Sleep proved to be something that was hard to come by for you. Short and well rested nights for most people were long and restless ones for you. This lack of sleep at night caused you to sleep for the majority of the day making you miss a lot of things going on. You tried to use the several nights you were up awake to be productive, but it still didn’t make up all the missing time with your boyfriend.
Averting your eyes away from the bright screen of your laptop, you let your eyes land on Viktor who was sleeping besides you. Your time spent with him was limited recently due to your unusual sleeping patterns. You wanted nothing more than to close your laptop and snuggle asleep next to him, but you knew it would only result in hours of staring up at the ceiling.
Sighing, you returned your focus to your laptop. Aimlessly flipping through open tabs in search of something to do was something you often did during these sleepless nights. With the lack of company from the man you loved, it was hard to find something to keep you entertained. Every tab you currently had open didn’t hold any entertainment for you. You quickly realized that you wouldn't be able to get through that night if all you did was try to be productive so instead, you opened a new tab and pulled up YouTube to give yourself a break.
You were expecting it to take some time for you to search through the endless amount of videos until one caught your interest, but as soon as you opened the site your eyes landed on one certain video sitting in your recommended feed. It was a video of one of Viktor’s old Grand Prix performances and even so, it wasn’t just any performance. You remember this on vividly as it was the first performance of his that you ever went to see and the day you first met him. Once again taking a quick glance at the sleeping Viktor beside you, you lowered the volume on your laptop and clicked on the video.
Watching him skate shouldn’t have been as breathtaking as it was the first time you saw it due to how often you accompanied him in his practices, but even so, you couldn’t help but keep your eyes glued to the screen as you watched him. The way his skates so easily glided over the ice, the way his body moved to the music, the way his face remained so calm and peaceful as he skated - those were all reasons why his skating mesmerized you so easily.
Slowly, you started to raise the volume higher so you could hear every bit of the music and hear the sounds of his skates colliding with the ice every time he landed a jump. All these wonderful visuals and sounds did something unexpected to you, though. You felt your eyelids growing heavier and heavier to the point where it was almost a struggle to keep watching. For the first time in weeks, you actually felt as if you would pass out during the night.
As you forced yourself to keep watching, you didn’t even notice as your partner beside you sat up in bed before he released a loud yawn. Startled, you slammed your laptop shut and moved your gaze to a curious looking Viktor.
“Were you watching one of my performances?” he asked with a smile on his face.
“Yeah…” you admitted shyly as you laid back.
He quickly laid beside you and wrapped his arm around your waist before pulling you closer to him. Using his free hand, he brushed your stray hairs behind your ear before pressing his lips against yours. When he finally pulled away, he just laid there and stared into your eyes with his smile still spread across his face. It was obvious he missed spending quality time like this with you just as much as you did.
“You know you’re able to see any of my performances in person whenever you want to, we just need to go down to the ice rink.”
You pouted and buried your head into his chest knowing how hard it would be for you to get enough sleep at night in order to function like a normal human being during the day.
“I wish I could,” you said with a sigh. “I just want to sleep normally for once, I’d do anything for it.”
Viktor thought about that for a moment.
“Is there anything that makes you sleepy?”
You had been contemplating for awhile now whether or not to take sleeping medication to help with this but you didn’t want all those horrible chemicals in your body. Besides that, you really had no other ideas of what you could do to help with this. Before you could tell him so, one thing did come to mind. You remembered how tired the video had made you before Viktor woke up. Maybe…
“I think your skating puts me to sleep,” you told him sheepishly as you moved your head to look up at him again.
He stared down at you for a few moments with a blank expression on his face before moving his hand to place it over his heart.
“You wound me,” he said. “My skating isn’t good enough anymore? It’s boring enough to put someone asleep?”
“No, no, no! I didn’t mean it like that,” you said quickly, obviously upset that he took it the wrong way. A teasing smile quickly appeared on his lips and you breathed a sigh of relief. “Before you woke up when I was watching you skate, everything about it was so calming that I felt like I could actually sleep.”
“Then let’s see if it’ll work.”
Without saying anything else, he sat up and grabbed the laptop you abandoned on the bed before placing it on his lap. He soon opened it and reset the video to play from the beginning. Before he played the video, you tried to sit up with him but he only shook his head.
“Lay back and only focus on the video. If you feel like you’ll be able to, try sleeping.”
Nodding, you laid back down and made yourself comfortable before the video began to play. Just like last time, it was first the melody of the song that started to soothe you. It wasn’t until Viktor really started to get into the performance that his skating started to lull you to sleep. Despite how badly you wanted to keep watching his breathtaking performance, you knew you should take this opportunity while it was still presenting itself to you. Slowly, you felt your eyelids begin to droop and felt sleep embrace itself around you. The last thing you remember was seeing Viktor’s smiling face.
Only when he knew for certain that you were asleep did he shut the laptop off. Laying down, he wrapped his arm back around you gently as to not wake you up. He placed a soft and delicate kiss on your forehead before looking completely pleased.
“Sweet dreams, my love.”
