******2 days after the trial - saturday******
Viktor
While Saturday brought a third round of good news, it brought a fresh, new problem.
Good News: Mel would be imprisoned for 9 years, lose her council member status, and be taken be to her home city after her jail-time.
Bad News: It didn't take long for the entire city to hear that the 'Man of Progress' (Jayce), and the second man behind HexTech (myself), were (using the Judge's terms) romantically involved, and a few handfulls of people didn't take it very well.
Luckily, there was now the law against homophobic acts, but it didn't go against small words - only actions, and persistent threats.
This gloomy news was discovered early Saturday morning, in which Jayce and I made the decision to go for a walk down to, and then along, the river bank. I won't the small words thrown at us, for some of them, to me, were unspeakable words - words worse than the common swear word.
As we walked down streets containing people spitting langauge, I could see out the corner of my eye, Jayce clench his fists, and shove them in his pocket. After turning down a fourth road, I made the choice to both calm Jayce, and show to the homophobic people how much we don't care about what they think of us. I found Jayce's hand in his pocket, moved his fingers to interlock with mine, then took our hands out to the open air.
"I don't want you to think we have to hide anymore." I tell Jayce when we sit down on a hill (after I took was to long to sit down because of my fucking leg).
"I know it's safe now, but I can't risk angering more people like Mel, because I don't want you to be hurt again." Jayce answers, putting a hand on my lap. I lean into his shoulder (doing that's become a habit).
"Jayce, I don't want you to have to worry about me all the time. I'm not helpless."
"I'm really overprotective." Jayce admits.
"But at least it shows you care." My boyfriend sweeps a loose strand of my hair behind my ear. He then plants a small kiss on my cheek, and re-settles next to me.
************Monday************
Jayce
We find Sky down at her desk, like usual, here before us - something that is becoming common.
"Heimerdinger was here about 3 minutes ago. He said he needed to talk to you two, and that he's in his office." the apprentice announces, quickly looking up from her pages of work.
"Thanks for telling us. We'll go down there in a sec." I reply, hanging my coat on the back of my chair. I check that Viktor is prepared to go over to Heimerdinger for whatever he wants. Then we walk, and I really hope it's nothing bad.
********
"Jayce, Viktor, thank you for showing up. Please take a seat, there are certain things I would like to discuss with you two, due to certain new knowledge, after recent events."
Two chairs are sat to opposite side of a desk the professor is at, so Viktor and I occupy them.
"It's come to the knowing of pretty much everyone, that you are, as the judge said, 'romantically involved'. Is this true?" Heimerding questions to begin. Of course it was going to be about this. I sort of should have seen it coming.
"Yes, sir." Viktor quickly replies. He wants to get this over and done with. The atmosphere is rather awkward in here.
"Ok, ok... this will not affect your work, right?"
"No." I confirm.
"And will not affect the ongoing apprenticeship?"
"No." I say, repeating myself.
"Good, good. Well, that's all I wanted to check, so unless you've got any concerns of your own, you can return to your work." Viktor gives a small not to the professor, and we walk out of his office, and down the few corridors, back to the laboratory.
A/N
I'm going to be real honest here.
I'm having a hard time writing this, and no, this will not be the last chapter, but I believe it may be second to last, kind of.
I've loved giving you all this fanfic, and it will be edited in the future, but, ideas do come to an end, and I can't stretch out any more for this book.
Of course, there are many other books of mine around, and you may, obviously read those.
There is a Violyn one, an original one, some other fanfics, some one shots, and there are more books on their way.
So, when it appears, click the button to what I believe will be the final chapter, and tysm for reading.
And sorry this chapter's kinda short.
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