hey guys sorry I haven't posted in a while, ive been finding I have little time to write now with everything going on in my life, I hope you guys understand.
"What have you done?" Ruvik's rough and cold voice announced itself as Wren gazed out of a barred window, seemingly expecting him.
"Whatever do you mean?" Wren countered, knowing full well why he was here.
"I can feel Sparrow opening memories I blocked her from ever finding out. What have you done?" Ruvik asked again, his glare upon her hardening and his patience wearing thin. He knew that if he lost his temper he wouldn't hold back on hurting Wren and that would mean the death of Sparrow.
"I decided to show her what kind of a monster you really are Ruvik－ did you think you could keep it from her forever?" Wren stated as she finally set her gaze on the scarred man.
"Is this because of all this?" Ruvik gestured around him, seeing her suddenly tense confirmed his theory. "You're nothing but a parasite Wren and I fully intend on squashing you like the bug you are."
"Sparrow should have a choice whether she wants to get rid of me or not!" Wren shouted in return. "Do you think that she will appreciate what you have supposedly done for her? All the people you have tortured and killed just to get stuck here, do you think she'll be happy about that?!"
Ruvik didn't say anything, confused at how Wren knew this much in the first place. "How much have you found out?"
"Enough, I know you experimented on Leslie and I know why you started this whole STEM in the first place!" Wren shouted at him, fully turning to him and challenging him with her gaze. "I know Sparrow was your inspiration to start STEM, to go into her mind and to get rid of me. So what? So she could be let out from the hospital and you both could live in a big house, get married and live happily fucking forever?! Well guess what Ruvik? Shit like that doesn't happen in the real world anymore! When she finds out how many you killed right under her nose－ in HER NAME－ she'll never forgive yo-" Suddenly interrupting her mid-sentence, Ruvik dashed forward and grabbed her throat, effortlessly lifting her off the floor with ease as Wren struggled to get his grip on her throat off. Clearly taking for granted that Ruvik wouldn't hurt her because of Sparrow, she was sadly mistaken.
"You seem to forget that I haven't stopped my research into making you disappear." He said in a cold and dark tone. "I'm not going to go easy on you either just because you helped bring Jimenez to an end, it doesn't mean yours will be delayed."
Wren clenched her eyes tightly and tried to teleport away but her efforts were in vain. She glitched and zapped like a static television, still being held by the throat with Ruvik's firm grip.
"So you have gained new abilities? Interesting." Ruvik stated as Wrens vision started to blur and darken around the edges. Before she was able to lose consciousness, Ruvik finally released his grip and watched with a sadistic grin as she coughed and heaved on the floor. "I'm going to have to reverse those as well."
Wren's head bent towards the floor, her hair acting as a curtain and blocking Ruvik's view from her expression. "But for now you'll have to deal with them," she growled before unleashing an unknown force from her mind, effectively blasting Ruvik away from her. Before she could celebrate her brief victory, Wren started to cough violently and fell over from the impact, spitting out droplets of precious blood onto the tiled floor. 'Hurry up Sparrow, I can only stall him for so long.'
"Aberrant brain wave patterns observed in subject numbers 25 and 33, and now again in 55. The one common factor is a case history of dissociative identity disorder." The ghostly memory of a young bandaged Ruvik stood in front of his recorder and read out the writings from a document he was holding, probably his findings in the last test subject.
'Dissociate identity disorder? The same symptom I have…' Sparrow thought as she walked around Ruvik's so called 'inner sanctum' in his mansion. Sparrow never realized how wealthy he was, but she didn't let it dwell in her mind since that wealth was spent on people like her, mental patients to use for his experiments.
"Previous experiments on the prefrontal cortex led to degradation of sense of self, but there were unanticipated results here: suicidal thoughts of alternate personalities exhibited as attacks on the core personality. As self-consciousness waned, a sort of stasis was achieved, like two creatures sewn together and forced to live as one, eternally hating the other. Delicious." Ruvik finished before stopping the recorder and going over a few files on his desk.
'You think my condition is something to revel in? I thought I knew you.' Sparrow glared at the memory of Ruvik, she wasn't sure what to make of Ruvik now that his secrets were exposed, mixed hypothesis muddled into her mind as to what other secrets Ruvik may be holding.
Ruvik suddenly turned around and threw some papers on the floor in rage, crinkles in his face emerged as he gritted his teeth, "This research is moving too slow and there are only 3 more people in that hospital filed under disassociate identity disorder, one of whom is Sparrow. If I were to link our brains together it would seem that her other half would obtain suicidal thoughts and kill her, effectively shutting the brain down… but what can I do to stop that?"
Sparrow's eyes widened at the discovery, 'You were trying to cure me? But what about the other subjects you killed? What were they for? What was your reason beh-' suddenly it clicked; the research, the common factors, the memories of Laura, why Ruvik took an interest in her. 'This research was to get rid of Wren, the other part of me and to make me sane, but why? Why did you take an interest in me?'
Suddenly the memory spurred into a cloud of dust that dissolved into the air until a white room in the distance became bigger and bigger until it engulfed her, efficiently teleporting her to a new room.
"This research is completely irrelevant to the STEM project, I simply don't understand why you are keeping it." a ghostly memory of Jimenez said as he paced behind a bandaged Ruvik who sat at the only desk in the room.
"I will continue to do the research my way or none at all- who are you to dictate what actions I take and don't take?" Ruvik replied, his back turned to Jimenez.
"This obsession you have with that patient is getting out of hand! The STEM project is at a halt because you are spending time with her!"
"You misunderstand my methods, so far subjects with dissociate identity order have been the only ones that have furthered my progress." Ruvik lied as he got up from his desk and walked up to Jimenez, because of his height he towered over the doctor and he couldn't help but feel intimidating and powerful over the older man, "But who are you to decide what my methods outcomes are? These test subjects are mine, to do with as I please and this girl is no different, simply an experiment that I do with as I please."
Marcelo found himself stepping back from the bandaged man, feeling threatened by his intimidating gaze.
'So I was just an experiment to you?' Sparrow thought as she watched Jimenez walk out of the room. 'But that doesn't explain why… why you treated me so kindly, why was I different to the other subjects?'
"Perhaps I can answer that" A gentle feminine voice echoed into the room, making Sparrow turn around and wonder who it was.
'Where are you?' Sparrow asked the voice, projecting her own thoughts into the room. A woman's giggle echoed back. She could hear the person breathe in her ear but when she turned around, no one was there, like a phantom eternally attached to your back. 'I can hear you breathing.'
The giggling continued until Sparrow turned around for the third time and came face to face with the very person who endured the pain she experienced.
"Hello Sparrow, it's great to finally meet you, I'm Laura Victoriano." She announced wearing a crimson red dress and long black hair as dark as midnight. Her skin was beautifully pale like porcelain and her eyes completed the work of art, she was truly beautiful.
'Laura? But …but you're-'
"Yes, I have passed away, however I still live on in Ruben's memory," her gentle voice spoke as she smiled sweetly. Sparrow wasn't sure whether to run away or stay, the only Laura she knew was a woman with 6 limbs and unbelievably long claws who chased her down a hallway.
"You have nothing to fear, I may not be Laura herself but I am the apparition coming from Ruben, that other monster of me is a combination of what Ruben thinks, a version of me that blames him for what happened to me."
'Do you blame him?' Sparrow wondered.
"I cannot say, as I said I am not Laura herself, just the image Ruben has engraved into his mind, a memory of what I used to be and what I used to look like."
Sparrow stared into the pale blue orbs that stared back at her, unsure of whether to trust this…apparition.
"I can however answer any question you think Ruben may know, I am only here to help," She smiled again, "Though, don't tell Ruben I told you anything." she said followed by an innocent giggle.
'Why has Ruvik started a project to cure me? Why am I so special?' Sparrow asked.
Before Laura replied she waved her hand and the scenery around them changed, turning into a bright and calming field of sunflowers, one Sparrow recognized. Laura breathed in and closed her eyes, enjoying the fresh flowery smell around her before walking up to Sparrow and gesturing for her to start walking forward with her through the infinite sunflower field.
"The project Ruben is working on is not just to cure you, the birth of the idea came from me." Laura answered while putting her hands behind her back, enjoying Sparrow's company. "Whilst Ruben worked alone, he craved to see me again. I was the only person who understood Ruben and the only woman he loved, he felt that everything was lost after the accident." Laura explained while turning to look at Sparrow, "He wanted to see me again and the only way he knew how to do that was to access the memory part of his mind. Unfortunately, over the years STEM became something much more sinister than it was initially intended to be."
'But why is he so…unusually gentle to me? After what I've seen it's like he's got dissociate identity disorder instead of me.' Sparrow commented and suddenly Laura's laughter filled her ears. It eventually died down once she was able to compose herself, giving a giggle before answering her.
"I'm going to be honest. When Ruben first saw you, your long black hair and bright eyes did remind him of me, we both have the same pale skin." Laura said, gently lifting Sparrow's arm and pulling back both their sleeves so that their skin touched. Like she said, their skin color nearly matched. "That's why Ruben took an interest to you in the first place, he was the one who stole your toy bear hoping for you to try and find it, although he didn't expect you to burst into his room in the middle of the night."
Sparrow listened carefully, feeling a sense of tranquility just from listening to Laura's voice. Now she understood why Ruvik was so fond of her. She was not only gifted with beauty, but her generous and kind personality dominated her looks and made her an image of an angel who suffered a terrible fate. If this was what Ruvik remembered Laura to be, then Sparrow could only imagine what she must have been like in the flesh.
"Over the years he couldn't help grow fond of you; he admired how you hung onto his every word, how you took in all of the information he gave. After that he was influenced to turn STEM into a machine that not only could bring me back, but could cure you."
Sparrow's steps halted and she stared off into space. Did that mean he deeply cared for her? And what did she feel? She was completely foreign to emotions and actions concerning love and feelings.
"But I must warn you, Ruben won't let you leave this place without him and the only way for him to leave is to find someone completely compatible with him- that person is Leslie."
'Leslie? No, won't let him!'
"And to do so you will need to obtain great power." Laura stated before fully turning towards Sparrow and putting her hands on her shoulders. "But you cannot allow that power to consume you. If you do you will become a haunted, a failed STEM subject and if you do obtain such power at the time you may do more harm to Leslie than protection." She warned, a serious but concerned tone dominated her gentle voice.
'I understand, I just need to get that power.' Sparrow replied, smiling.
Laura smiled back and stoked her hair lovingly before her form started to separate in yellow sunflower petals, drifting off into the wind and leaving Sparrow once again in a field of sunflowers much like what Ruvik created, brother and sister alike. Only this time Sparrow knew what she had to do.
'Thank you Laura.' She thought as a smile graced her face before gently closing her eyes and vanishing, leaving the field of sunflowers to move slowly against the gentle breeze.
Hey so like I said at the top I don't much free time anymore, ive been having...personal problems involving my family so don't expect more chapters anytime soon, I apologize to people who are engrossed in this story I promise I WILL finish it, just not anytime soon.
I hope you understand :) thanks for taking the time to read this story and I hope you like it.
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p.s. this idea has been in my head for a while, I wanted to draw Sparrow with another Oc from Evil Within, so I dunno, if anyone has an Oc and wants a drawing with Sparrow then lemme know :)
for obvious reasons I probably wont start it right away... and it might take a while to be completed, I just wanted something to do that's not writing but still to do with evil within so that my interests are not averted.
so yeah PM me if interested but don't get offended if I refuse you, ill only be doing one drawing.