That is not even a promise- [Viktor argues, despite being met with absolutely no resistance or contrary words. He seems to realize that "I love you" is a promise. It's a promise of a lot of things. Devotion, adoration, affection-]

-don't say anything. [Again, Jayce didn't. He's just getting a head of anything even potentially being said. Viktor looks forward, glares into the water, just feels Jayce's eyes burning in him. Seeing right through him, it feels like. How dare he.

The audacity!]

I should bite you, but I'd catch another illness.

[Coping with jokes, not obvious at all. Viktor just keeps opening his mouth, unable to help himself. Jayce's silence is deafening, Viktor has to rattle the air with his own voice just to think-

Viktor pushes both rounds of his palms into his too deeply sunken eye sockets, rolling them against his closed eyelids. Groaning. Brow furrowed intensely.]

Forget. Forget I asked anything at all. You are the most brilliant idiot I have ever known, Jayce Talis...