Welcome to the third rewritten chapter!

Logan reached out and touched the scales. The scales we're dry and smooth. Layers and layers of them was on top of one another. They felt oddly nice to touch.

Janus let out a low growl while smacking the other man's hand away. He held his hand over the part of his cheek that had been touched. He backed away even more, so there was more space between them while looking down into the uncomfortable matress. He held back a whine from pain.

"Get out" He hissed out. Cold miscolored eyes filled with anger meeting Logan's dark blue ones.

Logan thought, he realized that it probably wasn't nice to come into someones room and start asking them about their past without even knowing them. So he answered

"I wanted to thank you for helping Thomas calm down. Your technique was quite adequate" The other side shrugged, eyeing Logan's face throughly looking for lies. He had always had a hard time trusting people, he was the embodiment of lies after all. Sometimes he didn't even trust himself.

He pointed at the door "Get out" He repeated.

"I am sorry if I hurt you somehow" Logan replied without moving a single inch.

Janus squinted at him. He tensed up and his hands shook slightly. He waited for something bad to happen. The last time he'd been apoligized to was when....when...it was too painful, apologies had to mean something bad. A few minutes went by as they looked at each other.

"My.....my scales...are quite sensitive...I would totally not appreciate if you didn't touch them" Janus finally broke the silence.

"Noted" Logan literally wrote it down in his notebook "Anything else I should know about your peculior anatomy like if you-"

Before he could let out an avalanche of questions Janus silenced him. He waited a few seconds before letting up the silencing. He was half sure Logan would actually try to dissect Envy if they ever meet.

"Thanks....I have been called in before by a 'light' side before. It wasn't nice at all" The snake muttered "You're all still idiots though"

"Exscuse you I am not an idiot! Please notice my necktie" He motioned for his necktie.

Janus tried to hold back a smile but ended up laughing at him. He quickly put his hand over his mouth to hide his laughter but Logan had time to catch a glimpse of his open mouth. He stared in fascination at him.

"Are you aware your saliva is green?? Are you poisonous???" He got so excited the notebook got slightly crumbled with how hard he was holding it.

"....I don't actually know...Maybe"

"Can I?" Logan's hand was already reaching out for him.

Janus frowned and slapped his hand away. He thought for a moment before a sly smirk spread across his lips and a growing plan planted itself in his head "Go ahead" He said in a sweet tone.

The nerd was quite possibly vibrating from excitement. He pointed at the bed until Janus sighed and laid down on his back. Logan summoned a plastic bag like one the police in police shows used and one of those sticks with cotton at the end. He made sure to only touch the human side of Jan's face when he carefully opened his mouth.

He counted the cracks in the ceiling while the other man shoved the cotton stick down into his mouth. While he had probably been in weirder situations this definetly made the top 5 lists. Hopefully it would be worth it in the long run, as long as his plan worked this would be wonderful first step.

"It will be so interesting to look closer at this sample later tonight" Logan actually had some emotion in his voice for once "I will use my microscope and compare your genes to that of an actual snake!"

Janus spit out a few pieces of cotton left in his mouth "I live together with some very...strange people but I do think you are the strangest side actually. Kind of a surprise actually. You seem so calm and then...this"

"It is for science! I could study you for hours" Logan assured with great confidence.

".......I am actually unsure whether I should be flattered or not...."

"Do not be. I would study any form of half animal half human specimen, you are not special at all" Lo quickly waved it off.

Janus did an overly dramatic gasp "Such hatred! Foul mouth you are!! Bastard man!!!" He pointed his finger right into the other man's blue tie "If you shall continue insulting a fair maiden like myself like that I shall kick you out of my humble home"

He squinted his eyes suspiciously at him "A bit strange that you have not kicked me out already. I assumed all the dark sides hated us....You are Deceit, you are most definetly deceiving me into something here"

"First of don't group me together with the other 'dark' sides like that, I am high above their levels. Second I think me always scheming and deceiving not only makes me incredibly mysterious but also charming and hot" Janus replied.

Logan eyed him up and down "You are objectivly not the hottest side" They all have different faces and voices because they're inside someone's brain they can do whatever the fuck they want "Actually I have seen some of the wonderful viewers write out why I am scientifically the most handsome side"

"Liars all of them" Janus lied.

"It is once again science! I can not deny my own wonderful looks if the fans have proof of it"

Janus pretened to look at his nails through his gloves "I have had enough of you. All I needed from you has been taken, thank you. You can go now" With a snap of his fingers the door opened and the void became visible.

Logan grabbed onto the plastic bag filled with the snake like side's saliva. He nodded his head at him as if to say goodbye before walking out of the door. The second he'd gotten out the dor shut behind him. He blinked and the door was gone. There was nothing left in the vast space except for himself and the void. He decided to sink out back to the light sides.

He reappeared on the couch in their commons. The tv was on showing what looked like the addams family. Virgil laid sprawled out across the other couch with the controller lazily dangling in his hands. When he saw Lo he immediatly shut the tv off, stood up and left the room without even casting him another glance.

Happy tunes came from the kitchen. Logan looked and saw the side of morality (and dad puns) dance around the kitchen while singing along to a song from the spongebob musical which was playing on the radio. Roman had created a radio that took whatever a light side wanted to listen to and played it. It was nice hearing Patton sing, Logan always enjoyed listening to it. He blamed it on serotonin.

As a part of a dance step Patton spun around. He let out a yelp when he noticed he had been watched but he regained his cheery mood when he saw that it was just the logical side.

"Logie bogie!!! Hiiiiii! Has your day been good??" He greeted while running up and hugging him.

"I would describe it as peculiar not good, how about yours?"

"Mines great! I'm baking cookies and earlier today I finished this video game wanna hear about it?" He asked in an excited tone. In response the other side nodded which only made Patton smile more.

"So it's about an anxious owl and his best friend the slippery mister lynx. The game starts out with the owl trying to teach his friend how to fly but as you know you smart cookie lynxes can't fly. So the tutorial is about gathering materials because it's a platformer and then building a pair of wings. The wings don't work so the owl decides to start flying away sometimes just to see how the rest of the world is, he promises that he will always return to his friend....but one day after a few months of the owl flying back and forth he doesn't come back. After a week of waiting the lynx travels through the land and looks for his friend. That's most of the game just jumping through huge mushrooms and stuff y'know. It ends with, if I'm allowed to spoil"

Logan who had moved to a more comfortable position nodded, platformers wasn't his thing anyway.

"So the game ends with the lynx climbing this huge mountain and he finds his friend in a house but he wasn't alone. There were 3 other owls and they thought that the lynx was about to eat their new owl friend so they peeked and poked at him until he was at the bottom of the mountain once more. The end" Patton looked a bit somber as he recalled the ending.

"I thought you didn't like stories with sad endings"

"Oh yeah I don't it's just there were cute animals on the cover okay! I couldn't stop myself" Patton pretended to faint.

Their mindless smalltalk continued for a few minutes before the oven made a loud ding and Patton got preoccupied with decorating his freshly baked cookies, meanwhile Logan tried to beat his record at fixing a rubrics cube. It was a familiar but wholesome scene. Exactly what Logan needed.