"Why is Janus wearing a onesie-" Virgil looks over the situation and notices Patton sitting in front of Janus with the fork in his hand. "Are you feeding him?!" Virgil exclaims, his eyebrows scrunched together.

"Well," Patton says with a sigh. "That secret didn't last long."

"I told you it wouldn't, we should have fed him in his bedroom, how stupid of me," Logan mumbles, rubbing at his temples.

"Hey don't call yourself stupid," Patton scolds.

"Fine, how idiotic of me."

"I will physically fight you!"

"Guys!" Virgil growls. "Hello?!"

Janus is absolutely humiliated. This isn't a coping mechanism at all, it feels like a punishment. He couldn't do anything but turn his head, hoping if he wished hard enough he would disappear.

"Maybe we should call a family meeting," Patton suggests. "Explain it to everyone."

"This is already humiliating enough with you two, I refuse to go along with this any further-"

"Janus, the adults are speaking," Patton lightly scolds him, interrupting his angry rant. Before he could get another word in, Janus was lifted again while Virgil stared in absolute confusion.

"Wow, this is," He begins in an exasperated tone, shaking his head. "Why are you treating him-is that a highchair? How the fuck-"

"Virgil," Patton interrupts stepping forward, grabbing his hands. "I will answer all your questions shortly, lets grab the others first, okay?"

Virgil huffs but nods in agreement. Patton follows Virgil out of the kitchen while Logan is left to carry Janus back to the nursery.

"My apologies Janus, but it seems everyone else will know of your predicament."

"Or you could just stop my predicament." Janus mocks, glaring at Logan who ignores him, plopping him back into his crib.

"We'll return shortly with a bottle, it's near your bedtime."

"I don't have a bedtime!"

"You do now."

Janus groans in annoyance, he hates this treatment, he once his crummy, uncomfortable bed back, at least with it came his freedom to do as he pleases. Logan digs through another box, much like the one Patton had dug through previously for Janus' outfit, retrieving a soft snake stuffed animal. Patton has every animal imaginable in his collection of stuffed animals, when he saw the snake, he knew Janus had to have it.

Lifting the snake stuffed animal, Logan showed it to Janus who stared at him unimpressed with his arms crossed. "Here," Logan offers, setting it in the crib, dodging Janus' attempt to bite him. "Play with this until either Patton or I return and behave."

Without another word, Logan locks the crib and sets off to join their family meeting.

"Stupid Wolverine."

---

The league of heroes gathered in the living room. Three of them stared at the other two, eagerly awaiting an explanation for such a meeting.

"Well," Patton begins, clapping his hands. "We were keeping it a secret because we wanted to wait for Janus to adjust but it's a bit too late for that,"

"Waiting for Janus to adjust to what?" Roman asks, raising an eyebrow.

"Save questions until the end," Logan deflects, crossing his arms.

"Logan and I have decided that instead of sending Janus to jail, we want to put him through a rehabilitation program using age regression," Patton explains.

Logan clears his throat, deciding to pick off from there. "Age regression is a coping mechanism used to relieve stress or help with past trauma, I suggested this, hoping to find out the reasoning for Janus' vigilante actions and possibly held reform him into a better person and perhaps a hero as well, there's far too much progress that needs to be done before that. We want to help him instead of tossing him away into a pile of unwanted criminals who won't learn their lesson and will repeat their actions."

The three were silent for a moment. "I still don't understand what age regression is," Roman admits.

Logan realizes he didn't explain what happens during age regression and flushes. "Right, it's when the age regressor does just that, they regress to a smaller age than their own such as an infant, toddler, child, or teenager."

"So you're treating him like a baby?" Virgil asks slowly.

"Correct."

Remus laughed suddenly, startling the group. "Wait does that mean he has to wear diapers?"

"We haven't gotten that far yet," Patton admits. "But we aren't doing it for the sole purpose of humiliating him! We want to help him!"

"This is stupid, just throw him in jail!" Virgil hissed, throwing his hands up. "He's going to end up attacking one of us!"

"This is going to be hilarious," Roman says with a snort.

Logan and Patton frown, glancing at each other briefly.

"No one is teasing Janus," Logan demands. "Only if it's playful, there is no bullying tolerated."

"What are you, his mom? Awe, mommy Lolo!" Remus cooed, grinning at Logan who felt his cheeks burn brighter. He groaned and facepalmed while Patton sighed.

"C'mon kiddos, give it a chance, a real chance. We want to make him feel comfortable!"

"You can't save everyone Patton," Virgil says coldly, crossing his arms. "He's a villain, he's scum."

"He is not," Patton says firmly. "Why can't you just give him a chance kiddo? Why do you have to be so Paran-" Patton stops himself, the room following silent as Virgil sends him an icy glare. "Kiddo I'm-"

"Save it. Fine, do your babying thing, but I demand that he has some kind of magic restricting ability."

Logan nods. "That's reasonable, do we have Uni?"

Uni is a substance that they have found blocks their magical abilities. It's incredibly limited, so they use it only when necessary. It's a malleable substance that has the texture of Laffy taffy but the flexibility of a Twizzler.

"Yeah, it's in the lab," Mumbles Virgil. "You can make him a pretty bracelet," He mocks.

Logan rolls his eyes and turns toward Roman. "Do you have the strength to create a bracelet?"

Roman nods. "Do you have a specific design in mind?"

Logan thinks for a moment before giving a small smile. "I do actually."

---

Logan arrives at Janus' bedroom, not at all surprised to see him withering in boredom, sprawled out in an unnatural position, staring off into space with the stuffed toy thrown across the room.

"Janus," Logan calls, causing the villain to jump, snapping out of his trance. His cheeks flush crimson as he noticed Logan brought him a bottle as promised.

"I'm not drinking that."

"So you say, but we both know that you will."

Janus only shook his head turning over, grumbling to himself. Walking over to the crib, Logan easily pops it open, setting the bottle aside for the time being. He suddenly grabbed Janus' arm, causing him to jolt away and glance up and panic. "Hey-"

Logan snaps a bracelet around his wrist. It's made of round, smooth stone beans. The colors are pastel and rainbow, there are multiple cartoon charms attached to it as well, including a baby bottle, a pacifier, a rattle, and a teddy bear. It's unable to stretch, nor can it be easily chopped off or removed. It reacts to voice recognition, which Logan forced Virgil to tweak in, leaving Janus unable to remove it. The Uni is inside each bead except for one, the last one has the microscopic box that Virgil programmed to recognize everyone's voice except for Janus'. An electrical wire runs into each bead as well, connecting to said box, however, to remove it and connect it, there are electrical magnets, which also react with the voice box.

"Lock."

The bracelet reacts quickly, locking place, leaving it stuck on Janus' wrist until the end of his six-month sentence.

Janus immediately sits up, tugging at the bracelet harshly, scowling at it. "What the fuck is this?"

"It's a magic restricting bracelet. You are now unable to use any magic."

Janus gaped at Logan, immediately beginning to search for a possibility to remove it. However, he was unable to. He couldn't even find how it was put on him, it fit his wrist perfectly, he couldn't get it up to his palm, and yet, it doesn't stretch!

"This is stupid! Take it off!" He demands.

"I'm afraid I can't do that, besides, it's rather fitting for your dilemma."

Janus grits his teeth and gives an angry kick to the bars of the crib. "Take it off!"

"I can't, it stays," Logan explains, softening his tone. He lifts Janus, only to have him shriek loudly and flail his arms violently, pushing and shoving at Logan.

He barely reacted, merely holding him close. "Shh, relax little snake."

"You took me from my home and now you took my powers! You're stupid! I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!" Janus screams, slamming his fists into him every chance he gets. He didn't even realize he was crying until he felt his body shake heavily as a sob clawed its way from his throat.

"I hate you..."

"I know," Logan whispers, happy when his meltdown slows after a few moments and he's merely crying against his shoulder angrily.

"You're terrible, I hate you..."

"Yes, I know," Logan agrees but it only makes Janus whine. He wasn't supposed to agree and be calm, he's supposed to get angry!

"You're stupid! All you heroes are stupid!"

"Yes, yes I know."

Janus let out a frustrated growl. "Stop that!"

Logan raises an eyebrow and cradles Janus. "Stop what?"

"Stop agreeing!"

"I don't understand, what am I supposed to do?"

"You're supposed to yell back!"

Logan blinks. "That's illogical, why would I yell at you when you're in emotional distress?"

Janus goes to answer but finds he has none.

"You have every right to feel overwhelmed and angry, I see no reason to yell at you for feeling emotions. We took you away from your home, your friends, and now we have taken your powers. I would be far more concerned if you weren't responding."

Janus sniffles and rubs at cheeks harshly. "I still hate you."

"I hope so."

"And I'm not drinking the bottle."

"You are, but I'll give you a few more minutes to believe that you aren't."