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"We are stuck in a time loop," Geralt tells Jaskier as gravely as the situation requires. Jaskier pauses mid-spoon to look back at him and swallows down the rest of his oatmeal.
"Sounds great! Let's fuck some shit up," he says with more enthusiasm then he probably should be allowed to have and grabs his phone.
Geralt pauses at that confused. "What- What are you doing?"
Jaskier shushes him because he has already pressed call. "Fuck you, you slimy waste of a human being, you miserable - "
The call goes on for several minutes and every time Geralt wants to say something he gets shushed again.
"Who did you call?" Geralt ask bewildered when Jaskier finally ends the call but still keeps his phone in his hands, clearly typing on it.
"Oh just a voicemail to Marx, keep up Geralt. So how long have you been stuck?"
He needs a moment to shake himself out of his stupor. "Er. Ten days now."
"Ah. So I guess you already tried different things. Is it the first time you are telling me?"
"Yes and- Why do you do this?"
"What?"
"You just belief me like that?"
"Of course. It's you," says Jaskier with a shrug. Geralt just stares back. "And what does that mean?"
Jaskier sights and finally looks up again.
"Geralt how long do we know each other? Five years now and we've been living together for what- almost a year? I do know you. You don't mess around with things like that and if anything weird like a time-loop is possible then of course it is going to happen to you. You have a talent for getting caught up in the most messed up events. It would be infatuating if it wasn't so endearing."
"... Right."
Okay. Maybe Geralt shouldn't have told Jaskier at all. Or maybe he should have done that to begin with. But the good thing about this time-loop business was that nothing would matter tomorrow when he got another try and if he really-
"So let me just write this mail to my father while you tell me what you've tried so far."
"I- what? Your... father?"
"Yes, yes. Just using the opportunity to tell him a piece of mind I'd never dare to if he would remember it. So -"
"Uh right- Took me two days to even notice, then I spend a day looking for obvious signs what could have caused the time loop. I tracked down a witch I met five weeks ago on a contract. I changed the day up a few times. Then I took a break from figuring this out. We both went to the zoo the day before instead and yesterday - at least for me yesterday we went down to the coast."
Jaskier stops typing on his phone and looks up once again with a funny expression Geralt can't place. "We went to the zoo and to the coast?"
"You mentioned both one of these days and I needed a break anyway. You think this is relevant? You were acting a bit different maybe - a bit more upbeat I guess."
Jaskier rubs his temples. "I don't think... - I'm not going to remember anything at all, right? That's ..."
Jaskier got up and threw his arms around him, knocking the wind out of Geralt and kisses him square on the mouth.
Geralt - helplessly and not sure how he should react decided best to just go with the flow and kissed his roommate back.
"Why would you do that?" Not that Geralt minded. The opposite in fact. It just didn't made sense why Jaskier would kiss him now- It wasn't helpful for the situation at all.
Jaskier shrugged, grabbed his phone and continued typing. "Just curiosity."
"...you do know that I will remember that?"
Jaskier gave him a cheeky smile. "So- Do you think a review on the website or on my insta is more devastating for that shitty restaurant we went to last month?" He ask instead.
Geralt rubs his temple exhausted.
"Just what are you doing the whole time?"
"Oh, just using this once in a lifetime moment and telling everyone out there my opinion. Nobody will remember it anyway."
Jaskier dressed it up nicely with fancy clothes and pretty words, so sometimes Geralt almost forgot what a downright petty bastard the musician could be.
"That's not helpful for my situation at all!"
"You are right sorry - So... I guess you already ask Yennefer."
Geralt shifts uncomfortable on his feet.
"Geralt."
(When Geralt wakes up to loud cursing the next morning he is at first relieved that Yen could break the time loop - he then peaks over Jaskier's shoulder and sees the insane amounts of unread notification on his phone so Geralt does the only sensible thing - he rolls over and goes back to sleep.)