ok, kids, here's the plan. i'm gonna steal all of you and take you to pdoc's with me tomorrow, so that you can group around me and let me hide in case Austin-T comes out for his smoke-o (as he usually does at 10am). it'll be like this but with me () hiding in the middle.

and when pdoc finally calls me in for the session, i'm gonna be all nonchalant and like "so, it's my last session with Austin-T next week" and pdoc will be all WTF!? and ask me how that happened. and i will say that i'm a bit confused because i've been getting mixed messages, but that it appears next week is our last proper session and that Austin-T will see me one more time afterwards for a debrief of sorts. i will not mention Austin-T's promotion, because this is the only bit he asked me to keep quiet (since it hasn't been officially announced yet).

and it'll be such shocking news that pdoc will not be able to concentrate for the rest of the session (which is good, because he won't be able to put the heat on me to follow up what we were talking about last week - score!) and the session will finish quite early.

and deli will leave to go on a pick-me-up shopping trip, and pdoc will frantically page Austin-T and lure him into the tea room under the false pretense of a secret-lover's-quickie and he will confront Austin-T there and they will have a big falling out (cups and saucers smashed everywhere) and Austin-T will lose his promotion (pdoc might lose his job) but Austin-T will then need more clients and re-offer deli a permanent spot.

pdoc losing his job will be ok, because he has a stockpile of prescription pads and all he really wants to do is go sailing around the world with Didier and Maximillius. deli will stow away also, but we'll keep this part quiet. actually, if deli stows away then Austin-T will also need to stow away to continue offering her therapy, and maybe then it'll be perfect for pdoc to discover an emaciated Austin-T hiding in the bowels of the ship and they will get over their lovers quarrel and **ck like bunnies ( while deli rocks gently back and forth trying to cover her ears) and deli and pdoc and austin-T will live happily ever after with the Dider & Max and deli's and pdoc's and Austin-T's respective dogs.