Jayvik Hurt/Comfort Week 2025
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“Why are you stuck on this?” Viktor asks, directly, at the beginning of something that feels like their first real argument.
Jayce freezes, staring down at the paper, and he finds he can’t answer. He’s lost count of the versions, the lines. He could draw the schematics in his sleep, at this point.
He does, actually. He dreams about drawing them, and when he wakes up, he draws them all over again. And over again. And over again.
Day 1 of Jayvik Hurt/Comfort Week: Mind (Self-Sabotage)
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- Part 1 of Jayvik Hurt/Comfort Week 2025
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Sometimes, Viktor gets visions.
His mind clings to rationality like a bulwark, and most days it keeps the weight of the universe out. It keeps him in.
But sometimes, almost without warning, the bulwark crumbles. When it does, Viktor crumbles with it.
Day 2 of Jayvik Hurt/Comfort Week: Body (Disability, Touch-Starved)
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- Part 2 of Jayvik Hurt/Comfort Week 2025
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Jayce is burning, when he meets Viktor.
Or re-meets Viktor. Or when Viktor meets him. Or… Well.
Jayce is burning, and time moves strangely around those who hold the heart of a phoenix.
Day 3 of Jayvik Hurt/Comfort Week: Monster (Beast, Body Image)
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- Part 3 of Jayvik Hurt/Comfort Week 2025
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Years ago. In the lab, back when “the lab” was still a workshop with a city view through a gaping hole in the wall.
The tilt of Viktor's mouth like he was offering a joke as well as a solution to the problem that Jayce shouldn’t have. Viktor’s soft voice, murmuring, “Goodbye, Jayce.”
Jayce huffed a laugh, tension bleeding from his shoulders. Rolled his eyes, turned back to the chalkboard, a smile in place. It meant the opposite of its meaning. It meant Viktor would be back.
Jayce would be waiting. “Goodbye, Viktor.”
Day 4 of Jayvik Hurt/Comfort Week: Trauma (Abandonment Issues)
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- Part 4 of Jayvik Hurt/Comfort Week 2025
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Jayce is unaccustomed to sharing a workspace when he is actually focused.
He knows, anyhow, that he’s made a horrible mistake.
“Viktor, I am so sorry.”
Viktor looks up from where he’s bent over his desk.
Jayce sets the jar down, and he says, “I was working on the diagram revisions, and I found myself eating your pickles.”
Day 5 of Jayvik Hurt/Comfort Week: Damage (Disordered Eating)
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- Part 5 of Jayvik Hurt/Comfort Week 2025
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“How are you holding up?” Jayce asks, leaning in close.
“You are very handsome tonight,” Viktor offers, in lieu of answering, because Jayce knows the actual answer already. Viktor wants to crawl out of his own skin, leave it on the floor of this ridiculously opulent venue, and scurry back to their lab. Or their apartment.
Or beneath the table in the corner bearing a chocolate fountain.
Or beneath the table in the other corner which is straining under the weight of a very technically impressive ice sculpture of the Hexgate.
Day 6 of Jayvik Hurt/Comfort Week: Relationship (Masking)
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- Part 6 of Jayvik Hurt/Comfort Week 2025
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Lying in a field of green grass, Jayce looks over at Viktor and implores, “Can that please be the worst year of our entire lives?”
Viktor stares up at the blue sky, eyes golden again, no longer swimming with myriad colors.
Viktor asks, after a long pause, “Has it been a year?”
Day 7 of Jayvik Hurt/Comfort Week: Rescue (Trauma Aftermath)
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- Part 7 of Jayvik Hurt/Comfort Week 2025