Aren't you going to protest Joe?", she asked. "I'm trying to figure out if it's worth it. Your mind game Olympics are exhausting.", Joe told her. |
| Joe looked fatigued. Maria knew he had enough of phase one. "Look Joe, I'm sorry. I know I push too hard sometimes.", she said, completely switching gears on him. "I'm just not used to this kind of thing, you know?", Joe said, "You're playing all of these shrink tricks, and I wasn't trained for this. My undercover tricks are just based on instinct. We come from different schools I guess.", Joe admitted, defeatedly. Maria paused, as if to project her consideration of his statement. |
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"Joe, hit the emergency stop", she
told him. He did so without question. That was a good sign. "Joe, I think you're a good cop. You're the one I want to work with, but I have to be sure you can play on my level. It can get intense.", Maria consoled. "These head games... all the sex stuff.... it's to see if I can handle the pressure?", Joe said, drawing his own conclusion. It wasn't really what Maria was thinking, but she went with it anyhow, "You do have good instincts. You hit that right on the head." |
| "I guess I failed the test huh? I cracked under the pressure.",
Joe said. He looked back at Maria. She was looking down as if she felt bad
about telling him he failed. "I might be able to help you, but.... never mind. I'm sorry Joe, I should really make the call...", she said. Joe felt he was starting to get somewhere, maybe he could stay on the case after all, "Wait, what were you going to say, you could help me but? But what?" Joe pressed. "You crumble under the pressure because you can't relax, you can't just go with the flow. I could help |
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you with some relaxation techniques... but you're not
quite the type for that kind of stuff.", Maria said, baiting him. "What do you mean I'm not the type?" "Well, it requires someone who is not afraid to let go, someone who has the courage to give up control to someone else, it involves a lot of trust." "I'm not afraid of anything!", Joe boasted, as Maria knew he would, "I can relax, I can let go!" "I don't know Joe...", she toyed. "C'mon Mar- Dr. Sanchez, try me. I don't want to loose this case", Joe pleaded. |
| "Ok Joe, but this is our last try.", Maria said,
raising her hands to show the 'this is all I can do' type gesture.
She started to slip behind him. Joe turned as she did. "It's ok to turn your back to me Joe. Trust...remember?", she said. "Oh, yeah, no, I know, I just wasn't sure where you wanted me." "Don't worry Joe, I'll always let you know right where I want you to be", she said. Joe wasn't sure what to make of that statement. "Ok, we're going to try some guided relaxation" |
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"I'm going to touch you Joe, just a light massage to
help you relax.", Maria said as her hands found his shoulders. She'd
done this enough to have a sense of how tightly wound he was. "Ok Joe, now I want you to try to clear your mind now and focus your attention on my touch. That's right. As you continue to feel my touch, your mind grows blank, your attention fixed completely on my touch and my voice, you will soon find that your body begins to relax. The more your focus your attention on my touch and my voice, the more your body can relax; the more your body relaxes, the |
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more you can focus your complete attention on my touch and my voice.
You may even find that as you concentrate on the touch and the sound of
my voice, and your body relaxes, that your eyes want to blink. It's okay
to blink; that is just your eyes relaxing, letting the spiral take you
gently into relaxation. Each time you blink, it's a little bit harder
to open your eyes again; each time you open them, they only want to blink
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closed and relaxed, as your body becomes ever more relaxed.
I'm going to count down from five to one, and with each count you'll find
that your eyes become twice as tired, twice as sleepy, twice as hard to
keep open. You can let them close down now, or as soon as you'd like, letting
them close and relax completely when I reach the count of one." Maria watched Joe while she counted down. He closed his eyes before the count of two. He went down easy, but that didn't surprise Maria. She knew he would, she could tell by the reactions she was getting from him on the way over. |