SPOILERS FOR THE SANDERS SIDES EPISODE 'PUTTING OTHERS FIRST'. GO WATCH THAT VIDEO FIRST IF YOU HAVE NOT YET, AS THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Warnings: None that I noticed. It's actually pretty fluffy today! But let me know if I did actually miss something.
It was just past 10pm by the time I had the chance to sneak out. I should consider myself lucky that I have such patient boyfriends. We hadn't been able to put our picnic plans into fruition anyways, so at least I didn't need to worry about that. While climbing down from my balcony, I unfortunately had to pass by Remus' room. That usually wouldn't be a problem, if it weren't for the fact that he was out on his balcony with his betrothed. They were both sitting, staring out to the gardens when I felt my grip start to loosen. I just about managed to step onto the concrete railing in order to relieve my arms of my whole body weight. But, of course, my presence there caused the two of them to look at me with a questioning gaze.
"Roman? What on earth are you doing climbing down from your balcony at such ungodly hours of the night?" I found myself struggling not to blush at the thought of what I was actually doing, even though I've done it several other times before. Then, my brother's partner spoke up.
"In all fairness dear, we're in no position to question him." I chuckle quietly while Remus responds with an exaggerated gasp.
"How dare my darling fiance side with my rebellious younger brother. I bet he's going out to see his boyfriends he thinks we don't know about." And just like that, my quiet chuckles were cut short by my own gasp and stammers.
"I-I- N-no there aren't- I don't have- what?" At this point they were both struggling to keep their laughter down to a quiet volume, leaving me to simply pout at their reactions.
"Do you remember having to wait to reveal our relationship hun?" My curiosity peaked at the statement, but Remus' response somewhat cleared my confusion up.
"Well, yeah. I was originally meant to marry your brother right? Then he came out as being trans, and was disowned and all that jazz. Worked out for the better though, cause now I'm gonna have a beautiful wife who is sometimes not my wife. But, who cares, you're you Janus and that's all I at lest care about." I internally sighed in relief upon learning that Janus is feeling feminine today. I often find it awkward for me to ask about it, so I try to pick on Remus' language talking about my gorgeous, soon to be sister-in-law, as she has told myself and Remus that she sometimes feels as though she's something other than just female, which we both accept and embrace. Though, I realise that I need to make haste with continuing to scale down the side of the palace wall if I wanted to get to our meeting spot before they all left.
"My deepest apologies to you, my nuisance of a brother, and the same to you my dear Janus, but my presence was required by the lake nearly an hour ago, but mother and father had duties they insisted I was to fulfil, as somebody was too busy with his fiance to fulfil them himself. So, with all due respect, I'll be on my way." I flashed a charming grin at Janus, who gave a small smile with a nod of the head in return. Then, once I was in the midst of climbing to the level just below their shared balcony, I paused. Turning quickly, I made eye contact with Remus, stuck my tongue out at him, then focused my complete attention back on scaling down the wall. I chuckle quietly to myself at hearing my brother's sounds of indignation as well as hushed whispers trying to calm him down.
I finally make to the muddy patches of dirt that surround the castle's rear wall. Once off the muck that is left from my constant trampling, I start heading to the far ends of the castle gardens, where a small section of shrubbery often finds it hard to grow. Little do most of the gardeners know, it's because that's the path that two of the castle workers and myself take to sneak out and meet by an absolutely beautiful lake a little ways into the woods that are behind the castle. As I made my way through the shrubbery, I turn back and glance up at the balcony to see Remus and Janus both looking down at me, offering a wave each as I smile up at them and turn back around.
Within ten minutes of fast-paced walking, I hear loud laughter and I couldn't help but let out a sigh. As much as I knew that the likelihood of them leaving because of my tardiness is very small, I couldn't help the small part of my brain from worrying that they might. Though, it's an incredibly stupid thought seeing as we often stay out until early hours of the morning. None the less, I push those thoughts aside as I push aside some low hanging vines and walk into the clearing in which my darling boyfriends are located.
"Pat, as much as I love you, I must insist that you stop making these jokes. They are getting positively absurd."
"You mean paw-sitively?" As Patton asked Logan that, a loud groan could be heard from the third member of the 'on time for date night' club, as Virgil turned to me, him being the first one to notice my presence.
"Finally Ro! Pat has been making non-stop jokes for the last fifteen minutes, and Lo's been arguing with him about them for the last ten." He sounded truly exasperated at the two's behaviour. He made his over from sitting near the lake to me, only to grab onto my hand and pull me over to where he was originally laying, grabbing Lo's arm as we passed the two who now were just now calming down from Pat's puns. After realising what was happening though, Lo quickly grasped for Pat's hand as well, effectively leading to all three of us being dragged by Virge to nearby the lake.
Soon enough, we were all laying down in a messy tangle of limbs, gazing up at the stars. After a few moments, Logan piped up, "If I may Roman, can I ask why you were so late tonight? I know it is nothing compared to how late I have been before, but you are usually quite punctual."
I give a small little sigh, about to answer, when Virge chipped in for me. "Remus was spending time with his fiance, and so Ro was given his responsibilities for the night. I offered to help several times but both him and most of the other workers told me to retire for the night. A stupid move on your move Ro cause, granted, yeah I would've been late too, but then you wouldn't be as late as you were."
After his poor excuse of a glare turned into a chuckle, I too join in on his laughter at my silly little act of selflessness. Only once our little fit of giggles subsided, did I decide to grace his comment with a response. "I simply didn't want Patton to have to embark on the journey by himself, though I completely see your point regarding that situation and will gladly accept the help next time should it happen again, my dear storm." That got Virge to pipe down and blush heavily, only to have us all gush at how cute he was. After we all calmed down, we turned our attention back to the millions of brightly shining stars above us, the only sounds that could be heard being the quiet rustling of nature around us, and our near-inaudible breaths.
It's times like these I absolutely cherish with these three. We never spend as much time as we'd all like to with each other, but with two of us being princes and the other two working at a palace what else is to be expected? That then, of course, leads my thoughts to trail down the road of wandering what will happen to our relationship in the future, as Logan and I grow older and our responsibilities either increase or become non-existent, as Virgil and Patton grow past the ideal age of workers at the palace.
It's all so uncertain, but with moments like these? I just know that everything will be fine between us.
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This is again a part of collabor-may-tion by @sanderssides_prompts and @writingpromptsforsanderssides's on instagram, day four's prompts are below. But yeah, I knew that I wanted it to be ar least LAMP with Roman sneaking out as soon as I saw the two prompts. I was considering making it DRLAMP with Remus and Roman covering each other's backs while they headed out, but ended up going with this. Any ways, I hope you enjoyed. Bye all!