Sanders Sides Oneshots

Not Your Fault (Analogical)

TW: Abuse, Self-harm

Virgil was in love with Logan, that much was clear, but there were things Virgil didn't want his boyfriend to know about, like how shitty his home life was. Whenever the two boys hung out, they always hung out at Logan's place, NEVER at Virgil's. Virgil knew that Logan was starting to get suspicious, but he could never let Logan know that his dad abuses him.

Virgil walked into school, seeing his group of friends. None of them knew that Virgil got abused, and Virgil intended on keeping it that way. He didn't want to worry his friends, that's why Virgil always wore hoodies and jeans no matter what the weather was. He wore that stuff to cover up the marks that had been left by his father and other marks that Virgil had left on himself. Virgil walked up to his group of friends, smiling.

"Hey, Virgil!" Roman greeted, putting his arm around the emo's shoulders. Virgil winced slightly as Roman's arm was resting on a fairly new bruise he had. He hoped that no one had noticed him wince.

"Hey, Princey," Virgil said back, hiding his pain behind his signature smirk. Virgil looked over at Logan, and smiled. "Hey, Lo." He said, grabbing Logan's hand.

"Salutations," Logan said, smiling back. Logan rarely smiled, but when he did Virgil's heart soared. Virgil thought that Logan's smile was beyond perfect. He always tells Logan that, but Logan doesn't believe him.

Patton smiled brightly at the two. "You guys are so cute!" He gushed, making the emo and the nerd blush.

"Thanks, Pat," Virgil said, despite blushing underneath his white foundation.

The rest of the day dragged on as Virgil dreaded going home. He thought about the possibility of going to Logan's house, but Logan was becoming too suspicious of why they never hung out at Virgil's place, asking Virgil 'Why don't we hangout at your house?' Or 'can we hangout at your place today?'. Virgil sighed and started walking, finding his feet carrying him to Logan's locker with haste. He was going to tell Logan why they couldn't ever hangout at Virgil's place. As Virgil neared his boyfriend's locker, he felt himself becoming very anxious, which wasn't at all new to Virgil.

Logan saw Virgil approaching him out of the corner of his eye. He turned his body to face Virgil and noticed how anxious he looked. "Are you okay, Virgil?" Logan asked.

Virgil nodded. "Yeah.. uhm.. can we go to your house.. I have to tell you something.. and I can't do that here. It's kind of personal..." the emo boy said, fiddling with the strings on his sweater. The stoic boy nodded and quickly collected his books. Virgil shut Logan's locker for him and the two started walking to Logan's house. Once they got to Logan's house Logan put his stuff in his room. Virgil sat on Logan's bed, watching his boyfriend.

"What was it that you wanted to talk about, Virge?" Logan asked, sitting down on the bed beside Virgil. Virgil sighed and looked down at his lap, internally debating whether or not he should tell his boyfriend.

"I.. uhm.. i-it's about my... uh.. home l-life.." Virgil stammered. "I-.. uh probably should've told someone.. a long time ago.." Logan just nodded and the emo boy unzipped his sweater and took it off before taking off his purple tee shirt.

Logan's eyes widened as he looked at his boyfriend. Virgil had blue and purple bruises all over his torso, not to mention dozens of cuts all along Virgil's arms. Logan gently grabbed one of Virgil's arms, running his fingers over the scars. "W.. Why didn't you tell me, Virgil?" He asked.

Virgil was on the verge of tears. "I-I w-was scared.." he choked out. Logan wrapped his arms around the emo, causing Virgil to gasp in shock.

"Virgil, you should've told me or the others.. We can help you.. you could've stayed at any of our places.. this.." Logan said, pointing to Virgil's arms. "Has to stop.. you can die if you continue to do that.. Roman and Patton need you. I need you.."

"I-I'm sorry, Logan..." Virgil said, wrapping his arms around his boyfriend. Logan kissed the emo's cheek, causing the emo to blush. "Don't be sorry, Virgil.." Logan said. "This is not your fault, I hope you know that."

Virgil nodded. "I-I do.." he said, hugging his boyfriend tighter. "I-I love you, Logan.."

"I love you, too, Virgil."