Patton was almost skipping he way back home, holding Logan's hand as they crossed the street from the bus stop. Patton held a container of cookies in his hand that they had baked after Logan convinced him to bring some home to share so he wouldn't eat them all. They walked up to the porch as they spotted a woman walking out of the door on the porch next to theirs as she locked up and turned around. She stopped once she spotted them and smiled as they walked up the stairs onto the porch.

"Oh well goodness me! Would you be my new downstairs neighbors?" She smiled, her tired eyes crinkling as she did. She was older than them a bit Logan theorized, possibly closer to middle-aged then the boys were. "It's lovely to finally meet you!"

Patton unhooked his hand from Logan's and extended it out to her. "Hi there! My name's Patton!" He shook the older woman's hand and looked over his shoulder. "This is Logan!" Patton's smile grew and he giggled to himself. "He's my boyfriend!"

"Oh gosh, that is so sweet!" Logan blushed at the woman's words. "Well, it's nice to meet you two boys! I'm in a rush or I'd love to talk, maybe another time?"

Patton opened the container and pulled out a cookie to the woman. "Here! We just came back from a bakery, would you like one?"

The woman smiled as she accepted the treat. "Thank you, Patton! Sorry, I must be on my way. Have a good evening you two!"

Their new neighbor walked down the stairs before taking long strides down the sidewalk and disappeared from view. Patton smiled and looked over at Logan as he closed the container once more. "She seems really nice!"

Logan kept his eyes focused down the street before answering. "She never gave her name," he mumbled before looking up at Patton. "I suppose she was in a hurry. Now, let's get inside, shall we?"

Logan walked forward and held the door open for Patton who thanked him as he raced inside. As the front door opened, the sudden noise caused Virgil to jump away from Roman on the couch, pushing the other as he fell sideways. He scurried to the opposite side of the sofa as Roman had stumbled forward onto his feet to prevent himself from falling to the ground.

"Oh my gosh ROMAN! I have something to tell you!" Patton raced up to Roman who smiled back at the other.

"Patton! I have something to share as well!" Roman reached out to Patton and placed a hand on his arm.

"So Logan brought me to this bakery-"

"Virgil and I were watching a movie and-"

"-and we baked these delicious cookies, see?!"

"-yes, we ate that pizza thank you! So, Virgil-"

"Oh gosh, he's so good at baking! Anyway, we were talking and-"

"-completely surprised me and I got the chance to ask and-"

"-NOW HE'S MY BOYFRIEND!"

The last part of their sentence merged into one as they spoke.

"Wait, you're dating Logan now?" Roman questioned curiously.

Patton gasped and smiled up at Roman. "You two are dating?! Oh my goodness!"

"No, wait! It just happened!" Roman looked back at Virgil before looking over at Logan as he walked across the room. "How did you manage to get together before Virgil and me?"

"Well, perhaps if it weren't for your trepidation about asking out Virgil in the first place you two would already be together?" Logan didn't bother hiding the smug look on his face.

"Don't get ahead of yourself there, Lo." Virgil leaned back into the couch and placed his hands behind his head. "It's not a competition and if it was, you wouldn't win that bet."

"This is a fact, is it?" Logan walked over to Virgil and grew uneasy at how relaxed Virgil was. "So, the fact that it just happened here when we were already on our way home-"

"It didn't happen here." Virgil looked over to Roman before turning back to the nerdy roommate. "Paris, France in the late 1980's. Had to choose a time when CCTV wasn't as common, you know? Don't want people wondering why we just appeared out of nowhere."

"Oh my goodness, you took him to Paris?" Patton squealed in excitement. "That's so cute and romantic!"

"Wait!" Roman had a moment of realization. "So technically we've been together for 30 years in the span of half an hour?"

"Happy anniversary." Virgil's tone was heavy with sarcasm. "It's felt like it took 30 years, hasn't it?"

"We should celebrate!" Patton held out the box of cookies. "Anyone want one?"

Logan placed his hand on it and pushed it down gently. "Perhaps a proper meal before we eat even more sweets?"

Patton smiled and fluttered his eyes a bit. "Are you saying I'm sweet enough, Lo?" Patton snickered at Logan's blush before heading toward the kitchen. "Maybe we should finish unpacking so we can actually use the kitchen for once! We've been here a week already!"

Roman groaned but followed Patton into the kitchen. "I'm so tired of unpacking, do we have to?"

"We can have our first family dinner in the apartment! I can start cooking when we're done so the sooner we're done the sooner we eat!"

"Sounds satisfactory." Logan inspected the remaining boxes before his eyes flashed and they opened up. "If we divide the work evenly we should be done in no time."

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The days passed were uneasy at first. Everyone was in high spirits but the mood was unsure as they learned how to act around one another and their new relationship status. After Virgil growled out that 'nothing had really changed' between all of them, it seemed to fall back to normal. Roman still sang as loud as ever, Virgil made a comfortable pillow and blanket hideaway in his room for when things got too rough, Logan went back to making the chore schedule and reading through a stack of books and Patton and his pals made appearances to straighten up and make jokes.

It was their first chance at a 'family night' in the new apartment and Patton had been restless. He had prepared a dinner and even convinced Logan to make a dessert for them afterward to bring home from work from the bakery. Though by 'convince', Patton found the number for the bakery and called it up, getting the sweetest sounding woman on the phone.

"Auntie Em's bakery, how may I help you?"

Patton couldn't help but smile as he heard the older woman through the phone. "Oh, hi there! My name is Patton, I was calling to see if Logan was there? It'll just be a minute! I know he doesn't keep his phone on him when he works." Patton was met with silence as he waited for any sort of noise to come through the other end. "Hello?"

"Logan, dear!" Patton waited as he heard a shuffling on the other side of the phone. "Could you get me the pastry blender, please? Thank you sugar pie!"

"Are you taking an order? I can finish the dough for you if you need." Patton covered his mouth to stop the squeal of happiness that threatened to come out. He was so sweet and hardly ever spoke with such a soft tone! Also, had he just made a pun? If you knead indeed!

"Thank you, this should only take a minute." The slight shuffling returned before the voice returned. "Well, hope you don't mind we talk for a bit?"

"Oh my goodness," Patton whispered into the receiver. "You sound as sweet as frosting!"

There was a muffled laugh coming through the other end. "My Loganberry told me you were sweet but my goodness! What can I do for you, sugar? Anything I can do to help?"

"Well, I was calling to see if I couldn't convince Logan to bring home something for dessert. We're having our first family night at the new place and I want it to be special!"

"Oh honey, Auntie has just the thing! I think I have enough time to make a raspberry tart, you haven't lived until you've tried it!" Patton heard the phone clank against a surface as the phone was placed down. "Logan! I need you to run to the corner market and get the freshest raspberries they have! I'm making a tart!" The voice sounded a bit far away before footsteps approached the phone once more. "Honey, I want one thing in exchange for this, okay? You get down here next chance you get and we have a nice chat face to face! Logan won't show me any photos of you and I wanna see the pretty face that has him so smitten like a kitten!"

"Oh gosh of course! I'd love to! It was so cute when we were there, I'd love to come back!"

"Then it's a deal! It was nice talking to you, Patton dear!"

Right before Patton could give his own goodbye, he heard a bang through the phone. "Patton?" He heard Logan ask, his voice at a higher pitch. "You're on the phone with Patton?!"

"Not anymore, I was just saying goodbye!"

"Wait, Auntie no-!"

The second Patton heard the dial tone and his phone said the call had ended, he couldn't hold back his laughter. It wasn't long after that he received a small flurry of messages from Logan that he simply answered with hearts and smiley faces, keeping it to himself for now.

Dinner was quiet, Roman going on about how job hunting went before diverging off onto a multitude of other things. Logan kept glancing over at Patton who simply smiled back before taking another bite of his dinner.

"So, Patton," Logan called out in a brief moment of silence Roman had left. "About a certain phone call you had made today."

Patton looked up and smiled brightly at the other. "Yes, Loganberry?" Logan froze in place as Patton took a bite of dinner, ignoring the effect his words had on the other.

Logan took a moment before placing his utensils down. "Please, if we don't talk about this it will keep me up all night."

"Aww, Logan! There's no need to be worried! I wanted to see if you could maybe bring a few cookies home from work is all!" Patton looked over to the counter where a white box sat. "I wasn't expecting a whole big tart!"

Logan slid down into his chair a bit, forgoing his good posture for just a moment. "It's one of my favorite things, she usually uses it to bribe me into something."

"Well, I can't wait to dig in and try it out! I'll have to give her a review when I meet her later this week!" Patton ignored how Logan nearly jumped out of his chair at his words. "She probably has so many stories about how you are... what were her words? Smitten as a kitten?"

Logan buried his face in his hands and audibly groaned, ignoring the snickering coming from the other side of the dinner table.

A knock on the front door caught everyone's attention before Patton sprang up and walked out of the kitchen. "Just a second!" Virgil leaned back in his chair, watching as Patton walked into the living room toward the front door. He looked over at the other two and listened as the front door opened. "Oh, I'm so glad you could make it! Find the place okay?"

"Yeah, sorry we're a little early, is that okay?" At the voice, Roman jumped up from his chair and ran into the living room, stopping and smiling as Patton let in their visitors. "Hey, Roman."

"Thomas!" Roman looked over his shoulder at their second guest. "You brought Joan with you! Fantastic!"

"Yeah, they wanted to come." Thomas looked back and smiled at his best friend. "Said that this would be the last good chance to secretly reveal you're all murderers."

"Preposterous," Logan stated as he walked in trailing behind Virgil. "If we were murderers we would have had many perfect opportunities before this one."

"Yeah, well," Joan shrugged. "If you're going to kill Thomas then I want to be right there with him, to die in his arms so the last thing we do is embrace as I tell him 'I told you so.'"

Virgil snorted out a laugh before shaking his head. "You wouldn't even bother trying to stop us?"

"Me." Joan pointed to themself. "Against four superpowered humans? Nah, I'm better off embracing death metaphorically and Thomas physically. Seems much more pleasant."

"Oh, Joan!" Thomas placed his hands over his heart as he stared his friend down with loving eyes. "That's so sweet!"

"Yeah, way to make my secret plans of murdering you all mushy, gross." Virgil huffed with a smirk. "Guess there go my plans."

"We were just finishing up dinner!" Patton clapped his hands together. "If you're hungry then please join us!"

Thomas shook his head as he looked around the living room. "Nah, we just ate."

"Shame," Roman said before clapping his hands together. "More raspberry tart for us then!"

Joan pushed passed Thomas and headed for the kitchen. "Don't worry! I'll test it for poison first just to be safe."

Thomas couldn't help but smile as they all trailed back into the kitchen. "So, it's nice! A little smaller than your last place but it's comfortable."

"I can't wait to decorate it properly!" Patton started cleaning up the empty plates to make room for dessert. "I've been talking to Roman about a few ideas we had."

"Oh, Thomas." Logan turned toward the guests. "How has your memory been lately?"

Thomas shrugged and turned to Joan for a proper answer. "He's doing better. His short-term memory has improved but there are still random things he will have forgotten."

"Ahh, I see." Logan nodded before clearing his throat. "I was hoping we could put some time aside to work on your abilities when you had a chance? I have a few ideas if you don't mind."

"Aww, Logan!" Thomas smiled at the man. "You don't need to be shy! If you want to hang out you just have to ask!"

Patton reached over and wrapped an arm around Logan's shoulder as he pulled him close. "Yeah, Lo! I think it's great you want to hang out with Thomas more!"

Logan ducked his head as a blush quickly took over his face. Thomas gasped dramatically and placed a hand on his chest. "Logan, is that a blush I see?"

"Well, that is reasonable." Logan glanced up and smiled at Patton. "Seeing as my boyfriend is being overly affectionate at this current time."

"BOYFRIEND?!" Thomas shouted and stared at them with a smile. "Oh, my goodness finally! I was wondering when you two would get together!"

"You didn't tell him?" Logan asked as he turned to Patton, earning a shake of the head as a response. "Wait, so then does he know about...?" Logan pointed over to his other roommates as he asked silently.

"Do I know about what?" Thomas looked over at Roman and Virgil, watching Virgil turn away and Roman smile with pride. "Oh, are you kidding me right now?! You all finally got together and no one told me? Now we're the third wheel to your date night!"

"Come on, Thomas, that's ridiculous." Joan looked up at him as they spoke. "They were going to be the extras to our date night, now we're just all having a date night together."

They gathered into the living room as Patton and Two spread out some blankets and pillows on the floor. They all ate their dessert and gave compliments to Logan to give to his aunt as half the tart vanished in minutes.

Roman proclaimed that their first family night movie must be Disney before Virgil shot him down. They had watched a Disney movie a few days ago so the first movie had already been Disney.

"Well, that shouldn't count! It wasn't family night!" Roman huffed as he stared down at their stack of movies.

"We can watch Disney next time, Princey." Virgil sifted through the mess looking for something, not Disney. Roman's collection went up in flames at the last apartment so there actually weren't too many to choose from. "There are other movies that exist."

"How about a bet?" Virgil stopped and looked up at Roman with interest. "One line, whoever blushes harder loses."

"Alright, just let me pick my winning movie first then." Roman gasped in offense to Virgil's statement before they both stood up, staring each other down.

Roman reached out for Virgil's hand and placed it over his head. "Virgil, I would die for you."

Virgil smiled as a light blush formed on his cheeks. "Roman... I would live for you."
Roman blinked as the words set in and he pulled back, his cheeks becoming much more flushed than the others. "That's not fair, you can't just say things like that!"

"A bet is a bet, so we're not watching Disney."

Patton held up a case and looked down at it. "How about the Avengers?"

"First off, owned by Disney so it counts." Virgil scrunched up his nose. "Second off, a superhero film? Us? Really?"

Patton looked down at the case and shrugged. "Nice to see people you can relate to, right?"

"That's preposterous." Logan reached out for the DVD case and Patton handed it over. "First off, these characters are fictional."

"So is Sherlock and Doctor Who, what's your point?" Roman asked.

"Do we really want to watch a movie about people with superpowers when we are people with superpowers?" Logan questioned as he held up the case.

"Hey, I don't have powers," Joan called out from their spot they formed on the bed of blankets.

"No, you don't." Thomas turned to Joan with a completely serious look in his eyes. "You're Joan and you're pretty super. That's enough for me."

"Awww," Joan called out before turning to the others. "How about we watch it and mock how inaccurate they portray how difficult it is to use powers?"

"Oh, my gosh, Spiderman did just a good job at what can we watch that next?" Roman reached over and picked up the movie in question. He looked up and saw Virgil staring at him. "What?"

"How did I win the bet and yet we are still watching Disney?"

"Umm, because I'm awesome?" Roman was shoved back and fell to the floor. "Oh, my heart! You wound me!"

"Quiet and go make me popcorn," Virgil smirked as he set up the tv for their movie night.

"Popcorn, extra salty just like you?" Roman turned and got up off of the floor. "I'll be back in but a moment!"

"Oh gosh, why am I dating him?" Virgil muttered to himself, but everyone saw the smile he couldn't shake off.