#angry deceit

The morning slowly approached, and Patton yawned as he awoke. He stretched and hummed as he got himself up and dressed, before walking out of his bedroom towards the kitchen. He smiled as he looked at the doors that held the rooms of his friends and chuckled a little. It was nice that everyone had been getting along so well lately.

When the moral side arrived downstairs to the kitchen, he started working on coffee first. “Logan always wants coffee in the morning” He thought with a giggle as he started it up before thinking about breakfast. He wanted to make something that everyone could enjoy. His eyes widened before he grinned widely.

“Waffles!!!” He shouted before putting a hand over his mouth and giggled. He didn’t want them to wake up too soon. The boy bounced a little excited as he began grabbing out everything he needed, before slowly starting to add the ingredients together, whisking it happily and working.

“Good morning Patton” Logan mumbled softly as he walked into the kitchen.

“Morning Lo!!! Coffee is already made!!” he said as he began placing the waffle batter into the waffle iron. A noise of appreciation was heard as Logan walked over, grabbing out a space themed mug from the cabinet, and poured himself a cup of coffee.

“Waffles today?” “Mhm!! I felt this morning like something warm and happy, so waffles!!” Logan nodded slightly as he sipped on his coffee. He listened to Patton babble on about breakfast when he heard a small thump. It sounded Roman was awake now. He normally woke up when he could smell Patton’s cooking. About twenty minutes later said side made his entrance.

“Good morning my lovely subjects!!” Roman said with a bow. Patton let out another soft giggle as he began plating waffles while Logan shook his head.

“Must you always be so loud this early in the morning?” He asked and the creative side gave a pout to him.

“Must you always be such a grump in the morning? Speaking of grump, where is our chemical romance at?” Roman asked as he looked around. He hadn’t heard any movement from behind Virgil’s door when he was finishing getting ready and leaving his own room. Normally he at least heard some music or grumbling of the anxious side getting up.

“You know how he can be. It may just be a bad day for him, though I hope not. He’s been doing so well lately” Patton said as he placed the plates on the table and Logan nodded.

“Indeed” he said as he made a notebook appear. “According to what I’ve written down, he’s been smiling quite a bit more, as well as Thomas’s anxiety gone down a significant amount. I believe this is due to Virgil’s improved mood. Though I have noticed that his interaction with everyone has lowered. We should talk to him about that” The logical side said as he closed the notebook. Roman stared at him, looking a bit creeped out. Before he could speak his mind though, a dark chuckle could be heard from the living room.

“Yes, because telling someone that they need to do something to make yourselves feel better never did anything wrong” a familiar voice said, and the three sides stiffened. Breakfast was forgotten as they rushed into the living room and where Deceit stood. His hands were placed behind his back and simply standing there, smiling.

“DECEIT!!!” Logan shouted, pointing at him and Deceit rolled his eyes.

“Must you never shout when you see me?” He asked and shook his head as Roman drew his sword.

“What are you doing here snake face? You better not be here to try anything, else I’ll slice you to bits” he said, grip tightening on the hilt of the sword. Deceit’s pupils seemed to shrink a bit as he sneered at the three.

“I’m totally not here because of what you didn’t do to Virgil” The lying side spat out and Patton looked confused before moving in front of the other two sides. He didn’t want Roman to hurt the lying side, even if he wasn’t particularly fond of him.

“What are you talking about? We haven’t done anything to Virgil! He’s even been doing well lately!” Patton said before something hit his cheek, bouncing off and falling to the ground. He looked confused as he looked down and saw….

Bloody buttons?

“Wh-what….. What are those?” he asked as he could feel something dripping on his cheek. Patton felt a bit sick at the thought that it was probably blood.

“Those…..” Deceit had to pause to let out a bitter laugh as darkness seemed to seep out of nowhere and form around him. “Those are the buttons that Virgil sewed into his eyes! I spent all night having to cut those away, along with stitches on his mouth forcing him to smile!!!” He shouted and the room seemed to grow cold.

Everyone seemed to grow quiet as they looked back at Deceit. Logan noticed finally that Deceit’s gloves seemed to also be stained with blood. But this…. This also had to be a lie, right? This was Deceit who was talking. Besides, they surely would have noticed if Virgil had done something horrifying as this, right?

“Yo-you’re lying….” Roman stuttered as he remembered the quiet room, he had passed this morning. The one that he had been so sure that Virgil had been in, but now. Now he wasn’t so sure.

“Oh really? Why do you believe I’m lying? Don’t say it’s because I’m Deceit, because that’s a coward’s way out” He spat out, fangs in his mouth seeming to elongate at his anger.

“Because we would have noticed!! He’s our friend! Our family!!!” Patton shouted as tears began filling his eyes. This had to be a lie, it just had to!

“You would have noticed?” Deceit said and shook his head. Laughter began to ring out from the darker side as an almost yellow aura glowed from under the darkness. The laughter grew louder and harsher before it stopped, and he glared at them all with a look of pure hatred.

“You didn’t notice that he’s been like this for days. All you’ve noticed is that he’s suddenly gotten better” His hands clutched into tight fists as he grew angrier. “You didn’t notice how much he was hurting!! Everything you’ve been saying to him! Telling him he needs to smile more! How his eyes show how sad he is or how he makes everyone else upset when he’s sad! That he was better off staying in his own room than his supposed family actually helping him!”.

The three stared in horror as each of them began to realize what they had done. The mistakes they had made, the words they couldn’t take back. Patton fell to his hands and knees, tears falling from his face and onto the carpet as he stared at the bloody buttons. “THIS IS YOUR FAULT!” Deceit shouted as Patton sobbed in both pain and sadness.

“I’m sorry…. I’m so sorry” He said, body shaking as he cried. Footsteps were heard before grey shoes could be seen in front of Patton. He looked up to see Deceit staring down at him in disgust and hatred.

“It’s not me you need to be saying that to. Each of you need to apologize to Virgil. If you don’t, and things aren’t fixed. Then I will take him back with me. Many of us “dark sides” as you call us, miss him. We’ll actually take care of him if you can’t.” he said and turned away from them, slowly walking away.

“You can’t take him from us! He’s not an object! He’s a person” Roman shouted and Deceit stopped and turned.

“Then start treating him like one. Because if not…..” He turned back away and began sinking out. “I won’t be the one making the decision to leave” And with that, Deceit was gone.

The three was left, with buttons on the ground to prove who they had wronged.

Patton stayed there on the ground, crying and shaking. He had hurt his kiddo. His dark strange son. The one he had tried so hard to accept from the very beginning. How could he call himself a father figure if he didn’t even realize one that he cared for so much was hurting because of things he said.

Logan had soft tears spilling down his face. How had not realized what he had done? He remembered his own words that he had told Virgil.

“Maybe staying in your room would be a best option? You know how the others tend to get when seeing you upset".

How foolish could he have been. Even he should have realized that what he said was heartless.

Roman could only stare at the sword he was gripping so tightly. He had failed to protect someone so close to him. He was a prince!! He was supposed to vanquish evil, not become it and almost destroy what was family to him.

“We need to fix this….” Logan finally said as he wiped his eyes. Roman sheathed his sword, helping Patton up.

“We need to show Virgil that we love him for who he is. That…. That he doesn’t need to do this to gain love from us” Roman said as he glanced to the buttons. Patton was quiet and took a deep breath.

“We don’t need to. We’re going to.” He said and turned to the others, blood still slightly on his cheek from when the buttons hit him.

“We’re going to show Virgil that we love him. That he is our family and that he doesn’t need to change for us. That no matter what, we love him” Patton said and the other two nodded.