Mechanical heart (Viktor x OC)

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Two weeks later

"God damn that hurts!" Elvira cursed as she, Jinx, and Ash were working on her arm. A few weeks had passed since her arm got injured, and Elvira had been working along with Jinx, on some metal plates to reinforce her arm, as there was pretty much only bone and muscle left don't here. 

She had been drugged to numb the pain, while Jinx and Ash were practically welding the metal onto her skin. Elvira was however still feeling most of it and had received a belt to bite onto. "Just a few more minutes into we're done," Ash reassured her, but Elvira just told him to "hurry the fuck up."

"There!" Jinx excitedly announced as she finished up, slapping the tools down onto the table, and spinning around on her chair happily. "Finally," Elvira gasped after throwing the belt onto the floor and testing out her arm. 

She tried moving her fingers, which took a little effort, but after a minute of trying, her fingers moved how she wanted them to. "It works," she breathed out relieved, as she had been scared her hand wouldn't work as she planned it to. 

"You have no faith in me?" Ash asked her suggestively. "No, not really," she teased him, causing Jinx to gag from across the room. "I'll leave before you two start making out on the table. Besides, I need to go to Piltover today, it's progress day, and I have a building to explode!" she announced, and Elvira was too drowsy to care about what Jinx said, so she just let her leave. 

"How are you feeling?" Ash asked after Jinx had left the lab. "I don't know, I feel dizzy from the operation, but other than that I feel fine." Elvira flexed her fingers once again, getting used to the new feeling. "It looks good, you did a good job on that one," he complimented her. 

The arm she had been carving Ionian patterns into the white metal plates that were now fused with her arm. In hindsight, it probably wasn't a very good idea, considering it tied her to her Ionian heritage, making it easier for people to recognize her, but oh well. 

"Do I have anything on the calendar today?" she asked Ash as she made her way over to the cabinet, looking for pain killers to have on her body, should the pain drug wear off while she was out. Ash leaned back on the chair he was seated in and folded his hands behind his head. "Nah, but if you need something to do to take the edge off, I'm free too," he smirked at her.

"If my schedule is free, I have a chembaron I need to speak with, who keeps interfering with my business. But after that, I'm all yours," she said while placing her mask over her face, and draping her cloak over her shoulders.

"I'll be waiting."

One week later

"Ekko, I swear to god, you gotta stop getting the firelights hurt," Elvira sighed as she worked on cleaning out a wound on Ekko's torso, while Ash was wrapping up the leg on another firelight Elvira had worked on before she started on Ekko.

"We're not that hurt. Besides, we're the ones keeping you in business," Ekko joked. "How did you get this anyway?" she asked as she carefully dabbed her cloth over his wound, disinfecting it. "Your friend, Jinx," Ekko answered, hurt evident in his voice.

Ekko had told Elvira about the crush he used to have on Jinx, and how much it hurt him to have to watch his best friend turn into a maniac. "Oh, I'm sorry."

"Nah, don't be. I think you're the only one keeping her from slipping 100%. She needs someone more capable of giving her love than Silco," he said as Elvira finished up. Elvira took off her gloves, throwing them in the trash as Ekko leaned back on the bed, waiting for Ash to hand him a roll of bandage. 

"By the way, you're hickeys are showing," Ekko said, as he started wrapping himself up with the white cloth. "Jealous that I am getting more action than you?" Elvira mocked him. "I'm sure Ash will show you a good time too if you ask nicely."

"Haha, funny. He's too old for me, I don't sleep with fossils," Ekko joked, and Ash gave him a death glare. Ekko just shrugged his shoulders, before standing up, testing his body. 

"He's not old, shut the fuck up," Elvira laughed before the door to the lab was flung open. "I need help," a familiar voice spoke from the door, and Elvira, who was not wearing her disguise, looked over to see Caitlyn and someone else standing in the doorway, panting.

Elvira looked down to see the other person was bleeding from her waist, so she quickly pushed Ekko and Ash out of the way, before rushing over to Caitlyn to help her place her friend onto the bed. 

"Elvira?" Caitlyn asked once she realized who she was. "Later, tell me what happened to her."

"Um she got stabbed, I don't know much more, I wasn't there," Caitlyn explained while Elvira and Ash were carefully lifting the shirt up so they could inspect the stab wound. "What's her name?" Elvira asked.

"Vi," Caitlyn answered, her voice shaking a little. "If you weren't there, how did you end up there?" Elvira asked while pouring alcohol on a rag. "As you said, we'll talk about it later. Focus on her now, please," Caitlyn asked, and Elvira nodded before going to work on cleaning the wound.

"It's a clean stab wound, so it'll heal easily. Do you have a lot of time?" Elvira asked, and Caitlyn shook her head. "Not really." "How far are you both willing to go to get her back on her feet fast?" Ash asked her. "Pretty far I suppose, why are you asking?"

Elvira only nodded at Ash before he walked over to the cabinet and grabbed a vial containing a light pink liquid. He handed it to Elvira, who removed the cork, and poured it into Vi's mouth, hoping she would swallow it and not spit it out or choke on it. 

Once she swallowed it, her body jerked up, and she gasped for air. "What did you give her?" Caitlyn asked shocked, as she hurried over to ground Vi. "Shimmer," Ash stated, and Caitlyn looked at him in disbelief. 

"It's true. However, it's a very small dose of shimmer, so it won't affect her negatively. It just speeds up the healing process. She should still rest though, for at least one night. 

Vi had passed out right after her shock and was now lying still on the bed, sleeping while her body is healing her stab wound. 

Elvira led Caitlyn to her office that was connected to the medic area of her lab, where they could be able to talk in private, while Ash was keeping an eye on Vi. 

"So spill the beans, what are you doing in the undercity."