Chapter 43: Visit Twenty - Treatment

*"Gale tries another approach to ease your troubles"*

## Major Events

* Gale tells Ten to sit on her examination bed. Ten knows that using sex to temporarily forget problems doesn't work in the long run but is tired to fight
* Gale asks Ten to strip and starts the visit by massage. Gale suggests Ten to think of "someone else" but Ten is sure they are suggesting her to think of Yosuke. Gale mentions of doing this to their old girlfriends
* The visit continues and when prompted to relay their feelings, Ten says she is "*angry and sad and tired all at once*.”
* Gale attempts to convince that identifying her emotions could lead her closer to acceptance
* Visit continues but after it ends, Gale injects anesthesia to Ten's arm. She mentions that Yosuke normally injects her in that area as well
* Ten questions why Gale had ended up in the Facility - claiming that they had a better life before all this. Gale counters that they had a hard time blending in the outside world and was actually sought out to work for the Facility
* Gale suggests that if she refuses to be open with them, she can consult Cyrus about her conflicting feelings and notes her dependency on other numbers
* Ten falls asleep after the drug takes effect

### Sometime later

* Ten wakes up in her bedroom and hears sound of a conversation happening outside of her door
* She overhears it is Yosuke and Gale talking about Ten - that she is jumbled but should be fine. That Six's journal was planted in the room to see if Ten would pry
* Gale hints of trying to act like Yosuke during the visit to ease Ten. However, Gale also comments that while they respect Yosuke, they're not in agreement of his methods
* Turns out Yosuke was busy because he was called away to his boss - not for a friendly conversation but likely to talk about Ten and the incident in the hallway
* Gale points out that Yosuke didn't look too happy when he came back and to be "Careful" with what he's about to do. Yosuke assures them and that he knows how to "work her"
* The conversation ends and Ten rushes back to her bed. However Yosuke already knows that she was eavesdropping on their conversation. He seems cold throughout the entire conversation instead of his usual teasing self.
* Yosuke cuts her off when she asks if he was angry and tells her to go to bed. He leaves without a second thought
* Ten thinks about Jay and if she will be wiped from the letter's memories. And that the previous Ten was definitely removed from the other number's memories
* Ten wonders if every comforting word Gale said was just to mess with her head. And concludes that no matter how kind and well-meaning Gale could be, all the doctors are evil

## Content Warning

massage, multiple positions (2-ish), toy (dildo/strapon), humping (somewhat), countdown, forced kissing, vanilla (somewhat), cunnilingus

## Trivia

* Gale had dated girls a small number of times - one as a teenager and two during early college.
* Gale identifies Ten's feelings as "Despair" - a thought that is mentioned in future chapters
* Gale seems to be sensitive when poked about their "acting" - as shown by their snappy attitude when Yosuke brings it up