#child!deceit

So that was how he found the two dark sides, child size and crying, he froze as his eyes landed on them, they were both very small and distressed, they were both in small animal themed onesies, and... they both looked so scared, that was what brought him back into action and he walked to them, his movements careful and slow as to not startle them, 

As soon as they both saw him dee made a noise of recognition and shakily continued to sit not ready to stand up and move, and Remus just ran over to Patton’s leg

Patton gently patted remus’s back and immediately went over to the little dee who was still very much shaking and without support, he carefully crouched down maneuvering Remus small hand into his own, so he didn't crush his little hand

“Hey little one, are you ok?” He asked voice soft and gentle, he was starting off gently and planning to guide them to the mind palace or carry them, then he would try to find out what happened, 

Dee looked up to him as he crouched in front of him “I’m good- I’m okay-“ he tried again, “I’m doing good-“ frustrated tears began to prick his eyes quickly, clearly not happy to be unable to communicate

“Hey hey hey- it’s okay,-“ he extended an arm to the kid in an attempt to comfort or soothe the younger deceit “are you trying to say you're not doing well?” 

Dee nodded carefully,

Patton hummed softly “is it ok if I pick you up Little one?” Dee nodded again and Patton did so gently, noticing how the smaller one curled up into his chest 

After a small moment his hand was pulled roughly, intending to get patton to pay attention to the other small one 

“I want to be picked up too!” Remus stated, almost offended he hadn't been offered to be picked up earlier,

Patton gave a soft laugh before picking him up as well, happy to notice the immedient beaming smile lighting up remus’s face, 

After a moment he took a small breath before speaking again “are you two ok with rising up? Or should we go back up the long stairs?” he asked 

Remus hummed “danger stairs!” he chirped

“Dee? Are you ok with the stairs too?”

Dee looked back up from where they had taken residence and nodded silently, he didn't want to rise up, it hurt his stomach, and even if the stairs did kind of scare him he was with dad now! He would be fine!

Patton nodded, and carefully adjusted them in his arms before heading up the stairs again, careful not to drop the two, after around 10 minutes they got up, normally it wouldnt of taken that long but remus, despite his best efforts couldn’t keep still and he really didn’t want to drop the two, when they reached the door he realized his stupid past self had closed the door so he had to ask Remus to open it, though Remus seemed happy to help, smiling giddily the whole time, 

And then finally, he was upstairs, he exhaled, “ok guys we’re here,”

Remus smiled wider before trying to get down and almost falling before Patton caught him and placed him down carefully extending his hand for the small Remus to hold onto, Remus smiled again before taking the hand and trying to wander off 

Patton huffed fondly “Remus, kiddo, you can explore In a little bit but right now we’re going to see Logan, do you remember Logan?” Patton received a nod and he smiled that he at least had that memory “good, we’ll go to him and then we’ll get dee to bed and then I’ll let you explore, how ‘bout that?” 

Remus huffed and pouted before eventually nodding “fine” Patton smiled as he looked from one of his kiddos to the other seeing how dee had already fallen asleep, he gave a silent chuckle before continuing down the hallway 

After only a moment or so he had finally reached Logan’s room, eternally grateful Remus didn’t try to go and knock on anyone else’s doors, he carefully let go of Remus’s hand only to feel Remus shuffle back to his leg, he knocked on the door and after hearing quite a bit of shuffling there emerged Logan staring at them all before pinching his temple and speaking

“What happened?”

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Patton chuckled as Remus began to pull his arm again, as he was sitting with Logan, now finished explaining what happened in his presence luckily it wasn't a long story, though Remus was still impatient “dad!-“ Patton smiled softly at that -“you said when dee-dee fell ‘sleep and we went to Logan I could explore! And-“ he gestured to the sleeping form of dee curled up in Logan’s bed -“ he’s asweep! And -“ he pointed at Logan -“we met him! So can I finally explore?” remus asked pouting And stomping his foot

Patton sighed before looking at Logan “can you watch dee for a bit? When he wakes up I’ll make them both food,”

Logan nodded and Remus gave a cheer throwing his arm up in victory, Patton smiled softly, before Remus ran out of the room in a hurry since Patton wasn’t getting up fast enough “cya letter lo! I gotta go supervise” he walked towards the door before he gave a small wave and left the room,

After a moment he sighed as he realized he had lost complete eyesight of the little octopus 

“Rem! Little kraken?” he sighed again as he began looking 

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Patton looked increasingly tired as he saw Logan walk in, hand in hand with dee, he still gave a smile at them as Remus struggled in his arms 

Remus’s eyes lit up when he saw dee, “dad! Dad! Can you put me down! Dee-dee’s here!” 

Patton huffed “do you promise not to try and go in the oven to see if you have yeast in your bones again if I set you down?”

Remus groaned clearly unhappy with the compromise “fine,”

Patton smiled tiredly before setting him down, Remus immediately ran towards dee and threw himself at dee into a hug almost taking them both down

Patton smiled as dee just laughed sleepily and wrapped his arms around remus

Patton looked from the sight back to Logan “Remus is an energetic kid,” he gave a small, tired laugh “he’s even wearing me out, though he’s a sweet kid,” he stated earnestly, “Logan now that i can watch them both can you find out how long they’ll be like this?”

Logan hummed “i will, but in the meantime you should get roman or virgil to help take care of the two of them,”

“Lo i don't need hel-” he cut himself off when he met logan’s eyes, he sighed “fine~ i will, thank you lo,” 

Logan smiled briefly before heading to his room 

Patton returned the smile before turning back to the two