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The next morning, Yuuri is awake before anyone else. He sits at the kitchen table, sipping his coffee and pondering what to make for breakfast. The quiet is nice, he thinks; when Victor and Yuri are awake, there's never a moment of silence. He gets up to go wake up Victor—when the peaceful atmosphere is silenced by a sudden, horrified shriek.
The scream comes from Yuri's room, and Yuuri startles, blinking, wondering what on earth could be wrong this early in the morning. Maybe Yuri tried to summon a demon in his room again, and was successful this time? His train of thought is interrupted by the sound of Yuri's door bursting open and slamming against the wall. Yuri comes sprinting into the kitchen, his face red with anger, and skids to a halt on the cold tile next to Yuri.
"Have you seen this?" Yuri demands furiously, shoving his phone into Yuuri's face. Yuuri leans back a little so he can see the screen better, and lets out an exasperated sigh. Apparently, Victor did not heed his advice about posting the video. "I'm going to murder him," Yuri announces darkly, and turns on his heel to go make good on his promise.
Yuuri grabs the teenager's shoulder to stop him before attempting to ameliorate the situation. "Now, let's think about this for a minute and calm down—"
"Good morning!" Victor interrupts, beaming as he makes his way into the kitchen. "Yuuri, you look lovely as always! Yurio, you seem a little angry this morning. Is something wrong?"
Yuri glowers at him, making an angry growling noise. He attempts to lunge at Victor, but Yuuri tightens his grip on his shoulders and stops him in his tracks. "You son of a bitch, you have to take that video down right now!"
Victor gasps dramatically, bringing a hand to his chest as though mortally offended by the idea. "I couldn't do that! You were so cute, everyone loved it!"
Before Yuri can open his mouth to speak, Yuuri hurriedly interjects, trying to avoid disaster. "Of course Victor will take the video down, and he'll even apologize to you." Victor opens his mouth to protest, but the look that Yuuri shoots him is enough to make him shut up immediately.
At Yuuri's suggestion, Yuri looks slightly less angry. "Okay, I guess that works, but—"
"And we'll take another trip to the animal shelter!" Yuuri adds hastily, wanting to make sure that his fiancé gets to live. He's pretty sure that he read somewhere that parents aren't supposed to bargain with their children, but clearly whoever wrote that had never met Yuri Plisetsky.
Yuri beams at his suggestion, delighted, and accepts Victor's (grudging) apology as he deletes the video that he took. "You know, this still doesn't change the fact that over a million people have watched this video," Victor points out, clearly sulking.
The smile immediately slips off of Yuri's face, and Yuuri facepalms. Victor's going to have to handle this one on his own—he brought it on himself.