#psycopath!patton

”Well, I guess we should explain how things work around here while Patton comes back” Said Roman as the three of them went downstairs and into the dining room.

”When Patton comes to his room and wants to see us, he knocks on each room three times, we have to knock back and we can do it from anywhere we're at, except at breakfast, lunch and dinner, we have to be downstairs when he knocks and knock back from here” explained Roman.

”We have a clock on our rooms, we'll give you the schedule later” said Virgil.

They walked to the little table on the dining room and each sat on a cushion except for Roman, who waited until Patton knocked and knocked back.

Patton opened the dollhouse with a smile ”I'm back” he said as he left the small plates with food in the table, he grabbed his own food and started eating.

Dee noticed he had the same plate Patton had left on his room earlier, he had you heated again, and he was indeed hungry, he had slept for three days after all, he reached for some bread and started eating it.

Patton stopped eating for a moment ”so, we have a long trip to do on Monday, and I figured we could just relax this weekend, starting with today, we always have movie nights on Friday's anyways, but we can start earlier today and watch even more movies! How does that sound?”

“It sounds like it’s going to be fun Pat!” Said Roman, faking his enthusiasm.

Patton giggled and left his almost empty plate aside “and Dee, I have a surprise for you” he said, grabbing something next to the dollhouse.

At the sound of his name, Dorian raised his sight from his food to Patton, who had a small bag, that was still gigantic to them, on his hands “C’mon hun, come to see” said Patton.

Dee swallowed his food and stood up, forcing himself to walk closer to Patton, trembling with each step, the situation was still scary even if Dorian was sure it was a dream.

Patton motioned for him to come even closer, even if he was already at the edge of the dollhouse, he stepped into the desk and walked to the edge of it, Patton put the bag under the edge of the desk, and Dorian had to lean to see its contents, this was the best way to do it, ignoring the fact that aside from the contents of the bag, he could see the distance between the desk and the floor.

He gulped, and focused on the bag, he could see it has half filled with clothes his size, t-shirts, pants, hoodies, socks and even shoes, most of them were yellow and black, but he could also spot other colours “y-you got all of this for me?” He asked, returning his sight to Patton.

He nodded “I have a friend that makes doll clothes, he makes Virgil’s and Roman’s, he usually sends them to me by mail, but since we’re here where he lives, I could get them sooner, I ordered them when we had dinner and they were ready today! I wanted you to have something to wear before we went to Florida”

“I-I” Dee didn’t know what to say, this were even more clothes than the ones he had at normal size, this was a nice gesture from Patton, even with everything that was happening “Thank you Pat”

“Oh it’s nothing, just the best for my boys” said Patton, ruffling Dorian’s hair with his finger “but... there’s one special thing in here” he got his hand on the bag and looked between the clothes, smiling wider when he found what he was looking for “here!” He got his hand out and extended the piece of clothing, showing it to Dee “ta-da!”

Patton had a small light yellow snake onesie on his hands “it’s our tradition to wear onesies on movie nights, and of course I had to get one for you” he handed the little onesie to Dee.

He took it, it was really soft and it looked very comfortable “Thank you, you really didn’t have to” mostly because none of this should have happened.

“Like I said, only the best for my boys, now, if you finished, let’s all get changed and we can start our movie night, we’ll organise this in the new house”

Dorian went into the house before Patton closed it to finish his food, once he was done, he went to his room to change, Virgil and Roman had finished eating before him, so they were ready when Dee walked downstairs.

What he wasn’t expecting, was to find them making out on one of the couches, they both had their eyes closed, so none of them had noticed Dorian “hum… guys…” he managed said.

Virgil’s eyes opened wide and he pushed Roman away “D-Dee, you’re ready, w-we didn’t see you there”

“Yeah I noticed”

“Sorry about that” said Roman, he stood up and tried to hide his blushing face “well, if we all are ready, we should get going” he offered his hand to Virgil and helped him to stand up.

Dorian blinked surprised “is-isn’t Patton going to come for us?”

Roman shook his head “he’s probably still doing popcorn or something, it´s better if we’re already there when he finishes” he walked to the door without letting go of Virgil´s hand.

“B-but how are we going to get down of the desk?” asked Dee following them, he closed the door when they were all outside, they walked to the edge of the desk, Dorian was amazed by how big everything as, and couldn’t believe his brain could do something like this.

“The stairs” said Virgil, once they were on the edge, Dorian could see a stair made of rope going all the way to the floor, Roman got down first, once he was on the floor, he held the stair for Virgil and Dee, who hesitated a lot before finally going down.

The door was open, so they just had to walk to the living room, Dorian looked at what the others were wearing, Virgil’s onesie was a skeleton one and Roman’s was a Beast from Beauty and the Beast one.

Dee looked up once more, they were in the hallway already, this was a part of the apartment Dorian did recognize, he could see the main door from where they were, the kitchen and dining room were further in the direction they were going, and the living room was just in front of the main door, but of course, at this size, it was ten or more meters away, it was crazy to think such a small distance was gigantic now.

They were arriving to the sofa when Patton walked in with a bowl of popcorn “aww, you all look so adorable together with your onesies, we need to take a picture to hang on the dollhouse” he said, leaving the bowl on the coffee table and grabbed his phone from the pocket of his cat onesie “come here guys” Patton got closer to them and crunched to scoop the three of them up, he sat on the couch and lifted his boyfriends up to his face “smile!” he said before taking a selfie.

“Now, since it’s your first movie night, you get to pick the first movie Dee” he kissed Dorian’s head and left the three of them on the table, Netflix was already on the TV and the remote was in front of them, Dee thought of a movie and looked for it, he wrote ‘Bedtime Story’ and pressed play once it appeared on the screen, he thought it was a fun movie to ‘watch’ giving the circumstances.

“Ooh, that´s a good one!” sad Patton ruffling his boyfriend´s hair “and now, you go on the VIP spot” Patton giggled and scooped Dorian again, putting him on his shoulder, Dee smiled and leaned onto Patton’s neck, he fell asleep at the middle of the fourth movie.

 Dorian opened his eyes and looked around confused, he was lying on Patton’ belly, and he was still small “N-no… no, no, no this isn’t possible…” he whispered to himself, trying not to wake Patton up, he looked at him, and noticed Virgil and Roman were cuddling next to each other on the non-shrunken man’s chest.

He carefully slid down of Patton’s body and into the couch, he looked at the floor and shivered at the distance between it and the couch, luckily, the floor had a fluffy carpet, Dee took a deep breath and jumped to the floor, letting out a small yelp once he landed, he looked up, making sure he didn’t wake up anyone.

Dorian ran to the main door, he had to get out of this house, find help, and find a way to get back to normal, at this size he could easily slide under the door, he almost crashed with the door being distracted by his thoughts, when he stopped, he noticed there as a towel rolled at the end of the door, blocking his exit, he tried to pull and push it, but it didn’t move, not even an inch.

Dee sighed and could feel the tears returning to his eyes, he sat on the floor and leaned on the towel, hugging his knees, he lifted his sight when his eyes caught movement, he saw Roman, standing in front of him “This is real Dee, I told you, the best thing you can do is accept it, and learn to live like this” he said, sitting next to him.

Dorian sobbed “I-I can’t… it’s just… this is too much… I feel like I could have done something, I got so attached to him I-I trusted him, I couldn’t even see who he really was… I just-just fell in his lies right away… t-this is my fault…”

Roman chuckled “God, the third stage already?”

“What?” asked Dee, turning to see the other shrunken man.

“The seven stages of grief, I went through them, Virgil did, and no you are” explained Roman.

Dee turned his sight away “I’m not”

“You are” affirmed Roman “you were shocked when we first saw you, then you were good as new, surely thinking this was just a dream, now you’re blaming yourself, it’s the third stage, guilt”

Dorian took a deep breath “How did you just accepted it? How did you get to the last stage?”

Roman stopped looking at Dee, looking at the distance instead “Do you want to hear my story?”

Roman’s story

Roman drove to his work at one of the local theatre companies at New York, he was the lead on the upcoming play and he liked to arrive early, but he was confused when the natural light he always drove with was almost nonexistent, but he ignored it.

He yawned while parking his car, he got out of it and walked to the entrance, just to find it closed, that confused him even more, then his phone started to ring, he got it out of his pocket and turned off his alarm, and then he noticed that was his alarm to wake up, he was so sleepy he idn't even noticed he had woken up earlier than usual.

Roman groaned and sat at the stairs of the entrance, he would had to wait until someone came and opened the building, he almost fell asleep but an hour or so later, a guy dressed in a light blue shirt with a light brown vest and brown jeans came walking with the keys in hand.

Roman recognised him as part of the staff, but he didn't even knew his name, he was kind of cute though.

The guy noticed Roman and yelped surprised ”Jesus, Roman what are you doing here this early?”

”I woke up early without noticing” said Roman chuckling ”How do you know my name?”

He giggled ”You're practically a celebrity around here, you've got all the lead rolls since I started working here” he said, opening the security gates and the door ”All ready, would you like to help me in there?”

Roman stood up and smiled ”Of course”

”I'm Patton” he said smiling back.

”Nice to meet you” said Roman getting inside with Patton behind him, he couldn't stop smiling and his cheeks turned into a light shade of red.

Roman bowed with the rest of the cast while the audience clapped and cheered, the curtain closed and the cast started to head backstage to change and so did Roman.

Once he was off stage, Patton ran to him and hugged him ”You were awesome out there babe!”

Roman giggled and spun his boyfriend in the air, they started to date soon after they first met, Patton told him he was polyamorous some days ago, Roman didn’t really mind and they’ve grown even closer since them “Just because you’re here, you give me luck” he said kissing Patton on the cheek.

Patton blushed and giggled ”That's not true! You're an awesome actor, with or without me”

”You know I'm not going to argue a compliment” he said and they laughed together.

”So, are you ready?” Asked Patton, turning his voice into a serious tone.

Roman took a deep breath ”As I'll ever be, I have my stuff in my dressing room, just let me get changed” he said, starting to walk away.

”Why?” Asked Patton taking the other's hand ”You look so handsome in that prince outfit”

Roman blushed ”Fine, I'll just go for my stuff then” he went to his dressing room and stuffed everything on his bag, closing and taking it before sending one last message to his brother ”It's time, I'll keep you updated” he got out and drove him and Patton to his apartment.

Since what they had became serious, Roman had tell Patton a lot about himself, including his homophobic parents, he had come out a couple of years back and they send him to therapy, he faked being straight so that they wouldn't kick him out of the house, his twin brother, Remus, was the only one who accepted him for who he was, but his parents also didn't know he gained money doing theatre, so none of his family went to see him perform.

Patton had offered him to run away, he was moving to another state and wanted Roman to come with him, which he accepted, they agreed to go that night after the play, they just had to get Patton's stuff and they were ready to go and start their new life together.

They arrived to Patton's apartment, he offered some food before the trip and Roman accepted, he was tired from his performance after all, he waited on the small table in the kitchen, checking if his brother had already seen the message, Patton left a glass of water in front of him, he started to drink it and some seconds later, Patton returned with the food, they finished and Patton went for his stuff, but before he could leave the room, Roman started to feel dizzy.

”Babe, do you have an aspirin or something?” He asked

”Why? Are you feeling okay?”

“I-I don’t know...” Roman stood up “I-I’ll go get some more water...”

Patton hurried to grab hid boyfriend’s hand, knowing what was coming next “Wait, you should lay down, or sit, I’ll go get the water jus-“

Roman kept walking, taking his hand away from Patton’s unconsciously “No, no, I can do it Pat”

Patton followed Roman to the kitchen “Are you sure?”

“Yes, It’s okay, I’m actually starting to feel better” Roman grabbed a glass and filled it with water, he drank it and turned around to see Patton.

The glass Roman had on his hand shattered on the floor when he dropped it, causing a small yelp from Patton, he looked at the pieces and then at Roman, then he noticed, Roman was shorter than him, he was starting to shrink already, but he was conscious, he hadn’t faint like Virgil.

Roman backed away from Patton “P-Pat... what is happening” he said as he shrank even smaller.

Patton giggled and walked closer to him, avoiding the shattered glass “It seems I can finally get to be the tall one” he said, ruffling Roman’s hair.

The shrinking man’s heart beat rapidly, he was shrinking, he was barely as tall as a kid now, and Patton wasn’t even bothered about it “y-you did this to me?”

“Aww, don’t be scared hun” said Patton, crunching down and rubbing Roman’s cheek “We were already going to run away together, it’s easier if you’re tiny, and you look so cute like this, you’ll be even cuter once you finish shrinking”

“S-smaller?” Patton was doing this to him, he was making him tiny and helpless, vulnerable “You’re crazy!”

Roman ran out of the kitchen, heading to the main door, he had to get out of there, he reached the door but the handle was meters away, he wasn’t able to reach it, not even jumping, and it was getting higher and higher with each second, there was a space under the door, he could get out sliding through it, he didn’t even noticed he wasn’t shrinking anymore.

He ran to his exit, just to crash with a pair of gigantic shoes, he looked up, and up, and up, until he met Patton’s face, cooing and smiling down at him, he knelt in front of him “you don’t want to get out there babe, the world’s dangerous for someone your size”

The shrunken man backed away, his boyfriend-ex?- was gigantic to him now “I-I’m not safe here either! You shrunk me!”

Patton’s smile dropped slightly “Of course you’re safe here silly!” He said scooping Roman up and bringing him close to his face to give him a kiss on his cheek “I’m your boyfriend, I would never hurt you”

Patton’s phone ring and he grabbed it, looking at the screen “looks like it’s time to go”

“G-go? Where?”

“To our new house of course, we’re still going to move, I hate to do this on your first night here, but, we already had everything planned” Patton stood up, grabbed Roman’s phone and the few stuff he had left in the apartment, he went to his room, the only thing there aside from the furniture was a cardboard box with holes pocked on the lid.

Roman started to panic again, he was going to be left in a cardboard box, was he really that small to fit in there? He watched as Patton got closer and opened the box “sorry for the delay Virge, Roman’s reaction to the formula was different than what I expected”

There, inside of the box, was another guy, he looked up and they both made eye contact, he had to be Patton’s other boyfriend, Roman was lowered into the box and then Patton took his hand away “I have to do some things before we go, I hope you two get along, I’ll be right back”

Roman then discovered Patton got rid of his phone and sold his car while he met Virgil, he returned soon after and they started the road to their new home, and Roman’s new life.

Virgil and Roman's first encounter

Roman saw as the light above them disappeared, the only thing keeping him and the other guy out of the dark was a small lamp, there were two doll beds and some pieces of cloth in the box, there was also a small bag with what Roman assumed was snacks, seeing as Patton left his other boyfriend here since his play started.

He sat on one of the beds, the one that wasn’t occupied by the other guy, he leaned on one of the walls of the box, trying to get through everything that was happening, his breath started to accelerate, everything seemed so far away and the little light that was in the room was beginning to turn off, he felt a hand on his shoulder, and a distant voice was telling him to breathe, he started following the voice’s instructions, breath in for 4 seconds, hold it for 7, and let it out for 8.

Slowly, Roman came back to reality, he looked at the source of the voice, the other guy, he had a pitying look on his face, as he repeated the same instructions while Roman kept following them “Thank you” Roman managed to whisper once he was calm enough.

“It’s nothing, you just had a panic attack Princey, but you’re welcome” he said, sitting next to him, leaning on the wall too.

“A panic attack? I’ve never had one before...”

The guy chuckled “welcome to my world” he said extending his hand “Virgil”

Roman smiled slightly and shook Virgil’s hand “I’m Roman”

Virgil looked away from Roman, he thought about what Virgil told him “Princey?” He asked

“Yeah, you’re wearing a prince outfit” he said, pointing at Roman’s clothes.

Roman huffed “I forgot about it, with everything that’s happening”

Virgil returned his sight to Roman “I’m sorry you’re trapped here too, I know it’s hard to get over it, at least you’re not unconscious”

“What?”

“When Patton... shrunk me, the formula made me faint, I woke up a day after in a dollhouse, but it seems you acted different to it”

Roman shook his head “You were the lucky one, I had to go from 5’10” to what? 4 or 5 inches tall? In a matter of seconds, it was terrifying, Patton went from being shorter than me to towering over me, not only him but everything kept getting bigger and bigger, and I felt so helpless, I cant even open a door anymore... I can’t even explain everything that I was feeling”

Virgil’s eyes where open wide “wow, that does sound worse than waking up small”

Before Roman could say anything else, the lid of the box was raised and Patton giant smiling face could be seen “All ready! It’s time to go, hold on to something I’m going to move you” the box was closed again and then it moved with no other warning.