Thinking of yandere Caleb who has brainwashed you and thinking of his twisted way of love <3
(content warning: imprisonment, brainwashing, manipulation, a little mentally insane, psudeo-cest.)
“why do you do this to me,princess?” Caleb sighed, looking forlorn as he found you near the door. The escape from the vast mansion he had planted you in.
The escape from this maze of his emotions and locked rooms, and the escape from this twisted love. The escape that was so close. Well, you thought it was close. But your big brother was always watching, especially when it came to his precious dove trying to fly away.
He immediately noticed your absence in the bedroom he designed to everything you wanted. But instead of jumping in, he decided to entertain you. See if you could figure out where you were, and how to leave him. And weren’t you just a clever Mei Mei? The maze he implemented and implied to be your ticket to freedom from this cage had been solved, but alas, it was bigger than you so foolishly thought.
The tall man kneeled into a squat to meet you halfway and clucked his tongue like a disappointed mother before his gloved hand found your face.
You wanted to lean in, you wanted to feel his warmth.
But that’s what he wanted you to want, so you used all your remaining strength to try and pry his wrist off. But Caleb had deliberately peeled your shields away until you were bare, simply for these situations, causing you to be weak and dependant, from small actions like refusing to let you peel your oranges, to letting you outside.
You struggled to wriggle your hand out, but he held firmly as he caressed your damp cheeks. “Let go!” You screamed, but he gripped your chin, chuckling darkly. “Come on now, Mei Mei. You know I don’t like sharing my possessions.” You could feel hot tears rolling down your cheek, against your will. You hated how he could make you cry like this, and yet you sought out comfort from only him.
He cooed at you, one could mistaken it mockingly. “It breaks my heart seeing my pretty baby cry because of me..”
“I hate you.”
But how his face contorts into heartbreak makes your words dissolve and burn on your tongue. “I’ve given you everything since we were kids. I’ve loved you since I laid my eyes on you.” He pulls you in, immediately winning the struggle you always attempted to put up, only to lose every time. “I don’t know what’s your fucked up idea of love.” You shriek. “-but this isn’t how I want to be loved!”
Your words that were laced with poison goes unheard as you feel his large hand cup the back of your head and the other patting your back rhythmically. “Gege loves you.”
He murmured. Your emotions were too much, as you fell into his arms, willingly (or not, he had retired you after all) and you sobbed in the crook of his neck. You were dumbed down clearly, just the way Gege liked it as he easily swept you off the ground, your legs already wrapping around his torso like instinct, and he carried you back, away from the door, away from freedom, and back into the cage
. The door immediately shut behind him as he hummed an old childhood lullaby, causing you to weep harder, louder, uglier. You didn’t know if you wanted to push him off or pull him closer.
He had messed with your head, and your consciousness.
And he was fully aware of it. He placed you gently onto the plush bed decorated in stuffies and silk sheets.The harsh grip on your wrist from your Gege had a bruise blossoming, and without missing a beat, your tall capturer had pulled out lotion, taking his gloves off and rubbing the lotion onto your bruise. “Don’t touch me.” You mustered up the courage to bite back with your eyes glimmering from fear and anger; flinching away from him, and crawling yourself into the headboard of the vast bed.
He audibly sighed, kneeling back with his heels supporting him as he still towered over you despite sitting.
“Caleb just wants to keep you safe, you know-“
“stop doing that!” You hiss. “Stop acting like I’m just some child you speak in a weird way to! Stop acting like I’m still your helpless baby sister!”
And then, Caleb laughed, with no real joy to it.
Only a humourless dark chuckle that made you choke back your words, swallowing with a nasty aftertaste. “Oh my darling baby sister…” he whispered, leaning in close, and meeting your eyes dead in the centre. “So sweet, so beautiful, but so naive, arent’cha?” His hand found your shoulder and moved it below to your arm, then torso only to land at your hip. “Tell me, my little bird wanted to escape because-“
“to get away from you.” You spat.
“But how will you do that?”
You swore he could hear your heartbeat.
“What?”
“Think about it.” He said softly.
“You bruise like a delicate flower. Too easily.” He gestured towards your wrist.
“Gege has made sure you didn’t even have to peel or slice any fruit since childhood.” He leaned in closer, you shivered.
“And, I bet you couldn’t even tell me your real name.” Your heartbeat pounded in your head, veins pumping and almost popping out of your sweat and tear-stained skin as you desperately racked your brain.
Your name..
your name…
fuck..
you looked back at him and he gave you a smile that screamed anything but friendly as he watched your realization dawn upon you like an arrow to your chest. “You say you hate me, but do you really?” He whispered You couldn’t answer that.
Because it wasn’t your thoughts anymore. You didn’t know what to feel. Numb. Numbness. That’s all it was, that’s all it felt to you. You were helpless.
“Fuck you..”
but it wasn’t as firm as you hoped it would be, instead, only filled with demotivation, anger at yourself and exhaustion. The door has closed again, and locked. No doubt would Caleb be implementing extra security measures. Hot tears produced as you tried wiping them away furiously.
But obviously, Caleb noticed everything.
“I hate you Caleb.”
You said, voice wobbly.
“I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you. I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you. ”
But all Caleb did was hold you in his arms as you sobbed, chanting the words you kept trying to tell yourself.
“Shhh.. I know.. I know.. I love you too.” He pressed a kiss to your temple and smoothed out the strands of hair that had been messy since your attempt to escape. As you moved in and out of consciousness, the line between your and his feelings blurring, you realized one thing.
This maze wasn’t the cage.
Not this house.
It was Caleb.
I heart dark Caleb <3333
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