[Now that they've managed to verbalize it to each other, Viktor feels a weight lift. His hands cover Kyle's, all the better to hold his face and close the scant distance to kiss him. Each cheek, his forehead, on his eyelids. He allows himself to feel the relief all at once, both for this confession and the fact that Kyle is alive and warm in his arms, when he might not have been just hours ago.]

I don't care what you did before you came here. It's not going to change my mind.

[Of course he wants to hear it--he wants to know everything about Kyle, the good and the bad--but he also wants Kyle to know that his perceived transgressions don't make him any less deserving of this.]

When we find a way out of this place, I'll take you wherever you want to go. There's so much I want to show you.