When You're Broken On The Ground

Chapter 10

Written as a sanders sides video, hopefully I don't blotch this too badly. Sorry it took so long to get out!

Trigger Warnings: mention of physical and emotional abuse, mention of attempted murder, brief mention of homophobia, talk of suicide, talk of self harm, description of suicide, description of self harm.

Word Count: 4052

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Thomas walks on screen, saying, "So should I just come on or maybe rise up from the ground?"

Terrence's voice from off screen says, "Just walk on, it'd be the easiest."

"Coward," Joan's voice calls, "you gotta lower down from the ceiling!"

"Joan we don't have room to even do that," Thomas replies, looking off sides.

"Um, Thomas?" Talyn's voice from behind the camera asks. "We're filming right now."

"Oh."

The title sequence runs through, but it glitches after Virgil and go black, Deceit smirking at the camera before Remus crashes into him from the ceiling. Then it goes to grey, where Remy sips his Starbucks before transitioning to Emile, who's smiling sweetly as he writes in his notebook. After that it goes back to the normal ending, but Deceit, Remus, Remy, and Emile's bubbles combine into Thomas as well. 

[ON SCREEN TEXT] Warning: this episode deals with real life events. Memories of suicide, attempted murder, self harm, and multiple types of abuse are openly discussed. Please be careful while viewing. [END TEXT]

"WHAT is up everybody?" Thomas begins like he always does. "As you've no doubt heard, yesterday I went with my family to surprise my brother, Roman Prince, at his movie premiere."

"And it was awesome!" Roman yells, rising up dramatically. 

"Seeing everyone again was amazing!" Patton adds, rising up as well. 

"The movie was pleasing," Logan comments, adjusting his tie as he rises. "Roman did quite well."

"AANNNND, we got to meet Connor Murphy!!" Patton exclaims.

"He's such a nice guy," Thomas says.

"Nice!? Thomas, he is a legend! Which, by the way, lived up to my expectations. His dedication to his art? Beautiful. His complete love of his partner? Couple goals. I hope and dream of being as good of a partner as he is," Roman gushes.

Virgil appears, hood up and brooding music playing. "But then it was all ruined."

"Now now, it wasn't ruined," Patton says reassuringly. "Just-"

"Crashed by nosey reporters who don't know what privacy means?" Virgil finishes. "Yeah, no kidding."

"I agree with emo nightmare over here, though I'm sure they meant well," Roman tries. "They just went about it in the wrong way."

"Wrong way?!" Virgil yells. "They dug up everyone's-"

"Shhh," Deceit cuts Virgil off, appearing next to Patton.

"Deceit's here!" Patton cheers.

"Yes well, I wasn't in the neighborhood, so I didn't decide to drop by," Deceit lies smoothly.

"So you were in the neighborhood and you did decide to come here," Logan reasons.

"No."

"Dee you don't have to lie," Thomas says.

"Fine fine," Deceit rolls his eyes. "I'll stop."

"What's going on nerds?" Remus calls out, appearing behind the TV.