Fic titles: Why would you do that?
Okay, Unsympathetic Patton Warning for the beginning.
Patton gets super heated during a debate and smacks Deceit and screams at him. And, when he tries to apologize, Deceit just starts crying and then leaves and ducks out.
Virgil is the one to scold Patton, only for Patton to smack him too while telling him that ‘he’s just another dark side’, which makes Virgil leave and duck out too.
The next day, without Patton knowing, Roman and Logan coax Virgil and Deceit from their rooms and to talk to Thomas about their individual pasts with the dark sides. Thomas assured them that they’re both welcomed and accepted and loved no matter their pasts.
When Patton finds out they did all of this behind his back, he shows up to see how vulnerable and emotionally fragile he made them and tries his best to apologize and make up for it, that it was just a one time thing and he’ll make sure it never happens again.