Ship: Logince
AU: Elementary school cuz 10 y/os falling in love is the cutest.
TW: very much cuteness.

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[Roman's POV]

"I'll save you!" I shouted heroically from the roof of the playground where I had climbed.

"YAY!" My best friend, Patton, cried from inside the slide, where he was being held hostage.

I tried to shuffle off the roof, but, surprise surprise, I'm scared of falling.

"After I get down from here..." I mumbled.

"Oh, brave Prince Roman," Dee started sarcastically from the bottom of the slide, "You don't need a hero to save the hero, do you?"

"Shut up." I snapped, "I'm the only hero here."

Dee laughed.

Once I finally got down from the roof, I ran around the playground a couple of times, swinging my tree branch around like a sword.

"CUT TO THE CHASE!" Yelled Virgil, our brilliant audience.

"Perfection takes time!" I shot back, still running, "I must kill these beasts before saving the princess!"

"Princess?" Inquired Patton, "But I'm only 9?"

Virgil rolled his eyes.

I stopped at the bottom of the slide and pointed my sword at Dee. "You think you can get away with this, huh Dee?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about." He says smoothly, with his hands behind his back. "I'm just protecting the princess from people like you."

"Pshh, and how might I be 'dangerous'?"

Dee gave me a questioning look before pulling the branch sword out of my hands, "Swinging this thing around willg-knilly isn't dangerous?"

"OH GET ON WITH THE BATTLE" Virgil yelled from the park bench.

I ignored him. "I know how to use a sword!" I snatched the thing back from him. "Watch!"

I didn't look where I was going before doing an EPIC circle slash!

"Ow!" I heard someone shout quietly, before hearing them hit the floor.

"Yes," Dee said sarcastically, "you obviously know how to use it."

I dropped my stick and ran to where the person fell. He was pretty short for our age, and it made me wonder if he was even in 4th grade with us. He lay on the mulch, feeling around for something. I look over and see he had glasses.

And those glasses were now shattered.

"Oh. My god. I'm so sorry, little dude!"

"Huh?"

I grab his broken glasses and walk back over to him. I offer him a hand and he ignores it, sitting himself up.

Now that his face isn't covered in mulch, he's actually quite... handsome. His skin in pale, but his eyes are dark, dark brown. So dark that they almost look black. His hair is also dark brown, but not as dark as mine. It's ruffled from the fall. He's wearing a collared black shirt that's just the perfect size for him.

He catches me staring and gives me a questioning look before trying to grab his glasses from me. I yank them away, not wanting him to stab his eye with the cracked glass.

"I'm sorry." I say again.

He shakes his head. His voice is a little bit more boyish than mine, but he speaks matter-of-factly, "You didn't do anything. I should've been watching where I was going." He seemed to be speaking to himself more than to me, but whatever.

He reaches for his glasses again, but I, again, pull them away.

"Hey, lovebirds over there," Virgil said, "Nice that you have your moment and all, but can we get back to the show?"

My face went hot and I shouted, "I'm not playing anymore."

"Awwwww..." I hear Patton cry.

"May I have my glasses back?" The little boy asks me.

I shake my head. "They're... broken. I'm sorry." As if I hadn't said that ten times already.

The boy nodded slowly, before handing his hand to me. "Logan." He said.

I was puzzled at first, but then realized he wanted a handshake. That's weird. What 4th grader gives handshakes? Still wasn't sure if Logan was a 4th grader, he looked more like a 3rd or maybe even 2nd grader, but still.

"Roman." I said back, shaking his hand.

I used the handshake as an opportunity to help little Logan up. He seemed slightly shocked when I pulled him to his feet. He nodded at me and brushed some mulch off his jeans.

Man, every time this boy changes positions he gets hotter and hotter.

"Wanna play castle with us?" I asked.

Because as we all know, asking a boy to play castle with you is the sexiest way to get a boyfriend.

He once again looked a little shocked. Does this boy never play castle with anyone? "I- uh- actually I-" he sighed, before smiling at me, "Sure."

SCORE!

I grabbed his hand and he stumbled for a moment as I dragged him to my friends.

"Finally," Virgil said huffing and puffing from running, "I am not good at being the hero."

"Logan, this is Patton and Virgil." I said, pointing to them.

"What about me?" Dee said.

"Did you hear something, Patton?" I said, "Sounded like a mosquito." Patton laughed.

"Call me Dee." Dee said to Logan, ignoring my comment.

"Lo-gan?" Virgil said slowly, "The nerdy guy who got moved up a grade?"

OH that's why he's so small.

Logan nodded.

He's smart and hot!

I felt my face get hot.

"I thought he had glasses." Virgil said.

Logan opened his mouth to respond but Patton cut him off, "So you gonna play with us? You can be my sister!"

"Sister-?"

"Or my evil assistant!" Dee chimed in.

"Or an audience member." Virgil said, making his way back to the bench.

Logan looked at me, obviously overwhelmed. I shrugged.

"Can I be like a mage or something?" He asked quietly, and I smiled.

"You really are a nerd, aren't you?" I joked, but he averted his gaze from mine and frowned, "Not in a bad way, of course!" I said, recovering.

We resumed playing as we were before, but now Logan was at my side casting spells.

"Abra-cadoo? What does that even do?" Dee said once.

"Obviously it stuns you! Come on, Dee!" I shouted back, and Logan smiled at me approvingly.

I said something right, HURRAH!

Logan and I were about to cross the VINES OF DOOOM, aka the monkey bars, when Virgil shouted "Ohmigod, hurry up! Recess ends like like 5 minutes and I bet Patton is so bored!"

"Not really." Patton said, "I enjoy just listening to the brave pair fight."

I ignored them as Logan eyed the monkey bars worridly.

"Mages first." I said. He turned to look at me.

I tilted my head at him and he looked away, starting on the first monkey bar.

"COME ON MAGE LOGY! YOU CAN DO IT!" Patton yelled supportively.

He grabbed the bar with one hand, barely grabbing it. I realized it must be hard for him to see without his glasses. Maybe this was a bad idea-

He jumped and tried to grab the bar, but both his hands slipped and he started falling.

I grabbed his hand before he hit the ground.

His face went beet red, and he stared at me, dumbfounded.

He was so GOSH DARN CUTE!

I stared back at him, the smallest smile on my face. No doubt, my face was probably red, too.

His eyes wouldn't leave mine, and we just sat like that, him dangling from my hand, for a moment or two. It felt like time froze. At one point, he inhaled sharply as if he was holding his breath the entire time, at that snapped me out of the moment.

I strengthened my grip on his hand and reached down for his other hand. When I found it and grabbed hold of it, I pulled him back up. Once he was up about half way, I pulled his torso forward to help him regain his balance and climb up.

His face was impossibly more red than before by the time he was sitting beside me again. He was breathing fast and staring at the monkey bars.

I was about to apologize for making him go, but then he jumped up and hugged me. "Thank you Roman." He said, before pulling away and rambling, "If I fell I could've broken so many bones. Monkey bars are not safe playground equipment. I shouldn't have-"

"No problem." I said, cutting him off. "If anything, it's my fault for making you go."

"THE BRILLIANTLY BRAVE ROMAN STRIKES AGAIN!" Patton squeals from the inside of the slide.

And just like that, the recess bell rang, and students rushed to line up with their teachers.

I smiled at Logan and he hugged me one last, quick time before lining up.

Best

Recess

Ever.

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OH
MY
GOD

I LOVE IT
IT'S SO CUTE

I love elementary AUs so much and I'll never know why.

Published 3/30/20
Word Count 1489