Ruvik X Reader Chapter 7: You, my Beloved

Your (eyecolour) eyes adjusted to the light and you could see the landscape clearer. An astonished expression could be seen on your face, as you stood before the beautiful landscape full of sunflowers. Slowly you made your way through the delicate flowers. For some reason you felt like you should be very careful around them, to make sure they're not tainted with the blood on your body. Even though it seemed like the flowers were going away from you, so you wouldn't be tainted...
You smiled and relaxed, as your hands traced upon the flowers. You giggled 'They are so beautiful...' you thought.

As you went through the sunflowers, you didn't notice the pair of white-grayed eyes only focused on you. Ruvik was shaking, he couldn't help it. Standing in the sunflowers, in the place were his life was completely taken from him, brought horrible memories to him.
But looking at your smiling face and hearing you g laughing happily, made him relax and his pain at ease.

He needed you to go through everything he went. He needed you to listen. To understand. Ruvik knew that only (Name) could understand and not justify him. He wanted to know...how you'd react.

           To his real self.

In the middle of the sunflowers, was a big, lonely barn. Since tthere wasn't anything else outside, you opened the door, surprisingly, with ease.
Stepping inside, you drew your attention to two ghost silhouettes.
Or rather memory silhouettes.
There was Ruvik as a boy and the pretty girl with long black hair, who you saw on the family painting, earlier. It seemed like she was his sister.

You wwalked right towards them, standing next to the girl.
"Laura! Where are you?" Ruvik asked, as he looked around, oblivious to the teasing behavior of his sister Laura, who always hid behind him.
"I know you're in here. I can hear you breathing." Once again Ruvik asked, oblivious.
You chuckled. You'd have never thought, that Ruvik was so innocent and cute as a child. Giggling, Laura hid right behind you, taken you by surprise.
"Can they see me..?" You wondered.
Ruvik heard her giggle, turned around and smiled at the sight of his sister. He walked towards you with opening arms, smiling happily.
Not knowing what to do, you got out of the way, to see the siblings hugging each other lovingly.
Smiling at the adorable scene, you didn't notice the dark conversation some men had outside.

Ruvik and Laura were still playing and you stood there, watching the two playing. Suddenly an horrible stitch mmade its way into your nose, as the barn got warmer. Flames suddenly bursted into the barn, burning everything they touched.
You could see Laura pounding on the door, and Ruvik burning his flesh being exposed.
"Ruben!!" His sister shouted.

              'Ruben?'
       'That's his real name?'

While Laura tries to save her brother, the flames also devour her, burning her, exposing her bones and finally ending her screams.
There was still no exit and the air got thinner. Panic rises slowly in you.
The burned boy noticed the corpse of his beloved sister, kneels before her and...ttransforms.

All kinds od red bugs flew over to him, making him a huge, red silhouette.
Ruvik  picked up his dead, burned sister and screams in agony and pain.
His scream rings in your ears, never to e forgotten. Ruvik turns around, looking straight at you.
Right now he was faceless, but you could see every emotion he was expressing and it broke your heart.

      "They did this to us!!!"

 You bit your lip. You didn't know
 what to say to him. You responded,
 only in a whisper.

            "I'm sorry."

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A white ceiling and a smell of medicine greeted you, as you got up from the cclinic's bed.
'I'm back here...' you thought.
You opened the door and were about to go to the nurse, until...

     "Hey! Heeeeey! I know you're
    out there! Come to me! Damn it!"

"What? Who's there?" You asked.
Right next to your room, was another one. You couldn't open the door, so you knocked on the door. "Hello? Who..who's there?"
A hhigh-pitched laugh came through the door.  
     "H jajahaa~! Say, young lady~
    Do  you know why this world is
             like that?"

             "Well, I-"

      " Hate. Hate. Ruvik's hate.
      The man's consumed by it.
           Ruled by it."

He interrupted you. Rude.
The mysterious man continues.

      "He, he wants to get out!
          Get his revenge~!
      Heh, but with that cookie-
        kindly heart of yours,
      ya can't reeaaaly blame him
              can you?"

He said in a really sneaky tone and high-pitched some parts.

 "He wants those things back, 'they'
  took from him! This world exits, as
  long as he does~"
  "Hihige~ But wat'cha don't know~?
   He already got one back, one he
   believes he deserved for sooooo
   long~ Mhmhm~ Guess who~! Its-

"Have you found something interesting
 Miss (Surname)?" The nurse caught you
by surprise. You knocked on the door again, but got no answer.
'I have to find him...Ruvik..Ruben..'
You decided to find him and face him instead of his memories.
Going through the mirror-stuff, you found yourself in a basement.
"How's that supposed to lead me to Ruvik?" You wondered outloud.

Suddenly you heard heavy breathing. Like someone is right behind your ear, whispering nothings to you. The floor begins shacking. The lying corpses burst open, spitting blood all over.
A spider-like creature crawls out of them, looking straight at you. Their face is covered by long black hair and red burned lips.
As they noticed you, they suddenly start to haunt after you with an inhuman speed. You shoot them, bullet after bullet but they're almost immune to it.
"Shit. Shit. Shit." You reloaded your gun, as they sprinted towards you, their claws dangerously near you.

You've noticed that the spider lady comes out of the corpses, so you started to burn them with matches. Just as you were about to burn the last one, the spider lady came out of the one, taking you by shock. You threw the match at her, next to her was a pipe with a hole. With the gas coming out of the pipe and the match togheter, the creature burst into flames, devouring her, exposing her bones and making her screams greater.
That scream was so familiar to you...

You ran further and ended up at an elevator. A dead end.
Tripping, you fell in the corner of the elevator and couldn't reach any buttons to the upper floors. The spider creature was now right in front of you. She breathed heavily and looked at you. Now with an closer look, you could see that she had an almost human face, long black hair, red burned lips and dark eyes. That image reminded you of another face.
She crawled farther in your direction.
Ready to rip you apart.

               "Laura?"

That one question made her stop dead in her tracks. She started to shake, to tick and twist. You could her how she sobbed and whimpered. Laura held her head and started to sprint to the opposite direction, screaming in pain and despair.

You stood up, and said shaking
'N-no, wait! P-please wait.."
Her crying and despaired image was the last thing you saw, before the elevator fell with an incredible speed into darkness and vanishes with you.

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The bed was comfortable and warm. You breathed peacefully and felt at peace. You were fully awake, but you didn't move. It's not like you couldn't move, you were just tired.
Tired of everything.

Slowly but surely, you begun to hear an piano being played. Getting up, you followed the music. The more you got closer, the more you could recognize the melody.
The melody was Claire De lune and was played beautifully, which made you hope that it was Ruvik.
Now running, you finally came to the piano room.

There on the huge, black piano sat Ruvik and continued playing his song, as if he didn't notice you, but you knew better.

'Ruvik..'. You stepped further into the room, behind him.
"I've got a lot of questions." You began, confidence in your voice. You needed answers and he had them all.

"Were you the one who carried me to    these safe church ruins back then?"

Ruvik didn't stop playing his piano.

"Perhaps? You did seem to survive those parts very well, though."

              He was.

"Why did you show me all this? Your memories, your whole life to me? "

He paused. After a while he said:

"To make you understand. I know that, from all the others here, that you're the only on who listens. You know that as much as I do, (Name).
And now...you finally understand."
He paused again.
"I need you here (Name)."

You stopped. Ruvik, as always, took you by surprise. But yet...

"Is that why I'm here? Right now beside you? I know what you've been through. But Sebastian and the others got nothing to do with all that.
Why do you keep me here? Why is-"

Now Ruvik slammed his hands at the piano, now completely angry. You were sure you upset him now.
He got up, turned around and made his way towards you, taking haunting steps.
You backed away.

"Do you think I would just let you go? After I have seen your kindess? Your concern for others? The calming and relaxing reassurance you give to me?
Oh, you don't know what they took of me. Everything that's left of me is an shell full of hatred for the world that betrayed me."

You stood with the back to the wall with Ruvik only an inch away from your face. His warm breath hit your face,as he looked dead into your eyes and you couldn't help but stare back.

"And you... fill that shell with peace. You ease my pain and hatred until it finally vanishes into nothingness. It calms me seeing you and your smile.
You'd think I'd just let that one person leave? The person who loves me, just the way I am? On how broken I am?"

Ruvik chuckled at your reaction. Your stunned and astonished face at his...
confession was most amusing to him.
He raised his hand to your face and tuck your hair behind your ear lovingly. He also smiled genuinely and was way more relaxed that usual.

"Oh,how naive you can sometimes be, (Name)..."

"Ruben.." you began, but he cut you of with a glare.

"Don't call me that." He commanded.
" I am Ruvik."

"Ruvik.." you began a little nervously.

"I understand. And I'm so sorry for what happened to you. No one deserved that hell. Especially not you. I'm sorry."
"But I can't stay with you. I need to get to Sebastian, Joseph, Kidman, Jimenez and Leslie. We all can't stay here in your mind, neither die here.
I want to help you. But I just can't stay."

Ruvik looked at you thoughtful. It seemed like he wanted to say something, but decided not to.
He then started to grin mischievously.
He took a lot of steps back, so you could finally have space.

"Very well. We'll make a deal."
"A deal?"
"Exactly. If you find all of your little friends, before I find you, you can all leave. But for that you shouldn't run into me."

You slightly glared at him.
"...What if I lose? What then?"

"If I find you and caught you, then you're mine. You belong to me and only me. I won't let you leave me and your always going to stay by my side. I'll do anything for that."

There wasn't any other choice. He could keep you right now, if you didn't agree with that deal.
"Alright. I agree with the deal."

Ruvik smiled victories. He was confident he'd win. This was his world after all. And soon it'll be your world too.
He gave you a start. You ran and tried to find an way out of his mansion. All the while, Ruvik was unusually happy.

"Don't worry. It'll be over soon. I am the only one who deserves you, my beloved.