Apple a day.

Miles sat quietly leaning against a locker, his eyes closed and his breathing returning to normal as he glanced at the door.

He'd slammed it shut, before he'd a pushed a mental cage filled with what looks like gas canisters across, to stop any of the intruders on the outside from getting in and attacking him and the curious little girl he'd found in the asylum.

He casted his gaze over to the six year old who was sitting crosslegged on the floor, playing with the battered teddy bear, a smile on her face like all of this was completely normal, which in some ways for her he guessed it was. She was born and raised in the asylum, but how she'd survived…? She was so young and he doubted any of the people in here would spare her, maybe a few wouldn't hurt her, but the others? They couldn't tell the difference between person and food some of them.

"Trebel?" he croaked out and the girl looked up, tilting her heard to the side in question.

"Miles?"

"How… how have you survived here?"

She blinked at him before shrugging slightly. "I just know the rules and I have protectors."

"Protectors?"

"The twins, Father Martin, Junk, Puppet, Shakespear, Musician, Chris too! He knows I'm not a threat and I can't be a host to Wally, he protects me too."

"Wally?"

"Walrider," she grinned at him, before brushing off some dirt from her teddy. "I was friends with Billy, so Wally won't hurt me." She looked to the side slightly a highly thoughtful look on her face. "Eddie is nice too, wants me to be a bridesmaid."

"Bridesmaid?"

"He wants to get married and have a family all of his own," Trebel explained before she smiled and her eyes brightened. "He's made a church too and he makes really pretty dresses, but Musician told me off when I said I'd been there. She told me not to go down there again, Eddie is dangerous apparently."

"Wait- she?" Miles blinked. As far as he was aware there were no female patients here. "There's a woman here?"

"Yeah, Musician," Trebel explained. "She used to work in the arts and crafts bit… but the bad people didn't like that she found out their secrets and was going to tattle tale on them, so they locked her up in here. They made her go through the pain too, the hurt bit. She takes care of me now and lives in the Female Ward, no one really bothers her, us. Those that do… they are… hurt before they hurt us."

"She kills them then?" Miles sighed and closed his eyes. "And as for that Eddie guy, I don't know how he's going to get a wife. All of the other patients are men."

"He makes them."

His eyes snapped open.

Surly he hand't heard her right? He turned his head to look at the girl who was still playing with her scraggy teddy, hardly noticing Miles's look of disgust and terror. "What?" he whispered.

Her eyes looked up through her hair and she studied him for a moment before looking back at her bear. "Eddie makes his brides. He cuts away all the… vulgar..?" she looked up questioning herself before smiling and nodding. "Yeah, that's right! He cuts away all the vulgar parts."

Miles swallowed uneasily. "What… what are the vulgar parts."

Trebel didn't say anything she just pointed with her finger at Miles and he found himself curling his knees up to his chest, a disturbed look on his face.

"I don't want to know."

"The Doctor is bad too."

"Doctor?"

Trebel nodded. "He's bad. He hurts everyone."

"Are you talking about Wenwhick?"

Trebel shook her head. "No. Worse."

Worse? Worse?! What the hell? Who the hell could be worse then the man who made this damn place?! That… it seemed impossible.

"Well… I'll steer clear of him…"

Trebel got to her feet and walked up to him, stuffing her hand in her pocket. Miles found himself raising an eyebrow at her in curiosity.

Slowly the girl pulled out an apple from her pocket and handed it to him.

He looked confused for a moment, glancing his eyes up at her to see her staring back at him.

"Umm… thanks?"

Trebel smiled before explaining. "An apple a day keeps the Doctor away," she explained, clapping her hands together.

Ah.

Miles smiled at her for a moment before handing her the apple back. "Thanks but… I think you'll need this more then me," he smiled before standing up and walking over to the door. "I'll stick to running for my life, it seems to be working for me." he muttered as he pushed the cage aside and opened the door, peering out into the darkness.

"Don't say I didn't warn you," Trebel sing songed before she bolted out the door and into the dark.

Miles blinked before he scrambled after her, using the night vision on his camera. "Trebel! Hey wait!"

He ran into the light and pulled the camera away from his face looking around the corridor, a frown on his face. She was nowhere to be seen.

"Damn that kids fast," he muttered to himself as he caught his breath.

The sound of voices made his ears perk up before he looked around in confusion, before the colour drained from his face.

They were coming for him.

He took one last glance around for Trebel before making a run for it as he saw the first guy come running around the corner.

He didn't see her for a long time, but he did see the Doctor.

Trager. Doctor Richard Trager, but he was not a Doctor, not even a poor excuse of one, he was just a psychopath, taking two of Miles's fingers to prove it.

He'd somehow managed to escape, he'd been running away from that psycho for a good few hours before finally ending him in the elevator, crushing him.

Miles had then trudged on through the horror, till he found himself outside, standing in the cool rain as it battered down from above. It was nice and soothing in many ways, but it still stung his hands a little bit, as he walked on through. Then he found her.

Trebel was sitting on the grass in the rain, making what looked like her attempt at daisy chains. She sat in the only bit of light source in a small shed, keeping most of her dry but she was clearly soaked but she didn't seem to care.

At the sound of his footsteps she looked up, she knew it was him, always knew it was him, simply because he was the only person who wore any damn shoes in this place.

He stared at her for a while as she equally stared at his hands, tilting her head to the side as she looked before she looked back at him.

She put her hand back in her pocket and tossed the apple at him, of which he caught, staring at it himself before he looked back at her.

She shrugged before going back to her daisy chains. "I told you so," she whispered but he heard her.

A glare fell on his face and he dropped the apple to the floor, before he stormed past her and grabbed a key from the hook. "Yeah," he agreed, turning on his heel and storming away from her. "Yeah you did."

THE END.

Note: Okay so this is my first time writing outlast, I really love the game and the story is one of the best I've seen. I'm also a huge fan of the characters. I have created some of my own characters to put in this, they will be explained as the one shots go on, especially Trebel and Musician, who will be explained in later stories.
I hope you guys like this :D