No More (Roceit)

Chapter 1- Ignored For The Last Time

Thomas tried to summon all of the sides to try and help him with yet another problem he was going through. It was another Sander Sides video, so at least he gets content out of his seemingly endless list of problems, right? Roman was the first to appear.

"Ah, good morning Thomas! What duty do you need help with how to go about?"

"Heya Princey. Extra dramatic today I see."

"Why of course! You are finally seeing someone and I can't help to rejoice!"

"Oh, ummm. That's the problem actually. I was going to... not see him anymore?"

Roman looked confused. Not upset though, which I was happy about. I thought that he might be angry that I was going to dump him, or upset that he couldn't get me to be all romantic all the time again. "Any particular reason why? Or just that the 'je ne sais quoi' is gone?"

"I just don't feel... happy anymore with him? I don't know really. The spark is just gone."

"WHAT????" Patton suddenly appeared, closely followed by Virgil.

"Why would you do that kiddo? You are going to leave him heartbroken! How could you do that to him Thomas?!"

"Whoa there Padre, doesn't it matter what Thomas thinks and feels? It is his relationship too you know; it matters what he thinks as well as what the guy thinks. If Thomas says it isn't working, he should get out of there before he leads him on too much or it becomes toxic."

"ROMAN! And I thought you were the romantic side, and yet here you are telling Thomas to give up on romance all together!"

Thomas looked at Patton, confused. "No he's not! He is just supporting me in my decision. And anyway, you are my emotions, surely it is you that made me feel like this in the first place?"

Virgil finally spoke up. "No Thomas, your emotions influence him. Sometimes it works the other way around but in general, this is your fault."

"My FAULT? There is no one to blame here, how can it be my fault?"

"I agree with Thomas," said Roman. "This kind of thing happens and pointing the ever-looming finger of blame is not going to solve anything. We need to find a way of letting him down gently, as not to hurt him even more in future! Where's Logan anyway, I want to hear what he says. He is the voice of reason, I'm pretty sure he would agree with me."

"Oh we will worry about that later. Who knows what he gets up to, that is not the point of this conversation. How could you betray Thomas like this? It was obviously your idea to break up with his boyfriend. You are meant to help us, and yet recently all you seem to do is make things worse."

"Patton! He hasn't betrayed me, it wasn't his idea and Roman isn't a hindrance! Stop having a go at him! This is my decision. All I wanted help with is how to let him down gently."

Roman thought for a bit. He had seen a way to find a solution ages ago, before he was summoned in fact, and yet said nothing as he knew it would not be well received by the other sides. "We could ask Deceit and Remus...?"

"WHAT!!!???? ARE YOU CRAZY!!!" Virgil's bass boosted demonic voiced shook the house. "THEY WILL ONLY MAKE EVERYTHING x10,000 WORSE!"

"Well, I just thought-"

"Well you thought wrong Roman. You know how Virgil feels about them. Why would you bring it up!"

"Look Patton, if they can help us, then shouldn't we give it a shot? They are a part of Thomas too. Logan himself said that they were probably only trying to help when they pop up, just not in the most conventional way. Why shouldn't we give them a chance? All the things we think of them are things we once thought of Virgil, and we were wrong to think those things, and swore never to do so again without giving them a fair chance. And yet here we are! Making the same mistakes as last time because we trust someone else's opinion before judging and assessing the situations ourselves. Our emotions mean we usually only see one side of a person, whether it is the side we look for or the side presented to us. However, if we try to look past our bias, we might see a different part to them rather than the part we get from insulting and belittling and ignoring them all the time. If we are nice to them, they might be nice back. We have just been taking someone else's opinion on something when we should have tried to find out what we thought first of our own judgement. That doesn't seem fair. In fact, we have never been fair to them, always putting them down before fully listening to what they have to say. If the positions were reversed, you would react in a similar way to them!" (A\N Follow The Golden Rule folks!)

There was silence. Virgil and Patton looked pissed off. They both started shouting at Roman. It was so loud that Thomas could barely think as all the shouting was giving him a migraine.

"Patton! Virgil! Shut up! Roman is only trying to help and you have just been giving him a hard time this entire video! He has raised some good points, and you guys have just been ignoring him! And he's right you know. Both about what he said about The Others, and his previous statement of WHERE THE FUCK IS LOGAN????? He might get you two to see sense!"

"Logan!" Patton yelled, choosing to ignore all other points Thomas had brought up. "Huh, that's weird. He usually shows up immediately." Thomas glanced at the others. Roman looked like he was thinking, Patton looked confused and Virgil looked paranoid. (A\N I said what I said. Fite me.)

"Where is Logan?" Virgil asked, eyes frantically darting everywhere. "He always shows up when we summon him. What if something has happened to him? What will we do then?" Virgil paled visibly. "What if it's them?"

"What if what is who?" exclaimed Roman, exasperated.

But Virgil was too busy ignoring him to reply.

"But that means... Oh no! (A\N Great song by Bring Me The Horizon by the way) They could have done anything to him by now!" Patton yelled, worry evident on his face.

"WHO???"

"Thomas, summon the others. We need to get them to give Logan back."

"WHAT??? THIS IS WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT???? WHAT BULLSHI-"

Thomas looked concerned. "Wait- how do you know? What do you think they will have done to him? I DON'T EVEN KNOW TO SUMMON THEM TO ASK!! WHAT DO WE DO?"

By this point, Roman was sure Virgil was putting these thoughts in Thomas' mind, and one look at him only confirmed his suspicions. He sighed.

"I-"

"Shut up Roman. We've heard just about enough from you."

Roman looked affronted. He was about to tell them he knew how to summon the others. He wanted to get it out of the way so everyone could just finally get along. He was tired of everyone fighting all the time. He wanted to know where Logan was as much as everyone else. However, he was almost certain Remus and Deceit didn't kidnap him, and wanted them to prove it so that they could find Logan and solve the problem they had been summoned to help solve in the first place. Heck, it might even help as whilst Deceit and Remus were here, they might help them like Roman had suggested earlier. He tried again.

"But-"

"Roman! That's enough!"

They kept talking amongst themselves, wondering how to go about this, and how to summon the other two. Roman sunk out, knowing none of them would miss him. He went in to his room and picked up what looked to be a small over-night bag. It had actually been made to be like Mary Poppins bag, or the TARDIS, or Hermione's beaded bag from the last book. Bigger on the inside.

He got changed out of his 'Prince' outfit and shoved all the things he thought he would need into his bag and left the Main scape, locking his room as he did so. It wasn't like he was running away. He was a grown man and could do what he wanted and what he wanted was to leave the toxic environment of the Main scape and into the chaotic and yet simple environment of the Sub scape town\village. This is where all of the less influential sides live. There was the Main scape, the Sub scape, and the Sub scape village in descending order of 'importance'. He had never liked how that was phrased. The village was self-sufficient with all that living there not only having their 'Thomas' job but also their 'village job', which is why Roman was looking around for an Inn to stay at. You see, this wasn't the only village so when sides were called up to one of the scapes, they often stayed in this village, as it is the closest one.

He felt his form shift to that of which it would have been had he not been a part of Thomas. You only look like Thomas in the Main scape, once you leave the scape though, you are no longer forced to all look the same. Roman always found it rather freeing whenever he stepped into the Sub scape. He no longer had to look like a carbon copy of his host. It was like he was himself again.

Funny how he never felt himself in his supposed 'home'.

He eventually found the Inn he was looking for. It probably would have taken less time if he had been actively searching rather than rambling aimlessly around the town lost in his thoughts. He was about to go inside when he saw someone who looked almost identical to him chattering away with someone who had scales down one half his face. They caught sight of him and looked confused, as if not quite sure what was going on before approaching him.

"Heya Roman! How are you? Anything happened recently?" Remus asked, concern clear in his voice and on his face.

And Roman broke down and started crying.

He didn't exactly know why, he just assumed that it was because someone, for once, cared about and for him. And so, after being lead into the Inn tentatively, he began to tell them everything.

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I am going to be changing Deceit's name to Janus now. I just wanted to wait a bit to give everyone the opportunity to have watched the new video.