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Share Tea With Me (Fateful Fae AU) 🌺 Analoceit

TW: neglect (mentioned), wishing death upon someone (mentioned), panic attack, crying, anger (brief, not directed)

cw: Remus (brief showing)(sympathetic), Janus (sympathetic), Patton (brief showing)(sympathetic), kissing (forehead, platonic), fear, exhaustion, food

Request (continuation of another request): "Then possibly some Analoceit(Virgil/Logan/Janus) with Virgil recounting his past and super protective Logan and Janus?" ~KorruptBrekker

Full Title on AO3: Share Tea With Me (Can't We Watch The Stars?)

you guys get this a day late because i was tired and forgot about posting this yesterday, enjoy. there's a lot of little typos that i can't be bothered to finish but whatever.

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Logan had learned to not care anymore. He wasn't unempathetic or unsympathetic- no no, those weren't the right words. He honestly wasn't quite sure if there was a word for how he treated his empathy. So he settled with repressed. The word had a connotation that didn't fit perfectly, but it fit enough. It wasn't that bad; just a way to get shit done for once.

When he was younger there was never a time that he truly had to care. He was carefree, without any responsibilities quite yet. At that age, he'd settled for reading and researching when he had spare time- not that anything had changed over the years in that regard. Logan had always had a knack for picking up information and a talent for staying quiet. He used that to his advantage when he used to go to fae meetings.

He would hear one fae make a passive-aggressive remark toward another one, take note of when the selkies whispered to each other, pay close attention to the higher ranking faes eye movement. When you're a young fae, there's not much you can do other than observe while you wait for your magic and traits to grow in. It didn't help that Logan, while a quick study, was a slow grower.

While he was far more mature than any of his clan- with the possible exception of J- could ever be, he always managed to get assumed to be the youngest at fae events. During the occasional poly-realm ball, Logan would constantly get assumed to be a new fae.

While most would find the assumption of youth flattering, Logan found it to be quite annoying. Why shouldn't his maturity be reflected in his appearance? To be fair, Logan had full control over his human appearance, but his fae appearance was far too complex for him to break down enough to transform. Too much light, too many parts, too many oddities. He'll stay comfortable with a human body that is malleable.

Now with V around, he wasn't the youngest anymore- not by a long shot. V wasn't that much younger than all of them- not when comparing fae years to V's human years. At most V was about a year or two younger than Logan.

Logan thought it was... interesting. He by no means was going to make V a test subject. That wasn't his place- nor anybody's for that matter. He just found it so... fascinating how quickly humans aged yet how young they could appear to be. Logan tested a few things once V had arrived, checking outside of the realm every few days to see how the world aged and then checking on V. V was a passive test subject, not fully aware that he was participating in an experiment.

'Experiment,' J would kill Logan if he heard him refer to spending time with V as an experiment. Logan quickly realized that calling V anything other than a human was not his place. He found it appropriate considering that V, of course, was sentient and very capable of making his own decisions.