Darker Than He Seems| |Sanders Sides

THIS IS HALLOWEEN!!

Tw; yelling, cursing,  let me know if anything else needs to be added

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Virgil

 It's finally time! Halloween! My favorite time of the year! Technically, it's only October, but still! We were all decorating the Mind Palace for the holiday. It was Roman's idea, he always goes all out for everything. Not that I mind for this one thing. Patton was making cookies, Logan was hanging around in one of the large spider webs Roman conjured reading, and I was decorating the Common Room. My pet spider, Aragog, was helping with spider webs. The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack was playing in the background as we decorated.

"Hey, Logan, how you doing up there?" I called.

"It is quite peaceful actually, as Roman is not here to disturb any of the peace."

"You're forgetting Patton."

"He's busy with the cookies."

"They're shaped like little cats!" Patton called from the kitchen. I rolled my eyes.

"Whatever, I'm gonna go check on Sir Sings-a-lot!"

"Alright, you do that, kiddo!" I walked upstairs and towards the bedrooms. Roman was being a bit extra and painting the hallways the colors of Halloween. As the paint dried, Roman hung up more webs.

"You really don't have to do this, you could change the Mind Palace in a snap if you wanted," to emphasize my point, I snapped my fingers. The Hallway suddenly darkened.

"Oh come on Brad Pitiful, now look who's being dramatic!"

"I'm not being dramatic, I'm- I'm- not sure why the hallway darkened!"

"Well, whatever, we can't keep this darker lighting, Patton's afraid of the dark!"

"Of course he is, he's the brightest Side around! He's afraid of the Dark Sides Borders, the Dark Sides, the Dark Sides Realm-"

"What should we decorate the theatre with? And the Movie Room? We all spend so much time in the Movie Room downstairs, so there can't be too many spider webs-"
"ROMAN FOCUS DAMNIT!!"

"Okay, but give me like five seconds," the moron said sinking out. I waited there patiently for about five minutes. When Roman rose back up, he was going on and on about how he could attain purple light filters.

"No. Whatever, you say, no. No more glitter bombs, I think we learned our lesson last year."

"THAT WAS REMY'S FAULT, VIRGIL!!"

"Was it? You two thought it was a good idea to decorate EVERY REALM WITH RAINBOW GLITTER!!"

"PICANI LIKED IT!"

"HE'S DATING REMY!! OF COURSE HE LIKED IT!!"

"THAT WOULD IMPLY YOU LIKE SOME OF MY IDEA'S!!"

"I DO, IT'S JUST THAT SOME OF THEM ARE DANGEROUS!!"

"WHY ARE WE FIGHTING, IT'S YOUR FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR?!"

"I DON'T KNOW!!" The lights flickered darker again, and a familiar voice rang out;

"Oh joy, oh joy! This place is looking festive! I love the webs, Virgil's doing I imagine, hey Logan, how's logic doin'?"

"Oh no."

"Shit"

"We should go down and check our heads aren't tricking us."

"Yeah." Roman and I walked downstairs to the Common Room. Of course, to my absolute displeasure, Envy and Apathy were standing there. Apathy, was wearing J.D. cosplay from Heathers (Roman forced me to watch both the musical and the movie). Envy, was in his usual outfit, but a... Black and blue cloak rather than the usual green one? Eh, whatever. It doesn't matter that much. What did matter, was what they were doing there.

"Hey, calm down," Roman mumbled, placing a hand on my shoulder. The lights were flickering, and my shadows were going wild. I took a breath and the shadows stopped and the light's seized flickering.

"WhAt ArE yOu DoInG hErE?!" I said, around the same time Patton and Logan (how he got down from the spider webs, I'm assuming it was Patton's doing) walked into the room.

Envy turned to face me. "Ah! Anx, good to see ya, love the new look, very you, just the Sides we wanted to see! D- do you have the Heathers soundtrack album I let you borrow all those- nevermind, getting off topic-"

"En, dude, you're talking too much again."

"Apathy, you have no room to talk, on guys night, you and Rem talk up a storm, and you attempt to make jokes with Em."

"And you and Dee argue about the biggest lies Thomas has told."

"Lying to yourself is a form of lying! He was in charge of keeping Thomas closeted all those years, and before that, convincing him he was straight!"

"My jokes are acceptable according to Dee!"

"Do you see the flaw in that logic? Deceit is seriously bad at controlling his compulsive lying; and I thought Insomnia clouded logic's voice."

"Ah! I am offended!"

"If you were, you would be bleeding."

"Is that so?"

"I can show you blood if you want."

"You know me so well, who will we skin?"

"Anyone of your choosing, they'll just come back, like that time we skinned the snake himself!"

"Um, excuse me, but you didn't answer Virgil's question," Patton said.

"More like demand," Apathy said. When was Envy in his arms-? He was carrying Envy bridal style.

"Oh, and we're here for those two," Envy pointed towards me and Roman. "We brought PRESENTS! It's not Christmas, but, who cares?"

"What do you mean, 'presents'?" Roman asked, pulling me closer to him.

"Oh, you know, the usual. We had-

"Have," Apathy reminded him.

"-A tradition, back home, where every time something big comes up, we give each other a new article of clothing. Dee gets a new cloak, Apa get's a new jacket, Nia gets a new satchel, and I get either a shirt or a cloak. Aaanyway, I've droned on long enough." Envy jumped down from Apathy's arms and walked over to us. He was a lot shorter than us, not very intimidating. He handed us two boxes. One was white decorated with a red streak and Romans calligraphy handwriting (forged, obviously, but surprisingly accurate) reading 'Pride'. The other was purple with patches and my messy horror of a handwriting reading 'Anxiety'.

Envy's smile was horrifying... fangs and all. "I think you left these at home." Envy walked back to the apathetic side in J.D. cosplay. "Now, let's get home before someone dies, probably us by either Roman or Patton, I'm not sure, and talking too much again, let's go." Envy jumped in Apathy's arms again and they sunk out. I'm pretty sure I heard someone say something about oversharing as the pair sunk out.

"Do you guys know what they gave you?" Logan asked.

Roman shrugged and opened the box. I looked over his shoulder, on top of some neatly folded clothes a note that read a simple message:

Happy Halloween, my kings. You'll break eventually. I know the whispers well...

~Envy. (Apa signed the other note. I forced him too, 😜✌)

Well, this was not good.

Well, that was fun to write! I finished this chapter at 4:02 A.M. my time, and I am not sorry for my body. Happy Pride, Guys, Gals, and Nonbinary pals! ✌Peace out!✌