Authors note:
Hey guys! I was very surprised at how many people actually read this fic- I thought it would be 0, to be completely honest. I've decided to do an Otayuri chapter of this, and maybe do some of the other Yuri On Ice ships too. (If you want a certain ship you can request it) . Also, Frozen happened to be playing while I was writing this, so sorry not sorry for all the references. Thanks for your support! -Purecinnamonbun
Otabek sat on the chair, watching the event play out with a soft smile playing about his lips. Next to him, Yurio was slumped, making disgusted noises every now and then, muttering things like
"Do they have to smile so grossly like that?"
"I never should have told the old man to talk to the pig- now I'm stuck at their idiotic wedding"
"Why is this whole place ice themed? Is this Elsa's castle? Do they think that we're part of Frozen or something?"
"I bet that the pig got pity points at the Grand Prix Final because he was going to get married if he won gold. Right Otabek? Right?"
Despite all this, Yurio's permanent scowl had shifted into a huge grin, his eyes shining. Otabek knew that he was happy for the two- he just felt he needed to make up for it by keeping up a negative monologue. Up at the front of the aisle, Victor and Yuuri were whispering gooey things to each other, and giving the sappiest smiles Otabek had ever seen. They repeated their vows softly, gazing into each other's eyes, as if they were looking for something, and finding it.
"You may now kiss." The vicar announced.
Yuuri immediately pulled Victor into a deep kiss, and Yurio fell back with a sigh. Then he remembered he was supposed to be grumpy and disgusted, so he sat up again, and kept trying and failing to scowl- his beautiful smile kept bursting through. Wait, beautiful? Otabek groaned quietly, and buried his face in his hands. He'd kept having these feelings lately, like thinking that Yurio looked cute when he smiled, or when he scowled or all the time. He also kept having the desire to kiss him, and Otabek was sure that best friends did not kiss. He knew what this was of course. He just wouldn't accept it- there was no point owning up to his feelings when Yurio was never, ever going to feel the same way. Otabek sneaked a glance at Yurio again, who had resorted to hiding his wide smile behind his hand, and developing a sudden interest in his tiger themed jacket. Otabek smiled. He'd been damned the first minute he laid eyes on Yuri Plisestsky. Yuri Plisestsky , who had the eyes of a soldier.
"Otabek?" a voice suddenly awoke him from his thoughts.
"huh?" Otabek muttered, blinking.
"The weddings over. Why are you staring at me?"
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Yurio didn't need to know that when Otabek looked at him, he turned into a literal version of the heart eyes emoji.
"Sorry, must've zoned out. You want to go to the wedding reception?" Otabek asked, as they left the church.
"Yeah. Might as well congratulate the pig and the old man. You know what? I bet the internet will be full of posts tonight about how 'Victuuri has gone canon'"
"Victuuri?" Otabek asked, confused.
"It's their ship name. And just for the record, I did NOT come up with it."
"You came up with it didn't you Yura." It was a statement, not a question.
"SO WHAT IF I DID?" Yurio yelled, glaring at Otabek. Then he blushed. "You called me Yura."
Otabek tried not to internally explode. He didn't want them to find pieces of him all over this path tomorrow.
"Yeah," Otabek said awkwardly "Do you …. Not want me to?"
"No,no" Yurio said hastily "I like it."
They walked for another few minutes, Otabek completely zoned out and internally screaming.
"Um, Otabek?"
"Yeah?" Otabek said, waking up slightly.
"Where are we?"
Huh? Otabek properly took in their surroundings for the first time. It was dark. Trees surrounded them on every side. Only small patches of the bruise-coloured night sky was visible above.
"We're in a forest" Otabek said stupidly. Brilliant. Give the man a round of applause for his amazing observation and deduction skills. Wait. He was stuck in a forest. Alone. With Yuri. His crush. Otabek felt heat begin to creep up his cheeks. Wait, Yurio was saying something.
"- I have no idea where we are," Yurio was mumbling to himself. He turned to Otabek. "Okay. Have you got a phone?"
Otabek jumped, and felt around in his jacket pockets, then his jean pockets.
"It must have dropped out in the church…" Otabek groaned, rubbing a hand across his face.
"It's okay, don't panic" Yurio took a deep breath, and rustled around in his own pockets, his face lighting up triumphantly when he withdrew his own phone. His smile disappeared however when he tried to turn it on.
"THE HELL! THE STUPID THING'S DEAD! THATS WHAT I GET FOR LETTING THOSE TWO F{:£^&& OLD MEN HELP ME PICK THIS %£%$%"% PHONE!"
After he finished his angry rant, Yurio hurled his phone at the closest tree, where it smashed, the screen cracked and the back of it shaped in a way that certainly did not look healthy for a phone. Otabek winced slightly. He loved his angry little kitten, but he did tend to have his drawbacks.
"What do you think we should do?" Yurio asked in a small voice. He had spent the last ten minutes pacing up and down, while Otabek sat uncomfortably slumped against a tree. Otabek shook his head.
"I think we should stay here and wait for someone to find us. Trying to find our way back will only get us more lost."
Yurio nodded in agreement, and plopped himself down next to Otabek. Again, Otabek tried not to internally explode. A few minutes passed, and Otabek could hear Yurio's teeth chattering. He inched a bit closer to Yurio, hesitating a bit before pulling off his leather jacket and wrapping it around Yurio. Yurio looked up in surprise.
"Otabek, you'll be cold."
"No I won't. The cold never bothered me anyway."
Yurio gave Otabek his dirtiest glare.
"Was that a Frozen reference? If you are delusional enough to be making FROZEN references while I'm here, you must be an icicle. Here."
And before Otabek even had a chance to say anything, the small Russian Ice Tiger had disregarded Otabek's personal space entirely , shuffled right up to him, and nestled into Otabek. Who just sat there, pondering whether this was reality or not, and marvelling at how warm Yurio was. Slowly, Otabek wrapped his arms around Yurio, holding him tight. There they lay in silence until Yurio asked "..Beka? What am I to you?"
Otabek stiffened slightly, at the nickname, the question, and the soft and vulnerable way in which Yurio spoke. He was about to reply with something like 'You are my best friend', but it didn't feel right to lie. Yurio should know the truth. And if their friendship was over after that…. They'd had a good run. It had been the best few years of Otabek's life.
"You are the sun, moon and stars to me," Otabek began, then cringed at how sappy that sounded. Yurio was probably laughing right now, but Otabek didn't dare to look. "When I first saw you at that ballet class all those years ago, I knew that you had the eyes of a soldier. You had the eyes of someone who had been in many battles and come out unscathed. There's a fire in you that no one could put out, and you can see that in your eyes and the way you talk. Some people might think that you are rude and don't care about anyone, but that's a front you put up to hide from people. I know you care Yura. You care a lot. That's one of the reasons I love you. You are more than skating, more than anything, more than I am myself. I love you Yura. More than anything."
Otabek let out a deep breath. He'd done it. He'd told Yurio how he truly felt. Maybe one glorious day, Yurio would accept him as a friend again. The said person in his lap was frozen. Not moving. Then Yurio slowly lifted his face up to meet Otabek's gaze, and Otabek prepared himself for the inevitable rejection. He wouldn't take back what he said though. He needed Yurio to know.
He felt Yurio take a deep breath in.
"I was beginning to worry you didn't feel the same way I do Beka. You mean all of those things to me and more."
Then Yurio closed the distance between them, pulling Otabek into a deep and passionate kiss. All that Otabek could think was 'I love him. And if this is a dream, I never want to wake up.'
A few minutes later, they lay in the same position as they had before, with Yurio nestled into Otabek, both of them enjoying the sound of the other's heartbeat. Finally, Otabek broke the silence with ;
"Are you going to be my boyfriend or not?"
Yurio smiled a beautiful smile, and whispered
"I thought you'd never ask."
Just a few minutes later, the two of them were asleep, and Mila fangirled when she found them like that the next day- apparently she'd been shipping 'Otayuri' ever since the two of them became friends.
"Three years Mila?"
"I have no regrets."