Insanity Becomes You [Outlast fanfic Eddie Gluskin]

♡ Chapter Eleven ♡

Is she lying to me?

Eddie's thoughts raced in his deranged mind, Will she abandon me like everyone else has?

He now looked down at his new wife, whose body seemed to be quivering, but with what? With excitement? Happiness? Or was it... fear? He was not sure as they walked down the dark, dank corridors of what he'd called home for the past day.

How long had he actually been here, he wondered? He could barely remember anything before those jack booted fucks had taken him to that... that machine. "Dream therapy" they had called it. What a sick form of therapy, indeed. He found himself shaking alongside of Victoria at the memory, causing her to look up at him for a moment in the dim light of the broken overhead fluorescent bulbs. He caught her glance, and she immediately looked away as if he had spooked her.

His thoughts once again brushed against the suggestion that his newly found wife did not want him. She seemed so frightened, so unwilling, that every time he got even a centimeter too close to her she would cower in fear.

Have I done something? Yes, he knew that he had punished her for running off and for not listening to him, but that was no reason to be shook up. It was a normal thing for a husband to correct his wife when she strayed too far away from his protective eye or displeased him.

But was she just like the rest of those whores...

He shook his head - She can't be like them, she's everything I have been looking for... a woman with no flaws that had to be cut and cleaned away, a woman who could accept myself and my need for a family. Oh yes, a woman who will continue the Gluskin name for another generation. And I'm more than certain that she will make me a happy man and husband. Not to mention, she truly is just as beautiful as my mother... and compliant - which is all I could ever ask for in a woman. And that's not too much to ask for, now is it?

A true homemaker is what I've found, I believe.

He thought about how all of his recent lovers had not survived his affections, it wasn't enough that they weren't ready for his love, but it was entirely obvious that they wouldn't accept it. They all tried to run, all tried to hide from him. Hell, even some of them had tried to kill him in the process. Stupid, ungrateful sluts. But all of them endured the same fate - as she would if she did not continue to be the obedient housewife that he'd so longed for - hung from the rafters of a misbegotten asylum, forgotten and laughed at by all.

Albeit his previous "lovers", he found that she was indeed entirely different from them.

She did actually try to run from me, though.

His inner voice harshly reminded him of that, but Eddie was quick to remind his psychotic self that she had become less awnry since he'd persuadedher with his knife and had placed his seed inside of her - a thought that had him rather giddy.

What a family we shall have... And it will be a perfect one. I will not be the man that my father was.

"We're nearly there."

Eddie was disrupted from his thoughts as Victoria squeaked up at him, a tiny little smile on her tasty lips. The smile had his mind once again question her motives with this little "trip". He was unfamiliar with the upper floors of the asylum, and had a very worried feeling in the pit of his stomach. But he wanted to trust her, she was being so lovely towards him, and he felt that she was warming up to her new husband.

Eddie couldn't deny the love that he felt for this darling little woman. He knew he could be a touch overbearing, and it pained him that she was so afraid of him. He wanted nothing more than to scoop her up, and run away with her so that he could spend all of eternity showering her with love.

He lovingly placed his hand in her much smaller one, and he felt her cringe gently next to him.

"And you're sure this is what you want, darling?" Eddie asked her, not bothering to look down at her as they walked into another building, this one much more brightly lit. His hand squeezed hers, and brought it up into the crook of his arm in a gentlemanly way.

"Y-yes, Eddie. It has more room, and is a bit more... homey." She tilted her head up to glance at him, and her breathtaking smile still lingered on her lips. He felt his heart beat race a little as she gave him another affectionate smile. Yes, it could be a treacherous mask that she was wearing, but never had a woman looked at him as she did. It made him feel like a young boy with a school crush all over again.

Eddie knew he was overbearing on Victoria sometimes, but he only did it out of love. He'd been scorned so many times before by his ex-lovers... here at the asylum, and even out in the real world. He wished at that moment that he could explain to her why he was... why he was this version of himself. But his mind was so muddled from what the engine had done to him, that he was even sure how to. All of his memories, his emotions, and words were all very much scrambled up. He was used to the wrong things being said instead of what he actually meant.

I'll kill you was supposed to come out as don't leave me.

"If you're lying to me, I'll hang you by that lovely neck of yours-" His threats were cut off as behind them a buzz saw flared to life behind them.

Now what in God's glorious creation do you suppose that could be?