"That's enough, Alice," Delirious shouted, grabbing ahold of her wrist. He said it many times before but the crazed look in her eyes made him realize that she probably didn't even know he was there.

"Like hell it is. I'll fucking show you what happens when you mess with my family."

Another deep slash was made on Dmitri's stomach making him cry out in pain, though it had no effect on Alice. The raven haired girl had been torturing him for almost an hour. There were deep cuts all over his body and a few burns from a while ago. The only reason she had stopped using fire was because she ran out of matches.

Jonathan had never seen this part of Alice, not once in his entire lifetime and he had known her for a very long time. Of course, he knew she was protective of her family. That was something that everyone around her knew. This, torturing to a slight extreme, was not Alice.

They still hadn't discussed Alice's old state before Dmtiri's call, when she refused to leave her room and slept for hours on end. She was unstable. Depression lead to anger and who knows what would happen next.

The blue eyed boy grabbed the dagger instead this time and Alice didn't fight back since she didn't want to hurt him. "Alice, he's been through enough. Brock was his family too and he's suffered more than he can handle. Don't kill him, for Brock's sake."

It was only then that Alice could clearly see what she was doing. Rage had infiltrated her thoughts and actions and for a while, that rage had led her to torturing a suffering man.

Another horrible feeling came back. She began comparing herself to Evan once again. She had been so afraid of him and he had broken her. For a long time, she wasn't herself and she still wasn't. Alice was still afraid, still broken, but this time it wasn't because of Evan. She was afraid of herself. She was afraid of what she'd do and it wedged an even deeper fear in her heart.

"Take him to one of the restrooms and let him clean up. I'll fix his wounds later," Alice said quietly after what seemed like forever.

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Brock, Lui, and Terroriser were still gone and there had been no word from them ever since their departure.

The rest of the gang figured that it'd take time and they shouldn't purposely rush them since they knew the consequences of being too slow. But in all honesty, they didn't call them in order to postpone hearing Brock's state. All of them were too afraid to hear if he was still alive or dead.

"How's that cut?" Tyler asked, barging into the bedroom.

Apparently, Alice was back to being sad and anti-social, but nobody could blame her. She had been through more than enough shit for a lifetime in the last few months.

"It hurts, but I'll live."

"Then, I'll fix Dmitri up after he's done washing off, okay?" Alice knew he wouldn't listen to any other answer. "Alice, talk to me."

Tyle was never really good with talking in depth about how he felt or listening to others about their emotions, but this was an exception.

Alice didn't answer him. Instead, he received a slight groan in response.

He sighed. "Come on. I know I'm not that close to you and I know I'm not the best listener, but the gangs worried. I'm worried and the longer you act like this, the worse its going to get."

A small smile appeared on his face when he saw Alice sit up against the headboard. He sat on the bed facing her and waiting to hear what she had to say.

"I had the choice to stay with Evan or to come back here, you know? But instead of coming back to my family, I stayed with a psychopath and at first I told myself it was to get my father back, but I know now that a part of it was because I wanted to stay with him. I made the decision of letting him control me. I let him break me and scare me. Even now, he's far away but I'm still afraid of him finding me and taking me because I know I'll stay with him."

Alice had began crying in the of her explanation, so Tyler hugged her as she continued. He wasn't flirting anymore. He knew what Alice was going through and he wanted to be there for her.

"I'm not scared of him. I'm scared of the fact that I'll still accept him after everything he's done to me and the gang. It goes against everything I believe. It goes against protecting my family and I can't change how I feel. And now, its not only that. Now, I'm scared that I'll end up like him. I'm afraid of becoming a bipolar, revenge obsessed monster. And while I'm trying to deal with this, I still have to think of protecting the gang and getting my father back. Its too much."

"Focus on you, Alice. We can handle ourselves now that we know what we're up against. You've done more than enough for this family and we'll help you through everything. We'll get your father back and if you want, we'll get Evan back."

She furrowed her eyebrows and looked up at Tyler in confusion. "I don't want him back."

"That's the right thing, but I know your heart doesn't always follow your head," Tyler smiled, ruffling up her hair. "I have to go tend to Dmitri now. Want to come with me?"

Alice knew that he was trying to coax her into becoming the confident gang leader she always was and it worked since she got out of bed and followed behind him.

"Tyler?" He hummed in acknowledgment. "Thank you."

"Dont think this is ever going to happen again." Tyler did his best to keep a straight face, but Alice could see a smile threatening to appear.

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This chapter was mainly made to get a little peek inside Alice's thoughts on everything happening so far. Vote and comment

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