WARNING: Slight self harm

"Are you okay?"

Janus didn't look up. "Don't laugh at me." He muttered.

"I'm not. Are you okay?"

Janus looked up through his fringe and was actually surprised to see a trace of human sympathy in Remus' face. He looked back at his book.

"Uh- I... I'm fine."

"And a terrible liar, what's up?"

"Why don't you tell me? You were the one who asked me-"

"I know what happened." Remus cut in. "It's just... not my place to say, is it?"

"Not your place? Who would've thought that you knew what your place was?"

"Fine, you don't have to tell me anything." Remus said, putting his hands up.

"It's your fault, you now." Janus blurted out.

Remus raised an eyebrow. "Oh?"

"Yeah, it is. Your stupid singing has wormed it's way in here." Janus snapped, pointing to his head. "And it won't leave me alone!"

"That's not my fault, that's just having an earworm."

"That's not what I mean!" Janus put his head in his hands and dug his nails into his head. "Just get out of my head." He mumbled.

"I'm not in your head."

"Yes you fucking are!" Janus glared at Remus. "Just stop it."

"I'm not doing anything." Remus said, checking his nails. "And this all sounds like a very big, round-about coping mechanism for you to try and cope with your obvious childhood trauma. You know, projecting onto other people isn't healthy."

"You're not a person. You're a creature."

"Okay." Remus was apparently unfazed. "Projecting onto other people or creatures isn't healthy." He waved his hand at the book in Janus' lap. "Why don't you project onto a character you hate in your stupid book."

Janus glared at Remus. "I am not projecting onto shit. You have done something to me and I want it to stop. So stop!"

"I have no idea what you're talking about." Remus said, a ghost of a secret smirk passing over his face.

"Oh, stop lying." Janus snapped his book closed. "You know what, screw this. I'm swapping places with Patton."

"Oh, I wouldn't do that." Remus called as Janus left the brig. The brig door slammed closed and Remus glared down at his tail. "Logan and that creature seemed to have formed quite a bond."

"Patton?"

"Hm?"

Logan tried to look at what was in Patton's sketchbook.

"You can't see my drawings, Kiddo." Patton said, hugging his book to his chest.

"I apologise. I'm just very curious."

"Well, curiosity killed the cat, you know."

"Did it?" Logan asked and he looked so serious that Patton couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"It's an idiom, it's not serious." He said, giggling.

"Oh. I have never really gotten idioms, I'm afraid."

Patton grinned at him. "I can kind of tell."

Logan nodded before looking at Patton and cracking a small smile of his own.

"You look so cute when you smile." Patton blurted, his smile growing wider.

Logan's smile fell and he looked down at his hands, still healing from scratching at the metal.

"Kiddo? You-" Patton's eyes widened. "Oh my God, I'm so sorry. Did I make you uncomfortable? I made you uncomfortable, didn't I? I'm so, so sorry."

"It, um, it's really fine." Logan mumbled.

"No it's not. I'm really sorry, Logan."

Logan met Patton's gaze before looking up as the brig door opened.

"Patton, I need to talk to you." Janus said as he stormed down to the brig.

"Oh, hey Kid-"

"Aren't you meant to be watching Remus?" Logan asked, bristling slightly as Janus looked at him.

"That's exactly what I need to talk to Patton about. So if you'd excuse us, your Highness," Janus said, mock-bowing, "we need to discuss."

"Surely it can wait?"

"No, it can't wait. It's important."

"Kiddos, stop it." Patton said, standing up. "I don't want my Kiddos fighting, okay?" He looked between them before nodding curtly. "Right, okay. Um, Janus, will it take long?"

Janus narrowed his eyes at Logan before answering. "Probably not."

"Great. Let's go, then."

Oh God, this is so bad. This is so fucking bad. Writer's Block hit hard half-way through writing so... enjoy this shit.
Bye,
Blaize