Come Back Home

Chapter 19

Dark

Remus stood in front of the remains of the dragon, feeling much better than he had earlier.

He was panting slightly, and slowly sank down, back to his room.

When he rose up, he noticed it was a lot later than he had expected it to be, and it was already dark.

He sighed, changed into pyjamas and went to bed, praying that the next day would be okay.

Light

Virgil opened his eyes, staring at the ceiling for a moment before groaning and pulling himself up.

He got changed into some clothes he found in his drawers. Why was there so much purple?

He turned his head towards the door as a knock came from the other side.

It creaked open and Virgil caught sight of Patton's smiling face. "Hey kiddo! How did you sleep?"

"Fine." Virgil just wanted to be left alone, but he knew that if he spent all his time in his room, that would just tell the Light Sides he didn't trust them.

"I just wanted to let you know, we're having a movie night later!"

How was one person so energetic all the time?

"Okay Patton."

Patton smiled at him and headed back downstairs. "There's breakfast in the kitchen if you want to come downstairs."

Virgil nodded, following Patton down.

Roman was sitting on the couch, flicking through channels on TV, evidently having already finished his breakfast. Logan was reading a book at the table, a plate of half-eaten pancakes sitting on the table, and Patton was making his way over to the seat next to him, where his own plate was sitting.

Virgil headed over to the kitchen and picked up the remaining plate as Patton sat down next to Logan, hugging his boyfriend before turning his attention to his food.

Virgil took his plate from the kitchen, walking over to the table just as Roman called, "Virgil! Wanna watch a movie?"

He contemplated it for a moment before walking to the couch. "What's the movie?"

"Well.. Do you like Disney?"

Virgil nodded.

"Then we can watch a Disney movie!" Roman walked over to the rack of hundreds, surely, of Disney movies.

He pulled out Aladdin, showed Virgil the case and slid the disc into the machine.

Roman quickly headed back to the couch and sat down next to Virgil, who moved away from him slightly.

Roman seemed slightly sad about that, but quickly recovered his happy demeanour.

Virgil focused mostly on trying to finish his breakfast, only paying a bit of attention to the movie, before realising Roman was singing along.

Virgil didn't want to admit it, but he kind of liked listening to Roman sing. Virgil turned towards Roman, who instantly stopped. "If it's annoying you, I can stop," Roman said.

Virgil turned back to the movie. "Nah," he replied. "I don't mind."

Roman smiled for a moment before picking back up the song and singing along.

Dark

"ReRe! Breakfast!" Deceit called.

About five minutes later, Remus stumbled downstairs, looking sad.

Deceit looked up to see his eyes puffy and red. "ReRe? What's wrong? Is it about Virgil?"

Remus shook his head, opened his mouth to begin talking, and burst into tears. Deceit ran up to him, guiding him to the couch and sitting with him, alternating between hugging him and laying kisses on his forehead until he had composed himself.

"What's wrong ReRe?" Deceit tried again. Remus just shook his head again. "Is it about Virgil? Was Roman being mean? What's wrong?"

Remus continued shaking his head, just hoping Deceit wouldn't do what he knew Deceit could.

"ReRe, I didn't want to do this, but if someone hurt you I need to know what's happening." Deceit waved his hand like he was swatting away a fly, and Remus's mouth hinged open.

"I'm just sick of everything that's happening, I hurt Roman, really badly, and you were being mean to Virgil and now you've erased his memory and he's been basically kidnapped by the Light Sides to get him back and now he's scared and alone and he's so unhappy and I trusted you to help him and you failed him and you failed me." Remus clamped his hands over his mouth, looking horrified at everything that had come out, before just giving up and letting himself openly sob.

Deceit's mouth was pressed into a thin line. He nodded like he'd been expecting this. "I'm sorry ReRe.."

Sadness was replaced with anger.

"No. You don't get to say that. You don't get to pretend an apology and an empty promise can fix this, this problem you caused. I'm going to my room."

Remus pulled himself out of Deceit's arms and stormed up the stairs.