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“Because I was one of them.”
Virgil sunk down, ignoring the sure confusion on Thomas’s face.
Okay, maybe not full confusion, but definitely shock. I mean, who could have possibly guessed that he was a dark side! He’s done such a good job keeping it under wraps.
“Preeeetty sure Tumblr guessed that like, half a year ago.” Remus’s teasing voice came from behind him as the duke suddenly popped in behind them. A poorly brushed, sharp grin plastered to his face.
Virgil jumped a bit, a regular reflex to Remus’s bullshit, “Jesus- fuck, what do you want.” he snapped back, “I just spent an entire day dealing with your shit, what could you possibly want now.”
“What, can’t I just pop in to say hello to an old pal?” Remus tilted his head, putting on an ‘innocent’ expression.
“‘Yeah, ok, hi, what do you want!” Virgil's voice was hushed, not wanting to alert the others to Remus’s antics. Not after that little discussion they literally just had. “Really not in the mood for this shit!”
Remus pouted, “You’re never in the mood for anything these days.”
He took a step closer.
“Come onnn, we used to be close, can’t ya just give me another chance? Please Virgin, I swear, I’ve changed!” He dramatically got on his knees, linking his hands together as he pleaded in a similar fashion to how he would in WTIT.
Virgil rolled his eyes before dragging Remus up off of his feet, “Get the fuck up.”
Remus snickered and chose to fake Virgil pulling too hard, purposely falling towards the emo, trying to get him to catch them.
Yeah, Virgil just let him hit the ground.
“Ow-”
“You deserved that.” Virgil said, unfazed before wiping his hand off on his pants, “Ew, wtf, what are you covered in???”
“You know, the usual~” Remus grinned, sitting up with his legs sprawled out on the floor. “Why? Want some more?”
Before Virgil could respond, the duke flicked some slime over at him, hitting them right in the face.
“UGH- YOU’RE SO GROSS!” Virgil said, his voice double toning, using his sleeves to try and clear off the gunk. Remus was laughing his ass off on the floor, to the point of tears pricking at his eyes.
Virgil growled and suddenly grabbed Remus, slamming him up against the wall by the collar, an extra pair of eyes making his piercing glare all the more menacing.
To any other side.
Remus just cackled, feet dangling a little with how Virgil had him on the wall. “Oo! Virgil careful! You might give the fans some funny ideas~”
“Shut your fucking mouth before I fill it with soap.” He hissed, gripping the fabric keeping Remus in the air tighter. “Since you insist on bothering me, you’re going to tell me why the never loving fuck you decided to make your freaky butt known to Thomas today.”
“Hm, dunno, guess I felt like stirring things up a bit, it’s been so boring ever since you left!” He went back to pouting.
“Deceit showing his ugly face wasn’t enough for you f-”
“Don’t we all have the same face?”
“Shut up, you’ve both been around way more than usual lately, what is that snake planning!”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about.” Remus crossed his arms with a smirk, a malicious look in his eyes clearly giving away any existing attempt at him being discreet.
“Bullshit.” Virgil growled, “You know something. Spit it out or so help me I’ll-”
Remus projected a small ball of grossness from his mouth onto Virgil's sweater.
He immediately let go of them, shoving him away with a disgusted hiss.
Once again Remus just laughed, allowing himself to sink back to the floor.
Virgil was struggling to get his hoodie off of him without touching the saliva, tossing it aside and glaring down the creature below him. “Do you know how long your gunk takes to get out of fabric!?”
“Dunno, but I do know how long it takes to rile you up each time, my timing is just perfect right?”
“What are you talking about?”
“You seriously didn’t notice how repetitive this conversation is? I do something, you get pissy, try to do something back to banish me or whatever you’re tryin’ to do and I get to do something gross again!” His smirk widened as he tilted his head, “So long on the light side growing and changing and little Virgy is still as predictable as ever!”
“I’m not predictable.” He narrowed his eyes, “You just don’t have the brain cells to do more than the same repetitively repulsive stupid tricks!”
“True true, I may be repetitive buuut, what does that say about you~” He lent forward, hands holding himself up between his spread out legs. “If I’m sooo foreseeable, then why don’t you react differently. Clearly if I can’t change but you can, then wouldn’t there be a difference in your silly little reactions~?”
Virgil didn’t say anything, simply glaring down at Remus with a snarl.
“Maybe the only thing that’s changed about you is how you see your actions, not the actions themselves. You’re surrounding yourself with all this sickenly sweet positivity, telling you that every little thing your emo butt does is necessary for Thomas’s survival.”
His fists clenched, hiding the small tremble that’s forcing its way through his body as the duke continued.
“When really they're just keeping you around to make sure you don’t go back to being the bad guy. Big scary anxiety, good for nothing but angst and fear, constantly causing problems left and right.”
“Oh, and you’re so good at not causing problems?” Virgil sneered.
“Oh, did I say that, I missed the part where I said that.” They shot back, “I know most of what I do is cause problems, duh that’s what I’m going for dumbass! And that’s what you used to do too! You used to be fun! Used to work with us, not wasting time on some dumb little fantasy, really now a days you seemed to be lying to people even more than Dee! Especially to yoursel-”
“WILL YOU JUST SHUT YOUR MOUTH.” Virgil snapped, before turning around and storming off in the direction of his room, “I DON’T NEED TO STAND HEAR AND TAKE THIS BULLSHIT FROM SOMEONE WHO’S NEVER TRIED TO BE ANYTHING MORE THAN A WORTHLESS PIECE OF INHUMAN TRASH.”
Aaand with that Virgil was gone, leaving Remus alone on the ground.
He blinked, huh.
He wasn’t expecting them to leave so soon, usually it took awhile for the nightmare before halloween to actually walk away..
Weird.
Eh, what does he care. It’s not his job, so he’s not gunna waste brain power on it, when there are so many more fun things to put it towards.