Broken Planchette ~ Prinxiety

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"You still haven't told me what I'm supposed to be doing." Virgil mumbled out as the two walked into school together. Roman sighed as he gripped his school bag tightly. "The deal is that you protect me and care for me and all that jazz with making me happy and stuff... and I'm supposed to help you achieve your greatest desire too. Yet you won't tell me what it is."

"Virgil, you can't... Just don't worry about it." Roman tried to offer the human a smile but it was clear Virgil wasn't dealing with that. "As far as I'm concerned you already helping me. Just by getting me out of the planchette you've already met your part of the deal. You don't have to worry."

"I'm sorry, but I just don't see how that's possible."

"Virgil. Stop... please." Roman frowned as the two of them came to a stop in the middle of the hall. "You can't do anything about my greatest wish. I made that deal specifically knowing there was nothing more that you can do. You making the deal, getting me out of there, and just... letting me do what I can to get to that point... that is how you complete your end of it. You don't need to know what my greatest wish is because there's nothing else you can do."

"I'm confused, Roman."

"I... I'm sor-... No. Don't..." Virgil took Roman's hand instantly cutting the demon off, as Virgil knew Roman always spirals when he goes to apologize. Roman tense the second their hands met and he smiled. "Right... Sor... Sorry."

"It's ok. Ro... I'm just worried is all. Anxious, I guess... This deal has me spiraling. I know you said you're stuck with me until either of us die so I have my whole life to completely but... I'm scared that I never will and then what would happen..."

"Virgil, you already did." Roman's eyes were soft and filled with this seriousness that took the human by surprise. "You already did your part of the deal the second you made it. I swear... all that's left is for me to help you. My greatest wish is something I still have to learn if it's even possible. It might take me centuries to figure out and in the end... It might never happen but... You gave me the chance to try and that's something I didn't have before. So thank you."

"I'm still very curious about it though." Virgil laughed as the two resumed their walk to their lockers. Or well, Roman walking the other to his since he could just magic his stuff to him. "Call me nosey but... I kinda want to know just what you'd desire so much."

"Why? I don't think it would be anything THAT special." Roman chuckled as he leaned against the lockers watching as Virgil opened his own. "In fact, it's probably really stupid."

"I doubt you would want something stupid, Roman."

"Virgil, I've been trapped in a planchette for 500 years. I have hardly any experience of human culture or any knowledge about things you all do. I got excited over my very first sleepover." Virgil froze up at the realization as Roman just smirked. "I didn't get my first hug until my first day of school with was also my first day here mind you. I'm pretty sure my greatest desire is highly stupid but... It doesn't make me want it any less."

"That just makes me want to know all the more, Ro." Virgil teased as he grabbed his notebooks with a smile. "I want to know just what makes you tick, Roman. I want to know all about the elusive Roman Black." Roman's eyes narrowed as he crossed his arms a bit in thought. Virgil shut his locker with a quirk of his brow, hugging his books tight to his chest. "I want to get to know you. What better way to understand the man I'm stuck with all my life than to know the very thing he wants more than anything?"

"Well, when you put it like that..." Roman chuckled as he shook his head. "I guess... What I want more than anything... is just to..." Roman's voice cut out as everything thing seemed to freeze up on the demon. Virgil watched the horror fill the other's eyes as the bell rang suddenly and everyone around them filled away till the halls were empty. Roman just stayed there rigid and terrified. "V-Virgil?"