Sander Sides One Shots

Lamp-A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (LAMP)

Virgil was alone in what was beginning to be known as his room.

It wasn't the darkest corner of the mind palace as it use to be, instead it was a room that Roman had created for him where the sides could be in there without feeling negative effects.

Roman had a created a room like this for each side so that they could spend more time together and even have sleepovers. (This became especially convenient after all of them had gotten together.)

Virgil laid on his bed and looked at the room he was beginning to find a real sense of comfort in.

It was the end of November meaning Thanksgiving, and that meant time to be around people all day and eat a bunch of food and Virgil hated it.

Well usually, it was a time for family which meant people, which meant that it was in his job to think over every detail and social interaction Thomas had over the day and make decisions to keep him safe.

It's also a BS American Holiday where people celebrate everything they have and eat more food than the need while there's people in the rest of the world, and in the US, starving. And the Holiday was started by people who would later go on to betray Native Americans and has a long messed up History.

Oh and every year it reminded Virgil of the crippling loneliness that plagued his life.

Holidays use to be a harsh reminder of how alone Virgil was and how he would never fit in with the others. Thomas would obviously be celebrating them with family and the sdes would spend the day together eating and laughing.

Virgil, on the the other hand, would spend the day locked up in dark part of the mind palace alone and would try to sneak into the kitchen to grab some left over food that Patton and Logan would make for the occasion. It was at the time he would peek into the commons room and see the sides all together laughing and smiling and he would let himself dream what that would be like.

But then he would shake his head, those were silly thoughts. He wasn't like them, he would just ruin the day with his personality and they would all suffer through, which was obviously why the never invited him in the first place.

After grabbing food he would do the only thing that would make him smile during this abomination of holiday: watching the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special.

It was a silly thing, but Virgil couldn't deny the smile that would go on his face everytime he would watch the silly TV special.

He even enjoyed the educational special where all of them were on a boat, though nothing can compare to the adventures of Charlie and his friend Linus making there own dinner filled with junk food and toast to impress these other kids. And of course Snoopy and Woodstock's adventures in setting up the meal. Oh how he loved that little dog and his bird friend. (He even had a stuffed animal version of snoopy that Patton gave him when they six, that he slept with every night he was alone and would hold him as he watched any Charlie Brown movie)

Either way he was sitting alone in his room waiting for the others to start eating so he could grab some food and watch the special, because even though they were dating now, they wouldn't ask him to be there, right?

Well that turned out to be wrong as in the next few minutes he heard a knock on his door.

He looked at the door in confusion but he went up to answer it nonetheless.

He opened the door and saw Patton standing on the other side smiling at him.

"Virgil! Dinner's almost ready! You ready to come downstairs and enjoy some food?"

Virgil looked at him in shock, "Join you I-" Stuttered out the trait. Patton didn't seem to hear him.

"Come on, or Princey will eat all the food!" Said Patton grabbing Virgil's hand and pulling him downstairs.