When the Sun Hits Chapter 4: EVERYTHING IS A NIGHTMARE
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The time has come, no more hiding, no more waiting. It's time to begin departure from this hell.
Also, welcome Arthur!
A few more days pass (I think), and the Asylum continues to crumble. Where is the rescue? Either way, Eddie has a plan for us. In the dark hallway leading to the stairs exiting the basement floor, Eddie stood staring up at an inmate, who was standing at the top of the steps, probably looking for food. The groom stood his ground and widened his stance.
The groom's fists clenched, a beast waiting to attack. I shudder to myself watching him from about 20 feet away in this dark underground block.
Eddie said, “It would be wise to leave this place. Don’t try. I know they’re coming for me, those filthy fucks…”
The thin inmate shrouded and put his hands up to plead, “No, no, Mr. Gluskin, please, The Walrider!”
Eddie growled, “The what?! That thing they tried testing me on, I remember it now…”
Eddie started taking a few ominous steps up those stairs. The patient fell to the ground in fear.
The inmate cried, “It escaped, long time ago, you need to get out of here, I, I can tell you two are not like the rest, you have your wits!”
The groom stopped making his way up the stairs. “You’re right. My bride can’t stay in this place much longer, and neither can I stand it. This is not a place for any bride. Where is the Walrider?”
“The Walrider’s followers burned themselves to death in the church in worship, last w-word I heard, that monster got into a human. Transformed into its corpse.”
Eddie glanced at me and back at him. I run up to my groom and hold onto his arm tightly.
“What do you mean, transformed…” Eddie said, anxiously.
“His body, no longer that reporter, Miles, but a swarm. It's like, whenever that thing got out, we all went mad, and anytime it’s near, even more so.”
I think to myself about who Eddie was before this. His delusions must've gotten worse being put in that machine, along with everyone else going batshit. Will he ever become who he was before again, or is he too far gone? Nothing will make me stop loving him though…
“Where is the swarm now? I cannot let my bride be around this for much longer, our children…”
“I think..it left this building, I hope, I hope it don’t come back!”
In a moment of hope, Eddie looks at me and pulls me closer, “Now is our chance, for us, and our children, darling, we need to find a way out. Waiting for those…fucking machines…to come save us won’t help us. Our food is running deathly low, I need to keep you healthy. If we don’t run now, we might not be able to later.”
I nod tearfully.
He tells me to gather our things. I grab my purse and the rest of my tattered clothes. I stare at the old and dirty mattress we first made love on, where we slept every night since my world came down on me. Eddie and I agree to keep this variant with us to help us find our way out. Eddie has been very cautious of him, but we found out his name is Arthur, and I guess he was locked up here falsely. Of course the Walrider and being in solitary confinement as well as illegal Murkoff experiments done to him, Arthur is definitely not sane as when he went in. He is definitely fucked up looking… His head is scarred and a little bloody and also hairless, he wears a dirty uniform. He is very thin, he probably has struggled for resources during this time since the killing of the Mount Massive employees and the variants escape.
Eddie, me, and Arthur are gathered in the Vocational Block. Eddie has been alert this whole time, watching every move in the spaces he enters and leaves.
“What’s the plan?” Arthur said, voice raspy and eager to get going.
Behind him, Eddie drags the tip of his knife across a table and raises it to see his reflection on the weapon, stained with old blood. Arthur jumps and turns to face him.
“You know your way around here, don’t you?”
“Y-yes, Mr. Gluskin…”
“What is the atmosphere above us, you have been outside this block more than we have.”
“Well, lots are dead, some eaten for food, few guys left who are dangerous and killing for fun, some even raping… but besides that, since we got out, every day passes and less of them wander.”
“They will try to fight us, won’t they?” Eddie looks at me, “and darling, I won’t let them. They will be the ones running.”
“D-don’t worry, Mr. Gluskin, you are known around here, they won’t dare touch you!”
He really has made a name for himself, glad he did, because if I was all alone, I don’t think I could have made it this far. He swept me off my feet and now I have hope.
We discussed food sources and resources, and after a couple hours of figuring out what we will do, Eddie initiates that we leave, and now. It has gotten so dark it is nearly impossible to see as the moon has been covered in shadow. In the dark we won’t be noticed as easily. Eddie holds my hand with a firm grasp, as we make our way towards the stairs that lead to above. Arthur leads us, since he knows the way a little better than Eddie. Arthur conveniently found a flashlight, which we held with a low brightness to scour the asylum. We creep up the stairs. I am sweating, as I haven’t left this basement for weeks? No one has been keeping track of time but it feels like weeks… I am anxious, but oddly numb, my adrenaline is keeping me on edge, but definitely not as alert as Eddie. His eyes scan everything, I think he can somehow see in this dark even without the help of a flashlight. He won’t let anything happen to me, I have no doubt about it. Up the stairs, we meet a room with wooden boards as walls, kinda like a maze. I hold my groom's hand harder, but I know I have nothing to fear, my body just can’t help being terrified in this situation.
“Follow me.” Arthur whispers, all of us ducking slightly, following him through the maze. We reach a more open area without wooden walls, our flashlight peers up and what greets us is a hanging body of what looks like a security guard.
“Oh god.” I whimper, closing my eyes and shoving my face into Eddie’s chest.
“It’s ok darling, it’s ok. We must keep going.” he whispers back.
We press on. Following Arthur closely, we make it to a run down bridge leading to a lookout tower. I’m honestly surprised no patients have had a run in with us yet, thankfully (besides Arthur).
Inside the watchtower, we are on a floor close to the ground at least. Corpses are everywhere, lots of blood… My legs are getting weak. Eventually we reached the ground after crossing a bridge to another building. The real ground with grass. We are now in a courtyard, still grim and spooky, but not as much as inside due to some flood lights lighting the courtyard up. I fall to my knees to feel the earthy ground again. Eddie gazes deeply at the moon hidden behind the clouds. The moon is uncovered when the clouds move on and it shines onto the Earth. The moon he has seen for all this time has been through a window, seeing the real thing again gives all of us an ethereal feeling.
“As beautiful as it is,” Arthur states, “we should find the next building, the walrider can be anywhere.”
“Come, darling.” Eddie says, leading me and Arthur to the next building which appears to be a sewage or waste complex. Eddie holds my hand and we take in our surroundings, the fresh air… the night sky, the stars, the moon, something Eddie has not seen in years.
“Let’s move silently, don’t know who could be hunting.” Arthur murmured, looking back at us.
We reach a new complex, which is some type of storage building. Walking closely down the dim hallway, we reach a window to another room and peer in, and what meets our eyes is a variant jerking off…
“Vulgar. Don’t look, darling…” Eddie quickly turns my head back to the center of the hallway and pushes me along to not see that sight anymore. As we march on, we are met with many things that would have made our escape easy if the path wasn't destroyed or the doors locked. My throat is beginning to ache, the anxiety, the running, the fear. Eddie has amazing stamina so he seems fine and dandy, only breathing heavily like he usually does. Eddie is definitely thinking about harming the jack off dude.
Eddie stops, causing us to stop too and look at him in silence.
“I should kill that lunatic down the hall, I would prefer he doesn’t come back to harm us later.” He said under his breath.
I shiver… “Whatever you think, my love.”
Arthur fiddles with his hands and looks around anxiously.
“Do you want him dead? Darling, he doesn’t deserve to live for doing such a disgusting thing in front of my woman…”
Before I could respond, Arthur raises his pointer finger up in shame and says, “Well, we, we could use the meat, ya know, if we run out of food…like it or not we might have to resort to that if we want to escape.”
I am not against the idea, survival can mean doing despicable things sometimes, and plus, I have no idea where Eddie was even getting the meat he fed me everyday, I think from someone named Frank, and honestly I don’t wanna find out. At this point, I don’t even care. I have visibly lost some weight from the lack of proper nutrition and overall stress. Eddie has surely noticed…he won’t let this toll on my body go for much longer, especially since we have fucked raw many times, the possibility of his offspring is high, never a condom or birth control since I haven’t took it ever since the day I got here…
I nod to my groom, “Go get him, it will be beneficial for all of us. Thank you, Eddie.”
I see something change on his face. He leans down to my level, I blush, his face close to mine, he gives me a warm kiss.
“Stay safe with Arthur, darling. I will be back before you know it.”
I blush as I see him walk the opposite way down the hallway. The building is very silent now, me and Arthur just waiting for something crazy to happen. All we can hear is his footsteps echoing down the hall. We watch from a distance, on edge. I see Eddie stand in front of a boarded up door, probably one that leads to where that variant is. Eddie gets into a position with his shoulder facing the door, and he uses all the force of his large body to break the door down. It takes a few tries, but it breaks. He looks back at me before heading into the room.
“Oh goodness…” Arthur whispers. A minute passes, it feels like forever.
Suddenly, we hear a lot of banging and conflict… then it stops.
Eddie walks back out of the room, blood on his clothes…while holding the jerk off joe by the neck…
The corpses I have seen while being in Mount Massive trapped here I am accustomed too, this doesn’t bring out much of a reaction from me anymore. He makes his way back to us, dragging the corpse with him, blood trailing behind.
“Hello again darling, I am thankful I didn’t have to do this to you or Arthur. I would never do this to you, my dear. You are no whore.”
I grab the collar of Eddie’s shirt and pull him to my face, “I know you love me too much. I’m your whore and your’s only.”
Arthur bashfully turns around…
“Darling, don’t make me sin here…not in front of Arthur…”
I kiss him and release his collar. He runs his hand through his black silky hair, “God, darling…we need to focus on getting out of here, we can make up for my lost focus on you later…”
I laugh. “Come on now guys, we have to continue!”
The group starts on again.