Viktor's Very Normal Morning Where Nothing Strange Happens at All
by powerbottomvik
Viktor x Jayce ✦ explicit ✦ one-shot ✦ 3.6k
It doesn’t feel like a dream, everything is too sharp and focused. Nothing exists in that vague hazy background that dreams tend to have. Viktor can read the name of the magician on the poster on the wall, he can see the light refracting through the crystals on the window sill, he can make out the small embroidery details on Jayce’s academy uniform jacket draped over the back of a chair.
Oh god, he’s in Jayce’s apartment.
Oh god, he’s in Jayce’s body.
Oh god, he’s in Jayce’s body with an erection.
or
Viktor mysteriously wakes up in Jayce's body and does what any reasonable man would do: crank it.
(Bottom Jayce Bingo: Toys)
{Additional Tags}
Bodyswap, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Cis Jayce (League of Legends), Bottom Jayce (League of Legends), Sex Toys, Masturbation, Sex Tapes, Come Eating, Pre-Relationship, Viktor is in love with Jayce (League of Legends), POV Viktor (League of Legends), Dubious Consent, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Wank and Tell
pbv!Steve on V-Day? I can only imagine the level of over-the-topness…
February is Valentine’s month for our boy. He starts on the 1st with a single red rose that he picks up on the way home from the office, delicately handing it to you with a kiss to your cheek while you make dinner.
“Hey valentine,” he murmurs before pressing another kiss to your temple.
“It’s not for another two weeks, Steve,” you smile into chopping aromatics, butterflies fluttering from your stomach to your chest.
“Valentine’s Day isn’t for another two weeks but,” he hangs his coat up by the door with his briefcase, “You’re kind of my forever valentine. So, the name sticks.”
“Your forever Valentine, huh?” you tease, showing off your empty ring finger, “Says who?”
“Patience is such a virtue, Manhattan,” he sighs, “The city’s poisoned you into wanting everything so fast.”
You let a puff of air through your mouth while you slide the celery, onion, and carrots into the heated pot on his newly installed chef’s stove top.
“When the jeweler and I agree on the stone, you will have that ring before you know it,” he says, rehearsed. He reminds you all the time. It’s weeks away. Fiancée is weeks away. But not Valentine’s Day because you told him that’s so cheesy, and Steve Harrington is much smoother than that anyway.
Valentine’s Day is an ordeal. He spends the first two weeks of the month adding a rose, so you end up with a huge bouquet by the holiday. Dinner reservations were made a month and a half in advance — he loves you in red, so your custom garter belt and bustier with lace and crafted boning flash a bloody crimson against your skin under your dress. A surprise. He loves when you surprise him.
Dinner and two bottles of wine and a box of chocolates and a new necklace later you are draped over each other in the living room, making out like teenagers who were told they could never see each other again. He barely has time to appreciate the lingerie before he tears it off you.
In the morning, you make him breakfast to deliver to him in bed. Wine always gives him a hang over, you tease him for getting old too fast when it does.
He smiles sleepily while he sits up, running a large hand over his face and through his hair — watching glinting in the morning light of February 14th.
“Good morning,” he says groggily, admiring you wearing nothing but the short silk robe you cooked in. He kicks himself for not being awake to watch you make it.
“Good morning, valentine,” you say back softly, “I’ll go get you some Advil.”
The one where... Mulder goes undercover with a group of domestic terrorists with a bio-weapon and tries to hide it from Scully.
Best: This episode is such a good culmination of the tensions of this season. And it’s so suspenseful. They really make us (and Scully!) believe that Mulder’s dissolutionment and anger towards the government may have led him to a breaking point. Everything he says in that phone call towards to beginning of the episode is true. I always forget how good this episode is!
Worst: So... did they thwart a plot or was this the plan all along? And for what purpose? Although I think I actually like the ambiguity on this one.
Great cold open. Tense throughout, with the surveillance, the unknown bio-weapon, Scully bursting out of that van to get to Mulder when she thinks he’s in danger, and ending with her confusion and suspicion over him helping the suspect get away.
Is it a requirement of being an FBI field agent to be in good enough shape to go undercover/surveillance jogging? Although some of the agents are just reading newspapers on a bench so I guess jogging is one of Mulder’s special skills they’re putting to good use. Does Scully list running in heels as one of her special skills? Because she really should get extra pay for that.
This whole opening act where Scully knows something is wrong and Mulder can’t even look her in the eye is so good. Honestly, Skinner should have known better.
Scully: I expect you to tell me the truth. That one’s got to hurt.
Motel Owner: Are you the wife? Scully: Not even close. This is her whole vibe next season and I’m IN. TO. IT.
I can’t get the movie theater outtakes where GA/MP keep laughing out of my head.
The scene in Mulder’s apt where Scully sets his finger... Is this scene actually hot or has fanfic just skewed my reaction to it? There’s something about the dark, and the clandestine nature of Scully waiting for him in his apartment, and Scully sitting on the coffee table to look at his finger...
Even though Mulder and Scully are apart a lot of this episode it just works so much better for me than when that happens in most mytharc episodes. Mulder is on his action adventure getting tortured and holding up banks and trying not to get killed. And Scully is doing Science and putting the pieces together. Which sounds similar to a mytharc episode - but it’s good?
Her certainty that she will recognize him on the surveillance footage kills me - despite everything she knows him, down deep. Reminds me of a storyline I hate from season 9 where everyone thinks someone that shows up with a different face might be Mulder but Scully knows it’s not - she says you know a person in so many ways. And that certainty is at the foundation of their partnership. Which is why the lying is so destabilizing - to both of them - at the beginnings the episode.
Episode-Related Fanfic Recs:
Snakebitten by @onpaperfirst - takes place over the course of season 5, threading this episode’s storyline into the season and tying it all together so well. When I finished watching the episode my first thought was: I have to reread Snakebitten. It’s just fantastic.
The Shirt by Audrey Roget - technically a post ep for PBV but really it’s fun sexy tropey goodness (a wedding! a slow dance! Skinner meddling! an unexpected kiss! caught in the rain! one bed!) with some nice character insight. (On Gossamer so if the link doesn’t work you can search for it there.)
Promises by @mulders-ufo-party - great angsty hurt/comfort post ep where they finally confront some of their issues. Thanks again for filling my prompt!
Passing Solace by @spookydarlablack - perfect continuation of the scene in Mulder’s apt (NSFW).
Calling Bluffs by @mangokiwitropicalswirl - this post ep feels so in character. Mulder tells her what happened to him with the New Spartans and they say everything and nothing.
All of This (a round) Us by @secondsflat - A broken finger, a bottle of whiskey, and a conversation. Scully sets a bone. Lovely.
PVB Fictober 25 by @baronessblixen - Scully encourages Mulder not to give up post ep.
King of the vibes. I love how atmospheric PBV is; it’s basically all mood, as a lot of X-Files episodes that are all about trust are. But in this case the trust in question is between Mulder and Scully, and it’s so all-consuming the show doesn’t even need anything supernatural to couch it in. (Technically what makes Pine Bluff Variant an X-Files episode is that the government is up to something shady, but the only X-File here is Scully doubting Mulder. That’s what goes against nature.) This episode feels like being submerged: It’s just Scully grasping for this intangible thing between them while Mulder drifts. And it’s a perfect fit for Season 5, when they both feel just destabilized enough that you can buy Mulder not telling Scully what he’s up to or Scully questioning his endgame.
The part of me that cut my teeth watching Alias responds to spy drama at a gut level, so I really click with that aspect too; Scully’s “are you the wife?” “not even close” scene gets me every time. It makes me wish the show had given us Scully and Mulder spying undercover together in a dramatic context; I know they’re already us-against-the-world-ing every week, but it’s thrilling when it’s more explicit. The noir styling of it all fits them so well, too.
