Whumptober Day 11
Hi! So it seems like I'm a day behind on these so hopefully I'll catch up soon. I've gotta work for the next three days but I'll try to do two in one day one of these days. I hope you enjoy this one!
Warnings: hypothermia, drowning,
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Hypothermia
All of the sides loved the winter season and everybody was in the festive mood. Roman would put up Christmas decorations, Patton decorated the tree and Logan baked a turkey dinner. It was their tradition to eat together and then go for a snow day in the imagination.
This year was extra special because for the first time, Anxiety- no, Virgil was joining them.
They finished eating and Roman summoned them coats, mittens, boots, scarves and hats, all coordinated to their favorite colors.
"Let's go~" Roman cheered once everyone was bundled up and ready to go.
He opened the door to the imagination and a burst of cold air entered the mindscape. They all stepped into the snowy wonderland and Patton immediately flops down to make a snow angel, pulling Virgil along with him. They both laugh and Roman trudged over to a little hut he made to store their winter supplies. Suddenly a snowball hits him right square in the back and Roman spins around.
"Who-?" Roman gasps and all he sees is Logan throwing another before he's hit in the face and falls backwards into the soft powdery snow. Roman sputters, wiping his face with his glove and grabs a handful of snow himself.
"You little-" Roman starts and throws his snowball and hits Logan in the shoulder.
"Snowball fight!" Patton cries from somewhere and suddenly they're in an all-out snowball war.
Virgil hits Roman and before Roman could retaliate, Patton tackled him. Logan hits Patton and gets hit himself by Virgil who made himself a shield out of the snow around him. The air is filled with laughter and Patton scrambled behind
Virgil's shield to avoid Romans snowballs. Roman crates his own shield and pulls Logan over and only when Patton yells, "Oh my goodness there's a lake! Let's go skating!" Does the war end.
Roman begins handing out skates to everybody and he leaps onto the ice, gliding gracefully across the surface. Logan's next, wobbling a bit but getting the hang of it pretty quickly. Patton leads Virgil out but the anxious side is watching the ice wearily.
"Is it safe?" Virgil asks and Roman scoffs.
"Do you think it wouldn't be safe?"
"The temperature is low enough that the lake should be frozen enough," Logan assures as he glides by.
"See, it's fine Verge! Come on!" Patton leads Virgil out onto the ice but Virgil wobbles dangerously and every almost-fall brings a horrified expression to his face. Patton's there the whole time and has a firm hold on Virgil which helps steady him for the most part.
It's only after a couple falls and Patton's kind encouragement that Virgil starts to get the hang of it.
He lets go of Patton and is slowly gliding across the ice, watching Roman do jumps and flips like they'd seen on 'Yuri on ice' and Patton claps enthusiastically every time.
Virgil starts to join in, a smile spreading across his face and Logan's expertly skating by now and is performing his own tricks.
Everything's going great until Virgil accidentally hits a rough patch near the center of the lake and falls. He lets out a cry of surprise that turns into a mangled shout as he breaks through the ice and hits the freezing water below.
He gasps, inhaling a mouthful of water and convulses, desperately trying, and failing, to pull himself towards the surface. He struggles but the world is quickly fading into the inky blackness of the water. The last thing he sees is someone jumping in and reaching out to him.
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Roman sees Virgil disappear into the water out of the corner of his eyes and immediately stops what he's doing to race over to the new hole in the ice. Waving a hand, his skates disappear and he looks down into the dark waters his friend just disappeared under. He waits a moment, hoping Virgil's going to surface on his own but he's not and Romans mind runs wild. He discards his coat and jumps in, using his influence of the imagination to widen the hole. The cold water is a shock but Roman forces the sudden panic out of his mind as he spots Virgil floating lifelessly towards the bottom of the lake. Roman grabs him, his own lungs screaming at him to get air and once he's got a hold of Virgil's hand, he pulls them both upwards.
He gasps as they hit the surface and he pulls Virgil properly into his arms. Logan and Patton are there now and he hands Virgil off to them, pulling himself up onto the ice he magically made thicker to support his weight.
Patton is by his side immediately, pulling Roman closer to shore and Roman catches a glance of Logan performing CPR on Virgil who's very pale and very still. Panic sets in and Roman closed his eyes. This was all his fault!
Virgil sputters suddenly and Patton lets out a worried sob as he wraps Roman in his discarded coat. Logan's pulled Virgil into a sitting position as the anxious side spits out the water he inhaled and takes a moment to breathe.
"We should leave, it looks like the beginning stages of hypothermia is setting in for the both of you and it's not good to stay in the cold like this," Logan says and Roman realizes he's shaking really bad. Roman nods and waves his hand, intending on warming up the weather but it's slow, too slow to do anything for them so Logan scoops Virgil carefully into his arms and Roman stands, using Patton to support most of his weight. They enter the mindscape and Logan places Virgil on the couch, telling Patton to go collect as many blankets as he could. Roman takes a seat beside Virgil who unconsciously curls closer to the prince.
"You both need to change, I would like to ask permission to change your clothes." Logan requests and with Roman's nod and Virgil's soft hum, he waves his hand and the two sides were suddenly in fluffy, warm and most importantly, dry, pajamas.
"Thanks Lo." Roman sighs as Patton carries in a handful of large blankets from his room.
"No problem. Would you like some hot chocolate or tea? It's recommended to drink something warm to help bring up your temperature."
"Could I have some tea, please? Verge, what would you like?" Roman asks, nudging the anxious side who'd closed his eyes and snuggled deep into the blankets Patton layered on him.
"Hmmnnn." Virgil groaned and smushed his face deeper into the blanket.
"He'll have a tea too." Roman said and Logan left into the kitchen to heat up some water.
"Do you need anything else?" Patton asked, watching Roman and Virgil with a worried expression.
"Come snuggle," Roman said, nodding at Virgil who peeks out from under his mountain of blankets. Patton slides in beside Virgil and hugs him, running a soft hand through his wet hair. Roman hugs Virgil as well, wishing they would warm up faster because his skin was still cold and though the blankets helped, he was still freezing. Logan appeared again and pressed a warm mug of tea into Romans hands. Thankfully, Roman drank the warm liquid quickly, holding the mug, not by the handle but by its sides to absorb as much warmth from the drink as possible.
Logan had to coax Virgil out of the blankets so he could tiredly take the mug.
The anxious side mostly just held it like Roman was instead of drinking it, closing his eyes as Logan slid in beside Roman and held him softly.
"I'm sorry," Roman said suddenly, looking down at the liquid in his mug.
"For what kiddo?"
"For this, " Roman motioned to himself and Virgil. "The lake was supposed to be completely frozen and safe but it wasn't and Virgil got hurt because of it… because of me."
"It's okay Ro, you didn't mean it. It was an accident." Patton assured and Virgil took a long sip of his now lukewarm tea.
"I still had a lot of fun." Virgil said softly, "more fun than I've…. ever had."
"I'm still sorry." Roman insisted and Virgil nudged Roman softly.
"Don't be an idiot, Princey." Roman chuckled and Virgil leaned closer, resting his head on Romans shoulder.
"Can we put on a movie?" Roman requested and Logan stood, grabbing a random movie off the Disney shelf and put it in the DVD player. He sat back down as Frozen started to play on the TV and put a warm arm around Romans shoulders.
"Thanks Lo." Roman said sincerely. "For everything."
"No problem Roman, now get some sleep. Your body needs to rest. Today has been very eventful."
"Okay." Roman hummed and closed his eyes. He was asleep before the first song.