Title: Purgatory
Words: 1538
Parings: Can be read as Moxiety
Warnings: Small spaces
Additional info: Insane!Sides (Sane Virgil!) (Based of a nightmare of mine)
Virgil steps were slow, sluggish, his entire body felt like a bag that was thrown under water. He was just so heavy and the walls were dripping, closing in on him, literally melting due to the insanity and Virgil couldn't take it anymore. He saw Logan losing himself in the insanity and he almost couldn't take that and if he didn't do anything someone else might get corrupted.
Virgil wiped his eyes, his breathing shallow and echoing across the floor, the insanity dripping from the ceiling and from the walls, causing ponds to form on the floor. The entire scene was closing in on Virgil and he practically felt his breath hitch and an invisible string tying his neck shut.
He had to get away! Virgil waded through the floor, everything looked the same, it was simply too much! Where has the individuality gone to? Even the door to Virgils room was dripping with insanity, no way was he going to go in there to hide from the black sludge. He continued to walk, the pounding in his head loud and painful and almost causing him to fall down and never get up ever again. He had to stay calm and maybe, just maybe was he going to escape.
Like hell. You couldn't escape the mindscape and the plague completely destroyed them, they had never a chance to begin with. Virgil wiped at his eyes again as he remembered how Logan lost his mind, everything he ever was and wanted to be, to the insanity and is now nothing more than a shadow of himself, a literal insane scientist, obsessed with the rainbow of perfection, of completion, of the one thing every breathing creature in this world turned around.
Virgil looked up, eyes widening as he spotted a completely clean door, no insanity whatsoever. The anxious trait started to sprint as the floor practically melted under his feet, barely able to grab and turn the knob and hurl himself inside, panting on the ground, trying to calm his racing heart down and failing miserably. Virgil curled up on the floor, eyes sealed shut as he tried to focus on his breathing to calm his trembling body down. Calm down, count to ten, take a deep breath, hold that breath, breath out.
Simple as that. Just repeat that and you will be fine, Patton is not here to comfort you this time, Roman is not here to help you this time, Logan will never again be there to help you in any situation. Virgil curled a little tighter around himself at the memory, he actually choked back a sob but stopped as he heard a weak voice calling:
"Hello? Is somebody there?" The voice was frail, like a dry twig that would snap if you look at it the wrong way, and so quiet it might have been just a breeze calling out to you before it was gone again. But Virgil heard it and he moved his head around, finally recognizing where he was. Patton's room. The nostalgic paradise, completely free of any insanity. Still pure. But if that was Patton's room, who was calling out to him? Virgil jumped to his feet, frantically looking around before calling:
"Hello?!" A weak cough came as a reply and Virgilo spotted a bed at the end of the room, quickly hurrying towards it, heart sinking at the sight before him. It was Patton. But he looked like hell, purple hair sweaty and without any gleam, eyes lost all life with his glasses broken and on the nightstand. His face was pale and a few unhealthy wrinkles made his way on his face, making him look even older and more frail. Virgil's eyes widened as he hurled himself over to the bed and knelt down, immediatly taking Patton's pale and sweaty hand, the emotional trait lacking the power to give Virgil a light squeeze.
"Patton, what happened?!" Patton coughed weakly, eyes focusing on a point behind Virgil as he explained in his raspy voice: "Logan... Virus... I'm... Sick and... will... die." His voice cracked at the end of his sentece as tears filled his eyes and Virgil also felt tears sliding down his cheeks. Patton was going to die? No... he was his father, he couldn't die just yet! Virgil sobbed as he put Patton's hand on Virgil's cheek, feeling every inch of the leathery skin and inhaling the smell of Patton and sickness and a bit of sweat.
Virgil bit his lip as he sat up, looking down at Patton with teary yet determinded eyes. "Be right back, I gotta find Logan!" Patton only nodded weakly as he closed his eyes and leaned back into his Pillow, sighing softly into the cool fabric while Virgil left the pure room and looked frantically around. Which of these stained rooms was Logan's, he had to remember! Virgil screwed his eyes shut, playing memories of his family in his head, crying again at the happy times never returning, before the memory of the right room flashed in his mind.
He turned around, running down the floor and coming to a screeching halt in front of a stained door, quickly opening it and revealing Logan in a lab coat, stained with insanity, rainbows swirling in his eyes and dripping out of them, two glasses in his black claws. He looked a little surprised but not enough to mark him as shocked, because he grinned shortly afterwards. "Virgil, what gives me the honor? Care to give me a little more light-blue?" Virgil scrunched his eyebrows together, confused as to what Logan was talking about but he quickly shook his head, explaining.
"Patton is sick! I need an antidote! You have one, right?!" Logan continued to grin, revealing his sharp fangs in the dimly litten laboratory, a mocking look on his face. "I might have, but what are you going to offer me for it?" Virgil was beyond frustrated, tearing at his hairr and letting out a hearty scream of despair, before he exclaimed: "EVERYTHING!" Logan's eyes widened slighty, his interest awoken as he explained: "All right, here is the deal. I will give you the antidote if I am allowed to shrink you for an experiment. Is that a deal?" Could he live with being tiny for the rest of his existence?
He could, if he could live with Patton a tiny existence, so he quickly nodded. Logan gave him a little glass with some particles flying in them and the next time Virgil blinked he was already shrunk to the size of a toy-soldier, staring up at Logan in shock who was simply gigantic compared to him now. "Make sure Patton inhales the particles. I will teleport you to his room." Logan's voice was booming loud and it caused Virgil's ears to bleed, but it was worth it, if he could safe Patton.
The next time he blinked he was back in Patton's room, standing on his nightstand, the sick trait right beside him, the antidote literally in his hands! He unscrewed the glass and allowed the particles to fly towards Patton, the sick trait inhaling them and opening his eyes again. He already seemed better, which was a big relief for Virgil. Patton looked around in confusion, before he spotted Virgil on his nightstand, smiling fondly at him. "You saved me, Virgil. I can't believe it." He cupped his hands and held them out to Virgil, the anxious trait hopping in his hands and knealing down, looking joyfully up to Patton, who still smiled warmly at him.
"Don't worry, Virgil. This won't change anything. I will take good care of you, I promise." Virgil's smile faltered as Patton's smile widened to an unhealthy grin and as the ceiling slowly started to leak insanity, the black sludge dripping down and staining the ground. Virgil's mouth widened in shock as he looked around, Patton's eyes starting to leak insanity and his grin being sewed onto his face as he exclaimed. "Yeah, I will take good care of you. I already have the perfect spot for you."
He moved a few steps into the room, right next to a fireplace, where he took a snowglobe, screwed it open and dropped Virgil inside, quickly shutting the lid and placing him back onto the fireplace. Virgil was shocked to the core, the globe was small and there was little to no air to properly panic and the sad music from the music box Patton placed next to him was not helpful at all. Patton stared into the globe with his twisted yellow eye as he exclaimed: "This is the perfect spot for you. You shall never leave this place again."
And then he left. he left Virgil, trapped in a snow globe on the fireplace with a music box and a few other globes with skeletons inside of them. Virgil cried and pounded against the glass, but Patton never returned and Virgil never left his destined place. He shall be forever trapped in a snow globe on top of a fire place. That night was Virgil so afraid he didn't go back to sleep , especially because he knows that what he saw might be the future.











