Prompt: 'queen finds out about Virgil and his boyfriends' and ' queen loses a bet and gets pouty'

Tada, here yalls go.
Hopefully yalls like this chapter, it shouldn't be super long but more than 500 words at least, probably more than 1000, but who knows.

Anyway
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Virgil knocked on the tea rooms door gently.

"Come in." A voice called from inside.

Virgil carefully opened the door and stepped inside. His mother and father were sitting at the small table near the windows, a plate of cookies and a pot of tea between them.

"Ah Virgil," his father said as he smiled at him. "Come have a seat." He said, gesturing to the open spot next to him.

Virgil nodded and sat down next to his father, fiddling with his sleeve a little.

"Would you like any tea dear? Or a cookie?" His mother asked. "It's raspberry tea and mint cookies with chocolate." She added.

"I'll have some tea, thank you." He said with a small smile.

"So," His mother began as she poured him a bit of tea, "what did you want to talk to us about?" She asked. "And do you want any sugar? Cream tastes awful in this tea." She added.

"Um, no sugar please," Virgil said, "and I wanted to talk to you about, um, something I-I've been keeping from you." He said slowly.

"Oh? And what's that?" His mother asked curiously.

Virgil shifted a little in his seat, glancing at his father who smiled at him reassuringly.

"I, uh, I wanted to tell you that I don't want to see any more suitors." He said slowly.

She raised an eyebrow. "And why is that?" She asked as she set his cup of tea down in front of him, "we can't be rude and have you decline just because you don't want to."

Virgil picked up the cup of tea with slightly shaky hands, holding it tightly.
"I uh, I-I...well you see, um," Virgil stumbled over his words of a few seconds before taking a small deep breath squeezing his eyes shut. "I'mkindaalreadyinarelationshipI'msorryIdidn'ttellyousooner." He quickly said, ducking his head a little.

The queen blinked for a second. "Can you, um, say that again?" She asked slowly as she glanced over at her husband with a confused expression, who only smiled at her before putting a reassuring hand on Virgil's shoulder.

Virgil shifted slightly, not looking at her as he mumbled and set his tea down on the table .

"I, um, I'm already in a....in a relationship." He said softly, chewing on his lip as he nervously popped his knuckles. "Sorry for not telling you..." he added.

"Oh, well," His mother said as she picked at her nails awkwardly. "I wasn't expecting this," she began. "But it's quite alright."

"Yes I would have liked it if you had told me sooner, but it's okay." She said. "For how long?"

"A few months." Virgil said as he looked up at her.

"Before the first suitors?" She asked.

Virgil nodded, a small blush on his cheeks.

"Oh Virgil, if you had told us we wouldn't have made you go see them." She said.

"It's okay," Virgil said, "they were nice and understood when I told hem I wasn't interested in that kind of way." He said, leaving out the Kaitlyn incident.

"Well that's good," His mother said.

"Now you can finally send those letters to the other suitors and tell them he's unavailable." His father said with a smile.

"That's true," she said with a smile. "I don't know if you knew Virgil, but you are very popular." She said, "multiple people haven sent in suitor requests."

Virgil blushed a little and smiled shyly. "Well, tell them that I'm flattered in the letters." He said.

His mother laughed softly as she took another sip of her tea.

"So," she began after a few moments of content silence. "Who's the lucky girl?" She asked.

Virgil stiffened slightly and glanced over at his father, biting his lip nervously, which is mother didn't miss.

" or boy." She quickly added, "or person, I suppose." She said, thinking about Bailey, the non-binary employee they had and how they were around Virgil's age.

"Your okay with me not being with a girl?" Virgil asked, slightly surprised.

"Well, yes." She said, "I did let you go see prince Aaron when he was a suitor didn't I?" She asked.

"I also have a female cousin who is a duchess and is married to a woman, and if I told you that you couldn't be with someone because that person wasn't a girl, well she'd march on over here and would surely give me a piece of her mind." She said with a small laugh. "It is a little uncommon, at least in royalty, and some people will most definitely judge you and your partner, but you don't have to worry about any of that judgment from me." She said.

Virgil relaxed a little bit. "You don't know how worried about that I was." He said with a small laugh as he rubbed his face.

"Well, I might have some idea," His mother said, "my cousin did end up coming out to me and the rest of our family when we were both around your age or a little younger." She said.

"But could you tell me who it is now? I'd like to meet them if I don't already know them." She added, a very curious expression on her face.

Virgil hesitated slightly. "You know my friends? Roman, Logan, and Patton?" He asked.

"Yes I know them," she said, "is your partner one of them?" She asked.

"Um...i-it's all of them..." Virgil said as he looked down at his hands and picked at his nails nervously, occasionally glancing up at her.

"Oh," She said, "all three?" She asked, glancing between Virgil and her husband.

"Uh, yeah, all three of them." Virgil said, his cheeks turning red.

She huffed and her arms, pouting while her husband grinned.

"And now Virgil, I have one the bet." His father said with a grin.

"Bet?" Virgil asked, looking up at the two of them in confusion.

"Your mother and I made a bet, where I bet that you were with at least one of your friends, and she bet that you were with someone in the castle staff." He said. "And now I have won." He said.

"So you both assumed I was already with someone?" He asked.

"Well, yes," His mother said, "we had our assumptions, but we didn't want to you to be uncomfortable so we decided to wait until you were ready to tell us." She said, "we also knew we could have been wrong and you might have just not wanted to be in a romantic relationship." She added.

"So you're okay with me dating the three of them?" He asked.

"Yes we're both okay with it, although we do want you to be careful with 'public displays of affection', we don't want to shock some poor staff member." His father said, laughing as Virgil blushed.

"We'll also have to set up a few new rules," His mother said. "and we'd like to talk to them as well." She added.

"But that can wait for later," His father said, "you can go tell your boys the good news though." He added before turning to grin at his wife, "in the mean time I'll have my winnings to collect." He said cheekily.

She huffed and rolled her eyes, "oh be patient." She said. "He's right though, I'm sure they're eagerly awaiting your return." She said with a smile.

Virgil nodded as he smiled back, "Alright," he said as he stood up. "I'll see you both later," he said as he quickly made his way to the door, waving goodbye.

-

He found the three of them in their spot in the gardens, where they told him they'd be waiting.

Roman was sitting between Logan's legs, draped back against the others chest with his eyes closed, Logan's arms wrapped around his waist while the two argued about something. Patton sat next to them, making a chain of daisies and laughing as the two continued to argue. Remy and Emile where up in the tree, contently perched on a branch and watching everything from above.

Virgil smiled as he stood and watched them for a few seconds, feeling his heart swell a little with each passing second.

Patton, who had turned to find another daisy after laughing at something Roman said, was the first to notice Virgil standing there. He smiled brightly and reached a hand out to him.

Virgil walked over and gently took his hand before moving to sit behind Patton, hooking his chin over his shoulder as he wrapped his arms around his stomach and held him close.
"whats up?" He asked as he pressed a few playful kisses to Patton's shoulder and neck.

Patton smiled and leaned back against him, "Roman and Logan are 'arguing'." He said as he tilted his head back to press a kiss to Virgil's cheek.

"The only one arguing here is Roman." Logan said, a small hint of a blush on his cheeks.

"That can wait for later," Roman said as he sat up a little, bit stayed where he was against Logan's chest. "How did it go?" He asked Virgil, the other two quieting down and looking over at Virgil as well.

Virgil smiled and rubbed his cheek against Patton's shoulder. "They're okay with it." He said softly.

Both Roman and Patton gasped, and wide grins split across their faces, a slightly smaller but still excited smile on Logan's face as well.

"Really?" Patton asked as he twisted in Virgil's hold to look at him.

"Really." Virgil said with a smile.

Patton squealed quietly before tackling Virgil in a hug, knocking him down onto his back.

Virgil laughed and hugged Patton back, staying there for a few more seconds before pushing himself up so they were both sitting again.

He looked over at Roman and Logan, the latter of which had a slightly smug grin on his face.

"I told you so." Logan said as he looked down at Roman, who pouted at him for just a second before the grin reappeared across his face, unable to push down his excitement.

"Shut up specs." He said before leaning up and pressing a kiss to Logan's jaw.

"They have some new rules they want to discuss with us," Virgil said after a second or two, "and they want to talk to the three of you, but both of them are okay with us being together." He said.

"Does that mean we can actually spend the whole night cuddling? And wake up together? And have morning kisses" Patton asked, growing more and more excited.

Virgil laughed softly, "yes it does Pat." He said as he pressed a kiss to Patton's cheek.

The four of them continued to discuss how things where going to be now, agreeing to still keep their relationship private from the rest of the kingdom and the castle staff, while still being a bit more open, agreeing that small and simple displays of affection where okay in the open.

-

Virgil was laying in bed, with Roman snuggled up against his chest. Patton was behind Roman and Logan was behind Patton, all of them contently tangled together under the blankets with only the moonlight letting them see one another.

"I love you." Virgil said as he pressed a kiss to the top of Romans head, smiling as the latter mumbled sleepily and snuggled closer.

"We love you too." Patton said softly, speaking for the three of them since Roman and Logan were basically asleep already.

Virgil smiled and reached forward to gently hold Patton's hand as they both began to drift off, not needing to worry about waking up early so that they weren't caught.

So ta-da, here's this chapter! Hopefully you guys like it!!! And hopefully it wasn't to cringe.

I'm making an Authors note chapter that'll be out tomorrow, explains stuff about chapters 38 parts 1-3 and asking some more questions.

Bye!!