one chance to change your fate - chapter 3
Fandom: Sanders Sides
Characters: All the sides, character!Thomas, Nico Flores, Dragon Witch (villain)
Rating: Teen & up (see Warnings)
Relationships: Loceit, Dukexiety, Royality, background Karrot Kings
Warnings: Language, a few brief/vague allusions to sex
Word count: 8157
Notes: a big BIG thank you to my awesome beta @yougoodfahm!
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Summary: The Dragon Witch arranges a contest to marry Prince Roman and Prince Remus off. The princes and their fathers, King Nico and King Thomas, are not happy about this. Neither is Patton, the gardener boy Roman is in love with whose lack of noble parentage forbids him from entering to win Roman’s hand, or Virgil, a young noble forced into the competition by their parents who can’t STAND the annoying-yet-handsome Prince Remus.
As for Logan and Janus, the princes’ best friends? With a pinch of luck, they just might be able to save the day for everyone—if they don’t get sidetracked by making out every time they’re alone.
“Janus?” Roman said that evening, curled up in the corner of the large window nook in his bedroom with his legs tucked under him. He stared out the wide window at the rapidly darkening sky.
“Hm?” Janus looked up from the book they were reading.
“I wonder if Patton knows how wonderful he is.” Roman sighed, looking up at the couple of twinkling pinpricks of light that had already appeared. “More wonderful than all the stars in the sky, or every flower he’s ever given me.”
To their credit, Janus did an excellent job hiding their exasperated sigh. “You could tell him that you think so,” they said, their tone a touch acidic.
Roman frowned. “You know I won’t impose on him like that.” He glanced down at the little bouquet Patton had given him, still in his hand. “Do you think he picked these for me? That maybe he thought of me, and wanted me to have flowers? Perhaps even with romantic intent?”
Janus blinked at him. “…Wh—yes? Of course? Why else—?”
“No!” Roman waved his hands at Janus in a shushing motion. “No, you can’t say that like it’s all obvious!”
They raised an eyebrow at him. “My mistake. I will stop treating basic facts like they should be taken for granted. Say, did you know there’s this thing called gravity?”
