On Death's Doorstep (pt 39/?)
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Word count: 1381
Rating: Teen
Pairings: familial Losleep, past Logan/ofc, minor Karrot Kings & Anxceit
Warnings: dysfunctional family dynamics, past character death, I may have killed the therapist but we’re still managing to work through some feelings, google translate Spanish
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A lot was happening in a very small amount of time and Remy suspected another move was in her future. Virgil’s dads — who were really nice — had been moved into the building and were now living in Janus’s spare room; Patton's room was still technically Roman’s spare room, but he’d been sleeping downstairs with his grandpas for the past few days. It would make more sense for them to have their own floor, besides Remy had been living in Roman’s room on Roman’s floor essentially all by herself ever since Virgil left.
Not that this really counted as living by herself, Barbra — who she wasn’t comfortable calling grandma just yet — or the twins, or Virgil’s dads were constantly popping in to check on her. Janus hadn’t been around much, and Remy knew they were up to something, but no one would tell her what it was.
She hadn’t seen Logan since the day after Virgil left, and she was perfectly content to go on not seeing him.
But all good things — not that this was very good, it was neutral at best — must come to an end, and when Remy heard at knock at the door, she found that it had been Logan.
“Remy,” Logan inclined his head, making no move to try to step past her into the apartment.
“Logan.” Maybe she was imagining it, but she thought he winced at the use of his name.
“You can’t hate me forever,” Logan stated, a faint undercurrent of anger coloring his voice.
“Wanna bet?” Remy arched an eyebrow and crossed her arms. She had plenty of experience arguing with would-be father figures from arguing with Mike, Logan had no idea what he was in for.
“I did not kill you–”
“You think that’s what I’m mad about?” Remy demanded, cutting him off vehemently.
Logan frowned, attempting to push his glasses further up his nose despite the fact that they had not slipped down even a millimeter.
“I do not see any other reason for your hostility towards me.”
“Estúpido!” Remy hissed, throwing her hands up in frustration. “Completo idiota! Lo siguiente que me vas a decir es que no sabes de dónde vienen los bebés! Eres un genio, te apuesto–”
“El príncipe es estupido!” Logan interjected suddenly, completely derailing Remy’s train of thought as she struggled to figure out what that meant.
“What?”
Logan’s gaze locked on the door hinges as he actually looked embarrassed for the first time since Remy had met him.
“I–” he started, cutting himself off and starting again. “I am ashamed to admit that spoken languages have never been my strong suit, and even when I was living with your mother I never reached a level of fluency required to understand native speakers when they truly got going.”
“…so you told me that the prince is stupid?” Remy asked. Surely there was something she was missing that would make this whole interaction make sense, she just couldn’t see what it was.
“Yes,” Logan agreed and refused to elaborate further.
The two of them stood in awkward silence for a moment before Remy decided to bite the bullet.
“So what happened?” She asked. “Between you and mom, I mean.”
“Your mother, as you likely know, does not like superpowers,” Logan started slowly.
Remy nodded, her mom had never said as much — not to her anyway — but over the years she’d gotten the sense that Remy’s powers stressed her mom out quite a bit. The manner of Remy’s death probably hurt her almost as much as her actual death.
“I was well aware of that while I was dating her, but as I had no intentions of becoming either a hero or a villain, I thought… perhaps I could be an exception.” Logan was clearly deeply uncomfortable with this conversation by the way he was twitching and shifting, but he continued. “I did not tell her that I had powers. One day, a month before your third birthday, she found me using my technokinesis in my workshop. She decided to leave and take you with her.”
“And what?” Remy demanded. “You just let her go? You didn’t want me?”
“Of course I wanted you!” Logan snapped. “But your mother wanted nothing to do with me! She threatened to turn me in to the authorities should I ever try to contact her or you again.”
“For having powers?” Remy asked. “That’s not a crime.”
“For selling my technology to supervillains.”
“Oh.”
All the fight drained out of Remy then, she was still angry, but she couldn’t exactly be upset at Logan for leaving if her mom had been the one to leave him.
“Technokinesis sounds cool,” She said eventually, grimacing at the way Logan lit up at the clear opening.
“Thank you. Successful inventions do require a knowledge base to build off of, but just allowing the technology to control itself does allow for some interesting experimentation. If you don’t mind me saying, I have noticed that you’ve added some interesting technology of your own to your repertoire.”
Remy shifted in embarrassment. “Yeah well… I just reverse engineered some shit I stole off of Gemini, which… were yours, weren’t they?”
“It was indeed my ‘shit’ that you got from Roman and Remus,” Logan preened. “I have been very impressed with your engineering talents; your ability to recreate and improve upon unfamiliar technology is astounding!”
“Uh, thanks,” Remy mumbled, not quite used to this level of excitement or encouragement from a parental figure. “Is that what you wanted to talk about? My ‘engineering talents’?”
“Ah, no,” Logan shifted from excited to almost embarrassed quickly. “I– I am aware that you are uncomfortable in my presence as I am your absentee father, as it were, and a supervillain, but I would like you to move in with me. On the top floor.”
Remy narrowed her eyes. “Why?”
“For many reasons,” Logan replied, slipping into teacher-mode. “For one, you are a minor, and living by yourself would supply you with undue amounts of stress–”
“I’m seventeen,” Remy objected. “And I’m hardly living by myself.”
“For another thing,” Logan continued, heedlessly. “Janus has informed me that living with their pseudo in-laws is ‘incredibly awkward’, and moving the Flores-Sanderses and Patton to their own floor would benefit everyone involved immensely. And finally, I cannot live with my mother anymore, she is driving me up the wall, so to speak.”
“Babs?” Remy asked. “What’s wrong with Babs?”
Logan’s eyebrows twitched every time Remy called his mom “Babs”, but he declined to comment on the use of the nickname. “As I’m sure you are aware by now, my mother is clairvoyant. I do not appreciate my every thought being taken as an invitation to have a conversation. I love my mother very much, but living with her is an exhausting exercise in control.”
Remy couldn’t help the way her lips twitched into a smirk.
“It is not funny!” Logan snapped. “I am a grown man, I do not need my mother weighing in on my dietary decisions!”
“That’s rough, buddy,” Remy deadpanned.
“Do not think I don’t recognize an Avatar quote when I hear one, my brother was quite a fan of cartoons and he was very insistent that I watch that particular one with him. He said I was very much like Sokka and was adamant that there were many important lessons to be learned from the program.”
“He sounds smart,” Remy commented, well aware that the twins claimed Logan was reluctant to talk about Emile Picani.
“He was very smart,” Logan agreed with a far off look in his eyes. “His methods were unconventional, but effective nonetheless. He would have been an exceptional therapist, or anything else he set his mind to.”
Remy shifted uncomfortably, she knew what was coming, but she still couldn’t quite believe it when the words slipped past her lips. “I’ll move in with you.”
“…really?” Logan asked incredulously. “You do not need to decide right away.”
“No I– I’m sure. After all, someone needs to save you from living with your mom well into your seventies.”
“I am not in my seventies,” Logan frowned.
“Not yet,” Remy teased, relishing the way Logan’s frown deepened.
He wasn’t ‘dad’, not yet, but so far, he was a vast improvement on Mike.
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It’s been three months since the last time I posted a chapter 😅 I had a two-ish month writing slump that I’ve finally managed to work through, plus
It’s the TWO YEAR anniversary of ODD!!!
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