Sanders Sides Appreciation Month

Patton/morality, day 6 - Growing Up

  Prompt: B. Patton tries to kill a spider. Keyword: 'tries' 

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"Holy- sweet baby Jesus! Nope!" Patton's voice and screams could be heard throughout the mindscape. Currently he stood on top of the sofa, a large book that he stole from Logan in hand, staring intensly at something on the floor.

The sound of a door opening and closing again filled the silence. "Patton, love, where are you?" It was Roman. "Living room, please help me!" Roman appeared from the hallway, a very confused look on his face, "Patton? I don't..." he trailed off, looking between his boyfriend and the space on the floor where he was looking.

"What's all the commotion? Wait is that where my book went?" Logan appeared beside the royal, "I almost died Logan! And Roman won't save me!" Logan glanced between the two skeptically, his first thought was to explain that Patton clearly had not nearly died but sensing his boyfriend's stress he had second thoughts.

Roman turned to Logan, clearly perplexed, "I don't understand, what he's on about?" Logan shrugged in response, interrupted by a scream from Patton. "Oh my God it moved!" Patton shouted, throwing the book at the floor as well making Logan gasp, "Patton that was expensive!"

"I'm sorry but there's a spider!" Patton seemed to be on the verge of tears now, just then the small arthropod climbed atop the book, almost seeming to mock Patton for his fruitless attempts at its murder. "There's a spider? Where?" Virgil appeared, rather quickly causing everyone to jump, behind Roman and Logan.

"Jesus Virgil, I love you dearly but stop giving us all heart attacks," Roman spoke up, "and yes there's a spider on Logan's book." Virgil perked up considerably at the mention of the spider, he loved them, that's why he bought spider themed curtains for his room but didn't go so far as to buy an actual pet tarantula knowing that Patton was deathly afraid of them.

Virgil pushed past the two in the hallway, making his way towards the spider, slowly cornering it in his hands and capturing it. "Can someone get the door or at least open a window?" Virgil asked, holding his hands out in a gesture to show he couldn't do the job himself. Logan was quick to move around him and open the door, letting Virgil walk outside and place the spider a good space away from the house.

"Babe, are you alright now?" Roman asks, moving closer to the sofa and holding his hands out for Patton to grasp to help him down. Patton practically jumped from the sofa and into Roman's arms, hugging him tight around the middle. "Shhh it's okay, darling, you're fine now." Logan approached the two, joining the hug from behind Patton, laying his head on top of Patton's and kissing his forehead.

"All is well in the world again, the spider is no more," Virgil said, walking back into the house and closing the door behind him, "did you kill it?" Patton asked managing to sound shocked and disappointed at the thought, even though he'd been screaming at the creature minutes ago. "No, no, I let it go," Virgil confirmed, getting closer to the huddle and giving Patton an attempt at a comforting smile.

"Aw, come here My Chemical Romance," Roman said, letting go of Patton with one arm to wrap it around Vigil which Logan then mirrored to bring him closer into the hug. "Although I do realise that was a joke, My Chemical Romance is a band consisting of multiple people not a singular person." The other three groaned at Logan's explanation, "shush Logan, we're having a moment," Patton whispers, them all breaking out in smiles.