I GOT DISTRACTED IM SO SORRY

It took a long time for Roman to stop crying enough to realize he needed to go back to the mind. He felt his stomach drop as he realized that Patton and Logan had no idea what had happened. He would have to be the one to tell them.

What if they blamed him? Roman couldn't help but think it. It was entirely possible-he would blame himself too, but Virgil had told him it was pointless. He knew Virgil wouldn't want him to blame himself, so he didn't. He couldn't control what the others did, though, and despite his panicked thoughts he slowly got to his feet.

He lifted Virgil's lifeless, freezing body, holding him close in his arms. He couldn't fight back more tears as he looked down at his peaceful face. He looked more relaxed than Roman had ever seen him when he was alive. This thought unsettled Roman, and he shook it off. There was no point putting it off; Patton and Logan needed to know.

Reluctantly, Roman vanished, appearing in his bedroom. He made his way out of the open door, carrying Virgil down the hall and into the living room. Patton didn't look up before he began to speak.

"Roman, is that you? Finally, I've bee-" His sentence was cut off as a horrified shriek escaped him. He had finally turned, seeing Virgil's limp body in Roman's arms, both of them covered in blood. He very shakily stood, stumbling over to Roman.

"Wh-wh... what h-happened?" His voice trembled, and he wasn't sure what to do. Crying seemed appropriate, but in his shock he couldn't even do that. "V-V-Virgil, wh-what happened to him... This-this can't be-this can't be real!" He cried, and finally a tear fell, followed by many more.

"I'm sorry," Roman was crying again too. "I'm s-so s-sorry... I tried to-I didn't know that-"

Patton threw his arms around Virgil's lifeless body, sobbing and shaking. "This can't be real, it can't be real, please let this be a dream!" He muttered to himself between sobs.

"Roman, what is-" Logan froze behind Roman, seeing what was going on. Roman couldn't speak up to tell him anything, and Logan didn't speak again at all. He just stood, and stared. He didn't know how to react, didn't know what to do. He couldn't move, just watched and listened as Patton sobbed, screaming that this had to be a dream.

"I'm sorry," Roman whispered, collapsing with Virgil still in his arms. He couldn't hold himself up any longer. "I'm so sorry, I should've-should've-"

"Roman," Logan finally spoke up, voice quiet and broken. "It is not your fault." He assured, stepping up closer to he two of them. Patton had sank to the ground too, still clutching desperately on to Virgil's body. Logan sat down too, his own legs also felt like giving out on him soon, putting a hand on Roman's shoulder. "We don't blame you.."

Roman felt relieved to hear those words, but there was still a heavy weight in his chest. He knew he had to keep himself together now. Patton was obviously taking this the worst, and he needed Logan and Roman both to be there for him.

After a while of sitting in silence, the only sounds being Patton's sobbing and incoherent babbling, they had to figure out what to do with his body. No one wanted to bring this up, of course, but Logan and Roman couldn't bare to watch Patton crying over Virgil any longer. Logan was the one to say it at last, voice cracking. His eyes were red, but he hadn't allowed himself to cry yet. Roman had nodded reluctantly in agreement, but Patton had shouted at them.

"No! No, you can't take him away from me, you can't!" Patton begged, pulling his body closer to him, protectively. Logan and Roman had to forcefully drag Patton off of him, and now all three of them were crying.

Roman volunteered to take Virgil, and Logan stayed behind to comfort Patton. He was awful at it, and he didn't know what to say. This was even worse with the sadness he felt as well, so instead of trying to say anything Logan just pulled him into a tight hug. Patton returned it immediately, neither of them caring that blood now stained their clothing too, or that there were tears and snot on their clothing from the other hiding their faces in their shoulder. It didn't matter.

When Roman returned, Virgil's body gone, he immediately joined into the hug, not just because they needed it but because he did too. They stayed that way for a long time, all of them crying until they had no more tears to cry, and their exhaustion prevented them from moving. They didn't even bother getting up from the floor they had collapsed on, just holding each other close and drifting off, unable to do anything else in that moment.

Tomorrow, they would wake up once again and hope it was a nightmare. They would hope it was all just a horrible dream. Then, they'd see the blood on their clothes, and on the floor where Roman had fallen with Virgil, and they wouldn't find him anywhere and they would know it was true.

Their worse nightmare was very, very real.

Okay, I have quite a bit to talk about here so please stick with me. I swear, all but one thing has to do with my books, so it is important, but sorry if I jump around a bunch. Just trying to get my thoughts together here.

Okay, first off-yes I said there'd be a fluffy oneshot in between these, but that plan changed as I saw people really wanting this to be out already and I also got distracted and it's pretty late. I may still upload another oneshot, just depends. I have other things to do.

I also have a question. So, my old oneshots book had a oneshot in it called flowers. It was about the four of them in high school, and Virgil and Roman met when Virge doodled flowers on his paper while he was asleep. I've been thinking about it, and people have said they'd love it if that was a full book, and... well, I'm thinking about it. Would that be cool? Would you guys like it if I wrote that? Of course, it may have to come after my analogical book(that I know I need to update, sorry that'll be soon too), but I do want to write it. It's up to you guys, really.

And of course, my last thing doesn't actually have to do with writing but just something me and my dad talked about today. We might... start a YouTube channel? We're planning to work on a video this weekend. Basically, it's the two of us talking about weird and cool science things, because we have a lot of strange and interesting conversations and it seems like fun. I was wondering if anyone here might be interested in watching us? (Of course, I'm not out to my family bc reasons so I'd go by different names and pronouns in YouTube) If you would, let me know about that too! I'm excited about it.

Anyways, that's about it. I won't ramble on about anything else, seeing as that already took up a lot of space in here haha. So, possible new oneshot up later tonight, and also possibly a new chapter in Robot? I'm going to work on it, at least.

Thanks for reading this, I hope you enjoyed it. *Rudolph's nose becomes a ring pop, and you now have a ring pop reindeer hybrid*

lol that's a great one. Take care of yourselves guys. Love you all. Bye!-Bob