2 Happy Afternoon

Roman had gone to the Dark corner, sword in hand, ready to confront his brother as to why he had hurt Deceit so badly, Logan was busy helping Deceit with various bandages and ointments, and Virgil was off in Patton's room playing a board game together on Patton's floor.

"And... I think we're done," said Logan, sitting back and letting the bandages roll from his hand. Deceit now had a bandage across half his face, and a few on his arms, under his sleeves. "I can't fix your clothes, but I'm sure you have some back in the Dark corner."

Deceit nodded, and gave a small groan at the movement.

"Well, you're free to go back now," Logan said.

Deceit slowly opened his mouth, let out an almost silent "Thank you" and sank down where he sat.

Logan made his way upstairs, stopping to put away the remaining bandages in the bathroom as he walked up to join in Patton and Virgil's game.

"Hey Logie! Did Deceit leave?" asked Patton as Logan entered.

"Hello Patton, Virgil. Yes, Deceit has left," replied Logan. "And before you ask," he added, as Patton opened his mouth again. "Yes, he will be fine."

Patton nodded happily. "Want to join in?" he asked, gesturing to the board. Logan looked at it. Cluedo. Why not?

"Okay, Patton."

Patton looked happy to have Logan join. "Well I'm Mrs. Peacock and Virgil's Mr. Plum, but you can pick from the others!"

Logan briefly looked over the options before selecting Miss Scarlet. He placed his piece on the board, and they resumed playing.

Roman came back a few hours later, absolutely fuming. "Remus said "Deceit is his boyfriend and it's his business if he needs 'disciplining' ," said Roman, making quotation marks in the air with his fingers. "I mean, you don't need discipline in a relationship!"

He stood in the doorway, facing the three figures on the floor.

"Maybe Deceit could stay here for a bit?" suggested Patton.

"No," said Virgil flatly. "You don't know what he's like, what he's really like. I'm not having him anywhere near me, or any of you for that matter."

"But why?" asked Logan. "You've never told us what he did, or why you left. All we know is you hate him and don't trust him, and you don't want to go near him."

Virgil looked back at Logan, staring him in the eye, challenging him. "I'm not telling you. I can't tell you. If I-" Virgil took a breath. "Whenever I try to talk about what he did to me, I shut down. So no. I'm not telling you."

Virgil turned his attention back to the board. "End of discussion."

Patton wanted to know more, but knew better than to ask. He knew Logan felt the same, but Logan didn't say anything.

Roman stormed off to his own room, still angry about Remus, and Patton, Logan and Virgil continued playing.

The next few hours passed quickly, with Virgil winning their game of Cluedo before helping Patton and Logan pack up and retreating to his room.

Virgil sat on his bed, headphones on, My Chemical Romance blasting through, when there came a knock at the door. Virgil opened it, and there stood Roman, looking much calmer than he had earlier.

"Hey," Roman said. "Want to play a game? Patton's busy."

"Um. Sure, why not," Virgil replied, following Roman down to the living room and sitting down on the couch. He held up two video games.

"Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros?" Roman asked

"Mario Kart."

Roman enjoyed playing games with Virgil, he was such a good player it was interesting to watch.

And sure enough, after a while Patton came downstairs to watch, soon followed by Logan.

Patton cheered on Virgil, yelling out things like "Careful!" "Nice one!" "How did you do that, I would've fallen off!" and Logan encouraged Roman with comments like "Little to the left." "No, don't do that..." "You will fall off the track, Roman."

Virgil responded to every comment with a smile or a nod, while Roman responded to Logan with grunts and eye rolls as he inevitably fell off the track for the twentieth time that afternoon.

"It's Logan!" said Roman, falling off the track yet again. "He's messing me up!"

"No he's not," retorted Virgil, celebrating another victory. "You won't listen to him, and you keep failing."

"No, he's messing with my concentration!" replied Roman.

"Fine," said Logan, adjusting his glasses. "I will not speak at all this round. See how long you last."

"Good! I might be able to win this time!" said Roman as Virgil selected another track and pressed Play.

But without even some of Logan's tips, Roman had fallen off the track within the first twenty-seven seconds of driving.

Virgil was laughing his head off, Patton was stifling giggles and Logan was suppressing a smile.

"Fine! Logan's helpful!" burst out Roman. He held out the controller. "Want a go?"

Logan took the controller and sat next to Virgil. "Sure."

As it turned out, Logan was a very good player, almost as good as Virgil.

Now Patton was cheering on Logan as Roman cheered on Virgil, as Virgil sent Bloopers and Blue Shells toward him, avoiding everything Logan sent back, and finally, Logan came to the finish line just seconds after Virgil.

Virgil went on a victorious march around the house wearing Roman's tiara, blanket tied around his shoulders like a cape.

Roman followed after him, holding up the ends of his blanket-cape so they wouldn't catch on anything.

Logan sighed as Virgil walked past him for the third time in his celebratory outfit. "Why do you need this all?"

"All what?" asked Virgil innocently.

Logan gestured to his outfit.

"I take my video games very seriously," replied Virgil with dignity.

Virgil then made his way into his room, Roman in tow, and shut the door.

A few moments later, Logan and Patton heard Victorious by Panic! At The Disco start playing, very loudly.

Logan put his face in his hands. He didn't know someone could be so committed.

And suddenly another voice joined in.

But it didn't sound like Roman.

Phone in hand, Patton quietly made his way up the stairs, opened the door a crack, pressed Film on his camera and stuck his phone through.

Being closer, Patton could tell, it was definitely Virgil. He wondered why he never performed for them, he was amazing.

Patton let the camera record for a few minutes before withdrawing it and retreating to his room to watch it.

Patton plugged in his earbuds, put them in his ears and pressed play.

It was Virgil all right, parading around his room singing into his hairbrush, Roman sitting on his bed watching in awe.

Patton watched for another minute or so, before closing the video.

Virgil was happy, Roman was happy, Logan had enjoyed the afternoon, and Deceit was going to be okay.

Patton loved these moments with his family.