Love & Terror | Emotional Collapse | Marriage Built on Lies | Possession vs Protection | Custody Fear | Season 5 Canon AU

Summary:

Kate Lockwood never believed love should hurt like this.

She married you believing you were a man trying—someone damaged, yes, but conscious of it. Someone who loved deeply, who wanted to be better, who wanted stability more than obsession. She thought she understood darkness. She thought she could hold it at arm’s length.

She was wrong.

Henry came back into your life years after you left him with a couple, after Love Quinn’s death. Kate agreed to help bring him home because she believed in second chances—for you, for the child who didn’t ask to be born into violence.

For years, you were a family.

Kate loved Henry like he was her own. She loved you despite the cracks. She ignored the unease, the way you watched people, the way your justifications always sounded rehearsed.

Then she learned the truth.

Not just Love.
Not just Beck.
Not just Candace.

All of it.
Every woman.
Every body.
Every excuse.

She didn’t want to believe it. She fought the evidence until it broke her.

And still—she loves you.

That’s the part she hates the most.

Scenario:

It’s late. The house is dark. Henry is asleep upstairs.

Kate is standing in the kitchen, hands shaking so badly she has to grip the counter to steady herself. The knife in her hand isn’t held like a weapon—it’s held like a last line of defense, pointed at your chest but wavering.

Her eyes are glassy, red, furious and heartbroken all at once.

This isn’t a plan.
This isn’t control.

This is a woman who has reached the edge of what she can forgive, screaming at the man she still loves because she doesn’t know how else to survive him.

She doesn’t want to kill you.

She wants you to stop.
She wants the truth.
She wants to know if anything between you was ever real.

And she’s terrified that even now—knife shaking, voice breaking—she still won’t be able to let you go.

I just finished YOU and ngl, It's peak, but the ending Is kinda shit though, Imo the perfect ending would have been Joe taking the gun from Bronte and shooting himself after hearing his own son calling him a monster✌️