The Logical Exception

{ Chapter 40 - Sacrifices }

TW: There is a little bit of descriptive language regarding potential body mutilation. I'm making it sound worse than it is but I really want to warn everyone.

After they had found Roman, everyone had separated into groups, Logan with Remus, Roman with Deceit, and Virgil with Patton, and Virgil wasn't sure if he loved or hated this setup. Being close to Patton did mean that he was able to protect Patton, but he couldn't be there for the others.

"Hey, Virgil?" Patton asked in a quiet voice. He was rarely this quiet unless something serious was on his mind.

"Yea."

"We are only looking to take down two people? Two very powerful people, wouldn't it have made more sense if we had been in groups of three instead."

Virgil stopped, because Patton had a point. Wouldn't it have been better to separate them into groups of three? He and Patton could have stuck with Roman and Deceit could have gone with Remus and Logan, that would have been a much stronger set up.

"We have to find the others,"

"So you do think it's a big deal?"

"I think it's a bad idea that we trusted someone who had been a villain years before we heard his sob story." How could he be so stupid, trusting Logan. Sure his words had made logical sense but where was the emotion behind them? "Not to mention a master strategist who escaped our capture multiple times."

"It didn't feel like he was tricking us though." Patton held on tight to Virgil.

"Yea, but you've always had trouble feeling his emotions right?" Virgil pulled the two of them into the shadows, quickly running through, trying to find the others. He could read movement and he could feel a scuffle but he couldn't see it. Virgil didn't know what they were stumbling into as they fell out of the shadows. He had to be prepared.

Whatever he was trying to prepare for, this wasn't it. Virgil's breath caught as he saw Deceit laying on the ground surrounded by an electric web. His heart sank and he immediately thought the worst. This was a trap. Logan had set this up to capture them. Then came the fight or flight and he had every intention of fighting. Virgil began to use his shadows to overcome and overwhelm the electric current. His thoughts were interrupted by Patton's scream.

"NOOOOO!"

Virgil looked up at Patton and his mind couldn't process what he was seeing. A light blue forcefield was surrounding Roman and his mother. Black smoke was slowly disappearing from over Roman's form disappearing completely, and it looked like Patton was the cause.

What was he seeing? Since when did Patton have the ability to negate powers. That was what he was seeing right? Just as the black smoke disappeared, the electric web faded off of Deceit and Virgil was able to help him slowly to his feet, his eyes trained on Patton.

"No, no, no, you will not take my powers." Mother necessity began to stalk towards Patton. She was stopped as Roman grabbed her ankle and yanked her down to the ground with him. The blue field faded and Patton's hands shot to his mouth, but Mother Necessity didn't attempt to use her powers again.

"Virgil, shadows?" Roman shouted and Virgil quickly nodded, holding out his hand as his shadows wrapped around Mother Necessity, possibly stronger than they needed to be, and Roman began to make a set of shackles.

"What just happened?" He asked Patton who shook his head slowly.

"I've... I've had dreams about this, but those were just dreams?"

"Apparently not," Deceit muttered under his breath, leaning on Virgil for stability.

"Normally, I would be all for questioning this but we don't have time. We have to find Logan," Virgil said, the anxiety lacing his voice.

"That pathetic excuse of wasted space will be dead before you get to him."

"You really underestimate him." Deceit laughed. His laugh was cut short though as he was scooped into Roman's arms.

"If we need to hurry then we can't dawdle. Anxiety, you watch after Mother Gothel."

"You are leaving her alone with me?"

"Not if you figure out how to drag her along."

Virgil frowned, debating it back and forth in his head before nodding. "I'll meet you there." He said as he dragged Mother Necessity into the shadows with him. He had to follow the shadows and vibrations to the other scuffle. He had to find Logan, because Virgil didn't know what was going on. His anxiety was spiraling, making red flags out of every possible transgression and he was trying to talk himself down from it was hard with all of the adrenaline that was running through his veins. He had to focus on the fight, focus on getting all of his friends out okay. Even if that meant fighting Logan.

When he stumbled out of the shadows, Mother Necessity falling to the floor, bound by his shadows, Virgil was confused for the second time in less than a minute. Remus and Zero Sum were grappling on. The floor and Logan's eyes were glowing with an intensity Virgil had never seen before. Those beautiful blue eyes he had always been weak too looked so scared despite the power that they held and Virgil didn't understand what was going on until he heard a choked sputter from Zero Sum. His throat pushing its way out of his skin and he heard Patton scream.

"LOGAN STOP!" Once again the blue field stretched out, covering all of them. He was going to lose his powers, they all were, but he was at peace with that. Everything the past few weeks had been so tiring. He closed his eyes and just relaxed, multiple loud thuds surrounding him. He was ready to be done with all of this.

He didn't see Logan's knees hit the floor; he didn't see Remus exhaustedly flop down; he didn't even notice when two sets of feet began to scramble away. Virgil had used too much power, and he was just tired.

AN: Sorry it took so long, thank you all for waiting. I know it's not great but hopefully now that I'm in the swing of writing again I'll be able to post on a regular once again.