A/n: DISCALIMER!!!!

I did the whole "you have to wait 24 hours until you can report a kidnapping" myth in this chapter, and i'd like everyone to know that you can 100% call the police before that time period! Time is valuable, if you're ever in a situation where you know someone's been kidnapped, go to the police no matter how short of a time it's been.

Stay safe!❤️❤️🥰

The next day, Friday, Patton called Alessandra to ask about Virgil.

Nothing. She knew nothing. Nobody did. The police were being considered, very heavily. She eventually did end up calling. Though, the police told them since it hadn't yet been 24 hours, it wasn't an emergency, so there was nothing they could do.

That was bull, complete and utter bull, and it made everybody angry, Remy was ready to flip his shit.

"What the hell do they want us to do?! Throw a tea party while my brother's probably being hacked to pieces in some old guy's shed?!" He growled.

Nobody had a response, and nobody had a clue what the hell to say.

"You know, the 24 hour rule really is shit," Remy went on, "not considered an emergency?!? This is how these situations TURN into an emergency!! If they'd deal with it right away, people wouldn't get so damn messed up!"

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The day passed solemnly, teachers asked about Virgil, the situation was told, and bullies and jerks laughed, commenting, "he was practically invisible anyways."

They tried to ignore the comments and the laughs, and it was easy since it was only a few people, most were very concerned, and word spread fast, everyone in the school knew by third period.

On their way to fourth period, they stopped by their locker's, all crowding around Roman's which was right next to Virgil's.

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Virgil woke up, his eyes watery, his mouth and throat dehydrated, and he was getting hungry.

He remembered drinking nothing the  day prior- and he was wishing he'd had more than half a banana for breakfast yesterday.

He groaned as he felt something sticky on the back of his head-he didn't reach up to feel it, for the fear of it being blood, so he sighed and dealt with it.

He wondered what time it was. He could see lights coming through the vents in the locker, but he couldn't hear anything. Maybe people were in class?

He waited a small while, until a bell rung and he suddenly heard voices-familiar voices. It was Roman.

Quickly, Virgil began to tap on the locker as hard as he could, but the halls were so loud, it really was a useless attempt. He heard Roman talking to Patton and Logan, and heard their voices get farther and farther away.

Virgil felt so cramped, and desperately wanted to get out. He began to shift for a more comfortable position, and shimmied around so he could turn his body backwards.

It took a long time, but once he finally turned around, be began to feel. He felt around desperately, he needed his phone.

When he felt the familiar box shaped device, he felt like he could've screamed for joy-he didn't, though, for the fear of being caught making a noise-but he wished he could've.

Anyways, so, he opened his phone and immediately went to his texting app, and went to his group chat since it was the closest to his thumb.

Killjoy: HELP ME

He typed, pressing send.

Why did he type that? He panicked. He should probably tell them where he is.

Killjoy: IM IN MY LOCKER

his finger hovered above the send button, and just as he was about to click it-

His phone died.

'Nonononononononono' he thought, panicking. 'Christ, now they're going to think I got kidnapped!'

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Roman, Logan, and Patton were working on their public speaking project, when suddenly they all got a text.

"Really? In the middle of class?" The teacher asked in annoyance, "the bell's about to ring, the phones can wait, continue your projects."

Roman couldn't help but look, he was curious, after all.

"OH my GOD!!" Roman screamed after he looked.

"It's Virgil! Oh my god!"

"He texted 'Help me!' With nothing else, oh my god he's still alive!" Roman yelled, texting back immediately, "Patton, call Remy!"

The teachers, all knowing about the situation, allowed this to happen.

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The bell rang and students began to file into the hallways, the noise and the yelling ensued, and Virgil began to panic. It was Friday. He needed to get out.

"Roman, i'm worried" he heard Patton say from outside as a locker opened.

"We're all worried Patton, something horrible could've happened!" Logan replied, nerves getting to him.

Virgil frantically turned around, grazing his head injury on the same piece of metal, gasping as he frantically started hitting the locker.

He coughed frantically, hoping the noise would alert someone. And it did.

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They began to walk away, shutting their lockers as they heard frantic knocking and coughing.

"...That's Virgil's locker..." Patton whispered.

"Virgil, is that you?!?? Cough twice for yes!!"

Two coughs followed, and a cry was heard as well.

"Oh my god-what's your combination code?!" Roman asked.

"He can't talk you idiot! Patton hand me that screwdriver!"

"Why the hell do you have a screwdri-"

"Shut up Roman!"

Logan carefully took the screwdriver, unlocking Virgil's locker and opening it.

Virgil's skinny frame fell out, landing into Logan's arms.

Virgil coughed weakly, fainting, knowing he was safe.

The last thing he heard was "is that blood?!"

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"Oh my god yes, it is! Call Remy right now! Patton get the nurse!" Logan called.

"Oh hell no, Patton's going to trip over his feet running and kill his child, i'll get the nurse!" Roman called.

At this point, people were crowing around, and teachers were looking at them in concern, running over and trying to help.

Virgil was on the brink of consciousness, and he was totally confused-people were yelling and screaming, freaking out, filming it, taking pictures, posting it on instagram and twitter-

It was loud. Too loud, too loud, too loud. He took a fistful of Logan's shirt-be was holding him- and tried to murmur "loud" in a dry, crackling voice. But all he achieved was a low gargle sound.

It didn't surprise him that he couldn't talk. Especially since there were all these people around.

Just then, the nurse appeared, instructing them to bring him to her office, so with the help of Roman, Logan picked Virgil up and brought him there.

The teachers began instructing students to get to their buses, and the hallways were filled with chaos, and talk about what the hell had just happened.

"Ella, check the cameras, yesterday's at about 3:50 or sometime around there, we need to figure out who did this" she said to another nurse, who promptly went to go check the cameras.

"So, any idea why he was in his locker?" Ms. Barrow-the nurse-asked.

"No. We left him yesterday to go get on the bus, and when we did, he never got home."

"Ooh, that's a nasty gash" she said, beginning to clean and disinfect his head wound. "That's going to be a really soft, sore spot for a few days-he shouldn't mess with it, he might open the wound." Ms. Barrow informed them.

"He needs stitches" she confirmed, "nothing too serious" she said quickly after seeing the worried looks on their faces, "nothing too hard, I can do them myself, he'll be fine. Also, it's been over twenty four hours since he's ate or drank, I assume, so we need to fix that as soon as he wakes up."

"I figured out what happened" the other nurse said after coming back in, "there was a boy who came out of the janitor's closet close by Virgil's locker, and he shoved him in, locked him in, laughed, then left."

She brought in the video footage and showed everyone.

"It looks like Roman" the nurse said.

"Oh my god, that's Remus" Roman gasped, "why the hell would he risk getting caught just to shove Virgil in a damn locker?"

"Maybe he was doing something and just so happened to see Virgil and decided "you know what? Screw it" Logan countered, "what was he doing in the closet anyways?"

"I ask myself that question every day" The nurse sighed.

"Wha-"

"Nothing, anyways, Remus?" The nurse covered quickly, "oh, he was all over the news a few weeks ago with his little buddies. They're wanted criminals right now!"

"We know. We have the rape victim right here." Roman told her, pointing to Patton.

"Oh! Whoops, yeah-"

"It's fine" Patton said.

Their now awkward conversation was cut short when Virgil opened his eyes, and Logan, who had been staring at him as if that would make him wake up.

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'Damn classes' Remy groaned mentally.

It was extremely dull, the only exciting thing that happened was him throwing paper at his friends Tyler and Sasha, who in return threw their pencils at him, which resulted in all three of them getting scolded, and being asked if they needed to be sent to the Dean.

The Colleges dorms were beginning to open back up again, after mandated cleaning, meaning the kids could stop living at their parents houses and begin to move into a college dorm with a roommate/roommates. They had already handed out questionnaires to begin the pairing system, and most of them were already turned in.

Soon into the class, Remy's phone began ringing.

Now, Remy had a really chill teacher, but the policy for phones ringing in that class was that you had to put it on speaker in front of the class if it rung. Unless it was personal or something.

Remy rolled his eyes when the teacher gave him the look, "it's just my brother's friend, can't be anything important."

He picked it up and put it on speaker.

"VIRGIL SENT US A TEXT THAT SAID 'HELP ME' AND WE'RE FREAKING OUT!!" Patton yelled.

"Holy shit!! I forgot he was missing! Did he day anything else?! Where is he?!" Remy asked, pure panic overcoming his features.

"Wait, your brother's MISSING?!" Tyler asked.

"Shhhh!" Remy shushed.

"No, that's all he said! We don't know what's up with him, but we'll text you back if we get anything else from him! Our texts back to him aren't even going on read, so he isn't seeing them!"

"Oh my god, what if he's dead?!" He heard Roman say in the background of the call.

"Hey! Don't talk about my brother like that!" Remy said.

"We have to go-we'll keep you updated though!"

"Bye Pat" Remy said, hanging up.

"...What the hell, Remy?" The teacher asked. All of the students in the classroom were looking pretty concerned.

Remy bitterly ignored everyone's concern in favor of taking notes.

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"We should call Remy" Roman said after Virgil fainted again from the brightness of the lights.

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Remy got another call.

He answered and put it on speaker after the teacher gave him another look-this time of concern-

"WE FOUND VIRGIL- oops, screaming, sorry-he's been in a locker since yesterday! Remus locked him in there!" Patton exclaimed.

Remy growled, "you're telling me Roman's dumb ass brother, shoved MY brother into a locker, and he was just in there for a whole night, and a whole day?!?!"

"At least he wasn't kidnapped like we thought he was!" Patton chuckled nervously.

"This isn't any better-well it is but still ohhh, hell no, i'm coming over there right damned now, and Remus is going to die okay?"

"Remus isn't here, he left after he shoved Virgil in the locker yesterday!"

"I'm getting the full story when I get there, tell me where you are over text, bye"

"Sorry Mr. L, I have a little brother to go make sure isn't dead, bye" Remy said quickly, running out of the class after grabbing his stuff.

The teacher didn't object.