Thoughts Are LOUDER In Silence |COMPLETED|

seventeen

[a blast from the past! aka, this is a bit about deceit's past with the bois.

-mj]

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"Papa!" Depression cried as he ran to Deceit, holding his hand close to his chest. "L-Leader burned my hand!"

Deceit gently took Depression's hurt hand and looked it over, doing his best to not hurt the side. "I will have a talk with him when I get the chance. For now, I'll take the pai-" He didn't the chance to finish his sentence.

"No Papa, you have enough pain. Help me wrap it?" Depression asked softly. Deceit sighed and nodded. He got the first aid kit from under his bed and helped wrap Depression's burn. "Thank you Papa, you're the best."

Depression hugged Deceit before skipping off back to the kitchen where he came from.

The conversation with Apathy didn't go well. But it wasn't anything he wasn't used to by now.

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"Dad!" Rage gently shook the fatherly trait to wake him up. Deceit barely opened his tired eyes. "I'm scared. Leader threatened to hurt you if I didn't...i-if I didn't let Pain have his way with m-me.."

Deceit shot up and pulled the red eyed side into a hug, mumbling apology after apology. "You should've let him hurt me! I can take the pain, Ray..."

Rage hugged back, doing his best to not sob. Only when he heard the quiet sentence did Rage break down, sobbing into Deceit's chest. "B-but Dad, you a-already deal with enough p-pain... and I know y-your still upset about Anxiety l-leaving..."

"Ssshh, I'm fine. Go to sleep Ray, we will talk in the morning." Deceit spoke quietly, laying Rage next to him on the bed. Rage nodded and clung to his father figure as the other hummed a soft lullaby.

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"Father?! What happened to you?!" Self Doubt asked with shock. Deceit was leaning against the wall in Self Doubt's room, his shirt ripped and his cape pressed against a deep wound in attempt to stop the bleeding.

"A-Apathy....hurt you....I took....pain..." Deceit was unable to form sentences but did his best to get the point across. Self Doubt jumped into action and raced to Deceit's room for the first aid kit, then came back and helped him to the bed.

"Father..." He whispered as he got to work on cleaning and stitching the wound. Deceit did his best not to show much pain but Self Doubt could hear the doubting thoughts running through the other's head. "I know I gave you a hard time when I was corrupted but that doesn't mean it was your fault... I'm not helping you out of pity, I'm helping you because that's what family is for..." Patton had taught him that and now he was going to teach it to the Patton counterpart.

"I know Passion." Deceit lied, he didn't believe that the one that put the blame on him in the past was helping him out of family love. He had disguised himself as Self Doubt so the other wouldn't get the punishment that he didn't deserve and because the other was like a son to him, he didn't do it because he wanted pity.

At least Self Doubt didn't hate him like Virgil did for taking the pain...