The pavement was made slippery by the pre rain as was Yuri's black trench coat and black trousers were now soaked to the bone. The road was a two car wide with slim pavements at the edge. As always he took his chances with the traffic, pace walking in the middle of the street knowing it's a better choice than receiving more buckets of rain water from taking his time. He could have taken the cab here, but the decision to come here only came to him now than before.
Once on the other side of the road and back on the pathway he navigated himself through the impossibly thick crowd. He could see the tall Emprus Hotel building from filter of rain droplets, seeing the other surrounding tall buildings, smooth black glass exteriors, fancy names in fancier lettering. He lightly slid his hand over his wet hair, the destination he drastically made his way to is finally infront of him.
Carefully, he stepped up the significant marvel stone stairs and past the angel boy waterfall centred infront of the front porch. He lightly pushed the glass rotation door infront of him and walked into the lobby. The place was partially empty with only people walking in, out or towards the stairs or escalators to their rooms. No one payed any attention to him which he was hugely thankful for. He needed to be left alone until he got up there.
He walked past the couches and coffee tables until he reached the front desk. The lady who he came by before last year looked up from the computer and smiled up at him.
"His room?" she asked, already knowing what he wanted.
Yuri nodded. She giggled a little bit before pointing to the elevator to the left. "You know the room, don't need me to give you anything."
Yuri couldn't help the little blush in his cheeks. "Thankyou" He said. He turned and began to run again towards the elevator, stopping it with his foot before it could close with no passengers inside.
Yuri stood in the centre as the doors closed back together and started to move upwards. Yuri looked down at his shoes, anxiously tapping them against the glossy tiles, going off the beat to old nineties song in the background. His mind drifted off to what awaited him. He was about to see him after a long separation between after the little dilemma with his dog. He must have already heard the news as to what has happened with him just barely making it through to the grand finale. But he wanted to tell him especially what happened. And more than that hold him close after being apart for what seemed like too long to him.
The elevator opened directly to his private quarters. It was a huge room using the corner of the building with floor-to- ceiling windows going around the back of room giving views in two directions, Marella ave and Chester park just a view blocks north. His furniture was leather black couches and black coffee table that had a gold ornament in the middle.
Yuri darted his head in all directions of the room to see if he was either at the kitchen or up the stairs to eventually see a man standing next to the window with short silver hair dressed in a black tuxedo with his back faced to Yuri.
He was holding a cup of tea in his hand as he gently held the mug by the handle and tapped its murky surface before bringing it to his lips. He was here.
Yuri took a step closer, his eyes fixated on him. The man turned around at the sound and his eyes widened with shook. The cup slowly slipped out of his hand and fell to the ground.
"Yuri?" He called.
"V-Viktor." Yuri stuttered breathlessly.