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yuuri had slowly been getting closer to yuri, ever since the grand prix final yuri had gotten more and more comfortable with him and he was happy about that, yuri was quite closed off so he was happy he was opening up a bit.
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yuuri, yuri, and victor were at the ice rink, practicing, and yuri had gone to the bathroom, but that was a while ago... maybe he should go check on him.
"i'll be right back, i'm gonna go check on yuri."
"alright." victor said.
yuuri went to the bathrooms to check on yuri, and when he got to the bathroom, he heard quiet sobs and heavy breathing.
"yuri?"
a stall door was gently, hesitantly opened after a moment and yuuri was met with the sight of a certain blonde sitting on the floor, tears running down his face, this felt familiar, except last time the roles were reveresed and they weren't as close as they are now.
yuuri knew exactly what was happening, considering how much experience he had with panic attacks, he knelt down in front of yuri
"can you try to breathe with me?" yuuri said, slowly grabbing yuris hands so he could pull away if wanted to
yuri didn't resist yuuris hands grabbing his and nodded
"alright." yuuri inhaled, slowly and steadily, and yuri copied him to the best of his abilities, yuuri exhaled and yuri followed suit, they went on like that for a while, yuri struggled to control his breathing and get it steady for a while but he calmed down eventually.
"better?"
yuri nodded
"good."
yuri physically relaxed and slumped against yuuri and yuuri smiled softly as he wrapped his arms around yuri
"thank you." he said quietly.
"you're welcome."
they stayed like that for a moment, in comfortable silence, until yuuri said something
"do you wanna talk about it?"
yuri shook his head.
"Alright."
they fell back into a comfortable silence for a while
"you wanna go back to practicing or do you wanna go home?"
"go home." yuri said, which surprised yuuri, usually yuri would insist that he was fine and go back to practicing, that panic attack must've took alot out of him if he was willing to admit to wanting to go home.
yuuri gathered his yuri, and victors things and they took yuri back to yakov and lilias place.