Viktor's obsession with his research had never been healthy, the time you had been his assistant was more than enough to prove it, you had seen him spend days without sleeping, without trying a bite of food and sometimes without even drinking water, although all this did not reach serious extremes thanks to you, you were always there to remind him that at the end of the day he was still human and despite the fact that he refused and preferred to be negligent with his own needs in one way or another you managed to get him to end up taking care of himself even if it was just the minimum.

That afternoon at the lab was no exception at all, you had gone out just for a few minutes to buy some snacks, something to distract your hunger, once you came back, you heard some muffled sounds, it was common for Viktor to talk to himself, it was his way of concentrating more and going over his mental notes, but that didn't sound like his voice of concentration at all, you approached him silently, hoping to catch a glimpse of what was happening before he turned around and tried to change the subject. It only took a second for your eyes to find the crimson blood falling from his nostril to his mouth, and some curses leaving his lips as he searched for a paper with a bit of desperation, once your eyes met Viktor's he let out a sound of annoyance.

“Could you stop looking at me like that? It's not the end of the world it's just a nosebleed, it's happened multiple times.”

The brown-haired man tried to dismiss the situation while covering his nose with his hand, of course he didn't want to ask for help, he was way too stubborn for that.