OP -- I'm so glad you liked it! Episode 7 really got me into this too, the scene with Ethan teaching him how to shoot a gun was too cute and I hope we get some more good scenes with them together. I'm glad Victor's internal voice came off well -- I love the seeming contradiction in canon of his poetic sensitivities and the way he is about medicine, and it makes sexytimes really fun to write.
Re: fill: "ties that bind, knots that fail"