Mechanical heart (Viktor x OC)

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"What were you thinking coming home this early? Viktor, did you send her a letter without my knowledge?" Jayce yelled as he walked into the lab, his steps so hard and heavy the glass in the room vibrated with each step. 

"Of course I didn't," Viktor defended himself while stepping away from Elvira. "I decided to come home by myself, thank you very much," Elvira walked over to Jayce, who turned pale at the sight. 

"What happened to you? I thought Ionia would heal you," Jayce asked confused while looking over Elvira's thin body. "It stopped the symptoms and worked as a crutch for my heart. But the moment I left, it got bad again. I thought my father went to talk to you about this stuff," Elvira asked.

Jayce got a little embarrassed before he walked over to the sofa and sat down. "He did, but I got so stressed about it that I had to talk to you myself," Jayce rubbed his temples as he spoke. "Elvira, what if you die before Viktor and I find a way to help you? You're already so frail."

"I'm not frail. My body is frail, I am not. And besides, you do have a way to help me," Elvira argued, causing Viktor to panic beside her. "No, Elvira, we don..." "I saw it in a vision, Viktor has found a way to save me," Elvira said, and Jayce stood up from the sofa and walked over to her. 

"What?" he asked Viktor, who turned pale. "I um... Don't really have..." "Yes you do, show him," Elvira insisted while giving Viktor a reassuring look. "Ugh, fine," he eventually gave in. "If you've found a way to help her already, why didn't you tell me?" Jayce asked, annoyance clear in his voice. "I did."

Viktor laid the heart onto the desk, causing Jayce to almost start laughing. "No way, are you joking with me? I told you to forget about that idea, not work on it," Jayce placed the palms of his hands against his forehead in frustration. "If you would only have listened to what I told you about it, you would know that this will be the best and only solution to this problem," Viktor argued, getting annoyed at Jayce. 

"It's machine Viktor, you can't swap out body parts with machinery!" "Why not?" Elvira asked Jayce. "If one body part is failing, why wouldn't you swap it with a mechanical part instead? Why is that not better than death?" 

Jayce looked at Elvira, lost for words. Viktor smirked at Elvira's words, but quickly dropped his smirk when she turned around to face him. "Do you know anyone who would be willing to do the procedure?" Jayce quickly looked up at her when he heard what she said. "Are you even sure this is safe?" he asked her. 

"Jayce, I saw fragments of the future while I was in Ionia, and one fragment showed me Viktor holding this heart, and then I was healthy again. I trust Viktor, and I trust you, and I trust myself. If you could just look over the heart with Viktor and me, then we can all decide together if it is safe or not. Ok?" she looked at Jayce with pleading eyes, which after a few seconds of contemplating, eventually convinced Jayce to agree.

"Fine."

"So this is how it works," Viktor went on to explain the details of the heart to Jayce and Elvira, who both paid attention to what he was showing and saying. "How will you connect the tubing to her arteries?" Jayce asked, turning the heart around in his hands, careful not to break anything.

"I haven't figured that out yet," Viktor admitted before carefully taking the heart from Jayce, placing it onto the desk. "There has to be someone who would be willing to help," Elvira said while pacing around the room. "Nobody will take the risk, as anyone with morale would agree that this is not ethical," Jayce mumbled to himself, but both Viktor and Elvira overheard him.

"We'll figure it out," Elvira reassured them both. "I'm sure that..." Elvira started before she felt a sharp sting in her chest. Viktor noticed her clutching her chest, and hurried over to her, helping her over to the sofa. "Jayce, go get the defibrillator, her heart just stopped," Viktor said as he lied Elvira down on the sofa before he rushed over to the door. 

"You try to start her heart back up, I'm going to get someone. Please, for the love of God, do NOT let her die Jayce, or I will murder you," Viktor warned Jayce before he disappeared out the door, and Jayce had to admit that he felt uneasy from the threat. 

Jayce quickly grabbed the defibrillator, while Elvira was lying on the sofa, gasping for air through the pain shooting through her body. "It's ok Elvira, it's going to be ok, I promise," Jayce muttered more to himself than to Elvira, as he readied the machine, and placed the pads on her chest. He started the machine up and stepped back as it sent shockwaves through her body. 

Jayce felt sick to his stomach watching his cousin dying in front of him, and he prayed that the machine would start her heart up again. But she had seen the future, hadn't she? he thought to himself as he watched another shock go through her body, causing her body to jerk.

Jayce was brought back to reality at the ringing sound of the defibrillator, signaling that the heart was beating on its own again. "Elvira?" he asked as he worked on removing the shock pads from her chest, and wrapping her up in a warm blanket. He didn't get any response from her, but after checking her pulse, he let out a relieved sigh before sitting down on the sofa across from her, waiting for Viktor to come with help. 

After a long 30 minutes, there was a knock at the door. "Jayce?" Viktor asked the door, almost too scared to walk inside in case Elvira had died. "She's alive," Jayce said, as he sensed Viktor's unease. "Oh thank god," Viktor said before walking inside. "I spoke with different doctors at the hospital, and only one of them agreed to help us with Elvira, to install the mechanical heart."

"Only one? Ok, it'll just have to do," Jayce agreed without putting up a fight, surprising Viktor. "We almost lost her Viktor, I don't have time to argue with you anymore. She trusts you, and after some thinking, I do too."

"Good, now shall we?" he motioned for the door, where two nurses and a stretcher stood ready to transport Elvira. "Now or never."