Timekeeper

19.I will bring you home.

"I have to go..." I finally whispered as the shock slowly died down."I have to go. I have to save him. I have to..."

"Think. Logan, you have to think." I jumped up off the ground and started to pace. "Logan..."

"I have to think? Really at a time like this, people expect me to just think. How can I think when the man I... When my Patton is in hell. Yes, I called it such, because that's what it is. HELL!" Patton grabbed me by my shoulders and forced me to stop and look at him.

"Logi Bear..." His expression was soft and that just broke my heart. I could get the image of what happened to Deceit out of my head. To think Patton is... That he's... "Logan Stop! Look at me." He brushed my hair out of my eyes and smiled. "You have to listen to me right now, ok?"

"But... but I saw what it was like there. Actually, I only saw a fraction of what it was like there. Patton's alone..."

"No, I'm not. You forget there are other sides there. Sure they are nothing like Deceit and Virgil, but I not alone. Right now we have to focus on you."

"ME! I'm fine, Patton's the one in Hell!" Patton sighed and let me go. "What?"

"You're not listening to me." He walked over and sat on the edge of the well. He reached out, brushing his hand through the water and I watched as the light danced around his fingers. He moved his hand like he was conducting and the light just seems to move to a rhythm unheard by me at least. "You're here for a reason, Logan."

"Yeah because Patton pushed me through a damn portal." He gave me a dirty look and I clammed up. "Fine. Why am I here?"

"To make a choice." I glanced down at the book that was had his feet. The same book that the other Patton had given me in the library. He had mentioned a choice too. Had he known this was going to happen?"

"No... and yes." I rolled my eyes and he laughed a bit. "Logan, I was never meant to access this. I was never meant to come into contact."

"You've mentioned that. Something about not wanting to cause me more stress. I don't understand that though. Why would it cause me more problems?" He sighed as he tried to collect his thoughts.

"Ok, think about it this way. Each of us sides is more than or title. You've said that before. But if you think about it, we all have a set functionality, right? I am Morality, I am right and wrong. I am feelings of happiness and sadness. I am the heart. I am in no way meant to have a say in what Thomas remembers or what part of his past effects him when." He looked back at the wall and frowned. "You are his Logic. You are his rationality... his ability to learn... to remember.... and to learn from that which he remembers. Regardless of the person Logic is always meant to be the guardian. I just came first."

"Patton..."

"You were so small. So frail. You always hid behind me even when you were smart enough to get out of any situation and somehow come out on top." He started to fidget with his hands. "I just couldn't risk you falling. So I kept you away... I can't tell you how many times you almost found your way here on your own. I thought that I would just wait until you were older, and I did. You gained a confidence that rivaled Roman. I was proud of your physical and intellectual strength. I thought for sure, you could handle it."

"Handle what? Patton what are you talking about." He held out his hand and a small bubble appeared. Inside the bubble, you could see a smaller version of him playing with the lights. The very same scene I had seen him do not that long ago. He closed his eyes and I watched as inside the bubble colors began to change in the dancing light. First it was blue. Then it was yellow. Then finally it was red.

Patton's started to get a pained expression and I watched as the bubble began to glitch and become corrupt until it was just pitch black. He opened his eyes with a start and the bubble disappeared.

"You're able to mess with the literal fabric of time, Logan. One wrong move and.. POOF." Yeah, I can see why that might be a bit stressful. I walked over and sat beside him. "I saw how stressful the workload you already had was on you. I saw how you pulled away... how you gave up. I so I took on the responsibility. Why else did you think I was such a pack rat?" My eyes went wide at the realization. All those items in his room. All the memories, the nostalgia...

"Why now?" He gave me this confused look and I rolled my eyes. "Why tell me this now?"

"I was all going to tell you eventually. Like I said, I was never meant to have access. It doesn't accept me as its guardian. I can feel it cracking beneath me. The Carol was my last attempt to fix everything. That meant the well too. You remember the first time I took you to the past. That horrible black, and how it took so long to get there. That was me losing my control over it."

"What am I supposed to do about it?"

"You have to decide if your willing to accept it."

"What?" He reached out for the water again but this time light was repelled by him.

"It knows yours here. It wants you. It all depends on what you want."

"I want to save my... Patton." He dropped his hand and shook his head.

"How are you going to get there, huh? Not even I know how to get there. The in the present anyway. You have an idea." No, not really. The only people who have ever been there like that is Virgil and Deceit. Virgil was too young to remember and Deceit... "DON'T YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT ASKING HIM!"

"I wasn't going to." I hissed out as Patton let go of hand. He hadn't even realized he grabbed it. When it comes to his sons he doesn't mess around.

"Let say you miraculously get there, how are you going to protect yourself let alone me? How are you going to find me? How are you going to get out alive together?" This is why he said to think. I'm logic but I was so focused on saving him I didn't even bother to see the problems. He took me by the hand and forced me up on the edge with him. "There really is only one thing you can do."

"And what is that." His face softened as tears began to fall from his eyes. "Patton, what is it?"

"Forget about me. Continue on with you're lives and protect those boys for me." I nearly slapped him for asking that of me. There was no way on gods imagined earth that I would leave him to rot in the hell hole.

"Forget it. I'm going to bring the man I love home if it's the last thing I do." His eyes went wide and brought him in close. "I will bring you home. That's a promise."

"How?" He choked as he pulled away from me.

"Well for starters, manipulating the fabric of time might be a pretty handy skill." I had to laugh. He was staring at me like I spoke some ancient language.

"You're going to accept that... just so you can save me. But what about the stress.. the risk... the..." My body moved before my mind even realized. Normally I would say that was a moment of weakness. The mind should always be aware. But at that moment. I was to busy lost in his warmth to care. His lips finally broke from mine and his whole face was red. "LOGAN!"

"What? You wouldn't shut up." I smirked at him ad he only got red pulling away from me. I let my arms drop to my side I looked over at the water. There was no denying it. I could feel the energy... the pull. "So how do we do this?"

"Are you absolutely sure about this."

"Yes. Now tell me. What do I do?" He looked away and sighed, finally looking me in the eyes with a sorry look of worry and regret.

"You fall." Before I could say anything Patton pushed me over the edge and I was right back to falling down that damn well. The darkness started to creep in. So I reached out towards the light and I watched as it wrapped itself around me until...

Black.