INFO
-requested by anon
-im SO SORRY this took so long, so much happened and i have a lot of wips and an adhd brain
-u!virgil, symp!janus and remus
-virgil is janus and remus’ dad/older brother (its not super clear)
-its implied that logan is roman’s dad/older brother (again, not super clear)
-takes place in the mindscape
-everyone has an animal form
-virgils is a spider and logans is a bird
WARNINGS
-u!virgil
-abuse
-religion
-comparing child to demons and monsters
Remus tugs on his little brother’s arm as the two run from the heavy footsteps behind them. “You two little monsters can’t hide,” a loud, echoing voice says as Remus shuts the closet door. He holds Janus close and listens close. The footsteps pass, “You’ve exhausted all your little rat holes,” The voice says a room away, and Remus lets out a shaky breath. He rubs circles into Janus’ back to try and calm the younger, but he knows it won’t help much. “God, why do mistakes like you two even exist? Just to turn people into evil little monsters just like you.” Remus shakes his head at the words, it’s not true its not true itsnottrue- The door to the closet is ripped open and Virgil yanks hard on Janus’ arm. Remus didn’t even notice he had been muttering. It’s his fault then, that his brother is being dragged down the hall, screaming and crying, begging for Virgil to let him go. It’s his fault. His fault. He tries to grab Janus back but Virgil pushed him back by the throat and he’s down, coughing and gasping for air. Janus is dragged into Virgil’s room and the door slams. Remus bangs on it, trying to get it open, but it’s locked. His fault. He’s a monster. He ruined Janus. Was a bad example. His fault. “Hello?” Remus jumps at the new voice. His head snaps to look at the stranger, who wears a back polo and blue tie and is about Virgil’s age. Behind him is a boy in a white and red shirt that looks strangely a lot like Remus. “Who are you?” The boy says, and Remus tries. Tries to say his name, but he can’t. “I’m a monster. You shouldn’t be talking to me.” The older one frowns, “You look like an ordinary person to me. Monsters aren’t real. Remus is taken aback by this, he can’t think of any response. “Where’s Virgil?” The younger boy says, and Remus is plunged back into anxiety. “He- he- he’s in there with my brother. Janus. He’s hurting him! Help us!” Remus starts babbling about what had happened moments earlier but the other two can’t understand him. “Roman, you help him calm down, okay? I’ll go in and see what’s happening.” Roman nods and kneels next to Remus, “I need you to look at my chest and copy my breathing, okay? Logan is going to help your brother but we need to get you to calm down.” Remus tries his hardest, and Logan tries the door. It’s still locked. He knocks three times, “Virgil? It’s Logan. Let me in please.” The door opens, and Logan enters, giving one last glance to the two kids that look so alike.
“Logan. What can I help you with?” The logical side looks around the room quickly but carefully. Blankets half off the bed, scuff marks on the floor, desk clutter knocked over and on the ground. It looks like there was a fight. “I just met one of the other dark sides. You didn’t tell us they were kids. You said they were monsters, even as I told you monsters weren’t real.” Virgil sneers, “Those little shits are definitely monsters. Evil little failures, both of them.” “Where is the other one?” Logan says, getting to the point. He has an idea of what happened here. Virgil frowns, “He’s currently being punished. Shouldn’t be disturbed, he might hurt you.” Logan angrily frowns, “I don’t think that’s the case. I know you hurt him. The boy in the hall is covered in bruises. Where is he.” Virgil hisses as his spider form starts showing, “The little demon deserved it. You don’t get to tell me how to raise my kids.” Logan threatens right back, allowing his wings and talons to show through, “Where. Is he?” Virgil takes in Logan’s taller and more powerful form, and scowls, “In the closet. You can have them, but don’t come crawling back to me when they turn out to be hellspawn.” Logan relaxes again, then races over to the closet. Sure enough, inside is a small boy with scales littered on one side of his face. “Janus, yes? Your brother is waiting outside for you. Virgil won’t bother you anymore.” Logan leads Janus out of the room, glaring daggers at Virgil all the way, who glares back.
Remus races to hug his brother as they come out of the room. “Thank you, thank you, thank you,” He sobs at Logan, who sadly smiles. “We should get the two of you away from Virgil. Let’s go back to the light side, okay?” Janus sniffles, “Will we be safe there?” Roman nods, “Of course! You’ll have me there to protect you!” The boys giggle and Logan smiles, and leads them to sink out.
Growing up can be real scary, Patton knows that. Growing up is scary for little dragons too. And little Virgil still has a lot of growing and growing up to do. Let’s have a peek at how that’s going for him.
Relationships: Platonic lamp, sort of parental moxiety and parental logince
Warnings: Injury mention (it’s a very light injury)
Wordcount: about 600
Sequel to Part one and Part two
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Growing up can be hard and scary. Patton knows. He grew up after all! And now he was experiencing how hard growing up could be for little dragons. He’s there for all sorts of drama - nightmares, strangers moving too fast and startling his little one, falls and stumbles.
The first time Virgil lost a scale he panicked and screeched so loudly it woke Patton up from his nap. When he stumbled into the kitchen blearily, Virgil had curled up around his little scale and was still crying in fear.
The very moment the young dragon noticed the human he was launching himself at him, claws clicking and skittering over the tile.
“Oh baby what happened?” he cooed, scooping the hatchling into his arms before he could climb up his leg. That was when he noticed the purple little scale.
“Aww, did you lose a scale? It’s okay, Verge! It’s okay, it’s just because you’re growing!” He tried to soothe his little one.
Patton picked up the scale after having calmed Virgil down. He would put it in the scrapbook so he could show it around and document his baby’s growth. Virgil hadn’t grown much over the three months he’d been with Patton but he was growing, as evidenced by the outgrown scale!
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Logan had adopted Roman a month ago and ever since then, he and Patton have met up several times with the intention of getting Roman and Virgil to get along.
Easy to say, progress was slow coming.
Virgil was very shy and didn’t like how excitable Roman was and how he constantly tried to get closer to him.
Roman seemed to love Virgil though, constantly wanting to sniff and nose at the baby even if Virgil kept swatting and hissing at him whenever he tried.
It was a long process but the two humans had a lot of patience for their dragons.
On the wall in Patton’s hallway, one special date was circled in red though. The tenth of march was circled in red marker with the words V and Ro snuggled scribbled into the little square with a large number of exclamation points.
The story of the tenth of april went like this:
Patton and Logan weren’t even present for it but they came in at just the right moment to witness the aftermath.
Virgil had been limping all day after his claw had gotten caught in the fabric of Patton’s pants and his panicked flailing had resulted in a slightly torn nail bed that had bled a little. It was a minor injury but the hatchling was as dramatic as the older dragon so he had been riding on Patton’s shoulder and demanding attention like he had been grievously injured. So he went about his day limping, soaking up all the attention and affection like a sponge left in the desert to dry.
Patton and Logan had supervised their dragons for a while, making sure no fights broke out, but eventually left the two alone in the living room while they prepared dinner.
While the two adults weren’t looking, Roman had apparently fallen asleep on his pillow in a sunny spot and it seemed like Virgil was so starved for affection that he joined the juvenile, curling up in the space next to him.
Patton checked on them when he noticed that the dragons were being suspiciously quiet and very nearly woke the sleeping dragons with his squeal.
But luckily Virgil just made a sleepy, rumbling noise and squirmed closer to Roman who pulled him even closer with his wing.
Yes, Patton thought as he took several pictures. Growing up is pretty scary but Vee’s gonna be just fine.
Parent Logicality plus child Roman (Remus isn’t here due to the twins being adopted separately - you can decide is logan and patton knew about Remus or not)
