Sanders Sides One Shots

Songs That Calm

Anxiety was upset. This was a normal occurrence, but he didn't know why he was upset which was not a normal occurrence. In all honesty, today was going great for Anxiety, he left his room, ate some food, and flirted with Roman a little, so it was a great day at least by Anxiety's standards, but then something happened and everything was bad.

The most annoying, stressful, and upsetting part for Anxiety wasn't that something happened, it was that he had no idea what it was, so he had no idea how to fix it, and that made him feel weak and useless. "How am I suppose to do anything when I'm so pathetic I cry over literally nothing," Anxiety thought as tears started to form in his eyes, which did nothing to help him feel better if anything they made him feel worse about everything that was going on.

He was so tangled up in his own thoughts that he didn't hear that someone was knocking on his door, he also didn't hear the door open and the person come into his room. He only noticed someone was in the room with him when he felt the bed dip slightly and when the person wrapped their arm around him, effectively pulling Anxiety into a hug that smelled distinctly like Roman.

"What's wrong?"  Roman asked as Anxiety buried himself deeper into the hug without saying a word. After a few minutes of the silence, Roman realized that Anx wasn't in the mood or mental state to verbally respond, so he started to think of something that may calm him down enough where they can talk.

He started humming Fix You by Coldplay as he thought because it's been stuck in his head ever since this morning when it came up in his music playlist. He noticed that Anxiety was starting to relax and lean more into Roman. This gave Roman and idea.

"Lights will guide you home, and ignite your bones, and I will try to fix you," he began to sing softly, trying not to startle Anxiety with a sudden loud voice right by his ear. The more he sang the more Anxiety began to relax which encouraged Roman to start singing louder and louder until he was practically serenading Anxiety.

When he finished the song he waited a few minutes waiting for Anxiety to say something, anything that would let Roman know that it worked and that Anxiety was ok enough to talk to him. He looked down at Anxiety and laughed a little when he realized that Anxiety wasn't responding because he had fallen asleep sometime during the song. 

Roman kissed the top of Anxiety's head and closed his eyes as he gently drifted off to sleep knowing that they would wake up tangled together and that he wouldn't dare leave until Anxiety woke up.