#not killed

Let's say for example, the kid played football in the house and broke something..reader being in the shower while this happens. (Ba) Als reaction?

Hmmm. Well, they do say that childhood abuse tends to pass down from generation to generation, and I imagine Al’s possessive nature probably would cause him to be more hostile toward anyone getting in the way of that.

I think he’d be conflicted about it. I mean, they are his kid. But I think he’s been taught that kids need discipline when they fuck up, and has learned from his parents that you need to beat on your children to teach them how to behave and function in adulthood (yeah, because that worked out so well for Al 🙄).

Idk if he’d want to hit the kid out of jealousy so much as just mimicking what his own parents did/what he thinks is the right thing to do. But Reader has a very different approach to it and would be hella pissed; she’d probably go so far as to use herself as a human shield to get him to back off.

If she wasn’t around…tbh I think it depends on how the kid reacted. If they were sorry about what they did, I think he’d just huff and blow it off, especially since he knows that if Reader sees any bruises, she’s going to kick his ass. But if the kid had an attitude with him, I think he’d be more likely to react out of instinct/without thinking and beat on them for it.

Which, of course, puts him in hot fucking water with Reader when she inevitably finds out.

“Christ is not ‘killed’ on the Cross: He lays down His life on the Cross. This is a very different thing.”

~Fr. Stephen Freeman