Viktor x Reader

Thirty-Nine

With anger written all over her face, Sevika dragged you into an alley and threw you into a corner.

With a gasp, you smashed into a pile of empty boxes.

Wood creaked and broke under the impact of your weight and the impact.

"Fucking hell, ogre!", you hissed and took a swing with the knife at her as a warning. "Back off! What the hell is wrong with you?"

With her eyebrows knitted together and annoyance written all over her face, Sevika took a drag from her cigarette and blew the smoke out of the corner of her mouth.

She crossed her arms in front of her chest and rolled her eyes before raising one eyebrow in a sarcastic manner.

"You're not going to put that away?", she asked and pointed at the knife.

You bared your teeth.

"No chance. I can't afford to let my guard down. You'll crush me."

She huffed.

"Thanks.", the tip of the cigar started to glow as she took a deep breath again. "But really, you need to take that down. It won't stop me from twisting your neck with my bare hands."

You frowned yet believed that she was telling the truth.

Slowly, your hand sunk. But you held onto it.

"What do you want?", you asked and had to suppress a cough.

Sevika pulled a face.

"You're being a rat.", she hissed and flipped the halfway smoked cigar away. "And I told you that's dangerous."

You rolled your eyes.

"Why do you care about the danger I'm in?", you asked and pulled yourself up to your knees.

A bitter smile appeared on her face as she crossed her arms and examined you from top to bottom.

"You're in rough shape."

A growl got stuck in your throat.

"Cut the chit chat, Sevika!", you spit blood into the mud. "Why do you care?"

Her eyes followed the red puddle, how it mixed with the dirt and disgusting water to turn brown and rotten.

"If you get into shit, I'll be fucked too.", she said and stepped closer to bend down and meet your gaze in a warning manner. "Silco is getting suspicious of you and unfortunately I know what you've been up to. Heimerdinger is not a name he appreciates."

A flinch chased through your entire body.

With a grim expression, you raised your eyes and moved your lips to keep yourself from launching at her.

The knife in your hand started to shake.

It was as if a new desire lit up inside of you.

You had never before wanted to kill someone. But in that moment it felt like if there was a once in a lifetime thing, this would be the time and place.

Sevika's gaze wandered down. She must have noticed your body's reaction.

"I would advise you not to do that.", she said in a low, calm voice, completely unbothered.

With fire burning inside your eyes, you raised the knife to her throat and grabbed her by the collar to apply more pressure.

"Give me one fucking reason not to.", you hissed through clenched teeth. "Because right now you're threatening me."

For a long, painfully long moment, she just stared at you.
Her eyes didn't move. She didn't even blink.

A deep breath left her lips.

The smell of cigar smoke lingered in your nose. Warmth stroked your face.

Her face moved.

A slight smirk appeared. It was almost mocking.

"Right.", with two fingers, Sevika grabbed the tip of the blade and pushed it down without caring that one possible movement of yours could stab her in the throat. "I'm not a threat. Not as long as you play along."

Squeezing your eyes shut and taking a deep breath, you lowered the knife.

"Fine.", you hissed. "Call your shots."

Satisfied, she smiled.

"Good. Now, I get that you're trying to get away from Silco. It makes sense."

"You don't get to assume what I want."

Groaning, she rolled her eyes.

"Quit playing tough. I get it, you're a Zaunite. Vermin is hard to kill.", she let out a deep breath. "Anyways. You're in deeper than shit."

You let your head sink and rubbed your eyes.

"Tell me something I don't know.", you groaned, trying to fight back the headache.

"Your situation is good for me."

You glanced at her though your eyebrows.

"How so?"

"I want to climb the ladder, but Silco won't let me. The job you got might get me to where I want to be."

"You want to rob Heimerdinger's lab?"

"No. I'm not a thief but rather someone for the rough stuff."

You huffed.

"I can imagine."

She didn't respond to that.

"Either way, if you get me the stuff he wants, I'll take it to him and you can stay up in Piltover."

Unsure, you frowned.

"That logic is flawed.", you noted. "Silco seems to be influential."

"Not past the bridges."

"Not yet."

"That's a problem to worry about in the future. Right now I am willing to take the job off your hands. So, you get into Heimerdinger's office, get what I need and then we part ways. Do we have a deal?", with a generous look in her eyes, she offered you a hand to shake. "No buts. I play with open cards."

For a moment, you had to eye her.

Something in the back of your head was in doubt.

It wasn't that you were unsure about the deal. It sounded good, great even, and Sevika didn't seem like she wanted to fuck you over.

But considering that your health was declining, you feared that this action wouldn't go down smoothly.

Maybe you would be able to take advantage of Viktor's test and disappear in the heat of the moment to steal the things needed, but there was always a risk.

And right now you were the biggest one yourself.

"I...", you were about to raise your hand but couldn't bring yourself to.

Sevika noticed.

"This is just another offering.", her hand slid into one of her hidden pockets to pull out a glass container with purple liquid shimmering in it. "It's for my own interest as well. Take it or not. But it will make things easier."