Emotionless Robot? (Logicality)

Chapter Five: ...it Becomes Real

Hello, everyone, this is going out days later than I was hoping to get it out, I hope you enjoy, announcement(s) at the end of the chapter.

Patton left breakfast uneasily, while he was overloading, so was Logan. Of course, Logan didn't know or understand what these 'migraines' entailed. According to the inborn knowledge that Patton had, every trait had an overload state. No one else seemed to be aware of these, overload periods.

Patton frowned, this wasn't a good sign, he remembered when he had last overloaded, it was when Thomas's subconscious decided to create the second of the Sides. He quickly shook the thoughts out of his head, he has a task to complete.

Patton sunk down into Thomas's apartment, he was set on finding Thomas, of course the first place he'd check is his room, Patton was sure that Thomas was just beginning to wake up, so that'd be the place to check first.

He arrived in the room and smiled out of relief, he had caught Thomas still in his room. "Hey, kiddo."

"Patton, how many times... I'm not your kid." Patton ignored Thomas's protests, everyone is his kid. "Wait, what're you doing here, Patton?"

"Oh, I thought you'd never ask, Logan is taking the day off, he isn't feeling too good... I told him to take the day off, the poor kiddo." Patton blushed slightly, he wasn't sure he should continue calling Logan his kiddo, he thinks of Logan as much more than his kid.

Thomas must have noticed the blush on Patton's cheeks or the butterflies fluttering through his stomach. "Patton, you like Logan, don't you?"

Patton only blushed harder, he wasn't about to answer Thomas, this was a secret he would take to the grave. "Well, I'd better check in on Logan, I told him that I'd go and see him." Patton waited for no answer and left Thomas's bedroom in a hurry sinking down quite fast. He was a bit dizzy, but he had to fulfil his promise to Logan. He strolled his way to Logan's room attempting to keep steady.

Patton opened the door to Logan's room very slowly trying not to wake up Logan, if he was already asleep. He noticed that Logan was still awake and quietly asked Logan a question "do you need anything, bud?"

He saw Logan's head shake and began to creep out of the room, he got really close to the door frame and heard Logan's deeper voice call out to him. "Could you stay here, just until I fall asleep, for some reason, I feel... uneasy..."

Patton nodded, this was an easy request to fill, he wants to spend as much time with, without crowding Logan as possible. Patton knows that Logan tends to prefer his own company to others when he feels as he does now.

He stayed way past the beginning of the calm, even, regular breathing Patton recognized as Logan's sleep, he stayed until he was sure he wouldn't be caught, he grabbed Logan's hand and just held it.

He could feel himself drooping, he was exhausted too, overloading took a lot out of him. He tried not to sleep, but couldn't help it. He laid his head on the bed and caught a short nap before waking up and removing himself from Logan's room, he was worried that Logan would catch him.

He slowly made his way out, smiling the entire way. He got to spend alone time with Logan, he was floating. That could also be the fever that he could tell was wracking his body with shivers and the sensation of cold all throughout his tired body. Everything in him was shrieking at him to rest.

"Ssssleep isss forr the weak," Patton heard a voice say near himself. He now knew why Logan was so frightened.

Who is this voice and what does it want? Patton closed his eyes and breathed in. He needs to research. The library is well hidden and should be untouched since his last visit.

Patton slunk through the more familiar part of the mindscape to the part that housed the secret library. He pulled the secret book-switch on the measly little book shelf and the library opened. He took a few steps into the library and began his search for the book he saw about intruders into the mindscape.

He spent hours looking for the book and when he finally found it he placed something where the book was meant to be and decided to bring the book back to his room to read it further.

He stumbled quite a few times on his way back to his room, he was determined to bring the book back though. He then needed to talk to Roman for a bit.

Whatever is in the mindscape, is causing lots of problems, he needs to hide the book. He searched for almost an entire minute for the perfect place to hide the book and he ended up stuffing it under the mattress and on the top of the box spring of his neatly made bed.

So that was done, now he needs to talk with Roman. He shuffled down the hallway and knocked on Roman's door.

Roman poked his head out and was surprised to see Patton standing there, he was obviously waiting for Virgil. "Roman, I have a favor to ask. Please say yes," Patton pleaded to Roman.

"Sure," he grinned brazenly. "what must I do for this favor?"

"If something happens to me, look for Logan and go to the library, okay?" Roman looked confused and worried, but he nodded.

"Is this about what happened yesterday?" Roman asked clearly worried.

"No, and about that, I need to rest, I can't keep working today, please tell Thomas." He was sure he looked like his cheeks were made of cotton candy due to his perceived temperature.

He could feel another shiver wrack his body, Roman now looked very concerned, he felt Patton's forehead. "You're very warm, go to bed, please."

Patton nodded and began to leave, but not before stopping and turning. "Roman, please keep my favor between the two of us."

Roman nodded slowly and watched Patton walk out of the room, this was beginning to worry Roman very much.

Hello, again. I am planning on entering this story into the Wattys. Another thing, I'm currently staying at a place where I find it extremely difficult to update, seeing as I have no way to connect to the internet until I drive into the town nearby me, so my updates might get a bit more sparse for a bit.