Welcome to the seventh rewritten chapter! Finally we've gotten to some of the bigger changes

Tw: Physical violence

1

Every 3 days that's what they had planned. Every third day Janus would briefly go back to the dark sides and tell them how his infiltration to the light sides were going.

Janus told them that 3 days was too little, that he wouldn't be able to make a difference in so short amount of times. These were stubborn lighties they were dealing with after all but they just kept on insisting. They probably didn't want to repeat the same mistake they'd done with Anxiety were they gave him too much time so he became comfortable with the light sides. Until one day he stopped coming back.

The first 3 days had been filled with tension from everyone so Janus had to wait patiently for the right moment to go. At night he thought would be the best time but turns out half and sometimes more of the lighties don't even sleep.

This particular night right when he was about to make his exit to the dark sides Roman skipped through the hallway quietly singing 'I won't say I'm in love' from Hercules. Janus quickly jumped back into the sofa and waited for at least 25 minutes after he had left until he got up and got ready to sink out again. This time no one interupted him.

Envy jumped up from surprise and an eek could be heard from his mouth when the snake suddenly came tumbling into the living room.

"Good evening double Dick-sarious! glad you could join us!" Envy greeted "Fucking finally! Thought I was gonna die from old age before you came...That's what she said" He was sitting next to the couch holding his nearly destroyed sketchbook.

"It's not like I'm doing my best here or anything" Janus crossed his arms and sat down next to him with a huff "I'm very very very far away from breaking down Roman's walls. He trusts sooo very easily. Another few compliments and I'll have him"

"How about you kill him?" Envy suggested with a grin "If the lighties are gone we can take their place and take all of their stuff. All of theirs will be mine!"

"If the lighties are gone Thomas would definetly be able to function" He glanced over at the book "What are you drawing?"

"Roman" He showed the drawings. Roman with his fingers cut off. Roman knocked on the head with a weapon so he dies. Roman eating a cake filled with poision.

"Very sophisticated but that is how Roman looks nowadays" Envy had drawn how the side had looked when he was still only known as Creativity. He hadn't seen him since.

Envy fiddled with his hands "Well can you like take photos of them so I can see how they look. I wanna know if I'm still jelous of their clothes"

"Yes because Mr.Jelousy himself definetly won't be jelous of their clothes no matter how they look" Janus rolled his eyes "Besides I can risk them seeing me take photos of them....Maybe I could get a Logan photo. He has to own me a favor by now"

"You fucked?"

"WHAT? YES!" Sometimes he hated how he had to lie all the time "He didn't take my saliva"

"You fucked" Envy nodded as if to convince Janus of it happening.

"I'm leaving" The snake muttered while beginning to sink out. His human cheek rosy from blushing and embarrasement.

"Sure whatever. Have fun up there with the food and warmth and all" He frowned and glanced away while saying it.

Janus rose up again just to be salty and add "Unfriendly reminder that I didn't come up with the idea therefore I get to be the double agent"

"Just get out of here so I don't have to see your ugly snake face any longer"

2

Patton tried to make Janus eat dinner with them but he couldn't stand the way Anxiety looked at him all the time. Logan seemed to either be ignoring Jan or he'd forgotten his entire existence. Roman was the most insecure side, he reminded Jan of Envy. He still hated the snake but he was breaking the more they talked. he probably liked that he's the one getting all the villain's attention and flattery.

1:23 am The creative side dashed through the hallway seemingly excited for the dream he was going to conjure up. 1:30 am Janus sunk back home. Yet again Envy was the only one waiting for him which was a relief.

To be precise the side in green was sitting on the floor. There was a knife in his hand and a snake slithering around in his harsh grip. In front of him was already a rat and a fox with both of their stomaches cut open. Intenstines hanging out. Envy grinned as he moved the knife closer to the snake.

"If you hurt that precious being I can and will puncture your throat with that knife!" Janus exclaimed.

He shot forward and smacked the slightly younger side at the back of the head. He let out an ow while letting go of the snake. The animal slithered up Janus' leg and safely wrapped itself around his arm.

"Relax double D. They're just imaginary. Conjured them up 'cause it's so boring having to wait for you" He let out a giggle at the horrified expression on the other side's face.

"It is good I'm with the lighties or I'll wake up one day with you trying to murder me" He muttered sarcastically

"I'll kill you in a loving way! Promise!" Envy assured while sticking his tounge out.

Janus took out a picture from his back pocket and held it up "I didn't get that picture of Logan for you but if you're going to be a snake torturer I have no choice but to destroy it"

He ripped the photo in two and dropped it on the ground. Envy's eyes widened. With a flick of his hand the animals and the knife were gone. He crawled over to the broken pieces of the photo. He carefully tried to put them back together.

"Since when did he get a tie? I thought he had a bowtie. Why don't I get a tie? I deserve a tie! I deserve to be up with the lighties! I should be known too! It's not fair. I want it all. I want to take their skin and wear it so I get everything!" Envy's voice became louder and louder.

He gripped onto the photo pieces until his nails pierced through them. Janus tried to make no sound as he sat down next to him. Envy glanced up for a moment. His eyes were solid black.

"I DESERVE IT!"

Janus flinched back as a wave seemed to go through the room. He tapped his finger against the floor and realized no sound came. He couldn't hear his breathing either. He could hear nothing except for Envy talking.

"Why do they get everything easily? I want Thomas to look at me the same way he looks at Roman! I want to be complimented like Patton! I want to be heard like Logan! I want to feel safe!"

Tentacles shot out from his back. They were convulsing against it each other. Dragging in floor panels and the couch to try and find something to protect themself from. Danger was all they knew.

It got hard to breathe as Envy's jelousy became so strong it infected Janus. All the hours wishing he could be like the light sides or wishing he had more power made his heart ache.

"It hurts! It hurts! It hurts!" Envy cried out while clawing at his chest.

His sweater got dragged down showing black veins nearly protruding from his skin. Oil like tears went down his cheeks. The tentacles took the picture and tore it apart. They moved to wrap themself around their host to comfort him. He held onto the tentacles while sobbing. He was hyperventialiting.

Janus reached out and gently placed his hand on Envy's shoulder. He tried to speak but no sounds left his mouth. Envy was still sobbing out half finished sentences and threats to the light sides so Janus slowly moved his finger up to his mouth to tell him to quiet down.

He shut his mouth and stopped yelling things out. The tentalces stagnated around his waist in a hug before beginning to inch back into his spine. His eyes flickered between being black and his normal green eyes shining through.

A sound was heard. Heavy foot steps. Rage. The two sides glanced at each other. Janus held his arm out in front of Envy ready to protect him but the younger side moved him away. 'Go' he mouthed quietly.

The foot steps were coming closer. Janus sunk out.

3

Anxiety sat on the kitchen counter snacking on a piece of burnt bread, he was in perfect view to see every step Janus took and he knew it. He must have realized something was going on because he didn't stop looking at his enemy for a second. The clock was getting close to 3:40 am, Rage would be mad. Janus already waited 3 days to see Envy, it was starting to stress him out.

At 4 am Janus' eyelids began to become heavy even though he tried to use the fear of what would happen if he didn't report to keep himself awake. Just when he'd fallen asleep a distant voice could be heard.

"Roman wants you to come" The voice said.

"Now? I'm kind of busy" Virgil answered.

"With consuming bread?" Finally Janus started to awaken and now he could recognize the voice as being Logan's. Oh his savior in blue.

"No with...with you wouldn't believe me anyway. So is it a nightmare again?" No answerable could be heard so Logan probably nodded as an answer.

After 15 minutes of waiting Janus assumed he was safe to sink out. He nervously picked on his scales as he returned home. No one was in the living room. He glanced around and noticed that the door to the small storage closet under the staircase was closed and locked.

He continued to look around for Rage though he doubted he was awake at this hour. The key laid discarded on the ground. Low muffled mumbling could be heard from inside. He picked the key up and quickly unlocked.

The room was empty and dark aside from Envy sitting in the corner with his knees pushed up to his chest. Long tentacles were coming from him, they were filling the room. He barely reacted to the sudden light coming in. He didn't even move.

"Come on EnEn" Janus muttered while letting the tentacles touch him so they would reconize him.

As the tentacles moved closer to their host so did Janus. With a heave he picked Envy up and carried him out to the kitchen. He assumed he'd been locked up since Rage had woken up from him being too loud. He had to be hungry so he put in some heatable noodles in the microwave.

Envy glanced around with an emotionless expression on his face. He stared at Janus with empty eyes "Dee? You're alive?" He reached out and took his friend's hand "They said you were dead"

"I know" Janus replied.

"They always say that"

"I know"

"They always get so much louder in that room. I don't want to do what They say" Envy fiddled with a tentacle while mumbling it out.

"Good that they're not just thoughts then" He took out the noodles from the microwave and handed them over to the other side "It's definetly not like you don't have to do anything they say"

He nodded while slurping on the noodles. He pretended like they were baby snakes. Janus sat down on the chair next to him. It was silent for a few moments as they both thought of what to say next.

"They said-" "Anxiety-" They said at the same time.

"Anxiety is more important" Envy said "You first.....Good last words for someone in a suicide pact"

"Okay. Well" He clasped his hands together "I don't suspect that Anxiety might be onto me, about the whole double agent thing. We sent him out on almost the exact same mission it's really no wonder he's suspicious"

"When Rage finds out you're dead" Envy glanced around as if the side would pop up out of thin air.

"He won't find out because you won't say anything and if he asks anything about what I've told you you lie!" He hissed out in a hushed tone.

"I'm not really a good liar"

Janus let out a long sigh "Can't you do this one thing for me? Please? It's just sooo very hard huh. It's not like I do it every time I speak! Either you lie or everything will go wrong and it'll be your fault"

Envy kept his eyes down staring at the floor. His shoulders had moved forward in a subconscious effort to make himself smaller. Janus fixed his gloves to give himself a moment to calm down. He leaned closer and whispered

"It's definetly not like I have a plan or anything. The two of us and no one else will take over the lighties. We will be in control. We will leave Rage down here and never see him again. We will be free to do whatever the lighties get to do. You simply have to lie for me, understood?"

He continued to fiddle with his tentacles. They were nuzzling against his cheeks and trying to move his lips upwards to make him smile. He glanced up at Janus who had a cold look in his eyes.

"Understood"

"Good" He reached out and patted his shoulder "Goodnight"

"Goodnight DeDe. Don't die...Please"

"Not allowed to die yet" He replied while sinking out.

4

Another late night of Virgil supervising him but today he got lucky. Today Patton stayed by his kiddo until he got him to sleep. You could see the dark circles under his eyes from miles away, of course the emotional side noticed. Not that he noticed Janus had them too, or he just didn't care.

1: 14 am and he rose up into the dark sides' commons. Envy was walking back and forth across the floor. A single tentacle was out and he was holding it close to his chest like a plushie. When he heard the other side rise up he stopped midstep and stared at him.

"Dee? Dee!" He quickly walked up to him and held onto his mini cap. The tentacle reached out to snuggle against Janus' cheek.

"Yes it is indeed me what a surprise" He replied druly. "Are you okay?"

There was a dark bruise on Envy's left cheek. He forced a smile while glancing behind Janus "Of course. Everything is fine. As fine as baby birds dying naturally!"

"Yes definetly" He lied "What happened"

He was staring at something behind Janus "Nothing...I-I he I he said he would lock me in again I-I can't not that room I couldn't lie I-I I'm s-sorry"

Janus tensed up "You idiot" He hissed out "They're just thoughts! How could that be worse than-than. You" He took a deep breathe "You've ruined everything"

He felt a hand land on his shoulder. He saw all of Envy's tentacles immediatly shoot out ready to protect their host. The hand held onto him so hard his shoulder ached. He slowly turned around and looked up to see Rage's toothy grin smile down at him.

"How's it going?" Rage asked.

"It's going fine" He lied.

"You sure about that 'cause this little weasel here told me that Anxiety is getting suspicious and if that's true you just lied to me" He said while his unkept nails dug into his shoulder.

"Lying is what I do"

"It's a stupid trait to have which is very unfortunate for you"

"At least I have enough braincells to be able to lie and If you actually used your brain you would have predicted that Anxiety would be a problem but he's not the only problem so far. Roman isn't warming up too me and yesterday I didn't hear Patton telling Virgil to stop being so suspicious of me an-" Janus explained.

He was cut off when he felt tentacles wrapping themself around his arms and legs "Did you just call him Virgil?" Envy asked with a heartbroken expression "You're planning something with him? You're going to l-leave me too?"

"We don't give a backstabber like Anxiety that kind of respect" Rage growled out "You're not scheming with him against us are you?" He asked leaning so close to Janus he could smell his stinking breath.

"Yes, it just didn't slip my mind. You both know I don't hate him the most here!"

"We also know you were closest to him" Rage replied.

"You two should be named paranoia. I'm not too tired for this" Janus said before sinking out.

He knew fully well this would make Rage furious but if Envy already had ruined everything he might as well use this chance to figuratively give Rage the middle finger.

5

Janus dreaded what was awaiting him. He didn't want to think about it, The world of cartoons were much safer. Suddenly he could feel eyes staring at him. For a second he thought it was Rage coming for him but that was far too smart of him so he put on his usual charm.

"Spying on me?" Deceit asked with a smirk.

While they were watching 'Courage the cowardly dog' it felt like he didn't have to worry about anything else. Every time he accidentally caught a glimpse of Logan's face he got reminded of the time he'd gone into his room. He seemed to think his snake side was interesting.

It felt nice to see someone not get disgusted by his snake traits...Nearly heartwarmingly nice....He could probably use that to make Logan like him. For infiltration purposes of course. Of course.

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Somehow sometime later after Logan had left Janus fell asleep. His dream consisted of a purple dog running after him barking that he could never be as good of a dog as him. Then a dark blue dog came and knocked him down before ripping his stomach open and feasting on his intestines.

He woke up in a cold sweat nearly feeling Rage's anger sipping through the walls all the way from home. He turned back to sleep, not wanting to face the day. After a few hours of just lying there like a drunk fish Patton softly tapped on his shoulder asking if he wanted food.

Janus hissed back something rude. Patton looked disappointed and a bit hurt at it before going away. Finally Patton at least thinks something smart. Every smart person would know Deceit was a bad person. It's the one thing he could be so why even try to be anything else. Everything just hurt.

He waited until the day had fallen and the moon shone outside. Virgil was in the kitchen watching him. Patton came once again but only to make sure his kiddo at least got a few hours of sleep.

At 02:17 am Janus sunk back home. He didn't want to make them wait any longer and make them more grumpy. This was enough to show that Rage couldn't control him. The moment he rose up he felt somebody grab his un-scaly arm. The person spun him around so he landed in a hug.

"I thought you had betrayed me too!" Envy cried. A black eye had formed around his right eye. Janus half-heartedly patted his back "It's unfair that you even have a choice to betray me. Why can't you take me with me next time, you've been there so much and I've never" His grip tightened around him making his scales hurt "I just want to-"

"EnEn that hurts" He interrupted.

"I..Sorry. You know I don't mean to get like that" He let go of the hug but kept his hand near the other sides' hand.

"I know" He answered.

Janus had barely had time to look around when something pulled in the collar of his shirt. His breathe was cut off as he was slammed down onto the ground. There were stars dancing around his sight as he looked up at Rage. He grinned down onto him and placed his big stupid foot onto the smaller side's chest. No matter how much he struggled he couldn't move.

Rage grabbed onto Envy's wrist and forced him close.

"Now now don't just go and forgive him like that, remember he left right when I started to lose myself. It's his fault I hurt you" Envy lowered his head downwards taking in every word. "Now I guess I could ask you why you were gone" Rage continued while looking at Janus "But all that you are is lies so I see no point in it"

"I'm on your side" He lied while keeping up a false smile up.

He let out a cold laugh while his grip on Envy hardened so much the smaller side winced "If you're supposedly on my side why did lil En here tell me you're planning to leave me down here"

"I was lying to him, obviosly! I just wanted to see you hurt him because of my lies" Janus forced on a bigger smile.

"Look at that! I don't believe you! What a shocker!"

Rage pushed Envy away in the way a child throws away a toy they don't want to play with. He reached down and grabbed Janus by his scaly arm. He let out whimpers of pain as he was pretty much dragged over to the closest door. His shirt got ripped making the arm fabric fall off his shoulder.

"You've had this a long time coming. Especially since everything you do always go wrong" Rage muttered out.

"At least I do something" Janus hissed back.

Rage didn't even bother to reply. He placed Janus hand in the door way even though he tried his best to fight back or sink out. He really should have eaten something, he was exhausted.

"Don't- he- I-I- Do-on't hurt him!" Envy stuttered out while dragging in Rage's shirt to try and get him away. It was like seeing a kitten try and move a car.

"It's your fault I'm angry at him in the first place" Rage replied coldly. He glanced over at Janus "If you dare to move I will take a knife to your scales"

He turned around and clutched onto a part of Envy's hair. The smaller side was forced with as he walked towards the staircase. Halfway there Envy realized what he was doing. His hands started to shake as fear filled his veins. His tentacles shoot out and desperatly grabbed onto walls and furniture.

"I TOLD YOU EVERYTHING! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T LOCK ME UP IF I TOLD YOU! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR THEM! THEY'RE NOT ME! THEY'RE NOT ME!"

No matter how much he yelled the door was still opened and he was still forced inside. The door was locked. His beggings to be let out could be heard through the walls as Rage calmly walked back to Janus.

"You're a bad influence on him" Rage stated plainly "He would have been good and quiet unless you kept telling him lies"

"Sorry I exists then! Would you rather I'd disappeared like Anxiety" Janus replied "If you didn't want anything to go wrong why don't you go up there for once"

He grabbed onto Janus' scaly hand and looked into his eyes "If I saw any of the lighties I would be so overcome with anger I would actually kill them"

For some reason Janus flinched back in horror at the thought of the light sides being hurt. The thought of Logan dead made him nauseous.

"Aww don't look sad now Deecy. It's their fault you're stuck with me"

He forced his scaly hand to the doorway. He smiled at him as he slammed the door shut. Janus tried to breathe deeply to keep his screams of pain inside but the moment Rage let go of his wrists he couldn't stop groaning as he clutched his bruised and red fingers, one of them even looked broken.

"Well that was incredibly dumb...even for you" Janus forced out between deep breathes "If the 'light' sides see that I'm injured they'll wonder why" Like they would care "Have you already forgotten I asked you not too hit me and that's how I got in in the first place? This will only make Anxiety more suspicious"

He could actually see how the information slowly got into Rage's not very smart brain. It seemed like his decision was too completely ignore it since he grabbed onto a handful of Janus hair and slammed his head down into the floor. Over and over and over again.

The sudden shock made Janus' body freeze. Everything started to spin around him and dark shapes danced around his vision. He just wanted to be somewhere gentle. Why was that too much to ask. He began to lose conciousness. All he wished for was safety as his vision darkenes completely.

He woke up in Logan's room.