Can't this be 'happily ever after'?

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TW: abuse

PATTON's POV

I try to get out of the grip of the guards' arms. Our plan failed. Our option B was to run but we can't anymore.
"Why are you struggling, sir?" I look up, recognising a familiar voice.
"Logan?"
"I'll get you out of here, trust me." he whispers. "The other guards took Remus and Janus to the jail cell. I have keys, come on." He pulls me with him. Wow, that was lucky, thank god Logan exists.

We rush over to the jail cells. There's a couple of other random people in them. We reach Janus and Remus, they're arguing. What a surprise.
"It's all your fault, Remus. If you hadn't said anything we wouldn't be here!" Remus hisses at Janus and I can't help but laugh. The look at us.
"Come on, we have to be quick." Logan says, unlocking their cell.
"Oh thank God, thank you Logan!" Janus sighs. He grabs Remus and Logan grabs me then we run. Sprinting through the jail and out into the sunshine. We run and run and run all the way back to the cabin in the woods. Janus and Remus collapse onto the couch and I fall back onto a chair, breathing heavily. Logan stands quietly in the corner.
"Do you think Virgil will get out?" he says, quietly after some time. Get out of wh-
"Oh no! What if one of them is dead!" I yell, alarmed.
"From these years of knowing Virgil, I am sure he will figure out a way for both of them to live." Janus states, calmly.
"But-"
"No buts, there's no use worrying. We'll wait here a day and then one of us can go see what happened, take the survivor/survivors and we'll run away someplace far from here." I groan.
"Why can't this just be happily ever after? I am a prince! Shouldn't everything go my way?"
"I guess that's what you get for having sucky parents." Remus contributes. Janus slaps his shoulder, trying not to laugh. "What? It's true! Your parents suck dick!"
"That's enough from you Remus, what's the time?" Logan says.
"Four."
"I'll start making dinner then." He says.
"I'll help, I need a distraction." I say, following Logan to the other side of the room. The kitchen here is just a stove and small box full of heat up meals. "Logan, it's four? Why do we need to start cooking something that takes 5 minutes?"
"I- I don't know..." he sighs.

LOGAN's POV
"Logan, it's four? Why do we need to start cooking something that takes 5 minutes?" I blink a couple of times at what Patton says.
"I-"

"Logan, come help me make dinner, it's four!"
"Already? Okay mummy!" I smile, I love cooking with mum. "What are we making tonight?"
"Homemade pizza! You ready?"
"Yes!" I smile up at her. My mum is the best mum in the whole universe. She is amazing and beautiful! I love her so much, I think.
"Okay, darling, let's get cooking."
About half an hour later my father walks in the door. We both say hi while he goes up to his room to get changed. I don't like my dad, he beats mummy, it's scary.
"Vanessa, darling, pizza?" he judges, "and with the kid again? I told you, cooking is for women not men!" he slaps my mum.
"No!" I scream, trying to push dad away. I'm too small, too helpless. He slaps me at full force, causing me to fall over. I scramble backward, tears start to roll down my face. "Daddy, stop!" I scream again. Mummy screams as my dad punches her, she falls over, bleeding. I rush over and push the blood away. "Mummy?" I whisper. "Wake up, wake up!" I scream. I look over at dad, tears streaming down my face, his face changes from angry to scared and he runs out the door. I turn back to mummy.
"Mummy! Please wake up! Please!" I sob, I pick up her phone and call the ambulance.
"Hello? Hello?"
"Hello, this is the hospital, how can we help?"
"My daddy hurt mummy and she's not waking up," I wail down the phone.
"Okay, honey, the police are coming. Just stay on the phone with me, okay. What's your name?"
"L-logan."
"Okay, Logan, can you tell me if your mummy is still breathing?"
"Yes, she's still breathing." I choke out the words.
"I'm sure she will be okay; can you tell us your father's name?"
"Robert Sanders."
"Okay, thank you." I keep sobbing.
"Is she going to be okay?"
"I think so, is she bleeding?"
"Y-yes, her face is covered in blood."
"Can you get a cloth and wash it off and tell me where the cut is?" I grab a cloth.
"It's on her cheek."
"Okay, honey. You'll be okay."
When the ambulance arrives, they take her away. She never came back.

She never came back.
"I don't know." I answer Patton. He looks worried. I remember when the police took me away to a foster home. I never knew if she lived or not, no one ever told me. They caught my father and he got sent off to jail. I sigh, this is why I'm a guard.
"Logan, do you want to come play cards with Remus, Janus and I?"
"Oh, uh, okay, sure. Sorry, I'm just thinking." I smile at him. He blushes as he smiles back.