Chapter 16: Impaled, and Respawned, Just another Day
Deceit flicked his tongue out lazily as Remus tried to nudge a disgusting dead mouse into his mouth. Not that Deceit was going to be able to eat anything anyway. He was too cold to eat anything and way too tired. But Remus had grabbed him from the terrarium and had insisted that the Snake eat. As sweet as the gesture was, it was also a little too rough.
"Come on, Dee. You got to eat!" Remus urged, trying to nudge the dead mouse into the yellow serpent in his lap.
Rather than opening his mouth however, the Lying side decided to try and burrow under the Creative sides clothes to get to that warmth that was radiating from the Duke, to try and hide from the cold that was Remus's room.
Remus let out a series of giggles that escaped him as Deceit started wiggling his way under his clothes. He had to grab Deceit 's neck and hold the slightly wiggling snake away from his body. "Nuh-uh, my hissing fiend, no nookie nookie until you eat!" He said, kissing the Yellow cobra on the nose. "Look. Like this." Remus demonstrated gulping down a dead mouse and showing a winning smile full of sharp teeth to the Snake Side.
Deceit would have rolled his eyes if he could. But he really just wanted to get as close to any type of heat. Remus was trying and whether it was to keep him as a pet or something else, the Duke was at least trying to keep him healthy. But before he could eat he had to get warm. To try and communicate this he tried to put more energy in wiggling from the Dukes grip so he could get closer to Remus's body heat. After a bit Remus sighed and let him, even helping him slither under the shirt and wrap himself around the Duke.
"Okay, Snakey." Remus said, with a small smile that was unlike the one he usually wore and patted Deceit on the head where it was resting on his shoulder under his shirt. He was trying to help but Deceit wasn't cooperating. How was he going to take care of Deceit if he didn't know how. If Deceit couldn't tell him.
He stood in one fluid motion feeling at where the hidden serpent was coiled around his body to make sure the Lying Side was secure and not going to fall off, before sinking out into the mindscape. He was free to go to anywhere now and be as loud as he wanted with Deceit so weak, but he couldn't find the fun in that. But now he was able to pop into any room in the mind including another sides room, so when he popped into Logan's room, he pulled the Nerd up by his stupid tie, with a feral grin. "Hello, LoggieBear."
"Remus. You shouldn't be here." The Logical Side, said, pushing out of the Creative Sides hold. "Deceit must be slacking in his job."
Remus let the other Side move away from him, but he felt when the snake under his clothes restricted a little and being called out.
"Oh, Deedee's everywhere." Remus said, with a manic smile on his face. "Kind of like a ghost. But then we must all be ghosts since we haunt Thomas without him knowing all the time. Maybe someday we'll get stronger and then we won't need Thomas or maybe one day we will all have to fight as to who take control of Thomathy. Wouldn't that be cool and bloody?" The Duke rambled.
Logan let out a frustrated sigh, returning to his desk chair ignoring the rambling. "Well, then to what do I owe the pleasure?" He asked interrupting the Dark Creative Side from his rambling.
"Pleasure you say, well Loggie if it pleasure you want-" Remus grin widened.
"What do you want?" Logan corrected himself.
"Hmm, what do I want?" Remus hummed, taking dramatic steps as he started pacing. "I want a lot of things-" Under the Duke's shirt Deceit tighten his coils minutely and as weak as it was it seemed to put the Creative Sides thoughts back on track. "But right now I need to know how to take care of this snakey-snake." He said, ripping his shirt over to the side, showing off the yellow cobra's head on his shoulder.
Logan blinked, but other than that did not make any other facial movements at the reveal of the serpent on the Dukes person. "You wish to learn how to take care of a reptilia." Logan stated, eyeing the odd color of the serpent, but then shrugged it off. He had seen a rainbow maned unicorn in Roman's garden so this was pretty much normal, since he suspected that Remus had created the serpent. "This may be of help to you." He said, with a wave of his hand summoning forth one of his books on the creature., handing the book to the Duke. "Don't bother returning it as I am sure you will have found a way to destroy it by the time you are finished with it." The Logical Side said, as he turned to go back to work.
Remus snapped his fingers and his shirt and sash were all back in place as he took the book. "What a pal, Lolo." He smiled, as he sunk out.
Deceit who had been dozing in and out as Remus moved about, had to keep a conscious mind on not fully slipping into a deep sleep to keep his coils tight enough that he would slip off the living heater he was wrapped around. He was so focus on the warmth coming from the body of the Creative Side that when Remus lift his shirt and pulled him away from his body that it pulled a startle weak hiss from the Lying Snake.
"Hissy today aren't you." Remus grinned, wrapping the Snake around his neck and shoulders as he draped himself on a throne that was in his castle.
Deceit shivered and tried to coil around Remus's neck without actually choking the other side. A dead body didn't radiate heat after all. He didn't know what Remus was really planning on doing with him, but until he could warm up he wasn't going anywhere apparently. He just hoped Remus planned on leaving the imagination soon. The dark side of the imagination was too cold and even Remus's heat was no help, but it was all he had at the moment. Besides for the growls that sounded outside the castle walls, everything turned eerily quiet in the castles main hall, as Remus began reading. Or something that looked like reading, Deceit wasn't too sure seeing how the Duke was literally lifting the words off the page. Whatever the Side was doing Deceit just hoped he would be allowed back under his shirt soon to get some much needed trapped heat.
"Holy buttholes Deedee!" Remus shouted jolting upright in his throne, causing Deceit that slip a bit at the sudden movement and noise. "Sunlight! You sunbathe? I never seen you do that. How have you been hiding this from me? I follow you everywhere." He asked, running through his castle.
Deceit wasn't sure where he just knew they were going up a long flight of stairs, and then was chilled even more when the Duke open the a wooden door revealing they were up on a tower. The wind was more chillier up here and Deceit let himself fall from the Creative Sides shoulders to try and slither back into the castle. Although he kind of regretted it, seeing that the stone flooring was just as cold and he really couldn't get his body to move. "Whoops!" Remus said, picking Deceit up by the tail before righting his handling, as if he just remembered he needed to be gentle. The Duke looked up at the gray cover sky that was his side. "Might need to go to Romans side for sunlight." He mused Wrapping Deceit around his neck like a scarf, petting the serpent on the head as he leaped from his tallest tower.
And Deceit couldn't help it if his coils tightened then. Because even if he was just piece of Thomas and maybe not even able to die. It was still scary to fall from such a height. He bit the Duke in the neck as punishment when they landed safely.
"Ouch!" Remus's hand pulled the Snakes face away from him and looked him in the eye. "Now Double Dee, don't start something you can't finish. I don't think your in any position to handle what I can give." He cooed, rubbing his face against the snakes, like one would a fluffy creatures fur.
Deceit hissed out a sigh and let him, as Remus walked through the Dark Forest of the imagination. Rambling as he did so, his hand coming up every now and again readjusting the helpless Snake side a little whenever he got too still. It made Remus nervous whenever Deceit went to still. He didn't like it when Deceit wasn't moving, or hissing, or just being Deceit! Deceit looked miserable as a snake and he wanted to fix it! He was going to fix it.
He barely took notice of Roman's creature as he walked from the Dark Forest and into the Mystical Forest that was Roman's area. The silly creation weren't worth his attention anyway. Yeah he could probably destroy a couple of them, but he needed to take care of Deceit first and find the perfect spot to sunbathe. And when he found it, a nice big rock, sitting right in the sunlight in front of a lake and two of Roman's stinking fairies were sitting on it, making flower crowns. The Duke let out a savage growl as he stalked up on the creations. "Move!" He snarled, shoving them off the rock. The fairies shrieking in horror and flying away at his sudden appearance. "Filthy creature, blah." He complained, swiping the rock off, getting left over flowers and grass off it, the plants wilting at his touch, before he place Deceit on it.
Deceit coiled on the really warm rock and stared at Remus. Call him silly, but he didn't travel to Roman's Side after the creation of the Dragonwitch and Roman promising pain if he caught he and Virgil there again. So that meant that whenever he wanted to help with Thomas's daydream, he went to Remus's side now, although he never stayed long. Roman hadn't been lying that day when he said that he didn't want Virgil or Deceit there. He might not like Roman very much, but it was still his job to build the Ego and the Thomas's Ego was both Roman and Remus. So he compromised. He only enter one half of the imagination. Now Remus had brought him to Roman's side of the imagination and he knew it was only a matter of time before Roman found out.
"Feeling better now?" Remus asked plopping himself down on the grass, that grass around him turning gray and dead looking.
Deceit let out a small hiss and let his eyes roam across the lake in front of the rock he was now resting on. He felt better yes, the heat from the rock and the sun were heavenly and the lakes crystal blue water was a calming sight. Munching sound had him looking back at Remus who had conjured up a bowl of dead mice. The grass around continuing to spread to gray. Deceit knew it was Remus doing it. The Duke loved altering what Roman created sometimes and so rarely kept himself in control when in the imagination. But then why would he? Roman and Remus could do anything they wanted here and could not die. The imagination would not allow its rulers to be hurt and neither would Deceit when it came to the rest of the mind.
When he blinked there was a bowl of dead mice beside him. He would have gagged at the sight, wish he could have gagged when Remus had tried to force feed one to him, but he was a snake right now and all he could do was lay there. He hoped Remus would understand that he was not going to eat dead mice. He have snake attributes and turn into a snake when too cold and low on energy, but he was still a person. Or at least still apart of Thomas who was a person and so would not be engaging in the feasting of rodent flesh.
"Come on! Don't give me that look. Their delicious!" Remus pouted, apparently he didn't have a problem reading Deceit even in a serpents form.
Deceit answered that with a short hiss and turned his gaze back to the lake. It really was a nice spot here and it was warm. Not as warm as his room. But Remus had given him heat and wasn't planning on freezing him to death, so with this he began to calm down a little. The sooner he warmed up and rested, he would shift back. He glanced one more time at Remus who was conjuring withering thorny plants on from the dad grass around him, changing their shape and giving them eyes. Deceit would never tell the Creative side this but he believed he could actually go to sleep now and actually focus on resting. Hopefully, Remus would stay out of trouble until then. Returning his gaze back to the water Deceit closed his eyes and let himself fall asleep again.
Remus rocked in his spot as he watch the snake go to sleep. He could visibly see Deceits scales brightening. For all that he knew about the Side. The Duke was starting to realize that after all these years he knew close to nothing about the Lying Side. Hell, he knew more about Virgil than Deceit. He didn't even know Deceits name. Or what shows he liked. He didn't even know why the Side turned into a snake. He knew from the day he arrived that he liked; No, that was wrong, he knew he loved Deceit. Right from the start at age ten. Remus wanted the Snake boy. Now though he realized he needed to know how to help Deceit to. Now he knew what Deceit meant when they first met. Remus hadn't earned his real name yet, but that was about to change. "Your gonna see Dee. I'm going to be the one to steal your heart right from your chest." Remus grinned.
A large ball of water hit him right in the face after that, followed along with balls of dirt. The fairies were back and with back up. The dirt was fine, Remus loved dirt. But the water was hitting near where Deceit laid sleeping and no one was going to disturb him. "Intruder! Get out of here!" The fairies were shouting. "Prince Roman will be notified! You will be vanquished."
Remus rolled his eyes and summoned forth a three head cat with a rattlesnakes tail to attack the pesky things. He himself snatched a fairy who was throwing water near Deceit out of the air and held it up close to his face. "And what do you think you are doing attacking my Double Dee, snackbite?" He asked with feral grin.
"You don't belong here. That thing isn't one of Prince Roman's creation! Not one of us! Leave!" The little thing shouted,
"Bold of you to talk to one of your Rulers like that! That just earned you a deliciously severe punishment." Remus said, licking his lips, before chucking the pesky bug into his mouth and chewed as his cat creation chase the other pesky fairies away. Remus silently counted down from five, for when his brother would arrived, because for some reason they were connected like that and even although opposites would think of the same thing.
"Did you just eat one of my fairies?" Roman demanded, as soon as Remus counted to one.
"Depends on how fond you were of them." Remus smiled, hopping to his feet and spitting out a the leftover wings. He positioned himself in front of the rock so that the sleeping snake on it was hidden from Roman's sight.
"Seriously! Remus, I told you to stop terrorizing my creations and to stay on your side. And quit killing the flora!" Roman complained waving his hand and reversing the deaden grass back to being a healthy green.
"You're no fun you know that." Remus slouched. "It doesn't always need to be whatever this is." Remus said, indicating to all of their surroundings." And as he waved his hands reversing what Roman fixed.
"This is what Thomas wants." Roman scoffed, reversing Remus's affect on the imagination again. They stared at each other. Remus tilted his head. Did he want to engage in a little play time with his brother while Deceit was sleeping in and seeing that he had yet to stirred when the fairies were attacking, Remus was going to guess that his Double Dee was in a deep sleep. So maybe he had time to play with his brother. His Morningstar manifested in his hand at the same time Roman's sword did. "You really want to do this?" Roman dared, with narrowed eyes.
"Oh, you know it!" Remus grinned, hefting his morningstar.
The two twin clashed, weapons meeting. "I can't believe you sometimes!" Roman scoffed, as they pushed apart, sending a swift axe kick to Remus, who avoided with a backward flip, before charging again and swinging his Morningstar. Roman parried with his sword. "I mean can you not find anything better to do beside trespass onto my land and start trouble?" He asked. Ducking from another swing of the morningstar. "I mean what did my fairies even do to you to deserve such treatment. I cannot have you come here and threaten all you live under my protection! So get out!" Roman ordered, his blade catching hold of the green sash the Duke wore.
Remus who was just having fun with his brother froze for a moment and watched his ruined sash hit the dirt. Anger filled him and he wanted to rip Roman apart and was going to, because the imagination wasn't going to just let him kill Roman. "They deserved it because I said so!" He spat, dodging another one of Roman's kicks.
"And unleashing your foul creations onto my land? Is that because you said so too?! Do you know how childish you sound?" Roman shouted back and landed a solid kick and another sword slash on Remus, causing the Duke to hit the rock, which Deceit slept on oblivious to what was happening. Remus paused and look at the sleeping snake hoping he hadn't disturb him, and had stop moving long enough for Roman's blade to rest over his shoulder and point very near the sleeping serpent even though the threat was for the Duke. "I won't say it again. Leave my land, brother. And take your creations with you!" The tip of the sword barely touching the tip of Deceits brightening scales.
Remus's eyes widen slightly at what he perceived as a threat to Deceit. He didn't care if Roman threatened him, but to aim the tip of his sword at Deceit who was sleeping was crossing the line. Without a word of warning, the Duke grabbed the blade and yanked it from his brothers hands and tossing it away, as he turned around rapidly to grab Roman's pristine white shirt collar and pushed. "Let's talk somewhere more intimate Brother mine." He snarled, driving Roman away from the peaceful sunny lake. Sure maybe he was being dramatic like his brother and maybe having a little overreaction too, but that was Deceit the blade had almost touched and Deceit was under Remus's protection.
"Why you-?!" Roman struggled and a few times they both ended up rolling on the ground, but Remus wasn't going to give in. "If you don't stop, your going to force my hand!" Roman warned.
"You've crossed the line today. And today I get vengeance for it." Remus snarled, ignoring his brothers threats.
"Remus!" Roman's fist connected with the Dukes jaw. The fist thrown at the same time as Remus's fist. Both twins stumbled back from the strength of the punches. Roman wiped a hand at his nose and was a bit shocked it came away bloodied, but schooled his features into a stony expression, seeing that Remus was really on the war path this time. And he didn't care why. This was his side of the imagination and his land. He had to protect what was under his protection. "So be it brother!" He spat, summoning his sword, at the sight of the Duke doing the same.
(Deceit)
Deceit got a rude awakening as water hit his face. After napping in the sunlight he felt better, although if not a little disappointed to still find himself a snake. Which meant his temperature was still too low. But there were little flittering fairies that were throwing droplets of water at him. Roman's side of the imagination was not welcoming, and he didn't want to stick around in Roman's Side long, nor did he want to go back to Remus's. The Dukes side wasn't bad just too cold, due to the weather always being gray all the time. He glared up at the fairies that were trying to run him off the rock Remus had placed him on and hissed irritably at them
"Foul thing! Leave! You are not a creature of light!" The fairies were shouting.
Deceit shook his scaly head and slithered off the rock. He had other things to worry about besides some pesky fairies that weren't even real to begin with, like, Where was Remus? The Duke had left him alone and that was just out of character for him. He had seemed fascinated to that Deceit could turn into a snake. As he slithered along, he felt the ground shake. A whistling sound in the air was all the warning he got as an ax split the ground just inches before him. That alone gave him all the answers he needed.
The twins were fighting. Again.
And possibly causing a big distraction to Thomas. And the Snake Side knew he couldn't allow Remus to out right fight his brother anymore. Thomas wasn't a kid anymore. Which meant he had to go and get Remus, back on his own side of the imagination. But not as a snake.
Deceit stopped moving soaking in a sunlight and rested a bit. He was going to need all the energy he had to make himself shift from a snakes form. He figured it couldn't be no different from trying to stop the shifting. A large explosion and two battle cries echoing through the imagination had Deceit holding his breath and strained to make himself shift back to his human form; If that's what you can call it with a body cover halfway in scales. He shook his head and fixed his hat and gloves, he had to focus on his job. He only had limited amount of time like this anyway.
To continue to warm up, Deceit walked a little slower, after all it would be best if the two creative sides were tired once he got there. It would make his job a lot easier and the make it faster for him to escape to his room. It amazed him how far the twins were fighting from him. They sure could move around with ease here. When he finally found them he watched a few minute as they fought. Over what, he wasn't too sure. But knowing them. It was probably something childish to everyone besides them. But from the Lying Side point of view it mostly looked like Remus was purposely changing Roman's Side, and Roman was reversing all the while the twins were throwing weapons at each other.
Deceit rolled his eyes and shook his head as he walked from the safety of the trees that were partially shielding him and watched out in the open. Remus was bouncing around rather sporadically and Deceit knew better than to just run out there and risk getting impaled. Roman was more easier to keep his eye on. Taking a steady breath Deceit summoned his extra arms and let them stretch into the ground. He closed his eyes as he tried to guide them to where Roman stood. And when he notice Remus finally touched the ground he sent two of his extra four arms in the Dukes direction. Grabbing both of the unsuspecting twins ankles and tripping both.
"What in the name of Hades?!"
"Holy mother of hentai!" Remus and Roman shout both at the same time. Picking themselves up and looking and the yellow gloved hand on their ankles.
"Get it off!" Roman shouted, calling forth a swarm of swords and directing them to the Duke. Who batted them all away in the most manic way possible with his morningstar.
Deceit tried to shield himself but soon found himself impaled by a stray sword. As if his life at this moment couldn't get any worst. Now he had a sword stuck in his abdomen "Dee…." Remus called a little hesitantly. And Deceit focused on not showing how much pain he was actually in. Pain could come later. So instead he merely pulling the sword from his body with a small hiss escaping him and watched it fade from his hand.
"Splendid." He said and began doing a slow clap ignoring the blood that was leaking from him. It wasn't bleeding too bad yet. "A truly marvelous show of combat and childish banter." He could feel Roman trying to free himself from the pair of hands that kept both twins still and tighten his grip on the wiggling Prince.
"You foul fiend. I knew the were more of you! I knew you wouldn't fight fair Remus!" Roman accused.
"When do I ever fight fair?' Remus shrugged, before quickly turning his attention back to Deceit. "You okay?" Remus asked, trying very hard to keep his usually loud thoughts on track and focused. Deceit was back in his normal form. That was good. But they had just used Deceit as a pin cushion by getting too engaged in the thrills of battle and that was bad. He didn't know if the imagination protected Deceit like it did he and his brother. And re-framed from struggling in the hands that appeared from the ground. He knew it was Deceit stopping them.
Roman, however had had enough. First the Emo Nightmare was trying to hold Thomas back from experiencing the thrills that High school had to offer and now his brother and his devilish friend was trespassing on his land. Besides it seemed like the Deceitful Side was fine. He wasn't doubled over pain and the bleeding wasn't that bad. No reason for concern. "Will you two leave now?"
Deceit decided to speak before the Duke, opting to shush Remus by placing himself directly in front of the Duke, facing Roman square on. "How sensitive of you, Roman." He smiled. "I'm fine, by the way. Didn't hurt at all. Remus I do think we have overstayed our welcome. Perhaps we should take our leave." He said.
"Yes! You have!" Roman said bluntly. "Something I have been telling him, before he attacked me! Which brings up another thing. What are you doing here you Snake in the grass?" He demanded.
"Was just playing." Remus pouted.
Deceit let out a very dramatic sigh and opted to not answer Roman's question. "Well, whatever. We got what we wanted anyway, didn't we Remus." Deceit tilted his head toward the Duke.
"You bet your butthole we did!" Remus said, giving a sharp teethed grin.
Deceit let another sly grin cross his face at Roman's suspicious gaze flickering between him and Remus, but otherwise the Prince of Creativity said nothing.
"Well, as lovely as this has been Roman. We have other things to do." Deceit said, tilting his hat in farewell as he turned to go back in the direction of Remus's Side of the imagination. He would sink out but that took too much energy that he couldn't spare right now. As they walked he tried to ignore all the blood leaking from his injuries. Remus was rambling about something that he care to listen to at the moment. He just wanted to get to his room. He didn't want to find out if a Side could really die in the imagination or not. Didn't want to risk hurting Thomas should one of them bit the dust.
When they were fully back in the Dark side of the imagination Deceit had to stop and the chill was returning. There was something pulling him and he didn't know what it was but he felt like if he had no choice but to listen to it. Remus almost barreled into him. "Remus." He said, slowly and grimanced at how tired he sounded. He had his hands pressed on the wounds.
"Yeah, Dee?" The Duke answered looking worried.
"None of this is your fault." He said, making himself stand straight. He was slipping. But it didn't feel like death. "Try not to let Virgil panic." He said.
Remus nodded. And froze when Deceit erupted into nothing but tiny yellow lights that vanished into he mindscape. "NO!" He shouted, when it hit him.
He'd just kill Deceit, over a stupid fight with his brother! But wait no! No, no, no, The imagination would let them hurt each other. So surely Deceit wasn't gone. But what if he was. Would they get a new Deceit? That would be weird. But cool. But not his Deceit. That couldn't happen. Without much thought Remus summoned his door and ran through it and into his room.
"Hey! Open up Remus! What did you do to Deceit! I can't get him to answer my summons." Virgil was shouting as he banged on Remus's bedroom door. "I know somethings up! I felt it! What did you do?"
The Creative Side yanked it open and pushed past the Anxious Side, making a beeline for the yellow door. Only there was no handle. "huh, that can't be good." He mused, trying to will a door handle to appear, but none did.
"Hey! I'm talking to you!" Virgil huffed, standing off to the side, away from Remus.
"I think I kill Deceit." Remus said, slowly still processing it himself.
"What?!" Virgil shouted surprised, tempest tongue slipping out. The Emo teen pushed the Duke out of his way to inspect the door. "Why?!" He shouted turning to face to the Duke.
"Would you believe if I told you it was suppose to be a fun day?" Remus gave a smile grin with a shrug.
"No..." Virgil huffed, tempest tongue vanishing, giving the Duke a glare. Before he started pacing. "He can't be gone. His door is still here but what is Thomas going to do with out all of us. He could get in a situation where he actually need Deceit now! And none of us can lie like him!" He was talking himself back up into a panic.
Remus didn't care right now. Deceit's door was still here and for some reason that was a comfort; he wasn't sure why that was such a comfort but it was.
"This is all your fault! What were you even doing to him?" Virgil asked, upset.
"He turned into a snake and I was trying to get him to change back, but-" Remus started explaining.
"Wait, wait, wait! He turned into a snake?" Virgil asked.
Remus nodded. And Virgil walked up and smacked him on the back of the head. "You idiot! You put Deceit back in his room when he gets stuck in that form!" Virgil growled. "Why didn't you come to me?"
"I tried, dipshit!" Remus growled back, making the Emo jump back at how furious he sounded. "I didn't know what else to do so I took him to the imagination and then we got into a fight with Roman and Deceit got impaled." He finished, glaring at the Anxious daring him to say something else. A reason to let out the building emotions building in him. Deceit wasn't in control right now. Remus still had free reign over the mind, if he so wanted.
Virgil scoffed and quickly retreated to his room. "You better hope he's not really gone." The Emo mumbled before slamming his door shut.
Remus paced for hours in front of the door waiting for something to change. He was in the middle of planning on just breaking the whole door, when he noticed a new door handle appear and wasted no time in barging in. "Double Dee!" He exclaimed, but was met with a ball of yellow light sitting on Deceits bed. All the lamps were turned on and the closer he got to it, the better he was able to see and coiled up sleeping snake in the middle of the yellow light.
A swarm of emotions swarmed the Duke as he curled himself on the Lying Sides bed and wrapped his arms around the glowing ball of light, adding his body heat to it to try and help. "I got yeah Dee. Next adventure I'll take it easy on you okay." He smiled. Deceit was coming back to him.
It wasn't long before Virgil soon sneaked into Deceit room and without much paused, curled himself into Deceits bed wrapping his own arms around the light. Remus didn't say nothing to the Emo, too focus on the yellow light in his arms. It was like a silent agreement between them. Deceits room was neutral territory where the Emo and the Duke would not argue, but focus on the one who took care of them.
(A few days later)
Deceit yawned and tried to stretch out, but found himself trapped, by something comfortingly warm. Opening his eyes he first noted he was in his bed. The next thing he noticed was that despite Roman's and Remus's best efforts he was still alive. And the third thing was that Remus and Virgil had him sandwiched between them as they too slept. And he wasn't about to argue about that, except now he was hungry. "Well, this is horrifying." He said, jolting both Sides awake.
"You awake!"
"You good?" Virgil and Remus said at the same time.
"No. I certainly do not like waking up in a cuddle pile. Or whatever this is." He answered with a sly smile as they all sat up.
Virgil gave a small smile before knocking his shoulder into Deceits. "Lair." The Emo mumbled contently climbing off the bed. "Well, I'm going to go make some coffee."
"Virgil." Deceit said, with warning.
And the Anxious side through another smile his as he walked from the room. "Guess you better come stop me then" He challenged, the newly respawned Snake Side. Before starting to run down the stair.
"Wait Dee!" Remus said, grabbing the Deceitful side by the wrist.
Deceit looked at him with subtle confusion.
"Why didn't 'I' know you could turn into a snake?" The Creative side asked.
"I told you before Remus. Its nothing against you. I just don't trust easy. But I now trust you to never use this knowledge against me. And to bring my back to my room immediately if it should happen again. Not parade me around like a glorified pet." Deceit said, with a slight frown.
Remus thought he would be mad after hearing Deceits answer. But how could he, when this was Deceit telling him the truth. Deceit hadn't told anyone. And the Core sides and Roman probably didn't know Deceit had such a small weakness. One Remus was going to help him protect. As soon as he learned how. And that meant gaining Deceits trust. And that meant more dates to the imagination. So, Remus put on a big grin. "Okay. Next time, though tell me when our adventure gets to be too much." Remus said, giving a rather quick can rough kiss on the Scaly side of Deceit face before bounding out of the room and down the stairs, with manic laughter
Deceit didn't follow right away too busy processing that someone had touched, no not touch, but had kissed his scales. His gloved hand hovered over the spot that the kiss had touched. Surely, the Duke was just trying to mess with him. Was just being his normal Dukey self. Yeah that had to be it. Ridding the thoughts trying to plague his mind Deceit righted his clothes and made sure he had the wrinkle out of his slept in clothes before making his way down the stairs. To make everyone something to eat and to stop Virgil from consuming coffee. He did not feel like stopping The Anxious Side and Thomas from going into a panic today. Then later he was going to have to talk to Remus about boundaries and to ask him before forcing him into an unwanted adventure.
Yeah that what he had to focus on today. Among other thing. Well, one thing at a time, Deceit thought as he descended the stairs. To start his day.
TBC
A/N: Next chapter is a time skip chapter. And sorry for the delay in updates. The Holiday are really screwing with me. I hope everyone had an Awesome Christmas and a even more Awesome New Year! 2020 is almost over Yay!