#shrinken!dee

”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?”