𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐓𝐎 ☹︎ VIKTOR ARCANE

CH 8. A TOUGH DECISION

" THE WORLD NEEDS YOU AND SO DO I ",

Y/N had come back to her home, feeling exhausted she dropped her things and went straight to bed. Not even realising the number of things happening back in the lab. But her heart did ache for some reason...

She was in her favourite clothes to sleep in as she stares at the ceiling above her, she wondered what Viktor was doing right now, she rolls her eyes at the image of him working himself to sleep. Yea obviously Y/N does that sometimes too but she doesn't do it daily to the point where her bedroom IS her workspace. Unlike a little victorian guy she knows.

Y/N rolls to her side, she stares at her hands as she brings them to her face. The tears finally decided to come, huh? She felt the tears drip down onto her pillow. She saw herself in those kids, living in poverty as she tries to find work for enough money to last her the whole week. She never felt such strong feelings like this for anyone except Viktor-- but that doesn't matter right now. She needs to at least smuggle them food and water, they seem like they haven't eaten in so long.

And... who is Silco?

As she thinks all these things she closes her eyes and lets herself get swallowed in this intense feeling of not being good enough-- which, combined with exhaustion can make anyone just pass out. And that's what happened with Y/N.

...

The morning came and Y/N could only just groan as the light hit her eyes, she likes the night sky peer into her room as a source of light so it's not always dark. But she hates when this happens in the morning. Mornings like these make her feel like she went to a hangover, feeling her head and groaning more at the headache, she didn't even drink more than 1 shot of that strong stuff.

After half an hour she finally decides to get up, going to take a shower and running to the lab with breakfast in her mouth. She arrived but she didn't see Viktor, but she did see Jayce. "Morning Jayce-- hey where's Viktor? He's usually always here", Jayce's facial expressions turn grim as he turns to look at Y/N.

"He's- in the hospital", Y/N's eyes widened. "What?! Where?! Where is the hospital?!", Y/N grabbed Jayce and followed him to the room.

Y/N knew that this would happen someday, but not this early, she never wanted him to die like this. God, why did it have to be him that contracted a disease from that stupid ravine they would go to as kids?! Why couldn't it be Y/N?! She could take it! She really could! Singed would always commend Y/N for having such a strong immune system. But... that was when they were kids. This is now. They are in their late 20s, wishing a new evolution to finally come. A glorious evolution if you will.

Y/N rushed to Viktor's side who looked at her with shame in his eyes. "Jesus Christ, Viktor you could have at least told me! Told me that you were this sick, that way I wouldn't have left work every time and left you in that stupid lab alone- you told me that the reason why you seemed sicker was that you weren't getting enough sleep, now this?!". It was tough, Y/N didn't want to lecture Viktor for something he couldn't control, but at the same time-- Y/N couldn't help but let the feelings out.

Immediately realising the lecture she had just given Viktor, she lays her head on his arm. "You can't give up, not now, not ever, we still... we still haven't seen Pluto yet in its full glory, we still haven't visited Rio yet...".

Viktor wanted to speak, he did but his voice was too coarse as all he could do was stroke Y/N's soft hair. "The world needs you and so do I... I need you more than the world, so please, if you could put the whole world on hold and let me-- no, no what am I saying?", Y/N chuckles as she wipes away the stray tears that have fallen and sits down on the chair.