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Echoes of 50 Chapter 10

As always, check the TWs and CWs in the masterlist. This song for this chapter doesn't have lyrics that match the chapter, but the vibes do. I really love this song and I really hope you get my vision. And don't worry, there's a lot of conflict resolving in here because I don't do miscommuncation tropes and I'd rather put you out of the misery of a miscommunication arc. Enjoy <3. ——————– Now Playing: Roadtripsong by Abby Cates

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“You’re on speakerphone.” Virgil spoke up as Logan picked up the call. The two of them were hanging around with Luna. After the aquarium had closed, the two had traveled to Logan’s apartment to pick up Luna before heading back to Roman’s. Now, the two were currently on Roman’s couch watching a TV show that Virgil had put on while Luna was cuddling up to Logan.

“Hey babe.” Roman’s voice came through Virgil’s phone. His voice seemed a little panicked. “We need Logan, stat.”

“What happened, Roman?” Logan groaned, knowing whatever came out of Roman’s mouth next, he was not going to like.

“Just come quick.”

“Where?” Logan sighed as he stood up.

“Patton’s apartment. He’s in trouble.”

“Oh no. L’s going to freak.” Logan’s heart dropped as he stood up, “What did you do?”

“Nothing! I did nothing!” Roman spoke up. Logan wasn’t quite sure to believe him from the way that Roman’s voice died at the end of the sentence. Still, Logan stood up and held his arms out for Luna. Luna quickly jumped into Logan’s arms before Logan rushed towards the front door.

“Come on, Virge. What are you doing? We need to get to Patton.”

“I need to grab my stuff.” Virgil huffed as he walked out, the two of them with a sense of urgency. Logan walked fast. How was Patton in trouble? Did the government find Patton? Did Patton reveal himself? Was Patton gone? What was happening?

Logan and Virgil got to the apartment pretty fast after that. Even before Logan bothered knocking, he took out the spare key Patton had given him to open up the door.

“That sounds like Logan right now. He’s going to be pissed.” Roman’s thoughts traveled outside of the door.

“What did you do, Remus?” Logan glowered as he opened the door. Glancing around, he didn’t see Patton anywhere, “Where is he?”

“First of all, it was not me!” Roman shrieked as he prepared for Logan’s attack, “It was them! I didn’t know what they were going to do until they did!”

“What did you do?” Logan glared at Remus and Janus. Remus’ eyes were green. An indication of his powers being used.

“How are we to explain this to him?” Janus thought.

Great. Logan was going to have to force it out of them.

Logan let Luna down from his arms before rushing up to Remus and grabbing Remus’ collar. He pushed Remus against the wall so hard that it made a sound as Remus got slammed, “What did you do?”

“This would be hot if it was Janus doing this to me.”

Gross, of course Remus would be thinking that while Logan was glowering with the ability to kill.

“Well, it’s not my fault you wouldn’t let on what was going on.” Remus shrugged, unbothered by what was happening. “Janus asked me to get some information and I did.”

“How would we have known that Patton would act this way upon finally having my magic take in effect?”

“You’re using your power against Patton? How insane are you? Do you know what he’s been through?” Logan blew up at Remus as he dropped the man down. Remus fell to the ground as Janus went to check up on Remus to make sure Logan hadn’t injured the man.

“Jeez, Logan, didn’t know you packed that much of a punch in you.” Janus remarked.

“Tell me where he is. I’ll fix this pile of shit you guys created.”

“He’s in the bedroom. We tied him with his bedsheets so he wouldn’t hurt himself.” Roman murmured, looking away defeated.

“I should’ve done more to stop Janus and Remus. I didn’t know that’s what they were going to do. Patton’s my best friend, I should have kept them from hurting him. What kind of best friend am I?”

“Virgil, help Roman through his spiraling. Remus, stop using your power against him. Janus, prepare an apology to give to Patton.”

Everyone nodded, obeying Logan. They all knew how commanding Logan could be when pissed and this was a testament to not mess with him. Logan walked over to the closed door bedroom and took a deep breath. He knocked on the door before walking in.

“Pat?”

“Lo.” Patton’s voice flooded with relief as he turned towards the voice. His eyes were glazed as he tried to jump away from his spiraling. “What are you doing here?”

“Cleaning the pile of shit they were starting to make.” Logan spat, glaring outside the doorway. He closed the door before walking over to where Patton was. “Are you alright, Patton?”

“Yeah. I’m fine.” Patton nodded, “Do you think you can help me with the restraints?”

“Of course.” Logan replied as he helped to untie Patton’s restraints. As soon as he was done, he sat next to Patton, the two of them leaning against the wall. Patton leaned towards Logan, resting his head on Logan’s shoulder.

“I know what you’re going to say.”

“What am I going to say, Pat?”

“You’re going to ask what they did to me.” Patton spoke, “I don’t want you to hate them.”

“Well-”

“Seriously, Logan. I don’t want you to hold it against them. From their perspective, this is the only way I would’ve opened up. They made me relive those moments I had locked inside of the lab. I spiraled backwards. It was awful.”

“I can bet. That sounds awful. I’m sorry, Patton.”

“No, I’m sorry. For not telling you sooner. You, of all people, deserve to hear it.”

“I don’t deserve anything, Patton. You can tell me anything on your own time. I’m sorry that I tried to force you to think otherwise.”

“I love you, Logan, and you’re right.”

“I know I am.”

“Right about me needing to talk to you about my pain.” Patton corrected himself. “If I ever want you to help me, I need to talk to you about it, even if I hate talking about it.”

“Take your time.”

“I think I should start from the beginning, shouldn’t I?”

“I think you do.” Logan nodded.

Patton took a deep breath as he began to go through what happened. “I was born Patton Morris to my two parents, both of which were magic users, or Medeis as you call them. Unfortunately though, unlike anyone else, I was born in a lab. My parents were working for DS Enterprise as scientists towards a new tool that would help both the Medeis and the Impotens. It was a tool that would be able to help Medeis share their powers with Impotens to help create a society where magic can be shared. It was made to hopefully improve everyone’s ideas of what asking for help could look like. My mother was pregnant with me at the time that trials for the product began. She was supposed to be one of the subjects to help with the product, but was unable to because of her pregnancy. My father decided to step in. He got a few of his other friends to help be subjects to test the product on, all of them ranging from Impotens to Medeis. Their wives just so happened to be pregnant too, as my parents had met all of them in a support group for first-time parents. The product, known as the Auras, were meant to use extracted blood from the Medeis to spread magic to those in Impotens. It didn’t work. After it failed, DS Enterprise continued looking for newer ways to make it come true. When I was born, along with the other kids from those first-time parents, our parents all began to be involved in this project, something they called Project Orange.”

“Why Project Orange?”

“Phobus Graves. He was the lead of the project, and he was always wearing his signature orange suit. It was easier for everyone to distinguish and it made it harder for those around to care about hearing the plans. It seems just like a normal plan.”

“What did you and the kids end up doing? How many were there?”

“There were about 26 kids, including me. We grew up within the laboratory hanging out with each other. Our parents flew too close to the sun though. They all invested their entire lives into the company that one day, they took their experiments too far. I was five when I watched them die in front of my eyes. One of their trinkets horribly gone wrong.” Patton swallowed, “The other parents began to slowly die in front of our eyes until finally, we were all just orphans with no place to go. Phobus took us in, but we were prisoners. He trained up and raised us to expect to die trying to finish Project Orange. After all, he was an Impoten and some of us were born Medeis. It was the best he could do with what he had. He separated us into two groups. 13 of us were labeled as patients, while the other 13 were labeled as subjects.”

“What was the difference?”

“Our treatment.” Patton looked down, beginning to fiddle with his grey polo that was still hanging around his shoulders, “All of us were treated badly though. We were all stripped down of our identities. We were called by codes and in hexadecimal as that was the standard in DS Enterprise at the time. As Phobus began to grow in power, he began to get more influence within the government as well. In fact, once he got into a covert job with security, our treatment became worse. The difference though was that patients stayed inside the laboratory at all times. We were subject to needles being poked into us, chemicals being filled into our brains, constant learning, and more. Subjects were different. They were let out into the world and allowed to be influenced by those around them. Those were the Medeis and a few Impotens. They got to keep their names, even though within the laboratory, they were stripped of their identities just like us. The rest of us–the patients–were Impotens.”

“What did they do to you?” Logan asked, treading lightly on his words.

“Everything.” Patton whispered before he began to untie the polo around his shoulders. He unbuttoned his polo and took off his shirt to show Logan the tattoo that haunted his back. “I’m sure you know what this is. I’ve heard your thoughts, I know what you’ve researched.”

“An identification number.” Logan whispered as he began to trace the numbers on the back. “50 61 74 74 6F 6E. P-a-t-t-o-n in hexadecimal.”

“It was the only thing I had of me. It was the only reason I knew who I was before the experiments because I had been conditioned for so long beforehand to think that I was only referred to as P, or even worse, as Patient 50.” Patton sighed. He began to point out hidden injuries and faded cuts from throughout his years, “This is what I had to go through. I became clever fast as treatment went on. I learned how to hide in certain places, I learned how to fake understanding lessons that they tried to teach us, I learned how to dodge. Anything to get rid of the pain I’ve had for a long time.”

“I’m…sorry.”

“I was the only patient who survived. The experiments got to most of the patients. They couldn’t handle the magic in their blood or they met the same fate as their parents with tests on products that were not ready. Those that didn’t, took their own life using those same products. It was brutal.” Patton whispered, “I watched every one of them lose hope about ever getting out of this hellhole, but I knew. There had to be some way. At least until I was the only Patient left alive. They called me a miracle. Patient 50, the chosen one.”

“Were you?”

“In a way, yes.” Patton hesitated as he stared at his hands, “I’m not fully Impoten anymore. With the experiments they pushed onto me, I’m half Medeis. I have enough magic within my blood and enough elements–thankfully from my parents’ genetics–to hold that magic. I do, essentially, have a power, though it’s something that was not discovered until after they began to examine my blood to see what was different. I am apparently the first Medeis-Impoten hybrid.”

“What’s your power?” Logan asked as he went to move his hands into Patton’s, all in hope that Patton would not look at his own body in horror. In hopes that Patton would learn to love himself and his body because Logan did.

“Resistance. I resist the powers of those around me, especially the powers that are passive. That’s why you can’t hear my thoughts. Because I am subconsciously resisting your power.”

“Oh.”

That made sense. That was the reason that had haunted Logan’s brain. It was the reason that Logan had been searching for all this time. Now that Logan had it, did it matter? Here Patton was, the love of his life that had so effortlessly changed his entire mindset, telling him that the reason why Logan couldn’t hear Patton’s thoughts was because he didn’t trust Logan. Did that matter to Logan?

Not really.

Not when Logan yearned to exist only within Patton’s gaze. Not when Logan was so helplessly smitten with the man that he would have burned the entire world to make Patton smile.

“Emilie Picani. You knew him?”

“Yes. He was a highschool friend of mine. A very good one at that, though I lost all contact with him after the first year of college. I’m not sure where he could have gone, especially since you seemed to know that the Emilie Picani we saw was just a shapeshifter at work.”

“Then you must know Remy Somnus too.” Patton looked at Logan for confirmation.

“I did.”

“I did too.” Patton admitted, “Subjects 45 and 52. E and R. They were the only two subjects to survive in the outside world. The others took their lives as well from the treatments they were having within the laboratory, and for the distress caused. Once it was clear that we three were the only ones that may have a chance at having Project Orange work, they worked us even harder. Emilie, Remy, and I often discussed what we’d do if we were to ever escape the hellhole we called DS Enterprise headquarters. We knew that we’d have to be far away from any DS Enterprise buildings, as well as any government buildings because Phobus had the government wrapped up in what he had planned for society. Emilie and Remy made a plan to escape when we were 18. It was after their high school graduation. They told me about a few friends they had met in high school that treated them with so much kindness that they realized that it was just in DS Enterprise that we were treated like nothing. We tried to escape four years later when we were 23. Remy and Emilie showed me exactly where to go and how to escape. I followed their directions. I didn’t try to go back for them. Even when I heard them get caught. Even when I heard them negotiating. Even when I heard Phobus tell them that they could go for free if they turned me in. I was hiding in a vent, just like they asked, when they admitted they wouldn’t do that to me. Because I was their friend. Phobus separated the two of them and tortured them separately. I hid in the vents for a month, stealing food from the kitchen during late night hours and trying to think of a plan to get them out. Phobus found out pretty early onto his torture that Emilie and Remy were much more than friends. They were lovers, ones that promised to protect society from ever getting hurt and ones that promised to protect me from having to be hurt again as well. Phobus got tired of looking for me and he got tired of trying to force it out of them. I watched them die in each other’s arms. I escaped and began to make a life for myself the way that Emilie and Remy had planned. I found out later after deciphering a journal they had given me that they knew they weren’t going to live. It was bound to happen. Every child of DS Enterprise born for testing was bound to die at one point to the hands of Phobus Graves. They were just glad that they were able to save me and that hopefully, society would never know the wrath of DS Enterprise because I was long out of their grasp.”

“Patton, I’m sorry-”

Patton finally turned towards Logan, pushing his discarded clothes off to the side as he cupped Logan’s face, “I love you so much, Logan Sanders. I’m sorry I was too much of a coward to say it before and I’m sorry I tried to run from you. That was all I had learned how to do when I was younger. That was how I survived. I don’t want to do that to you. Not anymore. I’m tired of running. I want to fight back.”

“Fight back?”

“Fight for our love…and hopefully, fight to make sure DS Enterprise never makes this weapon see the light of day.” Patton whispered as he pulled Logan’s face closer to his. He leaned his forehead against Logan’s, “I love you, Lo.”

“I love you too, Pat.” Logan let a smile run across his face as he leaned closer to Patton to press their lips together for a soft kiss.

“How adorable. I really hope that they weren’t about to fuck.”

Logan turned towards the person at the now-open doorway, glaring at them before he had even seen them. “This is your fault, Janus.”

“How is it my fault?” Janus gasped, holding a hand to his heart dramatically, “Did I not help to fix your relationship? And did I not let you get all the information you need to understand how to stop DS Enterprise?”

“Leave him be, Lo.” Patton giggled as he went to put his shirt back on. Once his blue polo was on again, the scars and hurt that Patton had faced all those years ago were hidden once more. His tattoo peaked out from his collar, but once he had tied his polo shirt, it was completely gone. “He had good intentions…even if I don’t necessarily agree with his methods.”

Logan huffed as he turned to Patton, “I do have a question though. If your power is Resistance, why were you not able to resist Remus’ power?”

“I’m only half Medeis.” Patton reminded Logan, “My power, though still a power, is weaker. I’m able to subconsciously resist passive powers, but for active powers, I have to put all my strength into it. Remus caught me off guard and threw me into the hallucination before I could stop him. Even when I tried to resist him, it was already too late.”

“I know Logan told me to create an apology to Patton, but I’m sincerely at a loss of words.”

Logan glanced at Patton, who seemed to be okay now. “Patton, I believe Janus has something he wants to say to you.”

Janus hesitated as he stepped forward, his gloves off as he put his hand on Patton’s shoulder. “I am…sorry, Patton.”

“Why is that so hard to say?”

“And?” Patton gave a small patient smile as he waited for Janus to continue, almost as if he was egging the man on.

“And I know I shouldn’t have done it.” Janus admitted, “It was wrong of me and I’m sorry for thinking of the method and asking Remus to get into my plans.”

“Though, it did work out in the end, so I really do think that there was some benefit to all this.”

“That’s enough out of you, Janus, before you begin learning how to lie without your power suppressants on.” Logan remarked before he turned over to Remus.

“Err, sorry, Patton. I hope you can forgive me.” Remus murmured, flushing with shame.

“I had fun with the hallucinations while it lasted.”

“It’s okay, you two.” Patton let himself laugh lightly as he forgave Remus and Janus, “Just next time? Leave it to strangers, alright? Not me. Especially since I only know you two as Logan’s coworkers, and Roman’s family.”

“Thank you.” Remus nodded as he walked off to the side. Patton turned towards the last person who had been a part of the scheme, even if involuntary.

“Roman.” Patton stared, waiting for Roman to say something. The man was looking down to the ground from shame. His thoughts were still spiraling.

“Patton, are you alright?” Roman whispered as he put on a brave face, staring at his best friend, “They didn’t hurt you too badly, did they?”

“No, not at all. It was all me.” Patton shook his head, whispering.

“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have let them in. I didn’t know what they were going to do, but I”m your best friend. I should be protecting you from things like that. I should’ve-”

“Roman.” Patton giggled as he pulled the man into a hug, “You’re right. You are my best friend and you didn’t know what was going to happen. I forgive you.”

“Thank you.” Roman inhaled as he squeezed Patton tightly, “I’m sorry.”

“Roman!”

“Alright, I’ll stop, I’ll stop!” Roman chuckled.

In the hug with Roman, Logan watched as Patton’s spirit began to lift. For the first time, he saw Patton feel as if nothing could stop him. As if there was no more melancholy feeling and no more grief that he had been holding back. As if he had begun to trust that he’d be able to talk about his feelings with no fear of what was to come. That the ones he loved would be there to stay.

That Logan Sanders would always be there to help Patton Morris through his hardships.

That the two would love each other until the ends of the Earth.

That Patton Morris would love Logan Sanders until his dying breath.

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