Play the Game - Prologue
Title: Play the game
Author: Greenleaf
Pairing: Orlando Bloom/Sean Bean
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: violence, later on mpreg
Beta: the awesome jackieville
Disclaimer: Never happened, not mine. I’m making no money with it and remain a poor girl who only wants to write. I don’t know Sheffield United, nor how their firm is called. The B.L.E is completely made up by me. "The Old Tiger’s head" is a pub in Greenwich and I only borrowed its name.
Summary: Orlando and Sean meet under the most unusual circumstances and their lives change dramatically. Sean has to make a choice.
Feedback: Makes my day that much sweeter
A/N: if you want to hear the fanchant, just click on the lyrics at the beginning :)
Prologue
"Like a gallon of Magnet
Like a packet of Woodbines
Like a good pinch of snuff
Like a night out in Sheffield
Like a greasy chip butty
Like Sheffield United
Come fill me again....
Na Na Na Naa Naa Naaaaa, ooo!"
Sometimes it is as if I can still hear them sing and ask me to come down and go to the Old Tiger's head with them. I try to ignore them, but I can't. I know they are not here but sometimes I wish they were. You might call me stupid but I tell you, once you've tasted blood you want more. There were times when I craved it. Craved the smell of blood in the air, the sound of breaking bones, and the screams. Craved the feeling of my whole body aching the next morning. It made me feel alive, I guess. Now I know that I have never really been alive until I met him. He did show me what life really was. It was then that I realized that so far my life had been a lie. I had been fighting for all the wrong reasons. My mates were everything to me back then. They were always there for me. I still miss them but our ways parted and there is no way I could return. My priorities have changed. The most important thing for me is my family. I would do everything for them.
Sometimes at night memories come and haunt me and then I hate myself for what I have done and what I have been. It wasn't entirely my fault that I ended up like I did. I never had friends when I was at school. I was the weird kid everyone was afraid of and who had no friends. My dad took me with him when he went to see a football match. I grew up at Bramall Lane if you want to put it that way. When I met Pete I was fifteen. He was at the stadium with his dad, just like me. I was thrilled to get to know someone the same age and soon Pete introduced me to his friends. For the first time in my life I had friends and I thought that I had finally found my place in this world. But soon we started to explore our limits and more than once we crossed them. We spent our free time in the pub and at the stadium. We had our first fight when I was seventeen. It was match day and Sheffield United was playing against Sheffield Wednesday. The Wednesday bastards lost and after the match they chased us. We refused to run away and stood our ground. I was so nervous but when this huge guy came up to me I did what seemed most natural: I punched him. I don't know how long we fought with them, but when the police arrived we ran away. My nose was bleeding and I woke up with several bruises and scratches, but I never felt so alive. That was when all began. Soon afterwards we were members of the B.L.E and some years later when Pete's dad and his mates were getting too old we took over the firm. It gave us a reason to live through the day; it made us feel as if we were in control. Under us the B.L.E became known everywhere in and around London. We fought because it was everything we knew. Fighting and drinking.
Nowadays there are moments when I feel so disgusted by myself. But he makes everything better. When he senses my discomfort he hugs me and his touch alone makes everything right and the memories fade. I am content with my life the way it is now and when I hear the past calling for me I turn my back on it and search the company of the man who changed my life.
tbc
Author: Greenleaf
Pairing: Orlando Bloom/Sean Bean
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: violence, later on mpreg
Beta: the awesome jackieville
Disclaimer: Never happened, not mine. I’m making no money with it and remain a poor girl who only wants to write. I don’t know Sheffield United, nor how their firm is called. The B.L.E is completely made up by me. "The Old Tiger’s head" is a pub in Greenwich and I only borrowed its name.
Summary: Orlando and Sean meet under the most unusual circumstances and their lives change dramatically. Sean has to make a choice.
Feedback: Makes my day that much sweeter
A/N: if you want to hear the fanchant, just click on the lyrics at the beginning :)
Prologue
"Like a gallon of Magnet
Like a packet of Woodbines
Like a good pinch of snuff
Like a night out in Sheffield
Like a greasy chip butty
Like Sheffield United
Come fill me again....
Na Na Na Naa Naa Naaaaa, ooo!"
Sometimes it is as if I can still hear them sing and ask me to come down and go to the Old Tiger's head with them. I try to ignore them, but I can't. I know they are not here but sometimes I wish they were. You might call me stupid but I tell you, once you've tasted blood you want more. There were times when I craved it. Craved the smell of blood in the air, the sound of breaking bones, and the screams. Craved the feeling of my whole body aching the next morning. It made me feel alive, I guess. Now I know that I have never really been alive until I met him. He did show me what life really was. It was then that I realized that so far my life had been a lie. I had been fighting for all the wrong reasons. My mates were everything to me back then. They were always there for me. I still miss them but our ways parted and there is no way I could return. My priorities have changed. The most important thing for me is my family. I would do everything for them.
Sometimes at night memories come and haunt me and then I hate myself for what I have done and what I have been. It wasn't entirely my fault that I ended up like I did. I never had friends when I was at school. I was the weird kid everyone was afraid of and who had no friends. My dad took me with him when he went to see a football match. I grew up at Bramall Lane if you want to put it that way. When I met Pete I was fifteen. He was at the stadium with his dad, just like me. I was thrilled to get to know someone the same age and soon Pete introduced me to his friends. For the first time in my life I had friends and I thought that I had finally found my place in this world. But soon we started to explore our limits and more than once we crossed them. We spent our free time in the pub and at the stadium. We had our first fight when I was seventeen. It was match day and Sheffield United was playing against Sheffield Wednesday. The Wednesday bastards lost and after the match they chased us. We refused to run away and stood our ground. I was so nervous but when this huge guy came up to me I did what seemed most natural: I punched him. I don't know how long we fought with them, but when the police arrived we ran away. My nose was bleeding and I woke up with several bruises and scratches, but I never felt so alive. That was when all began. Soon afterwards we were members of the B.L.E and some years later when Pete's dad and his mates were getting too old we took over the firm. It gave us a reason to live through the day; it made us feel as if we were in control. Under us the B.L.E became known everywhere in and around London. We fought because it was everything we knew. Fighting and drinking.
Nowadays there are moments when I feel so disgusted by myself. But he makes everything better. When he senses my discomfort he hugs me and his touch alone makes everything right and the memories fade. I am content with my life the way it is now and when I hear the past calling for me I turn my back on it and search the company of the man who changed my life.
tbc