Anxiety has always and will forever be a child of the night. No one could deny that.

Decked out in his usual garb of all black, the facet could easily blend in with the 3am shadows, which is exactly what he was doing now.

Queitley, he moved, hood up and headphones in, the fridge was his destination. This had been the routine for the past few days now.

He’d stay in his room all day with the windows shut and the black curtains drawn. The room would be just dark enough, but yet he would not be able to fall asleep.

At first, he assumed it was his insomnia, that’s was on Monday, oh today was Monday too, huh- screw it time is an illusion. He ignored his inability to sleep up until Wednesday.

On Wednesday he did fall asleep, only to wake up gasping and sputtering his way into awareness, the odd thing is, he couldn’t even remeber the nightmare.

Thursday, he didn’t bother.

Friday…what did I do on Friday? Oh right, stared at the ceiling then came down for some snacks.

Saturday Morality dragged him out of bed, “you need to come spend time with us-”, said the Parent. Anxiety sighed, he had only just closed his eyes.

He was up all day.

Sunday was movie night, Thomas had implemented it a couple months back, something about getting relax together as one? Something like that.

They watched 'SING' together, it was quite amusing in his opinion. Prince obviously enjoyed it and so did Morality as both of them would sing loudly together at majority of the songs.

Logic surprised him, of course the Teacher didn’t sing, but he did clap along, as did Thomas. The movie night ended around 1am, everyone was asleep, except him.

Digging around in the fridge he found some strawberry yogurt, shrugging he grabbed a spoon and sat down on his black, one man, leather couch to enjoy the semi-sweet confection.

—

Logic noticed it first.

On Tuesday, Anxiety was far more lethargic than usual.

The Teacher had greeted the younger facet only to receive a grunt and a small nod as a substitute for “good morning”.

It continued on into the afternoon, when Morality greeted him and he received a grunt in turn.

Logic was puzzled as to why Anxiety was being closed off with them, well more closed off than usual, but he chalked it up as  the younger simply having a bad day.

——

Prince noticed it next.

Wednesday he saw Anxiety sitting in the commons and typing away at his phone.

“Greetings Anxiety”

The younger stopped, looked up and grunted something akin to “good morning”

Prince blinked.

“Are you feeling well?”

“ ’M fine”

And that was all the reply he got. Anxiety picked himself up and departed to his room.

“Rude”, pouted Prince.

The Royal huffed and made his way to the kitchen, a nice breakfast would be would take his mind off Anxiety’s gruff behavior.

Unfortunately for him the same thing happened at dinner, the darker facet simply brushed, well trudged past him with out saying a word. Could he slouch any lower?

——

Thomas noticed too.

He wasn’t making a video per say, just a little idle camera testing, a new angle trick he wanted to try out.

Of course, anything new and different possibly warranted a negative out come and thus his need to summon Anxiety.

The facet would be sure to tell him everything that could go wrong, which in turn would allow him to fix it, ah good old reverse physiology.

But when Anxiety was summoned onto the stairs, he was queit.

“Anxiety? You ok?”

“I’m fine”, he grumbled, sheesh, someone was grumpier than usual today.

“Oookay, so what do you think-?"

“That angle is atrocious, why is it tilted so low? The lighting is too dark for that area, do you want people to see you? That needs to move over to the left…”

—–

When Tomas finally finished fixing, well everything, he turned to his anxious side, he was going to ask the other what else might need adjustments…

Anxiety was nodding off right where he sat. His head was propped up by his hand and he was leaning on the railings of the stairs.

The facet was obviously exhausted, yet he kept fighting sleep. For every time his head bobbed, his elbow would slowly slide off his thigh….

His head bobbed. His elbow slid.

His head bobbed. His elbow slid.

His head bobbed. His elbow slipped.

Anxiety jerked up, slightly startled, blinking and groaning slightly when he realized what happened.

The facet stifled a yawn and rubbed his eyes. This was the first time Thomas realized that Anxiety wasn’t wearing his eye shadow, those were actual dark circles under his eyes.

When the facet turned to look at him, Thomas quickly faced  the other way, whistling, the utmost epitome of innocence.

—–

"Guys, have you noticed anything wrong with Anxiety?”

“Well, he’s been queit-”, shrugged Logic.

“And moody”, piped Prince.

“He hasn’t been sleeping well”

Thomas, Logic and Prince turned to Morality, the parent had a worried frown on his face.

“Why?”

“I’m not sure son-”

“Not your son, but is the something wrong with him?”

“I’m guessing you mean nightmares Thomas?”

“It could be that Logic-”

“Or he just can’t fall asleep-”

“That too Prince, but, why?”

“Well, there could be a lot of reasons as to why Anxiety can’t fall asleep-”

Prince cut Logic off.

“How ‘bout we just help him fall asleep? Before he like, falls on his face? He already has bags the size of the moon-”

“Roman be nice”

“Sorry Dad”

Thomas chuckled, Logic rolled his eyes, but there was a slight up tilt of his lips.

—-

“Ok, so everyone agrees to the plan?”

“Of course”

“It seems applicable”

“You bet!”

Thomas laughed, “alright, operation bed time is a go!”

—-

His eyes were closing on him again.

Dammit.

He almost face planted this morning while he was telling Thomas to fix the absolute disaster that was the living- aka video-room.

He wanted to sleep, he really did, his body was tired and his brain was beginning to feel like mush. But every time he did, he would wake up from a nightmare he could not remeber.

He was just about to give up and just deal with the invisible nightmare, when he was summoned.

The abrupt departure from his room to the stairs made him slightly dizzy. Blinking away the stars his eyes landed on his host and eveyone else.

“Wha-?"

“We’re having a movie night!” Exclaimed Morality.

“But it’s not Sunday-”

“It’s not, that’s why this is not a regular movie night, since we have nothing tommorow, we’re going to see how many movies we can watch until we pass out-”

“Ookay, what kind of movies prettyboy?”

Prince smirked.

Anxiety sighed, “We’re going all out Disney marathon aren’t we?”

Logic nodded. Dad smiled, Prince had the biggest shit eating grin ever and Thomas was laughing at them all.

And so it began, a Disney Marathon paluza, Morality and Logic cuddled up (though Logic would never admit it) on one couch, while Thomas, Prince and Anxiety were on the next.

——

It was about a quarter to three when Prince felt a weight on his shoulder.

Anxiety was beginning to nod off.

Gently the Royal maneuvered the younger facet to lay comfortably onto his chest.

“Aww”, gushed Thomas and Morality.

“Shhh! Don’t wake him!”, whisper shouted the fanciful side.

Either Anxiety didn’t care or was far too tired to care, the younger curled onto Prince, gripping his suit and burying his face into the elder’s chest.

“Awww”

The Royal rolled his eyes before tentatively running his fingers through Anxiety’s hair. The younger seemed to enjoy this as he leaned to the touch.

Shrugging internally, Prince continued his ministrations, Anxiety’s hair was really soft.

—–

When morning came, Logic found him self shaken awake via Morality.

He gave the other a questioning look but the he father simply pointed to his right.

Following the Parent’s gesture, Logic turned to see what was undoubtedly a cute sight.

Thomas was asleep leaning on the arm of the couch,  Prince was leaning on Thomas and Anxiety was curled up on Prince’s chest.

Morality chuckled quietly and took a picture, surprisingly Logic smiled and took one aswell.

—-

AN:// there, I gave fluff! Rellllllllll take it, take it all XD

Mobile won’t let me use Italics and bold sooo…. life