Kasha backed up, her body rigid with anxiety as she stared Eddie down. Eddie limped towards her. "Why would you... Why would you leave me? I didn't think that you-" He coughed, blood expelling from his lungs. "- that you would be like the others! The other whores. The sluts. N-No. I know you're not like them. Please, darling, come back to me! We can... We can talk things out!"

Kasha noticed that one of Eddie's hands was behind his back. She narrowed her eyes. "What's behind your back, hm? Is it your knife? Because if it is, there's no fucking hope for you. None. Part of me..." She scowled, looking away, but continued to back away from him towards the crashed open front gates of Mount Massive. "... Part of me thought that, maybe, I could get through your delusions. Break them. God, Eddie, if you had gotten the therapy that you needed..." She felt a great amount of guilt. She felt personally responsible.

She'd had him as a patient once before the breakout. And even then, in just one session, she'd made a breakthrough with him just before he left her office.

If they had continued with her therapy sessions... What would Eddie be now?

Predictably, Eddie seemed to all but ignore Kasha's words. He stubbornly stuck to his fantasy. "We could have been beautiful, darling!" He almost yelled, anger boiling up in his voice. But more than anything, it was frustration. He truly believed that Kasha was going to be different. He trusted her. "One after another... I try, and I try, and they all betray me. I do nothing but care for them, I do nothing but make them beautiful... And what do they do, to repay my acts of kindness? This." He spat the word out, looking Kasha up and down with hateful eyes.

"Well gee Eddie, I don't know, maybe it's because you're a complete and utter fucking psychopath that chops people's dicks off for a fucking living! To make them "beautiful?" It that what you really think that you're doing? No, Eddie. WAKE UP. You're not making those men into women to love them, you're making them into women so that you can kill them. Because you enjoy killing women. Snap the fuck out of it, you delusional fucking sociopath!" The words tumbled out of Kasha's mouth in a fit of rage, and she could hardly control herself. She'd held that in this entire time, and she couldn't repress it any longer. The flood gates had been opened.

Kasha needed to just run. She already knew what Eddie's response to that was going to be. Everything in her willed her to just turn around and book it, to just run the fuck out of those opened gates behind her to freedom. To her sisters. To California. There was nothing she could do about Eddie now. He wasn't going to back off. This time, Kasha wasn't going to be able to pacify him. She now fully realized that. Especially not after what she'd just said to him.

This, right here, was a stand off. It was either him, or her.

There was no pacifying this time.

Kasha watched as blood trickled out of Eddie's mouth, along with the various bullet holes dotted around his torso. She had the advantage. She was more physically capable of defending herself than he was. She took note of that.

Everything came down to this. Her mask shattered into a million pieces. She continued, watching as Eddie's eyes burned through her with seething hatred. "For fuck's sake, Eddie, get the hell out of that shitty little fantasy world that you live in and look at this place!" She yelled, pointing at the asylum behind Eddie. "Do you want to live in complete and utter insanity? Do you? Or do you want to get the fuck out of this terrible place, with me, and at least attempt to live a normal life?" She figured that she would throw that whole "escape with me" plan out there as a last ditch effort to manipulate him.

It didn't work. Eddie then took his hand out from behind his back, revealing his knife clutched desperately in his large hand. He was shaking with rage. But the more he walked, the weaker his posture became as he bled out. "You..." He growled, "... Are going to be my prized possession, darling. I'll bring you back home. Where you belong. And we'll-" He coughed again, this time cupping his hand to his mouth. "- We'll have such beautiful children." He said his usual lines, but this time, he spoke with far more rage in his voice than Kasha had ever seen or heard before. His voice shook, and it was in a perpetual growl. Part of him must have known that Kasha's words held truth, but his psychosis prevented him from consciously realizing it. The potential internal conflict within him must have been royally fucking with his head.

"How... How dare you talk to me like that..." He then choked out, glaring at Kasha. "After everything that I've done for you. After everything that I did to protect you. You dare talk to me that way? You ungrateful fucking shit... SLUT!" He spat, watching as Kasha continued to back away from him. Eddie could feel his legs screaming at him to stop walking. He could feel his body giving out. But after all of this, he still wanted this woman.

Now, however, he wanted to display her like the grandest of trophies in his museum of whores.

Kasha then made the decision that she should have made a long, long time ago. Especially when she'd begun working here. She turned around on her bare heel and, with all of her strength, stormed out through the broken front gates. Her legs pushed her faster than she'd ever felt herself go, the adrenaline pumping through her with one goal: Survival. Fuck this.

Running through those gates had been one of the most... Liberating and euphoric sensations that Kasha had ever felt in her entire life. She would never forget it. She would tell her sisters back in California all about this. She couldn't wait to crack a joke to them about Eddie after she'd gotten over the ordeal, she... She couldn't wait to see their faces again.

This was it.

This was really happening. She was really going to see them again.

She was going to live.

She smiled as she ran for her life, her breaths coming out in exhausted huffs as she powered down the long concrete road that winded down through the Colorado mountains. She'd forgotten how secluded this facility was. Getting back to civilization would be... God, a journey of it's own.

But she didn't care. She was going to survive. That's all she cared about.

Kasha's heart sank into her stomach when she felt an abrasive body lunge itself at her from behind, hitting her with an incredible impact that sent the both of them falling forwards, hitting the hard road with a devastating thud that sent the two of them rolling.

NO.

Eddie slammed his fists into Kasha's face repeatedly. "NO! You're not leaving! You're not leaving me! I can't be alone! You're coming back home, with me, and we're going to raise a beautiful family! Do you understand me, darling?!" He nearly shrieked, punching her continuously the entire time.

Kasha desperately clawed at Eddie's arms, kicking him with all of her strength. She then took two fingers and jabbed them into one of Eddie's bullet hole wounds, moving her fingers around inside of the wound, pushing the lodged bullet deeper inside of him. Eddie screamed out in pain, and Kasha took the opportunity to grab his lower half with her knees and yank him to the right with all of the strength that she could muster. Eddie fell to his side next to her, and Kasha took the chance to climb on top of him to gain the upper hand.

"No one is stopping me from seeing my sisters again. No one." She growled, her voice now slightly distorted through the swelling of her battered face. She then clasped her hands around Eddie's throat and pressed down with all of her weight, praying to whatever god there may or may not be that she could kill him. Right here, right now.

But the cards weren't in Kasha's favor.

Eddie gagged against Kasha's vice grip, but he quickly regained control. He kneed Kasha in the gut and pried her fingers off of his throat manually. Kasha's eyes widened with horror. He then grabbed Kasha by her throat, lifted her up, and dropped her back down on to the concrete road. Kasha landed with a thud, crawling away from him in a last ditch attempt to save her life. Eddie advanced towards her with the brutality of a fucking tank, armed with his knife once again.

"How the fuck is he suddenly so strong? How?! Shouldn't he be dying by now and bleeding out?" Kasha frantically thought to herself, watching as Eddie quickly sat on top of her to properly restrain her. He lifted his arm up, his knife threateningly pointing down on her.

"I did warn you, darling. I told you to behave." He began, his chest rising and falling rapidly with his shortened breaths. Blood continued to trickle down his chin, trailing from his mouth. "... You will behave now. Whether you want to or not." He then plunged his knife down into Kasha's gut, twisting the blade as it impaled her.

Kasha cried out and grasped at the impact wound, now pooling over with blood. "So... This is it, then? This is your life, Eddie? You fucking piece of shit. You psychotic piece of sh-" He plunged the blade down into her again, once again in her gut.

It was just like that time back at the gymnasium. When she had almost died. She was so close to death in that stupid fucking gymnasium. And now, she was reliving the experience. Memories began playing through her mind like a home movie as Eddie continued to relentlessly plunge his knife into Kasha's body. Kasha couldn't even feel his blade anymore. Her consciousness drifted and focused on the happy memories playing through her mind.

Particularly, of her and her sisters playing in a kiddie pool on a warm summer day. They'd all been very, very small. Maybe around the age of six. It was then that Kasha recalled that she'd never once told her sisters that she'd loved them. Kasha had always been the least emotional out of the four of them, and she'd never... Expressed herself in that way to them.

She would die without her telling them that she loved them. Currently, that was Kasha's biggest regret. Tears began to pour from her brown eyes as the realization came to her.

"I... I love you guys." She choked out, barely lucid. She felt like she'd been speaking directly to them, and it gave her a peace of mind. The last thing Kasha saw play through her mind was her sisters smiling back at her, and in reality, Kasha physically smiled softly in response to the memory.

Then, Eddie's knife delivered the fatal and final blow to Kasha's chest. The blade pierced her lung through her rib cage, and she violently choked and gasped against her now collapsed lung. It didn't take long for Kasha to stop moving after the final blow.

Eddie looked down at her lifeless corpse with eyes glazed over in apathy, wheezing. His body trembled, threatening to give out on him at any moment. He'd pushed his horribly wounded body to it's limits. He grabbed Kasha's still bleeding body by both of her ankles, and began dragging her back up the concrete road.

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"Hold still now, darling... All of this unsightly filth. We're going to need to get all of this off. That beautiful skin can't be dirtied." Eddie's voice echoed through the tiled walls of the washroom, dirty water pouring through the bathtub's faucet.

Kasha's now naked corpse laid in the bathtub as the brown tinted water washed over her. Eddie's hand held some bundled up fabric as he gently washed her corpse, smearing the fabric against her now even paler flesh. "I can't have my beautiful wife looking so... Filthy. Once you're cleaned up, we'll say hello to the children."

He spent what seemed like hours washing her body before he deemed it "clean" enough for his standards. He drained the tub's water and scooped Kasha's body up in his arms. "Come now, darling. There's much work to be done."

A day had passed since the incident. Eddie now had the asylum mostly to himself, seeing as Murkoff security had successfully obliterated most of the common variants that once roamed the halls. The first thing Eddie did when he returned to the asylum was spend hours in front of one of the only remaining mirrors left intact on the facility, picking the bullets out of his body. He wasn't quite sure how his body was going to heal internally, or if it even would, but that wasn't his main concern right now.

He had his palace all to himself now, and he had his queen by his side. It was all that he could ever want, and all that he ever had wanted.

Eddie brought Kasha into the gymnasium. He'd already set up a mannequin stand for his trophy to be displayed on, which was centered at the back wall of the gymnasium with an array of candles almost religiously lit around the mannequin stand, with an addition of two wooden planks being extended at the arms to almost resemble a crucifix. All he needed to do was... Polish his trophy.

Using hooks that he'd strategically left exposed on the mannequin stand, he gently hoisted Kasha's body against the stand, lowering her body on to the hooks. The hooks impaled her delicate, lifeless flesh, and successfully held her body against the stand. Eddie took Kasha's arms and positioned them to sit against the extended wooden planks. He grabbed some rope and twisted it around her wrists, merely to keep her arms from dropping.

Eddie then worked with Kasha's legs. He started with the right leg, wrapping the same rope around her ankle, pulling her leg away from the other, tying a knot around an already placed heavy piece of exercise equipment. Eddie repeated the process on Kasha's left leg, spreading her legs far apart as the ending result.

He then took his knife and carved a vertical line beginning at her breast bone, then down to her groin. He opened the incision and allowed her intestines to pour out of her as a result, letting them carelessly drop down to the floor in front of her with a disgusting slosh. He then went to gather a couple of decapitated heads that had already been littering the floor of the gymnasium. He brought three back, placing two of them directly underneath Kasha's spread legs. He stuffed the remaining head into Kasha's carved out torso. He then took out his needle and thread, pulling and stretching the skin of her belly over the inserted head. He sewed the skin back together, giving Kasha's belly the bloated appearance of a pregnant woman.

Eddie paid attention to detail, positioning her fallen intestines in such a way that it looked like they'd been splashing outwards from her groin on the floor. The scene obviously simulated a messy, twisted birth.

Eddie stepped back and admired his work for a moment, smiling to himself. There was only one thing left to do. He left for a moment and returned with a small bucket, which had been filled with Kasha's excess blood that he'd harvested earlier just for this final step. He walked to the wall behind Kasha's positioned corpse, dipping his fingers in the bucket, and began writing on the wall.

"QUEEN OF THE PALACE" The writing read, bowed over her positioned corpse. Eddie also painted a multitude of messy hearts all over the surrounding area of the wall.

He stepped back and, with the rest of the blood in the bucket, splashed and splattered it all over Kasha's corpse. He poured the last remaining bits of it down onto the floor, around the decapitated heads. Or rather, the "children."

Eddie then stepped back once more, his heart filling with warmth and satisfaction like he'd never felt before. He could die happy now, if these internal injuries ended up killing him.

"You're just as you're meant to be now, darling... Immortalized. Immortalized in my love's arbor." He said with a long, drawn out sigh.

He then turned his back and walked out of the gymnasium, whistling the tune of "I Want A Girl" by The American Quartet to himself as he left.

Kasha would forever remain as a beacon of Eddie's insanity, symbolizing all of his delusions.

She truly was immortalized.

And Eddie would never, ever forget her.

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Author's Note: Aaand that's a wrap! Thank you guys so much for reading and giving me feedback! This story has by far become my most popular story, and it was really fucking fun to write. I've never written a story that's inspired people to go so far as to write their own stories, and even draw fan art for the story! (Without me even asking for it! Lol.)

Anyway, thanks so much for reading, and I'll see you guys in the very near future with some alternative endings. Yes, I do plan on doing that. ;)