so i was sitting there, thinking to myself about how absolutely pissed deceit must've been when he experienced how the others treated logan, and then i was like "oh, well, you could write and angsty oneshot" and so i wrote an angsty oneshot. so here we go, i guess.
Logan sat on a dark blue sofa in his room, reading a book about astrology. When Deceit had offered to take his place today, he had immediately agreed. He needed a break from everything.
Deceit appeared in Logan’s room without warning, giving off an intense energy. Logan looked up from his book, and his eyebrows furrowed in concern. Deceit had a clouded angry look on his face and a far away look in his tear-filled eyes. He looked like he was about to punch someone.
“Are you alright?” Logan asked. Deceit glowered at him.
“You… You let them treat you like that? How?! I could barely even get a word in! Do they treat you like that all the time!?”
Logan shrugged it off. “It’s nothing I’m not used to at this point.”
“But that’s not the point!” Deceit protested, sitting down besides the logical one. “The fact that you’re used to it is terrible. I had to seriously bite my tongue to keep myself from going off on them.”
“I’m sorry it upset you. I’m afraid there’s nothing I can do about it. It simply comes with my job.”
“Why? Why do they treat you like that? Shutting you down at every turn, completely ignoring you, dismissing all your points…”
Logan sighed and closed his book, setting it down on the table beside him. He looked up at the ceiling “I’m Logic. I give facts, objective truths. I don’t sugarcoat anything, I tell it as it is.”
“I just- I don’t get it! Shouldn’t that be a good thing?”
Logan smiled sourly. “Reality is blunt, cold, and cruel. Truths can cut deep, and facts and statistics can be overwhelming. It’s my job to show them that. A lot of the time, they’d rather just pretend that I’m not there. I can’t blame them, they aren’t objective like I am. They can be affected by things like this in ways I can’t understand in my current state. So it’s understandable that they would choose to ignore me rather than facing difficult things like this. It’s just in their nature.”
The two sides sat in silence for a moment, taking in what was said. Deceit leaned his head onto Logan’s shoulder softly. Logan looked towards him in surprise, and the reptilian side looked up to meet his eyes.
“I think that’s horrible,” Deceit mumbled. “Even if it’s hard for them to deal with, you deserve to be heard. You listen to them, they should do the same for you. It’s not fair that you have to deal with all this.”
Logan put an arm around the other side’s shoulder and sighed. “I’m afraid fair treatment doesn’t come with the job description, love. I accepted it long ago. It’s just something I have to live with, no matter how it might affect me.” A single tear stung at the corner of his eye, but he blinked it away.
“...I’m so sorry, Lo.” Deceit said sadly, burying his head in the logical side’s shoulder. Logan ran his hand through Deceit’s hair gently, hoping to calm him down.
