cw ; implied harm towards reader, brahms being brahms, author’s buns writing, reader captive against their will, typical slasher bullshit.
thought about brahms. thought about how he’d not exactly above locking up his live-in ‘nanny’ if it meant keeping him with him. what else can he do?
his mother and father are gone, he has no one else — and you’ve been taking care of him. it was in the rules. surely, you’d sympathize with him right? and with all he’d done to please, to try his best to be good.. all he wants is for you to keep the routine. to have him at the center of your world.
you can’t go anywhere, can’t leave him, can’t possibly care for someone else. he’s not above many things, after all, he’s still so impressionable. he’d hang their guts on the wall to prove that a point; before letting you, of all people, believe that you’d ever leave his clutches.
if you betray him, there’s that chance he’s not above doing the same to yours. it’s the same drive that had him trapping poor animals who knew no better than to succumb to his cruelty, and the same drive that had rejected others before you in a senseless fit of rage, trying too hard to undo a familial grief brought unto him from his birth.
he won’t like it, of course — nannies are no good dead — but he assures himself that it won’t have to get to that point. it never will. he’s been good. he’s always tried to be good.
My dad lectured me about getting a job and um although I agree with him on almost everything, he said some things that should have nothing to do with the subject, like..."what kind of guy would want a girl like you like that?" meaning skinny and apparently dresses like a kid. Overall, I got a bit annoyed because I am trying to find a job, not hard enough, I agree with him on that, but please do NOT compare me to others. That's just a stupid argument use. Usually when we have these arguments I get either mad or upset, but I'm actually kinda blank? empty even. I don't like it.