Multifandom Oneshots

arcane ~ helping out (fluff) ~ jayce/viktor

A/N : Inspired by both a platonic Viktor/Mel fic I read as well as the art above, which was made by glitchxbee on Twitter. Takes place vaguely during season 1 after Jayce becomes a Councilor. Asexual!Viktor because I said so. Tw for starving. Not in like the ED sense, but in the "unable to feed self due to disabilities" sense... Also Viktor is a pescatarian

Ever since Jayce had joined the Council, Viktor found himself more and more isolated from his partner.

It seemed that Jayce was always busy nowadays, either attending to his new duties as a Councilor, or having intimate time with Mel. Viktor didn't mind the fact that Jayce was fulfilling his sexual desires through somebody else (after all, Viktor had no interest in that sort of thing anyway), but he found himself feeling lonely while Jayce was off having his "sessions" with the other Councilor. Viktor also wasn't entirely confident that Jayce and Mel's relationship was strictly physical, but that was besides the point.

Viktor was able to handle himself well enough- He wasn't completely hopeless in that regard. He'd had to learn how to watch over himself from a very young age anyways, having been orphaned when he was so young that he didn't even remember his parents. Being a child in the Undercity was hard (ESPECIALLY with his disability), but he'd managed a lonely but decent life down there, especially when Singed had temporarily taken him in for help with Rio.

However, as he grew older and his body withered away more and more, he couldn't help but find himself having troubles with some more basic tasks. Because, it was one thing to sit and work on the Hexcore. He just had to sit down and press some buttons- That wasn't taxing on his body in anyway. But when it came to taking care of himself, he found himself having a lot more difficulty in that regard.

Prior to Jayce becoming a Councilor, he would help Viktor out with those sorts of things. After all, the two of them were partners, so they could rely on each other even when they felt pathetic in doing so. Jayce would assist Viktor in more difficult tasks like bathing or cooking without question, and he never made the Zaunite feel too pathetic over it because he understood that Viktor just needed a little extra help with certain things due to his disability.

But, when Jayce had become a Councilor and stopped spending much time with the scientist, he realized how difficult life was without the extra help.

Unable to cook his own meals and too afraid to ask someone, Viktor found himself eating less and less. Thankfully, Sky would still bring him little snacks (as she had always done to show her appreciation of him) and he could still make coffee without issue, so it's not like he just stopped eating all together, but he definitely was eating far less than he was supposed to. This led to his already withering body growing even weaker, and he found himself relying even more on his cane each day.

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Jayce came back to the lab one day to find Viktor hunched over in his chair, working on the Hexcore with so much attention that he hadn't even noticed the Councilor enter the room. The room itself was dark, but the Hexcore illuminated enough to where Jayce could clearly make out his partner's eyebags and thin frame as he tirelessly worked away on their next big invention, only occasionally disrupted by some coughs.

Jayce sighed, a bit disappointed in himself. He'd been so caught up in his growing corruption into being a capitalist scumbag that he had neglected Viktor for a full week, only having a few very brief interactions with him throughout said week. Of course, he knew that Viktor needed the extra help (he wasn't that much of a moron), and he knew that Viktor would be too afraid to ask someone else for it... He felt bad for not providing Viktor with the attention and help he needed, and decided to try and remedy that to an extent.