Welcome to the fifthteenth rewritten chapter! The chapter title was made long before the Karen meme btw, I am truly an inventor

Tw: Physical abuse, threats of non-con kissing

Janus rose up into the dark side's living room after being cast out from the light sides. Rage was sitting on the couch with Envy cuddled up close to him. The anger was still burning up inside of him. He was going to make Rage feel as much pain as he'd put him through.

He walked towards the couch with clenched fists. Rage turned around and looked at him. With a snap of his fingers the anger disappeared and the bite marks stopped glowing red. All his energy seemed to disappear too as Janus stumbled forward and fell down on his knees.

"Why are you back so soon?" Rage stood up and walked over to the snake so he towering over him "Coming to tell us all about how you fucked up Anxiety?"

Envy shone up into an excited smile "Yes! Yes! How did you hurt him??? Did you poison him? Cut off his toes?? Sewed his mouth shut???"

Janus held onto the fabric of his pants so hard his knuckles whitened "I-I failed...The lighties cast me out"

Every line and vein on Rage's body turned pure red. Neither of them had ever seen him this angry. He grabbed onto the collar of Janus' shirt and pulled him up into the air before slamming him down onto the ground again.

"You WHAT!?"

Blood was filling his mouth and the entire room was spinning "Anxiety t-told them"

He let out a whimper when Rage kicked him in his ribs. Envy watched on. Tears were already rolling down his cheeks. He mumbled to himself about how that was his last chance and how he was stuck down here forever. He was stuck with Rage for forever.

"Is it really that fucking hard!?" Rage yelled at him "You just destroy them! They're nothing but an obstacle!"

"I...I..."

"No excuses! You're just a useless liar!"

He sat down on top of Janus' waist so he couldn't escape. A sick grin formed on his lips as he cracked his knuckles. Even his fingertips were glowing red with anger. Soon Deceit couldn't tell the red in Rage's veins apart from the red blood on his knuckles.

It went on and on. At least an hour. At least until the only thing stopping Janus from passing out was pain.

"Say it" Rage growled out.

"It's not my fault. I'm the villain" Janus' head felt heavy in his hands strong grip "I'll do better next time. I'll do whatever you want" He just wanted to sleep.

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Janus woke up 2 days later in a closet on the upper floor. He let out a soft wince when he tried to move. There was barely any of part of his body that didn't hurt. What confused him was that all his clothes had been taken off except for his underwear and that bandages had been sloppily wrapped around parts of him.

"Oh you're awake!" Envy exclaimed. He moved close to him. He sent him a bright smile while his eyes looked at every one of his injuries "I thought your brain had gotten scrambled and you'd turned into a vegetable or something"

"What happened?"

"Well Rage went all AAAHHHH and beat you up and then you were all passed out and you looked kinda dead and if you weren't dead I wanted to help you and if you were dead I wanted to dissect you so I dragged you up the stairs and into my room and some bandages were in here which I don't remember being here but it's awfully convenient so I won't question it!" Envy rambled out. He had a black eye "Oh and Rage also hit me for helping you but that's okay! If I tell myself it's just playful wrestling it hurts less!!"

"....Thanks...." He had to force himself to say it "I hadn't thought you would shut me out for messing up the plan"

"It's okay!" He lied while forcing his smile to be wider "We're a team. O-or well I mean me, you and Rage is a team. Rage says we dark sides have to stick together and that we're all friends so we're all a team. He said he loved me while strangling me a few weeks ago!!!"

"Dear I assure you Rage is 100% trustworthy"

"I know right!!" His neck twitched "Sometimes he cuddles me. I'm sure if I stop being so loud and irritiating and stOP THINKING ABOUT PULLING ALL OF RAGE'S NAILS OUT AND STUFFING THEM DOWN HIS THROAT UNTIL HE CAN'T BREATHE he would hurt me less! We would be such great friends if I wasn't so wrong! Besties!!"

Janus was starting to think that all of those weeks Envy had spent alone with Rage while he was with the light sides had negativly affected him. Just a bit.

Envy leaned over him "Can I touch your injuries? Study them? Draw them? Poke at them? Lick them??"

"Yes! Of course! I would love it! Fuck off!"

He was too tired from his injuries to deal with this. When was he not to tired to deal with Envy. He looked around the room. Piles upon piles of garbage filled the floor. Most of the garbage were things they'd thrown away because they didn't need it anymore. Some of it seemed stolen. His old socks were certaintly stolen. A matress had been thrown into the corner.

There was an old raggedy black hoodie laying on the matress, like a pillow. Janus gasped when he saw it. It used to belong to Virgil.

"The hoodie" His voice was almost shaky as he said it. He pointed at it.

Envy did as told and gave him it. He sat unmoving beside him, watching his reaction. Like a well trained dog. Janus buried his face against the soft fabric. He carefully put it on even though moving his arms hurt so much tears pressed on.

The hoodie still smelled like Virgil. It reminded Janus of a time before everything became so complicated.

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Envy took taking care of Janus very seriously. They were friends after all. He made sure he drank and ate enough and gave him time to sleep. He liked to stare at him sleeping. He looked so peaceful. Sometimes he licked his scales while he was sleeping, just to see how they tasted.

He'd pulled himself away from cuddling his friend while he slept to make him breakfast. He wasn't sure whether he should make himself breakfast. His thoughts (super mean inner friends) said that there were bad things in the food. Poison that would burn his insides until he died. Invisible razors that would make him unable to speak. Bugs that would infect his friends so they got mad at him and didn't want to be friends anymore.

Yeah food was for other sides. Not him. He was making a sandwich. Without any soap or mold because Janus was boring. He was a snake and yet he didn't want to eat raw meat or rats! Super boring!!

He flinched the moment he heard footssteps behind him. He pressed the bread knife down into his palm to remind himself he wasn't supposed to flinch. Rage put on the tab and moved his head so he could drink water straight from it.

"Would you want a sandwich too?" Envy asked. He got a grunted yes as a reply.

He cut up some more bread. Rage moved up behind him. He leaned his chin on top of Envy's head and pressed his chest against his back. The side of anger slowly moved his hand up under his shirt.

"Ehh that's-"

"Shhh" He pressed a kiss to his neck and sunk his teeth down into his skin until he heard a whimper from the smaller side. His fingers coyly touched his nipple.

"Rage I-"

"We're friends EnEn" He interupted "We're all we got" He moved against him in some sort of overly rough grinding that would have made Envy stumble forward if there hadn't been a hand pressing against his chest.

"The-the food i-is done. You can- don't- you can move away and eat now instead!" Envy forced a smile even though he was facing the kitchen cabinets. He tried to hand the sandwich over to Rage.

The food was slapped out of his hand. Rage made him turn around and grabbed onto his chin so he was forced to look up at him. Envy's back was pressed against the kitchen cabinet, right in the corner so there was no way of escaping.

"I know you're still helping Deecy"

"I-I can't just let him rot away. His flesh will d-destroy the carpet if I do!" His hands were shaking so much he dropped the butter knife he was holding.

"It's okay. I'll give you some of my anger and then you can be as angry as you want at Deecy! Just a kiss and a bit of your lip and you'll see red" He murmured.

"K-kiss. No I-" Envy held his arms out to try and stop Rage from pulling his head closer.

"C'mon. We're all gay. It's nothing"

"I don't want to! I don't want to hurt him!"

Tentacles shot out of his back but not even they could force Rage away. Envy tried to turn his head away but he was completely stuck. He saw in fear as Rage leaned closer and closer. A quiet but horrified sob left his mouth.

The microwave in the other side of the room suddenly turned on. They both froze from surprise. Rage turned around to look at it. Envy saw his chance and moved away. He stumbled down onto the ground and crawled a few feet away before making himself as small as possible. The tentacles moved around him like a shield. He closed his eyes and awaited the kicks or hits.

Instead he heard a loud thud. He flinched and waited another minute before slowly turning around. Rage was laying on the ground with his eyes closed. Quiet snores came from him.

Envy took a few deep breaths. He felt sick to his stomach. He sneaked over to the kitchen cabinet and made a new sandwich for Rage for when he woke up. He took the one he'd made for Deceit and ran up the stairs.

Janus was still sleeping so he put the food down besides his head. His hands were still shaking and tears pressed on in his eyes so he walked out into the hallway. He didn't want to wake his friend up with his crying.

Outside the door stood a sandwich on a plate. Envy carefully picked it up. He looked around but didn't see anyone. Maybe Rage had made it as a way of saying sorry!! What a good friend!

Envy sat down on the cold ground and carefully ate it. Or else he would be ungrateful. His tentalces wrapped around him to hug him.

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It took 2 weeks before Janus could walk on his own without collapsing because of the pain. 2 weeks of having no choice but to hear Envy ramble on and on about murder methods he'd come up with and animal facts he wished he could show Logan. (Deceit yelled at him to shut up whenever he mentioned Lo). 2 weeks of being shown gory drawing after gory drawing. 2 weeks of waking up to being stared at.

Now finally he was free. Free here meaning constantly having to hide from Rage. If the side of anger saw him he could at best get away with insults being snarled at him. Janus constantly wearing Virgil's old hoodie certaintly didn't help.

The red numbers coming from the stove illuminated Janus as he sat in the kitchen on the late night before Christmas. While he searched through the fridge he found a small light blue note laying next to a bowl with a lid on.

Merry christmas!
Please eat more healthy (:
Sincerely Dad

Patton had made a habit of writing them notes on holidays and birthdays. One time he'd woken up too Envy bawling his eyes out over Pat baking him a bithday cake.

Janus took the bowl and took the lid off. Inside was a salad with cucmbers cut out like a snake, an octopus and and a bull. He nearly smiled.

It was harder for dark sides to summon things including food. Luckily the fridge was like a link between both sides' home. They'd been stealing food from the lighties since forever. A plan began to form in Janus' head. He would-

"Whatcha looking at?" Rage's gruff voice interupted his scheming.

Janus looked up at him as he stood towering over him "Patty made us another stupid gift"

He grabbed the bowl out of his hands. He began to eat the salad with his bare hands. He looked at the cucumber snake for a moment before biting it's head off. "Y'know if you just tried harder" He said between bites "Less people would hate you"

"Everyone doesn't hate me" He lied.

Rage laughed at him as if he was stupid. He hunched down next to him and leaned closer "Face it snake. I'm the only one who can bother dealing with you"

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Nothing could stop Janus from his plan. He had to fix this mess. (He had to see Logan again). In his swirly handwriting he wrote down a note to Patton.

Thank you for the salad (: I hope we can reconcile even after all the horrid things I've done. My wish is too one day be able to go between my home and yours. Sincerely, Deceit

All of it was lies of course but the dad was so easily fooled he wouldn't know he was lying even if his name was literally Deceit. He put the note in the fridge hidden behind the cookies Patton had baked.

"Jeez. You going through some fucked up snake problems or something? You've been circling around that fridge all day" Rage commented. Janus flinched. How the hell could someone with that many muscles walk so godamn quietly????

"Yes dear. You see I had a passionate night with another snake hybrid and now I am pregnant and checking the fridge for 2"

"Gross"

Janus stood up to make him seem less intimidating. Though Rage was still easily at least 1 feet taller than him. He had a calm expression on his face as he took the glove on Deceit's scaly hand and dragged it off.

"You're too much of a thinker snakey. I don't like it" He rolled up Janus' sleeve "Maybe you should follow EnEn's example for ones. He doesn't have a fucking brain. I could tell him I loved him after cutting his thumb off and he would still belive me"

"Shut up" He hissed out.

Rage grabbed onto his scaly wrist which made him wince. He pressed it down against the top of the stove.

"So snakey dear, either you will tell me what you're planning or we'll see if we can burn those ugly scales off"

"I'm not planning anything. I'm busy licking my wounds right now if you get me"

"You're such a freak of nature I can't even tell if that's a metaphor or not" He clutched pieces of Janus' hair and slammed his face down onto the stove as well "But I know you're lying"

Janus forced a laugh "You know nothing you imbecile!"

Rage moved his hand down to turn on the stove. Deceit tensed up and awaited the fire.

"You're being mean!" Envy exclaimed in a shrill voice.

He was dragging in Rage's tank top to stop him. The bigger side looked down at him as if he was an ant standing in his way. He patted Envy's head and said with a fake smile

"It's okay. Go draw your bloody lil drawings. Let the actually important people do the decisions here"

Envy let his tentacles come out. They tried to force Rage's hands away from Janus while the side continued to drag in his shirt. Rage let out an annoyed sigh before grabbing onto a bundle of the tentacles and using them to throw Envy across the room.

He turned back to Janus and was about to continue on with his business of giving him burn scars....but the tentacles moved around his ancles and tried to drag him away. The marks on his face burned red as he turned to Envy.

He let go of Janus to focus on the small side still laying on the floor. Jan took his chance and ran away. He ran up to the second floor and hid in one of the rooms. He dragged Virgil's old hoodie closer around himself. He could hear distant screaming.

He didn't know how much time had passed before he heard a shakey voice say "Deecy?" Envy stumbled into the room.

There was blood on his face. One of the tentacles was dragging behind him, still twitching. Janus opened his arms and let him collapse into a hug. Quiet sobbing was heard.

"He calmed down. He won't hurt you" Envy sniffled out.

"Thank you"

"W-wanna look at my drawing?" He wiped away a few tears and held up his sketchbook "P-please?"

For once he wanted to, just to cheer him up "I would hate to"

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The next month continued on in the same pattern. Envy took all his punches. It had always been obvious that he was skinny but it wasn't until Janus held his shaking body after he'd gotten beaten again he realized just how tiny he was. His bones felt so brittle under his hands. Like he could break him in two without even trying.

Janus continued to write notes filled with lies to Patton. Lies about wanting forgiveness and begging to become a light side. The dad of course said that he could come live with them any time and that he was one of his lovely kiddos. If he'd been smarter he would have known Janus would never be forgiven.

He was pretty sure he'd buttered up Patton enough. Now it was time for the last and most crucial part of his plan.

It was early morning and he was sitting on the matress in Envy's room. The side in question was sitting beside him, staring at him with vacant eyes. Like he was waiting for being told what to do. He couldn't draw to pass the time right now because of his broken fingers.

"Darling could you do one thing for me?" Janus asked. His hand moved up to cup Envy's cheek.

He perked up and quickly melted into the touch "What? Want me to catch a fish with my teeth? Collect the lighties baby teeth and bake them into a cake?"

"Could you distract Rage for me? Just for an hour?"

He curled in on himself "I-I-"

"Please just do this one thing for me. Then we can take over the lighties. It'll just be the two of us" (And Logan) "I can become the new leader and you can do whater you want to do with your weird little mind and do whatever I say to help me when I tell you to"

"....Sure..."

"Good"

He waved his hands to show Envy it was time for him to go. He sulked as he walked out the door, towards Rage. Meanwhile Janus wrote hopefully his last note. This time in a more shaky hand style.

Dad I'm scared can I please come and hide in your room?

He sneaked down into the kitchen. He heard Envy mumble to Rage as he put the note in. He used all the energy he'd saved up to summon the item he needed for his plan. When he checked the fridge again a note laid in plain sight.

Yes!

Janus sunk up into Patton's room. It was as warm as a summers day. The dad ran up to him and pulled him into a tight hug.

"Are you okay? Please tell me you're okay!"

"Yes dad" Janus lied. "I was just scared because he was...he...he was going to-" He forced forward a few fake tears

"I'm so sorry kiddo. You can stay here. You can sleep in my bed and all. You're safe here, trust me"

Janus let out a low laugh. He leaned close and murmured into Patton's ear "Oh honey. I know I'm safe. You're the one who isn't"

Patton barely had time to let out a shocked gasp before Janus had made him silence himself. The heartbroken look in his eyes nearly made him feel something.

"What's definitely not happening is that you my dear Patty is my ticket to controlling Thomas"

He shoved him down on his stomach. He swiftly tied his hands together with the duct tape he'd summoned before tying his ancles together too.

Janus hunched down in front of him "I have to say. You have never looked hotter" He took away the silencing with a release of his fingers "And dear. If you dare make a sound I will transform into a spider and eat you!"

Patton nodded quickly. His body was shaking from fear. He wouldn't be able to speak much anyway since Janus grabbed some weird sock wearing a black hoodie from the floor and shoved it into his mouth.

"Have fun sweetheart" Janus blew him a kiss before shapeshifting into a photo copy of Patton. He left the room with a smile on his lips.

--

"Oh you mean how he is clearly-"

With one hand movement from Janus Logan's mouth had forcibly been shut. Great now he had yet another reason to hate him. The logical side felt relieved. He'd been missing the snake even though he know he shouldn't. Even though he knew it'd all been lies. Even though just thinking about Janus made his heart....his heart.....do something he couldn't describe.

The snake clearly being the villain made it all so much easier. He could force himself to hate him and move past their time together.

"Fine tell me!" Thomas's voice made Lo snap out of his thoughts.

"DECEIT!" He yelled while pointing at the villain. It felt great to say his name again. He'd missed it.

"I adore the new eyeshadow it totally doesn't make you look like a raccoon" Janus had made his bed now it was time to lie in it, there was no going back from being the villain now.

"FALSEHOOD!" Logan had to get Deceit away from here. His thoughts were already filled with him even when he wasn't here.

As Logan ranted on there were 2 thoughts running through Deceit's mind over and over again. First of why the hell did he have to look so handsome while destroying his plan! Second He's destroying his plan! This could not happen not after he'd already revealed himself to Thomas. It was good that he had shown Thomas a part of who he truly is but it certaintly didn't help him escape from Rage.

"You have no Morality" Maybe he was panicking just a bit "Sorry to break it to you-" He was interrupted by Patton's surprise entrance. Deceit tensed up, ready for Patton to lash out at him but nothing came and soon he had to accept his defeat.

For just a second their eyes met. Logan quickly eyed him up and down to check for injuries. There hadn't gone a single day without him worrying about if Janus was okay. He stopped his hand from reaching out to him. Deceit nearly broke his overly confident mask as he realized that right now he didn't belong anywhere even though all he wanted was to belong with Logan.

"Alright, but you've seen the last of me" The words left them both feeling unwhole and unsatisfied with the reunion. At the same time they were pretty sure this was how it was supposed to go. A dark side- A villain wasn't supposed to be together with a light side.

So if this is how it meant to go...Why did it still make them feel awful.