[Jayce has made that clear many times over, by this point, not that Viktor is going to complain about it. He holds the embrace, and smiles against Jayce's neck, taking in the warmth and the closeness and thinking about how he could stay like this for a long time, listening to Jayce recount the years they spent together. How it doesn't feel like lost time, because of how close they were, regardless.
Viktor remembers all this--how can he not? The Hexgates were a staggering achievement, proceeding from the night in Heimerdinger's lab to industrial-scale teleportation in a little under five years. The sheer feat of engineering would put anyone in the history books immediately, but of course even that hadn't been enough for him. It's slightly bittersweet, thinking of how quickly he wanted to get back to work--Jayce wouldn't understand until later why Viktor had been so urgent to proceed, but if his sheer industriousness was just one more thing to love about him, well. Maybe he can accept that for what it is.]
There was--there's still so much I want to do.
[All the more reason they need to work together on a cure. All the more reason why failure is not something he can accept.]
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Date: 2022-07-12 08:25 pm (UTC)[Jayce has made that clear many times over, by this point, not that Viktor is going to complain about it. He holds the embrace, and smiles against Jayce's neck, taking in the warmth and the closeness and thinking about how he could stay like this for a long time, listening to Jayce recount the years they spent together. How it doesn't feel like lost time, because of how close they were, regardless.
Viktor remembers all this--how can he not? The Hexgates were a staggering achievement, proceeding from the night in Heimerdinger's lab to industrial-scale teleportation in a little under five years. The sheer feat of engineering would put anyone in the history books immediately, but of course even that hadn't been enough for him. It's slightly bittersweet, thinking of how quickly he wanted to get back to work--Jayce wouldn't understand until later why Viktor had been so urgent to proceed, but if his sheer industriousness was just one more thing to love about him, well. Maybe he can accept that for what it is.]
There was--there's still so much I want to do.
[All the more reason they need to work together on a cure. All the more reason why failure is not something he can accept.]