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Virgil, Remy, Roman, Logan, Remus, and Dolos were sitting in the Nyx’s living room, Patton having had to go home for he couldn’t sleep over. They were all casually chatting after Virgil gave hugs to the uncles he hadn’t seen in months.
“Hey Ro! Remember that time where I swore to you that your teddy bear came alive at night and you had Mom put him in time out for scaring you?” Remus recalled with a laugh, Roman laughing with him.
“That scared me for weeks. Maybe even months! Mom was probably sick of putting that teddy bear in time out every night.” There was that word again.
Mom
. Virgil shrunk into himself, moving closer to Remy as well. Remy, who was still on their phone, just ran their hand through Virgil’s hair, scratching his scalp where they saw Virgil previously scratching at. Virgil sighed and leaned closer to Remy, happy that they loved him.
“You okay, baby?” Remy asked, quietly. Virgil just nodded and hummed as Remy’s cold fingers ran through his hair, touching his scalp every now and then.
“If you say so. Here, look at this.” Remy handed Virgil their phone which was displaying a really stupid cat picture. Virgil giggled and handed Remy the phone back.
“Cats are dumb.” Remy nodded at Virgil’s statement.
“Indeed they are.” Dolos looked over at the couple.
“And how would Shadow feel about that, Virge?” Dolos asked, getting up to fetch said cat and plop her on Virgil’s lap.
“No Shadow is a smart cat.” Virgil huffed, picking up his cat and putting her on his shoulders. She curled around his neck and closed her eyes.
“See? A normal cat would try to run. Shadow just accepted her fate and went to sleep.” Virgil snickered, Dolos giving him a blank stare.
“Okay Remus. I blame you for anything weird that our son does from now on.” Remus looked at him with a ‘Why’ expression holding his hands out in the ‘idk bro’ stance. Dolos giggled and kissed his forehead, sitting back down between Remus and Virgil.
“But Shadow is dumb. See?!” Remus pulled out a laser pointer as he spoke and pointed it at the floor. Shadow saw it and leap from Virgil’s shoulder, trying to eat the dot. Virgil screamed from her randomly jumping then broke out into laughter. Remy had jumped back from terror and was holding their hand, which held their phone, close to their heart as if trying it get to calm down; their other hand was on the couch’s armrest. Logan rolled his eyes and moved closer to his husband, trying to not get the red dot on him so Shadow wouldn’t attack him. Alas, Remus shined the laser on him.
“Roman. Get your brother to stop shining this light on me before the cat notices.” Logan protested, Roman successfully getting the laser pointer handed to him. Roman slung an arm around Logan.
“You’re okay, mi amour.” Roman kissed Logan’s temple and shone the light on Dolos’ leg as payback.
“Don’t rope me into this!” Dolos hissed, moving his leg. Roman laughed and handed the pointer back to Remus who pointed it at the still frighted Remy. Shadow saw it and walked over to Remy, curling up in their lap.
“Wait what the fuck?!” Remus looked confused. Dolos lightly slapped him for cussing.
“Shadow has completely betrayed me!” Remus scoffed, glaring at his son’s cat. Virgil pet her along with Remy already petting her.
“Nah she just knows how to pick her people.” Virgil commented, kissing Remy’s cheek. Remus glared at the cat one last time before putting the laser pointer away.
“She was supposed to attack them.” He mumbled, curling close to Dolos.
“But she didn’t.” Logan noted, looking up from the book he had brought and now had taken out.
“Still the same bookworm you were in highschool, Lo?” Dolos asked, looking over at his lifelong friend. Logan gave a small nod and looked back at his book.
“My mom actually bought this for me when we were 14.” Logan said, pushing up his glasses while snuggling into his husband. Roman beamed and looked at the book.
“Oh it’s Alice in Wonderland!” Roman squealed, clapping and kissing his hubby’s nose.
“I like Mom’s style.” Roman noted, resuming his conversation with his brother. Virgil shrunk at the word. Mom . Mom mom mom mom mom! Why did everyone have to say that! That stupid, annoying word! Always in front of him! Why?!
~~~Time skip a rooney~~~
Virgil, Patton, Remy, and Remy’s friend Oliver were eating lunch together. Oliver was kind of weird and creepy but that’s beside the point. Remy was on their phone, their arm around Virgil, as they talked to everyone else.
“V. My mom wants to know if you want to go camping with us over Spring break? She just texted me. Your dads are cool with it apparently.” Virgil cringed at the word but nodded.
“Sure.” Remy nodded and texted their mom.
“Pat, Oli, she said you guys can come as well.” Virgil sighed and went back to gazing at his non-eaten food.
“I’m okay! Thank you though.” Patton went back to eating his brownie and talking to Oliver.
“Outdoors aren’t my thing. Plus, I don’t want to see what weird coupley shit you guys are gonna do. I also don’t get to see my moms too often and they are staying for all of Spring break.” Oliver mumbled, guestering towards the two.
“Fair.” Remy shrugged and looked over at Virgil who was gripping his jacket at the word ‘moms’.
“Baby. You haven’t eaten anything. Eat.” Remy opted to talk about something else. They knew Virgil wouldn’t want to talk about whatever was going on in school. Virgil shook his head and Remy groaned. Virgil didn’t like to eat in front of anyone that wasn’t his family, Patton, or them. Remy thinks he’s insecure about the way he looks when he eats but they don’t know.
“Please?” Virgil shook their head again. Remy let it go and tugged Virgil closer to their side. Remy would get him to eat at the camping trip. They would make sure of it.