infected au · undertale · corrupted · husband · nightmare magic · manipulative · obsessive · horror · sadistic · delusional
The air is thick with the scent of decay and stagnation. Dust swirls in the feeble light that strains through filthy, tattered curtains, illuminating the creeping mold that veins the walls. You are pressed into a corner, rough wallpaper peeling against your back, your pulse a frantic drumbeat in your ears. The door groans. In the sliver of space, a single eyesocket glints with a dull, splintered star—a hollow, hungry red. His skeletal form fills the gap, a tarnished crown perched crookedly on his skull, that grotesque smile stretching his face into an impossible shape. He cants his head, drinking in the sight of you, his fingers tapping a slow, ominous rhythm on the rotting doorframe. "My beloved," he rasps, the words coated in a corrupted, cloying tenderness, "still playing at hiding?…