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It was in the dark hours of the morning and Jayce and Viktor had their eyes plastered to the chalkboard. This calculation wasn’t adding up and they could not find their mistake for the life of them.
“I’m going to pull my fucking eyes out.” Viktor grumbled as he rubbed the bridge of his nose. He could feel a bloody nose coming and that was not on his to-do list.
“Maybe we could sleep on it and come back later?” Jayce suggested, his own eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep and strain. His back hurt and his brain was slowly turning to mush.
“Jayce Talis, suggest sleep one more time and I will throw this eraser at you.” Viktor turned around to glare, chalk eraser raised as a threat. Jayce raised his hands like he was being held at gunpoint.
“You’re just mad because I’m right. We both need sleep and-” Before Jayce could even finish his defense, the eraser flew through the air and bounced off of his forehead, leaving him in a cloud of chalk dust.
“I told you, Talis. You could have just shut your-”
AHHPOOWEEE
Both men froze, Jayce wide-eyed with his nose in his elbow.
“That’s the first time I’ve ever sneezed like that.” The dark haired man said, voice a bit muffled by his sleeve.
Viktor broke first with an endeared twinkle in his eye. A small chuckle escaped him and then Jayce broke. The larger man couldn’t hold in the wheezing laughs as he replayed the sneeze in his head.
Viktor began to laugh harder and harder until his legs were weak and he was dangling by his armpit from his crutch, a hand over his eyes as he cackled.
As Viktor tried to catch his breath, Jayce finally toppled to the floor holding his belly. When Viktor caught a glimpse of the chalk rectangle on Jayce’s forehead he began giggling again and had to sit in his chair before he actually fell down.
The laughter was fueled by sleep deprivation and neither cared, they needed this. It had been a long day and night and they both needed to relax and unwind a little.
Viktor finally got his laughter under control so he could ask the question he had just thought of.
“Is there a reason you sneeze like a mongoose?” The Czech man asked, a mischievous smirk on his face and his head slightly tilted.
“Hey! It was one time!” Jayce said from his place on the floor, arms and legs splayed to the side as he caught his breath. Viktor pursed his lips as he thought about something.
“...I’m telling Sky about this.”
“You absolutely will not!” Jayce started picking himself up off the floor, readying himself to silence Viktor when Sky came back from her bathroom break.
“I absolutely am. That was hilarious.” Viktor leaned back in his chair, his smirk growing. The smaller man ran a hand through his hair and gave Jayce a look that dared him to stop him.
As Jayce finally got off the floor and dusted off his forehead, Sky walked back in, not realizing the chaos she was about to cause.
“Hey, Sky! You’ll never guess-” Jayce cut Viktor off with a hand over his mouth and an arm across the Czech man’s chest, Sky now frozen to her spot, watching the two scientists.
“Ignore him. Please.” Jayce pressed his hand over Viktor’s mouth harder when the other man grabbed his wrist to try and free his mouth. Jayce used his eyes to beg Sky to let it go.
“Uh, okay?” Sky narrowed her eyes in suspicion and then walked away, knowing better than to encourage the antics of the two men she worked with.
Jayce suddenly made a face and Viktor stopped trying to pull his hand away from his face, knowing he had just won the fight.
“What, EW! DID YOU JUST LICK ME?!” Jayce pulled his hand away and stared at it, pure disgust written across his face.
“I absolutely did, and there is nothing you can do about it.” Viktor smiled obnoxiously and then stuck out his tongue, crossing his arms over his chest with a proud ‘so there’.
“You’re fucking gross.” Jayce grimaced, picking up Viktor’s arm so he could wipe the other man’s saliva onto his sleeve.