Tw: being tied up, vague innuendos and gore mentions (Remus y'know)

Saying that Patton's and Remus' relationship moved quickly was an understatement to say the least. They went on dates at least twice a week and Remus started to spend more time at his boyfriend's apartment than where he actually lived. Which was in the basement under Roman's and Virgil's house. He'd chosen it himself because it reminded him of a goblin's dungeon.

They had been dating for barely 2 months when Patton convinced him to move in.

His brother and Virgil was helping him pack the last of his things (most of which were things so disgusting no one else but Remus wanted to touch them) when Virgil said

"Are you sure this is a good idea? I mean moving in after 2 months seems like too little amount of time"

"Pff Virgin pleassseee I've been friends with him for much longer than 2 months so really I see no problem with it" He responded while putting a jar filled with dead bugs in the box marked 'for future art use'.

"True but it just reminds me of that time you dated that really sleazy guy and you moved in with him really quickly and then he quite literally threw you out like a week later" Remus tried to hide how he winced at the emo's words "Or when you were thinking about proposing to that girl you'd been together with for like 2 months but she broke up with you before you could ask her or whe-"

"Ok ok I get it! I get that I'm such a disgusting dribble of a person no one wants me for long but I think Patton's different!" His eyes were glimmering with hope and his heart hadn't stopped beating out of his chest with excitement since he'd accepted to move in.

"Ugh I didn't mean to be a dick but someone here has to be the one who thinks for more than a second before making a decision" The emo sighed while looking between the idiot twins.

"Don't you mean be the one who overthinks?" Roman teased with a smirk.

"Just because I have some brainpower unlike a certain someone...." Virgil replied while holding his hands up as if he didn't know exactly who he was talking about.

"Come on now my dark stormy knight, don't you think it's gonna be nice to finally have the house for ourself" Roman agreed while nuzzling into his fiancee's neck and pressing a few kisses to it. Virgil couldn't help but start laughing at how it tickled.

"Sure, I guess having to be alone with the worst prince I know will be soooo good" He rolled his eyes before quietly adding "It'll be great"

Remus felt his stomach drop as the feeling of being a burden crept in.

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The first month of them living together was absolutely lovely. They would cuddle every night and talk for hours and spend the weekends outside hiking and looking at animals. Sure Patton always shut him up when he tried to talk about his more demented ideas but that was fine, all his past partners had.

Remus had never gotten this much attention before and that was what mattered. With every kiss on the cheek or breakfast in bed or late night of cartoon watching until they feel asleep in each other arms he fell more and more head over heels in love with Patton.

On that note the reason he did fall so fast was because he didn't really feel emotions on the level as everyone else. Either he felt completely empty or his feelings were maxed out. 

Remus didn't feel sad, he got the urge to cry rivers and cut his arms open and drink until he'd thrown up ten times. Remus didn't get angry, he exploded like an atomic bomb and hid his head under the pillow and threw things around until it'd gone away. Remus didn't get happy, he got filled with bubbles and rainbows and every good thing in the world all at once.

Remus didn't fall in love, he became so infatuated with a person he couldn't live without them.

Virgil had suggested that maybe he should go see a therapist about it. His constant dissociation and mood swings weren't good for him after all (he said he showed sings of bpd but what did he and his 4 years of taking a class in psychology in college know). Remus said he would try going to one but he never got the time.

This particular evening Remus was laying with his head in Patton's lap while watching a show he'd chosen for once. It was a reality show he and Remy usually watched. For some reason he hadn't hung out with them much lately but the duke tried to ignore that and focus on the fingers going through his hair in such a soothing way he never wanted it to end.

Patton leaned down and pressed a kiss to his forehead which made Remus giggle. The duke continued to ramble on about who he thinks should win and his boyfriend actually listened (!!). He was pretty sure his heart swooned....or that he would get a heart attack if he kept being this happy.

The duke had been going on a long tangent about how the show could be improved "-And then they pull in the shark tank and they get to have a photo shoot with the sharks. Imagine the blood shed. And the organs!! Just splashing out of their stomachs. Sometimes I like to think about people being hung with their own intestines-"

He abruptly stopped talking when Patton paused the show and stood up. He was about to ask why but the moment he opened his mouth the man in blue put his finger over his lips. He got the urge to bite his finger off but ignored it. Instead he watched from the couch as his boyfriend went into their (Their!!!!) bedroom. He could hear the closet door being opened.

Patton came back with a piece of rope in his hand. He motioned for Remus to stand up. A thought about hanging himself crossed his mind and he giggled at it before focusing on Pat once more. He showed how he was supposed to hold out his wrists and he carefully tied the duke's hands together.

He let out a chuckle "OOOOooohohohoh I like where thissss is going, that's what king Gustav the third also said right before he got his head shot off in the battle of Waterloo"

"Sometimes you can be a bit of a pain in the ass" Pat muttered back.

"I can be a literal pain in your ass if you want" He leaned forward wile purring it out. He tried to twirl his mustache but the rope around his wrists stopped him. He sighed happily "Who am I kidding, I'm not the top here"

There was a part of the ceiling where a bit of wood hung out slightly. It was located almost right behind the couch, a little bit to the left right next to a bookshelf. It was filled with books Janus still hadn't been able to come pick up. In the coming week Logan would come and lie about how the snake had ordered him to get his things or else! (Ooooh much scary) It would hurt to pretend like his friend was evil but it ensured his safety so it was worth it.

As Patton tied the upper part of the rope around the wood piece Remus tried to fish for kisses thinking they were just going to have fun but no affection came. His arms got pulled above his head as the rope was properly tied. He had to stand on his toes unless he wanted his wrist to hurt tremendously.

Once more he tried to fish for some kisses but Patton ignored him and sat down on the couch again. He changed the show to a happy cartoon and relaxed as the cute characters went on an adventure.

"Daddy I would really like this if you could just change where I'm tied" Remus called out "Ok hear me out having my arms like this kind of stops the blood flow in my wrists. Sure it would be fun to cut off my hands and see all the blood flood out but right now I would like to keep them"

He didn't get an answer.

"I get it I get it you're trying to be rough to please me which I really appreciate!! But I'm going to safeword this. Shit we don't have a safeword.....Bugvomit! New safeword Bugvomit! Fuck you're innocent you probably don't know what a safeword is. Basically it's something one can say and boom the roleplay is over and the more dominant one has to stop...Lemme put it this way, I'm kind of retracting my consent? Kind of??"

Still no answer. His feet began to get tired from standing on his toes. He tried to go down on his feet but his wrist hurt so bad it felt like someone was banging a hammer into them.

"Bugvomit! Daddy please untie me" His voice began to sound desperate. His fingers started to tingle weirdly as the blood slowly ran down to his wrists.

"Sweetheart can you hear the birds singing?" Patton suddenly asked without looking at him "I think I'll go for a walk, the weather is lovely today!"

He went over to Remus and pressed a kiss to his cheek. He leaned closer, so close his lips grazed agains the other man's ear as he whispered with a smile "Don't worry cutie, it'll be a short walk"

It wasn't until the sound of the door closing and a lock being turnt rang through the apartment he realized he really meant it.

"Patton? PATTON?" He yelled out "I'LL RIP YOUR EYES OUT AND SELL THEM AS ICE CREAM IF YOU DON'T COME BACK RIGHT ABOUT NOW" His yelling fell to figurative deaf ears.

The walk lasted for nearly 20 minutes. By the time the oh so kind man came back to the apartement Remus was close to tears and his voice was raspy, nearly gone from yelling for his boyfriend. He'd given up on standing up on his toes and let the pain from the ropes take over. His head was turned down to the floor.

"Oh look at you honeypie. I'd completely forgotten about you being tied up, silly me" Patton lied with a sweet tone as he quickly pulled off the ropes.

Remus fell down to the floor with a huff. His shoulders shook from tears of relief. Oh god he couldn't feel his hands, they were completely numb. The skin around his wrists had been rubbed raw. He couldn't even move his wrists.

"I'll take care of you okay? stand up now come on" Patton continued while moving Remus' arm around his shoulders so he could help him up.

They went to the bathroom and Remus was put down on the floor as the other man began to fill the tub with warm water. He had to help the duke off with his shirt and other things since his fingers wouldn't move.

"The water will probably do good for your wrist, come on" Patton said while waving his hands towards the tub "Good boy, you're such a good boy for me" He nearly purred it out. 

The water reached up to the middle of Remus back. He sat with his knees up to his chest and his face was hidden behind long strands of hair. There was a weird tingly feeling when his numb hands hit the water.

"Dear I can see your spine" Patton said while moving his cold finger along the bones sticking out which made Remus shudder "You should eat more"

He was too tired to respond, instead he simply nodded. The way Patton ran his hand through the duke's hair felt more demeaning than loving.

"I'm really easily scared" Patton admitted "So when you go on about those horrible thoughts of yours I panic so easily. I can not stop myself"

He forced Remus closer to him so he could lean over the edge of the tub and kiss his cheek.

"Can you promise me you won't scare me by talking about your horrid thoughts again?" He asked between the kisses.

He stopped and grabbed Remus' chin and moved his head harshly so they had eye contact "Dear promise me" he said with a stern tone.

"I promise" He mumbled while staring down into the water.

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Of course Remus couldn't keep that promise. He was ditzy and had the attention span of a goldfish (they can actually remember things for 1 year but shhh). When he saw something that reminded him of a disgusting bug fact or a medieval torture method he just had to say it.

Most of the time Patton would simply smile at him and shut him up with kisses but sometimes if he began to rant about his demented ideas he just had to teach him a lesson.

It was simple. Remus let him tie his hands together and since Patton didn't want to see his boyfriend in such distress again he made sure to tie him to a place where his wrists wouldn't be hurt. The duke would go along with it at first hoping he just wanted to have a fun time this time.

When Patton patted his head before going off and doing his own thing (he always stayed in the apartment) without even paying an ounce of care towards him he started to get anxious. Remus was attention hungry. More so than the most attention hungry cat. Without any he would quite quickly crumble down to yelling obscenities to get any attention, even negative one. 

He'd accepted any touch, even being hurt as being a good touch since at least then he got some sort of affection in the past. The same thing worked for attention.

"Poppy! Dickballs! Ok ok new safeword, applepie!" he had tried to make the safewords more Patton-esque so that maybe he would listen "Applepie, Applepie, Applepie. Untie me!! I'll bite my way out otherwise!! AND then I'll...I'll Bite you! Like a a big scary werewolf,not like a vampire! I'm telling you!!"

It wasn't until Remus gave up and stayed quiet Patton thought he'd learned his lesson well enough and let him go. Pat always showered him in good affection and cuddles and compliments afterwards so maybe it was worth it.

When he thought of abuse he thought of scratches, black eyes and broken wrists. Not this. His mind came up with hundreds of excuse as to why it was it was okay. As to why Patton wasn't the one in the wrong here. As to why in the end Remus really deserved it.

It was a normal Monday morning and just like on any Monday morning Patton woke up first in Remus' secure arms. He carefully got up to make breakfast before waking his love up with a kiss and breakfast in bed.

Actually saying this was a normal Monday was a lie. This wasn't a normal day and the night before hadn't been normal either. The duke had come across a nature documentary on tv and wasn't able to stop himself from exploding with facts about animal deaths for 15 whole minutes. When he'd moved onto weird facts about how the human body decayed after death Patton kissed him to shut him up.

Now the morning after Pat got up and opened the closet. His boyfriend was quite the heavy sleeper so he could easily tie his hands to the bedpost. Then afterwards he woke him up with a kiss.

Remus smiled as he slowly opened his eyes. Then he felt the pressure on his wrists and his eyes got filled with fear as he tried to move his hands.

"Good Morning honeypie. I have to leave for work soon but you'll be able to handle yourself right" Patton greeted with a smile while changing into his working clothes.

"What did I even say?" He bit off "Come on, you should have asked me beforehand at least. Surprises are good when it comes to pulled out teeth in birthday cakes, not this"

Patton complete ignored what he'd said. "Here take this water bottle" He placed it besides his head "I don't want you getting dehydrated after all. Oh I'll put the tv on the music channel so you won't get bored"

He disappeared out of the room and Remus tried to do anything to get away. The bed shook by how hard he tried. He suppressed a scream.

"Have a great day sweetheart" Patton blew a kiss from the doorway.

"NO NO Patton?" The sound of the door closing rang through the apartment "PATTON! I'LL RIP YOUR FUCKING LIMBS OFF IF YOU'RE NOT JOKING!" The minutes went by "Patton? Please? I-I'm sorry...please let me go"

When Patton came back from the 8 hour long workday he found a shell of a person left in the bed.

Remus laid perfectly still as if a monster would come and eat him if he moved. With how overbearing his imagination was he might actually think that. He stared into the wall with a hollow look in his eyes. There were tear streaks on his cheek and his eyes were red and puffy. His stomach growled since he hadn't eaten anything all day and his wrists were bleeding from how much he'd fought to get free.

"I had the best day at work today" Patton began as if nothing was unusual. He untied his boyfriend and massaged his wrists so they wouldn't hurt "There was a bunch of new dogs that I got to take on their first walk!" He rummaged around in his pockets and took out cute bandaids and put them over the deepest scratches so the bleeding would stop.

The duke continued to stare into the wall. If he didn't speak he couldn't say anything wrong.

"Oh so you're ignoring me now? Great!" He exclaimed while crossing his arms.

"That sounds great honey" Remus forced out, his voice was raspy. He decided to never speak unless someone asked him to.

Patton showered him in kisses, head pats and compliments as if that would make up for his hurt wrist.

"How's your day been?" He asked while ruffling his long dark hair.

"Horrib-" He shut his eyes and bit his lips to stop himself from saying the truth. Maybe it would be better if he bit down on his tongue so hard it cut off and slinked down his throat into his belly ".....Great, my day's been great"

"Did you think about anything in particular today?" Patton titled his head while smiling.

Remus moved so he was staring into his boyfriend's' eyes as grabbed onto his shoulders "I'll never talk about my bad thoughts ever again I promise! I'll never think again. I'm sorry I'm so sorry. I promise I'll never even think about the bad stuff again"