Sanders Sides One Shots

We're not just friends - Logicality

Patton is adamant they just friends, best friends, but Logan thinks they're not, at least he doesn't want them to be. For the prompt "We're not just friends and you fucking know it."

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It had been building up all week, maybe longer. But now? Now the tension was almost unbearable. It has been a long time coming and now they're standing here, face to face, as if they were about to argue but they know better than that. They know better than to argue over love.

All four of them have been getting on much better than before, they listen to each other and help one another. Patton has been trying so hard to build himself back up, and the others have helped, especially Logan. Now he doesn't feel like he has to leave all his emotions festering up inside him until he feels like he might explode. All of his feelings he now shares with them all. Well not all of his feelings to everyone.

So, with the others thinking he's being open and honest and not hiding any feelings. It breaks Logan's heart to think that the other may not be in love with him. It's stupid really, irrational, illogical for Logan to think he is not. Patton spends more time around him now than ever, he smiles that extra bit brighter around him, even Virgil and Roman have commented on it. The other two had their suspicions, Logan had confessed to Virgil about his feelings the day after he spent all night trying to figure it out, and Roman had came and told him that Patton practically confessed all the same. Yet still he doubts it.

He doesn't doubt his own feelings. Logan knows how he feels now, even if it did take some working out. He loves Patton. God, he loves him so much, he would do anything for him. Just standing here now looking at the man in front of him, the way his eyes are shining with happiness despite him not smiling, and it hits Logan again. Yes, he's in love with him.

"Logan what was it you were going to say?" Patton inquires, breaking them out of this trance like state of just staring at each other. Logan flushes slightly at this, he's just been gawking at Patton for god knows how long. "I, uh, I feel like you're not telling me something," he stutters, stumbling over his words slightly to find a right way to approach this topic, it's not easy no matter how much thought he's put behind this, he is still so nervous.

"I'm not sure what you mean Logan," Patton says, Logan isn't sure if he's feigning innocence or genuinely is unsure of what he is getting at. "I thought you told me everything," he speaks cautiously, not wanting to outright tell Patton that he's madly and deeply in love with him, god no, that would be foolish. "Of course I tell you everything, we're best friends." Oh. Oh, okay. Best friends. Are they though? Are they just best friends? If Patton wants to be just best friends then maybe, maybe Logan could live with it but he can't not try and profess his undying love for the other. He may get rejected, and embarrass himself, the consequences are endless but he has to try.

"We're not just friends and you fucking know it." Logan's voice is no more than a whisper, he sounds... broken. And that pains Patton. But he says nothing. Because what if Logan doesn't see him as a friend of any sorts what if he hates him, again. He can't have his heart broken again. And Logan's speaking up again, "Patton, I'm in love with you." Patton's mind goes blank. Not only does Logan not hate him, he loves him. He loves him. And Patton loves him back, oh god he loves him back!

Patton realises he still hasn't said anything. And Logan's expression is so sad and regretful, like he might cry any minute, he looks so vulnerable. "I love you too," Patton states, he's moving forward until they're so close. Logan no longer looks pained but his eyes are still glazed over, unshed tears brimming until Patton cups his face with both of his hands and the tears spill silently down his cheeks. Happy tears.

The tears stop as quick as they started, and Patton wipes away their tracks with his thumbs, his hands stay put, holding, no, cradling the other's face. And Logan is smiling weakly, his own emotions now laid bare. Patton kisses him, gently and softly as if not to break him. Logan thinks it's too late, Patton has broken him as he feels tears sting behind his closed eyes, his emotions bubbling at the surface. He has broken him in the best possible way.