The Trickster x Eddie Gluskin

Author: Dawid

The hum of fluorescent lamps, periodically interrupted by the sound of rain water dripping down on the floors of Mount Massive Asylum from its leaky ceiling all accompanied by The trickter’s heavy breathing and gasping for air while trying to escape a man known to him only as The groom. He has just managed to escape from his captor’s grasp, adorned in a ragged and bloody wedding dress, reduced to a limp he can think of nothing but a way to escape this hell. His ankle had been impaled by a piece of rumble before The groom had tried to make him into his bride by castrating him, now his leg was mangled even further by his fall out of a high window. He hopes to find safety in the gymnasium but is instead met with dozens of hanging, castrated corpses. He’s not going to become one of them, he won’t allow it. The trickster desperately searches for the exit key in the male ward, haunted by the vision of the mutilated cadavers in the gymnasium and finds a room made out to look like a wedding. The irony of him in a white wedding dress standing in a space meant to celebrate the everlasting love of two halves joined together as one with the knowledge that he’s merely prey to his groom dawns on him. Before he can search the room he hears the door open behind him, even with his back facing the entrance he knows perfectly well who’s standing behind him, and then – darkness. Eddie Gluskin was the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes again, realizing the man must’ve knocked him out he frantically tries to get away from him before setting his eyes upon his tied up hands, holding a bouqet of white flowers. Perhaps in an expression of defeat The trickster looks up at the man crouched beside him, he could feel rope around his ankles as well, there was no getting out of this, no one was coming to save him this time. The pair was sitting infront of the altar in the wedding room, it reminded The trickster of his wedding to his wife many years ago, except now he was sitting where the bride would’ve stood. Eddie looked at him expressionlessly before grazing his cheek with his hand and newfound empathy, maybe even love in his eyes. A single tear escaped the Tricksters eye, following which Eddie took his face in his hands and kissed him tenderly. After a moment of shock the bride’s eyes relaxed and his muscles loosened, he thought to himself, maybe this isn’t that bad.