Warnings: Mention of neck-breaking and a head injury, surprise attack, lmk if I need to add anything else!

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Roman listened to music whenever he wrote.

It was as simple as that. Roman needed background noise to focus, as silence often just made him anxious or distracted him because he would try to fill the void created by the silence. When Roman wanted to write though, he couldn't have just anything as background noise. It had to be music. Otherwise he'd get distracted. Like the time he put on Disney while writing and ended up abandoning his story to focus on Tangled.

More often than not, Roman would keep his music low enough so he could still hear the other sides when they wanted to talk with him. Today was different though because the others kept talking to him and being too noisy and it wasn't helping him at all so the volume of his music was turned all the way up.

The others thankfully stopped trying to bug Roman, though their various activities never quieted, so Roman's music remained on high.

He didn't notice when Patton yelped out his name. However, Roman did notice when something tackled him off the couch and onto the floor.

They hit the tile with a sickening crack filling the air, and Roman winced as pain momentarily flooded his head before it faded, and he struggled to at least turn around to see who had attacked him. Pulling out one of his air pods, Roman glared as Remus cackled above him.

Patton had rushed over despite Logan assuring him Roman would be fine, and Patton huffed at Remus. "You could've hurt him badly!"

Remus rolled his eyes, clambering off Roman so Patton could triple-check that nothing was still broken on the princely side. "As if I could actually hurt my dearest brother!"

Roman flipped him off as he finally pushed himself off the floor. "Next time do it when I'm not in the middle of writing?"

Patton sighed in defeat when Remus laughed, agreeing to Roman's terms. Patton returned to the kitchen where he had been helping Logan clean out the fridge, and Remus sat upside down on the couch near Roman, taking out his own phone to do his own thing.

Roman rubbed the back of his neck, feeling where his neck had snapped and he was glad the throbbing in his head was quickly fading. "Hey Remus, another request?"

Remus hummed, looking up at Roman as his twin settled back onto the couch.

"Next time just use your stupid morningstar."

The demented creativity grumbled slightly. "Wimp."

Roman kicked Remus off the couch and Remus laughed, though made no move to settle back onto it. Instead he remained on the floor, still going through his phone as though nothing had happened. Roman muttered under his breath as he put his air pod back in his ear, this time lowering the volume so he could hear a warning next time if Remus tried to tackle him again.