My Knight in Dragon Scales

32. I officially snapped

"ROMAN!" I jumped with a start and Patton reeled back. I looked around and frowned. It was a dream? I looked over at Patton to see his glowing blue eyes and I frowned. No... It wasn't. "Oh thank god!" He pulled me into a hug and I could feel his tears soak into my shirt. "Y-You were just out. I c-couldn't get a read a-and I was so scared. Virgil didn't h-heal. I just don't know what to do."

"It's going to ok, Patton." He pulled away and wiped the tears from his face. "Right now we need to focus on Virgil. Not me..." He gave me this confused look and I frowned. I knew that Lya reminded me too much of him. His eyes never stopped glowing. I sighed running a hand through my hair and looked around. "How long have I been out?"

"Two days." My eyes went wide and Patton started to fidget. Where's Logan? What happened with Deceit? Why the hell didn't anyone wake me up? Patton's eyes narrowed. "He's home. Deceit hasn't started moving yet. AND I TRIED!"

"Please don't read my mind... I'm pretty sure I had my fill of that. Where's Virgil?" He looked like I just slapped him. "What?"

"You... You're not even asking me how I knew what you were thinking you just jumped right to don't read my mind..." I didn't have time for this. I NEED TO FIND VIRGIL! He flinched slightly letting the blue glow die down. I watched as he pointed over towards the one room I never actually went in since first coming here. 

I jumped up and ran in only to find Virgil laying in this bed. My poor dragon... My Virgil... You've been through so much and you still fight. I walked over taking a good look at his leg and cringed. It was bad. Patton had it wrapped but if he didn't get it looked at he might end up losing it. The problem is how do you find a doctor willing to come out so late. I started running my hands through my hair crazily in frustration, making it all messy.

"Roman?" I looked over to see Patton standing there rocking on the balls of his feet and I smiled sadly. I know Pat... I don't know what to do either. She never explained any of this. "She?"

"Patton..."

"I can't help it. I don't have control." He looked away and I frowned. Neither does he... I looked at Virgil and shook my head. "Roman?"

"Deceit did something. I know he did. I just don't know what he did." Patton narrowed his eyes in confusion and I sighed. "It's not safe here for him."

"But Deceit hasn't..."

"You said it yourself, you don't have control over your powers." He clammed up and shot me a look. "Can you really say with complete certainty that you will always know what his moves are? Can you truly promise me that he'll be safe?" His eyes darkened and I frowned. "Look Pat. I don't know shit. I am so far out of the loop that I'm pretty sure the loop doesn't even know I exist." He looked over at me and I shook my head. "What I do know is I have to keep him safe... No, I want to keep him safe more than anything. I love him."

"Roman..." I don't want him to go through hell anymore. I don't want him to have to relive the pain he endured. I'm taking him home. I'll be his shield there. "What did you just say?"

"Not the time Pat." I picked Virgil up and froze as he latched onto me. He wasn't even away yet he still held on for dear life. It broke my heart. 

"How are we going to get him there, Roman? We don't exactly have a car." He snapped putting his hands on his hips and I narrowed my eyes watching everything start to go a little purple. His eyes went wide and I just shook my head walking out of the room. "Roman wait!"

"You gonna yell at me some more?" 

"No... But I do have horses." My stomach literally dropped. Why horses? Can't we just call Logan? I'm sure he'd come grab us. Patton glared at me and I frowned. Fine... "I'll go get them."

I sat there just watching him as he slept. I was scared. I finally got him in his room at the and it dawned on me. What about the day time? Where is he supposed to go then? I told Patton I would handle it. I told him I would talk to Logan. I would get Virgil situated. He wasn't happy. I knew why. Virgil is hurt. He's being targeted and I'm being stubborn. After everything, I saw I just don't want to take him out of my sights.

It's like I'm afraid that I'll blink and he'll just be gone. Or broken... or worse. I looked at my hand and watched as it slowly started to glow purple. When all this started I was just a runaway prince. Now I'm this Shield thing with powers that I honestly don't know a thing about. Avery never told me that. Just that I awakened them. I waved my hand through the air and watched as the glow began to shape into a bubble before popping. I'm worse off then Patton. He may not have control but at least he knows what his power is. I'm just an empty book with a title. No words... no clue...

"Roman?" I looked up to see Logan standing in the doorway and I smiled. Honestly, I was just trying to hide the fact that I was crying. "How is he?"

"I wouldn't know. Apparently, I've been out for two days." Logan looked at me with this shock and I shook my head. "I'm fine, Logan. I wasn't hurt or anything. It must have been..." I clammed up and Logan frowned. It must have been from Virgil getting hurt. The pain I felt... It wasn't mine. I knew that even then. "Forget it."

"So... so your a rider huh?" I gave him this confused look and he just sat down next to me. "I saw you, Roman." I looked away and tensed up. "Is that you seem so angry when I brought up the fact that you wanted to be a slayer?"

"Logan... I don't know what you want me to say."

"The truth, Roman." I snapped. I jumped up and threw my arms out.

"THE TRUTH! Ok, hows this? I took the dragon slaying job and went to mt diablo to scout it out. That's where I met Virgil. You see he lives there. You remember that VERY DANGEROUS friend I brought up, yeah that was Ero the fucking dragon you saw me riding. He's the dragon I was sent to kill. Except he's so not dangerous. He's sweet and loving and chose me. ME!!! OF ALL PEOPLE to be his rider. But I didn't know anything about that so Dad sent me to Ceit so I can learn. You see I told him about Ero before I left. Then I come to find out that Deceit is Virgils Ex. He's After MY DRAGON and oh yeah... Oh yeah, and it just so happens that My dragon is Virgil. Yeah, you heard me right. VIRGIL IS ERO!! Did I mention that? No, ok, that's fine that isn't the worst of it. He's also the Prince of Roe. You know from 200 years ago and he's the one that killed everyone in the great forest, not his father. He's also this reincarnation from this big ass fucking dragon that apparently was the dragon of a Me in a past life too. Who'd figure that huh? Oh, and He watched another incarnation of me die right in front of him while this asshole bitch of a lady nearly drove him back into his insanity that he will always be fighting against. HAVE I MENTIONED I'M LOSING MY FUCKING MIND!" I stopped and fell to the floor. Logan stood there in complete shock unsure just what to make of what I said. 

"Roman, I don't understand." I just shook my head as the tears fell.

"It finally hit me. The shock... the realization of it all... It just hit me." I looked up at him and his eyes went wide. Everything was purple again and I just laughed... correction I tried to laugh the tears away. "Forget it, Logan. It doesn't matter."

"Roman..."

"I'm serious." I pulled my knees up and hugged myself as he just stood there. "Forget it. I'm just talking out of my ass."

"No your not." Logan came over and pulled me into a hug. "You're my brother Roman. I know you... I may not understand what you said or completely gotten all of it but I see the pain your in."

"I just don't know what to do." 

"We'll figure it out. We all will..." He pulled away and wiped the tears from my face smiling. "The four of us, together."