Thomas was crying to himself and looked up to the logical trait, fear and loneliness in his eyes.

"Thomas... what happened?"
"I-I messed up, I told Joan that I wasn't going to be their friend and they hung up before I could explain, they've blocked me on everything and I only wanted to tell them that I didn't want them to loose anything because of me"
"Thomas, they will come back. You are good friends and you care about them and they care about you. You will be their friend again. Right now I need to get to Logan so I'll summon Patton and R- I mean I'll get Logan back." He smiled at Thomas as comfortingly as he could and summoned the paternal trait.

"Patton, I need you to look after Thomas, I'm going to get Logan." Virgil commanded, sinking down and running around to collect stuff he would need. A spare pair of Logan's glasses, a torch and a knife, you can never be too careful. He headed to the arch before he saw the TV screen flicker to life. Void, Deceit and Logan were all on screen. Void stepped back from the camera, showing off a bloodied knife. Logan was tied up on the floor with his hoodie on but no shirt. Between both sides of the zip a myriad of scars ranging from cuts to handprints, but what scared Virgil most was the hand shaped bruising around his neck. Virgil gasped loudly. Deceit grabbed Logan by the hair and pulled his head up so that Virgil could see clearer, then Void spoke "Well, well, well, Virgil? Whatever should you do? Save Logan to save Thomas? Or let the traitor die? Hurry up, you have thirty minutes, starting at precisely 11:30,otherwise we'll kill him. Gather what you'll need and decide. Tick, tock, tick, tock..." The video cut to static and Virgil turned to look at the clock, 11:25. He ran through the arch, for once not caring about timing. He drew the knife as he arrived and there was absolutely no one. He looked around and saw a black cloud leaking from under a door. He backed away before it made a black model of Logan and pointed to the door. Virgil thanked the strange model and hurled himself into the door and stumbled as it caved under his weight. The scene before him shocked him.

~flashback~

Logan pulled at the zip tie and growled viciously. Damien glowered at him and kicked him over the head... or tried to. His foot caught a few centimetres before he hit Logan. Logan growled again and used the night matter to throw Deceit across the room. He hit the wall and slid to the floor, groaning. Cillian looked around, confused. Logan was towering over the liar, a scowl on his face before the dark matter accumulated into a huge whip. Cillian stumbled back. He ran from the room, hearing the whip cracks and cries of pain come from his boyfriend. Logan's yells of anger echoed from the room as Cillian stumbled into his room, determined to avoid the newly turned psychopath. Logan's yells changed from those of anger to ones of fear and pain but Damien's similar screams didn't cease. Logan was gasping and barely breathing as the whip turned on him and he screamed out, agony wracking his already brutally abused body. Blood soaked the floor. Logan heard the door splinter and break as the dark matter turned back to a liquid and dropped to the floor. He looked up to see Virgil before he passed out.

~end of flashback~

Virgil gasped and dropped to Logan's side, trying his hardest to stem the worst of the bleeding. Logan's heart was barely beating and the logical side moved to perform CPR before he heard a tutting behind him.

"Whatever to do, Logic? He hurt another side, he nearly killed Roman and you saw." Virgil gasped at the remark, his mind reeling and his mouth moving to do the same,

"B-but you weren't there. I didn't see you and you couldn't have been there because I saw the whole thing... you..." Virgil pulled out his knife and pointed it at the other conscious side. "You tried to kill Roman, this was some sick plan of yours!" Virgil said, dropping the knife and picking up Logan before shoving past Cillian and running back to the arch. He burst through it and laid Logan down on the sofa. He felt for a heartbeat and sighed in relief when he felt one. He hugged the unconscious trait and wept. He didn't recognise this emotion but it scared him. It made his chest tight and his throat close up as he sobbed. He looked up and saw Patton, Roman and Thomas staring at him, Patton was shocked, Roman had his sword drawn and was at the back and Thomas was mostly confused but what he had apparently learned left him leaning towards the distraught side.

"I-I can explain..."