Come Back Home

Chapter 6

Dark

Virgil felt... Strange.

He could feel things shifting inside him.

He wondered what was going on.

Suddenly, the floor shifted.

Virgil hit the wall, hard.

What was that? he thought. What on Earth was that?

He was scared.

"Dee?" he called, coming downstairs. "Can we talk?"

"Sure Virge," replied Deceit, coming out from his room directly behind Virgil. Virgil jumped. "Sorry Virge."

"No, it's fine."

Virgil made his way down and sat on the couch. "Did you feel it?" he asked.

Deceit looked confused. "What?"

"Did you feel it? The floor, it.. It moved, didn't you feel it?"

"Virgil, are you feeling okay?" Deceit was looking worried now. He felt Virgil's forehead. "You're a bit warm. You should probably go to bed."

Virgil was confused, but what other explanation was there? Deceit clearly had no idea what he was talking about. "Yeah I- I think I will," he said, sounding faint.

Virgil walked back upstairs, and Deceit watched him go.

This is getting risky, Deceit thought, as his eye gave another small flash. Maybe I should speed up the process...

Light

Logan sat in his room on his laptop. The on-and-off bickering was driving him insane.

He heard a giant crack from downstairs, followed by the sound of Roman's voice. "Don't worry!" He called. "Just a plastic box, no bones broken!"

Logan rolled his eyes and looked back to his computer.

How are we gonna get to Virgil? What if- Logan froze. He remembered the shift Patton had felt. Then he remembered there had been a shift earlier that day. It was very slight, surely it was stronger down with the Dark Sides, since that was where Virgil was right now. The process was speeding up.

If they didn't get to Virgil soon...

He would change Depression.

And they could only hope to get him back after that.

Dark

Deceit paced back and forth in the living room. Remus had gone with Virgil to the aquarium, at Deceit's suggestion.

I need to speed this up, he thought. He had seen Roman, he was sure of it. It was dark, yes, but he was sure he'd seen him.
If that was true, Roman knew too much.

Deceit had to speed this up.