Name: There Are Things

Word Count: 501

Song: This Night

It was one particular night that Ivy decided to examine Viktor's hands. They were just so large, marred and rough from years of hard labor and simply not taking care of them that Ivy happened to notice a tan line on one of his digits, however.

"Why do you have a tan line here?" Ivy asked as Viktor seemed to be in the process of being dragged into the depths of sleep. The question rung up some memories Viktor was crossed with. Memories he didn't want to forget but needed to in order to move on with his life. Something audibly snapped in the bedroom in Ivy's ears. Viktor yanked his hand away from the small woman and turned around in the bed, making the whole thing shift with his enormous weight. The whole action seemed interesting to Ivy. In all the years she's known Viktor he wasn't one to just avoid things. He was a man of few words, sure, but he was a human ox and charged past obstacles if needed be.

"Viktor?" Ivy rose up and her hands found their way on his bicep, leaning over to look at his face but he snapped up as well. Ivy would have been frightened if it wasn't for all the years in association with the underworld of the Lackadaisy. Viktor stared at her with such intensity Ivy was even a little worried. It wasn't glaring… but it was something else entirely. Something she's only barely seen whenever she was in danger; and even that was scarce. Wordlessly, he grabbed her hands together and set her back down and covered her back up with the sheets. The action in itself oddly reminded Ivy of when she was younger and when she stayed up past her bed time Viktor just grabbed her in a surprisingly gentle but firm way and set her to bed and shut the lights off. It was just something she couldn't argue with.

"Not naow. Vill talk about later… Vhen ready." Ivy had a feeling Viktor didn't mean when she was ready, but when he was ready. Viktor turned back around and laid down next her. She could feel his back against hers and she felt herself frown. Now that she thought about it, she recognized that tan line on Mitzi. Ivy wasn't all that surprised though, Viktor knew how to handle women. He even knew how to handle the flighty flapper even with such a rough start and recognized Mitzi as the bear trap that she really was.

But she would have her time to ask questions. When Viktor was ready, that is. Ivy decided it was better not to push Viktor into anything he wasn't ready for. After all he was older. He probably did know better than she did when it came to relationships.

"Good night, Viktor." Ivy said before closing her eyes. It was a long pause, and finally Viktor responded.

"Good night…" His voice rang out in the silence of the night. Strained.


I'm not exactly sure if Viktor was married or now, but I'm basing this again on Tracy's little hints that he did come to the country with a lady love, although I'm not sure if they were ever married. But. I'm gonna be running on that for a while. Haha.