A Lovely Mess

Day 14, Iowa

[ Tw / slight gore i suppose , body mutilation (not too graphic) abuse mentions ?? ]

"Alex you're not being fair, let him out" Karl pulled on alex's sleeve as Alex pulled the locks shut, checking them over twice to make sure the bolts were firm.
"The fucker tried to attack me, what do you expect karl!" Alex grunted pushing karl away and reaching for his cheek, he looked down at his hand as he pulled it away. A coat of fresh blood now covered it.
"Alex!" Karl whined looking to the metal door where Sapnap was enclosed in back to his boyfriend
"Don't karl, go the fuck upstairs and don't let me catch you down here"

Karl reached out yet pulled his hand away before walking off and upstairs.

you may wonder how it got to this, well it's simple.

"So Sapnap, how good are you with knives" Alex crossed his legs from across the table
"I'd say pretty good, why?" He answered innocently looking up at the male sat a fair distance away from him.
"Hm, Pinfinger"
"What?"
"Play pinfinger, right now"
"Why?"
"If you're good with knives, it won't be a problem will it?" Alex smirked pushing a knife in sapnaps direction. Sapnap bit his bottom lip looking from the knife up to Alex.

"I don't want to" Sapnap pushed the knife away
"I'm not giving you a choice, do it-" He paused, waiting for sapnap to pick the weapon up, "NOW" he yelled causing sapnap to jump.

He sighed and lifted the knife, hesitantly he brought it down

He began slowly, his hand outstretched on the wooden table.

"Faster" Alex chuckled clearly amused by the concentration on Sapnaps face

Sapnap bit his lip so harshly he could taste the bitter metallic taste against his tongue, this hand movements got faster as the knife travelled between the gaps.

"BANG!" Alex yelled followed by a booming laugh, sapnap yet out a yell as the knife pierced through his pinkie taking it off clean.

"YOU ASSHOLE WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT" Sapnap yelled wrapping his bleeding finger in his shirt, looking at what remained of it on the table in a small pool of blood, he could feel vomit travelling up from his insides but kept it down, Alex however continued to laugh.

"You fucking asshole" Sapnap hissed in pain clutching at his finger, alex stood and walked over throwing a roll of bandages at him.

"Fix yourself up princess"

Sapnap shook his head and grabbed the knife rushing towards alex, he managed to hit it through alex's cheek slicing it open, it began to bleed.

"You Dickhead!"
"Boo, Tubbo!" Alex yelled out, the two quickly rushed in
"Take him to the cellar" Alex wiped at his cheek.

alex followed as they dragged sapnap into the cell, Alex snatched the bandages from sapnaps grip. "Die of Sepsis, see if i care" He grunted slamming the door.

-

Karl sat against the window, his leg anxiously bouncing, he hated it. Maybe Sapnap was right after all, Alex wasn't the same. As much as Karl tried to dismiss the actions he did and the things he said, there was a clear change in his personality, in the way he handled things.

He wasn't cheerful, neither was he as calm and timid as he was before.

-

Alex collapsed into his chair, pulling a mirror over to himself, he looked at himself in it, the way his eyes drooped in tire, how his lips were cracked and dry and the now bleeding cut across his cheek.

He shuffled through his drawer, taking out a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and a small cloth, he began to dab at the cut with the tip of the cloth, before costing it with the peroxide, he hissed at the sting, his eyes closing, yet he soon opened them after he began seeing memories he wished to forget.

Alex needed to be in control, he needed to assert dominance and show that he was the powerful one, that nobody could overpower him, he needed to scare them so horrifically that they wouldn't even try.

Alex pulled out his wallet from his pocket and opened it up. The picture catching his eye, he was stood outside of his home pre z, schlatt had his arm around him and they both were smiling.

They'd just bought the property, it was the happiest day of schlatts life but to Alex, it was just the start to the worst.

Alex was working for Schlatts business firm when they met, Schlatt was the chairman of one of the biggest Law firms in California, It was an honour to be working for him, to be working under his company name, Everybody wanted Schlatts & Sons on their case, they had the highest succession rate across the United States, they had a 1/112 loss ratio in cases, they almost won every single one.

Schlatt was quick to take a liking to Alex, it started with him coming by alex's office more often to meeting up outside of the work place, before long they were engaged and moved in together.

Schlatt changed after they moved in together, he began to get more violent and cruel in the way he spoke, Alex was restricted from meeting up with friends and Schlatt refused to let him speak his mother tongue in the house restricting him to solely english.

Before Alex got the chance to leave, the apocalypse hit. Giving schlatt even more power than he had before, he was crazy he'd shoot at innocent people who'd be passing by, he restricted Alex from food and water and even sometimes used the dead to scare alex by locking him in rooms with them leaving him to fight them without any provided weapons.

One day when Schlatt went looting, Alex took his chance, he began preparing Gas from the car and a box of matches he'd found in schlatts secret drawer. When schlatt got home that night and went to bed, alex began lacing the house with gas, he ran out lighting the match.

Schlatt escaped but was soon taken down by the dead.

Alex took the photo from the wallet, as well as the engagement ring he had. He walked to the fire.

i loved you
i loved you
i loved you it's true

he tore the photo to pieces, smiling as tears ran down his cheek, some of them caught in his wound causing it to sting.

and sometimes i feel like i still fuckin do

he threw the photo into the fire, followed by the ring watching as it flared and turned to ash

Alex made a promise to himself the night he watched Schlatt die, he'd never let himself be out of control ever again. No matter what it took, who it hurt, he wouldn't allow himself to be in that position again.

A/N
more on george next chapter

how do we feel about alex's character?
i'm curious

his character is meant to have conflicting opinions btw :]