Trauma Virus

The Monster in the Lake

Several months later

Sean and all the others had ended up healing well. Chase had left the house for several months to get away and Sean no longer stayed there with them.

Sean started dating a girl named Gab but he kept her away from all of them for now. Nobody blamed him. None of them wanted her getting accidentally hurt by any of them. . . namely Anti.

Marvin made a special isolation room for Anti and made it so he couldn't go anywhere. He couldn't even glitch, not that he wanted to.

He was actually really happy to stay cooped up in the room, much to everyone's confusion.

At least there, Dark couldn't get to him.

Henrik visited here and there, trying to figure out why Anti had gone berserk before but the only explanation he could think of was that perhaps he was severely bipolar and something had triggered him. Since being around just Marvin, Jackie and Henrik, Anti seemed well enough so they couldn't figure out what that trigger was.

They kept Jameson away in case Anti possessed him again. Jameson wanted to see Anti, worried for him, but Anti himself made it clear he didn't want to see him.

Jackie would come in his room to give him his meals and would sometimes tease Anti that Dark was so worried about him.

Anti didn't care, though, and showed no grief for not seeing his best 'friend'. It confused Jackie but he figured it was just because Anti was just so messed up.

After six months of being locked away and tested on, Henrik finally gave him the all clear to be let out.

Not everyone agreed to this but what the doctor says goes and Sean trusted him.

Anti was sent back to his old room where he could come and go as he pleased.

He hated it.

At least in the isolation room, he had a little reprieve from all the nightmares.

He had comfort knowing Dark couldn't hurt him OR his family while he was locked up.

It was late 2018.

Many Iplier ego videos had been done. The Who Killed Markiplier video and Wilford Motherloving Warfstache.

The Septics weren't a part of it but perhaps that was the reason Dark hadn't tried to bother Anti because he was so busy.

But now it was almost Christmas and everyone was going to get together.

Henrik was worried for Anti's mental state but Sean insisted that he should integrate with them all again as a family to speed up the process of getting him better.

Anti was fine with not going but they didn't want to leave him alone, either.

Who knows what trouble he'd get into then.

"You better not start shit this time. You know I'll be ready to take you down again" Jackie glared at him.

Anti was sitting on the couch, lightly running his fingers along the scar on his throat that Dark had given him.

Everyone still thought Anti had done it to himself.

"Take it easy, Jackie" Marvin chuckled nervously, "He hasn't had an episode in many months. Give him some credit"

"I don't wanna go" Anti mumbled quietly.

"Tough shit" Jackie snapped back at him, "We're not leaving you here by yourself so you can hurt yourself or someone else again"