Underworld: Viktor/Kraven
Title: Full Circle
Fandom: Underworld
Pairing: Kraven/Viktor
Prompt: No. 44, Circle
Word Count: 560ish
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Was feeling a touch angsty and thanks to dragong I finished this with a different ending. And my thanks to heart_cries the beta!
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He realized he'd come full circle. Kraven smiled a tight grin at his mate, at Viktor as he watched the man finish readying for the trip home.
"Stop watching every move I make and finish getting ready to go." The older man quirked, a lopsided smile already in place as he looked at Kraven whom gazed at him in the mirror's reflection.
"I would, except,"
"Except we really don't have the time for another romp my eager boy for our flight will leave without us, there will be plently of time for that when we are home." Blue eyes danced with laughter as Viktor winked at the former regent who's smile didn't reach his eyes. "Except what." the elder turned serious, facing Kraven.
"I am not going back."
"What? What is wrong."
A hand forestalled the elder's advance as Kraven moved to stand before his mate, smoothing out the older man's clothing out of nervous habit. "I want to stay." Kraven swallowed hard already feeling the separation in his heart. "This is where I grew up, where I was born," he looked then gestured around them. "Leicester," he looked back at the elder. "Where you found me, where I started my climb in the vampire ranks, don't you think its rather fitting that I return to the place where I started, as nothing, with nothing."
Viktor touched the chin that had lowered, forcing the man to look at him. "Kraven, don't you want to go back home?"
"Yes I do, more than anything, I want to stay with you. But I can't go back there, I can't go back to living my life in our room. Waiting night after night, doing nothing, wondering if I dare venture out wondering if tonight is the night some vampire will take their anger out on me once more. Wondering if I'll live to see you return from another lengthy House tour; hiding behind your title." Kraven weakly added the last part while rubbing his chest where the hurt was already building inside him. "Here they don't know me any more, I am a ghost from the far distant past, already forgotten, I am a no body and I can simply be Kraven of Leicester once more."
"You would be alone." was the elder's quite reply.
"I am alone already in a house full of my own kind."
"I couldn't protect you."
"You can't defend me now."
"I will miss you."
"I already miss you."
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Viktor finally broke his gaze from the passing country side from within his chauffeured car shaking his head and an impatient sigh leaving him; that damn conversation still playing again and again inside his head, fingertips absently rubbing at his own lips where he could feel Kraven's mouth against his in their parting kiss.
"This is ridiculous!" the elder finally snapped, blue eyes going to his driver. "Turn around, we are returning."
"My lord the flight will leave without you."
"Then let it leave and rebook only make damn sure there is an extra seat available." The blue eyed man smiled in self satisfaction, sitting up straight, feeling smug and his mind made up for he was already planning the lecture he was about to give a certain wayward fledgling of a mate for idiotic ideas that somehow managed to get inside his head.
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