#he's being dramatic

[ask-doma]

My poor belly is empty! Akaza Dono keeps saving my meals, whatever shall I do?! I might starve to death.

[chuckiescrafts]

He has arrived.

[lennyisblueig]

Inviting my mother to Earth has had detrimental consequences

[holosart]

Feenie and Larry getting his ear pierced. All the cool dude's have 'em.

[vroomvroombeepboop]

Asking Max who potentially blocked him and ruined his last quali lap.

Max: Well, it wasn't Oscar 😚✌️

[nerdfins]

"And STAY in there!"

"Knockout? I haven't seen the doctor all day."

"GET ME OUT! UGH! THERE'S SOMETHING STICKY IN HERE!"

[ask-bad-habit]

I just saw this on pinterest 🤣

No! Absolutely fucking not! That bitch stole my husband from me!

Fuck that man!

[naminethewriter]

Lessons in Flirtation

Chapter 2: Which Leads to a Small Breakdown

I'm a day late, was too exhausted yesterday, but please enjoy Janus having a bit of a crisis after his talk with Logan 😅 @loceit-week

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Summary: During one of the usual games of chess, Logan asks Janus for help with something unusual for him. Janus agrees, but maybe he just dug his own grave…

Content Warnings: Self-Deprication, Pining

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Janus returns to his room after his game with Logan and takes a deep breath. Then he starts freaking out just a little bit.

Why had he just agreed to that??

He is the side to hoard secrets; his techniques should remain his! He had no reason to say yes; he’s not gaining anything from this!

On the contrary, this is detrimental to his own interests!

It snuck up on him over the last few weeks of his new arrangement with Logan to play a round of chess every once in a while, a compromise they reached to make sure that Logan takes breaks from his work and to satisfy Patton’s wishes for his famILY to get along. At first it had been a pleasant enough way to pass the time, a game that was not complete chaos (because Janus was used to playing with Remus), but it slowly evolved into him appreciating Logan’s company more and more.

Which had led to him developing a bit of a crush.

And now he had agreed to help his crush learn how to flirt with someone else!? Why had he done that?!?

…

He has to calm down.

Janus stops in his tracks — when did he start pacing anyway? — and takes more deep, deep breaths. Everything’s fine. Everything is just fine.

He can deal with this.

It’s not like he had a chance with Logan anyway. Not after how he had treated him during the wedding debacle.

Not that he had a choice. If he had let Logan participate in the trial, he would have argued every point he wanted to make, so he had benched him as quickly as possible. And after the wedding he needed some opening, a way to get closer unnoticed so he could interject when the time was right! And Patton had given him the golden opportunity! In his haste he might not have used the best method to take Logan’s place, but he had done so out of necessity!

When he had later gone to apologize to Logan, the other had seemed understanding enough (though he was also rubbing his red neck at the time). He had also accepted the bottle of wine Janus offered him. It was still tense between them, but at least that was better than the icy stares Roman gave him.

It was then Logan who approached him about the chess matches. Apparently, Patton had told him that he was at a loss for what to do to iron out the relationships in their famILY and brought up that Janus had mentioned to him that he enjoyed a game of chess. So, Logan’s logical solution was to spend a bit of time with Janus to play the game and Janus started using it as an excuse to pull Logan from his work when he got too stressed.

In all, yes, he has a friendly enough relationship with Logan at the moment, but it is mostly based on placating Patton and keeping Logan stress free.

Logan is tolerating him, nothing more.

Which is fine. He doesn’t deserve more.

And another reason why it is fine for him to help Logan. He owes him that much. Right?

Right.

It’s only right.

He just really wishes he knew who Logan meant. It is driving him wild! Logan’s face was unreadable when he talked about it, and Janus can’t tell when the others are lying when it doesn’t relate to Thomas. Whatever is going through Logan’s head is not connected to their core in the slightest.

It may even be that he doesn’t have a crush in the first place, though Janus is doubtful of that. Logan had been more absentminded recently, not only during their games but also during other activities like movie nights or meals. A developing crush would certainly explain his change in behavior.

But then who…?

No.

No, it is none of his business.

Logan owes him nothing, so he will rise to the task without asking more questions. His secrets are his as long as they don’t involve Thomas.

And they don’t, otherwise Janus would have been able to tell.

It’s fine.

Everything is just fine.

He can do this.

It’s not going to hurt.

It’s just helping a friend out.

Totally normal.

…

He’s so, so screwed.