*brushes off my notebook* I haven't told you about it yet? How dare I?
Logan is your average Stressed As Fuck college student. Maybe a master's student, but nonetheless, it is important that he is studying for a degree and he does not want this degree. His parents — who graciously agreed to let him live with them rent free so long as he studied hard, and it was unspoken as well that he had to study what they want — always want him to be working hard. Engineer, lawyer, doctor; pick at your own discretion. He had a sad beige baby childhood, then wasn't allowed to date as a teen, never developed much of the skills as an adult but yearns. God, he yearns. He stuffs it deep down inside, but he yearns. He yearns for a companion, a friend, maybe even a lover. He yearns to study the stars and how they move and work, to work studying them with colleagues of a similar mind and passion.
One night, after a dinner full of particularly snide remarks in regards to the fact he didn't do so well on a previous test despite all the studying, he leaves the house later at night to go on a walk. He finds himself in the woods, finds himself in a clearing, and just starts ranting. He walks the length of it, not realizing it is circular, before there is a voice.
There, in that clearing, he meets Roman, who is so clearly fae. The fae does nothing to hide it. He answers Logan's questions of curiosity — he's never met fae before, only heard about the rules — and is much kinder than anyone else who might take him right off the bat. Roman's actually.. quite sympathetic. Admittedly, it's mostly over the fact that Logan can't have a lover of his own. He calls him handsome more than a few times while complaining himself that it's unjustified if Logan can't have one.
After their conversation settles, and their anger towards the situation settles, Roman goes for a sneaky attempt of his name. Logan catches him. Roman shrugs. "It's in my nature to try," he says, "but maybe I'll call you something star related. Starshine. I like starshine. You can go home tonight, starshine."
Logan's allowed to go home. No boom or curse or anything.
After another fight, he goes back. He thinks it's a long shot but Roman is laying on a long, happy as a cat in the sun. "I had a feeling you'd come back, starshine."
And they begin a friendship. Roman is Logan's only confidant, and Roman admits that he likes having a friend who isn't trying to trick him. The fae world can be quite tricky, after all. They stay up looking at stars and talking about their respective worlds and lives, all while dancing around the fae rules. They don't call each other their real names — Starshine and Red are their names. Why Red? "You wear quite a lot of red."
Roman laughs at how uncreative it is.
After a while of this friendship, a notably long time, Logan breaks down in the forest. Life is awful. Terrible. Worse than he had told Roman. He wants to run away. He knows he can't but he can't help wanting it either. Roman comforts him, holds him, lets him cry. He knows it's risky but he offers Logan a place with him in the fae realm.
"You'll live a life of luxury. You won't have to study anything you don't want to, they won't ever bother you again. The nicest clothes, the richest foods. All the stars you could ever hope to look at."
Logan knows it's a long shot, that he could end up some fae food if Roman was lying to him, but he agrees anyway. In response, Roman tells him his name. It's dangerous, but it's a promise. He'll keep Logan safe forever.
And he didn't lie to Logan. Well, not intentionally. He did leave out being the prince of the summer fae court and being royalty but he was honest about everything else.
And so that's how Logan lives. The nicest, softest clothes. The finest meals. All the books he could want. And at night, when the ball is still going on and Logan goes to the balcony to sit with his telescope, Roman comes with him. He sits down with him, gives him a little kiss on the cheek, and asks which constellations are out that night, even if he's heard them a hundred times.
I have a bit of this written actually but it's in a play format! I did it for class and I find scriptwriting fun so :) they exist in the form of a short theatrical play. Anywho :> them. Roman takes such good care of Logan for all of eternity and dotes on him. Logan bonds with Virgil (technically Patton's human, who was a customer service worker who agreed to the fae realm out of pure exhaustion and Patton kinda felt bad, but Virgil is dating Remus) and Janus (another fae who tried to trick Logan but Logan was too 😐 for it to work and Roman proceeded to die laughing) (iirc that's the relationships between the gang)
All good XD But oml my H E A R T I fucking L O V E E V E R Y T H I N G about this <3!!!!! Poor Lo has so much pressure and expectations from his parents but then he meets Ro and the Fae is oh so kind to him and is more than willing to give him a new home and to protect him <3 (The nicknames they have for each other is S O fucking cute and sweet I L O V E them <3) And the constellations bit O O H I'm U N W E L L about them this is S O fucking D E L I C I O U S I L O V E it <3!!!
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