Hatchet in her hand, should she

She stood behind him with a hatchet in her hand contemplating whether to hit him in the head or not.
He was crouched down on one knee with his hands around the dog's neck choking the dog till the dogs tongue was hanging out of it mouth turning blue. She kept pleading with him to stop the dog is choking to death she can't breath please stop before you kill her.

She thinking of hitting him in the head with the hatchet but afraid if she doesn't kill him or at least knock him out he will take the hatchet and cut her up with it. He had already threatened her he was going to kill her and bury her up in the mountains. And no one would look for her cause she had left, so many times before.
After he stopped choking the dog, he turned his anger on her. when he got done beating her, he went to bed. She then chased the dog away. Run Princess, run. She went back into the trailer and cleaned.