Che farò senza Euridice?

[the_real_sir_prize]

Who| Yuuri and Victor
What| Dealing with the aftermath of their respective first missions
Where| The MedBay
When| Immediately after Silent Horizon
Warnings/Notes| Discussions of blood and death, trauma, nudity, naked touching

Victor really, truly hopes that it's going to be hard to top this day for the worst in his life, because he doesn't want to find out what would be worse than spending an indeterminate number of hours running for his life from monsters who were trying to kill him and who were also people who were supposed to be helping save other people with him. He can still feel the blood caking his hair down, even if the Legion staffers back on the cruiser had mostly managed to clean it out with their weird humming space wands. They'd also patched him up and given him clothes to change into, which is good because everything he'd worn into that hellscape needs to be thrown into the nearest sun, right down to his underwear.

Ugh.

Still, phantom sensations of trickling blood and clammy fear-sweat aside, he's almost presentable now. Not selfie-presentable, because: no, never, not happening; but presentable enough he's not going to horrify Yuuri when he throws himself out of the Legion cruiser and into Yuuri's arms.

Except Yuuri's not waiting for him when the cruiser lands, and Victor's close enough to hear the staffers talking about something even if he's not close enough to hear everything they're saying, and...

...And someone died while they were gone. Someone died and suddenly Victor can't stick around to ask questions because he knows he's not going to be able to hear the answers until he sees Yuuri for himself. Fortunately, the halls are designed to ensure that the Legionnaires have enough room to fly overhead, and Victor is highly motivated to get to Medical as fast as he can.

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[katsudork]

Instead of being on the main Medbay floor (the place where they often are if they won't be in Medbay long) Yuuri's in one of the private rooms. Most of the soot has been cleaned off his face, and what little burns and cuts and bruises he had from the fight were taken care of. The only things that show how much he's been through are the burns and tears on his now-ruined costume, and the blank expression on his face.

The reason he's still in Medbay isn't physical, it's because of how he's staring straight ahead at the wall, eyes unseeing. Dr. Ry'kerr had already talked to him earlier and planned to come again to talk to him more after making the rounds and seeing the others from the Cargg mission, but the sudden influx of severely disturbed Legionnaires from both teams means she and the rest of the psych stuff suddenly have their hands even fuller.

The nurses have at least been nice. The keep checking in on him and have been very kind, but have also given him the space he needs.

Still, he's been stuck just sitting here, stewing in his guilt, caught in a state of constant shaking anxiety as he waits to find out what happened to the other mission team.

But before the other nurses show up, Victor's there, peeking in the right doorway. And his costume is gone like something happened to it, and he looks like he's been through hell, and there's something dried and gross and horrible in the roots of his hair that might be blood. Yuuri is already off his bed and halfway to him before he even realizes these things, and starts sobbing the moment after he notices.

He's dead weight from the moment he his arms wrap around Victor, dragging him down to the floor with him, his legs shaking too much from nerves and sheer exhaustion to hold him up.