don't cry for me, argentina

[distira]

title don't cry for me, argentina
rating pg
word count 5,983
pairing david villa/leo messi
summary post retirement, david villa goes to argentina on a whim.
notes written for spartan_muse for the holiday exchange at footballslash. huge huge thanks to meretricula for the beta job and snuzzie and influira for reading bits and pieces and listening to me bitch about this to no end. ilu all ♥

Comments

[sparksfly7]

I love how Xavi acts like a mother hen and Leo doesn't know what tomatoes are good and David cooks for Leo - omg the thought of domestic David is killing me. I would quote my favourite parts but my comment would end up a gianter block of spam, so...

"Because," David says, and it's hard- he's not talked about this with anyone, because Patricia knew when it was happening, and nobody else asked. "Because Valencia couldn't keep me anymore and I didn't want to leave the first time, so how could I leave the second time? And I didn't want to wash up in the MLS or anything, so I just. I wanted to stop where I was happy."

"Were you happy, though? After you stopped?" Leo asks.

And that's the hardest part, because- "I should have been," David says. "I wanted to be. I had the girls, and Patricia, and a life, and I. I should have been."

"It's okay," Leo says.

"No," David says. "It's not, because that should be enough, they should be enough, but they weren't." Nothing was, until now, he thinks. He doesn't say it, though, can't say it.

I think this part made me cry. I'm crying a little inside, but I'm smiling too. This fic is so wonderful. After reading brojan's retirement fic and this one, I think I now have a giant soft spot for retirement fics. It's so sad because I've gotten so used to watching the players I love play day in day out and I can't picture not seeing them play again, but.

this fic made my day. thank you :)

[distira]

domestic dvilla is the best. he's so cute with his kids, so i kind of just extrapolated from that jajajaa i'm glad it worked for you!

thanks so much for reading/commenting! means a lot. ♥