Janus had taken necessary precautions this time. He transferred his little items into his and Logan's room and he used the bathroom before he climbed into his car. He did not want a repeat of last time, that would be terrible.

As he arrived at the blue house again, he texted Remus, however, he forgot to pay his bill so the service wasn't working, forcing him to go knock on the door.

Of course, Virgil answered, the very person he was attempting to avoid.

"Janus," Virgil greets coldly, his eyes narrowed. Janus didn't feel frightened, he couldn't, not when he spent his childhood with Virgil and his freckled, chubby cheeks.

"Virgil," Janus greets back calmly, refusing to match his malicious tone, he had no right to. "I'm stealing the Goblin for a few days."

Virgil grunts, rolling his eyes before opening the door wider and stepping aside. Janus would have been just fine waiting outside, but he wasn't going to miss the opportunity to look around his brother's house. Stepping in, he slipped his hands into his pockets, glancing around curiously. He wasn't surprised to see the Halloween decorations up so soon, Halloween isn't for another few months.

"Where is the Monster?"

"Packing," Virgil speaks in an icy tone, leaving his responses short and curt, Janus doesn't ask anything further and merely nods while they wait in uncomfortable silence.

Remus shortly breaks the tension as he comes tumbling down the hallway, grinning like a mad man as he drops his belongings and practically tackles Janus. Janus yelps and nearly falls, but ends up crashing into a wall instead. He wraps his arms around Remus to keep him from falling and scowls at him.

"You can never greet anyone normally can you?"

"I'm sorry, this normal disease you speak of isn't in my vocabulary."

"I'm surprised vocabulary is in your vocabulary."

"You two are ridiculous," Virgil cuts in, shaking his head as he crosses his arms. His tone has softened, and Janus swears his lips show a ghost of a smile. He almost felt jealous, he knows damn well his presence didn't provoke a smile.

"Okay bye emo boy!" Remus says, sending Virgil a wink. "I'll see you in my dreams tonight."

"I hope it involves me holding a knife to your throat."

Remus grins in response. "Oh, it will."

"You horny gremlin," Janus says, dropping Remus. He landed on the ground harshly and whined, glaring at him as he climbed back to his feet.

Pouting, he pointed at Janus and looked over at Virgil. "Veee Janus dropped me!"

Virgil snorts and cocks an eyebrow. "So? He's small, just drop him."

Janus gives a mock glare to his brother and huffs, grabbing Remus' bags. "I'm older."

"And yet I'm taller."

Remus laughs loudly as Janus grumbles and kicks Remus' shoes at him, hitting his square in the stomach. He groans and clenches at his abdomen in pain, scowling at his friend, however, he took the hint and slipped on his shoes.

"If you need anything, you have my number," Virgil tells Remus, grabbing his hand before he could follow after Janus, who had begun walking towards his car, tossing Remus' belongings inside.

"Don't worry, we'll be fine!" Cheers Remus, tugging from his hold eagerly, only to be tugged back again, emitting a groan of annoyance from the chaotic man.

"Veeeee."

"I mean it, Remus, call me, or text," He insists, narrowing his eyes, wanting him to take his words seriously.

Remus catches the urgent undertone to the sentence and gives a dramatic sigh before pulling away and turning his body towards Virgil, wrapping his arms around his neck, tugging him into a hug. Virgil tenses at first, but relaxes. However, he doesn't hug back, he never does.

"Okay, okay, are you done worrying Mama Bear?"

Virgil rolls his eyes and pushes the man away, he wasn't used to human contact quite yet, he hasn't had any, especially healthy contact, in years.

"Go, and don't burn the house down, Logan will come after me for expenses and I'll come after you for expenses."

Remus only grins, not promising a single thing before jumping as Janus honked the horn of the car impatiently. Laughing, he runs off towards it and jumps in. With a final small wave to Remus, Virgil shuts the door.

---

They stopped at Taco Bell on the way home, Janus doesn't eat fast food often, and for good reason, most of it kills his insides. Remus however, eats fast food every chance he gets, and in Virgil's healthy home, it's not often, unfortunately. Virgil is very concerned with his health, as he went many years with low amounts of food at a time. He wasn't getting nearly enough of the minerals, vitamins, or nutrients that his body needs, so, for the last couple of months, Remus has been introduced to surprisingly delicious healthy foods, but this is Remus. His palette can only take so many vegetables before the greasy urges invade his tongue. He never seems to get away with it though, he isn't a very good liar, and Virgil can read him like an open book. At least now he knows he gets fast food with Janny.

"I don't know how you can eat this often," Janus comments, he was barely able to finish his first taco, the taste wasn't half bad, but that's probably from all the artificial chemicals embedded in it.

"It sho' gwode!" Remus explains, the words coming out muffled as pieces of food fell from his mouth as he spoke mid-chew.

Janus wrinkles his nose, deciding to stick to his cinnamon twists for now. "Don't talk with your mouth full," He scolds.

Remus rolls his eyes and purposely chews with his mouth open. Janus groans and stands, distracting himself by grabbing a coke, he's only allowed to have soda when he's big, or if he's been a good boy.

"We should totally go out tomorrow, " Remus insists, after chewing this time, washing his meal down with a blue raspberry Slushie.

Janus raises an eyebrow and scoffs. "Yeah, right, I'm not doing drugs."

Remus laughs and stands, tossing out his trash. "No! Like to a club and go dancing! Or to a bar-"

"Remus," Janus says, already exhausted by the conversation. "Why don't we just go to the mall?"

Remus wrinkles his nose. "The mall?" He complains. "Who are you? Roman?"

"Either the mall or somewhere else."

"A bar."

Janus shot him an annoyed look, he was trying to steer away from a bar. "I'll tell Virgil," He threatens.

Remus huffs. "He wouldn't believe you."

Janus knew the words weren't supposed to hurt, but they were so truthful that it felt like an arrow pierced through his stomach, leaving him to slowly bleed out. Remus seemed to realize he made a mistake because his expression fell.

"I didn't mean-"

"No, you're right, he wouldn't believe me," Janus mumbles. "Why don't we do both? Mall during the day and Bar at night? Deal?"

Remus just nods quietly, fiddling with his fingers, he didn't mean to make him upset.

"Rem, it's fine, just go to bed, I'm gonna go call Logan," Janus says, yawning a bit. It's growing late, and his body is recognizing his usual bedtime.

"Okay, night," Remus mumbles before snorting. "Have fun having phone sex with your daddy!" He sings as he rushes off to the guest bedroom, also known as Janus' little room.

Rolling his eyes, Janus shuffled into his bedroom, trusting that he was in the clear to strip down and slip into a Scooby-Doo onesie, he enjoys the mystery aspects of the show. Not to mention, Shaggy and Scooby are hilarious! He also taped on a diaper, if he didn't, he would be waking up to soaked sheets and he didn't want to bother with coming up with poor excuses if Remus caught him.

After he was decked out in his little gear, he jumped up on the bed, grinning as he bounced slightly and grabbed his laptop, he already misses Logan, but at least they can video chat.

With a few clicks, he's calling Logan. He glances to the side and swipes up his stuffed crocodile, squeezing it to his chest. He felt slightly anxious, knowing Remus is just in the other room, however, knowing him he's either jerking off or binge-watching horror movies. Or both.

The screen lights up as it rings, and soon, Janus smiles brightly as Logan answers, he appears exhausted, but he smiles anyway.

"Hello Little Snake," Logan greets, eyeing his onesie and stuffed animal in amusement. "Someone looks ready for bed."

"Nuh-uh," Janus denies, pouting a little. He didn't want to go to bed yet! He had just called! "M'staying up!"

"Oh, are you now?" Logan snorts, leaning back against the headboard of his hotel bed, tugging at his tie, tossing it to the side.

Janus nods, suppressing a yawn. He fists at his eyes tiredly and grins. "Uh-huh! M'not tired."

"I don't know, you seem pretty tired to me, " Logan points out. "It's nearly eleven, you must be exhausted. If you don't head to bed, you'll be cranky in the morning."

"Will not!" Whines Janus. Being cranky means having a nap and he doesn't want a nap!

"If you say so little snake," Logan says with a chuckle. "Is Remus there?" He questions.

Janus nods before putting a finger to his lips in a hushing motion. "Uh-huh! So we gotta be quiets!"

Logan stares at him in pure adoration, merely nodding as he can't wipe the smile off his face as he watched Janus. He's adorable like this. "Oh yes of course," Logan whispers. "Is he sleeping?"

"Uh dunno, he in the guest room," Janus explains with a small shrug, beginning to chew on his stuffed toy.

"I see," Logan says, nodding before frowning. "Janus, go get a paci, you know not to chew on your stuffed animals, it's unsanitary," Logan scolds gently.

Janus pouts, he doesn't know where his paci is! "I dunno where it is!" He complains.

Logan sighs softly. "There's a few in my bedside table,"

Janus glances at it and crawls towards it. Tugging it open, he squeals and plucks up his favorite paci. It's a soft yellow color with jewels and a snake charm on it. It was custom-made and pretty pricey, but the rest of his pacifiers are cheap so one special pacifier won't hurt.

He stuck it in his mouth and crawled back over to Logan, sucking on the item, squeezing his stuffed crocodile to his chest. Logan chuckled at his appearance and took a screenshot, he couldn't resist, besides, he enjoys flustering him later on when he's big again.

"Alright, little snake, you have your binky, now lay down and relax." Logan insists, laying down himself. He planned on getting out of his work clothes and then heading to bed, he had to be up early tomorrow after all.

"Buh Logan," He begins to complain, however, his body betrays him by yawning.

"But nothing lay down and go to bed," Logan says simply. "I love you little snake, charge your phone and computer," He reminds him.

"I wove you toos," He grumbles, not at all happy with having to go to bed.

"See? You're getting grumpy, you better go to bed," Logan warns.

Janus whines lightly and pouts. "I am! I am! G'night!" That is all he says before hanging up, huffing loudly.

He shut his computer and fisted at his eyes. He's a big boy! He doesn't need to go to bed! Deciding since his daddy isn't there, he'll just color, for now, he would go to bed when he wanted to. He slipped off his bed and toddled over to the closet where he has his little gear hidden. Shuffling through it, he tugged out his PJ masks coloring book, and crayons before sitting on the floor. Dumping all the crayons on the floor, he laid on his tummy and began coloring, suckling on his pacifier.

That's the scene that Remus walked into.