I wanna see if someone got the joke
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"Hey Anxiety, uh what are you doing here?" The Manifestor was both confused and a tad bit apprehensive, "there's literally nothing for me to feel anxious about, I'm not even making a video right now, I was just gonna call a friend then take a nap, so..."

"Geez, a guy can't say 'hi' to his host?"

"Yeah, usually, but when you do it there's always an underlying meaning to it"

"I wonder why?" The personality smirked.

Thomas rolled his eyes, their bantering was getting better.

"So what's up?"

"Nothing much, the kids were making too much noise, they made up a new game, prank tag I think it's called"

"What?"

Anxiety shrugged, "They're kids, they can make up whatever they want, it'll still be fun"

"Oh? And why didn't you join them then?"

The personality gave his smug and smirking host a look, but then shrugged again, "eh, wasn't invited, plus they look like they're all having fun, who am I to ruin that?"

"Mhm, you ruin my fun all the time-"

"Yeah, because I can-"

"But-"

"They're kids, the world can and will ruin their fun soon enough"

"Ah-ah, no, no, we are not going there!"

Anxiety chuckled, before looking down at his phone.

"Well look at that, we actually lasted five minutes in a semi decent conversation, kudos to us"

Thomas rolled his eyes, "Oh you're the worst-"

"Thank you~"

The manifestor glared, the personality looked smugly back. This lasted for a few minutes.

It was weirdest starring contest ever, but it was their unspoken game, you couldn't blink nor change your expression.

Don't ask them how it started, 'cause neither of them know, it just happened and afterwards it became a thing, usually right after Anxiety said something too morbid or Thomas said something too cheery.

Of course Thomas laughed and thus lost, but Anxiety chuckled with him, so technically he didn't lose, but he wouldn't tell the other that.

"You never win at that"

The host shrugged, still smiling.

"Just imagine if one of the kids ever challenged you-"

"-I'd probably lose, but question"

The personality looked curiously at the other, it was rare for Thomas to ask him a question, that was usually Logic's shtick.

"Yeah?"

"How many children are just running around in my head?"

Anxiety almost snorted, sometimes he wondered how his host could be so pure and childlike, even when exposed to quite a bit of the world.

*cough*pfft*cough*

"eh-em, well there's", he listed off his fingers, "the two kids that follow Dad around, the Sister and the brother, still don't know their names by the way, then obviously your own Inner child, we call him Steven by the way-"

"Because of the shirt?"

"Because of the shirt", agreed the personality with a small nod, "I called him that just for fun, but everyone else just rolled with it so it stuck"

"So you just randomly give out nicknames?" Smirked Thomas.

Anxiety smirked back, "the nickname 'Princey' stuck now didn't it?"

"Fair enough, go on with the list then"

"Pushy"

"Hey!"

"Fine, fine, there's Misleading Compliment-"

"Really?"

"Yeah really, he's the oldest of the kids though, 12 or 13 mentally, Pranks is also 12 or 13-"

"Pranks?"

Anxiety smirked.

"His specialty lies in the Disney ones"

"Oh"

"And that's it," he gestured to his fingers, five of 'em"

"Cool-"

"Unless of course you count the personalities, 'cause let's face it, they're as immature as kids sometimes"

"True, my gut instinct wants to say that Morality is the youngest but, he's been around kinda the longest, so Prince?"

Anxiety scratched the back of his head, "actually, Princey's older than me-"

Thomas' eyes widened.

"What? Really? Wait, does that mean you're the youngest?

"Yeah, kinda, Princey's older than me by a few days, then there's Logic and Morality, Logic is younger than Dad, I just don't know how much younger- what?"

"You're the youngest!"

"Yeah and? You're acting like Prince was during your ' I'm on a Disney show video', you're even doing the hand movements"

"Because I just realized something-"

"That your insane?-"

"No, that it goes in order-"

"What?"

"Think about it, the boy is 6-7ish right?"

"About that"

"So it starts off with me a growing boy-"

"And it continues with a girl, his sister is older-"

"Hey I'm in touch with my feminine side-"

Anxiety scoffs.

"Hey which one of us actually uses eyes shadow-".

"...."

"Thought so"

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"...and since both Pranks and Misleading Compliment are about 13, that means-"

"That means?"

"It means, you're that emo teen phase that I never actually had"

Anxiety raised a finger and opened his mouth to disagree- he then closed it and put his finger back down. Thomas laughed as the personality huffed and crossed his arms.

"And how do the others fit in this then?"


"Well, Prince is the 'after you phase', where I find my freedom and happiness or something like that, Logic is my responsible adulthood-ah don't, it will happen someday!"

Anxiety put his finger down again, this time he was smirking.

"And then I'll be an awesome dad someday in the future"

"Sure, I feel sorry for the little brats already"

"Hey, Morality's not that bad-"

"Not saying he was, the Oldman's alright sometimes, especially when he remembers what personal space is"

Thomas gave him a look, it somewhere between an "aww" and "you're messing with me aren't you?" Kinda look.

Anxiety shrugged lightly, smirk ever present.

"Which is about 1% of the time"

Thomas groaned, dragging his hand down his face.

"Ugh, ok, you know what? There's Pizza in the fridge, go get a slice or two"

"What?"

"Whenever one of you come out, if it's not to antagonize me-"

"Heh"

"Then it's because you guys either hungry or bored, Pizza's in the fridge"

"Well I was just bored but- what kind of Pizza?"

"Meat lovers"

Whatever magic words he had whispered Thomas doesn't know, but instantly Anxiety's demeanour changed.

His stance shifted, his arms uncrossed and dropped to his sides, he had that look, the very same look that Thomas had prior.

"You're serious?"

"About the Pizza? Yeah it's right- oh see, I was supposed to call her half an hour ago!"

Thomas picked up his phone and answered it, Anxiety disappeared.

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"Yeah I did and- wait, no-no nothing's wrong, I just heard something"

Thomas walked from the living room to the kitchen, phone still in hand only to see Anxiety taking out a plate of Pizza from the microwave.

Sitting down he picked up one of the two steaming slices and bit into it with a small soft moan.

Thomas couldn't help but chuckle, this is the first time he'd actually seen Anxiety truly smile.

"It's that good?"

The personality jumped, partially choking, he quickly placed a hand in front of his mouth, a bright red blush spreading across his pale face.

"\Thomas? Thomas are you ok?\"

Thomas lifted the phone back to his ear.

"Yeah Lilly, nothing's wrong, I just need to buy meat lovers Pizza more often"

"\Oh you're eating?-\"

"No, Anxiety is-"

Said personality's eyes widened, his hand still covering his mouth as he chewed.

"Wai- 's da LIly?"

The manifestor smiled.

"Yeah it is, wanna see?!"

Thomas lifted the phone and pressed something, and boom, Lilly's face could be seen.

Anxiety ducked down, but unfortunately for him, Super woman had spotted him.

"\Hey gloom and doom, why ya hiddin'? I thought we made a connection that Saturday\"

From under the edge of the table, Anxiety could practically hear the smirk she had on her face. Rolling his eyes, he swallowed, stood up and walked next to Thomas.

The manifestor looked between the girl on the phone and the guy at his side.

"What happened that Saturday?"

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"\...and we sat down and laughed at the absurdity of the whole movie and how stupid it was to walk into the house anyway-\"

"And after about a good three movies, I asked her about the book that she was obviously advertising *cough*noshame*cough* she gave me the baseline and I pre-ordered it from my phone-"

"\that he did and *cough*toobawseforshame*cough*\", she smiled.

Anxiety rolled his eyes and Thomas...
was confused out of his mind.

"Wait, when did this all happen?"

"Uh-"

"\when my mo- Paramjeet, called you to give you 'a lil' tip' about your videos- \"

"Yeah, when he came home, he went to his room and cried-"

"Dude-"

"Hey, this is your fault, I was eating Pizza, and speaking of-"

Thomas rolled his eyes and placed a hand on the bridge of his nose.

"Yes, you can go with your Pizza"

"Thank you very much~"

And with that the personality happily slipped off, grabbed his plate and sank down, likely to go to his room, where he could eat his heavenly slices in peace.

"\wow, he really liked that Pizza\"

"Yeah, it's second to Cheese but meat lovers is great, don't you think so?"

Lilly gave him a look, and he winced.

"Ooh, sorry, you're a vegetarian, my bad"

"\it's fine, but back to the matter of hand, how's....\

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"Hey Anxiety, bored again?"

Thomas was sitting down on the couch, watching commercials?

"How do you know I'm not here to do my job?"

"Because I met all my deadlines for once, you and Logic made sure of that"

"Heh, true, so what you up too?"

"Just chillin', waiting for the next episode of SU to play"

"Which one is it?"

"Don't know, I don't think I've seen this one yet-"

We- are the Crystal Gems

Anxiety sat down instantly, eyes glued to the TV. Thomas snickered silently.

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"He-hello?"

"Sup"

"Anxiety? What are you doing here? It's-", Thomas took out his phone, blinking back and squinting a bit from the brightness, once he saw the time he gaped and held out the screen, "literally midnight!"

The personality looked at the screen lazily from the laying position he was in on the couch.

"Wow, that's on the dot" he paused for a second and then looked to Thomas, the boy was in his PJ's, well it was a baggy T-shirt, some fuzzy pants and socks, the manifestor looked tired but also a little afraid. Anxiety shrugged internally, he had that effect on people, so instead of questioning the other, he simply smirked, "shouldn't you be in bed then Cinderella?"

Thomas rolled his eyes.

"Why are you here Anxiety? I thought we were good all this week and the week prior"

Anxiety raised a brow.

"Yeah?"

"Then? Why..."

"The others were having a movie marathon-"

"Then why didn't you-", Thomas paused, "weren't invited were you?"

"Nope", said the personality popping the 'P'. "And you should be in bed"

"Well I was in bed, but with all the noise you were making-"

"Noise? I was just reading-"

Thump Thump creeeak

Both males jumped and shared a look.

"Move over"

"Y-yeah", complied the personality, he shifted over so Thomas could climb over from the back.

The second the manifestor plopped on to his seat, the thumps and creaking began again. Anxiety quickly turned on the TV and huddled next to his host.

They said nothing to each other, both watching TV and ignoring the sounds, they were just hanging out, definitely not trying to drown out the sound of their impending doom.

No, they weren't afraid of the demigorgon, no not at al-

Creeeeaaak

They sprinted to Thomas' room.

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"You do know they're going to laugh at you right?"

"Kinda the point"

"No they're supposed to laugh with you, not at you"

Thomas shrugged.

"As long as their happy-"

"You're too nice for your own good"

"Wow, that is the nicest thing you've ever said to me"

Anxiety rolled his eyes at his mocking manifestor, but of course he wouldn't let that jab slide.

"That's not true, I told you this morning that you didn't look as beaten up and tired like you usually are"

This time Thomas rolled his eyes, shaking his head he turned on the camera.

.....

"You know people are going to say some pretty bad things about this one"

"Yeah, probably, but that's the Internet, can't please everybody-"

"Yet you always try"

"Of course", he shrugged, "you never know who's mind you might change"

"Yeah, people can change for the worst too you know"

"Oh stop being so pessimistic"

Anxiety deadpanned.

Thomas posted the video.

The first comment popped up after about five minutes.

"This is great!"

"See Anxiety", gestured Thomas to the laptop.

"Yeah, yeah"

The personality rolled his eyes, but the minute his host turned to get some water another comment came in.

"This was the stupidest thing I've seen"

Anxiety blocked the person and removed the comment.

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"....bet you it can't"

"Bet you it will"

"Alright what's your wager"

"Uh-um, ice-cream! Ice cream from that place down at main street"

"Any flavour for the winner?"

"Any flavour", agreed the manifestor.

"Deal", Anxiety stuck out his hand, Thomas shook it.

....

"I can't believe it did it"

"Told you it would", Thomas smiled teasingly at the other all while happily eating his ice cream cone.

"Alright, I'll let that go, but why did you buy me ice-cream? I lost?"

"Yeah, but you got a cup, a small one"

Anxiety raised his little ice cream cup and shrugged, "true". Thomas still got him his favourite flavour.

"So do you wanna head back home or go for a drive around"

"As if your back pocket could afford that gas money-"

"Anxiety-"

"I'm not really going to have a choice, am I?"

"Mmn, it depends-"

"On?"

"If you say no, we head back and work on a new video-"

"Ugh, fine let's go, where are we heading to anyway?" Anxiety threw his hood over his head and buried his hands in the pockets of his hoodie.

Thomas smiled.

"Let's find out"

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They were in the car- oh he remembered this, this was right before-
He was dreaming, he was flashing through all these memories-wait, memories? That means-

The blearing sound, the screeching and screaming...

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Logic was yelling at him for something, he didn't know what, all he knew was that he wanted to get out, and so he did.

He popped up at his usual area, the staircase, and walked around, the house was eerily quiet.

"Thomas?"
"Thomas?"

"What are you doing here?"

Anxiety spun around, that tone of voice had him on edge, but what was even worse was how the speaker looked.

"Thomas? What happened?

The manifestor's faced was bleeding, one jagged cut from temple to across his cheek, his left hand was mangled, his shirt torn, glass shards in his hair and eyes-

"Don't pretend that you don't know, don't pretend that this was not your fault", the personality blinked and Thomas had him in his bloody handed grip, he pulled the other by his collar and looked him in the eye," don't pretend you don't remember!"

Anxiety's eyes widened.

The blearing sound, the screeching and screaming...

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Both Thomas and Anxiety woke with a gasp, a familiar sound replaying in their ears.

Looking to the source they saw, Prince, Morality and Logic, the personalities gave a worried glance at the two, before continuing to watch, what was likely, the news.

It was then they realized exactly why the sound was familiar.

There on the screen was Thomas' little car and behind was an eighteen wheeler, the large vehicle was swerving side to side uncontrollably and it was moving fast.

The blearing sound of the horn, the screeching of the tires and the screaming of the by standers...

*Honk* *Honk* BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

BANG!

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AN:// Have I crushed souls yet? If not, there's more ;)