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I was thinking about how you mentioned Alec did harm to Isabelle in a 'plausible deniability' way. Like yk Isabelle not knowing that there was a difference between Alec using his fists to beat her or a riding crop. Would he have ever used that riding crop on like her vagina or anything? Or would that have ruined the plausible deniability? I'm just interested in how much that can like stretch.. no need to answer! :)
Would and did. It was a fairly common feature of that kind of "punishment", and because Isabelle mostly associated someone getting hit in the crotch with jokes, slapstick, etc, she didn't put it together and was mostly just bewildered. It helped that of course the incidents were traumatic and she didn't want to think about them, much less contemplate whether they meant she was being molested by her own dad.