Part 2 of Dropped.

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"Hey, I think he's coming to"

"I don't think so Thomas-"

"Let me try, Virgil? Kiddo, can you hear me?"

No response.

"I'll take that as a no Padre, the Edge lord's out cold"

"Roman's right, the fluttering of his eye-lids was likely a stress induced muscle reaction-"

"Is he dreaming?"

"Well he's unconscious not asleep Thomas, so I don't believe that's possible but studies show that it has been known to happen, usually with fevers- Patton does he have a high temperature?"

"Uh, no but his forehead is pretty sweaty-"

Everyone stopped and stared when the Teacher was cut off.

"Check his pulse to see if it's racing and how white are his bottom eyelids? It could be dehydration-what? Why is everyone looking at me like that? I go on trecherous quests all the time, I know what dehydration looks like. I know the symptoms and causes - speaking of, Logan take of his hoodie, I doubt Hot Topic needs to get any warmer than he is already"

They all blinked at the Royal but Patton was the first to snap out of it.
"He has a point-"

"A fair one at that-"

"Uh, so, what should I do?"

"Set up some water in the freezer for a bit, ice water helps a lot, oh and get a fan from your room Thomas, that should work"

"Yeah, ok on it"

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Thomas brought the fan down and the other sides made sure to keep it on the younger's face, while he was closing the curtains.

Logan saw what he was doing and his curiosity got the better of him, "why are you-?"

"He doesn't like much light remember?"

"Of course"

"How long do you think it will take for him to wake up?"

"I'm not sure Thomas, for now it looks like we're playing the waiting game"

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"Is he ok?"

"I dunno Joan, he kind of just hunched over covering his ears and the next thing I know he's unconscious in my arms"

"Hmm, hey Tal, thinking what I'm thinking?"

Talyn paused for a second before glancing at their datemate.
"Overload?"

"Yeah, exactly-"

"Wait what? What's that?"

"It's a Sensory overload, it happens a lot to people with anxiety"

"Yeah", piped Talyn,"haven't you ever had a time where you walked into a room and everything was too loud and too bright?"

"Uh yeah, but I thought those were the migraines"

"It can give you a migraine but it usually gets much worse", continued Joan,"and for him to pass out like that...means it was really bad"

Thomas blinked, looking worriedly at his youngest manifestation unconscious on the couch, poor guy. He should have noticed it sooner, the way he sunk in on himself more than usual how he didn't speak anything more than his lines, he didn't even adlib his usual witty snark at Roman. Really that should have been the first sign, Virgil never missed an opportunity to 'insult' the Prince.

Sighing dejectedly the host walked silently over to him and gently brushed his bangs from out of his eyes.

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...ngh...

"...think...-king up!..."

"...shhh..."

"...I'll...e-water.."

...ngnhh...

"...ey...rge-...ear me?"

"...-an you hear me?"

"....Virgil..."

....nhgn...

"...eyes...-pening right?"

"...not..sher-...could be-...wake"

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His head hurt, massively so and when he opened his eyes his vision was a kaleidoscope of blacks, greys and blurs. He closed them instantly. His ears were ringing and through the pain he could hardly sense his surroundings.

There was whispering above his head, or atleast he thought so, his sense of direction was all scrambled- no wait someone was playing with his hair.
The voices were above him, he just couldn't make them out nor could he tell who was making them.

Forcing himself to listen only hurt him more so he focused on the hand that was in his hair. It definitely wasn't Thomas or any or the other sides, the hand was too small and there were only three people with small hands in the friend group, Valerie, Talyn and Terrence.

Terrence was ruled out immediately, his hands were small but rough and thick, Val was also ruled out, the hand in his hair didn't have long finger nails, leaving Talyn as the culprit. Which of course meant that Joan wasn't far behind.

Wait, did that mean he was laying on the small Veiwer's lap?

He groaned in embarrassment, curling up instinctively.

"...-oh! Easy Verge", he felt them place a hand on his back- no that was Joan.

"You ok?"

On the brightside, his hearing was back.

He gave the direction of Joan's voice a small nod before shakily sitting uo and re-attempting to open his eyes. This time it wasn't as bad as before, the faded blacks and greys weren't bombarding him so he could make out vague shapes but his vision was still blurry and he kept squinting.

Lifting a severely shaking hand, he rubbed at his eyes hopping to clear them- someone moved his hands away and covered his eyes.

"Hold on a second",exclaimed Talyn, "here", then all of a sudden something light and soft was dropped on his head. It took him a second to recognize the scent, it was his hoodie. "Ok now try opening your eyes.

Virgil found the hood pretty easily and slipped it "properly" over his face, he then slowly began to peel his eyes open. The process was slow but atleast this time he could actually see Talyn and Joan.

"Hey, welcome back to the land of the living, dude"

He may have flinched a little at Joan's volume because Talyn smacked their arm but he wasn't really paying attention to that, instead he was looking at his host, who had silently moved over with a cold water bottle in hand.

Gratefully, he grabbed the bottle and uncapped it, he didn't realize just how thirsty he was until he stopped drinking and the bottle was nearly empty. He handed it back to Thomas, who easily passed it to Patton-when did Dad-? The other sides were there too, he was extremely confused. Even more so when Roman walked up to him.

"How are you feeling sleeping beauty, wanna tell us what happened?"

"I feel like I got hit by a bus", rasped Virgil, "a large, loud, colorfully gay bus", his voice was hoarse but it still got the message across. "I don't really know what happened, all I know is that things got way too loud and the room was way too bright and colorful. So yeah, I got hit by a loud gay bus"

The Prince chuckled at the analogy. "Well I hope you enjoyed your nap atleast, Talyn was giving us absolute hell for it, heck they refused to let you go-"

"I did not! You guys were making too much noise!" Everyone turned to see a very red faced and pouting Talyn.

The others chuckled at the display causing the short friend to glare at Virgil. "I liked it better when you were unconscious"

Who in turn gave his most exaggeratedly offended face, placing a hand to his chest in a rare show of dramatics that made Roman proud, "I didn't even say anything!"

"Mhm, anyway if you stayed asleep any longer I would have braided your hair, it's long enough"

To everyone's surprise, the dark trait shrugged, removed his hood and leaned back onto Talyn's lap.
"You can if you still want to, I still have a headache and sitting up wasn't helping much-"

Shrugging Talyn all to eagerly plunged their hands into the emo's hair, Verge closed his eyes and relaxed into it.

Joan then scoffed at him amused, "I hope you know what you just got yourself into, they're not going to let you go until it's time for us to go home"

Now it was Virgil's turn to scoff, he opened one eye to look at the beanie lover, "what do you mean go home? You two practically live here anyway "

"True", piped in Thomas,"how bout you guys stay the night?"

"Sure"

"I'm up for it"

"Yay!" Giggled Patton, " Then we can have a movie night - uh if Verge can handle it of course-"

"Uh, we good lower the brightness and keep the volume low if that'll help?" Added Roman hopefully.

The emo shrugged,"sure thing Princey but I'll be honest, I'll probably fall asleep about half way through"

Thomas gave him a small smile, "That's alright buddy, you need your rest after today"

"Well since this movie night's gonna be a thing, I'm making dinner!"

"What are you making Joan?", questioned Logan.

"Uh, how's pasta sound?"

They were answered with various lines of "Awesome!", "I love your pasta", "Satisfactory", "You know I'm in" and some "Heck yeah's"

With a chuckle Joan headed to the kitchen with Patton and Logan behind, while Thomas and Roman set up the movie.

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When the food was ready everyone was given a plate but after only eating a fork full or two Virgil was about to get up to place his food in the fridge to be saved for later. Only problem was, that Talyn caught him before he could move.

They gave him a glare.

And from across the couch Patton could hear Virgil mumbling, as he ate, about how "unfair it is for someone so tiny to be so intimidating"

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When the food was eaten and the plates were piled in the sink, everyone relaxed in their seats to watch some movies. They weren't all Disney but they were animated. Sinbad, The Road to Dorado, Atlantis and Anastacia.

The movies were played at a low but manageable volume and the settjngs were changed so the brightness was lowered.

True to his word Virgil found himself nodding off at the half way point of Atlantis. Talyn had resumed their repeat notion of braiding and unbraiding his hair after they had both eaten and had yet to stop. Though they did tend to start scratching and masssaging his scalp every so often.

Feeling the vestiges of pain from the migraine ebb, he let himself get lost in the motions of the magic fingers working in his hair and soon he slowly he drifted off to sleep.

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AN:// So apparently Talyn really like playing with Thomas' hair? And we all know how Thomas loves when his hair is played with. I can't find it on his twitter anymore but Talyn is the one who "re-purples" his hair and he actually fell asleep during the process because he was so relaxed. It's also how Joan got him to sleep during the edits for the "Fitting in" Vid, like lmao they just sicced Talyn on him and he was hugged and coddled until he fell asleep. *This also happened after they both made him watch 'IT' with them because Tommy doesn't like scary movies XD. I just think that's really cute, these guys have such an awesome friendship. Also who's ready for the new vid tommorow?