[Alfie has threatened House, has started counting up offenses to scare him, and has considered the possibility of doing him some bodily harm someday. But nothing that's happened as made him decide to kill him - especially since he thinks there's a part of House that wants it. He'd armed Royce because he'd wanted him to be well-protected, since he was going in alone - and because he'd respected his decision to go for murder, even if it wasn't a choice he would have made himself at this point.]
And as for Duster, right, I cannot speak for him. But if I had to guess - it's done, from his end. The score is settled.
[It's how Alfie would have felt, and he and Royce really are so much alike - not in every way, but in a lot of them.]
cw: references to suicidal ideation in brackets
[Alfie has threatened House, has started counting up offenses to scare him, and has considered the possibility of doing him some bodily harm someday. But nothing that's happened as made him decide to kill him - especially since he thinks there's a part of House that wants it. He'd armed Royce because he'd wanted him to be well-protected, since he was going in alone - and because he'd respected his decision to go for murder, even if it wasn't a choice he would have made himself at this point.]
And as for Duster, right, I cannot speak for him. But if I had to guess - it's done, from his end. The score is settled.
[It's how Alfie would have felt, and he and Royce really are so much alike - not in every way, but in a lot of them.]