the gypsy was right

[candle_beck]

Couple weeks ago I made some mildly clever aside along the lines that a Crosby/Harden fic set in 2011 would be angstier than the angstiest Wincest fic, and some bad-influencing anon had to go and enable me! Hmph.

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[anonymous]

so i read this again. gave it some time to sink in and think about it more. there's something visceral between these two, so far deep in the recesses of their souls its almost easy to forget or over look what their bond is. at the same time its so real, so instinctual, so passionate, so deep rooted no matter what happens they can't shake it,even if they wanted to. it seems like harden doesn't want to remember that bond, or is too afraid to remember it. his initial denial of crosby, remembering the past differently, saying crosby was rewriting history when maybe it was himself. maybe he was afraid to go back there, where things were so different and so far away from now. where the team was really a team and not a "loose confederacy," where going to work was the best part of the day, when baseball was fun, when richie and bobby had each other. and crosby, damn. i felt for him. his whole world wrecked, returning to the last tangible thing of substace he knew before it all fell apart. maybe he was remembering things alittle differently, maybe he attached more to it then was really there to begin with. but it didn't matter, he needed richie.
anyway, sorry so long winded and short on punctuation. like i said this resonated with me and i just wanted to share.
i really hope bobby's there after the roadtrip, but that would be too simple for these two very complex souls, wouldn't it?

[candle_beck]

i had some trouble wrapping my head around this one too. i think richie is remembering the past incorrectly--i think he was at least a little bit in love with bobby when they were both with oakland, but of course never recognized that in the moment (because how could he?), and now he's got bobby making moves on him when it's clearly and plainly too late, and so that kinda pisses him off.

and bobby . . . bobby is just not super self-aware in this one, just kind of stumbling around in this strange baseball-less world. and yeah, i don't know what's gonna happen when richie comes home, but it will probably be depressing!

this note is awesome, though! i appreciate it much.