Incrementum | Roman + Virgil | Prinxiety

_.|*|._: Chapter Eight

a/n: FINAL FLASHBACK ARE YOU GUYS READY?! Sorry the chapter is short, but it is to set up for the next chapter... ;)

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The Past Part Four (The Final Flashback)

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"You little emo sl-" "Why don't you shut your mouth Deceit." Virgil cut in. Deceit smiled and made Virgil cover his own mouth.

"The funny part was that I actually loved you too. You just like to find truth even though you're not good at it. All you ever were was a side of injustice and terror. Goodbye Paranoia, I'll see you at our next meeting." He said. With that he turned around to pop downward, but Virgil grabbed his shoulder and turned him around to face him. Virgil grabbed his yellow collar and started at him straight in the face. Deceit only smiled.

"You're becoming who you were meant to be, darling. What's the point of trying to prove yourself wrong?" He asked. Virgil snarled, and cocked his head sideways, intimidatingly. His voice turned deep.

"My name is Virgil, and destinies are only fulfilled in the minds of madmen that believe they know every second of life the second they think about it. I'm leaving, and I'm sure as hell never coming back, especially to you. And I'm not going to say what you are, because you already know. Thomas doesn't, and I'm going to help him, and myself by figuring it out. I don't need you with me to do that. So please, just get the hell out of here, and leave me alone." Virgil said. His voice was throaty and deep, and a purple aura glowed around him as he said it. Deceit was staring at him, Virgil could swear he saw a tear in the corner of his eye, but the liar smiled once more.

"This war only just began, emo. You can't run." He said. With that he turned around and popped back to his room in one swift motion. It left Virgil alone in his room, or so he thought.

"Tootle doo, tickety boo, that was harsh."

Virgil turned around to face the Duke towering over him.

"Virgil, huh? I thought it was going to be something like, Adrian. You know?" Remus asked. Virgil snarled in his face, starting to hiss.

"Oh you little spider you, thinking that Deceit didn't have me to back him up when you figured this out. But I must say, he didn't really expect you to want to become one of them." He said. Virgil shrugged.

"What can I say, I'm one for surprises." Virgil said. Remus giggled.

"You're adorable when you're intimidating. It's a rare form for you, Virgil, you're usually so reserved yet loud." He said. Virgil shrugged.

"I never noticed." He said.

"So you wanna be a light side, eh?" Remus asked. Virgil glared up at him.

"Yeah, and?" He asked. Remus giggled again.

"Have you ever thought about what the light sides think of you?" He asked. Virgil was taken aback by the question.

"Remus would never ask me something like that. A question like that would only come from me, or..." He said, and took five steps back towards the wall in his room. The Duke turned into the six handed snake-like figure with a saddened face.

"Don't leave me, Virg, I love you." He said. Virgil scoffed.

"You're a liar at heart, no wonder why you fell." Virgil said. Deceit pouted.

"Funny thing is, that's one of the few things I've ever said repeatedly that isn't a lie to you." He said. He then grabbed Virgil by the shoulders with the grace of a snake slithering on sand.

"You're not running away to anywhere. You're one of us, whether you like it or not, that's something you can never change, Virgil. You'll always need a dark room, you'll always have an emphasized voice, you'll always scare Thomas, you're his fear. You can never change at your core, you're always going to be Paranoia, and you're stuck with it. Yeah, we can call you Virgil, but this will never change." Deceit snarled. Virgil narrowed his eyes.

"Maybe the past will never change, maybe I can't myself change either. But I can grow into a better side, for Thomas. I can move my room because it's my choice and not yours. Maybe I'm just a form of Paranoia after all, maybe I'm just anxiety." He said. With that, Deceit was pushed aside by the verbal truth.

"Now, if it isn't too much to ask, go tell Remus who I am and what I stand for, because I'm out. You guys can have fun without me, I only seem to drag your plans anyway." He said. Deceit was pushed again to the opposite wall under the stairs. He sat on the floor in terror as he looked up at Virgil. His fists were clenched and a smirk was on his face. He cracked his neck as he went towards Deceit.

"Get the hell out of my room." He said. With that the snake left, and Virgil fell backwards at the impact he made on the other side of the brain.

He didn't know what he caused, and as unconscious as he was, Thomas was having a revelation, and Virgil's room was being pushed by his will to the furthest corner of Thomas' brain. Far away from both the light and dark sides. To his own secluded home. His mental body disappeared from the room, and appeared in the main concourse of the light sides' part of the brain.

It is important to note that when Thomas has a life changing revelation during his development as a human being, such as the one Virgil had caused within him, the side pushed hitter room to the place in Thomas' mind where they belonged. The rest of the sides had already done this, starting with Roman and Remus, then to Logan, then to Patton, and then Deceit. Virgil was pushed to the dark corner since Thomas was a child, yet now he figured his place in the world, in Thomas' brain, and pushed his room to the forefront of the middle of nowhere. Like the meadowlands of Thomas' mind. His room was so easy to spot in the dark, yet it was so far away from the rest of the sides. Of course they can just pop in and out, as they are mental fragments, but the figurativeness of the situation and the dramatic side that was Virgil called for this move. Though, on the light side of the brain, they were miscommunicated, and unknown to whatever was happening to Thomas.

While Deceit and Virgil were having it out, Patton was screaming to Thomas in the main quarters.

"It's going to be okay! I promise! Just listen to what you believe is right Thomas!" He yelled. Roman ran out of his room.

"Morality! What is wrong?" He asked. Patton was breathing heavily, and turned to the prince.

"I don't know! I think it's from the other side!" He said. Logan ran out of his room to join them. He held a clip board in his hand and looked up at them.

"There is movement through realization, there is development happening!" He yelled. With that between the three sides, a figure started to appear. They all gasped and stood to the side as Virgil appeared at all of their feet. He was stirringly unconscious, and Patton was the first to bend down and recognize him.

"It's Paranoia." He said. Logan looked to Roman, who stared at him wide eyed.

"What is Paranoia doing on this side of the brain?" He asked He knelt down opposing Patton on Virgil's left side.

"My name's Vvvvvvv-" He started. Princey kneeled down at Virgil's feet.

"What?" He asked.

"My name is not Paranoia." He said. Patton looked up at Logan.

"But you've been listed as such for over twenty years.' He said. Virgil leaned upward slowly, and Patton held his back to make him comfortable.

"I'm anxiety, not paranoia. I'm not one of them, not anymore."