To Fix A Broken Heart (Viktor x Orianna)
A collection of ideas for VictOri based on a Beauty and the Beast AU. Viktor has Orianna staying in his compound in return for her father’s safety. He wants to get the secrets of how she came to be… she just wants to get out. Slowly, their talks become less about science, and more about… emotions.
(The Soup scene) Their first genuine conversation, where both parties are actually listening to the other, is about food. Oreanna missing it. Viktor badmouthing the experience, inconsequential, a waste of time and resources, and Oreanna just sadly looks at something she used to love and shares her melancholy at the memories of biting into it. Or slurping. It could be soup. The warmth and comfort it gave her as a kid. Her sad tone is enough to make Viktor stop his points and really reflect about his own history with food. After a while, he breaks the silence and shares a memory. His mother would feed him soup too, when he was sickly. He… loved her recipe. Orianna smiles and touches his arm. He huffs and moves away.
(Echoing the Snowball Fight) There is a scene where Viktor tries showing off something he can do with his augmentations, shooting something maybe, and he looks so smug about it. Goes on a speech about his impeccable calibrations, as Oreanna shushes him and tells him, 'Watch me.’ She does it much better.
… Now it becomes a competition neither wants to let the other win. The shooting grounds is now in disarray, and it ends with both looking disheveled. Orianna laughs first at Viktor's appearance, and though he'd usually take offense to something like that, he finds himself laughing too. A nice childish moment.
This is the first time Orianna has been able to laugh. Genuinely, from emotion, not as a response she forces for someone in a conversation. She’s surprised and shares this with Viktor, and Viktor can’t help feel special and begin to overheat.
Jayce catches wind about Orianna being in Viktor’s possession. This can’t be good. The thought of her helping Viktor's research makes him feel like there’s a timer on stopping him once and for all, before he becomes too much. He visits Ekko, and informs him about the possible danger. Tells him that Viktor has a weapon now that can ensure his work progresses quicker. And to drive it home, he can say that Ekko should care because his people would, naturally, be the first to go. It puts Ekko in a difficult position… where he has to agree to keep an eye out on Viktor’s compound. He helps Jayce with spying.
Maybe Ekko later on runs into Orianna while she was alone in Viktor's area. She’s friendly and open with him, so Ekko tries to figure out what was really going on. As he hears her situation, he then tries convincing her to leave Viktor with him. She says she can't, but doesn’t explain why. She thinks she’s making a connection with Viktor. She… wants to see what it’s leading to. Ekko takes it as more confirmation of her being in a hostage situation. When he reports this to Jayce, he feels the same. If Orianna can’t leave, they’ll force her out of there. They have a plan that will temporarily cut Viktor’s power supply enough to have his troops come in and ‘clean’ the place.
The power in Viktor’s compound has been nullified with a disruptive pulse. It’s one thing that his machines are now useless, but with how strong it was, Orianna is in jeopardy. Her power source now off, her consciousness turns off and she 'faints.’ Viktor was far from her, dealing with what he thought was all the intruders. Trying to keep them from reaching her room. But there was Ekko’s group coming from the back, ready to pick her up as he’s distracted. She is kidnapped.
She’s brought to Jayce's lab for questioning and for his own exploration of how she works. He’s crueler with her, truly seeing her as nothing but a machine. Orianna fights back at every opportunity, recognizing him as dangerous, if not more so, than Viktor. It’s enough to buy Viktor time to realize what’s occurred and go to save her, guns blazing, self sacrificial. No time for plans, no time for calculations, his ideal logical mind is gone and he is full of rage.
He makes it to her room, but he’s extremely weakened.
It’s a stalemate, where Jayce has Orianna in his hands and Viktor has him in his sights. Jayce tells Viktor he still has forces on Viktor's property. A second wave that swarmed as soon as he left. Without him there, they can easily destroy everything. His life's work once and for all. He tells him to go, they can call it off as a truce since Jayce doesn’t want to die.
But Viktor isn’t going without her. He tells him so, and that- is too scary for Jayce to agree to. He’s now seen what Orianna is for himself. A true marvel of science. She can’t fall to his hands. Jayce insists on Viktor learning his place, renewed anger and fear making him hold Orianna closer, to press his gun right to Orianna’s heart.
Viktor is shaking with anger. He really wants to shoot him. To end it. But Orianna is wide eyed, looking at him, anticipating his next moves and he doesn’t want to do this in front of her. To show her the extent of his inhumanity. To give her more to hate about him. So, he lets down his weapons and begs for Orianna to be let go. They can take his inventions. They can take him. Let. Her. Go.
Orianna quakes. She’s filled with love for the man Viktor has become. He’s changed, he cares. They lock eyes. They know.
But cocky, stupid Jayce’s laugh stops the lover’s thoughts. And he shoots Viktor instead.
An earlier version of Viktor could have dodged. Deflected. But he was weak. Distracted. His systems only caught on to the bullet’s trajectory when it was too close. It hit him in his exposed chest. He crumples to the floor.
The thought makes Orianna’s mind whir faster.
He has a human human heart. The bullet hit him in his heart. His heart!
Orianna’s body gains new strength. She moves like finely-tuned machinery as she crunches Jayce’s arm like it was nothing. Jayce screams and lets her go.
She smoothly moves to Viktor’s body, kneeling and holding him. She can’t feel anything. Her mind is analytical, taking in his wound, searching for solutions. Jayce has recuperated. He fires at her, but she easily shields herself. She picks up Viktor and moves to the exit. Jayce attempts to block her, but again, he is quickly dealt with by a swing of her arm. She has no room for emotions or for morals as she deals with the people in her way. They only distract her from her goal.
