: Every Timeline Every Possibility :

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[ Forehead to forehead, and an explosion of light that fell around them in a symphony of time and space while the words reverberated within his mind, 'you are perfect the way that you are'. Their souls fused, in every timeline and every possibility there could only be them. Divine clarity, that was what it certainly was. Viktor was full of it, of the breath of Jayce's breath against his own and the certainty that they would find each other.

But gods, they could not be allowed to repeat their mistakes.

So many mistakes that could've been avoided if they had only known.

Wherever they went, whatever possibility they faced-- Viktor prayed that he would know, that he would be able to guide them away from the hubris of their own machinations, and the machinations of others. Especially for the man who braved hell so that he could be here at the end with him-- Jayce full of idealism and hope, who despite choices made could push all of it aside for the two of them, to give grace to the same man who could not understand that his own choices had been just as full of error.

Perhaps they could meet in the middle?

Underwater, Viktor had been underwater. He woke up in a start with the sun just peeking just above the horizon, trailing through his window with the first glimmers of morning. A deep breath like he had never breathed before in his entire life while air filled his gasping and aching lungs-- and that ache spread throughout his entire body.

Somewhere out there, Jayce was out there.

Waiting for him. "Every timeline, every possibility" he breathed as if it was a mantra.

There were memories of a life before this moment of wake-up, but it was coupled with the sudden infusion of life before, another era and another universe. Viktor had been given a second chance, and he would not squander it-- that is if he could find Jayce. Gods, Piltover was so big, and he was but one man; countless lives on the freeway of these souls, but he needed to find the exact one. Gods, what a challenge and with the limitations of his own body which he felt keenly.

But not weakness, never weakness as he forced himself out of bed and his body to cooperate with his own fragility. His cane was reached for and then he set about to go about his daily routine which came just as effortlessly as the time before all of this. ]

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Ah yes, in all probability it is very hot right now-- I can feel it off the steam. [ The dumbest statement ever, especially when Jayce planted his lips just underneath his ear and kissed right there, instilling a hitched breath within Viktor. He'd never been moved by such things before, but why was it that every time he closed his eyes he could see Jayce's expression-- the soft tenderness as they held each other on the edge of everything. Those eyes that met his with such impossible love, such a gaze that had made him want to find Jayce in every single life.

He could not be without it.

His eyes fluttered closed and he tried not to melt against the wall. ] We should get you clean.

[ No science would be getting done at all this night, he knew this now. Perhaps they could wake up with the sunrise and with his stuff moved, they could start pooling their resources. But for right now Jayce was making a compelling argument for not doing anything except for whatever this was. ]

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[They were both dazzlingly brilliant men who lost more and more of their braincells as they were in closer and closer proximity. Jayce was currently on a somehow negative number of braincells as he kissed down the arch of Viktor's neck. Yeah, science was not on his mind at all at the moment. They'd get back to talking about less-ending-the-world-and-destroying-each-other versions of Hextech. Right now? Well, right now the much more important magic was the way Viktor sounded.]

We should.

[Jayce agreed finally drawing back to look at Viktor. His hand at Viktor's waist again and he urged him around, a quick turn that had Jayce with his back to the wall, under the fall of water now, and urging Viktor back in close to join him.]

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[ This new placement was.. nice. Being cozily tucked in front of Jayce so that he recieved a lot of the water railing down, he upturned his head so that the spray could pour down; he felt fingers against his hips and he leaned back instinctively. ]

I do not want to hog all the hot water so... I will attempt to be as efficient as possible?

[ Viktor saw the washcloth and reached for it, soon a dollop of soap was applied and then very gingerly he turned so that he could start running that cloth up such a very chiseled chest.

Not a nerd chest at all. ]

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Mmhmm. Efficient...

[Jayce echoed in extremely distracted agreement his breath caught the moment Viktor started moving the washcloth over his chest. That was far too nice, and he could get used to these soft little intimacies.

He slipped into Viktor's hair, sorting carefully through wet strands.]

May I? [Let him help with washing, Viktor? It was clearly about efficiency and not just about Jayce's desire to continue touching Viktor and seeking out any excuse he could find.]

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[ It almost felt by the tone of the voice that there may have been an unspoken doubt as to how efficient this actually was, up and until Jayce made the tentative suggestion toward hair-washing; and therefore Viktor looked up to the other man, uniquely bedraggled with the dark brown locks hanging in his hair.

A shag was his usual style, though it was reminiscent of when they first met, with the ends that just lightly curled at the nape, the strands that could become flyaway depending on. He could feel his own breath catch the request-- Jayce was so careful of him, so polite.

Even when he'd been at his most primal and feral, there'd been a delicate about him like he had been so close to breaking; had seen the shatter when Jayce had killed him. Why was he inclined to give Jayce whatever he wanted? Certainly Jayce was the sort of pet that one could not possibly mistreat lest risk feeling terrible about it forever after-- a heart that touched the eyes too glowingly. ] You hardly need permission to do so, but I understand the importance for you of permission.. so the invitation is yours.

[ And it was oddly sweet that Jayce should ask. ]

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[Jayce had died inside when he'd killed Viktor, lost in that desperate almost wild determination to stop the future that he'd seen. But even in that, he'd only had the strength to do it because Viktor had asked him to, that lonely and remorseful future and past version of his partner. The man who had saved him from the cold when he was a child. The man who'd saved him from himself as an adult. The man who had doomed them all and had to be stopped but still managed, at the end, to save everyone, except himself -- and Jayce who had refused to leave him to face that end alone.

But commanded by another version of Viktor or not, it had taken too much from him to strike him down. He didn't want to hurt him now, wanted to wrap that thin, beautifully fragile human body in his arms and protect him from anything that might threaten.

And he wanted to care for him. So he looked pleased at the permission and did not hesitate to reach for the shampoo to begin massaging it into a lather in Viktor's hair.]

Good. Thank you.

[Heart on his sleeve and soul in his eyes it was so achingly clear how even this was a way to assure himself that this was tangible and real -- they were alive again and together and free from the trappings of their worst sins.]

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[ At the end, Jayce had cared so very deeply and he had been grateful for such care that Jayce would follow him into the dark. And thus he sank into those ministrations, keeping his hands on Jayce's hips with the washcloth acting as only a semi-effective buffer. Those fingers massaged through his strands, against his scalp and illicited a soft groan from his own lips.

It was Jayce that was keeping him up at this moment, so he would cling to that. His fingers though did dig as his own toes felt dangerously close to curling. ]

You know how you said that you liked something entirely too much? Well I think that I am enjoying this too much.

[ He was pressed in against Jayce, and his own stimulation would not be a secret. ] Do not touch me though, I want to enjoy the feeling of it, and of you.

[ Viktor wanted to sit with being aroused and not having it be completely by accident, to have there be a purpose and reason behind it aside from biology ]

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[Oh? Between the words and the way that he could indeed feel the other man stirring again, and wasn't that thrilling? ...thrilling enough that Jayce's prick -- which had already found itself trying to return to the ray -- seemed to rise in answer. Because Jayce Talis was exactly the sort of man for whom the idea of making his partner feel good, turning his partner on, was a turn on for him in and of itself.

But he also wouldn't let it distract him from letting his fingers continue the slow, deliberate massage.]

Whatever you say sweetheart...

[See he was a good obedient boy, Viktor. He kept up the shampoo for a long moment before shifting enough so that he could start rinsing lather from dark strands. He wasn't done yet though, since really, Jayce was committed to being a well groomed man (outside of his feral hexcore hobo era). So he had conditioner, and of course Viktor needed to be conditioned, and Jayce needed excuses to keep pampering the other man.]

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[ Obedience noted, Viktor would reward him as was fitting.

But for right now he was going to lean even further into the press of fingers against his hair, the way that Jayce tenderly moved his attention to conditioning him. Looking up at Jayce with slitted eyes, like a cat slow blinking in the shower-- and the droplets that were pattering all around them. ]

I always knew that you took care of me in small ways, but I am coming to notice those now. [ Viktor said as he slid his the washcloth between them so that he could run the wet terrycloth very gently against the quivering and stiff arousal, just a graze though. The shower spray had already washed off most of the remenants, but he would attend to the rest. ]

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[It was entirely unfair of Viktor to look at him like that. It did near lethal things to Jayce, ruining his heart's ability to beat in any regular rhythm, tightening his chest and making breathing near impossible. How was he supposed to function when his partner was this sort of beautiful and looking at him in a content, relaxed way that Jayce could never remember seeing so plainly in the other man.

Those words struck him though because he hadn't taken care of Viktor nearly well enough, had he? The visions came all too clearly -- Viktor's motionless body in the rubble of the council chamber, Viktor motionless and silent within the Hexcore, Viktor dead by his hand. Jayce might have sunk into a spiral of guilt then if he weren't rather expertly distracted by the touch of that washcloth at his cock. His breath caught, even at so light a touch. Fuck. Him.

He swallowed an embarrassingly needy moan and instead leaned in to press a kiss to Viktor's forehead.]

I'll do a better job of it this time around. I promise.

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Everyone chooses their own actions no matter what, I realize that you can hold so much guilt in your heart but also remember that other people choose how to react to your actions.. also.

[ The way that Jayce seemed to become aware of the stroking, the glimmering eyes and the sound at the back of the throat made him smile despite himself. So he continued those ministrations as the cloth soon slipped away and left only the long slender fingertips of a hand that was used to nimbly work small parts together with such infinite patience. ]

In the seven years we were together, you made sure that I ate.. I was aware of the way that you would bring me back food, and the times when you suggested we take some rest for the night when I would have stayed there until the early hours of the morning.

[ He rested his cheek against that neck softly. ]

You were always enough, situations were just stacked against us.

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[Jayce would not argue that the guilt he carried in his heart was well-deserved. Instead he would commit to doing better, in so many ways, this go around. It was easier to give into the distraction that was that touch, the moan he'd managed to stifle finally escaping when it was Viktor's fingers without the thin barrier of the washcloth between them.]

Fuck, Viktor...

[Also the Zaunite scientist was not playing fair, trying to assuage his guilt while stroking his dick had to be illegal. You were always enough. Viktor really was trying to destroy him, and Jayce was crumbling. He turned towards the other man, leaning against wet hair.]

It isn't anymore. We know better now. Like I told you, yeah? All I wanted was my partner back, and I have you and I'm not letting you go again. You're all the magic I need.

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[ If Viktor had been able to, he would have slid onto his knees in order to explore Jayce's needy body in the way that Jayce had so deftly explored his own-- but the world was not exactly fair; instead he continued to work that prick in a far more intimate way than Jayce had recieved his last orgasm-- being proactive. He did not wish to be anything but intimate in this moment, it was not even about equal give and recieve, just that his science partner's body was a wonderland and he wished to know it within all seasons. ]

We will do better this time.

[ it was not about prolonging life but in making the life you did lead count.. Jayce had taught him that through those kindnesses, through fight for what was right, fighting for him. ]

There is no one more beautiful to me then you... [ Soap in hands turned into a lathered prick, bubbles and soap drizzling down while he leaned into Jayce and relied on his strength. ]

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[So it might be a little bit about prolonging life still, because Jayce, even in a new lifetime, was not in any way ready to even consider living without Viktor.

They would do better this time indeed. They'd have a life together. Those seven years they'd spent together had been the best time of his life, and he hadn't realized how quick they would go, how abruptly they would end.

But now was not the time to think of those dour and dire thoughts. Now was the time to duck his head, panting softly to Viktor's ear as he was stroked by those clever, deft fingers. He slipped an arm around Viktor's waist, holding him close even as he felt his own pleasure build, being drawn closer and closer to the edge.]

I love you... so much...

[Those words were whispered like a vow to Viktor's ear, followed by a soft whimper of,] Am I allowed to touch you yet?

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[ They were no longer pretending that the entire goal in this moment was sex, he could feel his own eyes grow dark and drowsy even as he worked his hand and carried foreskin with each languid stroke. He had not had a chance to truly enjoy this and thus he resolved to savor the huffed and near shallow breathing against his ear.

Was Jayce allowed to touch him? He had not said anything about a no touch situation and yet Jayce was sweetly asking permission. That touched his heart in such ways that the other man would seek out that comfort level.

As if his opinion mattered.

His mouth opened against that shoulder as he considered it, lightly moving his hips against a thigh, how it brushed against skin and provided friction for his own hungry soul. ]

I will tell you if you do not have permission to touch me, there will be no doubt.

[ another jut of his hips forward. ]

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It's still hard to believe...

[A soft murmur, but he was smiling -- well, in between softly panting as Viktor continued to drive him crazy with the way he was touching him, the way that hand worked over him like he knew each and every last one of Jayce's weaknesses.

Then again, Viktor was his weakness, the entirety of him in the beautiful, flawed, perfect, brilliant creature he'd been in love with for so long. For lifetimes.

He would not need to be told twice though, and his hand slipped between them until he could wrap fingers around the other man's prick, swallowing back another moan as he did.]

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[ He was certainly not going to stop his own ministrations especially when he had not gotten the chance to see Jayce orgasm, much less know. It was important that as he wrapped his fist around that shaft and stroked, that he heard those choked sobs and cries thst would make the other man peak before long, that was the priority even as he felt the other man's hand wrap around his cock and give it a very insistant and telling stroke that reveberated between his own palm and the skin he was jerking off.

Yes, the slick skin combined with his ministrations whould quicken orgasm but was that not what he wanted? To force that orgasm out of Jayce? He leaned in to press lips very close to Jayce's ear, while his own voice lay husky with desire. ]

You are going to come for me soon, Jayce love?

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[Jayce's hips rocked into that touch without his conscious awareness of the movement, his body making choices for him without consulting his brain. And why would they? It was Viktor, and all of Jayce was quite inclined to be led wherever his partner wanted to go.

Another hitch in his breathing and he exhaled the interrupted breath in a whimpered moan. Gods he was close and growing closer with each stroke of Viktor's hand. When the other man spoke those lips to his ear, with that already gorgeous voice gone roughened and calling him love again, was Jayce supposed to do anything but come apart at the seams?]

Viktor... gods I...

[Because that was what he did. His fingers tightened reflexively around Viktor's prick, the rhythm he'd found of stroking him stuttering and falling to pieces as Jayce did the same. He cried out before he could even think to try to quiet himself, and he spilled over Viktor's fingers as he came, leaning heavily against the shower wall as his legs felt suddenly weak beneath him.]

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There was an intensity about Viktor as he brought Jayce off, a focus that had slipped from the realm of the cerebral down into this physicality; he wanted to see Jayce come. Wanted to see the ripple and play of climax upon him, he'd been robbed of that the first time. And now suddenly there was Jayce looking like he was breaking a part with the release.

He felt it too, the way that the cock released semen through his fingertips, coupling with the water droplets, and then sliding and mingling through his fingertips to swirl against the tiled floor. He bit back his own orgasm which was a surity, also feeling Jayce's orgasm there too-- the grip against his prick and the slightest falter before it erupted into a sloppy sort of chaos that had him arching himself into it.

The scientist looped his arm around Jayce's shoulder as he rested his head within the crook of that neck. Jayce did not have permission to crumple because Viktor was relying on him now to keep himself upright, the slight hook of his weak leg against Jayce's hips as he scraped his teeth against Jayce's skin and pumped his hips into that hand. Jayce had come and now he wanted to come right after, and so he breathed against the jawline. ]

Jayce.. I'm going to follow you.. soon.

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[Viktor's intensity had always been something that drew Jayce in, a magnetism that he had no prayer of ever resisting even for a moment. The pleasure rushing through him seemed to pulse through his body with each beat of his heart, and it was a long moment that he spilled himself over those fingers, impressive given how short a time ago he'd come.

Eventually his vision cleared, and he had not even in that ecstasy forgotten Viktor his hand still moving over the other man's cock, even if the rhythm of it had gone more than a bit erratic, but no lest determined and earnest in his attempts to make Viktor feel good.

They way he was clinging to him was delicious too, and Jayce would eagerly being stability and support for both of them. His free hand moved down to grip at Viktor's thigh as that legged hooked at his hip.]

Come for me sweetheart. Let me feel you....

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[ He felt that pulsing magic, as well as the way that Jayce steadied him. Trust there that Jayce would never let him fall, not in this and not now. He could feel his erratic heartbeat in time with the stroking of fingers, slamming against his chest as if attempting to get closer to the beating heart underneath Jayce's own skin.

There was a muttered stream of zaunite curses as he buried his face against that shoulder, allowing Jayce to take care of him-- falling trustfully into hands that he knew only wanted the best for him. A choked sob then while the pressure built and mounted; he was but only a man though and it was like Jayce knew his body and what he liked-- almost like magic. Knew spots that he did not know, because it was the pressure of a vein against another spot just underneath where his cockhead met into a v on the underside.

And then he came, it was in the tensing of his leg first, and then the way that his back arched like a cat. And then more come spilled out, though this time it was a much smaller ammount as it spilled against Jayce's stomach, pearling downward in droplets while he groaned deeply and sharply. ]

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[There it was. Jayce felt the splash of Viktor's release against his stomach -- a much easier mess to clean given they were in the shower. But cleaning could wait. He wanted to hold Viktor close right now, to let the other man linger in the trembling aftermath of his climax.

Jayce's hand lingered on his cock, coaxing and milking him through the last of his orgasm until he was certain that his lover had spilled himself fully for him.]

There you are...

[He turned his head to press his lips through dark, damp strands.]

You are so beautiful...

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[ In that embrace, Viktor felt saved to the depth and breadth of his soul.

Deja-vu.

Surely the bolted brace in place was going to leave a mark against Jayce's skin from the way that it was digging in, and he wanted to try to lessen it, but he found that Jayce's hands were not so content to let go. So he just stayed there, his eyes fluttering wet lashed against neck as he felt the press of Jayce's mouth against the top of his head. ]

That is not normally a truth I would accept however, you have a habit of compelling me to believe the unbelievable.

[ A glance upward then, a smirk on his lips. ] You told me I was always perfect the way that I was, and that my limitations were also a part of me.. and I think in this life, I believe that.

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Good. Believe it. All of it.

[His willpower was nowhere near strong enough for him to resist leaning don to kiss that smirk on his partner's lips.]

Because it's true. You are perfect, exactly as you are. Even more perfect now that you're in my arms, where you belong.

[And Jayce was where he belonged, by Viktor's side, loving the other man for every brilliant strength and each beautiful flaw, the totality of him something perfect and breathtaking and the closest to home Jayce Talis could imagine feeling.]

I should have told you that a long time ago.

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[ Viktor wanted to say that there had not been enough time, but there had.. seven years of time in which they had worked in close proximity, had learned each other's habits and how their minds worked; seven years was enough time to fall in love-- but not when the time came under pressure, there had not been enough time to reveal the hearts before all was gone.

Viktor once again took Jayce's face between his two palms so that he could look into those eyes. ]

I never want to be that man again, I want to do good yes-- but I do not want to be obsessed that I miss what is in front of my own eyes, destroyed by my own hubris. [ He did not want to become obsessed with attempting to stop the clock, even though that clock would stop.. far sooner than he was comfortable with, but the years that he had, he could spend working and loving Jayce and perhaps when he passed, that work could be entrusted to Jayce's own hands.. fueled by their shared love. ]