Author: animeanimal1912
Word Count: 1569
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TW: Mentions alcohol and being hungover

Roman's P.o.v

6:48 am

Roman groaned as he woke up that morning feeling warmer than normal. He yawned as he attempted to get up and stretch.

Key word : attempted.

Wrestling one of his arms free, he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and looked down at the weight that was currently trapping him to his bed in a tangled mess of limbs. He gave a small grin at the sight before him.

It was Virgil. For once, the anxious side had not woken up before all of the other sides at an ungodly hour of the morning.

Over time, the others all learned a few interesting things about the emo stormcloud. One of them being that he -along with Remy- was an insomniac, tending to sleep for only a few hours at night, and taking naps whenever he felt like he could.

For example, he commonly took naps between 2 o'clock and 3:30 in the afternoon. That was the only pattern he had, any other time, it was completely random.

Another thing they had learned about the anxious side was that when he was unusually warmer than normal, he would get sleepy and then go out like a light. Considering that he wore a hoodie, long pants, and a long sleeve shirt, he was used to being in a higher temperature at all times compared to the other sides.

So unless he was cuddling someone in a pile of blankets and stealing their body heat, his night clothes just weren't cut out for helping him knock out for the night.

Virgil himself had never said anything about this, but once he had gotten closer to Logan, Patton, and himself, they had started to notice the times where they would find Virgil curling up with one of them in their beds becoming a pattern despite how rare it was for him to even do it in the first place.

It was even more rare to catch him in the act of this as the emo nightmare tended to wake up naturally at 4 or five o'clock in the morning, well before any of the other sides would be up and about.

At some point, Logan had a meeting with him and Patton -who thought it was absolutely adorable- , and explained his theories as to why Virgil did what he did.

They never brought it up with Virgil, and Virgil never said anything to them, it was just silently accepted as normal and they went about their lives like it wasn't something unusual or needing to be mentioned.

Once he started dating Virgil about a year ago, however, the emo stopped going to Logan's room entirely and only went to Patton's if he had a nightmare.

And finally, the emo side did a surprising amount of chores -which included cleaning, doing their laundry, and more- about the Mindscape and helped prepare Thomas for the day before any of them woke up. He only learned about it very recently, and was shocked to say the least.

There was just one thing that he had noticed that was making him as curious as a cat. In the past few weeks, he would be slightly woken up by the stormcloud joining him in his bed so he could sleep -it would be well after midnight when he did- much more often than usual.

He knew that his boyfriend did check up on them in the night, but mostly stuck to his room when they were asleep after asking him about it a couple months ago.

So what was making Virgil not want to spend time in his own room?

He didn't know, but he was going to find out, if only he could manage to get up without waking up his stormcloud.

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Half an hour later, he had managed to slowly maneuver out from his boyfriend and had just finished getting ready for the day. Making his way through the Mindscape, he saw that Logan and Patton were both up and about, with Patton being busy making them breakfast and Logan doing one of his many puzzle books.

"Good Morning, Padre! Good Morning, Specs!" He said, announcing his presence to his fellow sides.

"Morning Roman! You're up early!"

"Salutations, Roman. Indeed, You usually don't join us until a quarter 'till 8, at earliest." Logan stated, not even looking up from his puzzle book.

"Ah, yes. You see, I woke up feeling unusually warm this morning about 30 minutes ago. It turned out that my stormcloud had -yet again- joined me in my room some time late last night."

"Aw~ I wished I could've seen it, it's so cute when he does that!" Patton exclaimed, beaming a smile as he looked at Roman.

"I believe that makes it three nights in a row, now. A new record for Virgil."

"Speaking of, I'm going to go investigate to see why the emo nightmare is doing this before he wakes up, do either of you care to join?"

"I would, but I'm a bit busy cooking at the moment, kiddo. What about you, Logie?"

Logan sat there for a moment, thinking, before answering, "I don't see why not."

"Alrighty then! To Stormcloud's room we go!"

And with that, Logan got up and followed him towards Virgil's room, which was still located towards the back of the Mindscape where Janus and Remus were.

When the two of them reached the black and purple door of Virgil's room, they looked each other in the eye before he made a move and opened the door.

He heard a noise come from Logan, but he was too shocked to care as they stood in the doorway of the room.

It was an absolute mess! Which was highly unusual for the room of someone who did the daily cleaning of the entire Mindscape. Virgil always kept his room neat. To see it like this was a very big surprise.

The floor was covered with piles of clothes, books, CDs, trash, and more. The shelves in the room were beyond dusty, the desk wasn't much better as not only was it dusty, but it was cluttered with papers and trinkets, pens and pencils, and markers.

The bed wasn't made, and it didn't look like you could actually get to it without stepping on something. Scattered papers laid all around the room, and there were twice as many cob-weds as usual.

"...Well, at least i know why he keeps coming into my room now."

"Yes-"

"What are you two doing?"

""AAAAHHhhh!!!!!!"" They both screamed and jumped at suddenly hearing Virgil's voice right behind them. It was a miracle that they didn't fall over into the dirty room.

He caught the wince on his boyfriend's face at their sudden screams, but he was also smirking. He was going to apologize as he knew that Virgil didn't like sudden loud noises, but the smirk on his face stopped the words from leaving his lips.

"Well?" said Virgil as he continued to look at the both of them.

"We came to your room to see what was making you spend less time there than normal. Now we know why." Logan stated after calming himself down, "and might I suggest that you clean it?"

Virgil lost his smirk and replaced it with a frown before saying, "It's organized chaos, so it's fine."

He gave Logan a look, hoping he would get the hint to leave them alone so he could talk with Virgil.

Logan locked eyes with him before looking back at Virgil and stated," Very well then, I will be in the dining room."

Once Logan left their sight, Virgil narrowed his and repeated his earlier statement with emphasis, "It's organized chaos, so it's fine."

Roman held back a sigh as he pinned the emo with a pointed look, "Virgil, my beautifully Imbalanced Romance, while it might be organized chaos, I do think it's time to clean your room. How did it get like this anyway?"

His stormcloud glared before visibly deflating and mumbling a response as he took a few steps forward so he was standing chest to chest with Roman and nuzzling his head into his shoulder.

"What was that, Stormcloud?" Roman asked as he wrapped his arms around the emo and rubbed his cheek against the top of Virgil's head.

Virgil sighed and looked away at the floor before speaking, "...... I had a get-together with Remy, Remus, and Janus about a month ago. Janus managed to spike Remy's coffee with some of his wine, and at some point Remus, who had apparently brought a six pack, handed me a beer, and the next thing I know we're all drunk beyond reason and promptly end up with hangovers. We had completely trashed my room, and I never got around cleaning it, so it steadily got worse as each day passed."

He blinked, "Well, that explains a lot."

"Hm."

He smiled softly as Virgil started playing with the edges of his sleeve.

"'You feeling sleepy?"

"'Mmhm."

"How about a deal, my creepy cookie? We both go and eat something for breakfast, then I'll take a nap with you, on one condition."

"What is it?" Virgil asked, feeling wary.

"After we eat and take a nap, you have to promise me that you'll work on cleaning your room, I'll even help you if you want."

"You won't nap with me if I don't, will you?"

"Nope~!"

"......Fine." He grumbled.