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Hii! I really love your fics so much! I was wondering if I could request a Yagi x pro!reader where Yagi is comforting the reader because she gets anxiety in large crowds? Thank you so much!! - 💋 anon
Fic Type: Oneshot Fandom: My Hero Academia Pairing: Yagi x Reader Prompt: N/A Word Count: 534 words A/N: Thank you so much!! I hope you enjoy it! I love yagi sm.
“Good work everyone!” Midnight boasted to the group of heroes. She walked over to where 💙 was standing and smacked her back. “Especially you! You were a great help.” Midnight smiled kindly at her, to which 💙 rubbed her neck and smiled back. “💙!” All Might ran to her side, wearing his signature grin. “You were amazing!” He gave her a thumbs up along with his comment making her giggle.
“All Might!” Several voices shouted. 💙 turned around to the source. Noticing the rapidly growing crowd surrounding them, her eyebrows shot up. She slightly staggered backward, her stomach begins twisting around. Her reaction to the crowd didn’t go unnoticed by the Number 1 hero. Instead, he stepped in front of her, covering her from the crowd with his larger body. “Can we get a word in with (H/N)?!” The reporter attempted to shove past All Might to get to the heroine. “Ah ah ah, she is currently not taking any questions.” All Might wagged his finger at the crowd as if he were scolding a child. Despite his efforts, they were still trying to move past him. Blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, which he quickly wiped away before anyone noticed. “💙! 💙!” The reporter yelled out. “Sorry but we’re out of time!” He lifted two reporters and threw them into the crowd. He then turned around, picking up 💙 bridal style. “We are leaving!” He did his iconic pose then jumped away.
“Are you okay?” He peered down at 💙, who was clinging to his chest. She nodded her head as an answer. He landed on a building’s rooftop and set her down. Once down, he deflated back into his regular form. “Sorry, Miss 💙. Crowds always follow me.” He apologized, rubbing the top of her head, messing up her hair. “It’s alright. I wish I didn’t get scared.” She admitted, hitting the front of her boot on the concrete. His expression softened. “We’re all scared of something 💙. It’s okay to be afraid.” He squeezed her shoulder to reassure her. “What are you scared of?” She looked at him with sad eyes. He looked at her then up at the sky, thinking it over. “Hmm...Well, my biggest fear would be... something happening to you because I couldn’t save you.” His eyes rested back on her. Her eyes widened at his confession, while her face heated up slightly.
She quickly dejected any thoughts of him having feelings towards her. ‘He just cares. I mean he’s a hero after all.’ She told herself. “I’ll be alright, you have a lot of people to save.” She smiled at him. “💙, do you think that I don’t love you?” His statement caused her to stiffen. Yagi took her actions as a signal. He held her hand and used his other hand to cup her cheek. “I do love you.” She clenched her jaw to not scream at his confession. “I love you too.” She replied bashfully. Yagi laughed, pure affection and admiration gleamed in his eyes. He leans close to her face and pressed his lips against her own. Reaching up with her free hand, she covered his hand and returned the kiss.
Fic Type: Oneshot Fandom: My Hero Academia Pairing: Mirio x Reader Prompt: N/A Word Count:1,029 words Authors Note: There may or may not be a part 3 in da works 💙
"How are the preparations going?" Shigaraki inquired. "They're coming along. We ran into a slight problem, however." You responded to your boss, scrolling through the tablet you had. The room grew quiet as they turned to you. "A hero happened to sneak in. His quirk is Permeation.'" Shigaraki adjusted the hand on his face before sighing out. "Dabi, accompany (💙) from now on." The burnt man rolled his eyes but followed Shiggy's instructions, nonetheless. "Make sure it gets finished." His voice is grating to your ears. His grip on your shoulder made you tense up, forcing you to respond. After the short meeting was over, Dabi followed you back to the room that served as your cell. You stopped in front of the door hesitating a bit, but he shoved you in, locking the door behind you. You tried so hard to gain their trust but, Shigaraki still had everyone on guard.
Deeming the tablet now useless, you tossed it onto the dresser. As you took a seat on the mattress, that was considered a bed, you thought back to your encounter with the hero Lemillion. "Come back with me. We can make your new everything together." You desperately wanted to go with him. But you knew there would be severe consequences if Shigaraki caught you. You laid down on your side, curling into a ball, drifting off to sleep.
"(💙), what do you wanna be when we grow up?" Mirio asked as the two of you walked home together. "Hmm. I'm not sure yet. What about you?" He jogged in front of you to strike a pose. "I'm going to be the best hero ever!" You giggled, and he grabbed both of your hands with his own. "Will you be my partner when I'm a hero?" You tore your gaze from him as you felt your face heat up. "You want me to be your partner? But what if things change?" His hand gently tilted your head towards him. "Even if things changed, and we went down different paths, it doesn't matter. As long as we meet each other at the end." He beamed at you. You smiled back at him as a few tears streamed down your cheeks. "Hey..." His voice was soft and kind. He wiped away the tears and embraced you. For those few moments, you in his arms, you felt safe.
You stirred awake, being face to face with Toga. "Time for the final prep!" She said smiling widely. You knew that messing around would be pointless because of how seriously demented they are. You followed closely behind Toga as she led you to the car. "Dabi will take things from here!" She slammed the door, and you hugged your figure tightly. Thinking about your dream, you wished you could experience that warmth again. "(💙)" You glanced up at Dabi. "Do you know that guy who broke in?" You knew it would be pointless to lie. "Yes..." "Why didn't you go with him?" You clenched your jaw and remained quiet. His blue eyes bore into you through the rearview mirror. The answer was clear. You cared for the hero. Choosing to go with him would only cause harm to him. If you had to be the bad guy to protect him, then you would.
"Alright, get out, we're here." Following his instructions, you got out of the car and followed him inside the abandoned building. Dabi leaned against the entrance of the building, as you brought out your table and began tapping away. Unknowing to the two of you, heroes lurked in the shadows. The group of heroes looked at each other before nodding. Currently, you stood in the middle of the room. In a second, the heroes jumped out of hiding and began attacking Dabi. The scent of soot caught your attention, and you turned around. Blue vivid flames encircled the front of the building. Dabi happened to be fighting heroes off. "Wait..." You staggered backward realizing that Mirio had come back for you. "(💙)!" Turning to the source of the sound, Dabi yelled at you to call for reinforcement. You started shakily typing on the screen, as your eyesight became blurry. Before you managed to contact Shigaraki, the tablet flew from your grasp. Mirio struck it away from you. "(💙), you don't have to do this anymore." Sky blue, kind eyes met your own (e/c) ones. "We can leave together." He extended a hand out to you. Pausing to take a glance over at Dabi, he remained carelessly fighting off the group of heroes.
You reached out to grab his hand, but a knife darting out from the shadows struck your hand. "I knew something would be up." Your blood went cold, hearing Shigaraki's disembodied voice. You tightly held your injured hand, looking at Toga. "Sorry, I was hoping to see a lot more blood." Her smirk remained frightening. "Dispose of these heroes. (💙), come with me." Shigaraki spoke with you. Absentmindedly, your legs began to move on their own towards him. "Now!" Mirio shouted to his companions and ran to sweep you up in his arms. "Mirio..." You gripped his attire. "Please stop..." The heroes lept into action and a fight erupted between the two sides. You tilted your head down to hide your face. "(💙), you don't need to cry anymore. I'm here now." He placed you on the ground and stroked your hair. A hit resounded throughout the building. You had hit his hand away. "You're not my friend anymore, remember?" His grin faltered, and he took in your appearance. Your words stung but, he knew you had to be lying. "I'm getting you out of here whether you like it or not."
"Mirio, they're getting away." The two of you turned towards the League. Kurogiri had activated his warp gate. Shigaraki's stare seemed to go through you. The rest of the League, including Shigaraki, went through the portal. They had vanished and left you behind. You lost yourself in your thought about what could mean for you now. "Hey." Mirio's tender touch brought you back. "Let's go home." Despite what you said, he needed you by his side.
hi babes!!!! not sure what this is but here ya go✨✨✨
Viktor x gender neutral reader, 5k words
modern no magic au, viktor is still disabled but not actively dying au, everyone is an academy student because i said so. this will be a two part story!
summary: The last exams of the season are over in the Academy, and people are celebrating. Jayce, Mel and Viktor have a victorious pub quiz team, and after your classmates stand you up, you join them. And end up spending the night sitting in Viktor's lap.
Warnings: bar scene, implied drinking/alcohol but no-one's really drunk. also i think i might have accidentally given the reader anxiety
Tags: @writingmysanity
It’ll be fun, they’d said. You have to come, they’d said. Let’s all go, they’d said.
And then they, your stupid traitorous classmates, dared not to show up. Which you, of course, only found out after dragging your sorry ass to the bar.
It was a statistical miracle none of them were there, really. Celebrating the end of exam season was standard custom, and usually everyone flooded to the closest bars and nightclubs, probably increasing their nightly revenue by at least 500%.
The place was packed, as usual, but you just couldn’t find any of the people that had participated in talking you into coming.
Maybe they’re just not here yet, your brain offers only semi-helpfully, and you only semi-believe it. The quiet unsettling anxiety of being alone in a place where everyone else had someone to talk to starts to creep up on you, and a part of you starts to regret leaving home in the first place. For a moment, you wonder if they could have done this to you on purpose, but that doesn’t make much sense, so you try to abandon that particular train of thought.
It was loud, the floors were sticky, and your clothes were getting more uncomfortable by the minute. You could have been home reading. Watching a movie. Playing a game. Something. Something familiar, something quiet, something comfortable.
An annoying little echo of something one of your friends – real friends, not ones that stood you up at bars – had said to you once plays out in your head.
Doing things is good for you.
Don’t be alone all the time.
You sigh a little to yourself.
Ugh, fine, you think, and then you take a deep breath, squish that creeping anxiety like an annoying bug, and walk to the bar.
You were already there.
You might as well try to have some fun. There was supposed to be a pub quiz later – with only topics that no-one would have to learn in school – and that seemed interesting. Maybe you could get something good to drink, find a nice corner, and try that. One person teams were allowed, if you remembered correctly.
The bar is crowded, with everyone wanting drinks and refills and trying to hit on the bartenders, so you have to wait a while before you can order, but that’s fine. At least you have something to do.
Leaning on the counter, you look around as you wait your turn. The place was full of students; some of whom you recognized but didn’t really know, people you had seen around but never talked to, a few you’d shared classes or lab shifts with but no longer remembered the names of.
It makes you feel a little better that to them, you were probably just another nameless face in the crowd, just like they were to you.
Slowly, you get used to the surroundings, the too-loud mind numbing music and soft-sticky floors, people bumping into you occasionally. It all fades into a background mush of a steady hum and droning of the bass.
When it’s finally your turn, you order something that had a strange name and a funny color, and that was definitely overpriced. But everything there was, so you try not to dwell on it. Your drink comes with a purple glow stick and turns out to be sweet, ambiguously fruity, and so good that a part of you was disappointed.
You’d want more of those.
Dammit.
You tuck that thought to the back of your head – a problem for future you – and walk away from the counter, making space for other people waiting to order. You’re not sure if the whole drink is purple, or if that’s just the glow stick, but you decide that that doesn’t really matter.
Looking for a free spot away from the loudspeakers, you successfully make it to a far corner without spilling your drink or crashing into anybody, which was, in itself, a victory of sorts.
And then you almost spill your drink anyway when someone calls your name. Loudly.
It’s Jayce. One of the more familiar faces on campus. You’d had some classes with him, seen him around, in events and workshops and at the library. He was the kind of person that seemed to be everywhere, so really, you weren’t that surprised to see him. He could pop up at the lab, or in an office or a hallway somewhere, or a fundraiser or a gala or a competition at any given moment, smile politely and stop for some smalltalk, and then continue on his way. He was everywhere and he was friends with everybody, at least on some level, it seemed. Most often he was in the company of one of two people, though;
Mel, who was currently sitting on his lap,
or Viktor, who was sitting next to them, avoiding being squished between Jayce and the wall. The three of them were on a two-person couch, in one of the far corners.
You gather yourself and slip closer to them, grateful to have somewhere to go and someone to hang out with.
Mel being there didn’t surprise you. She was – not shockingly – also the type of person that seemed to be everywhere or at least have some contacts there, so her participation in social events wasn’t out of the ordinary. She was studying something in the realm of political science, you weren’t sure of the details, but you had already mentally accepted the possibility that she would probably be running for president someday.
Viktor, however? Viktor didn’t…do this. Not that you knew, at least. You’d shared classes with him, too, and he was in the lab more often than not. You weren’t exactly sure what he did as a student and what he did as a teacher’s assistant, the line between the two seemed to be a bit hazy, and he also seemed to have some independent job working at the lab. He’d talked about it before, but you were pretty sure you still didn’t know all of it.
He was the type of person that would just casually say I have to go tend to the porous silicon now, excuse me, and never explain what the porous silicon was for, because apparently that part was obvious.
Or, you know, he’d reveal himself as working as a teacher’s assistant only after you’d only complained to him about the poor quality the class had been organized in.
At least he had had fun with that one.
And at least he’d agreed.
So, when you saw him, it was usually either in the lab, in the library, or out somewhere getting coffee. Most of your interactions consisted of lab-related things, or homework, or complaining about the inconvenient and too-short hours places such as the library, the cafeteria, or the coffee shops were open.
This was not a place you expected to see him in.
“Care to join our team?” Mel asks, pulling you out of your thoughts, “We could use a fourth.”
Ah.
The pub quiz.
That made sense.
You relax a little as you get out of the crowd properly and close enough to talk to them without having to shout. “Sure,” You say, giving them a smile, “Sounds fun.”
Then, you lick your lips and swallow, looking over the room quickly again. “I was supposed to come here with some classmates but I think they might have stood me up.”
Mel hums a little in response, Jayce frowns, and Viktor looks almost a little offended on your behalf.
“Well, we’re more than happy to have you on our team.” Mel continues, “Do you happen to have any obscure areas of expertise that might be useful?”
You smile at her. “I guess we’ll have to see.”
“Last chance to google something.” Jayce says, already looking down at his phone.
You furrow your brows, a little amused, and look at Viktor. “Do you guys usually prepare for this a lot?” You ask, “You know the winners get like, a coupon for drinks, not their weight in gold and half the kingdom?”
Viktor smiles a little. “Yes,” He answers, leaning forward slightly, “but it’s more fun if you win.”
“Besides,” Jayce adds, still not looking up from his phone, “free drinks.”
“And –” Viktor nods, even though Jayce can’t see him, “if we get enough of those coupons, isn’t it kind of like getting half the kingdom?”
“Oh, so you’re playing the long game then,” You smile, “going to win, what, for the next couple of decades and drink for free?”
“Give or take.” He answers, “Not sure where this place is valued at. Might take less than a decade. This isn’t exactly a high-class establishment.”
“But it is popular,” Mel interjects, sounding like she’s only half-serious, “students bring in a lot of money. Not compared to some other places, but still.”
Jayce hums in agreement, shifting a little in his place as he puts his phone away. He only needs to point towards the nearest table before Mel leans over, grabs a piece of paper that was, apparently, their answer sheet, and modifies their team to include four, not three people.
“You should sit,” She says, as she’s writing, and for a second you just look at her.
Where? is the obvious question your brain immediately supplies, you three barely fit there and there’s no free seats anywhere.
Before you can ask, she looks up at you and answers.
By gesturing towards Viktor.
“It would make me look better if you sat on his lap, too.” Mel continues, like it’s the most reasonable thing ever, “That way I won’t stand out as much and look stupid on my own. Besides, we’ll all be close to each other that way. Easier to conspire.”
For a moment, you stare at her.
And then you stare at Viktor, who is, slowly but steadily, turning slightly red.
“Hang on,” Jayce says, “you think sitting on my lap makes you look stupid?”
Mel smiles and leans back against him. “Depends on the context.” Mel answers, before turning her attention back to you, and to Viktor.
Who clears his throat.
“I mean – if you want –” He says, and it’s exactly as much of a coherent sentence as you were expecting. It’s exactly as much of a coherent sentence as you would have been capable of in his place.
“Are you sure?” You ask him, slightly hesitant. This was, this whole situation and where it was going, wildly uncharted waters. Yes, you were friends or – or something, you were closer to him than you were to anyone else there, but sitting in his lap was not something you had expected to happen.
And – yes, you were not opposed to the idea, not at all, but –
“Yes,” He answers, “don’t worry, you won’t break me.”
“He’s tougher than he looks.” Jayce agrees, and for a second, you just let yourself feel everything around you.
The music. The sticky floor. The aftertaste of the sugary sweet drink in your mouth. The way Viktor was looking at you.
The moment.
You mentally strangle the hesitant anxiety pooling at the bottom of your stomach, shrug softly with one shoulder, and take a few steps to stand directly in front of Viktor, your knees brushing his. Handing your drink to Mel for safekeeping, you carefully settle into his lap, barely daring to breathe, making sure not to knock over the cane that was leaning against the wall next to him.
“I’m not hurting you, am I?” You ask him quietly, leaning back slightly so he could hear you better, “You should tell me if I am.”
He swallows – you can feel it. “Eh, no –” He says, and his voice is so close that it surprises you, “ – you’re not. Don’t worry.”
You exhale, slowly, and try your best to relax.
Trying is the best you can do, though – feeling him pressed against you is causing way too many thoughts and feelings to happen for you to truly focus on anything else. He was warm, and firm, and you could feel his breathing, and you were sitting in his lap.
You were. In his lap.
You were not even going to let your brain go there.
No, this was a normal, casual situation, and you were going to be cool about it. So what if you had a crush on him? So what if you could feel him pressed against your back, your ass –
“Good.” Mel says, smiling as she hands your drink back to you. You take it, carefully, trying not to move too much in case it’d make him uncomfortable.
You were going to be cool about this.
You came here to have fun, and that’s what you were going to do.
“Thanks.” You tell her, giving her a smile and trying your best to act normal about the whole situation.
“What is that?” She asks, motioning towards your drink with one hand, “It looks good.”
“Oh.” You answer, looking down at your drink again, racking your brain for the name of it, “Something new, I think? It was called, uh, Krypton?”
“Right, they’re doing that periodic table thing.” Jayce comments.
“Naming drinks after elements?” Mel asks, “Why?”
“Probably because a lot of nerds frequent this place.” Viktor answers, and again, his voice is so close that it’s like he’s talking directly into your ear. You can feel it, the words rumbling through his chest.
“What’s it taste like?” Mel continues, ignoring his comment, “Krypton?”
You hum thoughtfully, and take a sip.
“I would hope not.” Viktor answers while you’re trying to figure out what it does taste like.
“Krypton doesn’t taste like anything.” He continues, “That’d be a pretty sad drink.”
You can’t help smiling at his answer.
“Why do you know that?” You ask, leaning closer to him again, tilting back your head slightly.
You can’t see it, but you can hear the smile in his voice when he answers.
“I know a lot of things. You'd be surprised.” He says.
Quietly.
Just for you.
Before you let yourself get too focused on what his voice sounds like that – close and quiet, so close – you take a breath and turn to look at Mel again.
“I think it tastes like lemon and rose.”
She lifts her eyebrows and nods thoughtfully. “I think I’m going to try that once we get our kingdom’s worth of free drinks.”
“Wasn’t it half a kingdom?” Jayce asks, reaching for his own drink on the table.
“I’m optimistic.” Mel answers, smiling.
“Is krypton purple?” Jayce then continues, now, you’re assuming, to Viktor.
He hums in answer, and you can feel it. Every slow second of his chest reverberating against your spine, you could feel it resonate in your rib cage, and then when he speaks, it’s no better. His voice is so close that it’s all you could focus on, etching the sound of it into permanent memory without even trying.
“It glows purple,” He says, “if you run a high enough voltage electric current through it. It’s colorless, normally, but for the sake of argument I guess we can say that it’s purple, yes.”
“Huh.” Jayce answers, leaning back in his seat.
Viktor mirrors his movement, and you can feel him shift under you.
His hand brushes your side, and then settles by your waist, a weight so light you half think you’re imagining it.
That, inevitably, reminds your entire body of the position you were in, which was extremely close to him. and you need to focus a lot of your energy on not combusting on the spot. You had never been so close to him before – why would you have been, you were friends – and this was… a whole lot of entirely new sensations.
He was so close.
What was he thinking? What was he feeling?
Was it as much as you were feeling?
You were acutely aware of every single point of contact between your bodies, and you were trying not to think about it too much, but, well, that’s just impossible. He was so close, and you could still feel his every breath, feel his every word rumble through his chest, and –
Mel says something to you, pulling your focus back to her. She’s explaining how the quiz works, what the rules are, and you try your best to listen.
In the background, though, Jayce and Viktor are talking something about circuit boards, and you can feel his every word. And it is wonderful and heavy and almost unfair, how he’s so close and not closer. How he’s talking like this, every word brushing past your ear, and you know it’s not really what it feels like. This isn’t for you, you’re just there.
But…he wouldn’t have agreed to this if he didn’t want you there, right? He wasn’t a person that did things he didn’t want to do. He didn’t stay in situations he didn’t like. And he wouldn’t be here if he didn’t want to be.
He hums in response to something Jayce had said, and leans closer to you.
Closer to the table.
“Can you hand me my drink?” He asks, voice quiet, and very close to your ear. Smooth, and gentle, and low, it goes straight to the pit of your stomach. You can feel him nod towards the table, and, presumably, the one half-full glass there.
For a single heartbeat, you just revel in that feeling. And then you let go of that and lean towards the table, putting down your own drink and grabbing what must have been his.
“Yeah,” You exhale, and hold it out to him carefully. “here.”
His hand snakes past you, and his fingers brush yours, careful as ever as he takes the drink from you. “Thank you.” He breathes, so close you can feel his breath on your cheek, and you have to suppress a shiver.
And then he’s back to talking about the circuit boards – something about heat resistant coating and trying to find a new way to attach some wires – and you listen. Try not to feel guilty about how much you were enjoying every second.
They go back and forth for a moment, going through ideas, and you listen. You’re not sure what it’s about, not anything you were familiar with. Probably not course work, then.
You reach over to the table to grab your own drink again, and then settle back against him. He’s mid-sentence, saying something about mechanical stress – No, that won’t work, it will put too much stress on the wires – and you sip your drink, trying to figure out what they were talking about. They both probably knew more about engineering than you did, but you were still curious.
“What’s the problem?” You ask, leaning back against his chest and tilting your head up, closer to him.
He breathes out a quiet hum before explaining.
“We want to connect two circuit boards in moving parts,” He explains, “which means it needs to be more durable than it is now. The solder keeps breaking, and the wires would get damaged in the long run.”
You hum thoughtfully, trying to get a hold of the problem. “What have you tried so far?”
“Additional joints,” Jayce answers, and you can feel Viktor nod.
“Heat resistant coating, it protects the wires.” Viktor adds.
“...But not the connections.” You continue the thought, nodding.
“Right.” Viktor agrees, “The components are small, the solder can’t take the stress.”
You hum thoughtfully, thinking it through. “Right.”
And then you lean towards Mel, and the answer sheet for the oncoming quiz. “Gimme.” You reach towards the paper, “The pen, too.”
She looks surprised, and you roll your eyes a little. “I’m going to use the blank side.” You reassure her, and slowly, she hands you the paper and the pen.
“Have you tried putting any kind of casing around the connection?” You ask, “What’s the geometry like?”
“Eh–” He starts, leaning closer to see the paper, “No. And it’s flat.” Then, he shifts a little, “Do we have space for casings?”
That’s aimed towards Jayce, and while he thinks, you draw a tentative sketch of what you were thinking. If the soldered connections were the brittle part but the wire itself could be coated, they could build a protective casing around the connection, and let the wire go through it.
“If we move around the components a bit,” Jayce answers, “then I think so, yeah?”
You can feel Viktor nod slowly, and he leans closer, to look at the paper over your shoulder.
“Would something like this work?” You ask, knowing he was watching, studying it. You lean back and put down the pen, giving him a better view of what you’d drawn.
He hums thoughtfully, and his breath hits your cheek, the low rumble of his voice feeling like it wraps itself around your spine and drips straight into your core.
You do your best to ignore it.
“Could work.” He says quietly, before reaching for the pen. You tug it closer for him to reach, and he takes it, and scribbles something down to the paper, too.
“We have three wires,” He mutters, drawing three small lines inside your model of the casing. “we’d need to –” He trails off, and you assume that at this point, he’s mainly talking to himself. That’s okay by you; you just listen to his voice and watch as he draws with quick, nimble fingers. His breathing is deep and steady, and you can feel all of it.
He keeps sketching, and then exhales deeply, shifting slightly again. “That could work. We could try that.” He says, thoughtfully, lifting the paper from the table and looking at it for a moment before handing it to Jayce. “What do you think?”
You smile, proud of yourself for potentially solving their problem, and Jayce looks over the sketch, squinting in the low lighting.
As Viktor leans back to his original spot, you settle against him again – and his hand grips your hip, hard, holding you in place.
“Please don’t say anything.” He whispers, quiet and breathy, directly into your ear. Closer than at any point before.
For one fast heartbeat, you’re confused.
And then you realize what’s going on; in the new position, you’re pressed against him again.
“I can’t–” He continues through his teeth, voice still so quiet you barely make it out, and the sentence ends in a quiet, frustrated groan. "...control this, at the moment."
You can feel his breathing, now considerably less relaxed than before, and – you’re pretty sure you could even feel his heartbeat, fast and pounding against you.
Unless that was your own. You weren’t sure.
You could feel every inch of him pressed against you.
Including what was definitely an erection.
The realization makes heat flood through you, and with it, a few anxious knots somewhere deep inside you dissolve.
One, he definitely wasn’t uncomfortable with you being in his lap, then, at least not in the way you’d feared, and two; you weren’t the only one feeling like this. Feeling like your skin was tingling, like you wanted to drink in every second of this and burn it to your memory, your focus honing in on every point of contact.
You glance over at Jayce and Mel – both studying the drawing now.
Good.
You smile a little to yourself.
“Circuit boards, then?” You whisper, tilting your head so that you were talking only to him, “That’s what does it for you?”
He exhales a small, slightly-strangled chuckle, and briefly drops his head on your shoulder.
“Right.” He mutters. “That’s what this is about. Absolutely doesn’t have anything to do with you.”
He still sounds like he’s whispering through gritted teeth, and for a moment, you feel genuinely sorry for him.
But not so sorry that it would cancel out everything else you were feeling about him.
This was the guy you’d had a crush on for – far too long. And here he was. Like this. Because of you.
You were on uncharted waters, for sure; teetering on the edge of something.
And you wanted to know what was on the other side.
“If it makes you feel better,” You say slowly, quietly, letting your fingers brush his thigh, “I’ve been turned on since I sat here and felt you pressed against me like this, heard your voice so close.”
You can feel him take a deep, slightly-shaky breath. “No,” He mutters, “that definitely does not make me feel better. Or, it does, but that’s not good, it also means it’s going to be a lot more difficult to –” He swallows. "Compose myself again."
“Sorry.” You breathe out.
You’re not sorry. Not really. And he knows it; you can hear it in the half groan - half sigh that he makes.
“How am I supposed to focus on anything,” He whispers, “like this, when you’re right there?”
“Sorry.” You try again, and it’s not sincere this time, either.
“This is torture.”
“The good kind?”
He swallows, and his hand on your hip flexes, tightening the grip.
“The best.”
You look over to Jayce and Mel again. They’re talking about something, you can’t hear what it is, but that’s just good. It means that odds are they couldn’t have heard anything of your conversation either.
Mel gets your attention first, asking you to go to the bathroom with her before the quiz – apparently she needs a buffer to make sure she doesn’t get caught in any conversations – and as she explains this, Viktor’s grip on your hip loosens, and he sighs quietly.
“Sorry.” You breathe in his direction, this time more sincerely.
In response, he lets out a long exhale, and shifts a little as you get up.
You feel genuinely bad for him now, but at this point, there wasn’t much you could do.
At least there was a table in front of him.
Mel tells the boys to watch your drinks as she pulls you along. The people had moved to the tables, mostly, in anticipation of the quiz, and the bathroom wasn’t as crowded as it could have been. You don’t even need to wait in line.
“Still no sign of your friends?” Mel asks, casually, as she’s checking her makeup in the mirror.
“No,” You answer, “but they’re not really my friends. Just classmates.”
She hums in answer. Then, she changes the topic, as smoothly as she does everything else.
“How’s it going with Viktor?” She asks, and coming from her, it sounds casual. Like a totally normal question.
You don’t know how to give her a normal answer, though.
She glances at you, waiting.
“What do you mean?” You ask, which is stupid, because the question doesn’t really leave much up for interpretation.
She lifts a single eyebrow. “I mean,” She says, slowly, “you two fit together like nuts and bolts, the boy has had a massive thing for you for ages, and you’re sitting in his lap.” She lists, “So, how’s it going?”
You swallow, trying to think of something to say.
“Good,” You start, “good, I guess?”
That was true. It definitely wasn’t going badly. It was weird and new and you wanted to speak to him somewhere where you could be alone, but whatever this weird new thing was it definitely wasn’t bad.
She hums again. Looks at you for a moment, before turning back to her reflection. “Good.” She echoes, “He deserves good things.” She adds, “And so do you.”
You nod a little, not sure how to answer.
She doesn’t wait for an answer before walking out. "Come on."
Right.
Now you just needed to go back out there, sit on his lap for the rest of the night without spontaneously combusting, and figure out where to go from there.
That was going to be fun.
Part 2
chapter ix: even in death, you put on a show
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Wednesday/Tyler
Summary:
Wednesday found herself rather enjoying Tyler’s company.