Accepting Deceit Pt. 4

Accepting Deceit Pt. 4

@ab-artist

WARNING; Sympathetic deceit, a brief mention of blood

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Love, in general, was never really on Deceits mind. Before, when it was just Remus and Virgil by his side, he would never understand Roman and Patton’s feelings. How they could get so overwhelmed by these crushing emotions and not even know how to function. Deceit never understood that sort of love. He supposes he’s always known platonic love, how could he not? Virgil was - is his best friend. And Remus too, he supposes. Still, romantic love confused him.

That being said, something inside his heart is beating and moving and scaring him half to death but also thrilling him at the purple boy asleep next to him. His face is red and he feels as if he can’t breathe. And it doesn’t help that Virgil is holding his hand, or that his makeup is off and he looks so soft. Still, he’ll fight to never let this moment end, to stay here and let Virgil sleep next to him. 

Truth be told, he’d always had a soft spot for Virgil. When he first appeared and was shunned, Deceit, knowing what it was like to deal with being shunned, took him in. Minded him. Virgil was his best friend until Virgil managed to escape. Maybe Virgil had felt uneasy around him because he was everything Virgil tried to hide. Or maybe they just needed that time apart. Deceit felt his eyelids getting heavy, and with Virgil soft breath jut ghosting his cheek, he fell asleep.

-x-

“Well well well, look who decided to show up here again.”

“Not now, Remus.”

“Oh look, he even remembers who I am, lucky me,” Remus sneered. Deceit almost rolled his eyes but a realisation struck.

“You know you can come with me.” Remus as stunned by this left temporarily unable to speak.

“Yeah, as if,” he said, but his voice wasn’t as confident as before. Deceit walked forward and placed a hand on Remus's shoulders.

“Its never to late to be accepted.” Maybe it was the way Remus was looking at him or just the leftover feelings from the past few days, but Deceit turned and wrapped his arms around Remus. It was just for a moment, a soft squeeze before he let go, straightened up his coat, nodded to the others in the room and left. He had high hopes for the others, even if they weren’t accurate. No one was too far gone. (well someone people were) but the so-called ‘dark sides’ were not. No, far from it actually.

-x-

It was later that day when Deceit began to notice that his feelings were changing for not only Virgil but all four of them. Here he was, watching their animated debate when he caught eyes with Logan, the only other person not joining in. Logan gave him a look that said ‘here they go again’ and Deceit was hit with a wave of something so domestic. Like he had always been here.

Patton was laughing at his own joke, which was no an entirely uncommon event, but the best part was he could seem to finish the joke he was laughing so hard. And Patton has this laugh that was contagious, and Deceit was no exception. His side hurt and he was in tears laughing at a joke he hadn’t even heard yet. Every time they began to calm down, someone would set them off again.

And Roman. The boy who had a heart of gold and so much to proof. He arguing with Virgil, trying to find a movie to watch. Apparently they had movie night every week. When the argument settled, He look around for a seat. Patton was on the three seater, with Logan. Virgil was on the single seater, cursing Roman’s choice of ‘Cinderella’ (the live action, of course), but Roman looked right past them and sat down next to Deceit. 

It wasn’t that surprising that he had managed to fall in love with these boys. They were kind and sweet and always knew how to balance affection with alone time. Yes, they had so much more fighting to go through, but this, this was something worth fighting for.

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Virgil, to the dark sides: let’s start an acapella group!

Logan, without looking up: continuous screaming doesn’t count as acapella

Thomas: *isn’t taken care of his mental health properly*

Janus:

Patton: I heard you like bad boys

Janus: what?

Patton: I’m bad at everything

Janus, after a pause: did you just try and wink at me with both eyes?

when you miss your friend during this troubling time, just watch joan thomas being an iconic duo and understand thomas probably misses his friends more

this was brought to you by; OP just needs to go to sleep. its like 3am