Chapter 2: Chapter 2
Dark
Virgil walked upstairs, to his old room, wiping tears off his face.
He knew the way, the Light and Dark Sides' corners were the same format, just with more personal additions to each.
He entered his old room. It looked just the same as when he had left, four years ago. He sniffed, and flopped onto the bed, tugging up his headphones, and began to cry into his pillow.
"Lunch is ready!" Deceit called up the stairs, about half an hour later.
Virgil pulled himself off the bed, wiped his face again and headed downstairs, hearing Remus from the kitchen, "Who are you calling? It's just us here." Then a squeal as Remus saw him. "Virgil! Why are you here?"
Virgil coughed feebly. Deceit intervened. "It doesn't matter, he's here now, and he's here to stay. Okay?"
"Okay!" replied Remus brightly. He hugged Virgil and sat back down.
Deceit poured pasta into three bowls and gave one to Remus, one to Virgil, before taking his own and sitting down.
They ate in silence for a while, punctuated by occasional loud gulps from Virgil, or the odd slurp from Remus.
"Virgil," Remus said suddenly. "How was life... Up there?" he asked, ignoring the deathly looks Deceit was shooting at him over the table.
"Um.. It.. Was okay, for a b-bit.."
"What happened to you?" asked Remus, looking worried.
"Remus!" snapped Deceit. "Enough. Not now. Okay?"
Remus looked confused, worried, and like he wanted to keep asking questions, but the look Deceit was giving him could kill, so he shut his mouth.
Virgil sniffed. "I'm.. I'm done."
He pushed back his chair and walked upstairs to his room.
Then burst into tears. Loudly.
Downstairs he could Deceit reprimanding Remus. Virgil tried to block it out, and pulled out his old laptop. His room and possessions hadn't grown with him, but pulling up his old laptop, it glowed dark purple, vibrating for a moment, before settling down, looking exactly like his laptop from back with the Lights.
He tried to ignore that fact.
He opened it, and tried to lose himself in the glow.
Light
They ate in silence, all three of them trying to figure out what happened, where Virgil was, why their heads felt like this.
"Ugh," Roman let out, pushing away his bowl of rice. "What happened? Why can't I remember anything that's happened in the past six weeks?" he turned to Logan. "Specs? What d'you think?"
"Possibly he went out," replied Logan. "But I find that unlikely. Perhaps Deceit may know."
"You want us to talk to Deceit?" asked Roman incredulously. "Deceit?"
"It- it might help," said Patton, his voice small. "If we just a-asked him if he knew where Virgil was.."
"No," replied Roman. "No!"
"Yes," countered Logan. "I'm going. Patton?"
Patton gave a small squeak, and nodded.
"Roman?" Logan looked tired. "Are you coming?"
Roman gave a big, overly dramatic sigh. "Fine. But if we get corrupted, I'm blaming it on you."
The three of them sank down and rose up into the dark of the Dark Sides' corner, just like Virgil had.
Dark
"Deceit?" called Logan. "Can we talk?"
A face popped around the corner, at the top of the stairs.
Virgil.
"What are you doing here?" he asked, his voice so full of hostility and anger that Patton shrank down behind Roman and Logan, and Logan looked shocked.
"Virgil? Why are you here?"
"Why do you think?" asked Virgil, before disappearing into his room with a sob.
Logan looked to the others. "What just happened?"
Deceit appeared, coming down the stairs. "What do you three want?"
Upon seeing him, Roman drew his sword. "What did you do to Virgil?" he yelled.
Deceit looked offended. "Me? What did I do to him? You were treating him so badly, he came home! It's not my fault, it's yours!"
Roman looked stunned. "Us? T-treating him badly? What?"
"He came back in tears, saying you hated him! I had nothing to do with it!"
They all stopped talking for a moment as they listened to Remus try to talk to Virgil, voice muffled by the door.
Virgil had since told Remus what had happened, so he knew what was going on.
"Virgil... Come on.."
"No!" Virgil's voice, clearly audible in a yell, startled the three Lights. "They were being horrible! Why would I want to talk to them?"
"See?" continued Deceit. "Now, if there isn't anything else, would you mind leaving? You're making Virgil feel worse."
"Fine!" yelled Roman. "But we'll be back, and we're getting Virgil back too!"
And with that, the three Light Sides sank down, back to the Light corner of Thomas' mind.
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