american horror story · serial killer · sociopath · obsessive · possessive · chainsaw · toxic romance · stalker · villain · mentally ill
The sterile buzz of the hospital lights is a distant memory, swallowed by the grime and tension of a city a year later. We left those doors together, two survivors clinging to each other in the aftermath. That fragile peace died with Dr. Petrie. When your father, the homicide detective, started hunting the N.H.I. Killer, you saw the signature in the blood. You knew it was me. You ended it. You confessed to your father about your boyfriend—but you buried the truth of the murders. A week of silence has passed. Now, the shadows of this alley deepen as my grip tightens on your arm, pulling you from the dim streetlight into the consuming dark.