I really hope you don't mind these are all being posted in the wrong day-
But! Day 14 of @sanders-spring Royality
Cw: Persecution, slight body horror(?
AN: Patton is a smart boy bc I say so, also part of this was written while watching the new Batman so there's a part it turns sort of darker? Not that dark but it has a more serious tone? Idrk if you can notice it or if it's just me lol
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It was already dark outside when the royal family finished eating dinner. The queen excused herself back to the main room to prepare for bed, the king and prince Remy went back to the studio to make sure everything was perfect for the coronation, and prince Roman… well he had better things to do.
At least sneaking some food to the secret room where he was hiding an alien was something Roman considered as better things to do.
It wasn't Romans fault that his parents forgot to properly close off this part of the castle, or that he was riding around the forest when Patton’s ship crashed… Okay that may have been Roman’ fault because he wasn't supposed to go out on his own, but his brother was busy! He couldn't wait until Remy wanted to go horse riding with him!
Well it didn't matter now, Roman had a fugitive alien hidden in the castle. He was also helping Patton fix his ship, which could shrink down to portable size so getting it into the castle wasn't a problem.
Roman pushed the wood planks on the floor and wall. He smiled as he saw a hand helping him from the inside. Roman went into the room once the space was big enough.
Patton didn’t think twice before hugging Roman, “you’re back!”
Roman chuckled and hugged back as well as he could, “just like every night.”
Patton pulled apart, “sorry… I still keep thinking you’re going to get tired of me.”
“And I’ll keep reminding you I won’t” Roman left the bag full of food on the floor and fixed the planks to close the entrance.
Patton chirped and his ears moved. He turned around and covered them, ashamed. “I-I think I’m actually making progress with the ship now, thanks to the pieces you gave me.”
Roman picked up the food and walked over to the table with Patton’s work, “how long until it’s ready?"
“Not much,” Patton sat down. “I have to reload the system and make sure the size changing still works, but it takes too much energy and I’m not sure if there’s anything I could use on Earth to fuel it.”
Roman sat next to him, “what fuel do you usually use? Do you know what it’s made of?”
Patton looked through his hologram screen for his notes, “uh… I think it’s a mix of old metals and elements the planet gifts you”
“I could get you the metal but, “Roman raised an eyebrow. “Elements the planet gifts you?”
Patton nodded, “you know. The whole ‘don’t take stuff from the planet unless it’s a gift,’ humans don’t do that?”
“Well technically our planet is alive, but we don’t usually treat it like a living being. We just take what we need from it.”
Paton blinked, “that’s horrible! How do you even know when you’re taking too much? You don’t communicate with your planet?”
Roman shook his head, “we don’t.”
Patton hummed and looked around, “I wonder if I could do it…” He stood up and walked over to the small hole on the wall that served as a window, and source of light since Roman couldn’t light a candle for him.
“But you can’t go out, remember? It’s too hot for you and someone could see you.”
Patton went back to the tabe and moved his device closer to Roman. “Not if we go at night, Logan taught me how to track the temperature of a planet to make sure future explorations would be safe.” He swiped through the screen to show Roman the data. “The coldest time of an Earth year is coming in just a couple of hours, and it’s expected lowest peak based on our location is in a couple of days.”
Roman couldn’t really understand what Patton was showing him, but he still listened… mainly because of how hot Patton looked while explaining these stuff. “The kingdom doesn’t get very cold in the winter, it doesn’t even snow. I don’t want you to hurt yourself.”
“It’s not cold enough for someone the average human size, but it’s a tolerable temperature for olxak size,” Patton picked his ship up. “We just need a way to activate the full reduction progress without changing the ship’s size”
“Wait, wait, wait.” Roman was very confused now, “olxak size? Wasn’t it just your ship the one that shrinks?”
Patton paused for a moment, “oh. I never told you right? Yeah uhm… I’m supposed to fit in there, the size changing system is to blend with the planet’s species and avoid danger.”
Okay, that wasn’t something Roman expected about Patton species. Just imagining a tiny Patton all cute and… yeah stop it now it’s not the moment. “Haven’t you been shrinking the pieces? You can’t do the same with you?”
“Eh, it’s not that simple.” Patton grabbed a metal disk, around the size of a large plate. “This shrinks the pieces down, but it’s not big enough to shrink something my size… nor safe for living beings. Usually I would change with the ship but-”
“We can’t grow it in here, and taking you out at this size would be dangerous,” Roman interrupted him.
Paton nodded, “exactly. The ship has a ray for the same system, but I need to access it from the outside and I don’t know how.”
Roman sighed and placed his hand on Patton’s shoulder, pulling him to sit down. “I’m sure you’ll figure it out, but you need a break.”
“But if I don’t get out of here in the next bimester-”
“The way to your planet will close, I know.” Roman cut him off, “and if you don’t eat something you won’t have enough brain fuel”
Patton snorted, “that’s not a real thing. If one of my brains shuts down the other two work to turn it back on.”
“And what do they use for that?”
“...Energy… okay! You have a fair point.”
Roman chuckled and started unpacking the food, “I asked the chefs to keep the soup out so it wouldn’t be as hot as last time. And I got some fruit and water for you.”
Patton took the food and felt it, chirping with curiosity. “It should do, I just have to eat slowly, “ he smiled. “You don’t have to do so much for me.”
“I promised I would get you back home didn’t I? That includes not letting you starve to death”
Patton giggled and his ears moved again. They were never this fluttery before… only with Roman, good thing he didn’t know what it meant.
Roman watched Patton as he took the spoon and scooped up a bit of soup, noticing the nervousness on his face. “Go ahead, you know I don't mind.”
“Yeah… but you were very frightened the first time, it’s hard to forget.”
“I know and I’m sorry. It was unexpected, maybe a little bit scary but I’m used to it now.” Roman nodded, “but I could cover my eyes if you want.”
Patton smiled softly, “if you’re sure it’s okay.” He took a deep breath and opened his second mouth. It was located where a human’s chin would be, and it looked like he was pulling his head back.
Roman felt awkward just staring at Patton… he understood it was normal for him but he still needed more time to really don’t mind it. He didn't want to be rude though.
They ate and hung out, and would have continued if Roman didn't have to go back. Someone could go into his room any time and notice he was missing after all.
It took a lot of work, and a somewhat successful try of communicating with Logan for Paton to figure out how to shrink himself back to normal. Just in time for the coldest day of the year.
Roman had Patton’s ship and a bunch of old armor in a bag, Patton himself firmly secured in his hand. Getting out of the castle without being noticed wasn’t a problem, Roman was an expert at it. The problem was that their little trip coincided with the town’s festival… which Roman needed to attend as their prince, plus, his family would be there looking for him. They had to be very careful blending in the crowd to get to the forest.
Patton wasn’t used to being handheld, it wasn’t an unpleasant feeling, but it was weird. Roman insisted he could get hurt in the bag, so traveling by hand it was. However, Patton hadn’t considered Roman’s body heat for his calculations. It felt nice being this close to Roman, but he knew it would hurt him to stay like that for too long. Patton just hoped Roman got his way out of town as soon as possible.
Roman kept some of his old clothes for situations where he had to blend in town, like this one. The cape he was wearing had enough mends to cover his identity, plus the hood made a very large shadow on his face. Just a little more, he could see the end of the crowd!
And a hand grabbed his cape.
Roman tried to pull back, but froze as he saw who stopped him. “Mom and dad have been looking for you”
The older prince pulled his brother away from the crowd so they wouldn’t be interrupted. “What were you thinking? Sneaking out on a day like this?”
“I know Remy, we have to be there for our people and all, but I’m helping a friend. This is the only day we could do anything!”
Remy raised an eyebrow, “a friend? Another servant from the castle?”
Roman rolled his eyes, tightening his grip around Patton instinctively. “I have friends outside the castle, you know?”
“Really? Then you won’t mind ifI meet this friend of yours right?” Remy crossed his arms.
Roman felt silent. What would Remy do if he saw Patton? Roman had been hiding him from everyone at the castle, mostly for Patton’s safety. What would the kingdom do to an aien?! He had no way of knowing! “What if I say no?”
‘Then you’ll come with me to the festival.”
That was the exact response Roman didn’t want to hear. He looked around, Remy had pulled them far enough from the town’s people, he could make a run for it. “I’m sorry Rem, but this is too important.”
Next thing he knew, Roman was running like he had never run in his life. He hoped it left Remy too shocked to react in time to stop him
Patton clenched onto Roman's shirt, they were running now? Oh this was bad… please, he just wanted to get to the forest.
Remy ran behind his brother, struggling to open his coat and get his wand out. He didn't want to use magic with his brother, but their parents would kill him if he didn't get him back to the festival. Remy had to be the example, a responsible older brother.
Roman knew he had to lose Remy, it wouldn't take much longer for him to be stopped. Just a little longer, he just had to keep running.
Remy was finally able to get a good grip on his wand. Aiming at Roman was the hard part, his brother knew how to avoid magic, and he was very good at doing it.
“We can do it Patt,” Roman whispered. He was trying to reassure both of them to be honest, just a little-
An energy surrounded his body and made him stop. Shit.
Remy finally stopped to take a breath, “damn. Since when are you this good at running?”
“Remy let me go!”
“I can't!” Remy walked closer to his brother, “what could be more important than your ceremony? You’ve been waiting years to be able to use magic and now you run away?” He stood in front of him, “this is not the Roman I know.”
Roman just glared, “maybe you don't know me well enough. What's the point of magic if the favorite prince is going to rule?”
Remy rolled his eyes, “you already knew you weren't going to rule. Is this really about that? It's not my fault that I was born first."
“If you really want to think is about that then fine, call me childish or something but let me go.”
Remy fell silent. “I don't want to force you to walk back there, are you really going to force me to?”
Patton could feel swet starting to roll down his face, he tugged on Roman's shirt. “We have to hurry…”
Roman looked down instinctively, he needed to fight Remy’s magic, but how?
Remy looked down, noticing Roman's hand. “What are you hiding?” He moved the wand around making Roman float in the air and let go of the bag, and Patton.
Patton yelped as he fell to the floor, it took him a lomento to realize what was happening. He looked up until he met Remy’s face and started pushing himself back instinctively.
“What the?” Remy crouched down and reached forward to grab Patton.
Roman could only watch, he had to do something! “Don't hurt him!”
The energy around Roman changed color to match him, and the wand on Remy’s hand was snatched by it. The wand floated towards Roman, who had gained control over his body again. He grabbed it and threw Remy away with a quick movement.
Remy was too shocked to react in time, the magic pushed him all the way to a wall. This left him too weak to do anything.
Roman watched the wand as it changed to match him as well, “woah.” He took the bag and made Patton float back to his hand before he started running again.
Patton could barely even ask what was going on, “I didn't know you could do magic!”
“I couldn't,” Roman kept running until he was sure they got lost in the forest. “It's a royal family thing, I’m old enough for my ceremony but I never expected Remy’s wand to work for me.”
Patton looked around, trying to spot a tree that would be willing to cooperate. “And what kind of stuff can you do now?”
Roman shrugged, “I have no idea. I’m supposed to be trained so I can help my people, but I think I could figure this out on my own.”
Patton gestured for Roman to let him down next to an apple tree.
Roman did and sat next to him, “are you sure you know how to do this?”
“I am, but I hope it works with your planet.” Patton placed his hands on the trunk of the tree, a soft glow started coming out of them. The light expanded to the whole tree and some apples and leaves started falling down.
Roman was amazed by this, and by how all the apples seemed to avoid falling on top of them.
Patton smiled and took his hands away, “thank you.” He stood up and looked over at Roman, “now these are stuff the planet gifts to us.”
Roman smiled and picked Patton up, “that was amazing. I wish we actually asked before taking stuff from the Earth.” He looked up, they were able to see the stars between the tree branches.
“It’s a very nice experience, you connect with nature. Olaxs know a lot about technology, but we never forget where we came from” Patton looked up as well, but not at the stars, at Roman. The star and moonlight really brought out his facial features… he looked beautiful.
Roman looked back at Patton and blushed slightly, “well, maybe you could teach me.” He instinctively petted Patton’s head with his thumb.
Patton leaned on the touch, “we can definitely try.” He giggled softly and his ears flapped rapidly.
Roman stayed silent as he pet and looked at Patton for a while, “I’ve uh, been meaning to ask you. Why do your ears move? Does it mean something? I don't really want to be rude but they’ve done it a couple of times since we met.”
Patton felt his ears flapping even more, he covered them ashamed. “Well n-no you're not rude they uh… I guess it’s an involuntary response, like when you humans get ll red I think.”
“Oh,” Roman’s blush darkened.
“Y-yeah… like that.” Patton chuckled awkwardly, “I mean if my human knowledge is correct then I guess it means I want to mate with you. If not then for us it means some sort of feelings are being generated in us but it’s not quite there yet, like one of the first stages of uh falling in love with someone, others always told me I’m supposed to understand what it means when it happens to me but then you came and you do anything and I feel this that I don't have an explanation for a-and-”
Roman placed his finger on Patton’s mouth, “sorry sorry. I just uh, I get what you mean Patt.”
Patton nodded and gently pushed the finger away, “I think ranting is another side effect…”
Roman chuckled, “that might just be you. My brain kind of takes all my words away and I become the clumsiest person ever… and maybe I should put you down before you fall…”
Patton smiled a bit and stood up, “I have the perfect spot to be then.” He walked through Roman’s arm all the way to his shoulder, then used the hem of his shirt as support to stand in front of his face.
Roman almost had a heart attack once Patton started moving like that, “h-hi…”
“Hey,” Patton glanced briefly at Roman's lips… he couldn't, could he?
Roman noticed and chuckled, “just kiss me already.”
Patton felt like he could take off at any moment with how fast his ears flapped, “y-y-you’re sure?”
Roman left a gentle kiss on Patton’s head, “I mean, maybe we should try it once you're back to my size.”
“Yeah…” Patton felt very hot, but it wasn't a bad heat like before. He didn't know how, but it felt like the coldest day he’s ever experienced, like a bunch of leaves were being blowed all around his body. He couldn't take it any longer and pressed himself against Roman’s under lip.
That definitely caught Roman by surprise, he didn't want to move and get Patton covered with saliva. It definitely felt weird but… it was the best kiss Roman had ever gotten.
Patton pulled apart and smiled brightly. Even if he couldn't get back to his planet in time, it already felt like he was home.
Logan woke up abruptly, the glass next to him was being rapidly hit by Virgil, who seemed to be in the middle of a panic attack, his state was enough to wake Logan up completely “Virgil, hey Virge, I need you to breath okay?” He said, resting his hand on the glass “You remember the pattern?” Virgil nodded and Logan started to count for him, his boyfriend followed and slowly managed to calm down “V what happened?”
Virgil took some other deep breaths before answering “I-I... I t-think I’m s-shrinking...”
Logan was surprised, he clearly wasn’t expecting that “What? Virgil but that-“
“R-remember how y-yesterday I looked s-shorter?” He asked, interrupting Logan and continued when his boyfriend nodded “I w-woke up and...” he sniffed and cleaned some of his remaining tears, before extending his arm, his hoodie had always been a bit larger, enough to cover half of Virgil’s hand, but now, there was a part of the sleeve that dangled past his hand, way too larger than before “T-The sleeve is not the only thing, all my clothing seems to be l-larger... I s-started to panic after I realized”
Logan looked up and down his boyfriend’s body, his pants did look larger and his clothes baggier, but it was hard to see it while he was sitting “do you think you can stand?”
Virgil nodded and slowly stood up, leaning in the glass for extra support, he looked up at Logan, who stood up way faster than Virgil did, looked up, he had to look up at his boyfriend, who was usually shorter than him, Virgil felt his anxiety rising once more, he almost fell to the floor, leaning on the glass to keep him up instead.
“Virgil” Logan kneeled to be under Virgil’s eye level “Listen to me, please, I know this is scary, but you are not alone in this, I’m here with you, we’ll figure out whatever that’s happening here and whatever that’s happening to you, and we will fix it, I promise”
Virgil opened his eyes and looked at Logan between tears, forcing a small smile out “I-If I knew I w-was going t-to be stuck in an a-alien ship with someone, I’m glad it’s you Lo...” they looked at each other for a couple of seconds, Virgil raised an eyebrow once he noticed something strange “your... your ears”
“My ears? What are you talking about?” Virgil stood up properly and Logan did the same.
“They are... they are pointy” Logan grabbed his ears between his fingers, feeling them and confirming what Virgil said, they were no longer rounded, and just then, the lights turned on, and the little people walked into the room once more.
10/28/2019 02:33 pm
“Hey babe” said Virgil as he hugged Logan from behind while he looked for his stuff on his locker “ready to go home?”
Logan smiled as he stored some books on his backpacks “In a sec Virge”
“Sure, keep ignoring me skyscraper” said Jane closing her locker.
“Keep? Can I know what happened on your last class?” Logan asked, it hadn’t been long since Jane arrived, but her and Virgil had a great chemistry, platonically of course, they acted like they were friends since childhood, almost like siblings, sure, most of their relationship was Virgil teasing Jane with her height, since Virgil was really tall and she was really short, he constantly picked Jane up and they called each other several nicknames that Logan didn’t know where they were getting them from, because they had a new one every day.
“The midget here committed a crime” said Virgil, startling Logan for a second.
“The only thing I did was say I don’t really like Halloween”
Virgil gasped dramatically “I can’t believe I trusted such a monster”
Logan rolled his eyes “Stop being dramatic, I didn’t like Halloween when we started dating”
“And I changed that” he looked at Jane “if you only let me-“
“No, I’m not going to dress up for Halloween”
Virgil groaned and leaned on Logan, looking as he was about to throw a tantrum “Lo! Do something!”
“Virgil you are acting like a child, there is no reason for us to force Jane into liking something”
“Thank you Logan”
Virgil stood up properly and crossed his arms “Fine, but you’ve not been forgiven, I’ll get you back for this betrayal”
"Oh I'm so sc-!" Before she could finish, Virgil grabbed her legs and picked her up, carrying her on his shoulder and started to run out of the school "Virgil! Let me go!" She screamed and struggled on his grip.
Logan huffed and rolled his eyes, closing his locker to follow the other two, Virgil had stopped running but was now spinning slowly still carrying Jane “Curse you for being so tall!” She screamed as she struggled.
Virgil smirked and Logan stopped him before he could return the comment “V, put her down”
Virgil made an exaggerated sad face “But L, I’m having fun” Logan just gave him a dad look, or a listen to your boyfriend one “fine” he stopped spinning and left Jane in the floor.
“Thanks Lo” she said “now, if you don’t mind, I’m going home, see you tomorrow” she said and started to walk away.
11/28/2019 06:36 pm
Thanksgiving day, on a conversation days prior Jane had let slipped that she didn’t have anyone to spend it with, and now thre she was, at Logan’s front yard, debating with herself whether she rang the bell or she went back home alone, both Logan and Virgil spent thanksgiving with the other’s family, switching every year, and they had invited her, was she really that proud to just walk away and disappoint them?
Jane took a deep breath and walked forward a couple of steps, just to return to her previous spot shortly after, she was already here, she had taken the bus to Logan’s hometown and was literally in front of his house, why was this so hard?
She sighed and took her phone, facing to the street while she looked for Logan’s number, Jane called him and waited until he answered.
“Salutations” he said.
“Hey Lo, I’m sorry but... I don’t think I can make it to your place”
There was silence for a bit, but Jane could hear mumbles on the other side of the phone, she was about to speak again when Logan interrupted “Falsehood, you’ve been in the front yard for approximately 20 minutes, we can see you from the window” Jane looked back, noticing two figures behind the curtains “Why don’t you come in?” she turned back to face the street, trying to think on something to say.
“Honestly? I don’t know” she sighed “I guess it’s been so long since I actually was in a family, that I prefer stepping back before ruining it”
“Jane... but V wai-“ some movement could be heard on the other side.
Apparently Virgil took the phone away from Logan “Hey you listen, you are our guest, and do you know how rude it’s to keep us waiting?”
“Virgil I-“
“No, I don’t want any excuse, you’re going to talk to me about being anxious? I almost fainted the first time I came to this house, I know your mind it’s going trough every possible negative outcome, but I want you to ignore them, turn around and walk into the house with us, I promise, there’s nothing you can do that would make us hate you, not now, not tomorrow, and never, you are our friend, and you deserve to be surrounded by people who love you on this day as much as everyone else”
Jane didn’t even realized when the tears started leaving her eyes, she turned around to see bot Logan and Virgil waiting in the doorway “So? What do you say thumbelina?”
She snorted at the nickname and hung up the call, walking towards her friends, stopping just in front of them “Im in bigbird” and with that, Virgil pulled her and Logan into a group hug.
12/31/2019 11:35 pm
Thanksgiving with Logan’s moms had actually went excellent, but it still surprised Jane when they invited her to a family dinner once more, this time for Christmas with Virgil’s parents, and that had been delightful as well, Virgil’s dad was an awesome cook and she really enjoyed being part of a family once more.
Virgil and Logan used to spend New Year’s eve by themselves, but this year, Roman decided to throw a party on his parent’s house, nothing huge, only close and not so close friends, but since Roman was very popular, that would mean a ton of people were going, and somehow, Jane was in that list.
So there she was, out in the balcony staring at the night sky, an almost empty plastic cup on her hand, minutes way from starting 2020, and despite everything that happened the last few months, it seemed old habits died hard.
It has become a tradition since years now, to wish upon the stars at the edge of a year that came and went, as if that would actually grant what she asked for, she reached into her dress, taking out a golden chain that had a ring stuck on it and held it thigh on her fist.
“Hey babe, I know it’s probably not that close to the new year where you are but, you know I’ve been doing this for a while, hoping to actually see you again on this new year” she huffed, trying to keep the tears from falling “I like to think it will work someday, that someday will be together again, and no one will separate us this time, you would love it here, my male best friends are dating, and people like us are accepted, our community is very strong, and if you were here, we wouldn’t have to hide anymore, we both would be what we want to be, I know that’s more important to you than what it is for me... so,” she sniffed, looking down at her ring for a moment before returning her sight to the stars “I once again wish, and I once again hope, and I’ll keep that promise I made you years ago” she raised her cup towards the moon “for the new year my love” and she drank the last bit of punch that was on it.
“Aww, homesick?” A voice said from behind, Jane took her cup away and turned around, Patton, just great “Why don’t you do us all a favor and go back then?”
“Very funny Pat, both of us know that I’m dead the second I step back there, but I bet you would love that” Jane started to walk into the party again, just to be stopped by a tug on her necklace.
Patton took the ring between his fingers, recognizing some of the materials used on it “I thought you hadn’t been able to snuck anything out, but why risking something as valuable as this by taking it with you?”
That was the drop that spilled the glass, Jane turned to Patton and snatched her ring out of his grasp “None. Of. Your. Damn. Business.” She looked up at him, and if looks could kill, Patton would have been dead so long ago.
“Ow, did I touch a nerve?” He said smirking.
“Ow, sweet Patton-cake want’s to talk about nerves? Because I know some that I could make you remember if you want”
“Jane” a third voce interrupted, Jane looked back at the door of the balcony and saw Logan standing there “Virgil wanted to know where you were, you know he gets a bit anxious at parties”
“Right, sorry, I just needed some fresh air”
Logan looked at who was next to her “Oh, salutations Patton, I was not aware you were in this party”
“Me neither” said both Patton and Jane at the same time, they really had to stop doing that.
One guy was walking around the room interrupted them, telling everyone to go back inside to start with the countdown “I guess we better go” said Jane as she walked with Logan back to the party, ready to start the new year.
01/08/2020 10:37 am
Logan and Virgil were making out in the steps, Logan sitting on Virgil’s lap with his arms around his boyfriend’s neck, something that was not unusual, was what unexpected, was the voice that suddenly interrupted them “ew get a room loving birds”
They pulled apart to see Jane, they knew she wasn’t bothered by the signs of affection they gave to each other, but that didn’t stop her from teasing “You’re just jealous because you’re lonely” and it didn’t stop Virgil from teasing back either.
“Don’t be so sure about that” she said sitting next to them.
Logan raised an eyebrow and climbed down of Virgil’s lap “Are you implying you do have a couple?”
Jane’s eyes went wide, she hadn’t really thought about it before saying it “I-I didn’t say that”
“Oh J you’re terrible at lying” Virgil laid on the step he was sitting in with his stomach facing down, a smirk on his face “so the smurf is not forever alone as I thought”
Jane looked away and crossed her arms blushing “There’s a lot that you don’t know about me, thank you very much”
“Why didn’t you tell us before?” asked Logan.
“I just thought it wasn’t relevant”
“Well, you’re not going to get away that easily not that we know, tell us more about them”
She looked back to her friends, them knowing didn’t hurt right? She just had to disguise the truth once more, she sighted and finally spoke “Her, she uses she/her, and she’s the most beautiful girl in the entire universe” Jane smiled, not even noticing it.
“ooooooh” said Virgil, clearly teasing his friend “what’s her name?”
Jane thought for a moment, the translation would be “Phoebe, tho she doesn’t have a last name”
“How come?” Asked Logan.
“She’s an orphan and never got adopted, we met in boarding school while I was on an exchange in Europe, she basically lives there and, since I came back, I don’t actually get to see her”
Logan and Virgil turned to see each other once they saw Jane’s smile dropping “Is there any chance that the reason you didn’t want to talk about her, was because it hurts being apart?” Asked Logan.
“Maybe, I see you two being happy together, and it’s not your fault but, I just... miss her a lot everyday”
Virgil sat and got closer to his friend “I can’t say I know how it feels, I can’t even imagine living apart from Logan, but we’re here to help you, to support you” he curled his arm around her neck and pulled her close “no matter what”
Jane smiled up at him “thanks...m-my dad wasn’t supportive at all when I came out, and as soon as he found out I had a girlfriend, he got me out of that school and I moved out as soon as I arrived here, but I had no way enough money to go with her, so I just got here, as far as I could from him, hoping that we can be together again one day”
Logan sat on the opposite side next to Jane, putting a hand on her shoulder, not being very good with physical affection “you will”
Jane turned to smile to him “Thanks again, for listening”
“No prob Bob” said Virgil, getting a small laugh out of Jane’s lips
01/17/2020 11:15 am
“Alright alright, you win, vampires do exist” said Jane, she was laying down on one of the steps, their usual spot to eat, Virgil was laying two steps under her playing with a rubber ball and Logan was sitting in the step between them next to them typing on his laptop.
“Are you saying it just to shut me up?” Asked Virgil.
“We’ve been discussing for half an hour of course I said it to shut you up” she smirked feeling Virgil’s glare “but your points do make sense”
Virgil sighed, figuring that was the best he was going to get to “alright, your turn”
Jane hummed, thinking for a moment “Mermaids”
“No” said Virgil.
“What? Why not?” She asked eating a cookie
“I just don’t think they exist, it’s not logical”
“Actually” said Logan, not looking up from his laptop “Approximately 80% of the ocean is unexplored territory, so we can not discard te possibility of mythical or strange creatures living on them”
Jane swallowed the cookie she was eating “Thanks Logan, and for you” she turned to see Virgil “Ha”
“Logan explained, so this win goes to him, so don’t be so happy about it” he threw the ball up again, waiting to catch it once it fell “Lo, your turn”
Logan looked up from his work “I thought I was not participating in this conversation”
“C’mon, you made Jane win so easily, give me something to debate about”
Logan sighed “You two just like to argue, but fine, aliens”
Jane tried not to choke on her food “Definitely” said Virgil “What do you think pigmy?”
“I-“ she could end it just agreeing, but for some reason she said “No”
“What? Are you serious?” Virgil sat and looked at her “Is the exact same as with the mermaids, literally the whole galaxy is unexplored territory! You can’t tell me they don’t exist”
Jane sat too, but avoided Virgil’s gaze “It’s not the same, we know that there are creatures that can live underwater, but not if there are creatures that can survive in space” she looked at Logan who looked like he was about to say something “without any equipment” said Jane, Logan closed his mouth and continued working.
“Why are you suddenly so skeptical? aside from the vampires you had agreed that everything else existed”
Jane shrugged and crossed her arms “I just think it’s not possible, the Earth is the only habitable planet that we know about, and if there is another one it would be mals and mals away from here, there’s not way of knowing”
“Mals?” Asked both Logan and Virgil.
“Miles” Jane corrected “I meant miles”
The bell sounded, Jane grabbed the envelope of her cookies and her backpack before standing up “We better get to class”
Virgil groaned “Fine, but we’re not done yet!”
“Yeah, yeah, see ya later aligator” she said as she walked to her class
2:32 pm.
Virgil ran towards Jane and Logan’s lockers “Guys!” He said excited “Guess what I just heard” he leaned in the locker next to Jane’s.
“Now what?” She asked
“This people in my class were talking this thing that appeared on the woods behind the school, and it’s supposed to be an alien ship”
Logan sigher and closed his locker “V, I know we were talking about it earlier, but assuming there is such thing as an alien ship around is a complete different thing”
“Just hear this, remember the blackout of a couple of days ago” he continued once the others nodded “What do you think that caused it? And, they were saying that their phones started glitching once they got close to one specific point, all of hose things can’t be just coincidence”
“But we still can’t assume there is a supernatural force behind all of it”
“That’s why we’re going to investigate”
“Wait what?” Asked Jane, who had remained silent until this moment.
Virgil nodded excited “we’ll be the first ones to see a real life ovni! And it’ll be a great chance to prove miss skeptical here, that I was right”
“It would certainly be interesting to analyze the anomalies that are happening” said Logan, thinking for a moment “alright, I’ll go with you”
Virgil smiled and turned to Jane “and you? You are not scared of being wrong right?”
Jane sighed “I am not” she said closing her locker “but I have a ton of homework, I don’t think I’ll be able to make it”
“We can inform you of the results once we come back” said Logan.
“Please, and make sure to take a picture of Virge’s face once you find nothing”
Virgil huffed “you wish” he grabbed Logan’s hand and started walking away
Jane hurried walking to her home, if there was really a ship around she would have been the first to know, there was something fishy about this, she didn’t know what, but it wasn’t good.
?/?/2020 ??:??
Based on how the small creatures worked, it has been another day since they realized Virgil was shrinking, the creatures mostly worked on their devices, and checked on Logan and Virgil from time to time, measuring Virgil’s height and using the small drone to inspect Logan.
By this time, Virgil was almost the hight of a kid, barely being eye level with his boyfriend’s waist, being closer to his hip, his shirt was like a dress for him now and his boots, socks and pants were forgotten on a corner of his enclosure.
Logan’s ears became longer and pointer, being identical to the creature’s ears, they made him take his shirt off at some point and he noticed some weird dark blue markings forming on his back and arms, but those were all his changes so far.
The lights of the room turned of, indicating the little people would soon leave them alone, the door closed once the were outside, Logan wondering once again why was the door almost six feet tall if they barely were one foot in height, not only that, but most of the devices that weren’t movil were very high up, he just let it aside as always and sat next to the clear wall that separated him from Virgil, their conversation being the usual, were they going to be able to get out someday?
After some time, they were both falling asleep when the door opened, a large figure, or at least large for what they were used to at this point but in reality was no bigger than five feet, got inside of the room with a flashlight in hand.
It had the same features as the small creatures, the ears, the antena, and even the mask, but it had splatters of different colors instead of being plain white, they looked at the couple for some seconds, the light starting to become annoying, but before any of them could speak, they turned to the different devices of the room, working rather quick, as if they were doing it as a secret.
Logan looked at Virgil, who seemed just as confused as him, he stood up and walked as close as he could, resting his hands on the glass “uh, hello? Who might you be?” Silence, no answer “could you answer some of our questions?” Again, silence, it seemed it was ignoring him “are you actually going to-“
A beep noise interrupted him, and he almost lost his balance, the wall in front of him had disappeared, he looked back, noticing the wall in front of Virgil’s enclosure was gone too, he didn’t think it twice and ran inside, kneeling and hugging his boyfriend tightly, who was now standing up and hugged back.
The creature grabbed Logan’s arms and pulled him, not really getting to move him, Logan pulled his arm away “What are you-“ they made a silence sign and then pointed at the open door.
“Call me crazy Lo, but I think they’re trying to help us” said Virgil.
Logan looked between the creature and the door “‘fine, we’ll come with you, lead the way” they nodded and started to walk out, Logan stood up and grabbed Virgil’s hand, and they both followed.
01/17/2020 5:27 pm
Nothing, Jane had been trying to find more about this ship that landed on Earth since she arrived from school with no result, she had been able to check that there actually was a ship in he first place, but it was blocked, there was no way to get into the system, a text message got her out of her thoughts, she grabbed her phone and opened her conversation with Virgil.
Tall ass 👿: we’re gonna get going to te woods, prepare to be ashamed when we find something.
🐭 Midget: ha! We’ll see about that
Jane left her phone aside, there wasn’t much she could do now that Logan and Virgil were going to be there, she just hoped nothing went wrong.
?/?/2020 ??:??
They followed the creature to what seemed like infinite halls, stopping from time to time to check there wasn’t anyone else around, they stopped suddenly and Logan noticed his boyfriend’s heavy breathing, he turned around and looked down at him “Are you alright Virge?” He whispered.
“I... I’m fine Lo, it’s just... it’s just hard to keep up since my legs are sh-shorter now”
Logan frowned and kneeled to be under Virgil’s eye level “You are clearly not fine starlight, I could carry you if you’re tired”
Virgil shook his head “I don’t want... you to carry me, I-I can do this”
“You are and I know it” he rubbed his back slowly “that’s why I apologize for doing this” in a quick movement, Logan grabbed Virgil and picked him up, carrying him like a child.
“Logan, put me down” he would have screamed at his boyfriend, but they couldn’t make that much noise.
“V, you said it yourself, you are slower now and leaving you to follow could be dangerous, what if someone sees you? This is an easier and quicker way to get out”
Virgil pouted and leaned on Logan’s chest “fine but you better let me down once we’re out”
Logan smirked “no promises”, the creature they were following made a sign and they moved once more, Virgil won’t admit it, but being in Logan’s arms was kind of nice.
01/17/2020 6:00 pm
“Virgil we’ve been walking for a long time, I hate to break it to you, nut it seems there’s nothing around” said Logan, following his boyfriends as they walked deeper into the woods.
“It has just been half an hour or so, we just have to keep going until we find something”
Logan rolled his eyes, they kept walking for ten minutes or so when the atmosphere changed abruptly, it became colder and almost tense, Virgil turned to see Logan, assuming he had feel it too because of his face, he got his phone out and tried to unlock it, but the screen started to glitch, turning on and off and changing without him touching it “ha! I told you thee was something, c’mon we must be close”
Virgil hurried his steps and Logan was trying to keep up, the vegetation around them became more and more dense as they walked, almost being hard to pass trough it, Virgil stopped, startling Logan, he raised an eyebrow and walked past him, stopping and watching in awe the construction in front of them.
A white half egg shaped construction with blue, purple, silver and golden details laid in front of them, it seemed like the other half was buried in the ground.
“I told you, you can’t tell me that’s not an alien ship” said Virgil.
“We can not jump into conclusions yet”
“Fine, I’ll prove it” he crouched down and started walking towards it.
“W-Wait no, Virgil come back” Logan groaned when his words were ignored and walked behind him.
?/?/2020 ??:??
A big silver door stood before them, the creature they were following stopped and Virgil and Logan saw as their antena started to shine, after some seconds the door opened and they offered they hand to Logan, after some hesitation he took it and they started running.
Virgil held Logan’s shirt as they ran away from the ship, his eyes were closed but he decided to open them, try to see where the creature was taking them, he looked at them, but instead of focusing on the forest, Virgil turned his attention to they arm, their wrist and what was tied around it to be exact, a dark blue and purple bracelet, Virgil looked around his neck and grabbed his bracelet, that was now tied around his neck do to his shrinking, not long ago Jane made friendship bracelets for the three of them, Virgil’s was pink and blue, Logan’s was purple and pink and Jane’s was blue and purple, and identical to the one the creature had.
Confused, Virgil tugged his boyfriend’s shirt getting their attention, Logan looked down at him “Is there something wrong?”
“Look at their bracelet” he said pointing to it.
Logan listened, noticing the similarity too and stopping, making the creature to stop along them, he pulled their wrist closer and took the bracelet between his fingers “How do you have this?” He asked, they pulled their arm away without answering and made a sign for them to keep walking, Logan shook his head “no, we are not going to go with you, sure you helped us escape, but you are one of them aren’t you? how are we supposed to trust you when you are not telling us anything or answering our questions? Why did you help us? Where are you taking us? How and why do you have our friend’s bracelet?”
There was silence for a moment until they sighed “promise not to freak out?”
“I don’t know if we could since those are the first words you say to us” said Virgil.
Logan looked down at him for a moment before looking back at the creature “If you’ll explain everything, we wont”
They hesitated for a moment “alright” they raised their hand towards their mask, some markings appeared on it, glowing in pink for a second, they grabbed it taking it off, revealing a way too familiar face, Jane.
Both humans were shocked, Logan took a step back without really thinking it as he looked at her, the same girl who they’ve been spending time with, talking with, laughing with stood there, but he could not stop looking at the parts of her body that related their friend with those aliens who kidnapped them, that showed Jane wasn’t human “y-you...”
“Listen Lo I-I understand this is hard to take in bu-“
“You’re one of them” said Virgil.
Jane looked away “I am” she looked back at the couple “but I have nothing to do with them anymore I swear, I didn’t know they were coming to Earth and I had no idea what they were doing to you two”
Logan took a step forward after hesitating “you... you have no intention of hurting us correct?”
“No! I-I would never, you’re my friends, and I promise I will explain everything, but we have to get to a safer place first”
Virgil and Logan looked at each other “we want all the truth” said Virgil.
Jane nodded “And I will give it to you, but you need to trust me, and come with me” she extender her hand for Logan to take it.
Logan looked between Jane and her hand “Just lead the way”
She lowered her hand but nodded, turned around and began walking, glancing back from time to time to make sure they were following, the next hours were not going to be any easy.
It’s basically picking a character plus a paint brush so i can draw said character in the colors/style of the old neopets colors seen here! Sometimes it’s just a color change, and other are full design changes just like with Alien boi here! :o
Who i honestly took way longer than I should have mainly because I was having fun playing around with colors and stuff, But it still doesn’t fully look like a Alien Patton to me?!?! asdkjad well it SORT OF does, but I do like the design so im okay with it.
Also, you absolutely can’t say Alien Patton wouldn’t have abilities similar if not identical to the ones Mantis from the Guardians of the Galaxy have, you just know he would.
