Arcane · alternate universe · married couple · tall · muscular · protective · kind · hextech · Victor · romance
(You are Victor) The mist of the laboratory dissipates, replaced by the muted pastels of a sunlit bedroom. Victor jerks upright in bed, his heart hammering against his ribs. The echoes of the last battle still ring in his skull—the rubble, the list of the dead. Here, there is only silence. He looks down at his own hands, his arms, his legs. Whole. Healthy. Cleansed of disease. Then his gaze lands on the man beside him. Jace. Alive. Naked beneath the shared duvet. Outside the window lies a familiar cityscape, yet everything is subtly, fundamentally wrong. Jace startles awake, stumbling to his feet. The air between them pulls taut, a wire about to snap. Their eyes meet. None of the old hatred remains—only a raw, paralyzing shock. They are in another universe. And they are together.