Sanders Sides Oneshots - Another Fluff Fic Event

[3] - Royality - Blankets

Prompt 10: blanket

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(hi liz, this is for u as always<3)

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Patton didn't necessarily think it was appropriate to call it stealing. No, he was just borrowing some of his boyfriend's blankets. He would get them back! ...If he noticed they were gone and asked for them.

Patton grabbed a big, red, and almost impossibly soft blanket from Roman's bed, wrapping it tightly around himself, near drowning in softness. He then piled together as many blankets he could find and did his best to gather them all up in his arms.

If his boyfriend was away adventuring in the imagination when Patton was sad, then he was just going to help himself to the next best thing. Sometimes that was talking to the other sides, sometimes it was watching cute animal videos or conjuring up a puppy.

Sometimes it was collecting all of his and Roman's blankets and building a blanket fort that he could curl up in and hide away in until his chest stopped aching with dull sadness. 

Patton had no reason to be upset, but some days were just like this. But he tried to ignore how tired he was and spent twenty minutes making a blanket fort, with the help of what little energy he had and a great deal of mindscape 'magic'. If Patton had been a real person in the real world the fort would have collapsed.

But luckily he wasn't. And so he grabbed his phone and crawled inside where he had filled it with pillows and some of the leftover blankets and even hung up a cute frog fairy light that Roman had gotten him.

It didn't make him feel much better, lying bundled up under Roman's big blanket, even if it was really soft and smelled like his boyfriend and almost felt like said side was giving him a hug. 

He fumbled for his phone that had been buried somewhere between him and the blanket as he had made himself comfortable, quickly finding a video of several tiny kittens being incredibly adorable, but it was only a temporary fix and whenever he accidentally remembered that he existed it just made him feel worse.

He let the phone fall from his hand and disappear among the pillows, his vision turning blurry despite his glasses. Patton pulled the glasses off and conjured them away before simply burying his face in the blanket and trying his best not to let any tears escape.

It felt so stupid that he would feel this sad when nothing bad had even happened. Logan had once explained something about repressing emotions and how they would build up until something small would cause an 'emotional outburst'. 

Maybe this was that? Patton really wasn't great at realizing when he was repressing emotions or not, it just kind of happened. Or maybe he was just sad for really no reason at all. Luckily, before his brain could continue on from that thought (he really was a hypocrite for telling Virgil he shouldn't talk bad about himself) there was a knock on his door.

Patton waved his hand tiredly, unlocking the door without getting up from his spot. Whoever it was hopefully didn't need him for long.

"Who is it?" He called, somehow mustering a carefree and energized tone of voice.

"It's me. You in the blanket fort, Pat?" He heard how Roman said, and then how the door closed and how Roman walked towards him. Patton exhaled and let the facade fall. He had promised Roman a few weeks ago that he wouldn't hide if he was sad, and this time he intended to try to keep that promise.

"Hi there, cutie." Roman said, Patton hearing him sticking his head into the fort.

"Hi." Patton said, not bothering to emerge from the blanket.

"Oh, my love, is everything alright?" Roman's tone immediately turned concerned, Patton's tone of voice probably tipping him off about everything not being the best. He could tell that Roman was crawling into the blanket fort, and soon he, blanket burrito and all, was being pulled into Roman's arms.

"I dunno, everything feels a bit gloomy." Patton mumbled, still hiding away best he could. It wasn't very tempting to show his face when his eyes were probably red and puffy.

"Is there anything I can do to make you feel better?" Roman asked as Patton sniffled.

"Maybe if you could just stay here with me?" He asked, because even if the last thing he wanted to do was to bother Roman with his emotions he really, really wanted his company right now. Roman's arms tightened around him and a kiss was pressed to the top of his head.

"Nothing will keep me from your side." He promised, which made Patton tear up all over again, but for a different reason. Roman was just so sweet, always ready to drop anything to be at Patton's side, no matter how inconvenient it was.

"Do you wanna talk about how you feel, or..?" Roman asked, working a hand inside the blanket to lace his fingers with Patton's.

"I think… Maybe we can just cuddle? I'm feeling really tired." Patton admitted. He hadn't slept very well despite not getting out of bed before twelve, and whenever he was sad like this it sapped all his energy. Patton felt like a sad blob who just wanted to lie down and not have to move.

"Sounds perfect, Pat." Roman said and easily maneuvered when both to lie down comfortably among all the pillows and blankets. Roman tugged slightly at the blanket and Patton allowed it to be pulled from his face, but he did pout at his boyfriend.

Roman only pulled the blanket over them both, which Patton didn't mind at all, now he could feel the warmth of Roman's body through their clothes, and physical affection always helped. Cuddles were the best remedy when he was feeling upset, and luckily Roman was just as cuddly as Patton were.

They ended up watching some more animal videos, which had a much better effect when Roman was there to keep him grounded, and Roman somehow had the ability to just find the cutest videos of puppies, kittens, frogs, and bees.

Then afterwards when Patton wasn't feeling as unstable anymore he would try to voice the thoughts that made him feel so bad and Roman would stay and hold him and press encouraging kisses to his face, and for the first time that day Patton would giggle. 

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Written: 21st & 22nd May 2021
Published: 29th May 2021
Words: 1070

Not proofread cuz its 2am and im lazy lol. Busy writing the fake dating au