Snow Day (pt III)

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Summary: Every year, the sides go to Roman’s realm and spend a few days enjoying the snow. Well…most of the sides. Set pre-Accepting Anxiety

Chapter Summary: Virgil plans to confront the others, but things are not what they seem.

Pairing: None/eventual platonic LAMP/CALM

Warnings: Angst, mentions of extreme cold, mentions of illness, guilt. Part 3/3

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The others were avoiding him. 

Virgil didn’t notice right away, because the holidays had them all working overtime, and over the years, he’d gotten pretty used to being ignored. 

But things had been different since July. They’d been actually paying attention to him, asking after him, inviting him to spend time with them. So when that all came to an abrupt halt, around the middle of December, it hadn’t take him too long to catch on.

It wasn’t super obvious stuff, at least not at first. Subtle glances when they thought he wasn’t paying attention (he was always paying attention–he couldn’t help it), quiet conversations that stopped the moment he walked into the room, lame excuses to leave early on movie nights or after dinners. Logan might clear his throat and ask if Patton wouldn’t mind helping him with ‘that little project,’ then Roman would jump up and declare he’d help too. Patton might enlist the other two to help him clean his room or fold laundry; Roman would ask for their input on an ‘ongoing creative issue.’ 

(They turned Virgil down every time he asked if they needed his help, too. After the first few times, he stopped asking.)

Once he figured out it was happening, it wasn’t terribly hard to figure out why. 

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