Darker Than He Seems| |Sanders Sides

Old Habits Die Hard

Patton

I hummed a little song as I finished cleaning LoLo's room. He needs to clean it more himself. I peaked inside Virgil's room. He was listening to music in his headphones and probably scrolling through Tumblr. I'll clean his room later. I peaked inside Roman's room. Sure enough, he wasn't there. I'm pretty sure he was off in the imagination, fighting the Dragon Witch or some other monster in order to protect his kingdom.

I stepped inside Roman's room and immediately realized this was going to be a tougher job than I thought. Knowing Roman, you'd think he'd have the best kempt room out of everyone. No, he doesn't.

He had papers scattered all around the room, on his large desk were several different drawings and supplies for all sorts of artsy things, next to his closet door which was wide open was a new gizmo he must've been working on, Disney posters were hung up all over the walls, and above his makeup table was a mirror. The first thing I did was get to sorting his papers. He tends to jot down any and every idea he possibly could as soon as he gets them, then revise them later.

I set up a few piles of papers, categorizing them based on the ideas and which were written recently. After I cleared Roman's floor, I got to vacuuming. I sang the song 'Things We Used to Share' while I worked on cleaning Roman's room. After vacumming, I started to dust a few things, like Roman's trophy collection.

Then I started to sort through the things in Roman's closet, he has a lot of creations in there and ideas. Also his pride flags were there. I finished sorting through his clothes, when an old looking trunk caught my eye. I couldn't help myself, and opened it.

Inside was abunch of old props. A staff, a basketball, a dagger, and among them was a black iron crown, with ruby crystals embedded in it. For a prop, it was surprisingly life like, and heavy. It must be part of his costume! Ro probably just forgot to put it on. I smiled, put all the other props away, and stood up. I walked over to Romans makeup  table and set it down for Roman to find later. 

---Time Lapse---

Roman

I snuck back into my room from the Imagination using a portal I had hidden in my room for emergencies. And if I used my portal in the basement, everyone would surely notice my wounds. Not as bad as they could be, but definately not ideal. I had a long gash across my back, but thankfully it wasn't ver deep.

I scanned my room. It was cleaner than I left it. Patton must have visited. I cleaned my wound (it wasn't bleeding anymore, so that was good), changed my shirt, put my sash back on, and sat down at my makeup table. I started doing some simple makeup and then took notice to the crown by my blush.

I heard it whispering sweet nothings and temptations, wishing for me to put it back on. I panicked, grabbed it, and ran downstairs to the living room. "Who put this on my desk?!" I said. Virgil looked up and winced when he saw the crown.

"It wasn't me, Sir Sings-a-lot," Virge muttered, going back to his phone. Logan looked over at me and scanned the crown. It made me uneasy.

"I don't believe I've seen that before. It couldn't have been I," he said after a few moments of silence. Patton peaked his head out from the kitchen.

"Huh? Oh the crown? I did, I found it in a box in your room and thought it was part of your costume. Was I wrong?" Patton said, walking in and frowning. I couldn't hurt his feelings, or break Patton's trust, he knew me as 'Creativity', it'd break him if he learned about me once being a dark side, so I lied.

"No! You weren't wrong, it's just, I was waiting.... for Halloween! Yeah, Halloween, to wear it. You know, to like, a party or something." Virgil nearly spit out his coffee. It was two in the afternoon, and he had coffee. Why am I not surprised?

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn;t mean to ruin the surprise!"

"You did nothing wrong, Padre! I just, um, didn't expect to find it so soon."

"Oh. But, you;ll wear it right? Sometime this month?"

"Yeah! I promise, I'll wear it on Halloween!" I winced. Virgil was staring at me like I was crazy. I think I was; a promise made to Patton is literally impossible to break.

"Yay!! I love my creative child."

"Hehe, well, I'm gonna go put this away for safe keeping!" I walked back up to my room. Welp, I'm dead.

That was fun to write. I will be posting another part of my Lore book for this story after this chapter's published.Thanks for reading Guys, Gals, and Nonbinary Pals! ✌Peace Out!✌