[He makes a sound that could've been a laugh, but mostly emerges as a cracked sob as he covers his face in his hands again.]
How well'd you know Alex, huh? [The words might as well be screamed, the way they break in his throat, a fracturing accusation that manages to be both desperate and scathing.] How well'd you know him before he started -
[Before he lost it? Before Tim entered his life, and turned everything to shit? Before Tim made him the person he was, the hateful, murderous thing that saw killing everyone, killing the people that knew him, as an acceptable solution?
He wasn't in control. He was never in control.]
That...thing. It took him. It changed him. It - It does stuff to you. You don't know, okay, you - you can't know.
[The only people who know are the people who have to live with it.
And by that point it's already too late for them.]
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How well'd you know Alex, huh? [The words might as well be screamed, the way they break in his throat, a fracturing accusation that manages to be both desperate and scathing.] How well'd you know him before he started -
[Before he lost it? Before Tim entered his life, and turned everything to shit? Before Tim made him the person he was, the hateful, murderous thing that saw killing everyone, killing the people that knew him, as an acceptable solution?
He wasn't in control. He was never in control.]
That...thing. It took him. It changed him. It - It does stuff to you. You don't know, okay, you - you can't know.
[The only people who know are the people who have to live with it.
And by that point it's already too late for them.]