When the Sun Hits Chapter 5: Trager.
Trager makes his first appearance and joins Arthur, Eddie, and the protagonist.
We have made some good progress on getting further to escape. We take a break to rest at an office room that has a lock on it, so we are guaranteed safety. We haven't had to eat that creepy dead guy yet, thankfully. I want to eat real food the second we leave this hellhole. God, how I miss burgers. Sitting in the office room, Arthur against the wall, Eddie laid back in a chair and me next to him leaning on his shoulder, we talked amongst ourselves. This social connection is very good for both of the men.
“I shouldn't have even been here." Eddie says, mourning the life he could have had if he wasn't locked up.
“Me too!!!" Arthur exclaims. “I was not broken and corrupted when I was thrown in here! I was forced to be here! My family disowned me and convinced everyone I was insane, the stupid Murkoff people believed it, and I was here for years now…I don't even know how old I am, then they tortured us and I am what they tried to make me be at the beginning."
“Wow Arthur, I am so sorry to hear that." I replied.
“So, why are you here anyway?" Arthur asked.
Eddie pulls me close, “She came here to help us, but got caught up in the massacre when the Walrider got out. I am joyful I found her and she found me. Now we are married and I am going to provide and care for her once we get out of here. Our plan is we escape pretending to be non patients, like her, in case rescue arrives, and Murkoff tries to strip us from our freedom and torture us again. We need to find new clothes that patient's don't wear, or a Murkoff uniform, when we get outside if the rescue spots us."
I chime in, “If not, we can make a run for it into the nearby woods. They will presumably be very busy with containing the outbreak and assessing the damage, they won't notice the three of us slipping out…"
Arthur holds his face in his hands and says weakly, “I will never be able to be like, like them, or like you."
My eyes lock with his, “Arthur, do not fear. We will never fit in. And that's perfectly fine. Society cannot define us by our conditions or what plagues our minds."
His hands slowly fall, and he looks more reassured. We talk about the mountain that we will have to face no matter what way we leave. It would be so much easier if we take the road I arrived on, but if SWAT finds us, we are for sure fucked, especially the two guys.
Suddenly, there is a knock on the door. My blood runs cold. We all freeze.
What do we do? Is it rescue? Is it another variant?
“I-I'll open it…" Arthur whispers to the group as he gets up towards the door. “Who is it???"
“You're not one of them are you? We can help each other escape, please let me in. I am terrified out here!" a man's voice said.
All of us look at one another not sure what to do or say.
Arthur slowly unlocks the door. A tall, withered skinned man, with glasses and a binocular in one eye enters. Part of his lip is missing from his jaw, almost covered by a cloth mask.
“TRAGER?" Eddie gasps.
“Who the-" I begin to say, being interrupted by Trager storming the room, and before any of us knew it, Trager had his hand gently grasping my chin. I freeze. In an instant, Eddie punches him to get him away from me.
“The FUCK MAN?" Trager yelps, backing away.
Arthur pretends he isn't there.
Eddie's eyes are flaming. “That is my damn wife you just put your filthy hands on. Get the fuck away from her."
Trager shrugs, “Well, buddy, look, in my defense, I gotta ask, is she a real one?"
“What in god's name do you mean real?"
“A…woman…" Trager says breathlessly, giving me the bedroom eyes. He is nearly drooling.
Oh god. Of course this motherfucker is horny. All these fucking men in here are all horny. It has probably been YEARS since they have even been in proximity to a woman.
Eddie holds me behind him. “Don't even think about it. She would never leave me for you."
I spot a boner growing behind Trager's apron. The fuck.
Arthur speaks up, “Um, so, didn't you say you can help us escape…?"
Trager shakes his head to rid himself of his horny thoughts. “Uh, uh, yeah, I did."
I look around the room and I ask hastily, “Okay, guys, who is Trager? How do you know him, Eddie?"
Eddie frowns slightly as if he is remembering tough memories. “He was a doctor here. Richard Trager."
Rick puts his hands up and shrugs again. “Yep! That's me! I look different, don't I buddy?"
Eddie holds his head. “I don't have time for this. I need to get her out of here, now show us the way out."
Richard puts his hands on my groom's shoulder. What is he thinking?
Rick exclaims, “You're Eddie right? Man, you were a lot of work. That latex fucked you up, buddy. Not even the fuckin' hormone therapy worked on your horny ass. At least you got some pussy to calm you down, finally."
I think I read about hormone therapy in the documents. Don't they do that to sexual predators? I could care less right now to be completely honest.
Eddie growls, “I am holding myself back, you should know. I don't want to have to kill you in front of my bride."
Trager laughs. “Yeah, whatever bud, I know the way out, if you kill me you'll never get to know. For real though, what the fuck happened to your face?"
“What happened to your's?" I snap.
“My best bud, Jeremy Blaire, sent me into the morphogenic engine, I am not guilty, those lying bitches, I never raped anyone, never drugged anyone, those bitches got me fired from my job and locked up in the same place I worked at. Man, that's fucked up! Where is Jeremy?"
“Oh, uh, I think that guy brought me here in the first place actually."
“You don't look like a patient dear, what are you? You need to get your pretty little ass out of this shithole."
Eddie growled again, Rick calling me dear definitely hurts him. His mind is fragile after being put into that engine.
“It was super weird…it was so under the table, like a secret invitation, I was super sketched out, but I needed the money, so I came to give a motivational speech to some patients." I replied.
“Oh yeah, dude, that wasn't for no motivational speeches…Murkoff likes to take recruits for the illegal shit we do here and keep them tied to us so they can't leave."
“Oh. Um. Well, that, ya know what, I don't even know anymore."
Eddie reaches out to hold my hand, “I will take good care of you once we are out of here…"
Eddie comes closer to Trager, “Stop your whining and help us get out of here! She could be pregnant!"
Rick chuckles in awe. “Oh, really?"
He looked excited when that point came up.
My groom nudged up behind me and put his hands around my waist and rubbed it.
“Yeah…" Eddie said quietly as he looked down at my abdomen. I blush hard. I feel him popping a boner behind me…
“SO…both of you… have been…"
I cover my face in slight embarrassment.
Arthur sighed, “Oh my lorddddd."
Eddie stands proud, “We have been trying for a baby every night now."
Rick lets out a belly laugh, “Fancy words for putting hot cum in her cunt every night. That is pretty hot, actually, can we share?"
“GOD NO. I really want to end you."
“GUYS." I say loudly. “Let's fucking leave!"
They finish up their bickering and Trager leads us towards a so-called exit. While walking through the dim lit and run down asylum, the lights flickered for a second and shut off completely. Eddie's grip on me got tighter.
“We have to turn the power back on, it looks like some dumb bitch turned it off or wires got cut. If we get to the basement we can turn it on, if luck is in our favor." Trager sighs. Arthur turns his flashlight on higher to see in the dark night.
Trager led us to the basement. “I will do it for us, Arthur, that's your name right, can you come along with me, buddy?"
“Yeah, sure. I have not yet tread this place yet, is it safe?"
“Oh right, with me you will be." Trager pulls out a massive pair of scissors from under his apron and flexes it.
That was oddly ominous but ok… we are getting so close to leaving. Eddie and I can finally live our lives free from this hell when we make it out of here. What am I doing in this life anymore? I don't know. Being away from the Walrider has definitely helped his mental state, not fully sane yet, I don't think he will ever be, and that is okay with me. It is like a string that cannot be broken has latched my heart onto his the moment our eyes locked for the first time. By the time we are away from the Walrider for good, I think all of us will be able to think clearer. Staying together is important.
“Stay close to me, darling, I will protect you." Eddie whispers into my ear as I observe the darkness of the basement around us. Rick and Arthur begin walking down the hallway to the main room of the basement, their footsteps getting quieter as they soon disappear from our field of view and eventually into darkness.
A ghostly scream was heard from down the hall, getting closer and closer to Eddie and a black cloud swarmed towards us, and then disappeared when it passed through us like air.
“What the-?" Eddie swirled around to look for it, but it was gone.
“...I…don't feel good…" I grumble, as I clench my stomach. That swarm of whatever that was has brought on something inside of me.
“Darling! Darling! Are you okay?!" He comforts me, putting his hands on my back and lowering himself down to me.
I begin to throw up.
“Darling!!! Oh god, it was that thing wasn't it?!" He quickly grabs my hair to keep it out of my face as I vomit onto the dusty concrete floor. Soon, the lights came back on, which helped a little bit in this situation. I threw up a good bit before Trager and Arthur made it back to our location.
“What in god's name is going on?!" Trager yelled as they both approached us.
“You're a doctor, Trager, do something!" Eddie asks frantically.
Richard comes closer to observe me better, as I barf out everything I had eaten in the past 24 hours. Everything has gotten out of my system now.
“Here, you won't suffer without me, we need to find a place to sit!" The group quickly helped me up the steps to the main floor, where I originally entered this facility. They find me a seat quickly, to the left inside of the lobby, away from the bloody and rotting corpses behind the front desk, and both Trager and Eddie get on their knees to be at my eye level. A sharp pain shoots through my body, spawning at my abdomen. I grasp it with force and cry.
Rick sighs, “Hard to say what is causing this, surely you've been scrambling to find food here."
“Why would it only begin now? Both of us have been eating the same things, oh my, poor darling…"
Rick holds his head, “Hey buddy, did this just start as we came back from turning the lights back on? Oh jesus christ, I think I know what this is. It is the Walrider."
Eddie stared at him, “Now that you mention it, we saw a black cloud come towards us while waiting for you and Arthur. What is happening, Trager?!"
“Gluskin, you wouldn't know this since you didn't work here, but there is a reason Murkoff stopped housing female inmates here…"
“Spit it out!" Eddie yells firmly.
“From what I've seen at my time here, when women stayed here, being around the experiments caused phantom pregnancies."
Eddie looks at me, back at him, back at me, and then back at him again, “You're a doctor, tell me if she's pregnant! Oh darling, I will be here for you all the way through our journey of parenthood."
“She shouldn't be showing symptoms just yet, it has not been that long. It takes weeks for a fetus to begin growing, unless the walrider accelerates the pregnancy…I have seen it happen before…well, shit buddy, guess you're gonna be a dad, fuckface."
Eddie ecstatically kisses me, “Are you serious? Oh, darling, this is amazing news!!! Oh my god…"
My face goes from extremely distressed to having a smile on my face even through the pain I was in. “Are…you sure?"
Rick said, “There are not many other options to think of, it's logistically the most likely with you."
I can't even believe this. I've always wanted children but I never felt safe enough to settle down until I met him. His very presence calms my soul, puts me at ease in this place of absolute horrors. I lean on my groom's shoulder and cry tears of joy. Arthur, looking around on edge interrupted the moment to bring up how the front doors are right there, our route out of this, our freedom. A point is brought up about how we don't know if they are locked again. The lobby showed signs that rescue had been here. They probably saw what happened and locked it to keep anything else alive from escaping. Arthur ran over to check, and to no surprise, they were locked.
“Fuck." Richard groaned. “We will have to unlock them from the control room. The door was destroyed when I last walked past, so it shouldn't be too much trouble."
Eddie held me close and he looked at him firmly, “I will stay with her here, you go unlock them. Arthur, keep a lookout."
Both of them walk off. In a strange way I think I might miss this place, the memories I made with my love that I cherish even in the circumstance.
He puts his forehead to mine and whimpers, “I am so happy I am going to be a dad…I feel…so…happy…I have not felt that way in ages or even ever…"