deercountry | june catch-all

Who: viktor and others, open to all with some closed prompts in comments
What: june catch-all, some tdm prompts
When: june
Where: various

content warning; terminal illness, arcane season 1 spoilers

misc lab stuff and various fruits.

[viktor's lab in the willful machine is usually left unlocked when he's working inside. friends or acquaintances have likely been told they're welcome to stop by if they like, either to say hello or to get help with whatever a vaguely sketchy lab could handle. of course someone he doesn't know can just walk in too or knock. maybe there's a sudden downpour and that ajar door is tempting? go for it.

the lab has been slowly filling with all sorts of nonsense on the various tables- lasers! tasers! some weird machine hooked up to a blood gem? it is not unlikely to be walking by and hear some minor booming noise and either a curse in czech or a satisfied 'a-ha!' feel free to investigate.

this month there's something else too, a bowl full of fruit. all the fruits mentioned in the tdm in fact, there to be tested on though it looks more like they're just for guests if people are unaware there's some weird shit going on.]

Just a moment, make yourself at home. [he might say to guest. that would include eating some fruit, right? enjoy. probably not the raw lemon though, that's weird.]

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gaze and time loops.

[having lungs mostly working for the moment is pretty great, in viktor's humble opinion. it means walking around the trench doesn't come with the risk of coughing up blood and attracting beasts and generally having a bad time, along with added perks like not getting so easily winded and going for longer. it also means he finds himself out longer than he usually would, which maybe isn't the best, as it turns out.

for example, making his way home through gaze and hearing the chilling cry of a beast, sighing and trying to make his way around what turns out to be the wrong corner. maybe that's where he sees your character before the snarling of a too close beast starts in earnest.

and then snap! they're both back about an hour, where they passed on the street. the look viktor gives is somewhere between resigned and 'fuck this, actually.'] There is a term for this. 'One of those days,' I think.

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[that gets a snort, mostly a vaguely tired agreement to how some are handling things. bravado is a nice way of putting it.] I have a feeling Abigail is going to start her crusade against you, so it won't all be fun and games.

[enjoy his hell of being offered food all the time, guy who can eat three grapes at a time.]

A challenge? Very well, I'll show you my bumbling ward work and completely outlandish ideas on manipulating magic. It will be my goal to make you weep with trying to dissect it all. [ugh, his smile is so warm, way too happy in this ridiculous, red pen wielding space.

another kiss to pal's temple.] If I am not torn between loving you more and wanting to wring your neck I'll consider it a failure.

[No, not the food offerings... he'll die if he has to eat more than three grapes at a time. He groans from the abject dread of it, which is only partially a bit - truly, this is the worst, he needs to squeeze closer to Viktor to feel better about his fate...]

I would love to see your ward work. It's been years since I was able to coach the juinor adepts on their wards.

[Implying that Viktor is as talented with a ward as a, like, twelve year old? Absolutely. With love.]

You'll think I'm the worst inside the hour. But you'll thank me by the third.

[With kisses, specifically. Thank him with those.]

[viktor is very happy to shield him from the cruel realities of the world for a moment, and is not insulted he is being called child level ward maker. in truth he's probably lower than that, all his magical theory is exactly that, theoretical. pal is the magic practical powerhouse that makes those theories work, thank you sir.]

Oh it will be dreadful. I'll jump to advanced concepts completely out of my league but with just enough understanding to make the application extra frustrating. [he sounds happy about this because he is.]

Sounds like a deal. [and he is thanked with a kiss now, as it turns out.] This is a terrible bit, I hope you know.

[it's not, he loves it.]

Oh, you're going to get everything so wrong, and you're going to make me so mad when something almost works anyway.

[He says, with all the love in his heart. The bit is excellent, actually, lingering in another kiss before he tilts his head to trail more kisses down Viktor's jaw, to his neck.]

I'll be out of my mind by the end of the fifth set of trials. [Another kiss, tugging at his shirt collar for easier access to the curve of his neck. The bad bit is doing it for him, thanks.] I may have to correct your theorems right there on the table.

[Very sensual, the red marker...]

[viktor can't help a genuine laugh at all this, not the typical one he tries to bite back, though he does rest against pal's shoulder for a little to muffle it.]

Lucky for us it's a sturdy table. Looks perfectly capable of handling some vigorous writing. [the bit is excellent, fine, but also the worst how well it works for him.] I know how passionate you get about your theorems, after all.

[Oh, very cute, that's only going to egg him on even further. He can't resist his own chuckle against Viktor's neck, pressing another kiss there and lingering for a moment. Just a moment to enjoy Viktor, the whole experience of him, pointedly how not like being waterlogged and freezing in the sea it is to be here now, in the silly bit.

Just normal things.]

Just wait until I get going. I'm very thorough.

I'm locking the door and you can be very thorough right now. [viktor informs him before doing just that.

so that's a good way to reaffirm pal is very much alive, and he is very happy pal is alive. maybe he'll feel a little bad about getting rowdy in what is ultimately supposed to be a shared work space but at the moment it's really only used by him, so ah well.

maybe after he'll try to coax pal into finishing the cake, having a little more tea. more than likely he'll just hold him close and remind himself things turned out fine, for them at least.]

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