Becoming a pet... great
This is my present for @infinitesimal-grey for the @secret-sanders-sized by @hiddendreamer67
I think I got exited and wrote a very long fic... but I hope you like it!
Summary: Roman is a werewolf and has a pet borrower named Virgil who doesn´t really enjoy being a pet even if Roman’s a decent owner, things get interested hen Roman´s school provides them with a potion that’s able to switch their sizes
TW: treating people as pets, being locked in a cage, fighting (if there’s another one please let me know ;))
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Virgil sat on his bed, he wasn't able to sleep, like usual, he looked at the nightstand next to his owner's bed, the alarm was going to sound soon for him to go to school, and he had to wait for him alone.
He had to admit that being with Roman was not as awful as he first thought it would be, but he was still his pet, and no matter what Roman would never see him in other way.
The alarm sounded and the werewolf turned it off, he sat on his bed and stretched his arms while yawning, showing his sharp fangs and making Virgil shiver.
“good morning Virge” Roman said while standing up, he walked to the borrower’s cage and opened the door “did you sleep well?”
“Yeah” said Virgil lying, he stood up and got out of his cage, stepping into Roman’s hand to go get breakfast.
Ever since borrowers were downgraded to pets and he was bought by Roman, they had the same routine everyday, except for weekends when his owner didn’t have to go to school.
Roman left his hand on the counter and his pet stepped out of his hand “I have a surprise for you” he said, smiling and walking through the kitchen.
“A surprise?” Virgil was confused, usually a surprise would mean a new toy or piece of clothing, but Roman seemed so happy for some reason, so that couldn’t be.
The werewolf nodded as he grabbed something from a cabinet “you’re going to go to school with me”
“Wait what? Didn’t we tried this already? And it went horribly wrong...”
“Yes” he said turning around and smiling to Virgil “but this time, things are gonna be different” Roman took one of Virgil's cups and filled it with a clear shiny liquid.
“W-What is that?” Said Virgil a little nervous.
Roman left the cup next to Virgil “they gave us this potion at school, it’s supposed to teach us about equality with borrowers so that our bond becomes stronger” he said, taking a needle from a drawer.
“And how does it work?” Asked Virgil, he couldn’t imagine how borrowers could be seen as equal.
The werewolf poked his finger with the needle, he left it on the counter and let a drop of his blood drop into the potion, turning it red “It’s going to make you my size”
Virgil’s eyes went wide, he doubted magic like that existed, he saw Roman pushing the cup closer to him, he looked at it, he was a bit disgusted by the fact he had to drink his owner’s blood, but if that could make him his size... he started to wonder if it could work the other way, he didn’t hate Roman, but having the tables turned could be interesting.
Hesitantly, the borrower picked the cup and got it closer to his lips, drinking it’s contents, he kept it on his hands when it was empty ”I don't feel anything...”
Roman hummed ”I think it needs time to activate”
Virgil was about to say something else when he felt a warm sensation trough his body, he looked down at the cup it was smaller, it usually was te size of his hand, but now it was half it's size.
The werewolf smiled ”It's working! You're getting bigger!”
The borrower left the cup aside and sat at the edge of the table, he looked around at how everything was getting smaller, he got off the table, surprised of the short distance between it and the floor, he looked up at Roman, compared to him, Virgil was currently the size of a child, but he was getting bigger with each second, the growing stopped once he was eye level with the werewolf ”Wow...”
Roman hugged Virgil ”I can't believe it really worked!”
The ex borrower was struggling to breath because of the other's strong grip ”R-Ro... l-let me breath...”
”oh right sorry” he said breaking the hug ”I got overexcited” he giggled nervously ”This is awesome! You're normal sized! And you can come with me to school, I promise we'll have a lot of fun afterwards, we can go get some ice cream, or to the movies, or”
”woah woah, relax princey, how about I try to get used to this first?” Said Virgil, cutting him off.
”Right, how about we have breakfast first? Do you want coffee?”
”Yes please”
Roman smiled and walked to get some mugs, Virgil looked at the table, spotting the cup, his cup, he was amazed of how small it was, he could take it with just two fingers now, when it was the size of his hands just some minutes ago.
Roman's cellphone started ringing ”Would you mind serving the coffee while I answer outside?”
”oh, not at all”
”and you can take any other thing you want for breakfast, it's your house too after all” said Roman as he went outside the apartment, without noticing he left the door open.
Virgil took the mugs and poured the coffee, he opened some cabinets until he found the cookies he was looking for, he wanted to do something for Roman, but he could decide what, he left everything on the table and went to ask Roman what would he like, he was about to get out when he heard the conversation he was having.
”-I just didn't like the idea of being borrower sized... I know the teacher said it was supposed to change us both but... hey it worked! That's what matters, Virgil's normal size, I didn't have to shrink, everyone's happy-”
Virgil backed away from the door ’Roman was supposed to shrink? That was the whole point of the potion, that's how he was supposed to learn about equality, but he was just too coward to do it’ he thought as he walked back to the kitchen, he looked at the counter where the potion was, if Roman's blood made him his size, maybe Virgil's would make Roman borrower sized.
He took it and poured a small amount on a glass, he grabbed the needle and washed it, he pocked his finger with it and left it aside, he looked at the drop of blood coming out of his finger, he could still hear mumbles from outside, which meant Roman was still talking through the phone, he took a deep breath and let the blood fall into the potion, this time turning purple instead of red.
He took the glass and poured the potion on Roman’s mug and mixing it, the coffee was dark so there wasn’t much difference, he would never tell the difference, he left it on the table and took some random fruit before his ex owner came back in.
The werewolf went back into the house and into the kitchen “I didn’t know what you wanted so I just took out some cookies and fuit” said Virgil, watching Roman coming in.
“It’s okay, I’ll take you somewhere to eat after school” he said smiling and taking his mug, Virgil watched as Roman took a sip from his coffee “where would you like to go?”
“Uhm...wherever you want to take me it’s fine for me...” he said, drinking some of his coffee.
Roman drank some again but stopped when he sniffed it “wait, something’s not right...” he continued smelling “did you put something on this?”
“What? No, what could I put on...” said Virgil, as he could swear he was looking down at the werewolf now “...it”
“Are you sure?” he said, getting closer to the now tallest one and smelling him ” it kind of smells like you... wait, are you taller than me?”
”Maybe is just part of the effects?”
”That could be... but I could swear we were the same height just a second ago”
Virgil gulped as he saw how Roman got a little shorter, for a moment he feared Roman would get angry at him once his shrinking stopped, he also wondered if the process was slower because the potion was mixed with the coffee, or if it could affect his final height.
This time, Roman noticed the change “d-did you just got taller?” He looked down at the mug on his hands, it seemed a bit bigger too “or am I..?” He sniffed his coffee once more, his eyes opening wide when he realized what could have happened “no...” he looked up, yes up at Virgil with fear “y-you didn’t...”
The tallest one felt a bit of guilt, but he had to admit it felt nice to be the one in charge, so he hid it with a smirk “I didn’t what Roman?”
“T-the potion, you put it on my coffee, i-it’s shrinking me” he left the mug on the table, it was getting heavy “why did you do it?” He said looking at Virgil, he was at his shoulder height now.
“Why? Maybe because this was supposed to happen on the first place? But you were just to coward to do it correctly”
The werewolf sighed “you heard me talking to Patton didn’t you?”
”I didn't mean to...” said Virgil looking somewhere else ”but you know what? I'm glad I did, now your little equality lesson can be completed”
”look I-I just thought it would be the same if we were both normal size”
Virgil hummed ”maybe, but anyways, it's too late now, and you're going to be seeing things from my perspective soon” he said, seeing Roman shrinking to his stomach height.
Roman looked around, amazed at how everything was getting bigger, he felt like a little kid as he shrunk to be eye level with Virgil’s waist.
”aww, does the prince feel a little overwhelmed?” Said the ex-borrower, he took Roman from under his arms and lifted him, making them be eye level once again ”you're so light, I never thought I would be able to be bigger than you, to be able to pick you up like nothing” Virgil tossed Roman in the air and caught him, making him yelp.
“just think about it, less than an hour ago, I was just a couple of inches tall, you had complete control over me and I could do nothing about it, but you gave me the opportunity to turn the tables” he left the shrinking werewolf on the table as he was now just two feet tall.
Roman blushed of embarrassment, Virgil was right, he was helpless, he could barely move around his on apartment without help at this size, he was at Virgil’s mercy, unable to stop him of whatever he wanted to do to him.
Virgil pinched the back of the werewolf’s shirt between and lifted him up “it seems like you’ve stopped shrinking already, I can’t believe we’re this small” he left Roman on his palm and walked to their room ”There are some things I want you to notice”
The shrunken one was left on the desk ”Let's start with this” Virgil opened his cage’s door and pushed him inside, closing and locking the door behind him, Roman turned to see him and grabbed the bars ”How do you feel Roman?”
Roman looked around the cage, he had tried his best to make it as cozy as he could, he didn't even called it a cage anymore, but that didn't made it feel less like one ”Trapped...” he said looking down.
”And how did you feel when I grabbed you?”
”...Controlled, vulnerable...”
”There you go, now imagine how I feel with those things being a borrower with anxiety, but of course, you didn't even cared that much to read my file, so you don't know that”
Roman's eyes went wide ”b-but why didn't you said anything” he said looking up at Virgil.
”Uhm, did you heard when I told you I have anxiety? You're stammering, you're afraid to speak to me and you ask me why I didn't point out the things you were doing wrong?”
”Virge... you don't have to be afraid of me, you're allowed to tell me if I'm doing something wrong”
Virgil hummed ”well, you could show interest more often, and you can't ask me to not be scared of you” he opened the cage and grabbed Roman in a fist, taking him out ”The only reason I'm telling you this is because you're not scary like this”
Roman yelped as giant fingers surrounded him, bringing him close to giant eyes ”W-well... you are scary like this...”
The ex-borrower softened his gaze and opened his hand, he of all creatures should know what it feels like to be vulnerable, to feel powerless, and he was making Roman feel that, he wasn't thinking on his perspective ”y-you think I'm scary?”
”w-well... you had me on your fist, you were almost yelling at me, a-and I was just so close to your frowned face... it was overwhelming”
Virgil looked away from the shrunken creature on his hand, he hated everyone who was bigger than him just because they used their size as an advantage over him, and now he was doing it, thinking about how someone so small felt was way more difficult than he thought it would be, even for him ”sorry...” he left Roman back in the desk.
Roman looked up at him “Don’t worry, I know it’s hard to think about how someone feels when they’re so small, and I’m sorry if I made you feel like I didn’t care enough, but I do, you don’t know how much I freak out when I have to carry you, or when I feel you’re too close to me” he said looking away “I thought that if you were normal sized, it would have been easier for us to be friends, that’s what I didn’t want to shrink” his ears were folded down “but you were right, I was scared of seeing your perspective, of seeing how bad owner I was”
Now Virgil felt guilty, but he huffed “I guess we both suck at telling each other how we truly feel”
”You're not wrong in that” said the werewolf returning the brief laugh ”Would you be willing to make an agreement?”
Virgil hummed ”what kind of agreement?”
”We won't stay quiet, when something's bothering us we'll tell each other to see how we can fix it” Said Roman extending his hand towards Virgil
He thought for a moment ”And none of us will get mad?”
”And none of us will get mad” said Roman ”Deal?”
Virgil took Roman's hand between his fingers ”Deal” he said shaking it slightly.
Roman took his hand away from Virgil's fingers when the handshake stopped ”So... what do we do now?”
”I don't know” Virgil shrugged ”Does the potion has a time limit or something?”
Roman hummed, thinking ”Yeah, it has to be an hour or so, I think I left an alarm on my phone”
Virgil was about to get up to look for Roman’s phone when a loud noise came from the kitchen, the alarm, has it really been an hour already? He felt a tingling sensation run through his body “I think the effect’s running off already” he said as he shivered.
He saw how the table was starting to get taller, he stood up and pushed the chair closer to the desk, he started climbing it once he was eye level with it, he got up of the chair and tried to get up the desk, but the shrinking made it difficult, he was about to slip when Roman grabbed his hand and pulled him up, it was a little hard since he was still bigger than him.
After some more seconds, both of them stood on top of the tale, borrower sized, Virgil huffed “we’re the same size again” he looked at his owner -friend? And hesitantly pulled him into a hug.
Roman returned the hug wagging his tail, they broke the hug after some time “I guess we have to wait until I grow back to normal”
“yeah, that would be the best…”
It wasn´t long before Roman started to grow, there was half an hour or so between when Virgil drank him drank the potion and that was why they didn’t returned to their original size at the same time.
When they both went back to normal, they both realized Roman had skipped school, he had to call Patton to tell him he was okay and stop him from panicking.
“Pat, I promise everything’s alright…I’ll tell you everything tomorrow…promise…see ya then” the werewolf hung up his phone and looked at his borrower, sitting in the table eating a cookie, they were both hungry since they didn’t ate breakfast either “better?”
“definitely” answered Virgil, taking another bite as Roman reached for a cookie from the package behind him “about everything you told me… it was true right?”
Roman bit his cookie and chewed it a bit before answering “of course it was true! I want you to be comfortable with me, not as your owner but more like as a friend”
The borrower smiled “You weren’t that bad of an owner, over all people, I think I’m lucky I ended up with you”
Roman returned the smile “and you’re the best borrower I could have ever asked for”
