Demus Oneshots

Oblivious

I got this idea from reading reactiontolife's one shot. It's got a really long name so I'm not even gonna try and write it here but inspired by Alex's writing.

"And then the thing was, Kaz was being a fucking idiot so Inej didn't know he liked her back-" Logan zoned back into Janus' rant to hear him... still ranting. Unfortunately.

"And it was so annoying because you can tell they're both desperately in love with each other," Janus said, "but Kaz is too scared and too much of a dumbass to confess and Inej isn't about to sacrifice her pride- Kaz is the bastard of the Barrel, she's not about to risk that-"

"Yes, yes, very interesting Janus." Logan said wearily, cutting them off. "Could we talk about anything else, please?"

"No." Janus said. "You interrupted me. Now we have to start again. Anyway, if we're going to take Wylan and Jesper for example-"

Logan groaned and face-palmed. "Oh, shut up." Janus said, elbowing him. "You're the one who suggested Six of Crows to me."

"Only cause Pat suggested it to me!" Logan protested. "Besides, it's honestly not my thing. Too many words I can't even begin to pronounce."

Janus laughed. "And you're meant to be the smart one." They said. "Anyway, Wylan and Jesper are the perfect example of a-"

Logan zoned out on Janus' words again. As long as he nodded along, Janus would never know he wasn't listening.

"We're meant to be meeting the others, aren't we?" Logan thought. "So where are they?" He was just about to ask Janus when he realised his friend had stopped talking.

Logan looked over at Janus. They were staring straight ahead with an expression of mixed awe and complete happiness. Logan followed his line of vision to try see what Janus was staring at.

"Remus?" Logan thought. "What's so special about Remus?"

Right now, the boy in question was dancing around like a madman. He was listening to something on his headphones that obviously made him very happy, as he was grinning like a maniac and jumping about. Nothing out of the ordinary for either Winston, really. So what about him was making Janus stare so?

Logan looked back at his friend, hoping to glean more knowledge from his face. Nothing had really changed, only now Janus was blushing very lightly. Logan looked back at Remus.

Maybe it was his outfit? Remus was wearing his Doc Martens (as always) and some knee-high black and white socks. Green shirt, denim jacket, checkerboard skirt, choker necklace, all very normal. Was it the outfit? It was rather modest for Remus' style and nothing about him was out of the ordinary so what on Earth was making Janus stare?

Logan gave up guessing and shook Janus' shoulder. Janus looked up at Logan and closed his mouth.

"What're you staring at?" Logan asked.

"Nothing." Janus said quickly, crossing their arms.

"Bullshit." Logan said. "You don't stare at 'nothing' for that long."

Janus glared at Logan. "You're still blushing, you know." Logan said. "It makes you much less intimidating and also gives you dead away." Logan nodded his head in Remus' direction. "Why're you staring at him?"

Janus' glare intensified and they stormed away from Logan, leaving him without an answer.

Logan tapped Remus on the shoulder, making him jump about a foot in the air and open his eyes.

"Oh! Hey Lo! Hey Jan!" Remus yelled. Logan rolled his eyes and mimed taking some headphones off. "Huh?! Oh, the headphones!"

Remus dug around in his jacket pocket and paused his music. He hung his headphones around his neck.

"Have the others not appeared yet?" Remus asked. Janus shrugged.

"Roman's your brother." They said. "Shouldn't he be here now?"

Remus shrugged. "No clue, Jan. He went off with Virgil to 'babysit Issac' about half an hour ago. I set off couple minutes later. My guess we're gonna get a very flustered Ro and a very proud of himself Virge." He shrugged again and shoved his hands in his jacket pocket. "Anyway, whatcha think?" He asked, spinning around.

"What? About the outfit?" Janus asked. Logan did a small double-take at Janus' tone. He sounded so bored and almost annoyed, as if he hadn't been staring his eyes out of his head a couple of minutes ago.

"Yup! Found the skirt at Blue Rinse and it was my size so I thought I'd get it." Remus said confidently. "Terrified three cat callers on the way here. They all thought I was a girl with short hair til I turned around." Remus laughed.

"It's nice, I guess." Janus said nonchalantly. "Bet I could pull it off better though."

Remus snickered. "In what way?" He asked. Janus rolled their eyes.

"Fuck you, Rem." Janus said, pulling out their phone.

"Fuck me yourself, coward." Remus said, grinning and dancing around on his toes.

"I'll shove you in a second." Janus muttered. "Lo, why don't you make yourself useful and go call Pat or something. They should be here by now, as should Virgil and his pathetic prince of a boyfriend."

Logan blinked but pulled his phone out anyway. "Pat's stopped off at Sainsbury's." He reported. "They've asked if anyone wants anything?"

"Chocolate." Janus said, texting Virgil.

"Pringles." Remus sang. "They know what kind I like."

"Chocolate and Pringles, got it." Logan muttered as he texted. He looked up at Remus and Janus. Again, nothing off about them. Remus was hanging off of Janus' shoulder as usual, laughing and teasing him. Only, was that blush on Janus' face?

Now why would Janus be blushing? This was a common occurrence with Remus. He latched onto the nearest person - usually Janus - and wouldn't leave them alone. So why-

God, Logan was so stupid! Janus liked Remus! Like, liked him. Oh no...

A self-proclaimed stone-cold bastard liked an oblivious idiot. There was no way either of them were going to confess. And Logan was stuck right in the middle of it.

"Oh, great." Logan muttered.

"Huh?" Janus asked, looking up. "You say something, Lo?"

"Hm, oh, um, nothing." Logan said, smoothing his hair down. "Just Pat's held up a little, that's all. They should be here soon."

"Good." Janus said. "I'm getting tired of this idiot."

Remus laughed loudly and nuzzled his nose into Janus' cheek. "You love me, Jan." He said.

"You have no idea." Logan thought.

Was this meant to be short? Yes.
Is it over 1000 words? Also yes.
THE POWER OF DEMUS!
Bye,
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