Sanders Sides One Shots

Part 2: Logical Silence

I made the video clip (about 41 seconds) attached to this chapter. It's about Logan, and relates to this two-shot (and its titles).

Here's Part 2.

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"What are you doing in my room?" Logan asks, ignoring the question asked of him.

Roman retrieved the notebook from Patton, who looked slightly queasy, and holds it up for Logan to see.

"What is this?" Roman points to it with his other hand. Logan stares at it numbly for a few long moments, as if wishing it out of existence, before slowly closing his eyes in realization that he is going to have to explain himself. He didn't try and redirect or not answer the question, which Roman is surprised of.

"They're there for me to remember."

Not knowing what was in the notebook, Thomas gestured for Roman to let him see it, but Logan snatched it before Thomas could get it. "It's not important."

Aware that Logan wanted the topic to drop, Virgil changed the subject. He mentioned how Thomas has been acting reckless and illogical lately.

"Yeah, and it's not like when Virgil ducked out where Thomas became devoid of anxiety," Patton swiftly adopts this new topic although Roman still wanted to discuss it. "This is different."

Virgil tilts his head back and forth, agreeing. "Well, I had quit, then... Logan, you're not quitting, right?"

Logan nods. "Right..."

"Then why is Thomas being occasionally illogical? That's your job," Roman tried to lead Logan to an answer he wanted said. "Why haven't you been around?"

Logan walks backwards to the dining room table to set his notebook and coffee mug down. "I'unno, you guys told me not to come back."

"You can't think we hate you or anything, right..?" Thomas was almost sure that Logan was aware that they indeed didn't hate him, but the look the logical Side gave him said otherwise.

Logan gestured to Virgil, but wouldn't look at him. "Even Virgil, the one I thought would understand, has said... 'Get over it. You're the least popular character and you know it'."

Virgil felt guilty, remembering having said that to the logical Side in the first Sanders Sides video they did together. He lowers his head and is too embarrassed and ashamed to try and make eye contact, or even talk to him.

No one says anything as Logan shifts his eyes from looking at Thomas to making quick glances at the others around him. Patton could almost hear Logan's words ringing in the air, and with a heavy heart, realized that he had recited that quote from memory, word for word. He could guess that Logan had read through his notebook enough times to memorize the quotes.

"I did know it..." Logan said softly, and Patton focused on the way he wouldn't make eye contact and was frantically tossing his fingers through his hair. "I know it's true, and I tried to do research on how to converse better, and how to deal with emotions... I even made vocabulary cards to learn slang words so I could fit in better with you guys."

Despite the emotional confession, which was normally his forte, Patton glanced behind him at the bulletin board while Logan talked to see that instead of the intellectual research he was used to seeing pinned up, he saw the research Logan was mentioning. Bullet point lists on How to Talk Casually, Cornell notes on Understanding Feelings... Among these were the colorful sticky notes, which Patton was instantly distracted by. Pulling a couple off of the board, he holds them up for Logan to see.