Disclaimer: Do not own any of the BTR boys or company.

Pairings: Kogan

Warnings: boy x boy.

Note: I will be updating this story every Monday until October 31st, Halloween! It turned out longer than I had expected and I need the time to edit, but the story is already written so it will be completed! Thank you for all the reviews so far, your support is always the most bestest, wonderful, awesomeness ever!


This week on The Nightmare Before Love: Logan awakens in a lopsided world where he meets new friends with old faces. Things get complicated when he realizes...maybe monsters really do exist.


Logan.

Logan groaned and turned away.

Logan...wake up...

He shook his head and reached out a weak hand to push the voice away.

Logan...baby...

He frowned at the endearing term, and finally turned to turn and regard who the hell was calling him that.

Logan...baby please, please wake up...

...Kendall?

Logan's eyes shot open at that realization and was surprised to find himself staring into the green eyes of the boy he loved. He also realized he was staring at them from an angle that indicated that he was laying on Kendall's lap, wrapped in his arms on the orange couch from apartment 2J.

Panic shot through him fast and he started to breathe heavily.

"Kendall? What happened? Are you okay? Is everyone okay?"

Memories of the speaker hitting the stage and him falling into the gaping crevice stretched through his memory fast. Logan sat up quickly, then drew his hands to his own chest, feeling himself for any pains or injuries.

...Nothing?

Kendall shushed him and squeezed him tight, placing a reassuring kiss on his forehead.

What...?

"You're OK Logan." Kendall said, then paused, his smile growing wide, "I'm so glad you're here."

Logan blinked a bit, confused, then let out a nervous laugh. "Well of course. Where else would I be?" As if to prove Kendall crazy, Logan lifted an arm to indicate his familiar surroundings, then promptly dropped it when his eyes rested on his not so familiar surroundings.

The apartment that was once 2J had now become...the anti-2J. The Tim Burton's version of 2J. The Party Store's 50% off Halloween decoration's sale of 2J. Logan had become Santa's elf stumbling into Halloweentown, and he was pretty sure Jack Skeleton was holding him hostage.

"K-K-K." Logan stuttered, eyes wide at wide arrangements of cobwebs, cauldrons and pumpkins decorating the apartment in a haunted house theme. A weird hue of green and purple came from the lights, and he was pretty sure he heard snarling coming from the hallway.

"Um...so...I can explain." Kendall started lamely, rubbing a reassuring hand up and down Logan's arm when he felt the smaller boy begin to tremble.

"Explain?" Logan croaked out, jumping when he heard a loud screeching coming from the window, and saw the shadow of a gargoyle fly by.

"Explain!" Logan stumbled out of Kendall's arms, falling to the floor, then promptly jumping back up to walk around the apartment, breath coming in and out in short, hyperventilating gasps.

"How can you explain this? Where-where are we?" Logan shouted from near the kitchen turning away from a bubbling caldron to regard a nervous looking Kendall who had stood and followed Logan.

Just then Katie popped up from behind the kitchen counter, coughing and waving away some smoke coming from her baggy black dress. She was adorned in a black witch's hat, and her face was covered in soot.

Logan let out a shriek at Katie's sudden appearance, stumbling back and nearly tripping over a large pumpkin with a silly face drawn into it."Katie?" Logan asked, confused as to what he was seeing.

"Did it..cough cough...work?" She was rubbing her eyes and blindly walking towards Logan and Kendall.

Kendall grabbed a rag on the counter and batted his sisters hands away from her face, whipping the soot off for her.

"Yep! You did awesome baby sister!" Kendall said, squeezing his sister into a tight hug.

Katie finally opened her eyes, which were watering a bit, and took in Logan. "You sure I found the right one? It's kind of hard to tell when he has all his body parts together."

Logan took a step back in fear at her words. Body parts?

Kendall laughed nervously, regarding Logan with a shrug and said, "Yep. Its him. I can smell it." He turned back towards Katie and said, "Now. Not one word to mom okay? She doesn't know about this...and the last time we did a spell without her-"

Katie cut him off with a hand to his face and said, "I remember. We had to make spider and beetle pies for the retired vampires brigade. For a month. Don't worry. I got this covered."

She turned and headed out of the apartment, grabbing a long stick out from her black sleeve that nearly touched the floor.

Kendall was rubbing the back of his head nervously, and turned back to Logan who was inching his way back to the couch, fear etched into his eyes.

"Um..." Kendall began, not sure what to say.

"Please don't eat me." Logan whimpered, falling onto the couch and gathering his knees to his chest. "This is a dream. I'm in a coma induced dream after falling and none of this is real." Logan squeezed his eyes shut and muttered, "Wake up. Wake up. Wake up."

Kendall followed Logan to the couch, kneeling in front of him to grab his hands which were now covering his ears.

"Logan. I'm not gonna eat you. And this is real. I-I kinda had to borrow you from your world because I need a little bit of help with mine."

Logan's laugh was tinged with slight hysteria as he opened his eyes to regard Kendall. "Right. You just plucked me from my dimension and pulled me through to your own parallel universe...just for fun? That can't happen Kendall. It's not real."

"This is real." Kendall replied, and brought Logan's hands up to his mouth to begin kissing Logan's knuckles, breathing in deep.

Logan's heart stopped and he swore his breathing had ceased forever.

"K-K-K." he began, but couldn't find the words he was so entranced by this act of intimacy, which somehow managed to calm him down.

"I need your help Logan." Kendall whispered, his eyes gleaming with hope as he looked upon the trembling boy.

Letting out a breath to steady his still rapidly beating heart, Logan stated, "Okay. Let me just...think for a minute okay? Get my head wrapped around all this?"

Kendall nodded, "Take as much time as you need."

Taking his hands back, Logan rubbed them through his hair, casting a nervous glance around the room. "Um...so parallel universe. Duplicate Kendall and Katie...unusual amount of Halloween paraphernalia... Possible nervous break down?"

He turned to Kendall.

Unusual amount of familiarity from Kendall...

"Uh, so...wait...does this world have a...me? Another...Logan?" he meant it sarcastically, but was surprised by Kendall's wince.

"The Logan here...isn't like you."

Another Logan?

"There is seriously another Logan here? Oh God..."

Sensing another batch of hysteria Kendall was quick to jump on the couch and pull the boy into a hug.

"What's wrong with him. How is he...different?" Logan asked, not really wanting to but his curious mind wouldn't let it go.

Kendall sighed and said, "The Logan here is a lot like everyone here. Different, but we all fit into the same...mold."

Logan shook his head, "I'm confused."

Kendall sighed again and stood, pulling the other to his feet and bringing him to the window.

"Just...just don't freak out."

Logan looked down at the pool and realized that the Halloween theme continued throughout the rest of the Palm woods...most likely with the rest of this world. Across the top of the Hotel a sign glowed Palm Woodsylvania, flickering against the dark, starless sky.

Logan grabbed onto Kendall's sleeve in fear. Below him, amongst the steaming green swamp area that was once the Palm Woods Pool, roamed creatures that existed only in the fantasies of his world.

Monsters, ghosts, and ghouls mingled together. Logan could see in the far of distance where the park used to be, stood a cemetery. Logan could see hell hounds and zombies, monsters of all colors sizes and shapes. Creatures without any reason to their existence flew in the sky, their twisted shapes outlines by the large full moon that rested in the night sky.

Logan backed away from the window, trembling. "Take me back."

Kendall slowly edged towards him, "Logan..."

"Take me back! I don't belong here! This is-this isn't right! Please take me back!" Logan looked around the apartment widely, hoping for something to give him any clue as to how he could return home.

Kendall grabbed Logan's arms and pulled him close, Logan's body flailing like a rag doll. Logan briefly wondered when Kendall got so strong.

"I can't send you back. Not yet. I told you. I need your help"

"With what? What could you possibly need my help with?" Logan was so confused he was on the verge of hysteria.

"With my worlds Logan. With my Logan." Kendall answered in a growl, letting Logan go and looking away.

"W-whats wrong with your Logan?" Logan couldn't help notice that Kendall said my Logan. He would say he was confused, but that would just be repetitive now.

Kendall sat on the couch, pulling the reluctant Logan next to him. "I-I think...No. I know I-well...I'm in love with him."

Logan made a sort of strangled noise in his throat and could actually feel his blood drain from his face.

"W-what?" Logan squeaked.

Kendall turned to him, holding both of Logan's hands, "It's kind of a long story, but what really matters is the end part." Kendall shifted a bit, pulling up his long leg onto the couch and turning towards Logan, pleading with his eyes, "You'll get it once I explain."

Logan didn't think so, but he was still to stunned to answer.

"So...basically in your world you have versions of Carlos, James and me, right?"

Logan nodded, somehow stunned that there were actually a Carlos and James here as well.

"Well...here my friends and I are different, like Logan. We're..." Kendall trailed off.

"Monsters?" Logan squeaked again, casting a glance towards the window and hoping Kendall would say something else...like they were girls who are into gangsta rap.

Kendall nodded, "James is a Vampire. Carlos is a Frankenstein Monster and Logan...is a Zombie."

As if anticipating Logan's freak out, Kendall shot his hands onto Logan's shoulders, holding him down when he exclaimed, "WHAT?"

Kendall nodded and said, "So yeah. You see last year for a concert, Gustavo," Logan ran a hand through his forehead, Gustavo? "made a contraption to make us...not monsters. It was Griffins idea, don't ask me why. "

Griffin to? Logan wrung his hands together, trying to remain calm.

"Anyway, we became humans for a short while to perform the show...but the effects didn't last forever, and we became monsters again. And before I did...I...okay this is going to sound weird but I could...smell...everyone."

Logan shook his head, confused, "Smell?"

Kendall sighed and said, "Ya. I-my sense of smell is really strong and everyone has these scents. And well...before Logan turned back I got a good smell of him and...well...I realized he was kinda...sorta... my mate."

Kendall shrugged his shoulders and held up his hands in a 'what can ya do?' manner, smiling sheepishly at Logan.

Logan was stunned. "And by smell...you mean..." Logan paused, realizing that Kendall had skipped himself in the monster description's. "Kendall...what...kind of...monster are you?"

As far as Logan could tell, Kendall didn't show any signs of being monster...y. So what could he be?

Kendall glanced towards the ever present moon and sighed, "I-um...well..."

Logan followed his gaze, and swallowed hard. "No."

Kendall turned back to him. "I'm a werewolf."

"I'm afraid," He would start, and Logan would brush away his shaggy bangs and look up questioningly.

"Afraid of what?" Logan would whisper back, wanting Kendall to just kiss him already..

"Afraid...you won't want me...won't like who I really am."

Logan shot out of his seat again, grabbing a broom stick leaning against a rather large looking coffin resting next a counter with a crystal ball. He spun around and brandished it as a weapon at Kendall, holding it out in front of him when Kendall went to follow.

"What the Hell is going on here? Why was I having dreams about you weeks before this happened?"

Kendall gave him quirk of the eyebrow at the useless weapon and said, "Let me finish my story. We turned back, Logan. The machine only changed us for a little while. We went back to being monsters."

Logan took a step back, "You already said that! So what? What's wrong with that?"

Kendall sighed, "It's...when he turned back into Zombie, the smell was gone."

Logan shook the broom again, "Damn it Kendall you're not making any sense!"

Kendall grabbed the broom and pulled it out of Logan's hand in a flourish, and before Logan knew what had happened, he was pushed against the wall with Kendall's hands all over him, his face in the crook of Logan's neck, breathing in deep.

"The smell of rotting flesh isn't exactly the most enticing scent Logan." Kendall whispered to the frozen boy. "I don't mind it, because Logan's my friend. But-the wolf-he won't stand for it. He wants the human Logan. He wont settle."

Logan couldn't move, couldn't breathe. This was all to much for him to handle. Kendall being so close, touching him in ways Logan had only dreamed about before.

"K-Kendall?" Logan whispered, unable to stop the tremors of his body as Kendall ran his hands through Logan's hair, finally settling to cup Logan's face.

"I-I can barely control it Logan. The wolf...he can smell you and he wants you so bad. But-I know you're not the same Logan. You're not the Logan who I'm meant to be with. But...damn you smell like him. You look like him. It's-its to crazy."

Logan winced when Kendall said they weren't meant to be together, but he understood. He wasn't from this world, no matter how much he believed it was a dream induced by his coma.

"So...but what can I do?" Logan whispered.

Kendall held Logan for a moment before letting him go, clenching his hands to keep from reaching out to the boy again. "Katie and I figured out a way to bring you here using magic. But, before that, I had to make sure you were the one who could help me."

Logan let out a frustrated sigh, "Help you with what? What could I...a human," for emphasis Logan made bunny ears,"...possibly do in this crazy...dungeons and dragons world?"

Kendall shoved his hands in his pockets, biting his lip to keep from touching Logan to much. "I-I was hoping you could fix the machine. I want you to turn my Logan human...again."

Logan froze...again...staring in shock at Kendall's request.

"You-you want me to change Logan back into a human? What about-oh I don't know-loving him for who he is?" Logan was angered by the idea of forcing this worlds version of... well, him...into something else just to please Kendall. Granted, Logan loved Kendall, but that was just not okay!

"It's not just for me! I love Logan just the way he is, but I can't do anything about it because of the wolf! So for a year I've been trying to come up with a way for us to be together, but it wasn't until a couple of months ago-Ok let me explain."


2 Months ago...

Kendall stopped walking among the rows of headstones spread out through the Palm Woodsylvania Cemetery long enough to sniff the air. After a few moments he smiled.

Logan...

He was in full wolf mode, mind and body merging to create the werewolf persona he both loved and loathed.

He loved being werewolf because of its power and strength, which he often used to defend himself and his precious family.

Yet, he loathed this part of himself because it kept him from the one person he wanted more than anyone...Logan.

Speaking of the Zombified boy he longed for, Kendall finally followed the scent to a large tree near the edge of the park where Logan was standing under, yelling up at the bare, cobwebbed branches far above him.

"Logan?" Kendall asked, confused at his friends actions. As he got closer he realized Logan was sans a left hand.

"Kendall! Thank goodness you're here! Lefty's been abducted...again!"

Kendall smiled but bit back a laugh as he came upon his armless friend, following his gaze to a skeleton cat perched aloft a branch. He cat, sans skin and most of his organs, was purring happily as it gnawed on Logan's index finger.

"I can't get up the tree, but I didn't want to leave in case the cat takes off. What can I do?" Logan pleaded to Kendall, his eyes so alive among the rest of his dead body.

Kendall flashed Logan a smile, rubbed his raven hair for good luck and said, "Don't worry buddy. I've got ya."

In a flash Kendall jumped from his spot, landing on a larger branch next to the one the dead cat was on. In a swift movement, Kendall grabbed the hand from the cats jaws, enlisting a stern hiss from the undead feline as it clamped down harder on the hand.

In response, Kendall took a deep breath, then yelled, "ARRRG!"

The cat howled, letting go of Lefty, then jumping off the branch and dashing off into the woods.

Kendall jumped back down to his friend, tossing him the left arm, saying, "There you go. Good as new."

Logan began screwing his arm back on, offering Kendall a smile, "Thanks Kendall. That was really awesome of you to do."

Kendall placed his hands on his hips, a satisfied smile perched on his lips, "No problem." He was going to continue, but noticed that Logan was looking at his hands, frown adorned on his face. "Whats wrong now buddy?"

Logan heaved a sigh, and looked at Kendall with sadness in his eyes. "Do you...remember that time we became human?"

Not sure where Logan was going with this, Kendall followed Logan as he made his way to the base of the tree, slumping down and pulling his legs up to his chest.

"Yeah. What about it?" Kendall took a seat next to Logan, curious at his friends words.

"Do you...ever wish we could have stayed human?"

Gnawing on his lip in thought, Kendall wasn't sure how to answer. At the time, he would have given anything to be human to please Jo. But, now that he knew he could be accepted for who he is, he had never wished for it again except to curse his forced distance from Logan.

"I don't know. I'm pretty happy with who I am now. Why?"

"Because...it gets kind of old not being able to leave our apartment without having to chase down your body parts all the time." Kendall could hear the frustration in Logan's voice, and now understood where his friend was coming from.

"I know bud. But...you'll always have me to climb trees and fight dogs for you to get them back."

Logan turned to Kendall, cracking a small smile, "I know. And I'm grateful for that...I guess...I just wish I were human again. That's all."

Human.

The realization hit Kendall, hard.

If Logan was human...than that means...

He could hear the wolf rumbling in excitement as a plan began forming in Kendall's mind.


"S-so Zombie Logan...wants to become human?" Logan established from his spot on the couch, holding a cup of something that was steaming and smelt like ginger when he asked for a drink.

Kendall nodded, his excitement growing at Logan's finally understanding. "Yes. I wouldn't even dream of doing this if Logan was completely happy with being a Zombie. But it's what he wants. Ever since that night he's been...different. More withdrawn. He barely even leaves the apartment anymore he's so worried about getting torn apart. The only reason he's not here is because he's out with James and Franken-Carlos in case anything happens."

Logan nodded, taking a sip of the drink, then wincing as he swallowed the foul taste down. "Ugh. Okay. So now I get the why. But what makes you think I could be the one who can fix the machine and change him?"

Kendall clasped his hands and began rubbing them together, "Cause of the dreams."

Logan shifted uncomfortably, "The dreams? Like...when...the graveyard...and we..." Logan could barely finish his words he was blushing so hard.

He felt a hand on his cheek and looked up a Kendall who was smiling a mischievous smile, "Yeah. Those dreams. You remember we would talk for a while?"

Logan nodded, blushing.

"Well...I realized by talking to you just how ridiculously smart you are. All those things you built, without magic? I just know you can fix the machine. You just-you have to."

Logan shook his head and said, "Um...so about those dreams? How did that work anyways?"

"Katie's the only one who knows how I feel about my Logan. She's the one who cast the spell to help me find a way to bring us together."

Logan nodded his head, encouraging the boy to continue.

"The spell was called "Love's Labour." Kendall stood and walked over to the large book shelf that held a multiple volumes of various books with different color's and shapes. He grabbed a larger one near the top and pulled it down.

By the time he made it back to the couch to sit next to Logan, he had the book opened to a page, where in large, delicate cursive was the name of the spell, ingredients and instruction.

"Its for whenever there are difficulties between two people who are in love but can't be together, it help's find a way to fix things, despite the obstacles. She put the spell together, and after casting it, almost every time I went to sleep...you and I would meet in that Graveyard. At first I thought you were my Logan, but when I would see him later, he acted like nothing was different. That's when she and I realized you were from another world. And I realized that I needed to bring you here to help me."

Kendall got on his knees bending in front of Logan.

"So please? Please, please, please help me?"

Logan sighed, biting his lip in worry, "But...what if the other Logan doesn't feel the same way?"

Kendall frowned. "I've thought about that. I trust my wolfs instincts that Logan feels the same about me, but because of his decayed body it screws up the pheromone scent, and I can't be 100% sure when he is a zombie. But that doesn't matter. Logan is my friend and wants to become human. He needs help, and I will try to help him no matter what."

Logan considered this. From all the movies and TV shows he's seen about situations like this involving conscious dream like situations, he knew that he needed to see it through so his cognitive process would allow him to reach a conscious state.

Ultimately, if he follows this crazy yellow brick road he's on, he will eventually wake up.

"Okay. If I help you do this...can you send me back?"

Kendall smiled, knowing he already had Logan, "As soon as my Logan steps out of that machine with blood circulating, you are heading home."

Logan let his head fall into his hands. "Arg. All right. You win. What do you need me to do?"

Kendall jumped up and said, "First. You need a disguise. Don't want people getting you confused with my Logan. Luckily it's Halloween all year round here, so I have plenty of perfect ones you can choose from!"

Logan groaned at the mischievous smile Kendall held.


"Seriously Kendall?"

"It's perfect Logie!"

Logan frowned and crossed his arms over his chest. They were beside the Palm Woodsylvania pool...swamp? And Logan was supposed to be 'incognito'.

"I'm wearing only a handle bar mustache Kendall! Out of the millions of costumes here that are Halloween related, you couldn't find one?"

Kendall shrugged, "No one will recognize you!"

Logan scoffed and turned away, throwing his hands up in frustration, exclaiming, "Only an idiot wouldn't recognize me!"

He then came face to face with a vampire.

"Hey Kendall! Whose you're friend?"

Kendall turned to Logan with a satisfied smirk, which Logan only rolled his eyes at. His gaze landed back onto James, or Count James? Count James-ula?

"Okay. James, doesn't count!" Logan exclaimed

His pretty boy friend was dressed in a typical Dracula outfit. Over his shiny gold vest and black pants he wore a black an red cape. His mouth held fangs so white they matched his pale complexion. Yet, he still could out pretty anyone at the hotel, despite most of its inhabitants being hideous looking monsters.

"Oh um, this is...uh...Hortense!" Kendall turned back to Logan, who gaped at him incredulously.

"Seriously?" Logan exclaimed, not believing that Kendall was using his hated real name.

"Hortense? Really? That's such a human name." James said, pulling his cape over his face, leaving only his eyes revealed.

Logan cocked his head to the side, confused at Jame's action, when he felt Kendall grab his arm.

"Okay. Great. Well, we're gonna get going now. I'm just showing the new kid around so..."

Kendall began pulling Logan around and walking the opposite way away from James, but they had barely gotten two steps before James reappeared in their path, grabbing Logan's other arm and pulling him towards him.

"That's okay Kendall! I can show him around now. I just love it when they get...new blood here."

James's smiled widely at Logan, showing off his fierce fangs.

Logan audibly gulped and looked at Kendall nervously, whose face had grown dark with anger.

"James. Let him go." Kendall was breathing heavily, and his voice had lowered to just above a growl.

Letting out a small yelp, James let Logan go quickly, holding up his hands in defense, "OK! OK! You don't need to get all Cujo on me!" He turned back to Logan, pulling his cape over his lower face again, "Until...next time!" Then smoke blew up in front of him, quickly disappearing and leaving a coughing Logan and Kendall behind.

Logan looked around, stunned at the trick, until he turned behind him and saw James five feet away from them, cape caught on a bush near the lobby.

"I'm still working on it!" He exclaimed, pulling his cape free and stomping off.

Chuckling to himself, glad that something was still the same, he turned to Kendall and crossed his arms, "What was that?"

Kendall slid a possessive arm around Logan's waist and continued their path, "What was what?"

"Oh...you know," Logan lowered his voice to over dramatically match Kendall's from earlier, "James. Let him go." He finished with his eyebrows raised in question.

Kendall, who was looking around nervously, said, "I just-I don't like anyone touching you."

Logan's stomach clenched at those words and a silly smile adorned his lips. He barely even blinked when a ghostly Bitters hovered by them, glaring at them with his usual death glare and scowl.

"Um...okay."

They had barely gotten a few feet further when another figure jumped in front of them.

"Oh! Come on!" Kendall exclaimed aggrievedly, wanting to just get to Roque Records already.

Logan regarded the young woman in front of them. She had dark black hair, fierce eyes, and dressed almost like Laura Croft. She held two large stakes in each hand.

"Have either of you seen...a vampire?" She asked seriously.

Both boys looked at each other than back to her.

Simultaneously they pointed in opposite directions of each other and said, "That way!"

She quirked an eyebrow at them as they both laughed nervously at her dangerous expression.

"Uh. That way! He went that way!" Kendall exclaimed, pointing towards the cemetery.

She flipped the stakes back and forth, nodded, then said, "Thanks." before running in the direction Kendall had indicated.

"That was...weird." Logan said.

Kendall shrugged and resumed his arm around the boys waist, "That's home."


"I present to you, the "Hot Boy Band Machine!"

Logan quirked an eyebrow, but not at the machine Gustavo was presently showing off to him. The loud and surly producer had shed his colorful attire and shiny bling and was now dressed as a mad scientist, complete with white lab coat and black leather gloves. Logan has always been rather petrified of the man, but adding the outfit just made him more scary. He really was afraid to turn his back to him.

Gustavo had originally been wary of Kendall's explanation of Logan and his desire to fix the machine.

"And how would I know he really is a human Logan?" Gustavo had asked, rubbing his chin with a dubious expression on his face.

Kendall looked at Logan with a smile, who in return heaved out a sigh and ripped off the Handel bar mustache.

"Oh my gosh! It really is a human Logan!"

Throwing his hands up in exasperation, "Really?" Logan had exclaimed.

Gustavo had been more than happy to allow Logan to toy and tinker with his machine in his ridiculously large laboratory. The room was covered with test tubes and glass measuring cups, filled and bubbling with colorful fluids that steamed and smoked. Half made machines laid in parts scattered around the office, glowing and sparking with electricity and some other energy Logan couldn't identify. Shelves of jars filled with dark colors, shriveled hands, insects and small animals glowed ominously in the purple and green hues coming from the lights.

"I really don't know what to do with it. But if you can get it to work that would be great!" Gustavo exclaimed, dumping two arms full of tools, a shriveled hand and multiple jars filled with eyeballs on his work bench.

Confused, and a little disgusted, Logan began sorting through the tools, "I'm kinda confused. I understand why Kendall wants the machine to work, but why would you care?" He picked up a hammer made of bone and quickly dropped it in fear, his face twisting in disgust.

Gustavo grumbled, "Because Griffin and his ridiculous mood swings. Make them monsters. Make them humans. Make them hot girls who like gangsta rap!"

Kendall, who had been poking a rather large and scary looking spider with a stick quickly dropped it and exclaimed "What!"

Gustavo ignored Kendall and continued, "If the machine works I can change the boys to meet Griffins constant and ridiculous demands. Or just turn the guys into real dogs when they are aggravating me."

"Hey!" Kendall exclaimed again, walking over to Logan.

Just then Kelly burst into the room, also adorned in a large white lab coat. Logan let out a yelp and dropped one of the jars, which Kendall caught with werewolf speed before it could fall to the floor.

Kelly's hair stood a good foot above her head, and a sharp white streak lined up to the top.

"Hey whose this?" Kelly asked, pointing to Logan.

Both Kendall and Gustavo looked at Logan, who sighed dramatically and exclaimed, "Really? Not even you?"

He whipped off the mustache and rolled his eyes when Kelly exclaimed, "A human Logan! Wow did you get the machine to work again?"

While Logan put aside some tools that he deemed useful for his project, Gustavo relayed the situation to Kelly, which only went so far as to the Zombie Logan wanting to become human again. Kendall had left out his own personal reasons for it.

Suddenly, loud groaning and a series of crashes echoed out through the hallway, and Logan jumped in fear and hid behind Kendall.

"W-w-w-whats that?" Logan stuttered, grabbing onto Kendall's shirt and peeking over his left shoulder.

Kendall was about to answer when the door to the room fell to the floor, revealing a short man covered in green attire that matched his complexion, with nobs sticking out of his neck and his arms outstretched.

"Hey Franken-Carlos!" Kendall said casually.

"Carlos!" Gustavo exclaimed angrily, "How many times have I told you just open the door. OP-EN! You don't need to break it every time you come here!" Gustavo frustratedly stepped over the door to leave the office, with a smiling Kelly waving hello to Carlos following.

Franken-Carlos only shrugged, then turned to Kendall and moaned in response.

"Oh! This is Hortense. He's new to town." Kendall said, turning behind to regard a trembling Logan who was still hiding behind him. He ignored a small pinch to his side when he said Logan's hated real name.

Franken-Carlos grunted and moaned a bit, then said "Looks Like LO-GAIN."

Logan jumped from behind Kendall and exclaimed, "Really? He's the only one who see it?" Shaking his head in disgust at the apparently shared low IQ's of this dimension, he went back over to the workbench, adamant to keep it separating him and the monster resembling his friend Carlos.

Kendall walked over to Franken-Carlos, clasping a hand on his shoulder and saying, "Whats up dude?"

Franken-Carlos moaned and grunted some more, letting out a few understandable words. Kendall nodded, and Logan realized Kendall and the others could actually understand him. He could only shake his head at this crazy world.

As Logan was going over the blue prints of the machine, he distinctly heard Franken-Carlos moan out, "Jo."

Dropping one of the tools that he assumed with a screwdriver, except the tip glowed green, he whipped back towards the two, "Jo?"

Kendall turned to Logan with a nervous expression, "Um...yeah..."

Picking the screwdriver back up to point it threateningly, Logan said, "You're...not dating her still are you?"

Kendall bit his lip and rubbed the back of his neck as he took a few steps back, hiding behind Franken-Carlos, "Um...well...you see..."

"I can't believe this!" Logan exclaimed, turning back to grab the blue prints Gustavo had provided. He stalked over to Kendall and pushed them to his chest, "Forget it. Deals off." then stalked out of the room.

Logan was pissed. So incredibly, unbelievably, undeniably pissed. He travels to a whole different dimension, granted one that doesn't exist, and Jo still gets Kendall.

"Logan. Wait!" Logan heard Kendall call after him but ignored him. He stalked down the hallways to the mad house that was Roque Records, intent on findings his own way home.

In moments he felt Kendall grab his arm. Logan frowned. That had been fast..right. Werewolf speed.

"Okay...let me explain."

Logan ripped his arm from Kendall's grasp and said, "You know Kendall, you've been doing a lot of explaining...and you know what? It just keeps making things difficult. Now, I'm not so sure I want to help this worlds Logan become human just so he can be your side when things with Jo gets boring or difficult."

Kendall's mouth dropped in surprise at Logan's words. "That-that's not what I want for Logan!" Kendall exclaimed.

"Oh yeah? Then why are you still dating Jo then? If you're sooooo in love with Logan?" Logan could barely control his anger. He was so sick of this whole go between with Jo. Why did she have to ruin everything?

"Because..." Kendall started, then stopped and looked down at the ground, "Because...girls cry."

Logan was seriously confused. Girls cry? Everyone cries? What did that have to do with...

Oh.

Then it hit Logan.

Just like his own Kendall back home...Kendall hated being mean. Hated hurting anyone in anyway. Hated being the bad guy. Fake. Being someone who he just...wasn't.

Logan could remember when Kendall and he were 13 and Katie did something...he couldn't even remember...to annoy Kendall. Kendall snapped angrily at Katie, who in turn began sobbing. Logan had never seen anyone change gears so fast. Kendall had immediately gathered his baby sister in his arms, whispering sorry over and over. He spent the rest of the day treating her like a princess, trying to make up for his actions.

Logan sighed and ran a hand through his hair, frustrated at his predicament. "Fine. Okay. Look. I will fix the machine," Kendall's face lit up, "But only on one condition." Kendall nodded his head rapidly, indicating he would do anything.

"Break up with Jo."

Kendall's mouth resumed its previous hanging open position, before he said "What? I-I can't do that!"

Logan shrugged. "Normally I wouldn't even suggest it. But if you are really, truly in love with this worlds Logan, you are just stringing her along. And, if everything works and Logan turns human, you're going to have to break up with her anyway. Right?" Logan made sure to emphasize the 'right' indicating that Kendall had better not be thinking of trying to date the two at the same time.

Kendall kicked at the ground, mumbling something before letting out a sigh. "Fine. You're right. I'll do it." He began to walk away, but Logan stopped him.

"Hold it!" Kendall turned back to see Logan going over to Franken-Carlos, who had happily been watching the conversation with a blank face eating a board of wood from the broken door.

Kendall watched Logan slowly explain something to Franken-Carlos, before bringing him over to Kendall.

"Franken-Carlos is going to be my witness. Right?" Franken-Carlos grunted in response.

"If you don't really follow through, he will tell me."

Kendall sighed, knowing he was truly trapped, before saying, "Okay."

As the two walked away, Franken-Carlos turned back to Logan and exclaimed, "BYE LO-GAIN!"

Logan could only shake his head. This world was crazy.


Kendall trudged back to the Palm Woodsylvania slowly and grudgingly. Franken-Carlos was beside him, but Kendall had to keep him from getting distracted and wandering off to chase cats, people or dust mites.

Kendall knew that Logan was right, but it didn't make the situation any easier. It wasn't that he didn't care about Jo, the fact that he did made this whole problem harder. He loved being around the girl. She was fun and strong and cool about so many things. She barely batted an eye when he revealed he was a werewolf.

But...he didn't love her.

He loved Logan. He loved the little Zombie and how he always pouted when he lost a limb and would turn his big brown sad eyes to Kendall for help. He loved just hanging around Logan and how they could talk about anything no matter what topic. He felt so close to the undead boy and only wanted to be with him just every moment of every day. He wanted him so much...as did the wolf.

But...the wolf.

The wolf inside him felt the same towards Jo as he did. She smelled nice and her strength allowed the wolf to feel no dire need to protect her. She could easily take care of herself. But that was the problem. The wolf needed to protect. It was part of his being, his natural make up. He needed a mate who needed him...and Jo didn't need him.

But Logan did.

Speaking of which...

"Hey Kendall. Sup Franken-Carlos?" Zombie Logan had appeared before them near the swamp pool by the lobby.

Franken-Carlos grunted a hello and Kendall smiled, "Hey man. What's going on?"

Zombie Logan shrugged and said, "James said there's a new guy here and you were showing him around?" His voice held suspicion and slight bit of...Jealously?

Human Logan!

"Oh uh yeah he had to go do...stuff...anyways have you seen Jo around?" Kendall's heart beat a little faster by the slight disappointing look in Logan's eyes.

"Oh. Uh yeah. She's at the cemetery, practicing her lines." Logan rubbed his hands nervously against his tattered pants and looked away, a slight frown adorning his face.

Soon Logan. I promise. Soon.

"Thanks man! See you around!"

Logan gave him a half-heated wave and good bye, and watched as Kendall dragged Franken-Carlos towards the cemetery.

Logan sighed sadly and went to walk away when he felt a tug on his right arm. He looked down and saw Lightening gnawing on his arm.

"Hey! Let-ah let go!" Instead Lightening gave a hard tug and Logan felt his arm pop off.

"Not again!"


Kendall came upon his girlfriend at the cemetery. She was sitting on the edge of a headstone reading from a pile of papers stapled together.

"Jenny. I don't think you should go into that house. Old Man Jenkins said it's been haunted for years, every since...that night-"

"Jo?"

Jo let out a girly little scream and jumped up, turning to her boyfriend.

"Kendall! Oh you scared me! I was just practicing for a new episode of Scary Town High. I think they

kill of Jen's character." She flipped to the next page, "Yep...," Then paused, "They're doing what with a blender?"

Shuddering to herself a bit, she went up to Kendall and gave him a hug, which he half-heatedly returned. Sensing something was off she pulled back and gazed up at Kendall.

"What's wrong?"

Kendall sighed and pulled her over to a bench shaped like a sarcophagus and they sat down.

"Jo...this is really hard for me to say, and if I could change things I would...but..." he trailed off, unable to say the words.

"Kendall...what are you talking about?"

Kendall winced at the fearful tone in her voice. But he swallowed thickly and nodded. "I-I have feelings for someone else and it's not fair to you if I stay with you while I feel this way-"

Jo grasped Kendall's hands tightly and cut him off. "Kendall! It's okay if you think another girl is attractive. We don't have to break up because of that." Her tone held exasperation which matched her face.

Shaking his head and pulling his hands away, Kendall stood. Jo watched him, her expression now confused.

"It's not like that Jo. I have real feelings and...it's just best if we end things now." Kendall rubbed the back of his neck, unsure how to continue from this point.

Jo stood to, her eyes wide with surprise. "Kendall...you-you can't be serious! Please! Let's just...talk about this?"

She reached for him but Kendall took a step back, shaking his head. "I'm sorry Jo." Then he turned and walked away, kicking himself for being so damn bad at this.

Jo stood there in shock, not believing what had just transpired. After a moment she shook herself a bit and narrowed her eyes, anger evident. She crushed the script in her shaking hands, before turning and walking the opposite direction. "Oh no you don't Kendall."


"C'mon...turn! Move you piece of..argh!" Logan shouted and shifting his weight onto his left foot, he lifted his right foot against the side of the "Hot Boy Band Machine" as leverage while both his hands grasped the large wrench he was using to turn a screw nearly the size of his head.

"One...more...time..." he grunted as he put all his weight on the wrench to twist it until...

"C'mon...ah!" Logan yelled as the screw finally gave way, causing Logan to loose his balance and fall to the floor, the screw falling on him.

"Ah! Ow!" He groaned, sitting up and rubbing his aching head, regarding the screw with an evil eye.

"Why me?" He moaned, kicking the screw a bit and leaning against the machine with a sigh. "Why can't I just dream about Taylor Lautner instead of a werewolf Kendall?" He paused to heave another sigh. "Of course not. Me and my big brain." Logan grumbled the last words sarcastically, standing up to go over to the workbench were the blue prints were spread out.

"Gotta make it all complicated. Just a sexy guy without a shirt? Nope! Not for Logan! Gotta make a whole other universe with a complicated romance between zombies and vampires and...werewolf's."

Logan sighed again as he leaned on his elbows to regard the blue prints. For hours he had been working, following everything to the T- even recalculating complicated equations that might have been misconstrued. They were done by Gustavo of all people. But nothing seemed to be working.

There was even a large white board in the corner, filled with complicated mathematical equations that held the more scientific aspects of how the machine worked.

It didn't help he was tired, homesick and very hungry. When Kelly stopped by to ask if he wanted anything to eat, she had brought him a giant bowl of thick green liquid with something alive swimming in it. He accepted so as not to be rude, but hid it in the closet as soon as she left. The closet door had only stopped shaking a half hour ago.

"Can't even dream a normal relationship with me and Kendall." he mumbled.

"Thinking about me?" Logan jumped and turned to the door, regarding Kendall standing there with a smirk. He was decked out in mid-wolf mode. Tuff's of dark hair sprouted out from beneath his skinny black jeans and checkered black and red shirt sleeves. Also a thick coat lined his jaw.

Clutching his chest where his heart was beating fast beneath the white lab coat he was wearing, Logan breathed out, "Jeez Kendall. You scared me!"

Suddenly Kendall was impossibly close to Logan, that smirk now inches from Logan's own lips. "This is a Halloween universe Logan. Scareing's what we do best."

Letting out a nervous giggle, Logan swallowed hard and moved around from his spot between Kendall and the lab table.

"S-so how did it go?"

Kendall's smirk faded as he sighed, "I did it. In case you wanna ask Franken-Carlos he is currently somewhere in the building. Last I saw him he saw something, screamed "fluffy!", then took off down the back hallway."

Logan smiled at the mental image, then his face immediately fell when he regarded Kendall's forlorn expression.

"I-I'm sorry." Logan muttered, rubbing the back of his neck and feeling kinda guilty for Kendall's sadness.

Kendall shrugged and said, "It's okay."

Logan let out a frustrated sigh and said, "No. It's not. I've been thinking and...I really shouldn't have

pushed you into it and I had no right to do so-" He was cut off by Kendall's closeness again, as the taller boy pulled Logan into a tight hug.

Logan wrapped his arms around Kendall, returning the squeeze as he tried to convey his own mixed up feelings.

After a minute Kendall pulled away, but leaned back in to place a gentle kiss on Logan's forehead. "Don't be sorry. It was the right thing to do. I just-you know."

Nodding his head, Logan silently agreed. He did know.

"So." Kendall clapped his hands together and turned to the machine, "How's it going?"

For good measure Logan gave the side of the machine a kick and said, "It's not. I can't figure it out. I've pretty much rebuilt the whole thing again and it still won't work. It's like I'm missing some piece that doesn't exist."

Kendall frowned at the machine, trying to remember how Gustavo did it last time.

Just then Kendall heard loud banging coming from the closet. He turned to Logan confused, who in reply sighed and said, "My dinner."

Nodding his head in understanding Kendall turned back to the machine, muttering, "How did he do it...?"

"I'm back!"

Both Kendall and Logan jumped and turned to the door, regarding Gustavo who was walking in with some more tools.

"Gustavo. I need you to think" Logan exclaimed as a hello to the larger man. He walked over to him and took some of the tools out of his hands, "Run through the entire story again about what happened when you turned the guys the first time."

"Well...I just finished making party gifts for the concert-" Gustavo began, but Logan waved him off.

"No. The part where you actually have the guys in the machine."

Gustavo thought for a moment, "Well...I yelled at the dogs...got them in the machine...probably yelled at them gain...flipped the switch...lightening stuck it...then they changed!"

Logan blinked a bit.

"Lightening!" Logan exclaimed. When Gustavo nodded Logan ran frustrated hands through his hair. "Why didn't you say so? Lightening of course!"

He began walking over to the machine, rubbing his chin thoughtfully as his mind raced through the equations.

He was silent for a while, so long that Kendall, after a bit, hesitantly said, "Um...Logan?"

Suddenly Logan turned back to the other two, regarding them with a wide smile as he fist pumped the air, "We're going to have to go totally Back to the Future with this!"

Gustavo and Kendall turned to each other, both wearing confused expressions before shrugging and in unison saying, "Okay?"


Jo regarded the large black doors with hesitation. She had come this far, and wouldn't back down, but damnit she was scared.

The two large doors were made with some sort of deep black volcanic rock material, with freezes from Dante's Inferno etched along the length. Jo shuddered as she regarded the the tortured souls depicted in each frame.

She raised a shaking hand to knock, then jumped when the doors opened by themselves.

The doors gave way to a large room, with a ceiling so high she couldn't see the end of it. A long, thin red carpet led straight to a empty black desk, with the large, comfy chair turned away from her, facing the windows that spanned to the ceiling. The view was the spread of the entire city of Los Diablos. Beside the chair was a large fireplace, the smell of pork faintly emitting from it. The rest of the office was empty.

She tentatively walked in, squeaking out a quiet, "Hello?"

The chair spun around, revealing a grinning Griffin adorned in his deep red business suit. "Why hello Jo. How nice of you to come by. Please sit." He waved out a welcoming hand.

Jo felt her legs give way and she fell into a chair that had appeared behind her. She let out a squeak as it quickly began rolling towards Griffins desk, stopping just inches from it.

"So. I assume you're here about Kendall?" He asked, leaning forward to regard her with a smile.

She nodded, voice hard to find. "How did you know?"

Griffin sighed and leaned back in his seat, "Now now. We all know that I like to keep abreast of current events. Let's just say...it's good for business."

Jo sniffed a bit, closing her eyes as she stuttered, "He-he broke up with me."

Griffin's smile fell and he tutted a bit. "That silly, silly boy. Now why would he do a thing like that?"

Nearly on the verge of tears she answered, "He said he fell for someone else! It's ridiculous. I-I just want him back."

Nodding with sympathy, Griffin stood and walked over to the side Jo was on, placing a gentle hand on her shoulder.

Jo had to grip the edge of her seat and bite her lip, his hand burned.

"And you've come to me for help. Good girl. It's important for people to take initiative in their lives when things aren't going their way. To...reach out for a helping hand I guess we could say. And you know, I love helping people."

His smile grew wider as he leaned forward, darkness flooding into his eyes. "So. Let's talk about how I can help you."


Next Time on Nightmare Before Love: Logan and Kendall's plan starts to finally come together as they gather each piece and person they will need to complete their project. Yet, darkness looms ahead, and no amount of planning can stop a broken heart turned evil to regain a lost love.

xoxo BA