Sanders Sides One Shots

Audiobook

Trying to find motivation in this isolated quarantine, stuck in a different country and time zone from everyone I know.

No spoilers for the new SS episode, if that even still applies a week later, as this episode got me in the feels about something not even related to the matters in the video.

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Everything about Logan was precise and, in a roundabout way, to the point. He was a fast talker, so fast that Roman typically couldn't follow along. Roman hated to believe it was because he was a slow thinker, so he chose to tell himself it was because he just didn't care.

He always cared.

But Logan wasn't only just fast at talking, Roman realises. Logan was unbelievably fast when it came to scheduling and planning. Roman would still be brainstorming about something when Logan approaches him already in hand with a plan, albeit not including all the creative additions that Roman adds in.

Another thing that Roman realised that Logan does quickly is reading. Not more than a few days would go by before Roman saw him with a new book, usually varying in colors or sizes or state of the book. One day he'd be reading a small red book with an unusually blank and clean cover, and the next he'd have a multicolored book with a picture on the front nearly in tatters.

As with writing, Logan was always silent.

So, one could imagine how strange it was for Roman to find Logan still on the same green colored book from a few days ago.

"How many times have you read that page?" Roman jokes. Usually it would take at least a few seconds for Logan to finish the sentence he was reading before he looked up, but there was no pause this time.

Logan simply responds back with "six".

"Why?" Roman asks, astounded. Was something troubling him?

"I am attempting..." Logan puts strong emphasis on that word, "to read the book at the pace of a narrator. It seems I get lost in the words and readopt my natural pace."

Roman raises his eyebrows, blinking confusedly. "... why?"

Logan sighs. "Virgil and I are reading the same book together, but as he stubbornly insists, he will only listen to an audiobook."

He looks off to the side, and it was then that Roman realises that it wasn't just the two of them in the room. Snuggled up into the couch with a dark blanket covering almost every part of himself was Virgil.

Roman would've been shocked, but he'd gotten used to the fact that Virgil can seemingly blend into his surroundings, often having scared Roman when he emerges from where he'd remained quiet and unnoticed.

Virgil clutched his phone in his hand, headphones covering his ears. As if disbelieving that Virgil would actually be listening to a book, as the guy had never been seen reading a book at all, Roman snatches the phone from his hand.

Clicking the power button to show the lock screen currently displaying an ongoing audiobook. Roman looks back to see Logan unamused. "And what? You figured out it takes you reading the same page six times for a narrator to get through it once?"

Logan lets out a quick breath through his nose. "No, I've just realised that he fell asleep and I promised I wouldn't read ahead in the book without him."

Roman blinks. No way...

Looking back down at Virgil, he realises that "wow, he actually fell asleep out here?"

"I know, it's quite rude to fall asleep right in the middle of the interrogation between the first suspect and the detectives. The book was just getting to the part where they asked him about-"

"No, I mean..." Roman trails off. "He's normally so closed off, and never likes to be like so like... I dunno, out here?"

Logan shrugs, closing the book with a bookmark in the page he'd read several times over. "It seems he gets more comfortable with us the more we spend time together. Maybe you should try it."

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WOW that was so SHORT. Wow everyone give me a big round of applause I'm so proud of myself. Wow, and now I sound like Deceit. Alright.