Yours- Yandere!Logicality, Book 2 (Sanders Sides)

•EIGHT•Convincing•

Patton stared at the button dials on his phone.

It was the next day. Logan was on a walk, by himself, again- which meant Patton was alone in the house. He wanted to go with Logan this time, but he also really needed to call his brother, and he didn't want Logan to hear their conversation.

He had typed in Janus's number a few minutes ago. Now he sat with his finger hovering over the "call" button. What did he even want to say? Did he even need to say anything at all? Was there going to be any positive outcome from this, or could this just make everything worse? Patton could easily just put down the phone and lay back down in bed. Maybe slip into a dream- a fantasy world, like he had yesterday. A perfect life.

...

Patton huffed and quickly pressed "call". He put his phone on speaker and placed it in front of him on the bed. It kept ringing for a few moments, and then it stopped.

"Hey, Patton," Patton heard his brother's voice echo from the phone, "what's up?"

"Oh, nothing. Uh... are you busy? At all? Right now?"

"Yes, actually. I'm swamped. A lot of paperwork."

Patton blinked, and let out a sigh. He wasn't surprised- his brother worked as a lawyer. Of course he would have paperwork to do. Of course he would be busy.

"...Oh. Well, maybe later can-"

"I'm just kidding, P. I'm really bored right now, anyway. What do you need?"

Patton smiled to himself. "Oh, haha. Uhm... I really just wanted to talk to someone. About something."

"Does it have to do with Logan? I thought you went to him for all of this kind of stuff."

Patton felt a pang of guilt coarse through his veins. "Uh... no, it's not about him. I just..." Patton sighed, again.

"Take your time." Janus said. They were both silent for a few moments.

"...I've been feeling things lately..? I guess? I don't know. I'm sure you've seen on the news that, uh, the one guy broke out of prison. It's been making me really nervous. I've just been trying really hard to keep Logan close and keep him safe, but... I don't know."

"Hmm. So it is about him, then?"

"Yeah, I guess it is. I just don't want to loose him, you know? He's my everything. He really is. I know the guy was kinda close to, uh, getting to him before he got arrested. And now that he's back out there, I'm really scared he's gonna come for Logan again. And he definitely is trying to. When he was being dragged out of school when he got arrested, he said, "you'll f-ing pay for this, Croft!" but not censored, obviously. So he still wants to get him. I don't know how he's gonna try to, but..."

Patton thought over his next choice of words very carefully. He couldn't reveal anything too weird. Like the fact that he killed Logan's co-worker and was now having the urge to kill two other guys.

"...For some reason I feel like he's using people Logan knows to get close to him."

"What do you mean?" Janus asked.

"Like, Logan's co-worker came over for dinner a few nights ago. Out of the blue. Him and Logan had been talking for a bit before, but it was still out-of-the-blue. Logan rarely talks to his co-workers during the summer. And I just feel like he was using Logan's co-worker to get information on Logan. And plan something, like a sneak attack."

Janus was silent. Patton sighed.

"...It sounds stupid, I know. And I'm sure it is. But-"

"No, it's not stupid. Feelings are never stupid. Though... they may seem like it at times, that's for sure." Janus cut his brother off. "I know you're scared, Patton, and it's okay to be scared. It's okay to feel these things. Your brain is just reacting to a traumatic situation in the only way it knows how. It's okay to want to protect your husband. But just remember... the mind is a terrifying thing. You got that? Sometimes what we think is very different from reality. So if you're ever thinking that people are working with... him, just step back, take a deep breath, and re-evaluate the situation. Got it?"