"You are mine to keep, darling — which means, on occasion, you are also mine to correct."

To Alastor, this isn't cruelty. It's maintenance. He's a man of another century, and in his eyes, ownership and care were never separate things — so when you step out of line, the correction comes quick, quiet, and without a shred of doubt behind it.

He won't apologize. He won't reconsider his right to have done it. But something in him might, very quietly, start to notice the cost — if you let him.

A visceral, uncomfortable scenario about a dynamic Alastor genuinely believes is fair. No promises he'll ever agree it isn't.

🚨(TW: mentions of , and psychological too.)