Lies and Dysphoria

Chapter 14-- Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! Sorry I haven't posted but here is a Christmas special for you guys still canon to the story.

Hope you enjoy!

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Roman just sat there, on the cold, hard floor of the sides kitchen. What had he just seen? This just added to the slowly increasing list of weird things that has happened over the past month with Virgil. First, the weird act that he obviously puts on around certain times but you can rest assure it's around every month or so. Now it's the blood and........that.

Sighing and getting up onto his feet, Roman turned off the lights in the kitchen. He smiled at the large Christmas tree that swallowed up most of the living room. It's lights twinkled in the darkness and shadows of presents of all different shapes and sizes loomed under the tree. Tomorrow was one of Roman's favourite times of the year, Christmas day.

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The next morning, like always, Patton was up first, making breakfast for the sides. This morning, being Christmas day, Patton had made a delicious smelling tray of cinnamon swirls, drizzled with icing and extra shakes of cinnamon sugar on top, for good luck.

Setting the timer on the oven for 10
minutes, Patton ran upstairs to get everyone up and ready for the day.

Being the first door up the hall, Roman was first.
The father figure rapped on the door excitedly.
"Wake up Roman, Christmas breakfast is in 10 minutes!" He called through the crack in the door.

"Coming Padre!" Roman shouted towards the direction of his bedroom door. He had barely gotten any sleep last night over the Virgil incident (again) but he was not going to let that ruin a great as day as this. (If you can't tell, Roman really likes Christmas)

Patton was walking towards the next door, Logan's, when he heard a faint 'Merry Christmas!' From the others room, making him chuckle.

Knocking quietly on Logan's door, Patton told the other about breakfast. He never needed to wake up Logan as he started his 'schedule' everyday at 6am, he mostly worked.

Patton heard a distant 'Thank you Patton' from Logic's room. He smiled to himself and skipped over to Virgil's room.

Knocking slightly and opening the door ajar, Patton went into Virgil's bedroom.
"Good morning Virgil, how was your long nap yesterday?" Patton giggled at the cute picture of Virgil curled up the day before.

Virgil groaned and looked up at Patton through his misty eyes.
"Hey Dad, is it morning already?" He asked, sitting up slightly.

"Yes! It's Christmas day don't forget!" Patton jumped up and down excitedly.

"Oh yeah, the day that you spend seeing people you don't want to, pretending to like the stuff they give you and constantly shove food into your mouth". Replied Virgil in his usual tone.

"Now Virgie don't be mean. Come downstairs food will be ready soon." Patton said, kissing Virgil's forehead, earning him a groan.
He was about to walk out the door when he said,
"The bedsheet was done washing but it still had stains so I looked it up and it's in my bath in bicarb."
"Thanks Pat, your the best".

With a wink and a nod, Patton walked downstairs again to finish breakfast, just in time for the timer to go off.

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Once everyone had gotten into the kitchen and eaten the delicious breakfast, It was time for presents. Logan sat on the edge of the sofa, a mug of steaming coffee in his hands. Thomas sat next to him, looking incredibly happy. Roman sat on the floor with his back to the sofa, clutching one of the sofa cushions to his chest. Virgil took his usual position on the stairs, death-staring Deceit who stood in Patton's spot by the window, also holding coffee. Remus was crouching like a cat on the coffee table and looked like he wanted to jump onto the Christmas tree. Patton took charge and was stood Infront of everyone, ready to hand out presents.