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    Viktor asks: “What is it, Jayce?”

    Briefly, Viktor expects he will receive an answer. Jayce looks at his wrist, then at him; but he smiles, weakly, and shakes his head.

    “It’s nothing.” He now knows it is safe to say so. He pushes to his feet and touches Viktor’s shoulder. “Let’s go inside.”

    In these moments, Viktor cannot refuse him. He follows Jayce, watches him retreat into the bedroom. Jayce wished for his partner back, but something else came with him. It cannot be seen, but it can be felt: the round, repellant force between two magnets. Too much has been revealed. Too little is known. This imbalance has manifested itself into a barrier, into a tangle, yet it is too tightly wound to be safely unraveled. It sits between them like a ghost; this entity, this unspoken thing.

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    12 Jan 2025

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    When Viktor finally asks why Jayce stayed behind inside the Anomaly with him, Jayce stares at him as though he’s supremely disappointed by the question — as if Viktor has betrayed his own brilliance by asking something so irredeemably stupid. “How could I not? We’re partners.”

    Partners, Jayce calls them. Not for the first time, Viktor wonders: Partners in what?

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    Or: Jayce and Viktor survive the Hexcore, a blizzard, their own bodies, sharing a bed and all the things they’re too afraid to say. Slowly, they put themselves back together—piece by stubborn piece.

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    11 Jan 2025

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    Jayce and Viktor graduate at the same time. Nowadays Viktor teaches on the weekdays and spends his weekends grading papers. Jayce occupies his time trying to get out of the obscurity of his station while managing a failing workshop. Could be worse, could be better.

    There's no explosion, no trial, no big break. Progress… will simply have to wait. AU - Canon Divergence

    Their first apartment is cramped. Dusty. Cheap, but still over their budget. On the ground floor - for Viktor - in a rickety building in the old part of town. The floorboards creak with every step, and the windows are so rotted the draft is a permanent feature.
    Jayce loves it.

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    11 Jan 2025

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    It takes a moment to feel out the difference, glancing around at no obvious threat, before the sudden waft of scent hits him full force.

    Jayce.

    Hunched over a worktable, wiring something complex into the newest drive for their hexgate as blue sparks shoot off in odd directions as he continues to work.

    Jayce, his very much in rut, alpha, partner, who is throwing off scent like someone dropped a bottle of cologne in the middle of the lab, sitting with obvious beads of sweat dripping down the back of his neck. 

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    10 Jan 2025

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    Viktor's new lab partner has a lot to live up to.

    “I just realized- you never told me your name.” Jayce smiles at him with a certain glint in his eyes that makes Viktor feel something… inconvenient. Strange. He files it away in his brain and swallows it down.

    “It’s Viktor.”

    OR the Modern AU where Viktor and Jayce are Phd students sharing a lab. Gay crisis ensues.

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    05 Jan 2025