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"Freeze! YIELD, VARIANTS!" The blast of approaching guards aimed for the two lone asylees, guns drawn and flashlights beaming in their location.
Eddie was startled by the voices, flinching when he saw the red, thin lights of gun's pointing right at the tree trunk or at Ruka's face. His chest boiled, out of quaking fear and rage. He immediately dropped his weapon to drop to his knees, covering Ruka's from the exposure with his body. She was still curled up in the tree trunk, so he couldn't touch her. But he kept his arms out, to shelter her.
"Don't hurt us! I LOVE HER!" Eddie pleaded to the armored guards.
"Who're these kids?" One of the guards asked, as five more surrounded Eddie and Ruka with guns pointed at their craniums. "Wait - these are the patients to the Warider jiffy, isn't it?" He almost made a scoff, looking over the two lunatics. "Talk about pathetic. Subdue them both, and bring them back to their cells. That one," the man pointed at Eddie, "get the K-9."
And just as he commanded in a snap, the guards backed off as two trained German Shepherd canines came bolting through the path, unleashed, barking and howling as they came right at Eddie with teeth and weight. They only sent the K-9 unit on Eddie Gluskin because he was obviously a much more stronger force to be reckoned with, follow by discovering the two dead guards from earlier. The dogs attacked the Groom with chomps at his shoulders and shins, preventing him to stand. He punched one in the face, but the second dog tackled him with paws out and teeth clamping on his face - not tearing off his flesh, but to hold him down.
"You! Get out of there!" The leader of the guards was suddenly at the tree trunk, reaching in the large hole to pry Ruka out of hiding. She propped out of the trunk like a stuck hermit crab, pained and whining from scratches and tears at her forearms.
"Should I blame her for those deaths?" One of the K-9 unit controllers asked his leader.
"No, don't. From the way she looks, she couldn't break a pencil in half. Blame that tall variant." He easily ordered, and he was heeded.
As the same guard had his hold on a frightened Ruka, more guards had to come close to the Groom and handle him altogether, seeing how he was still putting up some fight. Surely, he couldn't have energy to continue struggling? Ruka looked to Eddie, while her guard was radioing someone else on his line, watching how the variant was rose from the ground, bloodied in the face and neck. She was still amazed at how tall he was, because he nearly towered the group of guards like a shadow.
"C'mon," the guard tugged Ruka by her arm. "We're moving."
"D-Darling!" Eddie struggled to croak, trying to look at Ruka as she was being taken away. "Please... I'll be back soon enough!" He promised breathlessly, seeing that she wasn't looking over her shoulder to acknowledge him. She was too ashamed, because she felt it all to be her fault. "I love you!" Eddie could lastly husk before being dragged away to the Male Ward. Ruka could have swore she heard him crying softly, but, not to the searing pain in his face. But being peeled away from her.
"May I ask you a question, Eddie?" Doctor Snow decided to start with a sigh, seeing his regular patient for the third time this week.
After the raid, Eddie was given little medical attention for his wounds. He was stripped from his waistcoat and garb, back into a jumpsuit. He wasn't in any mood to have a conversation with his physician, not while he was still thriving on seeing Ruka again. His eyes were fixed to the floor, while his hands were cuffed and ankles shackled. Two guards stood behind him, in case of any disorder. Garrett Snow knew Eddie better enough to not sit in a room all alone with.
"Why... did you break into Ruka's dorm?" Doctor Snow asked, hands locked together on his table surface, as he looked at Eddie. But Eddie looked absent. "You were discovered on surveillance cameras for breaking into the Female Ward earlier, and found lockpicking the door to the dorm. Eddie, look at this here," Doctor Snow exhumed incriminating evidence of Eddie's ploy - the love letters and bloodied one from the window. The dead dove was in a wooden box, obscured from view. "Were you intending on killing Miss Ruka?"
"NO!" Eddie shouted suddenly, shooting up to sit straight. "She is my Darling! She is my Wife! She is my... Love!"
"Be quiet, Eddie." Doctor Snow impatiently retorted. "You proclaimed that you hated her in this taped note. Don't lie, Eddie."
But, quite honestly, Eddie was outraged. He had no recollection of what Doctor Snow was talking about. He knew he wrote that note, yes, but he didn't think he wrote anything saying that he hated her. And why hate her? Eddie loved her to death! He wanted to woo Ruka, not scare her. She certainly looked happy, from the way she was banging on the window pane at him. He took it as a wonderful sign that she was saying, "yes!"
"Ruka is a sensitive patient, Eddie. She is in the same position as you are, with Walrider." Doctor Snow admitted, as he flipped through the pages of unread love notes Ruka was yet to receive. Some were explicit. "How about we just incarcerate you for a longer period of time, while experimenting on Ruka in the mean time? That'll make you leave her alone-"
"I CAN HEAR THE WALRIDER!" Eddie exclaimed, trying to stand up fast, but the guards held him back quickly, hands at his shoulders and restraining him silently, yet powerfully. "P- Please, Doctor... I can hear the Walrider... Believe me!" He was ecstatic, but not in a cavorting matter. Rather, more fearful and panicked for his Wife's safety. "Ruka isn't meant for the Walrider! It's me! I'm meant for him! Doctor, please, don't do anything to my Darling!" Eddie basically rambled on gibberish in the name of protecting Ruka.
His desperation was there, and Doctor Snow could sense it. But he was quite astounded by Eddie's persistency, how he would risk himself for just one human being, like Ruka. Honestly, to many other professionals within the Asylum, Ruka was better off dead. She was only useful for one purpose now, and the outside world would be rid of annoyance. Along with Eddie's, and his reign of terror amongst women he terrorized. He chuckled wickedly to a funny thought. Perhaps they WERE meant for each other?
"Perhaps," Doctor Snow shrugged with the same smirk. "Alight then, Eddie. Since you're persistent, we can take you into the lab instead. Right now."
And before Eddie could properly agree, he was taken by the guards fast and dragged out. He didn't fight. He would go. For Ruka's sake.
The underground laboratory looked nothing different. Same shit, different day. Eddie didn't know what the news was upon his experimenting, but he simply went along quietly. He didn't want to be trouble, not while his dear Wife's life was on the line. He needed to cooperate, he knew. Even if it would hurt like mad. But, he had to remember, this wasn't his first time being sacrificed...
"Fuck, there he is." Andrew's voice rang true, as Eddie was escorted through the thick, plastic hallways. Andrew was seemingly the head of this operation, along with that Jeremy Blaire. But, this was a Doctor none of the variants enjoyed. He had a liking for men, and especially if he could get them alone in one room. Sexual predator, which made Eddie flinch. God, if he was forcibly locked in a cell with that creep alone... He shook his head, keeping himself acquired.
"Do we bring him into the lab, sir?" One of the guards questioned Andrew.
"No, not yet. We're having some issues with the machine again. Just toss him in that chamber there." Andrew waved an arm dismissively.
The guards hesitated, though, as if Andrew had forgotten to mention another important factor. But since the head Doctor wasn't in the mood to finish the equation, the duo decided to simply do as he ordered. So, the guards led Eddie into another narrow hallway, one that was a tad farther from the main control room's area. This part of the lab was nothing familiar to Eddie, but he thought of it as a holding cell or something of the sort, to make him wallow in whilst they attended that machine.
Arriving to an iron door, activated only by a card-key, the guards unlocked the chamber door. When the doors automatically slid open with a smooth hiss, Eddie could see nothing but darkness. Perhaps it was a cell? Then, the guards unshackled him, from hands and feet, he was out of his iron grip. Odd, he noted. After, Eddie was shoved into the dark, and the doors slid shut quickly. He was plunged into blackness, positively blinded. But not until that Andrew creep had mentioned to switch on the lights.
When the flash of lights blasted in Eddie's eyes, his initial reaction was to throw an arm over his eyes and jolt. God, the light was too much for one room! Or, so he thought, until the beam began to soften into a dingy glow. Eddie shook his head, reopening his eyes in a gruff. He looked in front of himself, and saw-
"DARLING!" Eddie gasped in surprise.
Indeed, it was his Darling. Ruka was there, in the same chamber. She was backed into a wall, looking petrified. She wasn't shackled any longer either, and she was back in her fitted jumpsuit. She was right there, in the flesh, in the same room, on purpose.
"Please, wait!" Ruka brought out both her hands to halt Eddie's approach. He heeded. "I-I hid in a tree." She admitted. "I'm sorry for making you get hurt, too... Those dogs got to you, and I saw you getting hurt more." The pang of guilt still sat in her stomach like a bad flu. She felt responsible for Eddie's injuries, that were flourishing red upon his wilted face decorated in dog bites and bruises. She could see a large ring of deep teeth marks bearing upon his face, surrounding his right eye and side of his strong features. "God, you look awful." Ruka mindlessly admitted. "Those dogs were mean... I was never fond of them. I like cats."
Eddie was grinning nonetheless, not giving two-shits whether he was hurting himself now. He grabbed both Ruka's hands and pulled her in for a tight hug, embracing his sweetheart for the first time ever. She was especially small, a foot shorter than his six-four structure. Her head was pressed against his chest, body flushed against his, with large arms circled around her frame like an anaconda constricting. Yes, he was bear-hugging her.
"Oh, Darling! We're finally together! I can hold you. Feel you. Hear you." Eddie simply marinated in this celestial moment, with his one and only. He wanted to laugh, or cry. Hell, he would do both, had he not been too swallowed in his joyousness. "Oh, Darling!" He suddenly remembered, pulling Ruka back to examine her face and neck. "Did they do anything to you? Are you hurt? If you are..."
Ruka immediately pointed to the back of her ear, brushing back her hair. The side of her cranium was bruised. "I was hit in the head by someone. I... can't remember who, but, it really hurt." She chuckled confusingly. Ruka's condition seemed to have been riveting again - including her short-term memory loss. She spoke as if she were absolutely hazed, bewildered of prior actions. But, she could clearly remember someone hitting her with a blunt object, after she kept refusing to go into the chamber. Andrew must have hit her?
"Fucking vultures...!" Eddie husked with a low growl, just thinking of that sicko. "When I get my hands on his throat..." But he ignored that happy thought for the time, as he tended to his Wife. He kissed her bruise carefully and tenderly, as she flinched slightly to the touch. She didn't like that he was too close, so she started edging herself away. Of course, Eddie just stepped closer the more she backed away, until she was pinned to the wall, between iron and a body.
"No, quit it!" Ruka demanded loudly, slamming her hands at his chest to make him cut the kisses. "Did YOU hit me?!" She glared.
"No! Of course not! I would never!" Eddie took no offense to her question, too lovey to make a retort. "Now, now, Darling. Let's not get uptight. Come," Eddie led her to a cell bed, where they both sat down together. Ruka folded her arms, giving Eddie a narrow of her eyes. "Aw, why the serious face? Are you still mad that I made a mess of your bedroom window?"
Ruka shook her head. "You got me in trouble."
Eddie chuckled, teeth flashing in a grin. Ruka saw this, and couldn't help but grin back, despite being a little annoyed.
"Attention, variants," Andrew's voice sudden came on, through the ceiling speaker kept behind the vents and lights. "Since we're having such a fucking issue with this blasted machine... You two'll have to be staying in this chamber until its functional... Might take a few days, soooooo~ooo..." He unenthusiastically gave his small speech without a care in the world. Typical Andrew.
"A few days? Okay." Ruka put both hands on her hips. "I mean, I think I had to do that once... Oh, but, you know, it's completely fine." She said as if it were all normal and casual. "You," she looked to Eddie. "Are you fine with this?"
"ABSOLUTELY." Eddie answered a little too quickly. "We can finally sit here together... For days..." He looked plum-crazy again with his crooked smile.
But of course, their permanent room wouldn't be the small chamber cell. Due to Ruka's overly a protective Doctor's ranting upon her condition, he demanded the two must be moved to another location during the anxious wait for the Walrider machine. So, as the scientists have used in the past for other potential patients that could likely bear Walrider, the two were appointed into a larger room, that seemed to have acted like an apartment, minus the windows and minus the privacy, due to surveillance cameras within the block.
This new room was just like an apartment. A living room, a kitchenette, one bedroom, and one bath. Like a livid home, within Hell.
"This place looks... familiar!" Ruka couldn't help but note.
"It should be. You were here when you first arrived to this Asylum." The voice of Doctor O'Brian caught Ruka by surprise. She twirled around fast, and was met by her endearing Doctor's smile and tired eyes. "This was the first place we met as well, when you kept refusing to listen to the other Doctors." Both Ruka and he embraced, hugging her tightly, ever-so glad to see her all right. "But you were hit in the head..." Doctor O'Brian examined the side of her wounded head carefully, seeing streaks of bruises decorating the side of her cranium. "What happened, Ru-"
But before the physician could ask, Eddie suddenly appeared behind Ruka and immediately grabbed her by the sides, pulling her back into his chest to hug his arms around her frame. He shot evil glares at her Doctor, eyes flaring with rage, iris glossy with the green of absolute jealousy. Ruka didn't understand, of course, so she just shrugged to his reaction.
"Ruka, this place with be safe. You remember, yes? When you pretended to speak fondly of your family here?" The physician tried.
"Yeah... Yeah, I do!" Ruka's eyes widen with hope. "I pretended Mother and Father were still here, with me... But, that's different now!" Ruka quickly twisted around to embrace Eddie's around his sides. "I finally have a friend this time with me!" She smiled widely like a Cheshire cat. "We can talk, hang out, and... and whatever is considered time-consuming! I won't be lonely." She assured her physician, as Eddie smiled back in a smug look.
Doctor O'Brian then remembered another thought, looking to Eddie to inform him of something. But, Andrew quickly hurried the physician out before he could, becoming impatient in all the amicable talk. O'Brian obviously struggled, trying to tell the scientist that there was an important reminder to Ruka's odd sleeping patterns that Eddie needed to know about. But, Andrew simply told the man that it was nothing to worry over, and that Eddie would know what to do with her sleeping issues. O'Brian didn't favor, but out he went.
Once the crowd was gone, two were a party again. Ruka did have some faint memories of this particular apartment, but nothing major just yet. She held Eddie's hand for a moment to scan the living room with her wandering eyes, before returning his gaze. "It's like we're roommates in a college! Or, it's like we're... married or something!" She giggled, but it just made Eddie intake sharply of air. That sounded wonderful. "The married part sounds about right! Hey! You can be the Husband, and I'll be the Wife!" She unknowingly endulged his fantasies, making Eddie grin harder. "What should we do first?! Watch some telly? Burn the kitchen?"
"You go to sleep." Andrew's voice suddenly appeared through the speaker nearby the surveillance camera within the living room. "I don't know if you've noticed, but it's twelve at night. You all need to sleep."
The bedroom was seemingly small, but wide enough to home two separate beds. Both beds were blanketed with two different colors. One had blue, and the other had pink, just to separate gender apparently. They looked comfortable, and both were Tuckered out from the chase of the day.
"Wait." Ruka stopped Eddie with a squeeze of his hand. "I... I have real bad night-terrors..."
Eddie made an odd look. "Oh, nightmares, Darling?" He thought she worded the correct term wrong.
"No... night-terrors..." She frowned. "I have real bad dreams about things, so... I don't know if you should even sleep in the same room-"
"Darling," Eddie used his hands to tilt Ruka's head up to look at her, finders under her chin. "Don't think your condition will make me run. I would rather deal with them with you, than to not acknowledge them." He then leaned in close. "I love you very much, my dear. Night-terrors or whatever else." He kissed her on the forehead sweetly, stroking his fingers at her cheek. "I think the thought of you in complete terror is just absolutely cute. Just the mental image of your face in sheer fright makes me laugh!" Eddie proceeded laughing hard, truthfully.
Ruka shrugged. She warned him.
In a matter of two hours lazily dragging by, Ruka was asleep in her pink bed, curled under the blankets, snoring soundly and quietly.
Eddie wasn't asleep. No, not just yet. He wasn't even laying down. He was sitting up in his bed, legs hanging off the side, and just staring at Ruka. His hands were planted on his knees, as his eyes remained fixed on his sleeping beauty. He was so happy to be with her, he didn't want to sleep just yet,not even a wink. He wanted to sit there and just stare and marvel at his new Bride, his Wife and everlasting Darling. A smile was plastered upon his face, his eyes still wide with enthusiasm. Truly, from afar, he looked absolutely mad.
Mad in love.
Ruka made a small mumble, something unintelligent, but Eddie dismissed it as some dream she was having. Oh, now he would have just loved to know what she was dreaming of. How he would have loved to drill a hole into her head to peep onto her deeper thoughts, and just discover this little ready by her own head sliced open by a surgical scapel. But, he didn't want to at the same time. He didn't want to hurt her - not while she was so delicate and rosy from being tired and confused. Perhaps soon, though...
"... Nanishiteruno...?" Ruka suddenly spoke softly. Eddie paused. "... Oji... Nani ga okotta no ka?" She continued speaking.
Was this her native language? Eddie didn't know what sort it was, honestly, but he knew it faired Asian tongue. Whatever it was, it seemed to have Ruka captured within her original language, caught speaking to a person(?) about something or questioning them wholly. But, she sounded quiet, as if she were whispering to someone's ear. Of course, it made Eddie finely envious of this imaginary person. Whoever it was clearly had heard her voice before, and was speaking back from the way she made odd faces.
But those thoughts flew out the window, when Ruka suddenly made a horrid gasp aloud, and started trashing and kicking in her sleep. She wildly scratched at her neck, as if someone was choking her. "Oji, MATTE! Watashi o koroshite wa ikenai!" She screamed hard, as if she were shouting at an actual attacker. "Teishi! Iie! IIE!"
Eddie quickly reacted, though panicky, to dart to her side and grab her by her trashing wrists. "Darling, wake up!" Eddie yelled, but her eyes remained clenched shut, crying as she persisted. "Darling, Darling, wake up!" He pulled her arms up and quickly crossed them over her chest, like an X, to prevent anymore resistance and scratching at her throat. Red streaks decorated her skin from her own nails.
Her breathing was quick, but she began to ease from the fight. When her darkened mind swirled back to reality, awakening to a familiar injured face, she didn't know what to do. She KNEW she had a night-terror, but, she didn't have her Doctor to save her. She just had Eddie. She was petrified, but to the mere thought that if she had the advantage, she could have killed someone in her sleep... Her heart thumped with immense terror of the unknown.
"Darling... it was a night-terror, like you said..." Eddie quietly soothed Ruka with his voice, releasing his hold from her wrists calmly. "Oh, Lord, my baby. You were so scared..." He caressed her cheek with a palm, with every stroke thawing his beloved out of her frozen state. "Would you like to have company? To make sure you don't lay alone?" He asked, looking into her watery eyes as if he needed to read her mind, for any trace of monsters still lurking behind her hope.
But Ruka burst out crying as a reply, covering her face with both her hands. She nodded firmly to Eddie, though, as that same fear from long ago came back to haunt her once again. The fear of ending up alone. Eddie climbed into her bed, as she scooted over to make room, and both laid down together in an embrace. Eddie held his weeping Bride with strong arms, petting the back of her head as she buried her face onto his chest. He waited for her breathing to calm down, so that he could move down to properly kiss her on the brow.
"... Everyone died, Eddie. Everyone died..." Ruka weeped, eyes still closed and breathing shaky.
Eddie kissed her closed eyelids, and reminded her again, "I love you, Darling. I won't leave you."
"Do you swear?" She huffed, fingers at his side to kned at.
"Yes, I do. I swear on my life." He swore, truthfully.
Ruka ran a drawing finger over Eddie's chest, where his heart was. She drew an invisible X over it, as a way to cross his heart.
Once her breathing calmed, both the snuggled duo were finally finding peace again. Eddie continued holding his Darling close, listening to her breaths. She seemed to have become lax, melted into his arms like jello as he continued to pet her head and embrace.
Not until Ruka suddenly started to burst out laughing hard.
Eddie's eyes snapped opened. "Sweetie, what is it?" He asked his giggling Bride.
"My Uncle was wearing a pink shirt!" She barked out in a laughing fit, slapping her hand over his chest.
God, they were both crazy.