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Yuuri looked at Viktor, who was asleep. He had really freaked out when he heard that Alvira was hurt, and it took Yuuri a great deal of effort to calm him down. He heard his phone ring, and checked. He was surprised to notice that the call was from an unknown number from Russia.

'Hello.' a female voice with a Russian accent spoke. 'Am I speaking to Yuuri Katsuki?'

'Y..yes.'

'I am Dr Olga Tolinyeva. Yuuri Katsuki, do you speak Russian?'

'Yes.' Yuuri said. He was better in Russian than Viktor was in Japanese.'

'Alright.' Dr Tolinyeva said, switching to Russian. 'I am sorry to tell you that your daughter Alvira has got a serious head injury. She is unconscious, and under observation. If she doesn't wake up within 24 hours, she...she will go into a coma.'

A chill ran down Yuuri's spine. 'No!' he said.

'I am sorry, Yuuri.'

Yuuri felt himself tremble. Was a panic attack coming on? He hadn't had a panic attack in years.

No. He couldn't afford to have a panic attack attack now. He had to be strong.

Trembling, he booked a ticket to St Petersburg.

'Yuuri!' Yurio burst in. 'Yuuri, did Dr Tolinyeva talk to you?

Yuuri nodded. 'I..I am going to Russia. Yurio, do me a favor. Don't tell Viktor.'

'What? You can't keep it a secret from him, Yuuri! She is his daughter, after all.'

'I know!' Yuuri said. 'But he wouldn't be able to take it. He had passed out with shock when he heard about how she got injured. If he comes to know about the possibility of her going into a coma...I need to protect him, Yurio. Viktor had been protecting me all my life. Now is my chance to protect him.'

'But you'll have to tell him...eventually.'

'Of course. But I...I don't want him to hurt himself with the pain right now, Yurio. Please.'

'Alright, Katsudon.' Yurio said. 'Take care.' he embraced the Japanese man.

Yuuri was surprised to see J.J and Isabella in the hospital lobby, with a little blonde girl who looked like she was a little older than Alvira. The girl was clinging onto J.J, and crying.

'I am sorry.' she kept saying. 'I didn't mean to. I am sorry.'

'Yuuri!' J.J noticed him.

'Oh, Hi J.J. Is that your daughter?'

'She is.' Isabella said, while the girl looked at Yuuri with wide eyes. 'Yuuri Katsuki!' she said, and burst into tears.

'Lucy was in the Skating Academy with Alvira.' Isabella explained. 'She was the one who challenged her to that skating challenge, so she blames herself for the accident.'

Yuuri suddenly felt a rush of sympathy for the little girl. 'It isn't your fault.' he said, gently.

Just then, a middle aged Russian female doctor appeared. 'Yuuri Katsuki. I am Dr Olga Tolinyeva.' She said.

'Dr Tolinyeva.' thoughts of Alvira came rushing into Yuuri's mind. He blinked back tears.

'Do you want to see your daughter?'

'yes. Yes, of course.' Yuuri said.

Alvira looked even younger lying unconscious on the hospital room. Yuuri was reminded of the day he and Viktor first met her. She was all of three months, and the cutest baby they had ever seen. Tears fell from his eyes. He wouldn't be able to stand it if something happened to her. Neither would Viktor.

'We are putting in our best effort to save her.' Dr Tolineyva said. 'We are hopeful that she would make a recovery.' She tapped his hand comfortingly. 'I can understand what you're going through. I have a daughter too.'

Yuuri nodded, thankful for her sympathy.

'Yuuri Katsuki.' J.J's daughter, Lucy was sitting alone at the lobby.

'Where are you mom and dad?' Yuuri asked.

'They've gone to get something. They'll be back in five minutes.' she said. 'Do your really think it is not my fault?'

'It is definitely not your fault.'

'Yuuri, can I tell you a secret? Can you promise not to tell anyone?'

'Okay.' Yuuri said.

'I don't like ice-skating.'

'What?'

'I don't like ice-skating. I don't want to become a skater when I grow up. But my dad is so good in skating, and I don't want to disappoint him.'

'Oh, I'm sure he wouldn't be disappointed. Tell him you don't want to skate if you don't want to.'

'Really? He wouldn't really wouldn't be disappointed?'

'Of course he wouldn't.' Yuuri said. 'If Alvira told us that she didn't want to skate, Viktor and I would have been perfectly alright with it.' Alvira. Yuuri felt a constriction in his heart when he thought about her.

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