Chapter 2: The Prince's Thorns

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Roman was fed up with Anxiety. He was so annoying, always getting in the way of Thomas' best ideas, in the way of Thomas' creativity. What was Anxiety good for anyway? All he did was cause Thomas problems. Just a nuisance, unwanted and definitely not welcome.

Roman snapped and lashed out at the nervous side, anger focused on Anxiety's dark form on the stairs. "ANXIETY, JUST GO AWAY! We don't need you here, all you do is make things worse! You aren't welcome, and we don't want you here! THOMAS DOESN'T NEED YOU. THOMAS DOESN'T WANT YOU ANXIETY. WHY DON'T YOU JUST DISAPPEAR?"

Roman heard a gasp from Patton, he chose to ignore the sharp glare from the fatherly side, and silently glared at the offending side on the stairs. He was a bit caught off guard when he saw what appeared to be a glistening tear in the corner of Anxiety's eye, but a hero couldn't feel bad for the villain, and Anxiety was the villain of the story. So when Anxiety sunk out of the video, Roman didn't go after him.

The room dissolved into chaos. Patton was furious with Roman, demanding to know what Roman was thinking saying that to his dark strange son. Logan was trying to calm Patton down, saying that Roman was unfortunately correct, the logical side hating to admit the creative side was right. Thomas was clutching his head, completely overwhelmed by the war in his head, and in obvious pain.

Roman whirled around, shushing the other sides. "Logan, Patton, look, Thomas is in pain, Anxiety needs to go. Can't you see? He's hurting him!"

Thomas grimaced in pain, his head hurt so much. It couldn't be Anxiety's fault, could it? He suddenly cried out in pain, falling to his knees. A wave of panic and pure, unfiltered fear swarmed him. He felt terrified for his life. 'What was happening to him?'

Patton was confused. He didn't know what he should do. Comfort his dark strange son in his time of need, or help his friend Thomas through what appeared to be a horrible panic attack, if you could even call it that. It looked like his host was dying, or at least it looked like he felt like he was dying. Patton felt a tug in his chest, someone was in pain. He shivered. 'Anxiety.'

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