Hello peoples! I'm back with a new story this time of the Yuri on Ice fandom. Couldn't resist me some Victuuri :P
Anyway this was a challenge set by my friend Darkwaterswithin here in Fanfiction, the prompt was to write a story where Victor has sensory overload syndrome which is triggered by an accident involving another skater. Now the focus was to mainly be on how he tries to deal with it and maintain his life. This is a completely different genre for me to write in as i'm more for the fluffy light hearted stuff which I've tried to keep here so it didn't go down the deeply depressing route. I do apologise if this strikes bad with people, I am unfamiliar with this issue but did do some research into so I wasn't completely uninformed.
Anyway you should totally check out Darkwaterswithin as they will be writing the same prompt as well just to see how different a same idea can be interpreted, also she has some great stories much more dark but so well written.

Enjoy my lovelies :)

Chapter 1 –
3 Years. 3 happy years since that fateful meeting at the hot springs back in Japan. Not a single regret was to be had between these two, everything was perfect. After grabbing that silver medal and deciding not to retire Yuri had moved to Russia to live with his coach, competitor and fiancé, well Husband now, Victor Nikiforov. Both of them had initially thought it would be awkward working and living together in such an extraordinary fashion but it actually balanced perfectly. Life and love in perfect harmony. Naturally there had been a few disagreements between the pair but more often than not a kiss or a tickle broke it to be forgotten about.
They had been discussing their careers recently considering their ages, Victor about to turn 30 and Yuri 26.

"I think I'm going to retire after this season."

They were just relaxing together on the sofa as Victor mused his thoughts. He'd had a wildly successful career which had only really been challenged in the last 3 years by the 2 Yuri's. He wanted to leave whilst he still had the grace to.

"Hmm you are quite ancient now," hummed out Yuri whilst lazily drawing circles with his finger on Victor's knee, he got a smack on the hand and a light laugh from the elder in response.

"I understand your decision sweetheart and I support you fully. In fact I'm considering finishing being a competitive skater to coach or teach, I don't know right now." Yuri hadn't really given it much thought but his stamina was definitely reducing and the small aches and sprains were becoming much more of an issue. It was a well-known fact skaters weren't really competitive past 25 so for Victor to still be competing it was quite unusual but he always said it was because Yuri provided him the fire to continue. They continued discussing the finer points of the topic coming to the conclusion that, yes, Victor would retire from the ice completely after the season and Yuri would decide a more solid plan at that time.
Yuri perked up suddenly having a light bulb moment,

"Let's skate matching themes!"

Victor blinked a couple times and then a huge smile came across his face.

"Such an amazing idea my darling, you never cease to surprise me." He held tighter on to his husband. They had always tried to choose opposing themes as people probably expected the world famous skating couple to complement each other in their themes, but as Victor himself said "You have to do the opposite of what people expect. How else will you surprise them?"

Victor decided his theme was going to be departure so Yuri complemented with voyage and knowing that they would be asked to do an exhibition skate they decided to reprise their pair skating with a theme of thank you as if to say "good bye and thank you for the support" through the ice.

The mood had become quite sombre with all this talk of saying goodbye and leaving, that was until Maccachin came bounding into the room lead in mouth yapping.

"Appears someone wants something." Yuri managed to laugh out in the muddle of arms, legs and paws that the sofa had become. Victor gently pushed the poodle of the sofa and untangle himself from his better half to take the dog out, Yuri following too. They walked hand in hand with Maccachin bounding around them, they chatted about whatever, everything back to perfect.

A few months went past all routines had been designed, tweaked and now being practiced to perfection. All the skaters at the rink loved watching the 2 practise every single day because they worked so well together always creating the most beautiful movements anyone could possibly watch. Without really saying anything most of the skaters that had been there all the time like Mila, Georgi and Yurio figured out the pair were preparing their final season together especially when they had watched them practice a pair skate.

"Tch so the 2 old hags are retiring then?" Yurio approached the pair whilst having a rest against the wall. Blue and brown looked in his direction and without hesitation Yuri said,

"It's not like you're that young any more Yurio!"

Pissed Yurio spun and skated away yelling back "Just retire already idiot!" both Yuri's smiled at the phrase that had been one of the first things said between them.

One day during the week they had come in early to practice so that they had the rink all to themselves before any other skaters or school visits arrived. As normal they warmed up and started running through their routines beginning with the pair skate, which was progressing well, following the slight distraction of being so close with each other and the emotions fuelled by the skating they moved onto Yuri's programs, Victor moving off to the sides slightly to take his role as coach. He welcomed this coaching section because it meant he could rest and admire his husband in motion creating music with his body on the ice. Victor had to do very little aside encourage Yuri nowadays in regards to coaching because he had flourished into an extraordinary skater quite frequently being the one to knock Victor off the top spot. Of course he still had anxiety problems especially if Victor wasn't at the competition but if Victor was there he could help Yuri through them and he'd shine. Today Yuri was on top form blissfully skating his routine repetitively eyes closed most of the time, he only flubbed a few jumps but it was just miss-steps or wrong speed, nothing he couldn't correct. Yuri had noticed Victor was being very quiet whilst watching him so decided to go up and see if everything was ok.

"Is everything ok?" Panted Yuri suddenly realising how tired he was.

"Perfect everything's perfect" Victor said almost dreamily then shaked his head back into coach mode, "though you really need to make sure you watch the flow of your feet into your jumps." Victor pulled Yuri close and gave him a quick peck on the lips. "I think I'm going to go work on my stuff now so feel free to either watch me or continuing practice but just don't work yourself too hard my darling." Another small kiss.

"You're the best coach" Yuri patted Victors butt as he left Yuri leaning against the wall. He watched his beloved husband glade around the ice for a bit just marvelling at him, then he pushed away from the wall to do a bit more work himself.

Couple hours passed before the next skater arrived at the rink, it was Yurio. Waved greetings were shared. Yurio warmed up and joined the ice working through his routines. Another few minutes went by and Yuri hit his limit, he was exhausted. He approached Victor and said he was going to take off. Victor squeezed him close and said he was going to stay on a bit longer but he'd be home soon. After Yuri left he carried on skating around idly working his free skate routine occasionally glancing over at Yurio and his work. He was coming up with a solid routine that would definitely challenge the elder two for podium spots. He was about to skate over to hassle the young boy when suddenly a small group of girls came crashing down to the ice in Yurios direction circling around him and crushing him to the wall. Victor started to panic. These were truly crazy fans.

"HELP! HELP!" Victor yelled at the top of his voice, which was slightly strained from tiredness, to try combat the loud screaming from the girls, "SOMEONE GET SECURITY! SECRURITY! SOMEONE HELP!" all the time he was yelling he was skating as fast as he physically could at this point to get to Yurio to try and pull the girls away. He reached the fray and barged in shouting at the girls to get out the way and leave the boy alone but his body was tired from practise so he wasn't having much luck actually keeping them away, they just kept piling back and poor Yurio was huddled down on the ice against the wall hands covering himself incapable of anything.

Suddenly Victor felt a shunt against his chest, a smash at the back of his head and black.