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Deceit paced the floors of the dark room, though it's not that it was dark in the way that he had no lights on, The lights were all turned on. No, The room was just so far down below the surface that no natural light could make its way down and they haven't been able to replace the bulbs in a while so they tended to flicker. Deceit had once tried before to place candles around the room, but Remus saw them and thought they were so pretty that there should be more fire. Never again, Deceit decided.
But that was beside the point, Deceit wasn't pacing the musty room for ideas of how to fix the lighting. He was waiting. Virgil had been out for a long time. He had been sending the younger dark side out to bother the light sides since high school, but more recently he was staying out for longer, hiding his smiles when he came back, and talking to him less. Least to say, Deceit was becoming suspicious.
Virgil kept telling him that he had really hit the light sides hard, and that he was tired and couldn't talk. Lies. Deceiving people was his speciality, he could tell when someone else was doing it. Deceit was almost offended that Virgil thought he could fool him. But the side wouldn't lie to him without there being a reason. He practically raised Virgil, they were family, so if Virgil was keeping something from him, something must be wrong.
So here Deceit was. Heels clicking against the cold floor as he walked, so deep in thought he didn't notice when a new figure raised into the room and walk around until he heard the distinct sound of glass shattering.
The eldest side stopped in place and let out a stiff sigh as he turned to face the perpetrator. Remus was stood on the other side of the couch, lamp on the floor, shade and lamp crushed under the sides morning star. As soon as the attention was on him, Remus grinned.
“Well heya D!”
“Remus. What is the meaning of this?” Deceit asked as he folded his arms and raised an eyebrow.
“You weren't paying any attention to me! I was TRYING to talk to you! Plus the light was bugging me.” Remus exclaimed as he hefted the weapon back onto his shoulder.
“All right, fine then, don't tell me what you wanted to say, I have all day”
That was when Remus suddenly rushed forward to grab onto his hand, but Deceit instinctively pulled his hand back and away, glaring at the younger side almost scoldingly as he wiped his hand on his jacket.
“Well, ah, then, just follow OK D? This time it's not not a dead body!!” Remus promised, “It's REAAALLLLY important” He said as seriously as he could before sinking out. Deceit sighed, he wasn't lying, good thing too, he didn't want to get blood on his suit again.
Sinking into the floor he reappeared alongside Remus in an empty hallway, staring at a wall. But it wasn't just a regular wall, something was wrong, very wrong.
“Where is it?” Demanded Deceit.
“Where is what?”
“You didn't bring me here! You don't know damn well what Im talking about” Deceit rushed forwards toward the wall, pressing his hands against the wall.
“Ooooooohhh! Right! Virgy’s room! Well… It's gone!”
“I can't see that Remus, I'm not asking what happened!” Deceit turned viciously towards Remus, who only grinned further instead of shying away.
“Well, I went to see V cus you know, he hasn't been back since like last night!!! I was going to show him this cool new thing I can do to my hand-”
“Do show it to me Remus, don't continue” Deceit snapped before Remus could try and twist his hand off.
“Okay okay okay, calm down D. Anyways, I came here and there was no door! It's like it vanished from thin air or moved somewhere!”
That was it, that was the kicker. Moved somewhere. Deceit finally understood. After everything he had done for him, he didn't even get so much as a goodbye? Did he really just mean nothing to the youngest side?
He didn't notice his hands were beginning to shake until they were slamming into the wall with rage, That's when Remus took a wary step back behind him but he didnt care. His hat fell off with the effort and he could feel his fists growing sore but he couldn't help it, he had never felt more betrayed in his life, and by one of the few people he let get close to him?
His short outburst of rage was cut short when the wall gave and he fell through into the barren room that was once home to the dark side. Taking in a shaky breath he pushed himself up onto his knees and glared forwards.
“Uh.. D? Are you, Okay?” Remus stepped forward carefully to ask, but knew better than to not lay a hand on his shoulder. Sucking in a ragged breath he stood up and looked over his shoulder at the concerned face of Remus and tired to nod.
“I’m fine Remus.. We’re just going to pay a little visit to our Friend.”
And he sunk out.