Young inside

Chapter 6:Finally big again, time to talk

Virgil woke last out the sides in his big headspace a bit confused. He slowly sat up from what he deemed one of his best sleeps ever, and looked around him to find the living room empty apart from himself (and apparently melman who was ticked against the back of the couch)

He got worried until he heard plates clattering in the kitchen with soft voices he presumed were quiet to avoid waking him. He cringed at the wet feeling around his lower half along with the crinkle of the diaper. He snapped his fingers quickly changing into his usual jumper, jeans and eye shadow then started heading to where he could hear the other sides.

"Will one of you please just go wake him up!" Logan's voice broke through the silence enclosing him first. So Virgil peaked around the corner to find everyone except Thomas. Patton was finishing up breakfast- pancakes if the smell indicated anything- Logan was setting cutlery, Janus seemed to be reading the newspaper (where the hell did Janus get a newspaper?!?) and the twins were refusing to move.

"Noooooooooo Mr Logan PLEASE don't make me move I'll be such a good boy"
Everyone shuddered at that lovely request from remus apart from Logan who just sighed and sat down in his seat, thankfully away from remus'.

"Hey it's alright keep your disgusting comments to yourself I'm up" Everyone turned to greet him which he returned in kind while taking his usual seat next to Logan.

"Good morning Virgil it's glad to see you had a restful night"
Virgil rolled his eyes at Logan.

"Of course you would be glasses"
Patton set food down on the table while everyone took their seats. A comfortable stream of conversation took place while everyone ate and Virgil smiled to himself thinking he wouldn't have to talk about his 'little' issue.

Of course he wasn't that lucky.

As soon as Logan noticed that everyone had finished eating he cleared his throat, pushing his glasses up. Virgil knew exactly what this was gonna turn into so while everyone was staring at Logan or sitting back down he tried to sneak away.

Until he bumped into a solid chest.

He slowly looked up to find Thomas staring down at him smiling with his eyebrow raised. "I think you may need to be present for this discussion virgil.."

Virgil blushed, suddenly finding the floor very interesting as Thomas led him back to his seat, following suit and sitting in the seat next to him.

There was a moment of silence before Virgil jumped as a hand landed on his thigh he looked up to see who the hand belonged to. Thomas. Ok it was Thomas. Virgil can handle Thomas. He is Thomas.

"Virgil, you don't need to feel embarrassed at all, okay?" The main man gave him a calming smile relaxing his nerves a bit but not a lot. Roman decided to pipe up with his comforts
"It's alright stormcloud we accept you and um- actually want to ask you a question if that's alright?"

The anxious side quickly skimmed over everyone's emotions quickly, then, after deciding he could sense no hostility, he slowly nodded turning his attention to his father figure because he had at some point moved from his seat to the one next to him.

"Well kiddo, and I guess in a literal kinda sense now I guess huh" Count on patton to be able to make him crack a, if only small, smile in a time like this. Where he felt both calm but running out of oxygen at the same time. That was just his life as anxiety.

Virgil looked back down when he finally came out his thoughts, just in time to tune into the end of patton's sentence "were wondering if maybe you'd like us to be caregivers for you?"

Everyone got worried about whiplash for the younger side due to how quick his head zoomed up. "Y-you—.... What—.?"
Virgil felt his heart hammering against his chest, he just couldn't tell if it was in a bad way. Surely they're just playing? No one would want to be stuck with him especially when he was acting as a baby. It's frea-

"Virgil!! Don't you ever say that about yourself!"
The anxious side looked up looking rather guilty at Deceit who had finally spoken up, apparently he hadn't thought that as much as he'd hoped. Luckily Logan interrupted the stare off.

"Virgil we are not at all bothered by you or your little side. We may not have spent a lot of time with little Virgil but that does not change our minds of how adorable you are," "PLUS you can't answer back!" "Remus!"

The sides started bickering in their usual way, while the youngest looked around smiling thinking he really had gotten lucky with his family. He couldn't believe how accepting they all were and apparently even wanted to play main roles in his lifestyle.

His reminiscing came to an end when the bickering finally died down after getting remus to stop throwing sharp objects at Logan's head and Roman sent his sword back to his room, and Thomas and patton had stopped cowering but Patton still shouting his disappointed dad voice. Deceit walked towards him and knelt down, taking his hands all the while giving him a comforting look.

"I messed up yesterday and I am sorry about that but they've made me realise that we are all gonna make mistakes and that's unfortunately necessary for everything to work out. You're a lovely, loved if a bit spoiled with that affection family member Virgil. Big or little. And we want to be there for you in both those times, if you'll have us?"

It was too early to cry Virgil thought, tears rolling down his cheeks, Janus quickly standing and eloping him into a hug which soon everybody was dragged into. "P-please, I-I want that with all of you so much" "then you shall have it, we'll make you the most happiest, spoilt baby there ever was"

I am so sorry it's taken nearly like a year to get back to this story, i lost all motivation for it but have decided to try and start both stories back up along with my main one on AO3. You should go check it out my name is Darkshadow 34 which I will also be changing this account name too. Love you all 🤍