The first chapter to the prequel to Falling Back In Is Hard. If you haven't read that one, it's ok to read this on, sense you know, it's the prequel. But reading the other one wouldn't hurt.

For the people who haven't read that one this is a really big AU. Like they're in space in the future and stuff kinda AU. but for them it isn't the future it's present time, for us it is. And I"m going to stop rambling explaining the time difference because I'm going to confuse myself.

So...read.

The Time Logan Came Out

"What?" Camille was flabbergasted at what Logan said.

Logan groaned. He really didn't want to repeat it. "Camille, I… I'm gay." He closed his eyes. The next thing he knew was a rash sting against his cheek and the sound of flesh hitting flesh. Logan looked up at her, tears almost ready to fall out. "You… you hit me?" Logan didn't mean for it to sound like a question, but he couldn't comprehend why Camille would do such a thing.

"Yes, you idiot I hit you." The next thing Logan knew was being put into a tight embrace. "Why didn't you tell us earlier?"

Logan gratefully returned the hug, letting a happy tear or two fall down. "B-because I just figured it out myself a few months ago." He paused. "I didn't want you guys to hate me..."

Logan's response just made Camille tighten the hug. "Me and the others could never hate you." They slowly pulled apart. "Does anyone else know?"

Logan shook his head. "No, not yet. I was going to tell the others, but I was going to tell my uncle first."

Camille gave him a nod and wiped away the few stray tears from Logan's face. "Ok, I have to go."

Logan smiled. "Ok, I'll see you later then."

"Yeah, bye Logan!" Camille called out walking down to the exit of the cafeteria.

Logan smiled. It was hard for him to come to terms with it, but he mentally prepared himself for this day, for two months. Yes, he suspected for a year, but the past few months made him sure of who he was.

His life on the Station was never an easy one, but thanks to his friends, it made it all worth it. He walked out of the cafeteria and let his mind wander. He'd been living on the Station for his entire life. He was now sixteen, living with Carlos and his parents. He was happy, even if he didn't have his parents, because he knew, that his family now was his friends.

He walked into the- well, you would call it apartment in the Station of Carlos' family. The place was fairly big, nice, and comfortable. They weren't rich, far from it, but they also had money. Carlos' father, Ted Garcia was the head of general security on the Station. And mother, Sylvia, was in the Stations communications area, as a specialist. Even when Logan moved in with them three years ago, they haven't had a problem with money. Since Logan moved in they became is pseudo-parents. They've loved him just as much as they loved him before his parents died.

"Logan?" Logan was brought back from his thoughts when he saw Ted and Sylvia looking at him. He didn't even realize they were home.

"Yeah?"

"Are you ok? You've been standing there for a few minutes." Mrs. Garcia said.

"Yeah, I'm ok, but I need to talk to the two of you. It's kind of serious." The two nodded and Logan took a seat in front of them. He took in a deep breath. "I'm g-"

He was cut off by the TV/Video relay device sounded off; telling them that there was an incoming video call. "I'll get it." Mrs. Garcia said standing up and answering the call. "Kyle! It's good to see you!"

Logan turned when he heard his uncle's name being called. "Uncle Kyle? What are you calling for?"

"What? Can't I talk to my favorite nephew without needing permission?"

"Actually," Logan smiled, even if it was slightly forced from the stress he's been feeling today. "This is good. I can tell all of you at the same time instead of separately." Two birds with one stone. Logan thought. "Guys… I'm gay."

It was silent. That much he knew. He looked up and saw the Garcia's staring at him blankly and his uncle on the tv screen, giving him a look. "Well, took you long enough." Kyle said.

"…what?"

That was when the Garcia's snapped form there trances. "Logan, sweetie, we've known." Mrs. Garcia said putting her hand on his shoulder.

He looked at them in disbelief. "What?"

"Yup," his uncle said. "All the parents' knew, we were just waiting for you to realize it yourself."

"How long?"

"A year, give or take."

Logan groaned falling on the couch and covering his face with his hands. "Wait," he said looking at all of them. "So you guys don't hate me?"

"We could never hate you Logan, you're practically our son." Mr. Garcia said.

Logan smiled and hugged the two. "Thank you." He said in the hug.

"Sooo… do the guys know yet?"

Logan sighed as he was released from the hug. "No, not yet. And there are still a lot of other people I need to tell. Like Gustavo, Kelly, Stephanie, Jett… the Captain."

"… sucks for you having to tell everyone." Logan nodded. He was used to the way his uncle acted. He actually liked that his uncle was so comfortable and laid back about things. "Wait! Are you telling us because there's this certain guy in your life?" Kyle said in a teasing tone.

Logan turned red, furiously shaking his head. "No, no there is not a guy in my life right now."

"Aww, well, when there is, I wanna meet him. Make sure he's good enough for my nephew."

"And so do we." Mr. Garcia said.

Logan reluctantly nodded. He knew they only said what they said, because they cared. "I'm… going to go do… something." Logan said walking out of the room and back into the corridor.

He still had people to talk to; Gustavo and Kelly, Stephanie and Jett- who were on living on a planet, the Captain- he really didn't want to tell the captain, Jo, Carlos, James… and Kendall. He didn't know why, but he felt like if Kendall rejected him he would feel far worse than if any of the others did.

He sighed walking to the elevator and down to the cafeteria where the others would most likely be. He just had a small bit of hope that Kendall wasn't with them. He wanted to put off telling him as long as he can. The doors slid open and he walked down the corridor to the cafeteria passing all the people he's been around his entire life. Would they treat him any different? He thinks not, but still has that small inkling that they will. Homosexuality has been in there race for centuries, since they only lived on earth, and the majority now didn't care if you were or weren't, but there was always that small percentage that saw it in a negative light.

"Hey Logan!"

Logan looked up to see Carlos waving him over to him, James, and Jo. Thankfully Kendall wasn't anywhere in sight. Logan gave them a smile and made his way over taking a set next to Jo, with James and Carlos across from them at the table. "Hey guys. Where's Kendall?"

"He's doing some extra training with my dad." Jo said taking a bite out of her sandwich. "Why?"

Logan looked at his friends with determination, but an underlying look of fear. "I need to tell you guys something."

"In a minute." James said, and then looked at Carlos with a hot dog in his hand. "Ready?"

Carlos grabbed his helmet his dad gave him- He kept falling down the stairs when they were ten so his dad got it for him-and tapped it twice. "Ready." He grabbed a hotdog and that was when Logan noticed a plate full of hotdogs in front of him.

"Go!" Jo said starting at an electronical stop watch in her hand.

The two started to hoard down the hotdogs in their throats, each trying to see who can eat the most in the shortest amount of time.

"Guys…"

"James has four and Carlos is five." Jo never took her eyes off the two, only sparring glance at the stopwatch every few seconds.

"Guys…" Logan's voice was cast upon deaf ears. He was starting to get frustrated. "Guys…" He said again, but again with the same reaction from the three.

"James you can't beat Carlos, just give up." Jo said. James was down by three hot dogs now. Carlos had a bottomless pit of a thing he called a stomach.

"I'm gay."

James choked on his hotdog, Jo dropped her stop watch and Carlos, it took him a few seconds to process what Logan said.

"…what?" Jo looked at Logan, completely forgetting about the eating contest.

James was still choking on his hotdog, and Carlos, was just staring at him.

"I'm gay."

"Oh." Jo said.

James finally recovered from choking and looked at Logan. "…you sure?"

Logan looked at his friend in disbelief. "Of course I'm sure! I wouldn't play around with something like this." He took in a deep breath. "Are you guys ok with it?"

James looked at Jo with a grin. "You owe me fifty bucks!" He said, hand out in front of Jo.

Logan looked at his friends appalled. "You guys knew!?"

Jo grumbled as she took out fifty dollars. "Yup, put a bet between me and James to see how Logan it would take you to tell us. My guess was in four months, but you having to be sentimental and stuff told us in three."

"D... does Kendall know?"

"Nope, only me and James knew, didn't tell anyone else, cause sexuality can be touchy subject for anyone."

Logan gave a relieved sigh and then finally noticed Carlos still looking at him. "Does it like… hurt?"

"What does?"

"You know… gay sex."

Logan blushed while James and Jo laughed. "I don't know!"

Carlos nodded. "I feel like the first time it would."

"Oh my god." Logan said putting his head down on the table ignoring his friends booming laughter.

"Have you told anyone else yet?"

"I've told Carlos' parents, my uncle, and Camille."

"What'd she do?"

"She slapped me."

"That's because she has a small crush on you."

"… I know, I just didn't expect a slap to the face. Maybe a 'you're an idiot' or something."

"Who else are you going to tell?"

"I still have to tell Kendall, but I'll put him off for later, Jett and Stephanie, Kelly and Gustavo, and the Captain."

"Why are you putting off Kendall until later?"

Logan turned his head away from his friends, still on the table. "I… I don't want him to hate me."

"Logan." James said patting his shoulder. "Kendall wouldn't hate you. You two are best friends, he'll never hate you. And if he did, me and Carlos would go and beat his ass."

Logan chuckled turning back to his friends. "Thanks, I need to go tell others that I'm gay." He said almost exhausted of this day.

His friends said bye and headed to the control room of the Station where the Captain would most likely be. He walked up to the steel doors and waited for someone inside to open it for him. He chuckled to himself, remembering the first time they had a problem with this door.

"Logie!" A seven year old Kendall whisper yelled. "Where are you?"

"Over here!" Logan hissed.

Logan didn't know why he agreed to this, but like always Kendall wrapped him into any plan he thought of. Currently they were trying to get into the control room of the Station. They were never allowed to go in and Kendall thought the only way to go in was through the vents.

They've been lost for the past twenty minutes.

"I can't believe you got me to agree to this Kendall! We lost Carlos and James ten minutes ago!"

"Relax Logie, they're probably alright."

"Or dismembered from one of the vent fans in here." Logan mumbled to himself as they crawled through a vent that lead to guess what? More vents. "You told me you had this place mapped out in your head."

"I do! I just forgot which way it is." He said in a small voice.

"Why do you even want to see the inside of the control room anyway?"
"Because, the captain never lets me go in with him!"

"So that's enough of a reason for us to go through the vents for thirty minutes and then proceed to get lost?"

"…proceed?"

"Yes, procee-AH!" Logan crawled down a vent that had a vent leading down to the lower floors and he didn't notice it in front of him.

"Logie!" Kendall crawled and saw Logan fall through a vent opening. He saw Logan on the floor back in the corridors. "Are you ok!?"

Logan looked up to Kendall then back to the ground. "…I need new friends."

Logan smiled at that memory; they were never be able to go inside the control room until Kendall actually asked. Turned out that Kendall never asked the Captain to go in there with him, and when he told Logan that, it was a kick to his shin then.

Logan took in a deep breath as the double steel doors slid open and in the middle of the large room was the Captain looking at a hologram of a nearby planet. "Captain?"

"Yes Logan?" He said never taking his eyes off of the hologram.

"Can I talk to you… privately?"

The Captain turned to Logan with a raised eyebrow. Obviously concerned, but Logan didn't notice. He was too nervous too. "Yes. Follow me." He said leading them back out of the control room and the short distance to his personal accommodations.

They both took a seat across from each other. "What is it that you wanted to speak to me about?"

"I need to tell you something."

"What would that be?"

"…ah-I'm gay."

The Captain nodded. "Is that all?" He said standing back up.

Logan looked at him perplexed. "Yes."

"Ok." He said nodding his head. "I will you later then." With that he walked out of his apartment. Trusting Logan one-hundred percent to let himself out. Logan and all the other boys have been in the Captains apartment many times since Kendall moved in with him. He was used to them being there even when he wasn't, and knew Logan was the most responsible out of the four to not break or ruin anything.

Logan was in a sort of daze after telling so many people and they brush it off as it wasn't anything new. He knew that in this time that people rarely very cared about sexual orientation, but he even prepared a speech about this being him and he wasn't going to change that no matter what anyone said.

He mentally checked the Captain off his list. That meant he only had Gustavo and Kelly, Jett and Stephanie, and… Kendall. He didn't know why he was so scared at telling Kendall that he was gay. He knew he wouldn't care, but somewhere deep down he thought that if he told Kendall, he would hate him.

Logan was brought back out of his daze, when someone successfully tackled him to the ground and land on his back. Logan groaned his face planted firmly on the ground.

"Logan! Logan! Logan!"

"What Carlos?" He mumbled looking up.

"Ma wants us back for dinner!" He said getting off of Logan.

"Ok."

Dinner was the only meal Logan and Carlos ate in their home, and with Mr. and Mrs. Garcia. They told them for breakfast and lunch they could have them with Kendall and James in the cafeteria, but were always supposed to come back for dinner.

"What did they make today?"

Carlos jumped on his feet as they walked to the elevator. "Tamales with fajitas!"

"Sounds good." He said as they walked out of the elevator and to the door.

Carlos ran in when the door slid open. Instantly smelling the food from the kitchen. Logan followed Carlos to the kitchen to see Mrs. Garcia putting the food on the plates.

When Logan got his plate from her he asked her a question. "Is it ok if I call Gustavo and Kelly, and maybe Steph and Jett, to you know… tell them I'm gay."

She smiled warmly at him. "Yes, just make sure to eat too."

"Thank you." Logan said walking to the dining room with her right behind him with her own plate. He put his plate at the table where Carlos and his dad were already having an eating contest to see who can eat more tamales before throwing up. He walked to the living room and brought back the S.T. to the table and called up Kelly.

It rang for a few moments until Kelly's face popped up on the screen. "Hey Logan!"

Logan was about to respond but was pushed out of the way to make room for Carlos and his tamale stuffed face. "Mhey Kwelly!"

She chuckled. "Hi Carlos."

Logan pushed Carlos out of the way and adjusted his clothes than gave Kelly a smile. "Is Gustavo there? I need to tell both of you something kind of important."

"Uh, let me go find him." She said walking away for a minute then coming back with Gustavo, dragging him by the arm.

He huffed when she let him go and gave Logan the glare that never went away on his face. "What dog? I'm in the middle of something important with t construction of this research base."

"I need to tell the two of you something important."

"What?"

Logan took in a deep breath. "I'm gay."

Gustavo raised an eyebrow then waved Logan off as he walked away. "Good for you then." He said as the noise of a door sliding closed echoed after him.

Logan chuckled. He wasn't that scared telling Gustavo.

Kelly reappeared on the screen with a smile. "Thanks for telling us Logan. Sorry, but I gotta go. I'm helping Gustavo handle the renovations."

"Thanks, I'll call you guys later then."

"Bye."

"Bye Kelly." The screen went black and Logan looked up, noticing all the looks on his pseudo parents and Carlos. "What?"

"Who you telling next?" Carlos asked sticking a tamale in his mouth.

"I'm going to call Steph and Jett, and then I'll tell Kendall."

"You haven't told Kendall yet?" Mrs. Garcia said speaking in a surprised tone.

"No… I'm scared he'll not want to be my friend after I do."

"Oh, Logan. You know Kendall wouldn't do that to you. You two are closer than any of the others." That earned a 'hey!' from Carlos. "He wouldn't not be your friend if you told him that, or hate you."

"I know that, but I just can't help but feel that when I do tell him, he'll hate me."

Carlos chucked a fajita at Logan earning his attention. "Stop that."

"Stop what?"

"Stop over analyzing this. It's plain and simple. Kendall is one of your best friends; he wouldn't care if you're gay, straight, or purple."

That earned a chuckled from everyone. The truth from Carlos finally seeped into Logan's brain. He knew Kendall would never hate him or choose not to be his friend after this. He has nothing to worry about.

"Ok then. Now I just need to tell Jett and Steph first. Then I'll tell Kendall after dinner." Logan picked up the S.T. and called both Jett and Stephanie. They both answered simultaneously.

"Hey Log!"

"Hi Logie!"

"Hey guys."

"Why'd you call? I mean it's great to see and old friend, but is something wrong?" Jett asked.

"No, nothing's wrong. I just wanted to tell the two of you something."

"What's that?" Stephanie asked.

"I'm gay."

It was silent until both spoke out, in unison like before. "Took you long enough."

Logan only sighed. The surprise of people supposedly already knowing he was gay was gone.

"How long?"

"Um…" Jett said trailing off. "A year? I think."

"Of course you would know how long I started to second guess myself about my sexuality. So I guess you guys are ok with this?"

"Of course we are!" Stephanie said with a smile, and then she became serious. "And if anyone else isn't I'm getting Jo to beat their heads into the ground."

"Yeah, and then I'll use my amazing weaponry skills and shoot them in the as-"

"Ok!" Mrs. Garcia said cutting Jett of and walking into the view of the camera. "I'm very happy that you two are happy with Logan coming to terms, but he needs to eat dinner. So, bye!" She said turning off the S.T. effectively cutting the call to an end.

It was finally after dinner. Logan was looking for Kendall, and was actually surprised he hasn't seen him at all today. They're always right by each others side.

Logan went to the only place Kendall would be at, at this hour. His room, in the Captains apartment.

Logan knocked on the door and a second later it slid open. He walked in and saw the Captain reading something on a S.T. on the couch.

"Looking for Kendall?" He asked never taking his eyes off the tablet.

"Yes."

"To tell him that you are gay?"

"Yes."

"He's in his room."

Logan nodded and walked down the short hall to Kendall's room. He didn't bother to knock on the door. He's been here so many times he's lost count. The door slid open to Kendall messing with his portable piano on his bed.

He looked up at Logan and smiled a toothy grin. "Hey Logie." He said popping out a blue gloomily lit rectangle from the back of the piano.

"Changing the battery?"

"Yeah, this one died on me." He said putting in a brighter charged battery in. "What's up? I haven't seen you all day. I went to the cafeteria, but Jo told me you just left."

"Sorry. I've been really busy today." He said taking a seat next to Kendall on the bed.

"Sucks. Ready for some training tomorrow with Jo?"

Logan groaned laying on his bed. "Don't remind me. Why do you even want me to take these stupid defense training classes with you?"

Kendall laid right next to Logan poking him in the side. "Because, if you get jumped I might not be there to save that scrawny white ass of yours."

"I don't like fighting."

"And if life continues being good you'll never have to use it will you?"

"Then why do I have to go?"

"Because I want something that me and you can connect with. And, I miss my best friend when he's not around me for two hours of the training with Jo." Logan blushed at that. "Don't tell her, but she can be a little bitchie when we're training."

Logan chuckled. "Everyone knows that, even her dad." Kendall laughed and Logan waited until they just laid on the bed in a comfortable silence to tell Kendall. He took in a deep breath. "Hey Kendall?"

"Yeah Logie?"

"I need to tell you something. It's really important."

"You're gonna die your hair green?"

"What? Why would I do that?"

"To match my devilishly handsome green eyes."

Logan scoffed. "In your dreams Knight." He said pushing Kendall a little, then became serious again. "But no, I need to tell you something."

Sensing Logan's tone Kendall stopped his teasing. "What is it?"

Logan sat up. Kendall knew something was off with Logan the minute he told him he had to tell him something, but this was worrying him. "Kendall…"

Kendall sat up to and put his hand on Logan's shoulder. "Whatever it is, I'll be here for you."

Logan nodded. "I… I'm gay." Logan closed his eyes waiting for anything to happen. And when nothing did for five minutes he opened them to see Kendall staring at him. "…Kendall?"

Kendall finally seemed to break out of his trance. "Y-yeah?"

"Are you ok?"

Even though Logan asked, Kendall knew Logan wasn't. He looked as if he was going to run and bawl his eyes out. Kendall smiled at Logan and embraced him in a hug. "You're one of my best friends Logan. Nothing, and I mean nothing will ever change that."

"Not even this?"

"Not even this. We're stuck with each other for life."

Logan smiled at the thought. For life.