Chapter 6: Nightmare

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Virgil was sleep deprived. He always has been; Roman's noticed that he hardly sleeps. But now that he's been his boyfriend for a few weeks, he started trying to convince him to sleep.

Each time, Virgil would shake his head.

So, here he is, running on an hour of sleep and a lot of coffee for 3 days in a row. Of course, even coffee stops working after a while.

He was painting with Patton at the moment. "Kiddo, you look tired.." Patton says as he paints. "Nah, I'm just hungry.. I'm gonna go get some food." Virgil says, standing up. As he was looking through the cabinets, his vision started to go black around the edges.

He tried fighting it off, but didn't succeed, falling down rather loudly. Roman heard from his room and went to the kitchen. "Vir-? Virgil!!" he says, running over and picking him up.
"Oh, baby, you hit your head pretty good there.." Roman says, looking at the small wound on Virgil's temple. Roman sighs and took him to the bathroom, getting a washcloth wet with cold water before dabbing it to the wound gently.

"You're going to want to disinfectant it. If he hit his head on the corner of the kitchen counter, there could be bacteria in it." Logan says, having seen Roman take Virgil to the bathroom.
Roman nods a little, grabbing the hydrogen peroxide. He covered Virgil's eye with his hand before pouring some onto the wound, making Virgil wince in his sleep.

"Shshsh, you're okay..." Roman murmurs softly, letting it bubble for a minute before wiping it off with the wash cloth.

Logan hands him a band-aid, which Roman takes and puts it on the wound. "Logan, do you know what happened?" Roman asks.
"Well, the dark circles under his eyes would suggest mainly either an illness or a lack of sleep. But since Virgil seemingly passed out, I would go with the latter." Logan says, adjusting his glasses.

"I keep telling him he needs sleep..." Roman says with a sigh. "Give him this when he wakes up." Logan says, handing Roman a small piece of dark chocolate.
"Thank you, Logan." Roman says, taking it and carrying Virgil to his room.

He lays him on the bed and sits next to him, placing the chocolate on the bedside table. He stays with him for about an hour before Virgil whined in his sleep. Roman looks at him, noticing his heart rate is slowly climbing.
Roman frowns, watching Virgil and trying to figure out if he should wake him up. After a little while, Virgil started crying and fussing quite a bit in his sleep.

That's when Roman tried to wake him up, shaking him by the shoulders gently. "Virge... Virgil wake up.." he says. Virgil woke up, inhaling sharply and instinctively backing up.
"Hey, hey, Virgil, it's me. It's Roman. You're awake now, my love.." Roman says, grabbing Virgil's hand and kissing it gently. It took Virgil a minute of mild hyperventilating to process.

"R-ro..?" he whimpers, looking at him. Roman nods, and Virgil immediately hugged him tightly. Roman holds him, running a hand through Virgil's hair as the boy cried into his chest.
"It's okay... I'm right here Virgil, right here.. You're safe..." he murmurs. Virgil hiccups, calming down after about 15 minutes.

"I-i had I dream m-my mother found out you took me a-and she k-killed you a-and-" Virgil starts. "Oh, love.. Your mother could never kill me. And I'll never let that woman anywhere near you ever again, I swear it on my eternal life." Roman says, kissing Virgil's forehead.

Virgil took a breath, staying close to Roman. "I'm right here, okay? I'll fight off your night terrors. I'll hold you as long as I need to. Now go back to sleep, I'll be right here." Roman says gently, petting him.
Virgil nods, eyes falling back closed. He didn't even feel the cut on his head due to the adrenaline rush he had.

Eventually, Virgil falls asleep again, Roman keeping him close.

About 9 hours later, Virgil stirred in Roman's arms, opening his eyes a little. He looked up at Roman. "What time is it..?" He mumbles, sitting up.
"1 in the morning, love. You passed out at 3pm and were out for about 10 hours total."

"Fuck sake.. Ow..." Virgil says, touching his head where the band-aid was and frowning in confusion. "Did I hit my head?" he asks.
"Yes, on the corner of a counter in the kitchen." Roman tells him. Virgil sighs. "I wanna show you something, before... Anything happens between us.." Virgil says, blushing at his implication.

Roman looks at him, tilting his head. Virgil took a deep breath, slowly lifting his shirt up, showing the scars from burns and even knives.
Roman stared in disbelief, frowning. His expression then changed to anger, his pupils constricting like an angry cat. "Virgil. Tell me who did this to you, and where they live, so I can kill them." Roman says, quite seriously.

"... My parents. And I'll just show you, later if you want." Virgil says, pulling his shirt down and looking to the side.

The idea of his parents being removed from the world made Virgil a lot happier than it should have, and Roman noticed.

"Love, your heartbeat-" he says, resisting the urge to bite him. "Sorry. Just.. The image of them suffering in the same ways they put me through.. Excites me. I want it. I want them to know exactly how they made me feel." Virgil says, grinning almost creepily.

"I sound like a fucking psychopath, don't I?" Virgil asks after a moment. "No. You sound like someone who's been hurt and wants revenge. And quite honestly love.." Roman says, pulling him close.

"Bloodlust is a good look on you~" he purrs, biting him afterwards. "Mm~ what, my heartbeat get too irresistible for you, my prince?" Virgil hums, tilting his head.
Roman growls in response, but not in an angry way. "God, you're hot-" Virgil groans, blushing a bit. Roman pulled away, smirking and quirking an eyebrow.

"You like when I growl?" he says. "Oh yeah. I like it a lot." Virgil says with a small smirk. "Growling kink. Alright, I'll keep that in mind- any others I should know about?" Roman says.
"How would I know what my kinks are? I've never fucked anyone-" Virgil says, blushing brightly.

Roman chuckles. "Well I guess that will be a journey we'll go on together then, won't it?"

Virgil's blush grows. Roman basically said he'd fuck him one day. This is when a moment of ‘I'm extremely gay’ hit him.

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