Chapter 10: Remus's 1 st Kidnapping (Sleep Over)

Deceit didn't like that he had to scold Virgil for what he had done. He definitely didn't like confining the Shadowling to his room for a few days either, but after narrowly dodging the Prince and Duke of Creativity and had successfully gotten rid of the apple, he had to do something. So a few days in his room it was. Deceit himself wasn't going to be leaving their part of the mind anytime soon either. Not after dodging being stabbed by the Prince and put in a box by the manic Duke. It was amazing that there wasn't any imbalance within the brain. Especially, with the new chaos that came with two creativities. Still though maybe the Light Sides were on to something about Roman and Remus needing to be together, so as of now he was solely focused of keeping Remus unable to return. Which was a lot harder than just keeping a door locked. Especially on some as intrusive and the Duke of Creativity. He could physically feel the young Duke trying to pop in Deceits and Virgil's space of the brain. It was exhausting, the Snake Halfling sat on the couch with his eyes closed trying to focus on keeping their part of the brain repressed and unassailable to the other sides for the night. It was becoming difficult however, since their common room seemed to get colder the closer to night it got.

"Wow never seen you out of your room for this long." Remy greeted, walking right.

Deceits eyes popped open. "How….?"

"Function, remember." Remy answered the unfinished question, taking a sip from his juice box.

"I knew that." Deceit said. He could suppress the other sides but not a function, especially Sleep. Thomas needed sleep, and Sleep could go anywhere.

"Sure." Remy smiled dropping on the couch next to the Lying Side. "Did you hear that that Little Duke tried to blow up Morality?"

Deceit sighed and rubbed at his face. Of course Remus would try to blow up another side. "Yes."He said in an irritated tone. "And how is the goodytwoshoes?" He asked. Although the question came out sounding sarcastic if anything.

"Oh, he's fine. The Prince saved him and Logic should be a licensed medic after all the bandages he wrapped the Heart in. But Girl! Let me tell you. That little monster, is clawing get back here. Whatchya keeping him out for anyway? Is he too much for the big bad Snake?" Remy asked, smirking at the glare the Snake Halfling was giving him.

"Are suggesting I should separate siblings. Does that seem right to you Sleep?" He asked.

Remy hummed as he heaved himself up. "Whatever you say Dee. Whelp I better get doing my job. See ya later." Remy waved, sinking through the floor to leave.

Deceit rolled his eyes as the function of sleep finally left. Was it so wrong to want to keep the twins together. Sure Remus might not like the idea but the Duke had to realize that it was a better option than staying with Deceit who's job was to keep this part of the mind hidden and the sides that live in it. It was the Light Sides idea first. But they had a point. The young Lying side yawned as the Common Room got colder and wrapped himself up in the blanket the was draped on the back of the sofa and settled in for a long night. Surely Remus would give up after a few days. And hopefully Roman would forget about the stolen apple in the same amount of days.

(Light Sides)

Another day came and went and after several weeks of Remus living with his brother another bomb could be heard going off in the Light Sides home, followed by the cackle of Remus's laughter, although it seemed to cut off slightly at the end. The Duke seemed to be in a cranky mood as of late, and none of the Sides could figure out why, except be relieved when he left the room. Roman and Morality both blinked smoked from their eyes as they stared at the carnage that was once their common room. Remus had already bolted upstairs when Roman quickly made to follow his brother. "I'll talk to him Morality." He assured. The Heart said nothing, as he turned his head to stair at the tv, as Thomas blew up his own living room with baking soda, jello, water, and vinegar that were dyed red. The stuff getting everywhere and possibly staining the furniture. The little boy also getting cover, laughing in delight as he made hand prints on the wall.

"Fuck yeah!" Thomas cheered as another idea hit him. Taking off running outside.

"Oh, this is not good." Morality mumbled in horror. "Logic! LO! Help!" He cried running for the stairs banging on Logic's door.

"I refuse." Logic answered from the other side. "I will not give the little ruffian another chance to enter my room and destroy anymore of my books."

"This is important!" Morality pleaded. "Thomas is picking up curse words. We can't let that happen!"

Logic's door opened up enough for the Heart to slip through. "Let us have a discussion then." He said as he opened the door.

(Dark Sides)

Deceit had a rare moment where Virgil had ventured out by himself, leaving Deceit the Common Room to himself. Remus had stopped trying to return a few nights ago and it had been exhausting for the Lying Side to continuously focus on keeping the intrusive side away. So to relax the Snake Halfling was in the kitchen standing in a chair so he would be able to reach the mixing bowls and stir some batter as he tried to recreate the cookies Thomas had helped his mom with. While his batter was lumpier than Thomas's moms it still tasted delicious whenever the young Snake Side test tasted. Baking was relaxing and the cookies were going to be for him as he watched a cartoon marathon on Nickelodeon. He was going to put a few away for Virgil of course. He carefully removed his first batch from the oven the smell of fresh cookies so delicious, he had to remind himself to wait for them to cool. And suddenly leaving some for Virgil quickly evaporated; Deceit was also selfishness so why not be selfish for himself too.

Plate of cookies and milk prepared, Deceit ran to his room to change into his comfy clothes and to grab his heating blankets to cuddle up in as he relaxed. He was not expecting to walk right into a hole in the floor at the top of the stairs, and land in complete darkness. He was not expecting for something to hit him very hard on his head either. When he collapsed to the ground he was only aware enough to feel someone grab on of his ankles and drag him along humming a cheery tune, before he closed his eyes to ease the headache that was wracking his brain at the moment.

Remus on the other hand was happy. He had been trying for weeks to get back to his fried and finally he was able to worm his away past whatever had been holding him out for the past couple of weeks. Torturing the Light sides and his brother was fun and all, but he missed his Snakey Friend and if the Light Sides and that wall was going to make things difficult then he would just keep him. Remus stifled a yawn, and blinked his watery eyes clear. Deceit could read him more stories and then they could play in the play room some more and maybe even go visit the deforming part of the imagination and guess how long it would take before it destroyed Roman's side of the imagination. He did try to read Logic's books but they were so boring and dull that the only improvement he could think for such books were to get rid of the words.

But first he just needed Deceit near him, because he'd been sneezing lately and super tired. The young Duke was not feeling like himself. He blamed this phenomenon on Roman who had caught the sniffles earlier that week but Morality had nursed him back to health instead of joining Remus in discovering how much greener Roman's face and mucus could get. He took a sleeping Deceit to one of dungeon cell rooms, where he snapped in two sleeping bags into existence. Ropes appeared around the Snake Halfling, keeping his arms pinned to his sides, as the little Duke zipped him the matching yellow sleeping bag. He kept Deceit's where it belonged, on his head, so Remus propped the Lying Sides head up to accommodate, with an extra pillow.

Stepping back Remus tapped his chin as he tried to figure out what was missing. "Oh!" He snapped his finger and the story book Deceit had read to him appeared beside the sleeping Snake Side. "And Kracken!" He said, holding his arms open as his plushie octopus materialized in his arms. With everything done, Remus closed the cell door and locked it with a snap of his fingers and hurried over to the other sleeping bag and dove on top of it. The Duke scooted himself into Deceits side as he sneezed and draped an arm on his friend. Sleep over were more fun when you had a little spoon and big spoon. And for the first time in weeks Remus felt like he could sleep peacefully now. His thoughts seeming to slow down whenever he was around his Snakey noodle.

TBC

A/N: HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE! I hope you all like this chapter. I will be posting the chapter on Saturday. I will be age jumping at some point so just a heads up.