Remus and Janus ran from the house, and into the woods out behind the house, both panting heavily. They stopped after a while, sitting down next to a large boulder, keeping quiet for a few moments.

Remus clenched his teeth, "Jan, can you relocate my jaw?"

Janus panted, "yeah" and stuck his thumbs in Remus's mouth, positioning his thumb on the back molars and putting his fingers under his jaw, "okay, one...two.." he put Remus's jaw back into place before he said three, a satisfying pop coming from it.

Remus yelped, "Janus! That hurt!"

"You know what hurts worse?" Janus asked with a roll of his eyes.

"What?" Remus questioned.

"A dislocated jaw."

Remus pouted, nursing his black eye, before remembering, "oh shoot we left Bryce!"

"Every man for himself." Janus replied, "plus, he's probably oka-OOF-"

Janus groaned as he fell over, Remus soon following this actions, both complaining because, ow.

"Took you two long enough." Bryce scoffed, rolling his eyes.

"Yeah, whatever!" Janus yelled, "why'd you have to do that? You just saw us get the shit beat out of us!"

"Revenge! I heard what you just said-would you really leave me? Every man for himself?"

Janus frowned slightly, "Bryce! We wouldn't, it was just a joke, an inside joke between me and Remus, we were going to come back for you buddy, I promise."

The lies slipped from his lips with ease, his face contorting into one of hurt. Janus leaned against Remus, grabbing his phone, checking the time, and smirking.

He got up, helping Remus's dramatic ass too, and said "come on!" And they began running to a path in the woods to catch up to him.

His movements slowed, "You guys, go to that spot out there" he pointed to an old wooden shack, "prepare. You know what to do—I'll get Patton" Janus smirked. It was turning night time. It was much easier to kidnap in the dark.

"Al-already? I thought you said a couple of weeks?" Bryce asked nervously, bringing his hands together to play with his fingers.

"Bryce. We can't have you jeopardizing our little plan" Janus said with a glare.

"You-you weren't joking? This isn't some sick joke..?" Bryce backed away slightly, "you're really going to..."

He felt sick. He was helping them, he had been roped in-god, he thought they were cool, he thought-

Janus inched closer, and all of Bryce's thoughts vanished as Janus's icy glare cut into his eyes, "you thought this was a joke?" He asked lowly. Bryce let out a slight nod.

Janus grabbed Bryce by the collar of his shirt, "you can not tell any one. You can't. Unless you want to know what happened to the last few people like you, your mouth will stay shut!"

Bryce gulped, nodding as his mouth went dry. He had always been that typical jock like asshole. Big role in the football team since sixth grade, popular, kind of a jerk-nothing too serious, just roughing up some people, a couple of names and pranks every now and then..but any sane person would know when it went too far.

There was a fine line. And this little plan jumped right over it.

"Watch him" Janus seethed, "i'm getting Pamela" he spat.

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Patton walked outside of Virgil's house, hoping to get fresh air.

He was thinking of all that had happened.

Did any of it really even happen? Was it all a dream? Could he wake up?

He wanted to. He hoped so bad that it was all just a horrible nightmare, because he just hated seeing his poor kiddo getting hurt...especially like this.

He leaned against the brick wall of the house, sighing. Would Janus really do that to him? Patton didn't know Janus very well, but he did know that Janus was a typical bully, roaming the halls of the school every witch way, hoping to find victims. 

He had proven to having Virgil as one of his main targets.

Patton looked up at the stars. They were beautiful.

"Hello" a menacing voice said from the shadows.

"WHO ARE YOU?" He boomed, not knowing why he did that, because that's not how you act when you don't recognize someone-

"It's just Janus, relax" he said slyly.

"Janus! Oh my gosh you should see Virgil-" he began, going on a tangent, trying to accuse him.

"I know how he looks. I was there when he did that to himself" he said coldly.

"You were?" Patton whispered. Now that he thought about it-he had been there. He even recalled him saying, 'emo freak cut himself!'

"Why should I believe you? After what I saw the other week-you were messing with him then, too! Logan has it on video!" Patton accused suspiciously, "Virgil told us what you did."

"Oh, is that what he told you? Blood loss must be messing with him" he said sincerely, slowly backing Patton into a corner as he walked forward, inch by inch, looking Patton in the eyes, as if trying to envelop him into a trance.

"I tried so hard Patton-I tried so hard to get him to stop" Janus said breaking eye contact to put his head in his hands. His voice broke too, and it shocked Patton so much that he began to believe him, "I grabbed him, I took his knife, I told him no but it wasn't enough, he ran from me, I couldn't find him!"

"Janus-Janus no, it's alright, come here-"

Patton went to touch him.

That was a mistake.

Janus smirked and immediately grabbed Patton by his wrist.

"Janus, What-" he tried to pull away, his heart pounding against his chest. He didn't like how Janus was looking at him.

Janus spun him around so that Patton's back was arched against his chest. He pinned his wrist behind him and whispered in his ear, "you'll make a fine little toy for me~"

Patton tensed up, feeling something warm and hard pressing against him. He felt repulsed, like he was going to puke, "w-what do you mean?" He whispered. His heart thumped against his chest. It felt like it was trying to get out of him, like it was banging against a metal door, like how he wanted to get out of this situation.

"I'm taking you with me."

Patton screamed, knowing he was in danger, "LOGAN, LOGAN HELP ME, HELP ME!-" he began to thrash, trying to get away. He was cut off by Janus slamming him onto the floor, pinning him down and sitting on top of him.

He ripped a piece of duct tape off with his teeth.

"LOGAN, LOG-" his cried were muffled by the tape that was slapped over his mouth. Janus grabbed his wrists as well, taping them together behind his back.

Patton's eyes were filled with fear, and tears ran down his face. His cries were muffled, and he felt like he was being suffocated. He began to sob through the tape, and kicked Janus away, scrambling onto his stomach and getting on his knees.

"Pamela you little bitch" Janus said as he got up, grabbing Patton by his hair.

Janus smirked, looking at Patton, on his knees, tears streaming down his face as his hair was being tugged viscously, "this position is going to get very familiar for you" he purred, making Patton flinch away in disgust.

"This shall be fun" Janus said, knocking Patton out easily, throwing him over his shoulder and running away.

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As Logan tended to Virgil, he noticed that the front door had opened and Patton had muttered something. It slipped his mind until about fifteen minutes later, he realized Patton had yet to return. "Hey where's Patton?" He asked worriedly.

"He probably went home, he'll be fine" Roman said, waving off his concern as he took a selfie.

"If your sure.." Logan muttered, turning back to Virgil, while Alessandra started talking about Patton, and worrying over him, throwing her pocket knife up in the air and catching it.

"You're right it has been a while! He didn't even say he was leaving he just said something about fresh air!" She fussed.

"It's fine!" Roman continued, before they heard something unusual.

Virgil immediately sat up, before Logan ushered him down, "you need rest."

Virgil grabbed his note pad and quickly wrote something down and handed it to Logan.

'It sounded like a thud, what if something's happening? What if they have him?'

"Who would have him?" Logan asked.

Virgil began to shake.

"Virgil, who?!"

A bang, and a shrill scream followed, "-OGAN!! LOGAN LOGAN LO-AHGH-MPHH-" It was hard to hear from the door. Logan whipped his head around.

"I'm going to go look for him! He said "be right back" when he went outside!" Alessandra yelled, pocketing her knife in her dress pockets, and walking out the front door, and said "I think i'll look for Remy too, he isn't back yet! And did anybody else hear that scream?"

"Yes!" Logan exclaimed, running to open the door.

She turned around when the door opened and saw Janus on top if Patton, knocking his thrashing body out. She was horrified when she saw him go limp.

"Hey!" Alessandra screamed, high and shrill., chasing after him.

"Get back here!" She yelled again, catching up to Janus and grabbing one of Patton's shoes from his foot, prompting him to stop.

"Get off of me lady!" He hissed at her, flailing his arms and shoving her down, and he darted away towards the woods.

"Gah!" She screamed, her elbows grazed by the harsh concrete. Logan rushed over to help her, was that Patton?!" Logan screamed.

"Logan-Logan go inside" she said getting up shakily, as she began to run, she called, "THE POLICE! CALL THE POLICE THAT WAS PATTON, YES!!"

She ran into the woods after Janus, and for once, Logan was at a loss for words. Roman wandered outside in a panic to bring him back inside, and Emile ended up calling the police while Logan panicked with Roman over the shoe that Alessandra had left behind, and everything felt so real.

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She fought through the pain of Janus's knuckles that had collided against her collarbone, and kept on running towards him through the thick trees. She watched as Patton's light up sketcher's turned on as Janus bumped them into a tree on accident.

She tried not to lose sight of Janus, but the thick trees covered up a lot. The rainbow light was the only thing that gave her any clues aside from his thick, muddy footprints.

A thorny branch caught on her hair as she tripped over a log, she could barely see-and tugged her back, making her squeal a little and try to get her hair off of the thick tree branch.

When she couldn't, knowing that her hair was stuck in the thick thorny branch, she simply got her pocket knife out, and cut a good half of her long wavy hair off. It was a horrible, uneven mess that matted up in the dirt and mid she had fallen in, but she was loosing them-Janus was so fast.

She ran deeper and deeper into the woods after them, "Hey, what do you want with him?" She asked loud enough for Janus to hear. And probably everyone within a sixty mike radius, she screamed very loud.

Janus just ignored her and ran faster.

"Hey! At least take him out of the bag! He could suffocate!" She yelled impossibly louder. She had noticed that  he had put him in one, probably for easier grip.

Janus once again ignored, and threw a large rock at Alessandra that he just happened to have, it hit her with all of it's force onto her leg, making her trip and slam her face against the dirt and tree branches in the forest area they were in.

"Ugh.." she groaned, getting up, and spitting dirt, and blood. She was pretty sure she chipped a tooth-but she had to keep going.

She heard a mean cackle, and suddenly, Janus was gone.

She breathed heavily, rubbing her face which was sore from the fall, and got up.

It was very dark now and she was lost in the woods. She crawled on the ground, using her fingers to try and find the footprints, but soon enough, the trail lead to a grassy path, and the footprints stopped.

The path was a maze, she'd never find Janus.

She began to get up, her legs shaky, she stumbled and fell. She pushed theough the pain, standing up, and limping through the forest.

She pushed past trees and branches, hopped over large rocks and random log as it began to rain, making it all the more difficult and slippery. Mud and grass and dirt stuck to her face, arms, and clothing. She continued to walk until she finally made it out.

One of the reasons she made it out was because of her long wavy hair that she cut off in the branches, and lwft over foot prints the lead back to the trail, so she knew she was close.

Her now horribly uneven and matted hair was soaked, sticking to her head like a rats nest.

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'Mom what happened?' Virgil signed to Alessandra immediately after she walked inside of the house, her hair ten times shorter than it originally was, she was bruised, breathing heavily, bleeding from the mouth, and really dirty in general.

'That mark on your collarbone looks a lot like that hickey dad left on you two weeks ago' Virgil signed with a smirk.

Alessandra blushed, shushing Virgil, then explained the situation of what happened to Patton to everyone.

"What does he even want?" Logan asked in rage.

"The little fella with the weird fedora punched me in the collar bone, then threw a rock at my knee but I think i'll be okay...and I fell and chipped a tooth" she explained.

"Here, let me see if anything's broken" Logan told her, walking towards her with medical equipment, "you are positively filthy" he said, "lots of splinters, bleeding knees.." his voice was shaky and his eyes puffy, as if he'd been crying.

"Logan you don't have to do this, worry about Patton, i'm literally a nurse i'll be okay" she smiled sadly, "He refused to let Patton out of the bag, i'm worried he'll suffocate...why did he bring him to the woods?"

'Oh no, they actually did it' Virgil signed, a panicked look on his face as he frantically tried to get everyone's attention.

"What? Do you know something we don't?" Roman asked.

'They want to rape Patton' Virgil signed.