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becomerobot ([personal profile] becomerobot) wrote in [personal profile] hexrot 2025-02-24 04:12 am (UTC)

[Oh. Oh no. Viktor's joy is quickly swept out from beneath him. Jayce realizing just the state he's in, remembering anything that happened to him before this- Viktor reaches his hands to take Jayce's. He tries to quell the shivering and shaking by gripping onto him for support and stability. His hands... they're so overlarge now, still thin and elegant, but Jayce always had the much larger set.

Viktor gasps, trying to not be frantic, but he's so worried Jayce will just... die again of shock or horror,]


You are alive. That's- That's what matters..! Steady... steady, stand by, please. I need you to stay with me. [a rattling of words, familiar phrases between them from back in the laboratory days. How many times had they needed to tell one another steady and stand by-? Too many to even count, so mundane were the phrases, but they feel so weighty to recall in such a dire moment. Let them ground Jayce, just a little, in Viktor's company and embrace,]

How- I-? I... reviv- [no, let's not use that word, something less magical and more medical-] -r, resuscitated you. Transfusion with my blood- and you still need it! Don't... pull at anything.

[Viktor pants, desperate to calm himself as well, seeing all he wrought upon Jayce. It's so much torture, isn't it?

Sometimes, death is a mercy...

No, there is no mercy in Viktor. He is cruel in this precise way. Jayce admitted he was, too. They are just the same. It is more truth than ever.]

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