"Just as long as you remember to include me in everything. We're partners. And I have more medical experience than all of you." He doesn't want Viktor isolating him from parts of it, especially if it's because it may be seen as a burden. Jayce has as brilliant a mind as the rest of them, and as he pointed out, he's the only one with healing and medical training. He leaned more into magic than Nadine, but he still went to the same classes as her. Speaking of. "Nadine is a good choice to get involved. I've seen her surgical training." Something Jayce wasn't as skilled in.

A lot of needing to be included on everything has to do with the trauma he had from knowing nothing about Viktor's illness until it was too late. Vik torshut him out entirely. He can't handle that again.

He lets Viktor take his hand and intertwine their fingers and he squeezes it. Jayce kisses his hair, nuzzling his nose there and breathing him in. Jayce will do anything he needs to. He doesn't care about compromising his ethics. He's already done that once. He understands that Viktor has more qualms though. "I'll try to make sure it's something we both can stomach."