"Maybe we should google it?" Roman suggested, receiving frowns from all three of the others in the room with him. The four of them were staying late, deciding what they should do to get Logan out of the school.

"Oh sure, let me just search real quick for how to sneak a ghost out of our high school so that we can interrogate his murderer. I'm sure we'll get plenty of results for that." Virgil rolled his eyes, making Roman cross his arms and shoot him a glare. Virgil glared right back at him, only breaking the eye contact when Patton spoke up from beside them.

"C'mon Virgil, he's just trying to help. Maybe we can find something, you never know!" He insisted, always the optimistic one.

"It certainly couldn't hurt to try." Logan agreed, Virgil feeling his stomach curl in knots as he once again took Roman's side.

Virgil grumbled quietly to himself, but pulled a chair up to one of the library computers anyways. "What exactly do you want me to type in?"

"How to help a ghost leave?" Patton supplied, Virgil reluctantly typing it in. There were quite a few results which came up, and Virgil made sure to ignore the remark from Roman about this as he clicked on the first result. He scrolled through it slowly, allowing them all to read it and quickly realizing this was not what they were looking for at all. The page had suggested 'banishing' the ghost, which sounded unpleasant and not at all like what they were trying to do. They didn't want to prevent Logan from returning, just allow him to leave for a short amount of time. Looking through a few other pages led to the same results, so eventually they stopped looking.

"Any other great ideas, Roman?" Virgil remarked sarcastically, rolling his eyes once more at the glare sent his way. The four of them sat in silence for a few moments, thinking over anything else that might help them.

"Actually, I think I do have another suggestion." Roman spoke up again after a few moments, lighting up and standing instead of leaning on the table where the computer was. "So, I was watching this tv show once," he started, ignoring the scoff that came from Virgil. "And in the show, this ghost could leave the place he was haunting by possessing someone! So, Logan just has to possess someone."

Patton and Virgil both looked to Logan after he had finished, silently asking if Logan could do that.

"I... have never really attempted to possess someone," Logan frowned, looking distant as he thought about it. "I'm not even sure how this would work... and the fact that this is coming from a work of fiction does not give me hope of success."

"Well, the whole idea of ghosts seemed completely fictional before we found out you existed. Maybe there's something accurate in fiction, if they got at least that right!" Patton encouraged the idea.

"That is true," Logan considered. "And any ideas we have are worth trying at least once. So, any ideas on how exactly we should even attempt this? And... who exactly I'm going to be possessing in the first place?"

"What about me?" Virgil spoke up quickly, knowing Roman would probably jump at the chance if he didn't act first, and he hated the thought of Logan picking Roman over him. "I-I mean, we have known each other the longest, and I trust you so..."

"I think that's a great idea!" Patton agreed, grinning at Virgil in that knowing way that made his face flush. Logan nodded, lips quirking upwards the slightest bit at the knowledge that Virgil trusted him that much. Then he forced his neutral expression once more, and they launched into different ideas on how Logan could possibly manage to possess someone.

"Shouldn't you just be able to like... walk into him, or something?" Roman tried, and Logan shook his head.

"I've walked through people several times as a ghost. If it were that simple, I'm sure I would have possessed many people accidentally." Logan said.

"Well yeah, but have you ever done it specially trying to possess someone? Maybe it makes a difference somehow." He tried again, Logan nodding slowly and deciding to give it a try.

"You are sure you're okay with this, right Virgil?" Logan asked, sounding worried.

"I'm positive, L. Don't worry about it, let's just... give it a shot." He shrugged, offering him a small smile. He didn't expect much out of Roman's plan, but if Logan wanted to try it he would go along with it. He saw Logan nod, taking a step towards him and then another step through him. Virgil felt the temperature drop just as it had the day they first met, but even colder this time. Instead of Logan leaning over his shoulder to tell him the answer to his homework question he was stepping fully into him, and the cold air seemed to surround him. He shivered, pulling his hoodie closer around him although he knew it wouldn't help much.

Nothing happened for a few moments. The four of them stood in silence for that time, hopeful that something would happen, that it would work so they could finally have a solution, so they could go home for the night and worry about meeting the first suspect of Logan's murder the following day. Finally both Logan and Virgil let out a sigh.

"I don't think," Logan began saying.

"This is going to work," Virgil finished off, looking up at Patton and Roman to see if they had any more solutions. He found the pair looking at him expectantly, eyes wide, and felt confused. Then, his arm was moving without him telling it to, and he was pushing himself up out of his seat without thinking about it before.

"Virgil," his own voice said, although he wasn't the one to speak. "It... it did work."

"I-I can't believe it," Virgil said, surprised to find that it was actually him who used his own voice this time. He wasn't sure what he expected out of this whole possession thing, but everything he had ever heard about it made it seem like he would be entirely under Logan's control. Yet here he was, still able to move right alongside Logan. It felt more like sharing his body, rather than handing control of it over to someone else.

"This is... certainly very strange, but I am glad that it worked out." Logan said, feeling the same shock that Virgil felt. "This isn't what I thought it'd be like."

"Me either," Virgil agreed, gaining surprised looks from Patton and Roman again at this.

"Wait, so both of you are still talking?" Patton questioned.

"That's going to get very confusing." Roman muttered. Virgil could agree with him on that, for once.

"We should go and see if this can actually get you out of the school now!" Patton spoke up, remembering the main goal of this. "If this works, it means we really can go and talk to Sebastian tomorrow! We might finally get some answers."

Filled with a new burst of energy at the realization that things might finally start to make sense, the three students and their ghost friend gathered their things and headed for the exit. They paused briefly at the door, anxiety that it may not work lingering over each of them. Roman was the one to reach first to pull the door open, looking back to Virgil and Logan and gesturing for them to take the lead.

"After you," he said, and for the first time in years Logan took a step outside of the school building.

He made it passed the threshold.

I want to sincerely apologize to all of you who have been waiting so long for this book. I know it has been a long time, I've had quite a few personal things going on in my life with moving, and family, and lots of other things but I have finally found the motivation to get started working on this again thanks to those of you who have been patiently waiting and let me know how much you enjoy this book. I appreciate all of you, and want to thank you so much for being patient with me while you have waited! I'm going to try my absolute hardest to get updates for this book out at least once a week from now on, which shouldn't be as hard anymore since I've finally got an outline completed for this book.

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Just-thanks so much!! All of you! I really hope that I can make it up to you guys by keeping up with updating a bit more regularly. Life is still hectic, but I'm going to try as hard as I can. I appreciate every single one of you, and I hope you continue to read and enjoy this book as I update it.

Thanks for reading. Take care of yourselves. Love you all. Bye!-Bob