Trip Down Memory Lane

You Did Not Ask For This chapter 17

Deceit's POV

     I was walking back from Patton's room. When I left and I got a glimpse of how the walls in the hall looked compared to Patton's, I could tell the color was fading. I was going to have a lot of time to think. With Patton being gone, I am sure Thomas will excuse us for being off for a bit, as long as we still keep him a functioning human. 

     Then I thought, what if I don't have much time. The air in the dark side of the mind is cold and dry.  As half snake, I can get very ill or even die from those kinds of conditions. My nightly visit with Patton was my confirmation that I could stay alive. Now that he's gone, how will I get warmth? 

     As I was walking along, I thought of Roman. He thinks he needs to be tough all the time, he thinks he needs to be the hero. He must understand at some point that he needs to be his own hero.  He needs to take care of himself. Funny enough, Thomas needs to learn that too. The last thing I can think of that he did that I can remotely call "leisure time" is when he watched Frozen, but that was only to distract himself from the party.

     While I was walking down the hall, I felt the air get moist, with smoke rising from the ground. This was a new sensation that I don't remember ever happening in the dark side of the mind. I then decided to head to Remus' room to check on him. Luckily, I found a dead mouse on the ground, so I decided to pick it up and stick on my pocket to give to Remus. 

     I could hear the echo of my boots hitting the floor, like the sounds where bouncing off the narrow walls and right into my ear, like a basketball off the backboard, making it to the hoop. I got to Remus' door for and without hesitation, I did my triple knock. "Come in, bitch." came the rough voice from inside. I turned the nob of the door a swung it open, not thinking of how hard, causing the door to hit Remus' wall.

     I stood for a second, just looking at the Duke, spread out across the floor. I was about to speak when he decided to steal the bacon before I did. "I thought you where helping your son?" That really stung right where the decaying cavity of my heart was. Son? Out of all the year of raising Virgil and making him to the person he is today, the closest thing he called me to dad is Dee. I felt my human eye tearing up again. "I was helping Virgil, but since he has unpleasant ties in regards to me, Logan and I thought it would be best if I left, to keep Virgil from panicking." 

     I thought the Duke would then take this chance to go pester him, or to make a rated R comment, but then he hit me with... sarcasm. "I mean, it is not like you raised him for years on end and gave the world to him for him to throw it away."  Dear Evan Hansen, who knew Remus stored away references like that? Musicals aside, he was right. I should be in there helping, or at least be there because I am the one who raised him. Although, as much as  want to be there, I also want the best for Virgil. So I will leave him be.

     "You know Remus, I actually came in here to check on you?" His face was in a puzzled stance, but I could tell that a glimmer of hope flashed through his eyes. "I know that having a craving for that kind of thing can be hard. Personally, I am grieving, so maybe... we can do it together? I understand what you are, so if I sit here and cry and you get a sudden burst of energy, I will not blame you. You did not ask for this."

     Remus, was understandably, put off by my statement. His eyebrows where tilted and his nose crinkled, making his mustache curve up. I figured he didn't know how to respond, so I decided to continue. "How about we play the Toy Story series? That way, I can let myself go for hours on end, and you can have a chance to be fed. What do you say."

     "Sure, double Dee... This is awfully strange of you to be so kind though. We are supposed to be evil." I thought for a second. We are not supposed to be evil, but I did want to argue. "We are supposed to be evil to Thomas and his goody sides, no one ever said we have to be mean to each other." Remus snorted as I pulled out my laptop and pulled up Disney+. I turned on the move and we sat there all night together. I cried, and Remus became a better person. Only if I could feel better the way Remus did.

     That way, I could entirely feed off myself and never go hungry.