Escaping Reality || Five Hargreeves ||

Chapter 2.4

TW!!: Mentions of SA

"Your punches are a bit sluggish—"

"Will you stop pretending to be a wise teacher, it's really not a good look on you-"

Alice said as she threw another punch at Luther as he dodged it and kicked Alice—causing her to land on the ground.

Alice groaned from the impact, it's been a couple of days since Luther's been training her. There were some miscommunication for a couple of training sessions, but Alice eventually got to somewhat understand some of Luther's explanations during training.

"As I said, you should keep an eye on your opponent from all angles—OW!"

Luther groaned as he was about to help Alice stand up from the ground but instead got a kick in the face.

"—and as you said, you shouldn't let your guard down even if you seem to have the upperhand"

Alice said, smirking as she got up from the ground. She walked up to a table nearby and drank some water.

"Do you really have to be sarcastic all the time when you're with me?"

"Luther, I just had a really shitty night—these training sessions are my therapy you could say. And plus I'm still not over the vase incident—"

Alice scoffed as she closed her bottle and grabbed her stuff as their training session was over for the day.

"Same time tomorrow! Don't forget!"

Luther called out as Alice just gave him a simple thumbs up as she walked out the door with her coat on.

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"I feel like a nurse everytime you come home"

Autumn scolded as she proceeded to put some treatment on Alice's cuts and bruises from her and Luther's training session, as well as some bar fights.

There were some nights where some customers would just push Alice's button and she can't help but give them a black or a bloody nose. Although there were some times where Alice would get involved in reckless fights, she mostly handled troublesome customers who didn't take a hint and caused some trouble.

Even though, reckless fight or not—Autumn would still scold her like a big sister and tell her not to get into lots of fights.

"It's just small cuts Aut' don't worry—Jesus!"

Alice yelped as Autumn suddenly sprayed some alcohol on the injury on her fist.

"That's what you get for worrying me every night"

Autumn said as she aggressively closed the first aid kit and walked away to place it back. Alice sighed, feeling a bit sorry that she's been worrying Autumn every night.

"Okay, I'm sorry—tell you what, I promise not to get into any more fights tomorrow. I'll even be careful when training with Luther"

Alice said, Autumn turned back to her and gave her a 'really?' look. Autumn really was worried about Alice, through the few weeks they've been living together—Alice became a little sister to her and she didn't want her getting hurt every night.

"Fine, I better not see a scratch on you young lady or I'm taking you shopping for my work clothes"

"Please, anything but that—"

"My decision is final, Alice! Not a scratch!"

Autumn said as she went to the bathroom and closed the door behind her. Alice sighed, knowing that she won't have a choice in the matter anyway.