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I. Can't. Believe. This.
When I was younger everyone always expected me to become a villain and nothing else. I'm that villain now but... I can't fucking be evil. I tried, I really did.
But so far everything has gone to shit, for me at least.
I started small and stole candy from a kid, it was poisoned.
I then kidnapped said kid, he had abusive parents and now lives with me.
I pushed this guy off of a building, that was the fucking push he needed to gain magic powers. He's now my sidekick.
"Virgil are you sure you're a bad guy? You're awfully bad at being evil." Roman teases as he puts down supper in front of me and the child I took. Logan is his name.
"Well I'm sorry! I'm fucking trying!" I flip through my notes quickly, watching Roman sigh before he begins eating.
"Well you're a better hero then villain." Logan says before digging in himself.
"Ok you know what? I'm planning to take over the bank, so." Roman barley stops his laugh as Logan quirks an eyebrow at me.
"What?" He's now full on laughing at me as Logan shakes his head going back to eating.
"You know that bank is suuuuuupper corrupt right? My brothers boyfriend used work there, trust me." He continues to laugh at me as I slam down on the table.
"THAT'S IT! I think it's time to expand our group of villains."
He laughs again.
"Are we really a group of villains if we've never even done anything to hurt anyone? You literally saved Logan and I!" He laughs again, getting a small chuckle from Logan.
It takes Roman a moment to calm down before he finally tries to actually help me.
"Here here here, I actually know a few people that might actually be able to help us." Roman gets up to make some phone calls as Logan looks at me, a smirk on his tiny fucking face.
Fuck you too.
Roman comes back with a smile on his face. "Ok so they agreed but said only if Janus's boyfriend could come."
"Wait isn't your brother dating him?" He laughs again, sitting back at his spot at the table.
"Well yeah, and Janus is also dating Patton." I sigh before throwing my plans somewhere behind me. Roman laughs again while Logan is chuckling.
"What?" I look behind me to see that it landed in the fucking recycling.
"ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!?!?" I throw my chair back and leave back to my office. Though it doesn't do much since it's a very open concept so I can still see the smug bastards.
Roman stands up before wrapping his arms around my neck as I sit down.
"Come now darling, I'm sure you'll find something evil to do." He leaves small kisses up my neck as he speaks.
"And when you do, everyone will regret ever calling you a hero." he kisses up to my cheek before pressing a longer one to my lips. I smile as I pull him into my lap as Logan gags.
"Shut up you brat and eat your vegetables!" I yell back and he groans before continuing his meal. Roman laughs as his legs tuck onto the chair as best they can, my arms being his main support now. He smiles and puts his head on my shoulder.
"My brother is already a pretty successful villain so joining with him is gonna make sure everyone knows that you're evil." Roman goes back to kissing my neck as I sigh. Remus is hard to work with but it'll be better to make it clear what my motives are to the public to be seen working with such a high ranking villain.
I should still baby proof the lair if Remus is coming over.
Yeah I should probably start that soon.
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"Oh hello dear brother of mine~" Remus wraps Roman in a hug the second he opens the door. Roman begin hitting at his arms and chest to make him let go, to no avail.
"Hello Virgil, how pleasant it is to see you again." Janus walks in as though he owns the fucking lair, well, it’s an old abandoned apartment they remodelled to both act as a living space and also an evil lair but still, fuck you Janus.
"Hi there kiddo! I'm Patton! It's nice to meet you!" He grabs my hand and begins shaking it very fucking fast, he acts as though he had five cups of coffee, three energy drinks mixed with pure sugar and cocaine. Knowing who he’s dating that wouldn’t be too shocking but his pupils aren’t dilated nearly enough for him to be high. So it’s just his personality then.
"Yeah it's uhh, nice to meet you too… I guess." He smiles as he looks around the lair/apartment, spotting Logan reading in the corner, he smiles before heading over to him.
"So, I hear ya needed help because you're shit at being bad." I'm impressed that Remus was actually decently civil, it might help having his boyfriend and his boyfriends boyfriend there but I'm still taking it as a win.
"That's one way to put it yes, everything he's tried turned out helping. Logan wasn't poisoned and he was taken out of an abusive house hold. I gained magical ability from him shoving me off a building. He was planning to overthrow the bank but with how corrupt it is that would have been a saving grace to us all." Roman leans against his brother's shoulder as he speaks.
"Welp, sounds like he's a hero."
"I’M NOT TRYING TO BE!" I can feel a headache starting between my eyes as I glare at Remus. He sticks out his tongue and Roman has the fucking nerve to laugh.
"Oh come now Storm cloud, you're not a hero, you're just a bad villain." He grabs my hands and holds it to his face. He trust me not to hurt him. The worst part is I know that I can't. Not anymore, even if I truly wanted to now, I wouldn’t be able to lift a finger against him.
"I know I'm a bad villain, I want to be a good villain but that clearly isn't working out." Remus wraps his arm around my shoulder, his other back around his brother as he gets in far too close for comfort.
"Just you wait and see. I have a plan that is sure not to backfire. And it has two words, Captain Watch, murder." I can hear Patton gasp at it and I raise a brow. Captain Watch is a stupidly popular hero even though he's shit at his job. He would be one of the easiest heroes to kill. It could actually work.
“That… that’s three words.”
Remus frowns before shoving me to the floor. “Y’know I don’t have to help you with shit right? That’s I’m doing this out of the kindness of my heart?” It’s now Romans turn to roll his eyes. “Didn’t Janus tell you that if you didn’t they would withhold seeeeah- hey!” Roman joins Virgil on the floor, Remus blowing a raspberry above them both.
"Alright alright, is there a step two or is that it?" He smirks as he drops down to the floor with us, kicking his legs out to the side of him to sit spread eagle even on the floor.
"That's where you come in, I can’t do all the work or else it wouldn’t really be your first step into villainy, would it?." I deliver a quick kick to his vulnerable side before Janus walks over and uses the fallen over Remus as a chair, as if they’re too good to be sitting on the floor, the son of a bitch.
"Fine, I’ll start making a plan."
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The blood pools at the end of the ramp leaving a trail right up to the body of Captain Watch, stupid name, and a written message left in his blood.
"Here comes the storm, nice. A little cliche, but they’re cliche for a good reason." Janus nods their head in approval as we start walking back to the Van Remus stole. It’s all honestly crazy to me, I went from being the worst villain in history to standing over a heroes body.
"You coming or what?" I look back seeing Roman standing in front of the van, a smile pulling at his lips. I smile back and join him in the back seat.
"Fuck." The little voice of Logan in his car seat breaks the temporary silence before Remus starts driving. Patton gasps as Logan looks down at his dropped book. I roll my eyes and pick it up. Logan has a... bad habit of swearing that he definitely picked up from me and now Roman scolds me for every time Logan copy's my swearing.
Speaking of him scolding me for it.
"Virgil..." he scowls but it doesn't work with his Disney princess-esc face and instead makes him look adorable.
"Oh lighten up Ro-bro, we just killed a man! Leave the kid alone." Roman swats at his brother before huffing and falling back against the seat.
I laugh with Remus and Janus. This feels odd. We did just kill a man, we're villains.
This is what it feels like to be a real villain.
I fucking love it.
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"Captain Watch has been found dead in an alley, but recently it's been uncovered that he was head of the biggest mafia in America since the Genovese family, with a mass murder planned for the coming weeks, so to the “Storm” who killed him, you saved hundreds of lives. Thank you.”
"GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!"