A/n: okay guys, I rewrote this one shot and feel like it's decent enough to post!

Tw: manipulative relationship

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Tears filled Patton's eyes as the words slipped past his boyfriends lips again.

"W-what?" Patton stuttered once again.

Damien glared at his pathetic excuse for a boyfriend, and sighing, said, "you heard me. You're not allowed to see them anymore. Your smiles are becoming more genuine every hour you spend with them. Your eyes are becoming more distant, more dreamy..you look..happy. I promised myself I would crush every ounce of joy you have. Either cut them from your lives..." Damien said, glaring.

"Or i'll do it for you."

Damien grabbed his knife. "What's it going to be?" He asked with an icy glare.

Patton backed up in fear.

He couldn't let Damien take his friends away again.

He shivered, thinking back to Emile and Remy.

They didn't deserve what happened to them.

It would be selfish of Patton to keep friends when they could lose their lives.

"I-i'll cut them from my life.." Patton whispered, obeying Damien again.

Damien smirked. "That's what I thought."

He spat on Patton and walked out, a smirk evident on his face.

"Wish I could cut you from my life.." Patton whispered to himself, curling into a ball, and crying.

Virgil came in through the window, and picked Patton up.

Smol boy.

He held him tight to his chest, and ran his fingers through his best friends hair.

"I heard everything. Don't listen to him Patton. We may not have been able to save Remy and Emile, but we can still save Roman and Logan."

"Okay.." Patton sniffed, "b-b-but how?"

"We need to find a way to get you away from him." Virgil pondered aloud.

A light bulb went off in his head.

"Patton, I know this will be hard. But, you have to show him you're not afraid. If there's no fear, there's no pain. He'll have no power over you. He manipulates you with the fear you show him. He gets into your head. We can't let him do that. So just pretend you're not afraid. Be strong, okay?" Virgil asked his friend, making sure he was okay with it.

"But-but what if it doesn't work? What if he hurts them? Or me? Or-or you?! Oh Virgil, I can't let him hurt you, you're the only person I can trust anymore!" Patton cried.

"Patton...look at me" Virgil said, gently grabbing Patton's chin and tilting his head up slightly so that he was looking into his chocolate brown eyes, "I promise you...I will do everything I can to make sure he doesn't hurt you. I'll be right outside of here, watching. Can you stand up to him? Can you get away from him?"

Patton nodded, still crying. "I-i'll try..."

Virgil smiled softly. "That's all I ask..now I have to go. Remember what I said. Bye." Virgil hugged Patton, before disappearing into the night, t-posing out of his window.

Patton smiled.

Damien slammed the door open as soon as the window shut and started screaming at Patton as Virgil glared at Damien through the window.

Typical.

Normal Saturday night.

Damien told Paton to "get over here" and grabbed him by his arm.

But, Patton stood his ground, and stubbornly hit Damien's hand away.

"No." He said strictly.

"What? you do not control this relationship!" Damien screamed, "I am superior to you! You will listen to me!"

"I said, no."

Patton spat out coldly. "We're breaking up. Get out of my house."

"Wh- Patton-" Damien began, being cut off.

"I SAID GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" He screamed in rage.

Damien scrambled out, screaming "you will never find someone like me!"

As Damien ran away, disappearing into the night, Patton whispered, "that's the point"

"Burn!" Virgil yelled from the roof.

Patton smiled and called to Virgil, who slid down the vine on the side of Patton's house.

Virgil called Logan and Roman, telling them what happened.

Everyone was confused as to what happened to Damien.

But nobody cared, as long as he never came back.

Virgil decided to wait a few months to help Patton recover before asking him on a date.

Virgil knew Patton liked him, but he thought it was too soon for Patton to establish a relationship after getting out of a bad one.

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Damien was walking through the streets.

Without Patton, he had nothing.

He had no one.

He was completely alone.

On the streets, begging for money.

Getting looks of either disgust or pity.

No in between.

Until one day he ran into a green and black clothed guy who looked a lot like Roman. He acted pretty dramatic and crazy.

Over time, they got to know each other very well.

Damien found manipulating him was rather easy.

Soon enough, they established a serious relationship.

One day, Damien walked into their house, making sure everything was perfect, and he walked up to his boyfriend.

"Okay Remus, we have a few...rules to go over.." Damien began to explain, smiling to his clueless boyfriend.

His boyfriend who knew nothing of pain.

His boyfriend who had hopes for a bright future with Damien.

His boyfriend that would soon learn what he had gotten himself into.

His boyfriend who he would break.

His boyfriend he would corrupt.