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[genice]

- new chew toy
- pick up reflective tags
- bed linens?
- rearrange class schedule for next week
- review beginning level choreo
- confirm dinner reservations
- surprise for Yuuri!!! do not forget
- Yuuri ♥

Comments

[genice]

Okay, okay, I don't really understand why you think I haven't tried. Have you run into a lot of this in your own life when you were around the same age?

[anotheroldsoldier]

Don't deflect. I know you haven't tried. Who do you think is actually spending time with Yuri? Who do you think he sees on a regular basis, who do you think he talks to?

[genice]

( this feels so pointlessly dramatic I'm sorry, sobs Victor quirks his eyebrows at the response, wondering if this was all a grand way of James saying he's Yuri's better friend. An assessment Victor chooses to have no comment on, since it isn't his business, and he'd meant what he said about being glad Yuri had people who cared for him here that Yuri was also willing to talk to, since he sure refused to do so with Victor or Yuuri. Yet he also lacks patience or interest in deaf ears or obstinacy that doesn't serve a purpose he cares about, and so he shrugs, opting not to respond. Bucky fighting and arguing over what doesn't exist, over Victor not chasing after Yuri, is senseless in his eyes. He's held out an olive branch several times over. If Yuri wants to accept that offer, Victor's willing to meet him halfway. He's willing to apologise if he's done some wrong and it's brought to his attention. But he's not Yuri's father. He's barely Yuri's friend. The best he might pass as is an errant older brother, except they've never quite been family except on the ice. He cares for and about him, wants to see him succeed, finds it heartbreaking what Bucky enables, even as he can see why Yuri reached for it. All of these things are true.

Yet he's never been responsible for Yuri. He's never been Yuri's confidante. Bucky is asking why Victor isn't what Victor has never been. He keeps expecting an answer or ownership that Victor doesn't have, thus cannot give. He shrugs: he hopes that Yuri will reach back out to accept the hand extended. Just as he knows even if Yuri never does, Victor and Yuuri won't stop caring. But you have to choose to let someone in. You have to choose to speak. Yuri keeps choosing silence with Victor, and he is patient, for the moment Yuri decides to speak. But not demanding. Not forceful. It's just not how the two of them have ever related personally at all. )