22.-Heart
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AN: sorry for the delay! Half of my proggres was erased and I suffered :’) but here it is!
Tw: being called it/that, humiliation, heartbreak.
Prince and the pauper au
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Patton couldn't stop looking at his ring, he had seem some thousands of times, but never thought he'll be able to use one, much less one as fancy as this.
Since the proposal, Patton started to act a little more like himself while he was around Logan, his heart kept speaking louder than his head and he fell in love with the prince more everyday.
He lowered his hand as he thought about Roman, he had been on his head less and less, but he still remembered he was the one Logan loved.
The borrower was also worried about Thomas, he hadn't appeared since the day he arrived here, Patton managed to keep going with the lie by himself, but he was still worried.
Someone knocked in the door “Come in” the door was opened and a maid peeked her head into the room “Prince Roman, your presence is required in the throne room”
“I’ll be there in a moment, thank you” The maid got out of the room and closed the door behind her, Patton took a deep breath as he prepared to get into his role again, he stood up and got out of the room.
He walked to the throne room and got inside closing the door behind him, in there, King Emile and Remy, Dee and Logan could be seen.
“Oh look, here he is” Dee said gesturing to Patton “The impostor”
The borrower got speechless, there was no way for him to know the truth right? “What?” He asked.
Emile sighed “Darling, Dee is saying that you’re not the real Roman”
“Which of course” interrupted Logan “is not remotely possible”
De smirked “your highness” he said turning to Emile “I suppose you’re aware of my interest in magic”
“I am” The king rubbed his forehead “you asked for supplies and a place to practice a few years ago”
“Well, there are a lot of types of magic, one of which can make a person look and sound like another one, and it can be easily undone by this” he reached into his cape and got a bottle full of a white sparkly liquid “this potion can erase the effects of any kind of curse or spell on someone if they drink it”
Logan groaned “this is ridiculous”
The advisor walked to Patton “Prince Roman, or whatever your name is, would you mind to prove your honesty to us?”
“There’s nothing to prove here!” Logan walked to his fiancé’s side and took his arm “you don’t have to do this”
“He’s right, you don’t have to do it, but I’ll tell you what, is you drink it and nothing happens, you can fire me, I myself will walk out of the castle and you’ll never see me again, you don’t have nothing to fear if there’s nothing to hide”
The prince rolled his eyes “fine, if that is going to end this madness”
Patton gulped looking at the potion, he knew that everything would be ruined if he drank it, he would shrink back to his normal size and who knows what are they going to do to him afterwards.
King Emile will be devastated knowing his son’s still missing, king Remy will be so mad that he’ll cancel the wedding and the alliance definitely, Dee will be so proud he was right that he’ll have enough courage to proceed with whatever evil plan he had, and Logan... god Logan will hate him, they’ve been trough a lot in the last days and he kept lying to him, even if his love was real.
He took a deep breath and grabbed the bottle, glancing one last time at everyone in the room, stopping when he got to Logan, he looked at his ring for a moment before returning his sight to him and muttering “I’m sorry” before drinking the potion.
Logan’s expression changed from an annoyed one to a worried one, he tried to stop Patton but it was too late, he was only able to grab the bottle before the other one let go of it.
A gasp was made by most of the people in the room as Patton shrank, he had his eyes closed, but he could feel the wig and his ring weren’t shrinking with him, when he opened his eyes, he was under the wig and everything was dark, it’s cover was lifted and he could see Dee’s gigantic face in front of him.
“Wow, this is not what I was expecting” he reached and grabbed Patton from the back of his shirt “But it works” he whispered to the borrower “Gentlemen, it seems I’ve made a mistake, this was not costume magic, but a size changing one” he lifted Patton close to his face “this right here, is a borrower, an almost unknown magical creature” Dee huffed trying to hold back a laugh “I wouldn’t say magical actually, the only thing that makes their existence so unbelievable, is their minuscule size, as why does he look like the prince, no idea, but he clearly did all of this to take the throne” he got closer to the king as he spoke “your highness” he handed Patton to Emile.
“N-No! That wasn’t why I did it” he looked up at the king “I-I swear I was just trying to help Roman! Protect the prince from him!” Patton turned to Dee and pointed at them.
“For the love of god!” King Remy walked to Emile “It doesn’t matter what he was trying to do, we’ve been fooled! You were just playing with us and you know what? We are out of this alliance! And this is over!” He screamed walking away.
”Remy wait” Emile stood up with the borrower still on his hand and grabbed Remy's arm with the other one ”I had no idea I promise, Roman ran away and then he used it to take his place and I-”
The king got his arm out of Emile's grasp ”And you weren't going to tell us that either?! What else are you hiding from us?!” He took a deep breath before continuing ”I just can't trust you anymore Emile” he turned and continued his way to the door ”Go get your stuff hun, we're going back home” he said to Logan before walking out.
The prince glanced at Patton briefly, he picked up his ring and followed his father.
Emile breathed sadly as he managed to hold back his tears ”Dee, take this liar to the guards, make sure they find a cage for it and leave it in the dungeon” he said handing Patton back to his advisor.
Dee smirked and took the borrower ”With pleasure” he walked out of the room and to the dungeon ”I don't know how you discovered me, but staying in a cage will keep you out of the way” he whispered to Patton, they got to the dungeon and Dee gave him to one of the guards ”Keep him locked, direct orders from the king” the guard nodded and walked away with the borrower in hand.
King Remy closed the door of the carriage ”Can you believe it? You almost married that?”
Logan couldn't stop looking at the ring he had given to the borrower, everything was connecting in his head, he knew Roman acted different that usual, and he was being honest when he proposed, he liked that attitude ”Unbelievable father” he answered.
The carriage started to move, and Logan felt like he left behind part of his heart.
To be continued...
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