Sanders Sides One Shots

Rain

*Trigger Warning-Storms*

It was the perfect day. It was raining, which might not seem perfect, but whenever it rained Anxiety and Roman stayed inside and cuddled. Today was no different, Anxiety was scrolling through Tumblr and Roman was reading Ash by Malinda Lo. 

The storm was picking and Anxiety was getting worried, bad storms were always bad news. He snuck at a glance at Roman who didn't seem to notice the storm was picking up.

"Good, maybe he won't notice the-" thundered and a shriek interrupted Anxiety's thought. The thunder was clearly from the storm and the shriek was from Roman, who's face had lost some of its color.

"Wow, the rain sure is picking up isn't?" Roman said nervously, playing with the strings of Anxiety's hoodie. 

"Yep, are you gonna be ok?" the concerned Anxiety replied.

"Of course I'm going to be ok, I'm a prince for Pete's-" the roar of thunder cut Roman off.

"He looks so embarrassed by his fear. I should help him," Anxiety thought before saying, "Of course you're ok, but the storm is kinda scaring me. Cuddle for protection?"

Roman blinked a few times clearly shocked before saying, "I would be happy to. I must protect the fair lad in distress,"

They spent a few minutes cuddling before a flash of lightning startled Roman, so much that he almost threw Anxiety of off his lap.

"Hey, I would be somewhat embarrassed to do this by myself so could you please do this breathing exercise with me?" Anxiety asked when he finally got back on Roman's lap.

"Sure, what do I have to do?" was the somewhat strained response.

"In for four seconds, hold for 7 seconds, out for 8 seconds," Anxiety instructed, he started modeling the breathing and soon Roman joined in.

They storm was getting worse and not even the cuddling or breathing could keep Roman calm. Anxiety was running out of ideas until he remembered a fact Logan told him, it might not keep Roman calm but it was worth a shot. 

"Do you know how far away the storm is?" Anxiety asked.

"No I don't," Roman answered clearly confused as to why Anxiety would ask such a thing.

"Would you like to know?" Prince shrugged and Anxiety continued, "Ok, all you have to do is when you see lightning is count how long until the thunder. Can you do that?"

Roman just nodded too afraid to speak. They didn't have to wait long for the lightning. Roman jumped again, but he was somewhat soothed by Anxiety's counting. The next time he didn't jump, but he still didn't count. The third time he counted. The patterned repeated, lightning counting thunder, until the storm was far away and both were falling asleep.

It may not have been the most calm day, but waking up with Anxiety in his arms made it the perfect in Roman's book.