Situation

"Ok, first question, why do you think your problem is of the supernatural?" An older Blonde woman asked the young red headed girl sitting on her bed.

"Let's see, there's the constant feeling of being watched that only goes away every now and again. The weird and often times I see things that aren't there, like a silhouette, a reflection in a mirror, or something else in the corner of my eye. The constant and annoying coincidental things that happen too often to be so. The fact I end up in places or situations not knowing how. Oh and THINGS LITERALLY FLYING ACROSS THE FUCKING ROOM WHEN THEY SHOULDN'T" the girl yelled out.

The older woman winced for a second before rolling her eyes "it's good to see you can keep your sense of humor in this situation, but how about going straight to the obvious stuff. Instead of waffling on so that I can help you deal with this sooner."

"Yeah Barb I don't think being hostile is going to help much" the other girl in the room, Shelly, suggested.

Barbara looked to her best friend and sighed before saying "I guess you're right. I'm sorry. It's just that my entire senior year has been... stressful to say the least."

The blonde woman, Nannie, nodded in understanding. "These situations can be very "stressful" as you put it. I'm here to help anyway I can."

Barbara nodded back but corrected "well this isn't the only traumatizing thing that's happened to me this year."

Nannie lifted an eyebrow before asking "how so?"

Barbara in turn just lowered her head, before looking at her friend. Who taking the hint explained "well near the end of summer vacation Barb was... kidnapped, and um nearly ****. Barely able to escape because of a lucky break" then whispered under her breath "and no help from that little coward."

Nannie was stunned for a second as she heard the explanation. Then suddenly she was startled by a spike in hateful aura inside the room, after Shelly whispered under her breath, but it disappeared as quickly as it came. Knowing this was a clear sign of the being tormenting the poor girl having a reaction to the information that was just shared. So she asked "did your kidnapper suddenly die somehow, especially in some way you might have caused even indirectly"

Barbara looked up inquisitively and shook her head "he got away before the police could get to where he took me. He hasn't been found yet. Why?"

Nannie frowned before saying "when your friend just told me your situation I felt a presence, likely the one you mentioned before. I thought maybe this presence might be the spirit of your kidnapper with "unfinished business" after being given a not so untimely end and a grudge."

Barbara, worried, questioned "do you still think that might be the case? What if he died after escaping from the police?"

Nannie thought about it and said "that would be a stretch honestly. These types of spirits need their deaths to meet some criteria for them to apparate. One they need to have one or two strong emotions at the time of ****. Anger, unwillingness, sadness, regret, grief and so on. Two the person they target these feelings at, you in this instance, would have had to play a significant factor in their ****. Three, the time and place of **** would have to have been near you and or your involvement. So unless he somehow died within five to six hours after you escaped, in a way that you were somehow involved in, and did so with a strong negative emotion or two, I doubt he is the cause of your problem." After the long explanation Nannie felt another spike of emotion. This time not just hate, but a mixture of great sadness and anger as well. Before it disappeared again.

"Then what about the feeling you got earlier?" Shelly asked.

Nannie taking her mind off the presence and focusing on the question answered "well this entity could've been trying to throw out a red herring, trying to put us off course and use the wrong methods to deal with it. It's hard to tell. I think I'll need more information before coming to a conclusion."

Both the young girls nodded, not fully understanding, but feeling the seriousness of the situation. Nannie looked to Barbara and said apologetically "If it isn't the kidnapper theory all I can say is I'm sorry for what you went through and can get the proper help dealing with that trauma. Which I'm sorry to say isn't my expertise."

Barbara sighed before saying "I already got a mandated therapist to go through that, however it's kind of hard to deal with and unwrap that trauma when I have this to deal with. Which also seems to be confusing the therapist's diagnosis of me. As I can't exactly explain it without sounding crazy, no offense, yet all the incidents seem to be painting a certain picture in her head of how I'm trying to deal with my trauma, as well as thinking I'm in denial of it."

"Yes it's quite hard to make a proper diagnosis when you don't have all the information to consider. Speaking of which, let's get back to narrowing down your afflicting spirit" Nannie said.

Barbara sighed before firmly nodding.

Continuing her questions Nannie asked "thinking back what were the first weird signs you saw or problems you had that didn't feel quite right? And when did they start?"

Thinking for a second Barbara blushed before saying "well a month or so after being kidnapped I suddenly found myself waking up almost if not completely naked."

Nannie raised an eyebrow "was that unusual for you?"

Barbara nodded "as long as I could remember I've always preferred sleeping in a full set of comfy pajamas. To the point I have trouble falling asleep without them."

Nannie thought for a second and clarified "did you start out as ending up completely naked?"

Barbara hummed in thought before realizing "no. Not at first. It started with a few buttons or maybe my pants being rolled down my hips a little. Then it went to my shirt being fully unbuttoned and my pants around my ankles. Then I woke up in just my panties and socks. Which it sometimes still is, however for the past few months it's mainly just been waking up with nothing. Honestly that was all just the beginning."

Nannie noted it all down, as although this wasn't clearly supernatural these things tend to start small before slowly build up. And where it starts is pretty indicative of what the being behind it wants. To clarify more Nannie asked "with any of this was there any physical harm done to you? Scratches, unexplained bruises, maybe sharp pains?"

Barbara searched her memory before shaking her head no and saying as she realized "whatever this thing is it's never hurt me, physically anyway."

Nannie sighed partially in relief, but somewhat in annoyance.

"What?" Shelly asked.

Nannie replied with "well technically you are relatively one of my luckier clients, all things considered, Miss Torres."

Barbara frowned before asking defensively "how fucking so!"

"Well the entity targeting you doesn't seem malevolent in nature. Trust me all of my clients that did have one would've killed to trade places with you. When you woke up with missing clothes they woke up with what I mentioned earlier. Scratches, bruises, and incredible pain, and like you that was just the start of their troubles" Nannie clarified.

Making both girls gulp in fear.

"Though I will agree that although this entity isn't violent in its methods, based on what I already know, it is still very cruel" Nannie said with pity in her eyes, trying to still support Barbara knowing that minimizing someone else's suffering by comparing it to someone who's experienced more isn't a good thing. Especially in situations like this where the entity could feed off of the negative emotions of their target. "Anyway, it seems that this entity's first goal was perverted in nature, getting you undressed," Nannie explained.

Barbara frustratedly nodded, while Shelly gave a knowing look. Barbara then asked "so what does that mean? Does that narrow down what it might be?"

Nannie nodded "first I think it completely excludes your kidnapper. As in life he showed a capability of being both perverted and malevolent. If he died thinking you had somehow caused it, a person would probably have no qualms in harming you. As for narrowing it down further, yes but not completely. There are multiple trickster spirits who are perverted in nature. Now we need to figure out whether or not its motive in stripping you is for the pleasure of seeing you naked, seeing you humiliated, or both."

Hearing that Barbara put on an ugly frown before saying "probably humiliation hmph."

Nannie understood where she was coming from but said "let's not get ahead of ourselves. Like I said this might be a trickster spirit, which are quite intelligent and are able to disguise their goal in a way to make it seem like another."

Shelly asked worriedly "then how do we figure out which one?"

"Well despite how smart they can be they are in the end creatures of impulse. So going through the incidents you believe it caused we might find one that will invalidate the other possibilities. For example if it's just humiliation it's after there are multiple ways it can cause you humiliation without stripping you. Or if it just wants to see you undressed there will be an incident or two where it could've humiliated but only undressed you. Finally if it's both humiliation through getting you naked there would be moments where it could get you humiliated but didn't do so or chances to get you naked but that wouldn't humiliate you so it didn't do so" Nannie answered.

Which only made Barbara bury her face in her hands, muffin her voice as she said exasperated "oh great, we just have to go through every embarrassing incident it has caused me."

Nannie comforted "I know it's hard and unpleasant, but if you want to get rid of this thing any time soon we have to narrow the possibilities down. With that said we don't have to go through every incident, just enough to exclude two of the possibilities."

Barbara sighed and said "I guess that isn't so bad."

"You got this Barb! Just get it over with so that Miss Warren can kick this thing's ass" Shelly comforted.

Barbara chuckled slightly before asking "where should I start?"

Nannie nodded before saying "let's start at the beginning. What was the first incident you're sure was caused by this entity."

Barbara thought and thought before going into it.