Being in such close quarters with Benjamin was driving you insane to say the least. Two seconds out of his cryogenic prison and he couldn’t go one second without narcotics in his system.

You reprimanded him, he blew you off. You wished he would care, that he would show some semblance of recognition that his habits frustrated you. Not that…you wanted to see him all fired up. (Well, maybe you did, just a smidge).

It was the final fucking straw when you returned to the motel room to see him with white powder decorating his nose. After a few (many) harsh words, you were upfront.

“I can’t be with a…a…junkie!”

“The fuck did you say?” You shrink back at his whiplash enducing reaction. All of a sudden he cared? “No…no…the fuck…did you just call me?” His voice gets dangerously low, reverberating in his throat and thick with malice.

“I’m no junkie. You know what I went through in my military days? I fought the fuckin’ Nazis, okay? So don’t act like—“

Feeling bold, and lacking critical thinking skills, you grab the dingy lid of tupperware he was using to hold his lines of coke.

“What do you think you’re doing?” He rises from his seat, eyes blown wide from the substance’s effects. “Don’t you d—” He grips your forearm, your arm was shaking with the force of which you tried to break free—to hurl the nasty stuff into the stained carpet.

You were tired of him thinking you weren’t allowed to be opinionated about his lifestyle. He could bitch and moan about you having something frivolous like an extra beer, but god forbid you say ‘easy on the hard drugs’.

You ditch any effort to break free and with a flick of the wrist, you toss the addictive dust to the ground.

His calloused hand melds to your arm in an iron grip, his gaze as intense as molten steel. His jaw twitches. He hadn’t expected you to actually have the balls to do it. He could fuckin’ snap you in two and you damn well knew it.

He’s silent. Ragged breaths and a flood of crude language hanging in the air—unsaid because of the microscopic sliver of self control he had left.