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PeanutButterGoddess · Joined: 25 Apr 2016 Posts: 8009

"Not...quite." Sasha said before screwing his eyes shut and taking a deep breath to prepare himself. This was so much harder than telling his parents. "He's been hurt. Badly. We're taking him to Peter's to get help." He explained.
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Bernadette sort of...broke. Between processing the vague information, but knowing how serious it must be from the way Sasha was sounding. She didn’t cry, not at first anyways.

“Oh...O-okay, okay. I’ll be there as soon as possible! Tell Viktor I’m coming and that I love him.” Bernadette sputtered. She wasn’t really good on the spot or in times of crisis. Once during the rainy season on the island, her nanny was stuck on the mainland so she was home alone. The downstairs flooded and Bernadette panicked, doing absolutely nothing beyond locking herself upstairs with a blanket stuffed under the door in the event the waters made it to the second level.

She hung up, her hands nervously trembling as she tried to gather up her purse and anything else important on the way out. Her eyes were watering but didn’t threaten to overflow until she had to put shoes on. Her feet weren’t terribly swollen, but seeing past her gut let alone maneuvering around it was a chore. Viktor at this point put her shoes on for her, leaving her flustered and now hysterical as she burst into tears, chucking her shoes away from her before hurrying out the door barefoot.

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It wasn't long after hanging up that Sasha and Viktor made it to Peter's, who was already outside in the back alley waiting for them. It took Sasha, Peter, and the foot soldier who'd drove them all to haul Viktor's still bleeding person up the stairs that led to the apartment often-turned doctor's office. They dragged him into the spare bedroom of the apartment and Peter called for Daisy's assistance and they quickly got to work, which left Sasha to observe nervously before Daisy asked him to wait in the living area until they needed him in the case they needed blood.

He took a seat on the couch and nervously wrung his hands, waiting for his parents or Bernadette to arrive.
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Bernadette managed to flag down a cab who didn’t bother her about her bare feet. The cab dropped her off curbside outside of Peters building, she hauled herself carefully up the fire escape, not expecting Peter or anyone to stop what they were doing to let her in through the door. She could see Sasha through the window off the fire escape and she tapped hurriedly on its pane.

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Sasha was so stuck in his worried thoughts that he almost didn't hear the gentle little taps at the window, but when he did finally turn to them, he was instantly on his feet upon seeing Bernadette. He hurried over and opened the window before quickly reaching to grab her hands to help her in.

"Bernadette, what are you doing! That's dangerous!" He scolded lightly.
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“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I know. But I’m here!” Bernadette panted, using Sasha as leverage to climb in and settle on her feet. “Where is he? What happened?” She breathed.

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"He's in the other room with Peter and Daisy." Sasha explained first, because that felt easier. "We...we were meeting with someone and...I don't know who...I...someone shot him with silver." Those words were the ones that felt horribly leaving his mouth.
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“What?” Bernadette exclaimed, tears erupting once again. “Who-why would someone do that?” She sputtered.

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“Because of our job. Because we have enemies. There’s lots of reasons, Bertie, but listen, Peter and Daisy are doing their best and he’s gonna be fine.” Sasha said, reaching to grab at Bernadette’s hands to give them a firm squeeze, though his own hands trembled terribly. “He’s going to be okay, I’m sure.” He added, because he was sure both he and Bernadette needed to hear those words.
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Bernadette’s bottom lip quivered, Sasha was never wrong but something in his trembling grasps gave her doubt. She was never one hundred percent sure what the Nikitin’s did for work, but she assumed it made them important. Adrik left the country sometimes for work so she thought maybe foreign affairs? But whatever it was, Bernadette wasn’t so sure she could support it if it took her Viktor away.

She nodded slowly, though the statement didn’t wash away her worries, she wanted to believe it.

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Sasha could tell by looking in Bernadette's gaze that she wasn't totally convinced, but he couldn't find it in him to convince her or himself anymore than he had already tried. So, instead, he gave her hands another squeeze and a gentle tug towards the couch.

"Let's just sit, hmm? Mama and Papa should be here soon, when they get here, maybe Peter will have news for us."

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It wasn't long after Bernadette arrived that Adrik and Asha arrived, just like Sasha had said. Adrik looked worried, but for the sake of trying to spare Bernadette from getting herself too riled, he tried to save face.

Peter had emerged once from the room and everyone leaped to their feet, but he only gestured for Sasha to come, telling them they needed blood. Before he even realized he was moving, Sasha was halfway across the room and rolling up his shirt sleeve before he disappeared into the room.

A few hours had passed since then and Sasha had since been told to return to the living room. Peter and Daisy had worked diligently and their efforts had paid off. Viktor definitely still looked worse for wear, what with his skin paled and clammy from blood loss and silver poisoning respectively. He was fortunate enough that none of the buckshot struck anything vital, but he certainly would be feeling like it had. Peter had given him something to take the edge off, however, Viktor was still fighting off any sort of rest and kept insisting to see Bernadette.

Peter finally emerged from the room, closing the door halfway behind him.

"I want to start off with he's doing fine. He'll probably be in considerable pain when the medication we gave him wears off, but he is definitely going to be alright given rest." He said to everyone, watching the room exhale. "I can let you in to see him, but I think he wants to see Bernadette first." He said, gesturing to Bernadette then.
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Bernadette was already on her feet, rushing past Peter into the back room where Viktor was being kept. Daisy was getting some things situated at Viktor bedside when she came in, carefully ushering out to give the twosome some privacy.

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Viktor looked up when he heard Bernadette and though he still looked miserable with his pale skin and exhausted eyes, he still managed a little smile and turned a hand over, palm up (because that was all he could muster) for her.
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Bernadette rushed to his side, carefully collecting his hand in hers and kissing his knuckles.

“Oh Viktor, I’m so relieved you’re going to be okay. I just wish you looked the part.” She sighed.

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“I wish I felt the part too.” Viktor said with only a little chuckle, wincing slightly as it made his chest ache. He took a beat and when the pain lessened, he gave Bernadette’s hand a squeeze. “I’m sorry if I worried you.”
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