Broken Wings

22~ i don't want this

tw: violence, mentions of abandonment, etc.

3rd person POV

virgil followed the shadowy figure through the mind palace, doing his best not to fall too far behind, staying as close as he could without letting them know that he was following them. Why was he doing this? he knew that he hurt mani, even if he didnt mean to, he did. he stretched his wings out behind him, feeling them begin to cramp up from being folded behind him for so long. mani slipped through the shadows into his bedroom, leaving his door open behind him. virgil stopped in his tracks just outside of the room, glancing up and down the empty halls around him. every decision that he was making mattered, every little thing that he did changed the outcome..he thought on it for a moment longer before finally entering the once bright and filled with life room, now dark with undertones of deep red, everything creaking and eerily colourless. it looked as if it were taken right out of a movie, a sick and twisted movie. it sent shivers throughout his entire body, seeing the room once filled with laughter and joy become so cold and empty. virgil's eyes trailed around the room, the paint on the walls peeling, scratched away in some places, drawn on in others. everywhere that he looked, he saw.. he saw himself and mani. replicas of their drawings that they had made together, that same promise that they had made etched into the walls over and over. then, in large, bold letters, was a single word with so much meaning behind it. 'ALONE' virgil's heart sunk, this room was off limits before..come to think of it, there was an entirely different wallpaper when he was here before.. he looked to the ground, where it was shredded all around his feet. he stumbled backwards, feeling his heart beginning to race all over again. months before any of this had happened, the door was already there, but when it was opened, it was bricked over. no one thought anything of it, but, now that virgil could see all of this, it got him thinking. maybe thomas' mind completely locked manipulation away without any of the others knowing. he was just a kid back then...when he- virgil was snapped out of his thoughts as he saw something in amongst the darkness. "mani...?" he calls out, yet still in a whisper. the figure ahead of him begins to shake uncontrollably, broken sobs filling the room, bouncing off of the walls around them. "mani, i'm here now.." he stepped closer, stopping once again as the sobs slowly turned into maniacal laughter. Mani stretched and twisted, hunching over as their surroundings changed, his voice coming from seemingly everywhere. "you're here now, huh?" a sick grin grew on the once sweet boys features, his teeth now replaced by long jagged fangs. everything around them changed to a large dark room, with street lights above them. "i've gotten stronger, haven't i virge? do you think they'll let me be a main side?" his voice, now higher in pitch and ringing with borderline insanity. virgil stepped back again, watching his friends limbs grow and become seemingly sharp. "do you think you'll come and see me now? am i worth your time, now?" he began to take long strides towards virgil, closing the distance in mere seconds. "well?" he tilted his head drastically, sending a crack throughout the room. "i-" virgil was cut off when manis hand wrapped around his throat tightly, lifting him off of the ground. "don't give me your excuses. it's too late for that." he giggled as his grip tightened, earning choked pleads from virgil. "m-mani- please-" mani growled lowly and threw virgil across the room into a wall that came out of nowhere, sending a loud crunch through his wings that made him yelp and whimper slightly. "im s-sorry, mani-" "sorry doesn't cut it! sorry doesn't fix this, it doesn't fix me!" mani raised his hands to around his face, revealing cracks all around his features. "you broke me, and all that you can say is sorry?" he howled with laughter as virgil forced himself to his feet. "i can fix this, just give me a chance." virgil tried to be firm and certain on that, but the look that Mani gave him.. those eyes. he swallowed dryly as he felt himself being lifted off of the ground, looking down to see red smoke wrapping around his legs. "it's too late." mani grinned wickedly as the smoke twisted, making virgil cry out in pain. then it all just,,, stopped. the room grew dark, the smoke disappeared, and virgil was enveloped in dark clouds. manis eyes widened, watching the pitch black room for any kind of movement, until something hit him over his head, knocking him to the ground. he groaned and chuckled, getting back to his feet. "neat trick-" he got knocked over again as the lights came back on. "i don't want to hurt you, mani!" virgil cried, standing on the opposite side of the room to his friend, dark clouds with lightning crackling around his hands. "please, stop this!" he wouldn't fight if he didn't have to, all that he wanted was to have his friend back.. that's all that he'd wanted for a long time.. "if you didn't want to hurt me, you shouldn't have left me alone for so long." mani growled, getting back up and sending a string of smoke right around virgil's ankles and pulling them out from under him. 

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A/N: look who's alive- so something is going on with my laptop, i can't move where im typing to edit anything without it all being highlighted or smth, but anyway.. this one was longer than the others, and the next chapter will also be longer. I've sorted things out so that i can do my school work from home, seeing as my school reopened too soon (some bitch waltzed around not long ago bragging about coming from a covid hotspot when they were supposed to be in self isolation, so covid is back in my town) i'm still going to school occasionally to pick up more work and drop off the completed stuff, mental health said buh-bye, but i'm trying to cope. honestly,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i'm not planning on giving up anytime soon, i refuse to let it rule over my life and get in the way of me doing things, i will not let myself lose this. i'm trying, i'm really trying to get better. so, thanks for being patient and sticking around <3

~some rando