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An extended version of Viktor's awakening scene in Arcane 2.02 "Watch It All Burn"
Viktor knows that Jayce's arms around him are the only thing keeping the voice of the Hexcore at bay. He knows he has only a few moments before it takes him away from Jayce forever.
He will have to make these moments count.
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Jayce brushes their noses together and the simple affection of that gesture threatens to undo Viktor entirely. It leaves him speechless, unable even to correct that most of the work lately was done by Viktor, after all, with Jayce so busy with politics. That it would be more correct to say that he did it.
An ungenerous impulse. And a false one. He did not save himself. He did not save anyone. He cannot even save Jayce right now by ending this before it hurts him more.
So he kisses Jayce again and is met once more with that artless, unreserved hunger. He is met by the heat of Jayce’s arms around him. He is met by the simple, unrelenting ardor and he tastes in it all the years they could have had, if he hadn't been a coward. He tastes all the years he is stealing from Jayce now, because Jayce is…sensitive. This, he will not understand. He will not understand sharing a moment like this only for Viktor to walk away. He will not understand that it is not Viktor’s choice.
He steals this moment anyway. Because Viktor knows himself and he knows that he is greedy: for this, for life, for something that would give him the strength to fight back, someday if there is any end to the other side of the wild electric impulses pounding at the edges of his brain, the static behind his eyes. He does not think there will be one. The only good news is that once it consumes him, he won't know it. He wouldn’t even know that he had wanted to be free. That much he can be certain of, already.
Until then, they have this moment, this kiss. And he knows when it ends, he will be gone with it.