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Konig has a problem.
Actually- scratch that; Konig is aware of a problem. Because for the last three weeks, during his clinician mandated recommended walks through the uncomfortably suburban neighborhood he was moved into after his unexpected discharge, he has taken the same route. And each time, he has fixated on noticed the same issue.
There is a girl two streets over, in a little brick house on the corner, who apparently doesn’t know how to close her fucking curtains.
It’s not like Konig cares- he isn’t a creep or anything- he’s just worried about her safety and privacy. The first day he walked passed, the curtains were open and the room they revealed was empty. Girly, soft looking, unimportant. He rounded the corner, and realized the curtains of her living room window were also open- and she was inside.
She was small and soft looking, fragile and beautiful and so fucking stupid. What was she thinking, traipsing around her house like that on full display?
His head was buzzing- somewhere in the back of his mind his therapists voice was stuck on a loop, telling him to ‘Give civilians space, understand that they will never behave like you’, over and over, but it was smothered out by the ringing and the suffocating need to correct help. If anyone saw him start to walk towards that front door like there was a winch attached to his abdomen, he would tell them they were crazy.
A dog barks from outside a couple houses down and he freezes, starting to realize the implications of what he was doing (what was he fucking doing?) and walking away before he had to actually stop and consider. He files away the girl with the pretty hair, her naivety, and her stupid juvenile room in the same area he tries to leave things to rot and dissolve in his mind.
The next day, she isn’t home. The curtains are still open, but that’s fine- it’s actually none of his business. Besides, it’s a nice neighborhood and idiots everyone forgets the drapes open now and then. It’s not a big deal- really, he reasons with himself.
And so it just goes on like that, for the next few weeks. Konig makes his rounds through the neighborhood, taking note of his environment with habituated steps like an animal in an urban environment he should be chased away from. Not unlike a wayward mountain lion, it could only end one of two ways. There was a slight possibility he would just leave it all well enough alone- but it was much more likely he was going to sink his teeth into something he shouldn’t.
And then it happens, on a completely unremarkable Wednesday afternoon. He’s walking down her street, pretending his heart isn’t racing a little bit harder with anticipation and keen interest- acknowledging that little fact would mean he really is fucked up- and notices the delivery van parked outside, hazards blinking intermittently. His hair stands on end, throat tightening as his steps increase their pace. The man who steps out is boyish and spent too much time on his hair that morning, and Konig is old enough to know better god damnit- but it doesn’t matter, probably never did. Therapy be damned, his instincts ignite, the stupid fucking delivery boy the spark that burnt all of his hard work up in flames. He doesn’t give a shit if it incinerates him, not when he can fucking see the second the other man notices the stupid fucking girl inside the house, pretty and dumb and welcoming with her ridiculous habit of keeping her curtains open. The driver runs a hand through his hair then, posture changing and looking like the cat that got the fucking canary, and Konig is fucking feral. He’s sauntering up to her door, holding onto whatever stupid shit she ordered like it’s an afterthought when he finally registers Konig’s steps behind him, as loud and noticeable as he could make them since the moment the asshole started up her walkway, and at this point he doesn’t care if his clinician fucking puts him down for this, he’s going to kill this little asshole, because somehow the idiot girl inside hasn’t even noticed the two of them yet, and she’s wearing the tiniest shorts he has ever fucking seen and he’s going to-
“Hey man, uh- delivery for you?” The sentence is spoken to him like a question, shitty cheap cologne wafting off of the excuse of a man as he catches on to the predatory glint in Konig’s eye, awkwardly trying to diffuse the situation. His teeth clench so hard a headache starts ticking behind his eyes, and he takes the package from the limply outstretched hand like it has personally harmed him, split second decision making him run with the idiotic conclusion the driver came to.
“Yeah, now fuck off.” He responds flatly, eyes tracking the other man his entire way back to the van. He peels down the road, so maybe he isn’t completely stupid. Konig’s ears are ringing again when he realizes the little box is in his hands now. He should set it down on her door mat that reads “Welcome!” in big bold letters, and request that they move him. Tell his shrink that the neighborhood isn’t satisfactory- that he needs to be somewhere more… remote, so that he can exercise and hike more or something. He’s knocking on the door before he can come up with a better hypothetical reason to request re-placement, and he’s going to be fucking sick when she opens the door.
“One sec!” He hears her say, faint upbeat saccharine music seeping through the cracks of her door and window. She takes her time coming to answer, and it makes him so unbelievably angry that she’s so fucking relaxed that he is pretty sure his fingers are leaving deep indentations in the corrugate between them. When she finally opens the door- and no, she didn’t take all that time to put on actual fucking clothing, he realizes miserably- she’s all sunshine and sugar, open faced and repulsively happy. “Hey!” She says casually, reaching for the package in his white knuckled hands with more ease than anyone has ever interacted with him in his entire god forsaken life. She’s even smaller now that he’s face to face with her- her head would barely reach his chest, and yet she shows absolutely no sign of being weary of his stature. Konig has made a living off of using his size to intimidate and hurt people, and he didn’t realize it was possible for someone, let alone a tiny slip of a girl, to not look at him with fear and revulsion.
Something in his animal brain realizes that he needs to move, and he stiffly extends his arms towards her like he’s out of fucking power steering fluid. Her little hands brush against his when she reaches for it, and he’s going to fucking whine like a dog if she touches him again, but then he’s letting go and it’s over and his heart starts back up.
“Thank you so much! You can totally leave it on the door if I’m not here next time, the neighborhood is super safe.” She says, oblivious and beaming up at him and he can see her nipples through the little white tank top she has on, hem not quite reaching the little black shorts clinging low on her hips. If he is salivating like an animal imagining licking along that strip of exposed flesh there, that’s his fucking business. Besides, it’s not like that’s an unusual reaction to a perfectly fuckable girl wearing skimpy clothing. Konig is going down the fucking drain, he’s going to hell and this girl will be there to haunt him, always out of arms reach.
She doesn’t even notice that there isn’t a fucking van outside, no uniform on him, every single red flag that should have this girl slamming the door in his face ignored. She should be calling the damn cops- not that they would do anything to him, not that it would fucking stop him, but it doesn’t even cross her mind. Her eyes and face are placid as she thanks him again, unaffected by his silence, and waves her little hand goodbye before closing her door. She doesn’t lock it. Jesus fucking christ.
He doesn’t really remember walking back to the house after that, he just realizes he’s home and his cock is fisted tightly in his hand as he braces himself against the shower wall, rutting into his hand like a dog as he thinks about how easy it would be to walk into the house on the corner and push down the girl inside. He wonders if she would even fight him- if she would struggle if he pulled her shorts to the side and slid home inside her. His release is building up behind his eyes, stomach and fist tightening in tandem as he pictures the way she would look underneath him, on her bed in her pretty pink bedroom. He fucking hates her, hates her happiness and ease and comfort and the way her big eyes look up at him like he’s the nicest guy she’s ever fucking met when all he wants in the entire world is to tear her apart and teach her to close her fucking curtains. He finishes with a start, spend spilling down his hand in rivulets as the hot water tries to hide the evidence. There is no post climax guilt, no shame over his actions- and that’s when he realizes it’s over. She didn’t know it, but she may as well have just fed a tempestuous alley cat. She isn’t going to be able to get rid of him if she tries. His sickness is going to ruin them both- but doesn’t he deserve something sweet for once in his life?