Oddities

I guess this is just a vent. Don't read if you are easily affected by things I guess. Like depression and bad mental states. There are also small mentions of drugs, alcohol, cuts, and blood. (Like really small) I thinks that's it. I'm not sure why I'm posting this. Will probably delete later. Sorry for this. Sorry.

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She is breaking. Breaking and breaking. She always tries to pick herself up piece by piece everytime. She can't. Either the pieces are placed the wrong way or they were lost in the darkness that is growing inside her.

Along with the broken pieces, are the wars. She feels as if their are two sides of herself. One, the reasoning, logic driven part. And the dreaming, emotional part. They are constantly at odds. Always fighting. The logic reasons that the girl is just faking the broken pieces, that she is just doing it for no reason and that she should stop. The emotional one feels that the girl isn't faking. That the girl is breaking a lot more than even she realizes. The wars never stop. They fight over everything, not just the broken pieces, everything in her life. There is never a winner or loser, just fighting, arguing, and yelling. They never compromise. These wars cause the girl to break farther.

No one sees though.

No one sees anything that is going on inside of her.

She is always able to build a facade. A mask that keeps anyone from seeing the broken pieces. The constant wars going on inside her head. This seemed to be a talent that she was born with. She had never practiced it before, but she is just able to do it. She can maintain the facade as long as she wants too. She can laugh at jokes, enjoy the food, hang out with friends and family. Meanwhile she is slowly dieing inside.

Once the day is over, the girl goes to her safe room. People rarely enter it. After she closes and locks the door, ONLY AFTER she locks the door, she falls to her knees. Everything she has inside comes out. However, she doesn't make a sound. Yet another talent she was born with. Constant silent tears fall as the girl hugs herself as much as she can. She feels more pieces break off and get lost in the darkness. She feels as if she won't be able to maintain the facade anymore. She can't do it anymore.

And yet, the next day she gets up and the mask is right back in it's place. Perfectly maintained. She doesn't think it is perfect, but it has to be, right? Since, no one has noticed anything.

Sometimes the girl feels as if maybe she isn't pretending. The laughs are genuine. The food isn't just something she does to maintain the facade. She actually enjoys hanging out with everyone.

Then suddenly, she is reminded that it is all just an act. Just something she does to make it seem as if she is alright.

She can't tell anymore. One part of her constantly says that every thing is fake, while the other says the oposite. She doesn't know what is a lie, fake, an act or what is real or true.

During the times when the girl is in her safe room, on the floor, silent tears falling from her eyes, she thinks. About the pieces that are now lost forever. About the wars. About whether what she was doing right now was a lie or not. About if she could keep the facade going. About how she wants an obsession or addiction. Smokes, drugs, alcohol, cuts, anything that could make her feel as if she wasn't fake. But she can't get her hands on drugs or smokes. She was able to try alcohol, but couldn't swallow it. And she is too scared of the pain the cuts may bring.

So she gets lost in her mind. Then she imagines, that every one in the world has wings. Some people's wings are big and strong, while others are smaller, weaker. However, everyone is able to fly. The girl loves flying. Loved flying. Everyone has wings, but she feels as if hers were crudely torn off. And while she was in pain and bleeding from the back, the torn wings were cut to shreds, right in front of her. She could only watch helplessly as the very things she loved where destroyed.

After that she was constantly bleeding. Always bleeding from those gashes in her back. And she pretends. She makes fake wings, they can't fly, but they can fool everyone. They can make everyone think she still has her wings, that she can still fly. But no one notices that she doesn't fly anymore. No one sees the constant blood flowing from her back.

No one notices anything. They just see the girl. They can't see the broken pieces or darkness. They can't see the constant wars. They can't see the blood on her back. They can't see she isn't flying anymore.

They don't see.

The girl doesn't know what to do anymore.

She honestly doesn't know how she made it this far in the first place.

Ch.1: pt1 pt2/Ch.2: pt1 pt2/Ch.3: pt1 pt2/Ch.4: pt1 pt2 pt3/Ch.5: pt1

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'I have to run! I have to get away! Please! Let me go!' He was running. Running and running and running. Without a destination. Just running as far as his feet could take him. He didn't want to see them. 'Are they after me?'

He stopped to catch his breath. Looking behind himself, he checks to see if they're there. 'They didn't follow me...?' Maybe they didn't see him. Maybe they did see him, but didn't come after him, 'cause why would they? Didn't they just want to get rid of him? Didn't-

He saw them. 'They're coming after me. NonOnoNoNonNonOnonNo. Please!' He ran. Quickly turning a corner, then running again. Into an alley. Straight into a deadend. 'I've gotta turn around. Get out before-'

They got to him. They're here. 'Why? Why?! I can't...! Please, please, please pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease.'

They had caught up to him using their soulwings. It seems Samantha had met her soulmate. Since she had puffy looking flamingo wings.

"Oh? Where are you running off to Virgil? I just wanted to talk with my son~. Come on, isn't this the perfect place to 'talk'?" His dad walked threateningly towards him. "Why don't we talk? Samantha wants to play with you!"

Those words terrified him. He stepped back, hitting the end of the alley. "P-please l-l-leave me a-alone." He tried to ask them politely. His dad wanted none of it. He threw a punch into Virgil's gut. He fell to the ground.

"When did I say you could talk back to me?"

His mom was standing behind his dad, "Sweetie, make sure not to get blood on any of your clothes, they were expensive."

Virgil, while clutching his stomach, looked up at his dad. "What are you looking at, brat?!"

His dad kicked him in the face. Tears fell. His nose was bleeding. Not caring about the condition Virgil was currently in, the father kept kicking him all over. In his stomach, face, privates. Anywhere he could, he kicked. Samantha was about to join in when someone yelled.

"VIRGIL!"

Hearing the new voice, his 'family' stopped what they were doing and looked behind them, towards the way they came. Noticing that his father wasn't kicking him, Virgil picked his head up to see what caused them to stop.

Roman, Patton, and Logan were standing there. 'Did they follow me?' They seemed to be out of breath. 'They must've tried to catch up with me...'

He mustered up the rest of his strength the get their attention, "H-help...me..."

"Oh look, honey, our little Virgil got himself some 'friends'," Virgil's dad walked towards the group of three, "What are you going to do? This is a family reunion! We just want to talk with our son, who decided to run away." His voice took on an aggressive tone, "Family matters are for families to deal with, not outsiders. Scram."

"You are correct sir, family matters are for families," Logan stepped up to the father and with a lowered voice said, "However, you are not Virgil's family."

Virgil's father took a step back. He looked 'Scared?' Virgil couldn't believe the situation. Then Roman joined in, "A family doesn't abuse and starve their son, because they didn't want a boy. They are supposed to love their children, no matter what." He looked pissed. Ready to fight whoever got in his way.

Patton, though, he was the scariest. "You all better get away from Virgil right now," His soulwings spread out, giving him an imposing look that could paralyze, "Or else."

That was what finally got the family to leave. They knew if they stayed there any longer, there would be consequences. They ran from the alleyway. Not looking back.

With them gone Roman, Patton, and Logan ran over to Virgil on the ground. "Virgil, are you okay kiddo? Where are you hurt?" Patton helped Virgil sit up and lean on the alleyway wall.

"Patton, let me assess the wounds. I need to see if there is any broken bones or internal bleeding," Logan got on his knees, "Now Virgil, I'm going to have to take off your jacket. Is this okay?"

He weakly responded, "Y-yeah, it's fine..."

Logan proceeded to take off Virgil's jacket and checked his chest, stomach, and arms, since that's were most of the bruising is located. However, when Logan first touched Virgil's skin, he paused. "I knew it. It just made sense."

They had touched Virgil, but only his jacket. They had never had skin to skin contact.

Virgil could feel his back start to burn. It wasn't a painful burn, but a burn that brought warmth. 'They're my...soulmates?' That's the only thing that made sense. After all, his soulwings were growing and he had four marks. 'But...I thought they only had three?' He gasped out, "H-how?"

Patton gasped, his worried face changed to excitement, "Logan, we were right?! Yay!! We found him! Our missing soulmate! Let me hug him, please? Please?" Even though he asked, Patton went right ahead and hugged Virgil before getting an answer. Virgil's back started burning more.

"Me next! A Prince must kiss the Princess, right?" He dropped down to the ground and planted a kiss on Virgil's forehead. The burn in his back increased a little bit more until, he felt...full. He felt complete, like he found something he had been searching for his entire life.

He started crying. Crying because he has three other people in this world who love him. Care about him. Don't think he just a worthless piece of trash. Three other soulmates.

Logan, after looking at all Virgil's wounds, gave the okay for all of them to help Virgil stand up.

"I-im so, so g-glad, I m-met you all."

Without saying a word, the other three all hugged Virgil. He finally felt like he was worth something. The longer the hug went on, the stronger that feeling got. The hug gave him a feeling of security. He was safe.

Ch.1: pt1 pt2/Ch.2: pt1 pt2/Ch.3: pt1 pt2/Ch.4: pt1 pt2 pt3

Okay, final chapter! Well, maybe not. Go to part two if you want more info on that.

Anyway, pt1 of this chapter is in a different point of view, incase you couldn't tell, or are confused. Here it is!!

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It was luck that he found Virgil's art. He was searching online for tickets to play he had been wanting to see. The first piece Virgil posted was set as the websites header. It was a complicated design of different swirls. Blacks and different shades of purples mixed together with slight bits of pink here and there. Roman was so glad the owner of the website had credited the art, otherwise he most likely wouldn't have found Virgil.

Since then he followed his art blog, similar to a stalker. Every piece that was uploaded he made sure to leave a positive comment. He really wanted Darkwings to do a commission for him. At least at first. As time passed he noticed that Darkwings has been taking more hiatus's. Saying 'sorry guys, but I'm not really making enough for food, so I'll be back later'. After the seventh hiatus post, Roman did all he could to get Darkwings to open up commissions, just so he could give the poor artist money.

Roman frequently vented to Patton and Logan about a "poor artist, who has so much talent! Come on Patton, Logan, you have got to see this! Dark's art is amazing! It just pulls your attention, almost like the artist himself wants the attention so bad! But he's suffering! Please! Help! Me! Help! Dark!"

Patton and Logan ending up helping Roman. Patton just wanted to help his Ro. Logan wanted Roman to be quiet for just a little while. However, once they saw the artist's art, they felt the urge to help Darkwings. They couldn't quite explain it.

When Dark opened up commissions, they were so happy! 'Finally! We can help him.' They thought. Roman sent a commission with 30$ extra. He was planning on doing the same thing every week. He has money to spare. His acting jobs pay a pretty penny. He did not expect, however, to end up getting Dark's number.

That was a happy little surprise. After getting Dark's-no, Virgil's number, he immediately wanted to share with Patton and Logan. After all, even they were pulled to Virgil, for some reason. He waited two weeks, though, 'cause Virgil didn't seem to be very trustworthy of anything and anyone.

Once they were all able to talk to Virgil, the pulling feeling toward him increased. Logan suspected that maybe, just maybe, Virgil is their last missing soulmate. That's right, they have four marks. They had been lucky enough to meet and grow their soulwings together, but they each had one empty soulmark left on their backs. They felt incomplete. The idea that Virgil could be their missing soulmate excited the three. They were planning on asking to meet him.

Before they could, Virgil's texts alerted them of an more important issue. They didn't know why, but the poor boy doesn't seem to think of himself very highly. Roman, when ever he texted Virgil about how a 'Prince must save everyone in need!', Virgil would respond with something similar to 'not everyone deserves it'. Patton, when trying to be kind to Virgil, would be shown dismissal or rejection. (In a polite way, Patton could tell.) Logan, by reading over all Virgil's texts, could tell that Virgil thought of himself as worthless.

So when Virgil texted 'well then you don't know the same world I do', Patton hit a breaking point. He was going to call him. Logan stopped him, telling him to wait a few hours. Patton reluctantly did, but an hour or so later, when something in his heart told him he needed to call now, he did.

Patton got the others to join him on the call. However, when he realized that Virgil had been crying, his heart broke. Logan and Roman shared similar feelings. They convinced the exhausted Virgil to give them his address, after calming him down. "Let's go guys! We have to help him! The poor kiddo is suffering on his own."

When they finally saw Virgil, they knew. They knew he had to be the missing soulmate. It was almost as if their soulwings were telling them, 'That's him! It's him! Touch him! Touch him! Touch! Touch! Touch!' But they held back. If they touched him now, it would only have negative effects, as much as it hurt them to admit.

Sitting through Virgil's 'story' was the most painful thing the three of them ever had to do. 'How could someone do that to their own child?' The thought that Virgil went through all this alone, had all of them on the verge of just jumping on the poor boy and showering him in so much love.

But they held back again. They had too. It wasn't time, not yet. So they took him out. Showing him that the world wasn't out for him.

When he smiled at the movie, they almost died. His smile was just, so...precious. How could a family throw out a wonderful child who could smile like that?

When they told him that the three of them were going to bring him to a restaurant, they were able to see an even bigger smile. Along with tears, but they were good ones. From the beginning Virgil looked so skinny, unnaturally so. They all wanted so badly to give him all the food they possibly could.

They took him to their favorite restaurant. It was small and had great food, so it would be perfect. Or so they thought. The object of their affections had just run out the front door, after looking like he saw something terrifying.

Roman wanted to catch him, "Virgil! Wait!"

"Roman, it's too late. He's already gone." Patton seemed as if he was on the verge of tears.

Logan had seen the look on Virgil's face before he left. He turned towards were Virgil was looking. 'A family?'

There was a simple family of three you could see everywhere, sitting just two tables away from them. A Father, Mother, and daughter. 'Huh? Why are they getting up?'

The family started getting ready to leave the restaurant, so it seemed. However, something looked off. Logan couldn't place it, so as the family was passing by the table he was currently at, he focused as much as he could.

"Hah, so it's that brat. He still alive, I'm impressed. Should we go talk with him, honey?" The father chuckled.

"Pff. Why should we waste our precious time on a waste of oxygen like him?"

"Mooom~! I wanna have fun with Virgil again! Pleaseee~?"

"Oh, fine honey. You know I just can't say no to you."

The family left the restaurant. Logan quickly got the attention of Patton and Roman.

"We have to get to Virgil, quickly."

"Well duh, that's what I was gonna do anyway."

They all got up to leave. Patton realized Logan's serious look. "Lo, what's wrong?"

"The family that just passed us, is Virgil's."

That certainly got the attention of both of them.

"What!?" "Huh?!"

"I heard them mumbling as they were on their way to the exit. It seems Virgil must have noticed them," Logan's face scrunched up slightly in disgust, "and the rotten family, noticed back."

"But! They didn't want Virgil! Why would they go after him?" Patton was hoping, 'Maybe they want to apologize?' Logan's next words shattered that hope.

"The father wants 'talk' with him, while the daughter wants to 'play'."

"Despicable." Roman spat out.

Ch.1: Pt.1 Pt.2/Ch.2: Pt.1 Pt.2/Ch.3: Pt.1 Pt.2/Ch.4: Pt.1 Pt.2

Woah! A part three?? Yeah I went overboard with this one. According to Ao3, this chapter has a little over a thousand more words then the last one.

Now...enjoy. :) :) :)

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The four of them went to a small restaurant. Roman had said that "the restaurant isn't well known, but it's food is great!" True to his word, the place was pretty small. Thanks to this, though, they didn't have to wait long to be seated at a table and served.

"Okay, so what are we getting? I'll pay for tonight's meal, since Lo bought the movie tickets and Pat bought the snacks." Roman held out the menu for all of them to see.

"Roman, just order what I usually order."

"Same for me! But this time I also wanna ice cream sundae!"

Roman stared at Patton, "Pat, I'll only get the ice cream sundae for you, if you promise you won't make a mess this time."

"I promise I won't make a mess this time."

"I can't really trust you. Last time you spilled it all over my favorite shirt!"

Virgil, while the two of them continued talking about a previous visit, was looking over the menu. 'I have no idea what to get. What's the least expensive?' Almost as if sensing his worries, Logan turned towards Virgil, "Don't think about just picking the least expensive item on the menu."

'...can he read minds?'

"You need to eat something filling. Something that is healthy. I suggest this," he points to an item on the menu, "I believe it will be to your liking."

Reading the description of the item showed that it was a simple spaghetti dish. It had sauce with meat and vegetables, along with a few choices of toppings. 'It actually sounds good.' He doesn't eat good or healthy foods because of his budget. Most of the time he ends up eating ramen or eggs. Ramen, because it's cheap and eggs, because his local store always seems to have them on sale, plus they are easy to cook.

So eating something like the spaghetti dish, was a special treat.

"Yeah, that's good." He tapped on the table in front of Roman to get his attention, "Uh, if you could get this for me, Roman, that'd be good enough for me."

"You sure that's all you want?"

"Yeah. I'm good with just this."

Roman told the waiter that had stopped at the their table, all of their orders. They then waited, talking to pass the time.

Suddenly, Patton had a face that looked as if he came to a sudden realization, "So Virgil, if you were kicked out right as soon as you turned 18, you were kicked out on your birthday?"

"Uh...yeah. Not the best birthday present, right?" 'It's really the only one they ever gave me, if I could even call it a present.'

"When is your birthday?" Roman joined in.

"It's soon. Like in a month."

Patton gasps, "Really?! Oh my god, we gotta throw the biggest birthday party ever!"

"Oh, you don't have to do that. I don't want you waste more money."

"We have said this before Virgil, we are not wasting our money. We genuinely care about you," Logan replied before Patton could, "I know it will take awhile for you to realize this fact, but we will wait as long as it takes."

"Oh," They just keep surprising him, "okay. Im-uh, thankful." Not knowing what to say, he sat there, looking away from the three of them. 'I'm so...glad, to have met them-'

His thoughts stopped. When he turned away, he started looking at the different people in the restaurant and that's when he saw something familiar. Someone familiar. 'No, they can't be here. No, nononononono. Please don't let them be here. I'm not ready. I can't face them.'

Roman noticed his sudden turn of mood. "Are you alright Virgil?"

At Roman's question, Patton and Logan stopped talking and looked towards Virgil.

"Kiddo, is something wrong?"

"I-I’ve got to go." He stood from his seat, "I'm s-sorry, b-but I have t-to leave." Shaking, he bolted out of the restaurant as fast as he could, without looked back.

'No! Please, no! They saw me, I know they did! Please, please, please god, don't have them follow me!'

At a separate table, Virgil saw a family that looked all to familiar.

Ch.1: Pt.1 Pt.2/Ch.2: Pt.1 Pt.2/Ch.3: Pt.1 Pt.2/Ch.4: Pt.1

Part two!!!

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It was a four seated car, two in the front and two in the back. The outside of the car was a dark red, while the inside was brown.

They all got settled inside and starting driving to...'Actually, where are we going?'

Nervously, Virgil asked, "Um...where are we going?"

Roman was the one driving with Logan in the front passenger's seat. That left Patton and Virgil to sit in the back left and right respectively. Patton was the one that answered his question.

"Well, I wanted to do a whole lotta stuff, but Logan said we should start small. So...we are going to see a movie! Do you have any ideas as to which movie you wanna watch, kiddo?" Patton looked excited. Almost as if getting to know Virgil was more fun than the movie theaters.

"I've-uh...I've never been to a movie theater. I also don't really know what movies are out. I...uh...never had enough money to afford it, so instead I just didn't pay attention to that kinda stuff." Even though he had paychecks every week, it's hard to afford luxury items when you have to pay rent. Rent that is almost 3 times as much as one of your paychecks. All the while buying food and other essential things daily.

So instead of getting jealous, he ignored everything he couldn't afford.

"Oh...hmmm..." Patton seemed to get lost in his thoughts as a turned and stared out the window. "Hmmmmmm..." Thinking the conversation was over, Virgil turned towards his window. The suddenly,

"I got it!"

The sudden outburst from Patton didn't only scare Virgil. Roman swerved the car a little bit because of his surprise.

"Jeez, Patton! Don't do that! Remember the last time you did that while I was on the road? We almost crashed!" Roman's actions suggested that he has went through this before, as he had quickly acted and fixed the car from turning over too much. "You better be glad I'm used to your outbursts."

"Hehe, sorry," he nervously replied, "I just thought of the perfect movie for Virgil!"

"...is it Disney?" Roman said in a lowered voice.

"Yep!" He whispered back.

"Alright!"

"Roman, keep your eyes on the road while driving an automobile."

"Why don't you just call it a car? You don't always have to speak nerd."

"Ugh."

"Ro? Would you please stop calling Lo a nerd?"

"Oh, my lovely Pat, don't worry! It's all in fun and games!"

Watching them bicker, Virgil sat in his seat, quietly laughing to himself at their arguments.

When they had made it to the movie theater Logan, being the responsible adult he is, bought the movie tickets to a movie that Virgil knew nothing about. Roman told him it was a Disney movie and that was all he needed to know.

Before they sat down, Patton had asked everyone if they wanted any snacks. Virgil had refused at first. He didn't want them to spend anymore money on him then they already had. Patton had, once again, refused to take no for an answer and got a big bucket of popcorn for everyone to share. He even got a drink for Virgil, saying it was "Just in case you got thirsty."

When the movie finally started, he found out that the title was 'Moana'. He had actually seen this around online a few times. Virgil personally didn't think he would like it, but once Moana left her island in the movie, he was taken.

He didn't realize just how long he had been staring at the movie screen, until the movie ended. Roman, who was sitting to the left of him, nudged Virgil with his elbow. "So, did you like the movie?"

"Yeah...it was great." Virgil gave Roman a smile. "Thanks for taking me out."

"Hey, it was no problem! A Prince will always help those in need!"

"Okay, princey. I get it." Rolling his eyes, he looks to the right of him, towards Logan and Patton, "Thanks, you guys."

"Awww, your welcome kiddo, but the day isn't over yet."

"Huh?"

"We are going to one more place before we stop! For today, anyway." Patton leaned over Logan, to get closer to Virgil, and said, "Logan noticed you look really skinny. He said that years of being under-fed have taken a toll on your body."

Logan didn't seem to mind that Patton was on top of him, and stated, "Yes, being malnourished for as long as you have, can have negative impacts on your life."

"Since you currently don't have the best living conditions to purchase nutritional and filling foods, we are going to take you out to eat. As well as buy you some food to take back to your apartment."

Overwhelmed, Virgil quickly stammered out, "Y-you don't have to do this...for me. Im..." Although it was left unsaid, the other three knew what he was implying.

"Don't you dare continue that thought. You are worth it, kiddo. You didn't deserve the life you were born in." Patton's serious tone surprised him. 'I didn't think he could get so...stern.' Patton continued, "Your family doesn't deserve you."

Roman added, "We all care about you Virgil. So let us do this."