“I said shut up.” Ryder growled, striding toward the blonde and bringing a hand up to grip at her neck, pushing her body back against the wall. “I said… Shut. Up.” the words came out as a snarl - barely understandable through the low throaty huffing accompanying them. “Who cares what you say, you’re worthless.” she spat the words at him, quite literally. “Stop.” he wasn’t in any mood to be pushed - the past week had been nothing but pushing. His father, pushing, his mother, his sisters, the media - everyone had been up in his face, pushing harder than ever before. “Why, can’t handle being told what you are? You’re a pathetic piece of shit, Ryder. You’re stupid, you’re pointless, and your father doesn’t love you.” The words made his fingers curl into her neck.
Jane and Ryder fought all the time; it had never been a healthy relationship. From him being a jerk at times to her using him for his money, there was always a problem between them. His anger issues never helped, they always pushed the issue - made everything worse than it needed to be. Jane was a manipulative cunt, to be perfectly honest. She had absolutely no redeeming qualities, constantly belittling Ryder, especially after fights with his father. She pushed, and pushed, waiting for her on edge boyfriend to just fly off the handle. Well, tonight she was pushing all too hard.
“Let go of me!” she choked on the words, his fingers holding so tightly at her delicate throat that they could barely leave her lips. “You fucking slut.” his lip curled up into a snarl, his other hand raising to grip her chin, tilting her head upward. “I’m sick of your shit.” he’d taken it for so long - so many fucking times, so many slurs and words and quips of degradation. He was tired of it all, and there was no way he’d let it happen again. “Let me go you c—” the hand holding her jaw smacked against her cheek, slapping the words back down into her throat. “Shut. Your fucking. Mouth. For once you whore. Just shut it.” he was never this angry…
Of course, she had to push just that little bit further… there he was on the edge, and there she was behind him, shoving him over it. “Your father would be so proud.” she said hoarsely, her throat dry and sore - bruises already forming from his fingers. That was it, the one thing she needed to say to snap the last twig holding him back - the dam broke, the anger came flooding out in waves.
The first came in Ryder using the grip he had to flip the girl to the ground, dropping himself on top of her, the hand on her neck gripping even tighter. “You. Fucking. Cunt.” for the first time she actually looked terrified when he spoke - and rightly so. Each time she opened her mouth to make a sound his hand slapped her face, a few times she spit out gobs of blood tainted spit. He warned her endlessly, told her to stop, told her to just go away and never once did she listen. There was only so much he could take.
Hands trembled against her neck, watching her eyes go red, listening to the sounds of her chocking on her own throat. “I fucking hate you.” he stood up, dropping his hands away from her. “No, no you’re not worth my time.” Ryder turned, shaking his head, trying to tame the monster she let out of the cage. He already had his coat on when she called him pathetic again “Can’t even go through with it, you’re pathetic - just like your father.” Without as much as a second thought, the second wave came rushing out. This time he picked the girl up by a clump of hair before smashing her face into the marble counter top.
Pathetic…. Pathetic…. Pathetic?
Why did that word come up so much - why pathetic, he wondered constantly. Why was he pathetic? At this point, the only thing going through his mind was to make her stop saying it. Make her stop saying anything - just… make her stop.
The screaming, the crying, the begging - none of it bothered him; none of it gave him that signal to stop. He wasn’t done; he wasn’t even close to done. Ryder stood, watching the bloody girl crawling around the room, quite disoriented. “Pathetic!?” he shouted at her - she screamed, dropping to the ground and cupping her hands over her ears. “Pathetic…” he muttered softly, wondering about that word again. “Am I pathetic, Jane?” a blood covered hand raised to scratch roughly at his itching eyebrow, smearing her plasma across his own blank canvas of a face.
Of course, she didn’t answer - she couldn’t answer, her mouth was full of blood; her jaw was hanging loosely from her once pretty face. There were teeth littered across the floor, followed by a trail of bright red blood. The scream she let out when he kneeled beside her made his head ache. “Shut the fuck up,” he snarled, smashing her face against the table beside them. With that she was unconscious, laying on the ground gargling on the pool of blood swelling in her lungs. She didn’t look like Jane anymore, maybe that’s why the rage was settling. She wasn’t dead, but she would be if he didn’t stop. “Pathetic.” he laughed lowly, turning her head and watching a waterfall of red pour from her lips. “Fuck you.”
Without a grimace, without so much as a tinge of remorse, Ryder stood and lit a cigarette, pushing it between his lips and dialing a never before touched number on his cell. “Remember how my father said if I ever made a mistake I should call you?” his tone was eerily calm; the beast was sleeping back in its cage - sated for the time. The man on the other end merely grunted out a ‘yes’ - “Well…” he sucked in a lungful of smoke, “here it is.” Dropping the phone to the floor, Ryder took a seat on the obsidian leather couch, kicking his feet up on the coffee table that was still dripping blood. “Pathetic…” his mind wandered back to the word, repeating it over and over for the next few hours.