"Logan! Look at the sky!" Remus exclaimed pointing his arm towards it, making his boyfriend open his eyes; they were laying in the grass next to each other, looking up at the sky. "It looks like someone tried to use an almost empty bottle of mayo and squirted it all over a black canvas! Isn't it beautiful?"

Roman stared at them, slightly weirded out by the weird guy's comment, and even more by the way his nerdy friend just nodded, looking at him with love filled eyes.

Logan had never been someone particularly romantic, or emotional for that matter; but as much as he tried to hide it, the prince knew that even he wanted to experience real love. That's why he was so surprised when he saw him give in so easily to the idea of being someone's soulmate; it was such an illogical thing to do for someone as down to earth as he was.

The prince huffed turning back around and letting his gaze get lost in the dark woods. He felt like shit for the way he treated Virgil, but he did not regret it. As much as he had always dreamed to find his so called "soulmate", that was not what he wanted. He wanted real love. Not this.

On the other side of the clearing, the dragon witch slowly opened his eyes, groaning softly at the headache his crying session left him with.

"Are you feeling how you look? Because if so I'm sorry, you look like shit." Nyx said jokingly through the mind link, her lips contorting in some kind of gentle smirk as she tried to lighten the situation.

Her smile quickly fell though when she saw Virgil just nod slightly, his eyes avoiding hers. Lifting her head from his lap, the dragon softly licked the dragon witch's cheek, pushing her snout against it afterwards.

"Hey. Don't let the Royal Dick get to you. He's not worth it. As I told you when we met him, you can live without him. You don't need no man."

The chuckled sadly at that, leaning back against his best friend's warm body, still not saying anything and looking up at the sky.

After a few minutes Patton's small laugh draw his attention, making him peak from behind Nyx to see the reason of his laughter; the cheery guy was giggling as Diego, Janus' daimon, was gently snuggling his neck, tickling him gently every time his tongue flicked out. With a big smile on his face, the small guy raised his hand, running it over the snake's smooth skin.

It was then that Janus, who up until that moment had been sitting by the fire, glaring slightly at the duo as he spoke to Remy, sprang to his feet.

"Don't touch him." He said suddenly, making Patton immediately jump and take his hands away from the daimon. His voice had been low and angry, but the cheery guy immediately noticed the scared look in his eyes as he quickly approached him.

Virgil's eyes widened when he saw Diego immediately raise taller from Patton's shoulders, hissing at his owner who immediately stopped and took a small step back, surprised and hurt. Apparently he was not the only one having trouble with his soulmate.

"Diego! You shouldn't hiss at him! He's your best friend!" Patton scolded, his voice stern but soft. He had to fight back a smile when the snake turned back to him wide eyed looking as if he wanted to protest. "And no, don't look at me like that. I don't care if you were standing up for me, you should say sorry."

Janus watched with wide eyes as his own daimon looked at a boy he had for not even a day, hissing gently as if to complain about the request.

"Diego." Patton said warningly, making the snake look down grumpily as he slithered towards his owner.

The man just stayed still, as he watched the small man in front of him smile as his daimon went up to him, climbing on his leg and curling around his neck hugging him gently. He observed surprised as Patton shot him a sweet smile, as if he didn't just glared at him for the whole night and yelled at him to not touch his daimon. Still, he quickly covered his surprise, and shot a glare towards the guy, slowly making his smile disappear.

Virgil could hear Nyx growl lowly, he knew how close she was to Patton and the fact that someone was making him feel bad just for being a small sweet bean; but before she could intervene, Diego once again hissed and climbed down from Janus, who let his shocked expression only show for a second before just rolling his eyes and walking away.

The snake went back to Patton who looked at him with a sad look in his eyes.

"You know you shouldn't have done that. He looked upset when he walked away!" The animal once again hissed, more gently this time, but letting the guy know his frustration. The sweet guy just shook his head. "He is allowed to not like me Diego. After all he doesn't know me and all of a sudden, his best friend started to only hang out with me and hissing at him. I understand why he wouldn't like me, I shouldn't have kept you all to myself."

The snake wrapped himself around Patton a little tighter as if giving him a hug to try and comfort him.

"You didn't do anything wrong Patt." Virgil said, not even realizing he was talking until he heard his slightly hoarse voice come out of his mouth. The cheery guy looked up at him surprised, not knowing he was awake, before offering a small smile, his hand slowly caressing the snake's skin.

"He was just acting like asshole." He concluded.

"Language." Both his friend and Nyx said at the same time, reminding him he was still in the presence of the mom and dad friends, but still receiving noises of agreement from both of the daimons.

There were a few seconds of silence before Patton looked back up towards the dragon witch, who had climbed on his dragon's back to sleep more comfortably.

"For what it's worth kiddo, Roman too was just acting like a... like a b-hole today." He said, his voice gentle and his voice soft.

Virgil didn't meet his gaze, keeping his eyes fixed on the sky as he felt the thousandth lump of the day form in his throat.

"Maybe he just doesn't feel the same. I mean, I wouldn't blame him. Who would want to be with a guy who hid in the woods for almost his whole life and has a dragon as his best friend? I wouldn't like me eith- OW! Was that really necessary Nyx?!" He whispered-yelled, rubbing the spot on his head where his dragon had hit him and glaring at her.

But instead of being her voice answering him, it was Patton's.

"Yes. Yes it was, Virgil. Don't you dare talk bad about yourself or I will not hesitate to physically fight you." He said, his voice stern and serious as he looked right into the dragon witch's wide eyes. "You are an amazing person and if Roman really decides to keep acting like a stubborn kid, then it's his loos. But I have known the prince for years now, and if there's something I know for sure is that his biggest dream is to meet his soulmate. Whatever it is the reason for him to acting the way he is, I'm sure he'll come around to apologize."

"He better, or his kingdom will have a roasted chicken wing for a leader." Nyx grumbled, laying her head down and shooting a death glare towards the royal persona who was seemingly sleeping on the other side of the clearing and making Virgil snort a small laugh.

At Patton words he could feel a glimmer of hope spark inside of him. Maybe the sweet man was right, maybe Roman was just shocked from the news. After all, that was not how he planned to tell him.

"Thank you, Patt." He said, offering him a small grateful smile. "Now it's better if we get some rest. Tomorrow we'll have to go back to walking towards the kingdom if we want to get there fast."

Patton just nodded, giving one last scratch on Diego's small head before telling him to go to Janus and make up; then, both ignoring the small hiss of protest let out from the reptile slithering towards the bonfire, they bid each other good night.

Hello! Here's the new chapter! I hope you enjoy! I know Roman has still to explain his words and feelings and I promise it will happen! just wanted to give a little bit of insights in the other relationships, especially the one between Patton and Janus, since it was the only one I still had to mention.

Now, im not about to make promises that I can't keep, but I will say that I will try to get another chapter out before the end of the week. I have most of the dialogue ready and I just have to plant my ass on the chair and write what is left of the chapter. so yeah, we'll see lol.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the chapter, let me know what you think is going to happen next! As always feel free to point out any mistakes/ typos you may find, so that I can edit the chapter!

Stay safe!

Bye,

Ali c: