TW: Intrusive thoughts

*Virgil POV*

At 2 AM Janus and Remus come back. Logan and I set up the prank for Remy a few hours ago, but I probably won't hear anything about it until tomorrow. Or later today, technically.

"Look who finally decided to come back," I say.

"Shut it, Remus isn't well," Janus says.

"Sick or the other thing?" I ask, jumping down from my bed.

"Other," Janus says.

Oh no.

"I told you guys you should have left at midnight! Or earlier!" I say.

"Well, we didn't," Janus spits.

I crouch down by Remus, who's holding his head and shaking.

"Hey, hey, hey, it's gonna be ok," I mumble.

"No!" Remus says.

"Tell us what they are, we can help," Janus says.

"O-ok," Remus mumbles.

"Yeah. All of your thoughts, good and bad," I say.

"It-it started with blood everywhere. Everyone screaming and crying and real blood. Then I started hurting everyone, but not in the way I joke about," Remus says.

"Keep going," Janus says.

"They're not real, it won't happen," I say.

"But what if it does!?" Remus asks.

"We'll be there and we'll stop it," Janus promises.

Remus hiccups.

"I don't want to hurt you guys," he says.

"You can't," I say.

"But- aaahh," Remus says, burying his face in a pillow.

"Keep talking. Don't push them away," Janus says.

"Ok," Remus says.

This goes on until about 3 AM when his thoughts finally stop. It took longer than normal, but at least he's alright now.

"Are you guys awake?" Remus asks.

Neither me nor Janus responds.

"Go to sleep. Janus, you know you snore, right? And I don't hear faint music through your headphones either, Virgil," Remus says.

I roll my eyes.

"Fine, you caught us. But not sleeping isn't unusual for me," I say.

"Go to sleep or I'll bonk you with my morning star," Remus says.

"I'm good," I say.

I turn my music back on and try to fall asleep.

*Logan POV*

"Hey, kiddo!" Patton says.

"Salutations. You are back very late. Is the party still going?" I ask.

"Nah, it's just about ended," Roman says.

"Ok," I say, "You should go to sleep,"

"Yeah, but before you do I gotta tell you to stop hanging out with those other boys. They're going to hurt you," Roman says.

I raise an eyebrow. 

"I highly doubt that," I say.

Virgil proved tonight that he is very kind-hearted, and Janus hasn't shown any negative signs towards me whatsoever. And while Remus does seem a little crazy, I trust the other two to prevent him from hurting anyone.

"No really, I got some audio of them discussing that stuff," Roman says.

He pulls out his phone.

"Keep talking," Janus says.

"Then- we drag them down to the library and stab them. There- there's blood everywhere and it's horrific," Remus says.

Roman stops the recording.

"And there's a lot more," he says.

"We'll talk about that in the morning," I say.

Right now we all need to get our sleep schedules back on the figurative track.

*Virgil POV*

I wake up at 7 AM. I wish I could sleep in but my body is on school time, even though we have a break right now. We always have classes off every holiday, and the day after for some. So it's Thursday and we have no classes.

I look around and see Janus and Remus still fast asleep. Good, they need it. Not everyone can run on a few hours of sleep and a lot of caffeine and still function like me.

I get up, get dressed, and grab my backpack. I'm going to do some of my homework in Emile's office. He usually lets me go there because it's the quietest and nobody will bother me. 

I make a stop at the cafeteria first. A lot of the decorations I helped set up are still here, but I pick up a fairly realistic tarantula. I decide I now have an emotional bond with it and I'm keeping it.

I grab a cup of coffee, which they allow to everyone sixteen and up here, and make my way to Emile's office. I'm not sixteen yet, my birthday is later this month, but they say I'm close enough. And before that Remy always got me some coffee.

As I walk down the hall I hear someone open a door and let out a small shriek.

"VIRGIL!" I hear Remy shout.

I slid around the corner and over to him. My shoes and the floor make for easy sliding. Which is sometimes bad.

"You called?" I ask.

"Did you do this?" he asks, pointing to Emile's office.

"Perhaps," I say.

"You little genius," he mutters, "Should we leave it for Emmie to see?"

"Duh. It's a Halloween prank, and I had help," I say.

"Oh? By who?" Remy asks.

"I'm no snitch," I say.

"Ah, so it wasn't J or Re. Also, how is Re? I heard he had an attack last night," Remy says, his tone becoming more serious.

Remy, Janus, and I are the only people who know about Remus's intrusive thoughts. And Emile, of course, given he's the school therapist.

"He's better now. But the thoughts were pretty bad. He's going to need another session with Emile ASAP," I say.

I turn around as I hear someone coming around the corner.

"Oh, oh, hey Logan," I say, "How much did you hear?"

"None, but now I'm suspicious," Logan says.

I swear under my breath.

"It wasn't anything bad, I promise," I say.

Remy rolls his eyes.

"You are sounding really suspicious gurl. Just don't prank Emmie and I again, ok? I told you I'm not mad," he says.

I look at him. Just like Janus, he's really good at covering for things. But that's mostly because of how often he and Emile hang out together.

"Right, right. Sorry," I say.

Remy leaves but Logan stays put.

"He didn't like our prank?" Logan asks.

"Nah, but he's eager to see how Dr. Picani reacts," I say.

Logan nods.

"Do you know you have a tendency to repeat things?" he asks.

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"Just one word a few times before you carry on with your sentence," Logan says.

I go a little red. Nobody ever mentioned that before. How long have I been doing it?

"Oh," I say, "I- I didn't know,"

"It's fine, just something I noticed about you," Logan says.

I nod.

"Well, I am off to the library," Logan says.

"Mk. Have fun," I say.

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