Erased - Analogical

[Chapter Nineteen]

|POV Patton|

I could feel my heart thumping repeatedly like a drum in my chest. The sudden appearance of 'Repression' and 'Regret' had completely shocked me. I was so convinced that the side called Repression was actually hurt when I heard him cry out, again, I had let my heart think instead of my head. Even if I was morality instead of logic, I should have known better! The others warned us so many times... and now me and Roman were in possible danger cause of a mistake I made. Darn it..! I held onto hope that Remus or Janus would quickly notice our absence come retrieve us, but I didn't want to rely on it.

"W-what do you two want..?" I asked, trying to muster up as much courage as possible while Roman gently ushered me behind him in a protective manor. But if these two had bad or harmful intentions, i wasn't going to just let them attack Roman because he wanted to protect me.

"Patience, morality. We merely want to talk is all. No violence needed, unless of course you provoke it. In that case, self defence is customary," Repression continued to speak. His friend, Regret, didn't seem to big on talking, but he had a stone cold glare in his expression that made my shin shiver.

"Well we don't want to talk. We have places to be right now, so if you don't mind," Roman gritted through his teeth, wrapping his hand around my wrist as if he was about to run out of the alley.

"Hmph, well that's not very polite, is it now?" Repression huffed, nodding his head over at Regret who gave the same gesture in response. As if in the blink of an eye, Regret had disappeared from Repressions side. A moment of confusion and ever so slight panic rushed over me as I found my head frantically darting around my surroundings, searching to see if the Dark Side was about to attack or harm either of us.

A sudden noise that resembled a gush of wind blew behind us, causing my reflexes to act up as I turned around to face the noise at a speed I wasn't sure was humanly possible. There behind us stood Regret, now blocking our way out of the alley. We were completely cornered by both dark sides.

"Now that you can't exactly just rush off, I hope you don't mind if I give a little, straight-to-the-point monologue about why we lured you two here?" he smirked as if he was waiting for a response, but none was given. He still just shrugged it off as he continued with his so-called monologue, "you see, normally we wouldn't care that Light Sides are over here with the Main Dark Sides, aslong as you aren't hurting Creativity or Deceit," I noticed Roman glare hearing his brother be referred to as Creativity in exchange for Dark Creativity or Intrusive Thoughts like he typically was, "but, I guess you could say that I was a bit suspicious and on edge today. Only earlier was it that Anger himself was complaining about how much anger he could sense the main sides were feeling. And of course, that piqued my interest. Sooo, when I heard that you guys were coming into our side of the mind, I couldn't help myself from coming over to see if anything irregular was up! I mean who can blame me. But needless to say, me and Regret were pretty shocked to approach you 5. We couldn't tell who it was at first, but one of you had an extremely deep pit of Regret burning inside you that you were trying to repress. It took us a minute of focusing, but we managed to track down which one of you Light Sides were feeling this horrible remorse, andddd we wanted to help~ so it took us a few more minutes, but after digging through this certain individuals deepest Repressed thoughts, we found the issue!"

"You can detect someones repressed memories..? Thats- so.." I really had to take a long pause to process everything that had just been told, just by being in the Dark Side of the mind gave these sides the ability to see into everything we had tried to burry in our own minds. That was beyond horrific to think about. And it was even more horrific to think about how it was probably me that had these strong repressed thoughts. Virgil had spoken to me awhile ago about how he believed that I repressed my own negative thoughts subconsciously, so it was completely plausible that I had really horrible repressed thoughts about things I regretted and I didn't even know about it. "Wait... did you see my repressed thoughts..? Is that why you lured me over by pretending to be hurt-?" I hesitantly asked.

A soft chuckle was let out from Repressions lips, he looked almost innocent in the moment, "oh no no no, Morality, thats so sweet of you to believe though! But nope, all of this repressed regret is from the one and only-

Roman."

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I apologise if this chapter is too short! Next one will be much longer, I promise! <3

-MM