Disclaimer: I don't own Thomas Sanders, he is his own person, or any of the Sander Sides.

Thomas had just finished filming a Sander Sides video. He was still wearing Virgil's usual clothes and decided to just keep them on while cleaning the area up, though the eye shadow was kind of irritating his eyes. He stretched his arms and gave a loud, drawn out sigh.

Joan and Talyn had gone home about three hours ago when he had said he was fine and could finish filming by himself. They had protested at first but eventually caved in with his persistence that they were exhausted and been filming for hours so he just had to film the last few scenes for Virgil. Though it took longer than he had expected, it was finally done and he could finally go to sleep after he cleaned up. He would start the editing process tomorrow with Joan and Talyn when they woke up. But now he needed to focus.

He turned off and unplugged his ring light and the glow soft-box that he used for filming. He stopped recording and powered the camera down. He took the SD card out of the camera and he set it next to his computer for tomorrow. He picked up his lights, careful not to hit anything else, and carried them to his large closet in the hallway to place them in for the next time he decided to film or make a video.

He picked up his camera and placed it on his coffee table and closed the tripod and set it against the wall. He started to thinking about the video he just finished making. He didn't exactly know what he wanted the title to be yet, but he wanted something long the lines of 'Hogwarts Houses and Fitting In,' though it didn't have that ring to it that he wanted. It was basically them just trying to sort each other into Hogwarts houses. It was also just an excuse to do a Harry Potter video.

He briefly humored himself at the thought of his sides bring real. In fact the thought humored him so much, he started chuckling softly as he headed toward the bathroom to wipe his eye shadow off. He imagined they hanged out a lot and softly teased each other a lot. He didn't know why, but the thought of them being real seem so weird and funny to him. It's not like that would ever happen though seeing as they weren't-- OW!

His thoughts were suddenly cut off as his head split into four, at least it felt that way. He stumbled out of the bathroom into his bedroom. He kneeled over next to his bed as his head exploded in pain. His form slumped over as he passed out from the pain. As his consciousness faded, he vaguely thought heard a couple -maybe three or four?- large thuds somewhere near him.

~~~~-Time Skip-~~~~

"AHH!!" Was the first thing Thomas heard as he jolted awake. He tried to remember what had happened. But the last thing he remembered was finishing filming the newest sander sides video. Wait, why was he concerned about the last thing he remembered? He literally just heard someone next to him scream, in his house. He weakly oped is eyes and tried to push himself upward. He didn't see anyone but he heard other people somewhere near him.

"Why are we here? How did we get here!? What kind magic is this?"

"This doesn't make sense, it isn't logical!"

"OOoo!! This looks like Thomas' house! Do you think he's here?!"

"ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh we're going to die! We shouldn't be here!"

He was struck by a sudden insane thought. No way. They don't exist. He was insane. This was insane.

He stood up and saw four all too familiar faces.

There was a minute pause when they all spotted him standing there. Then suddenly there was five very loud screams coming from each of them. Thomas ducked down behind the bed and tried to breathe deeply.

They were not here. He was dreaming, even if it all felt so real. He pinched his arm, and was horrified to find he felt the pain of it and he pinched way too hard.

"Thomas," he heard what he knew Patton sounded like. "Kiddo, it's okay, we're not going to harm you." He said, attempting to calm him down.

"Yeah, you can come out from behind the bed," Roman said. Thomas slowly got up in a crouch position and peeked over his bed. He saw the four of them; Logan, Patton, Virgil and Roman. Roman had one of his knees on the bed and was slightly leaning against it while Patton, who was the closest to him, was to the far left next to his wardrobe. Logan, however, was just calmly standing at the corner of the bed with his arms crossed. And finally, Virgil was sitting in the corner of the room with his head buried into is knees and hood up. His eyes, covered slightly by his purple hair, were peeking over his legs looking at Thomas.

"Uh.. hi?" Thomas said, or asked. It seemed that they all had they're own way of saying hello, just like in his videos.

"Greeting Thomas!," "Salutations," "Hey kiddo!" and a slightly muffled 'sup' is what he got in return.

"How are you all here?" Thomas asked. "This doesn't make sense, your'e not real." He mumbled the last part more to himself than the others. Though they still heard him and they all (bar Logan), looked offended.

"Well, the truth is we have no idea how we got here. And you are correct it should be impossible, we are just figmentations of your imagination and personality that you 'made up' for a YouTube series." Logan said, putting quotes on 'made up.'

"Iv'e always wanted to meet you Thomas!" Patton said excitedly tackling Thomas into a hug.

"Oh, uh wow, thanks," Thomas said, still a bit confused. He looked over to Roman and Virgil to see Roman hold out his hand to help Virgil up. He took his hand and stood up. Patton soon let go after squeezing him very hard.

"Quick question," Thomas started, "Am I crazy? Are you all really here? Are the videos I make accurate? Does that all really happen?" Thomas rushed out.

"First of all; that was four questions, second of all, this is probably not going to be a quick answer-" Logan said. "Third, No, you are not crazy and trust us, we are a part of your mind Thomas, we would know." Roman cut in. Patton decided to join in. "Fourth, yes! We are all here. You can see us, feel us, hear us and all that stuff!" He said, smiling and lightly bouncing on his feet. There was a beat of silence. Roman nudged Virgil and said, "Come on hot topic, your turn to explain." Virgil's eyes darted up, startled. It was only when he saw everyone looking at him he decided o start talking.

"Oh okay uh, the videos you make are accurate in some ways but not others. Most of the time Roman prods you to make them off of a real experience but he changes some things to make it more interesting. For example; the most recent video you just finished filming and 'Accepting Anxiety,' uh didn't happen quite like that in the mindscape. You see, in 'Accepting Anxiety' I actually uh, kinda panicked when I saw you in my room. I'll just leave it at that." Virgil said, stuttering and mumbling throughout his explanation.

"I guess you could say people call him 'Verge' because he's always on the verge of using his fight or flight reflexes! That wasn't my best one. I'm sorry. No I'm not." He said grinning and whispering the last part. Logan rolled his eyes while Thomas and Roman just smiled.

He simply responded with, "People call me 'Verge' because I'm always on the verge of tears," while rolling his eyes with a small smile.

"I don't know whether to give you an award for using a pun or scold you for self decorating-"

"-deprecating,"

"detramating yourself" Patton said. Virgil just smiled lightly and shook his head.

At that moment Thomas' phone 'dinged' three times. He scrambled to look for it. He spotted it on the floor next to Roman. "Hey Roman? Can you hand me my phone real quick?" He asked followed by a 'sure' from Roman. He handed it over to him.

Thomas scanned over his phone and put in his password when he suddenly paled and dropped his phone.

"What, Thomas. What happened- what's wrong?" Patton asked hurriedly.

"Joan and Talyn are five minutes away to help me with editing the newest video." He whispered, too shocked to do anything else. They all paled.

"Well, I guess we'll find out if we're real or not soon enough..?" Roman joked weakly.

To be continued...?

Hello. It is I. This is way longer than I anticipated and still don't think I'm quite finished yet. I still want to continue this and probably will, regardless. I hope you liked it. Any feedback is appreciated. Thank you.

--Ally

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