His shift was over too now, he decided despite the mess that had been made of the floral arranging room in the unexpected chaos and Mushnik calling out his name right before he walked through the front door. Arthur never would've ignored his name when spoken so commandingly by a bear looking guy (possibly an actual bear, he did seem to be single after all) before he had started this job, but the plant seemed to be calling it even louder and more domineeringly from Audrey's apartment, which was luckily right across from the shop, despite its lack of the power of speech. Even more luckily, he had managed to find a beautifully sharp ax before leaving; why a flower shop needed one save for his apparently predestined quest to save his love and their connection from that wench he didn't know. Although the real luck had been in finding the plant in the first place; hopefully the universe would continue to smile down upon him within the confines of Audrey's apartment.
He looked through her window for a moment after reaching it, fuming as he saw her pouring what looked like iron shavings into a larger pot that she had transferred the plant into while pouring through one of her stupid botany books. At least she had gotten the plant an upgrade from its old coffee can and failed to figure out the blood thing from those books… Arthur knocked at the door, causing her to fearfully and unsexily jolt upwards and quickly turn around. She put the iron fillings she had thankfully gotten on the wrong track with down before moving to the door and answering it, and unease flickered through him as he shoved past her into her apartment and slammed the door behind him; he wasn't used to taking charge like this and it did not sit well with him. Blinding, glorious pain as something connected hard with his head… the upper one, unfortunately, but still good… mostly snapped him out of this, especially in combination with it hitting the corner of a table of hers hard on the way down. Arthur couldn't hear what the suddenly sexy and dominating again Audrey was saying exactly through the ringing in his ears and what little blood was left in his head rushing through them, something about what the hell he was doing there, nothing he hadn't heard before.
He almost hated to ruin the mood and destroy this exciting side of her by killing her… but the plant needed him! Arthur moved to swing the ax into her legs, realizing too late that it was no longer in his hands; it was in hers and pointed at his head. So close to it… so tantalizingly close… Just like the blood covered and broken lamp next to him as he realized with a thrill that that was his blood. And those were his moans as he moved so that the ax blade was pressed into his throat; Audrey despite her surprisingly excellent ability to take charge in this situation only stopped talking and looked at him in unsexily unnerved fear. Unlike the plant… which he unfortunately needed to finish these good times for even before he had finished. Out of his element, Arthur took advantage of this and her and unceremoniously took the ax from her before beginning to pin her to the ground. Jealousy and malaise coursed through him as her struggling slowly subsided and the blood pouring from her neck quickly intensified, with the latter seemingly taking the place of the former.
Taking center stage in his quest to protect his beloved plant and their bond and to provide it with sustenance no matter the cost; even the cost of a potential dominatrix. And the potential… hopefully hypothetical cost of their bond weakening as it was tainted by blood that was not his own and the very uncharacteristic domineering that Arthur had just partaken in to protect it. With someone besides it no less. He briefly stood up, getting the plant off of the nearby table and putting it down next to her body before pulling her up to it so that it could draw strength from her and the potential of her body and thus his guilt being discovered away from him. Arthur immediately regretted picking her neck as the spot that he would bring to his love's lips as it sucked from her jugular, looking away as his chest and loins were caught up in an envious fire at the thought of it doing that to him… maybe he'd try something like that after it was done, protect their bond that way.