For a too long second the whole world freezes. No. He does. He is. Frozen, as the world keeps moving. Unable to move as the small wave of water flies toward Victor, all movement until he goes rigid with surprise and freezes, too. Staring at Yuri, frozen, himself, suddenly, while Yuri's brain explodes inside him --
he hadn't meant to do it -- that should have only -- he didn't see -- hadn't seen -- hadn't meant -- not when everything had just gotten -- he was -- he was so--
But Victor's face shifts from the startled slap of shock into (not a frown, not blank, not anger) a sudden smile, with Yuri's name on that mouth, like a song and a promise, and some something-something something more, when Victor suddenly is trying to rush at him through the water. Sending him back on uncertain, suddenly wobbling legs, calling out with a yelp of his own surprise at the sudden focus that wasn't -- well, everything it wasn't, "Gomen! Gomen!"
Except there's that lunatic smile, brighter than the light from the clouds on the water, so familiar from every time Victor had to try some new treat or spotted something he'd decided was the newest amazing thing in Yuri's world, focused on him. Charging toward him. Even as he's apologizing and trying to run backward in the water and still not slip, which means having to flip it. Backward on ice and backward in water aren't the same. "I didn't mean to!"
Cold water sliding against his skin, soaking more of the bottom of his pants with the splashed half-running, full-retreat and -escape, steps, getting colder as his heart races to match his feet, and as a reflection of the expectation of payback, goosebumps his skin and checking through all his nerves like a test flight for the readiness of it.
no subject
hadn't seen -- hadn't meant -- not when everything had just gotten --
he was -- he was so--
But Victor's face shifts from the startled slap of shock into (not a frown, not blank, not anger) a sudden smile, with Yuri's name on that mouth, like a song and a promise, and some something-something something more, when Victor suddenly is trying to rush at him through the water. Sending him back on uncertain, suddenly wobbling legs, calling out with a yelp of his own surprise at the sudden focus that wasn't -- well, everything it wasn't, "Gomen! Gomen!"
Except there's that lunatic smile, brighter than the light from the clouds on the water, so familiar from every time Victor had to try some new treat or spotted something he'd decided was the newest amazing thing in Yuri's world, focused on him. Charging toward him. Even as he's apologizing and trying to run backward in the water and still not slip, which means having to flip it. Backward on ice and backward in water aren't the same. "I didn't mean to!"
Cold water sliding against his skin, soaking more of the bottom of his pants with the splashed half-running, full-retreat and -escape, steps, getting colder as his heart races to match his feet, and as a reflection of the expectation of payback, goosebumps his skin and checking through all his nerves like a test flight for the readiness of it.