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[victus]

Viktor

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[kirammans]

[While this is not really surprising, this blatant confirmation would have made her heart leap in joy once instead of make it sink as it does now. It makes everything that's happened to Viktor, that potential, all the more miserable.

She's continuously grateful for the privacy of text, hiding the way her face twists as she thinks of every worst case scenario. It's a tragedy in the making.]

Knowing him, he wouldn't think you need to prove it at all. He probably thinks it's the other way around, actually.

[victus]

He does. [ It concerns him. ] I'm doing my best to convince him otherwise. He can be immovable when it concerns us. [ And he does mean to use "us." ]

[kirammans]

That's one thing you might have to be content with failing in. I don't need to tell you, of all people, how stubborn he can be.

[victus]

And yet, I won't stop trying. I owe him that much and more.

[kirammans]

[Well, she won't argue that. Not from her point in the timeline.]

Good. I wasn't about to discourage you.

[victus]

I would expect nothing less.

[ And because he can't help but fish a little himself — ]

Does this mean you approve?

[kirammans]

I want to believe you're the same Viktor I saw him falling in love with.

If so, then yes. I miss seeing the light in his eyes.

[victus]

[ He sits heavily when he gets that message. It's — overwhelming. Jayce had been falling in love with him before all this? Enough for Caitlyn to notice?

Viktor has to take a minute to process that. ]

Thank you, Caitlyn. That means a lot to me.

[kirammans]

You don't need to thank me for speaking the truth of the matter.

[Just don't go full end of the world on them or anything.]

[victus]

It was still nice to hear. I'd convinced myself for a long time that my feelings weren't returned.

[kirammans]

I thought it obvious.

You're both incredibly bright but also very dense at times.

[victus]

[ Hey. ]

Hindsight does tend to illuminate many things.

[kirammans]

You know what they say: better late than never.

[... well, usually. Cait is going to keep her reservations to herself. She's doing her best to shake her brain into understanding that this Viktor is not exactly that Viktor, who somehow became a danger to their very existence.]