Royal Pain // Victuuri Au

Ch. 17

Yuuri stared at the familiar face and swore he felt his heart stop.

But as his hand slipped away Victor took it again and gave it a gentle and reassuring squeeze. Even though it probably wasn't the boy's intention, it reminded Yuuri of the important things in life.

Victor Nikiforov, Victor, Vitya, his guard, the guy with silver hair who was hired to follow him around constantly, Nikiforov.

...Why was his mind like this?

"R-Rebel?" He stuttered quietly, feeling as though if he even did as much as speak too loud that everything would go terribly and he'd end up in tears again.

"Haven't seen you in a while..." the brunet trailed off, looking a little unsure as he crossed his arms, though Yuuri was actually pretty sure he was just hugging himself.

He swallowed lightly "Uhm, yeah.."

There was an uncomfortable silence for a good moment or two before Victor swooped in, thankfully.

"Well, Yuuri and I were about to head off to breakfast, would you care to join us?"

Wait- fuck, Victor no-

"Oh... of course."

Yuuri was mentally screaming like a banshee but somehow managed to force a smile onto his face and responded with a short and curt "Great."

As Rebel turned to walk into the kitchen, the place Yuuri was pretty sure he had just walked out of, Victor gave him a puzzled look and only then did he realize how much he had tense up, immediately tightening to practically a death grip on his guard's hand, which he immediately let go of.

"Oh... sorry." He replied lamely, not really even sure what to say as he looked down.

Damnit.

But to his surprise, Victor gently tilted his chin up with a hand and offered him a kind smile "It'll be fine. I'll do all the talking if you want."

He nodded slowly, getting a little lost in the boy's eyes and having to blink a few times to regain focus, but not before a thought slipped past his lips "Can I hold your hand again?"

Victor's head tipped to the side slightly but his smile widened "Of course."

A/N:

Ok but I've already started planning the next victuuri book I wanna write somebody please stop me this is like the fourth book in a row and I'm not even done with this one wth