Demus Oneshots

True Love's Kiss

"Hey, Mr Dagger!" Roman yelled excitedly, running up to Janus. "Look, look, look!"

Janus grinned as the six-year-old spun around. "I'm Prince Roman!" Roman declared, holding onto the edge of his cape to make it flow out behind him. "D'you like it?" He asked, beaming.

Janus nodded. Roman's grin faded. "Why aren't you talking?" He asked.

Janus showed Roman his notepad, crouching down. "Ursula stole... my... vo-ice." Roman spelled out. He looked up at Janus. "You lost your voice?" He asked, tilting his head to one side. Janus nodded gravely.

"How do you get it back?" Roman asked. Janus shrugged. Roman paused for a couple of seconds, looking very sober as he thought. He looked up at Janus and kissed him on the cheek.

"Did that work?" Roman asked eagerly. Janus shook his head. Roman looked down in disappointment. "Oh. I just thought it would cause I'm a prince."

Janus wrote something on his notepad and showed it to Roman. "Yeah but... you're not... my true love- oh!" Roman said. "Wow, I'm so stupid, of course it's not going to work! You need your true love!"

Janus nodded. Roman's excited smile faded.

"Who is your true love, Mr Dagger?" He asked. Janus shrugged. "You don't know?" Janus shook his head.

"Well... who do you like?" Roman asked. Janus wrote something else down on his notepad. "Boys and girls?" Roman asked. Janus nodded.

"Oh, like my Zeze!" Roman said excitedly. "Zeze likes everyone. He's never been on a date before, though, which is really weird because my Zeze flirts with everyone."

"I can see it's rubbed off on you." Janus thought.

"Well, it can't be any of my friends because you're really old." Roman said. Janus laughed. "Hey, you got your voice back!" Roman exclaimed, jumping up and down.

Janus opened his mouth as if to speak but closed it, shrugging. Roman's face fell.

"You haven't got your voice back?" Roman asked sadly. Janus shrugged and shook his head. Roman sighed in annoyance, swishing his cape.

"I know what I'll do." Roman said. "I'll ask Virgil. Virgil knows everything."

Roman ran off into the class, shrieking his friend's name. Janus laughed and stood up.

"So it's working then?" Logan asked. Janus shushed him quickly.

"Shut up." Janus hissed, hitting his friend on the shoulder playfully. "If Roman knows I can speak, he'll be so disappointed."

"Why are you doing this, anyway?" Logan asked. Janus shrugged.

"It'll give the kids a nice quest." He said. "Now shush, he's coming back."

Roman marched back to Janus triumphantly, dragging a very annoyed Virgil behind him.

"Roman, you didn't drag Virgil away from whatever he was doing, I hope." Logan said, putting on his reprimanding tone. Roman shook his head.

"No, Mr Brown." Roman said. "Virgil wasn't doing anything."

"Was too." Virgil grumbled. "I was being the Lord of my castle! Baba says I have to protect my castle from people like you," he gave Roman a shove, "who want to steal it."

"Virgil, we don't shove people." Logan said. "Roman, we don't drag people away from their castles, okay?"

"Okay." Roman whined. "But it wasn't even a proper castle! Virgil, I promise that after this is done, I'll build you a proper castle. In the sand-pit and everything!"