*WARNING- self deprecation and an excessive amount of swearing, also this is really long*

Dad added Teach to the group chat
Dad added Prince to the group chat
Dad added Kiddo to the group chat

Prince: whaaaat is this

Dad: It's a group chat! I wanna be able to talk to you all at once!

Kiddo: whats up with my name?

Dad: Well you're my kiddo, kiddo!

Kiddo: i didnt agree to this

Prince: Well you can always change it.

Kiddo: HOW?!

Prince: Like this,

Prince changed Kiddo to AngstyTeen™

AngstyTeen™: Wow.

Dad: Awwwww Roman! I liked that name :(

Prince: Oh dang. Ok sorry Anx but there's no saving you.

Prince changed AngstyTeen™ to Kiddo

Dad: 😀

Kiddo: i despise this

Prince: I'm sorrrrryyyyy! It's illegal to make dad sad!

Teach: He isn't your dad. He isn't even a real father.

Kiddo: LOGIC WHAT THE HELL?!

Prince: HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO DAD LIKE THAT?!

Teach: I wasn't speaking to Morality. I was speaking to you.

Kiddo: he literally made this group chat 10 minutes ago and you've already messed up

Prince: Morality? Are you there?

Kiddo: BITCH HE BE CRYING! FUCK YOU LOGIC!

Prince: WAIT HE'S CRYING?!

Prince: ANXIETY?!

*irl*

Anxiety ran into Morality's room, seeing him balled up in a corner with his phone across the room. He was shaking.

"Dad!" Anxiety rushed over and wrapped his arms around the other. Morality clung on to him and cried into his shoulder.

"Hey, could you look at me?" Morality moved his head to look at Anxiety. Morality was a mess. He didn't have his glasses on and tears were streaming down his face. His eyes were bloodshot and the skin around them were red.

"Don't listen to Logic. He's just being a prick." Morality looked down and Anxiety became more worried.

"N-no... it's fine." Logic really broke him. Morality is already an emotional person. He normally doesn't give up this easily. 

"No it isn't! Me and Princey love that you call us your kids. We love you acting like our dad because you're special like that. You know how to cheer us up and Logic doesn't understand that."

*meanwhile*

Teach: But why get so emotional over not being a father? You'd think it wouldn't matter that much.

Prince: Of course it matters dumbass! This is Morality. You know what Morality does? You know a side effect of his role?! It's being emotional! We support him in these things because it makes him happy!

Teach: So you're willing to let him pretend to be your dad just to make him temporarily experience positive emotions? He was going to realize it eventually. I just sped up the process so he wouldn't be as negatively affected when he realized it for himself.

Prince: He wouldn't have to realize it if you hadn't mentioned something! He'd make an awesome father! How stupid are you to not realize that?!

*irl*

Logic was shocked. It had been a long while since someone had called him stupid. That was the one thing that really got to him. He was logic. How could he possibly be stupid? He had never understood that. But it always hurt in some aspect.

There were many times in the past where he had considered talking to Morality about why the word hurt him so much...

But now it made sense. Saying that Morality isn't a father hurt Morality just as much as calling Logic stupid hurt Logic.

He hadn't thought about it. All of them had some type of trigger that breaks them. He had the feeling calling Anxiety the antagonist was Anxiety's trigger. Creativity was a whole other battle field that Logic wasn't ready to experience.

He couldn't help but feel bad. Maybe he was stupid. If he had come to this conclusion sooner then Morality wouldn't be hurting. God he was stupid.

*in text, 10 minutes later*

Prince: Logic?! Don't ignore me, dickhead!

Dad: watch your language. Morality's reading this.

Prince: Anxiety!? Oh thank Zeus. Is Dad ok?! Please tell me he is..

Dad: he'll be ok. Btw wheres Logic?

Prince: I think I pissed him off. Just go read the texts but make sure that Dad doesn't read it too. I'll get in trouble 😖

*10 minutes later*

Dad: you really messed up Princey.

Prince: How?

Dad: "how stupid are you to not realize that"

Prince: Yeah??

Dad: you confused the hell out of him. He's logic. Logic= smart. It doesn't =stupid. By calling him stupid you've made him question his existence and meaning.

Teach: No. It's fine. I simply had to think things over.

Prince: For 20 minutes? I think the hell not.

Dad: Princey! Shut up!

Teach: It's alright. Just let Creativity rant.

Dad: what...?

Teach: What?

Dad: you only call Princey Creativity when your really conflicted on something. Most of the time its when youre thinking but i think theres something more.

Teach: Do you have autocorrect off or something? This is very annoying.

Dad: no. Dad has it on. i jst do tis cause it maks u mad.

Teach: This is why Thomas doesn't fucking love you!

Dad: nice meme. Gud effrt

Prince: I think you're going to give him a heart attack.

Dad: at this point im gonna make him kill me XD ill be the one having the heart attack.

Prince: Rip.

Dad: oof

Prince: Get nae nae'd.

Dad: get got.

Prince: What? XD

Dad: you know what i said.

Prince: I hate the fact that you're using dad's phone and that at any point he could take it back and scream at me DX

Dad: hes tried to a few times. Yur lucky im semi-nice.

Prince: Yes but you'll have to give it back eventually.

Dad: yep. Then it aint my problemo no mo

Dad: oh dang hes coming to yur room. LOCK YOUR DOOR!

Prince: TOO LATE!! AAAAAHHHHH!!!

Dad: good luck hiding. imma check up on Logic. He be silent.

Prince: SAVE ME!!

*irl*

Anxiety was already outside of Logic's door. He silently opened it and walked in. He could hear mumbling. "You fucked up idiot.. Stupid bitch.. No wonder they ignore you, dumbass..."

Anxiety was sure that was Logic saying it. Anxiety knew how hard it was to break the habit of beating yourself up. He didn't want Logic to get into it. Or maybe he already was...

Logic was sitting on the ground at the foot of his bed. His legs were pulled up to his chest and his arms were crossed laying atop his knees, his face hiding between his chest and legs.

"Fuck emotions... You shouldn't have them, retard... You're supposed to be a robot... A machine for people to use then forget about... You're supposed to not care that you don't matter..."

Anxiety was tired of this. His hatred was growing by the second and he just wanted to knock some sense into Logic and then cuddle him because he hurt Logic for hurting himself and oh god he was ranting again.

"They don't care about you... Why would they? You hurt them-" "ALRIGHT ENOUGH!"

Logic jumped and looked up at Anxiety. Tears were slowly running down his face and he had the most scared look Anxiety had ever seen from him.

Anxiety walked over there and grabbed Logic's arm, pulling him into a standing position.

"I am NOT going to listen to you talking down on yourself any longer! You fucking listen and you listen good. Both you and Princey are in the wrong here. Princey's being a jackass just as much as you were and you don't see him beating himself up about it!"

Logic looked down, rubbing his arm. He knew that Anxiety was right. He knew that Anxiety had been through this way more than he had. He knew that Prince was being irrational. So why did it affect him so?

"I-I'm sorry..." His voice was a whimper as he tried to hold back tears. Anxiety realized and pulled Logic into a hug. Logic slowly wrapped his arms around Anxiety and buried his head into Anxiety's shoulder. He felt embarrassed for feeling like this. He felt stupid for not noticing Anxiety had come in.

"It's ok.. Just calm down... I'm sorry for getting worked up. I just... Couldn't stand to see you like that. You don't deserve to feel bad. You deserve to be listened to and loved and I'm sorry that we don't do that as often as we should."

Logic whimpered and held onto Anxiety's hoodie tightly. Anxiety rubbed circles on Logic's back and quietly started to hum.

Oddly, it was really calming to Logic. He closed his eyes and relaxed. He didn't want to know why Anxiety cared about him. He didn't want to know how Anxiety managed to calm him down. For once, he wasn't focused on knowledge.

"What'cha humming?" Anxiety smiled and began singing.

"Just keep breathin and breathin and breathin and breathin.. And oh I gotta keep, keep on breathing... Just keep breathin and breathin and breathin and breathin... And oh I gotta keep, keep on breathin"

Anxiety's voice ran through Logic's head. He was trying to figure out what song it was, but due to the repeated word, he quickly guessed.

"My-my air... My-my air.. My-my air.. My air... My-my air... My-my air.. My-my air yeah~"

"Just. Keep. Breathing and breathing and breathing and breathing. And oh I gotta keep, keep on breathing! Just keep breathin and breathin and breathin and breathin... And oh I gotta keep, keep on breathin, oh~ feel my blood runnin, swear the sky's fallin... Keep on breathin, oh.. Time goes by, and I, can't control my mind.. Keep on breathin~ ooooo~"

Once Anxiety finished the song, Logic was half asleep. Anxiety's voice was soothing, what else was there to say? Anxiety slowly removed one of his arms from around Logic.

He bent down and wrapped his free arm around the back of Logic's legs. He picked him up and brought him to his bed. He laid Logic down and pulled the covers over him.

He walked over to Logic's phone and turned it on. Of course he would have a super complex lock. Anxiety was lucky that he was able to hack into Logic's phone one time and added his fingerprint.

He unlocked Logic's phone and it opened to Google. Logic had searched the definition of stupid. Of course he had. Stupid Prince.

Anxiety clicked out of Google and went onto the group chat. Princey hadn't talked much since Morality went after him.

*in text*

Teach: Princey you there?

Prince: Prince is dead. -Morality.

Teach: WAIT WHAT?!

Prince: Wait is that you Anxiety??

Teach: YOU KILLED PRINCEY!?

Prince: No, no, he's fine. I was joking, calm down kiddo.

Teach: prove it.

Prince: I'm ok, Anx. Dad didn't actually hurt me. He was just being dad and trying to piss Logic off.

Teach: you sure? How do i know you arent dad pretending to be Princey?

Prince: Coz dad doesn't swear. He won't even come close to swearing.

Dad: Hey kiddo! Sorry about that. It was supposed to be a prank on Logic but... Whoopsie doodle.

Teach: ok well, Logic is asleep btw.

Dad: Is he okay?

Teach: he had a mental breakdown and it exhausted him. He'll be okay but i dont want Princey or him to come in contact for a while.

Prince: Why?

Teach: you two literally got into a fight. You really think hed want to see you any time soon? Especially after you called him stupid?

Dad: YOU DID WHAT?!

Prince: I didn't think he'd care! How was I supposed to know that he would be affected by it??

Teach: how could you not? Hes the smartest out of all of us and you called him stupid. He is Thomas's logical thinking. Calling him stupid, is calling all of us stupid.

Dad: Ok, calm down kiddos. I'm sure this will all blow over. Anxiety, I'm sure that Prince didn't know what he was doing. Prince, you need to work on your name calling.

Prince: No way! I did nothing! It's not my fault he can't handle a single word!

Dad: Please? :(

Prince: Fine. -.-

Dad: :D

Teach: good. Now, im going to delete the texts from when Princey called Logic stupid to now so after you read this, say NOTHING about any of this. If we're lucky, Logic won't remember any of this. If not, then we're fucked.

Dad D:

Teach: figuratively. Not literally.

Dad: ok...

*irl*

Anxiety deleted the messages off Logic's phone. He looked over at Logic and felt bad. Logic was only trying to bring them down to reality. That's all he ever tried to do.

And there he was. Broken. Hurt. All because Princey couldn't keep his mouth shut. Or, something like that.

Anxiety laid Logic's phone down on his bedside table and plugged it in. He kissed Logic on the forehead and stood, walking out of the room. He didn't care what Princey or Dad were saying.

He walked into his own room and laid on the bed, picking his phone up. He decided to scroll through Tumblr instead. He was sure the other two could continue to talk on their own.

*in text*

*irl*

They couldn't talk on their own. Princey had fallen asleep for a reason unknown to the others. They never did find out how Princey fell asleep mid-day. He was always so.. Adamant on keeping a steady sleep schedule.

The truth is, Princey had cried himself to sleep. He couldn't handle the fact that everyone was mad at HIM. Logic messed up too, so why was HE hated? It wasn't fair.

Then when he woke, I showed up. I promised Princey protection from the cruelty of a misunderstanding. In return for him to show himself and the others to Thomas. Not Anxiety, though. He'd be the last to meet Thomas.

"And what about you? Will you ever introduce yourself to Thomas or the others?" I shook my head. I couldn't introduce myself. Yet, anyways.

Princey agreed and I smirked. I reached my hand out and he grabbed it. We shook hands and I smiled as all of his insecurities and fears flooded into my head. I knew how to trick him.

*with Morality*

He didn't understand. Prince had suddenly stopped replying. He was worried and confused but his body refused to get off the bed.

 Which, only worried and confused him more. He decided to let it go. Prince was fine. Probably just working on something. Yeah.. That was all.

*a few months later*

*text*

Dad: Hey you guys there? Gosh it's been a while since we've used this.

Kiddo: we havent used this since you made it, dad.

Princey: Yes, it has been quite a while.

Kiddo: da fok happened to ur name?

Princey: I've been on a few times.

Princey: And if Logan will come on, you'll see something else I did.

Dad: If you changed his name I swear I will fight you.

Princey: No.. Nothing to his name.

Teach: will y'all be quiet?

Teach: WOT?!

Teach: ROMAN I SWER I WILL KISS U!

Dad: ....What?

Kiddo: OMG THAT IS AMAZING!! XD

Princey: I know, right?

Dad: Ro... Please tell me you didn't mess with Logan's auto correct.

Princey: :P

Kiddo: no guarantee, i guess.

Teach: There. That's better.

Princey: Awww :(

Kiddo: oof

Dad: Thank god. You ok Logie?

Teach: Yes. I am alright. Roman won't be when he comes out of that room, though.

Princey: '~'

Kiddo: dang Princey. You messed up.

Dad: Logan! No playing pranks!

Teach: Well don't think of it as a prank, exactly. It's more as I'm using Roman as my lab rat.

Princey: For what?

Kiddo: a lab.

Princey: No kidding -_-

Teach: It's for an experiment. Trust me, from my knowledge, you will not get injured.

Dad: Logan, you know Roman has to be okay with it for you to make him your lab rat. And at this point, you'll need to give specifics for Roman to agree.

Kiddo: fuck Roman. Youll need to give specifics so i wont freak out in the next five minutes.

Dad: Logan? Roman?

Kiddo: please tell me Logan didnt kill Roman.

Dad: I'd be more scared that he kissed Roman, not gonna lie.

Kiddo: oof. That would be way worse. Id actually feel kinda bad for Roman.

Dad: Would you feel bad.... Or jealous?

Kiddo: both

Kiddo: wait

Dad: OMGOSH REALLY?! WHO WOULD YOU BE JEALOUS OF?

Kiddo: Logan.

Dad: O.O

Kiddo: NO NOT LIKE THAT!

Dad: So you'd be jealous that Logan's kissing Princey and not you? Or the other way around?

Kiddo: what do you mean the other way around?

Dad: Ok, either you'd be jealous that Logan's kissing Princey and not you, or you'd be jealous that Princey is kissing Logan and not you?

Kiddo: well definitely not Logan.

Dad: Do you like Princey?

Kiddo: Dad, could we not talk like this on the group chat?

Dad: OMGOSH YOU DO!!

Kiddo: nuuuuuuu

Teach: Thanks for letting me know. I will have to make some tweaks to this.

Kiddo: LOGAN WHAT DID YOU DO?!

Teach: Nothing, yet.

Dad: Logie! You're gonna give Anxiety a panic attack!

Teach: Sorry. I must go now. Be expecting someone, Anxiety.

Kiddo: WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN!?

Dad: Calm down, Anx. I'm sure everything is fine.

Kiddo: will you come over just in case?

Dad: Of course kiddo.

*irl*

Patton walked over to Anxiety's room. He'd never liked it in there. He'd only been in there once before, back when Anxiety first appeared. He wanted to make sure Anxiety would be ok thought, so he sucked in a big breath and knocked on his door.

Anxiety was terrified of opening the door. He slowly stood and walked over to it. He took ahold of the door knob and opened it just enough for him to see through. Once he saw Patton he sighed of relief and pulled Patton in the room.

He closed the door quickly and locked it, feeling a little more secure.

"Thank God you came dad. I haven't seen or heard anything yet, but I'm getting really anxious." Patton wrapped his arms around Anxiety and rubbed his back, trying to calm him quicker.

"It's okay. I'm here now. Calm down kiddo, it'll be okay." Anxiety wrapped his arms around Patton and took a deep breath.

Then they heard knocking, and Anxiety's heart stopped. He started breathing frantically and in short breaths. Patton pulled Anxiety away from him slightly and led him to the bed.

Patton left him there and went to the door, opening it slightly, only enough for him to see out of it. And when he did, he saw Logic standing there with his hands behind his back and a smirk.

"Greetings Patton, would you mind if I come in?" Patton didn't know what to think. He thought Logan would've sent Roman over. He nodded and opened the door more. Logan walked in and over to Anxiety. 

"My apologies for startling you, Anxiety. I knew Roman was still on the chat so I had to make it seem like I'm after him. Now, with your newfound emotions towards Roman, I would appreciate your help with this experiment. I understand if you decline, but know that there's no downfall to helping." Anxiety was tempted. He didn't think he'd have a choice. 

"And if I do help? What's the plan?" Logan smirked and sat down next to Anxiety, explaining the plan. Anxiety liked the plan. He liked the thought of messing with Roman. 

"Alright. Let's do it." 

~Time skip~

Anxiety knocked on Roman's door a few hours later, frantic and panting. He needed Roman immediately, so when Roman didn't answer, he let himself in. He opened the door and saw Roman in the corner of his room, legs sprawled out, leaning against the wall, and arms wrapped around his stomach. He looked like he was in pain.

"Princey~ What're ya doin on the floor?" Roman looked up at Anxiety, who was slowly getting closer. Roman looked a mess. His hair was matted on his head and he was sweating a lot. He kept wincing and every time he did his arms would become tighter around him.

"How did you get in I thought I locked that door?" Anxiety shakes his head and sits beside Roman, feeling his head. He felt really warm, but maybe that was because of Anxiety's naturally cold hands.

"You don't look too good baby. Here, let me take care of you." Anxiety, despite being the smallest, lifted Roman off the floor and carried him into bed. Before he set him down, Anxiety noticed that the blanket was stained in something red. Anx sat Roman down and picked up the blanket, showing it to Roman.

"What's that?" Roman became nervous immediately. He thought he washed that.

"Uhhh what do you not want it to be?" Anx scowled and growled at Roman. If it was what he thought it was he'd lose his mind and Roman would lose his privacy.

"You don't want me to answer that. Now. What is it?" Roman sighed and took the blanket from Anxiety.

"Would you believe me if I said it isn't what you think it is?" Anx looked unimpressed and Roman quickly thought of a way to get out of it.

"How about twenty questions?" Anxiety sighed and sat next to Roman.

"Ok. Is this blood?" Roman hesitated before nodding. He had to be honest.

"Is it your blood?" Roman nodded again and Anxiety thought for a second. The next question he had in mind could drive Roman away from him.

"Are you self harming?" Roman shook his head and before Anxiety had time to process it, Roman summoned Remus.

"Hey Ro- Oh. Hello Anxiety. I'm guessing you need my help getting him out of here?" Roman nodded and Remus /went over to Anxiety, who was unable to move. He couldn't get his eyes off the man who looked almost exactly like Roman. 

"Come on Anxiety. We can go into the living room and catch up right after I help Roman." Remus moved Anxiety out of the room and shut the door. He looked back at Roman with sympathy.

"I'm guessing he was close to finding out?" Roman whimpered and nodded, holding his stomach again.

"It's alright Ro. They won't find out. I'll make sure of it. Would you like to cuddle with one of De's snakes?" Roman nodded and smiled at his twin, happy that he understood. Remus sunk down and Roman was alone again. He was starting to like being alone.

Remus came back with Deceit, who was holding three different snakes.

"So, he wanted to see which of the girls would like you most because generally females have more sympathy." Roman nodded and Deceit went over to him, sitting on the bed beside him. 

"Don't lay down." Roman laid down and Deceit set the snakes beside Roman. One of the snakes looked at Roman, then moved to lay on his hands, which were rested on his stomach. Another snake curled up against Roman's shoulder. The last snake laid on his chest, just watching him.

"If you want, I can go get a heating pad for your cramps." Roman nodded and Remus sunk down again. Deceit covered Roman's legs with a throw blanket Roman had thrown under the bed last month.

"I didn't expect all of them to like you. I suspected at least one of them wouldn't catch on but, women always prosper I suppose." Roman chuckled and caught Deceit smiling, which he'd tease the other about when he wasn't dying.

"Uggghhh is this what death is like?" Deceit smirked and shook his head. 

"Nope. Death is a lot less painful." Roman let out a huff of air and gently pet one of the snakes. 

"Then please kill me." Right as Roman said that, Remus popped up. He didn't know what they were talking about, but he disliked his brother saying that.

"Will do." Roman and Deceit looked over at Remus and both let out a breath of relief among seeing him.

"I was being sarcastic. Calm down." Roman smiled at the sight of the heating pad in Remus's hands.

"Ok so, I was going to get my heating pad for faster results but I thought about it and decided that you wouldn't want to have your stomach burned to a crisp so instead I thought of grabbing Deceit's, which is like, mmm, but it was being used as a blanket by Kaa so I grabbed Anxiety's old one which is more for relaxing and comfort." 

Roman nodded and laughed slightly at the frustrated liar sitting in front of him.

"Again!? I told him not to touch it!" Roman couldn't get the smile off of his face at that point. Then his phone went off. Repeatedly. 

"Oooo~ Is that your boyfriend?" Roman rolled his eyes and grabbed his phone, not looking forward to this. He had 18 messages from the group chat.

"No. It's the others."

"Sorry, my bad. ......It's your boyfriends." Roman threw a pillow at Remus and the snake on his shoulder hissed at him for moving. 

"Sorry..." Deceit smiled at Roman and introduced him to the girls. The one on his stomach was Noodle, the one on his shoulder was Viperion, and the one on his chest was Ico.

"They have very beautiful names. How did you get these three anyways?" Roman pet Ico as Deceit moved Noodle so Remus could apply the heating pad.

"Well, Remus stole Noodle from Remy and gave her to me. Then the other girls are Noodle's daughters." Roman nodded and closed his eyes, letting the heat comfort him. 

"We should leave him be." Remus hesitated, thinking it over.

"What if I stay with him in case one of the light sides come to check on him." Deceit nodded and sank out, going back to yell at Kaa. 

Remus summoned a chair and sat to watch Roman. Remus really loved his sister.

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