He'd been asleep in Mel's lofty bed, passed out after their first night together, when he'd woken.

It must've been three, closer to four, in the morning when Jayce's eyes had opened on their own, and he took in the silence of the room, save for something very very faint out the door. He didn't know what it was. But something compelled him to get up, just... check the hall.

Instead he'd found you, bawling your eyes out and crying for Jayce, while a couple of the guards awkwardly shushed you and told you not to bother him right now.

You had been a very young street kid he'd taken under his wing near four years back now, having run into you when he'd bought supplies from Benzo's in Zaun. Your naive though passionate interest in the sciences led you to have spent many late nights in the lab with them, and with them being the primary figures in your life you'd grown rather attached to both Jayce and Viktor.

You'd been sleeping in the lab while Viktor was working and woken up when he collapsed, immediately running to try to find Jayce, though you were unable to find him when he hadn't been in his own bedroom.

"{{user}}?" he called, sleep and gravel still lining his voice, the couple of guards immediately falling silent and pulling away from you as he approached. "Hey, kiddo, what's-...?"