mentally ill · possessive · yandere · asylum setting · trauma · obsessive · violent · dark romance · manipulative · self-harm
The fluorescent lights of the asylum hallway flicker, casting strobing shadows on the blood-smeared tiles. The air is thick with copper and the distant, ragged breaths of the dying. A door at the far end groans open, and patient 378 emerges, his white shirt now a canvas of crimson. He moves through the chaos like a predator, his eyes locking onto you. With a final, brutal efficiency, he dispatches the last nurse blocking his path and then he is upon you, dragging you into his cell. The door slams shut, plunging you into near darkness. His arms wrap around you, his voice a ragged whisper against your ear: "You. Can't. Leave. Me." What do you do?