It wasn't long after the incident that Alice had started to become very upset with us. She hadn't known anything up until now. Why would she? She lived in her own world where she could brush off pretty much anything that was thrown her way. However it was her job that the Warden was screwing with.
"What would have happened if you died!?" The Warden sat in his office chair and I stood beside him with a hand on his shoulder as he got yelled at. "I don't see why you two have to sneak around all the goddamn time anyway I mean what the fuck is going on!?"
We only looked at her. I wasn't going to tell her any of his business, and neither was he. She glared.
"Fine. You don't want to tell me anything…and I don't want to hurt you…" Alice threw a chair. "…but I will."
Terrified.
I always thought that whoever truly pissed off Alice was doomed to a fate worse than death. The Warden and I were about to find out.
"No Alice, please not me, I can't tell you anything its…" She grabbed me by my throat and pinned me to the wall, I couldn't breathe.
"I don't care if you can tell me anything. He's going to talk."
"Alice, darling, why does it matter what happened?" The Warden spoke like a gentleman every time he spoke to her, no matter the circumstances.
"I turn my back on you two and you're having the Doctor KILL YOU? Do you understand what would have happened if you died!?" Her grip seemed to loosen on my neck. "I would, I would be forced into the real world, back to being a freak. We all belong here no matter where we came from! Especially you." She let me go and stormed out, leaving the Warden and I confused.
"Look what I've done." The Warden sighed as I felt my throat, throbbing.
"Warden she just doesn't understand." I tried to speak.
"No Jared." He stood and turned to the window. "I don't think that we understand."
I looked up at him, still sitting on the floor where I was thrown.
"That was stupid. There has got to be something better we can do to end all of this."
That phrase scared me. Was he talking about his life? Or his past haunting him?
"Sir?"
"Yes?" He seemed lethargic.
"You aren't thinking about killing yourself again are you?"
He looked my way. "Perhaps not."
I left him to his thinking however I didn't leave the office. I've learned my lesson leaving him by himself when he's feeling this way. I feared for what was to come and began wondering when everything was just going…to end. To stop. Life seemed to be strangling me and the Warden just as Alice had a few moments ago. It felt no different whose hands grasped my fate.