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    The Northwestern University Wildcats are notorious for two things: being the worst football team in the prestigious Big 10 league, and throwing insane parties at their fraternity house: ΗΣΧ.

    Viktor never expected to find himself sharing a roof with a dozen boisterous athletes.

    Jayce never expected that in running from his past, he’d crash headlong into his future.

    When an unexpected partnership brings the two of them together, old crushes spark into new flames. It’ll take a couple keggers, a day in the city, and a very special playlist for them both to learn that… home isn’t simply where you lay your head, but where you can let your walls down.

    Or, the “Viktor lives in a frat house” fic.

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    22 Mar 2026

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    Viktor doesn’t expect him to go any further than this—certainly not with their mother right there—but he aches for it with an intensity that frightens him a little. It is a hopeless, desperate want he hasn’t felt since he was much younger. Before he started to develop any sort of control over himself. But Jayce makes him feel out of control as a general rule: smaller, younger, helpless. He always has.
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    Or: Jayce and Viktor brave the end of summer.

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    15 Mar 2026

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    Viktor Dvořák is eighteen, an artist, a high school senior, and, until recently, a fixture in the halls of his city’s art museum. He spends his after-school hours sketching in front of Soviet modernist works and trying not to think too hard about the future.

    Then the new curator arrives.
    Jayce Talis is older, charming, and far too interested in Viktor’s mind and, of course, his hands.

    It’s just a crush. That's what Viktor tells himself over and over and over as the dozens of sketches of Jayce begin to stare up at him from his notebook after their first encounter.

    Viktor is leaving for Paris in the fall.
    Nothing about this should matter.

    So why does it feel like he’s already been chosen?

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    I will link art pieces and music mentioned at the begining of each chapter <3

    All TW are in the tags, so read all of them.

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    23 Oct 2025

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    “What's his name again…”

    “Viktor,” Dmitri says readily. The tone of his voice betrays a familiarity that Jayce hadn’t heard before. No one ever interests Dmitri. Jayce grits his teeth, his blood pulsing. He doesn't need to listen to this crap. Shoving the papers into his bag, he prepares to leave before they notice him on the other side of the aisle.

    “Viktor! That's the one! Professor Heimerdinger's assistant,” Oretz says. "Nice upgrade I guess. Trading administrative work for the lab.”

    Dmitri scoffs a bitter laugh. “Well, it's not surprising. He's fucked half of the Academy.”

    Now that stops Jayce in his tracks.

    With Progress Day looming around the corner and news of Hextech’s triumphs, vicious gossip surfaces in the Academy about Viktor’s unsavory nightly activities. Jayce, of course, doesn't believe a single word. That is, not until his rival Dmitri brags about having a little sample.

    Tortured by thoughts of Viktor sleeping around, Jayce’s suspicions grow until the truth becomes undeniable and his appetite grows sharp teeth. Jayce won’t settle for just a taste.

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    28 Sep 2025

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    Jayce would do anything, go anywhere, be anyone, if only it meant that he would get to see that fucking smile — Viktor’s wonderful, beautiful smile.
    Every tooth, every mole, every smile line, every freckle. Jayce admires it like he’s pacing the halls of the Louvre.

    So sue him.

    ~*~

    Jayce gets to the bottom of the reason why Viktor’s been acting like a complete terror around the house, then acts accordingly.

    Jayce: 24 Viktor: 17

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    21 Aug 2025