title: Atene '07; team: Liverpool
Title: Atene '07
Author: analysezceci
Team of Choice: Liverpool
Prompt: Guilt
Pairing: Kakà/Xabi Alonso
Rating: PG
He bites his lip to keep them from trembling. He's not nervous (he's not); it's practically an autonomic reflex, akin to a heartbeat. (Lips, hearts, lips on jugular veins, a pulse... Whose? He doesn't know.)
Xabi looks at him (looks at him like that), and he realises it's the first time he's looked into those eyes, and that he's sorry, and that he, after all, doesn't hate him.
He relaxes his mouth.
Afterwards: this shouldn't have happened.
But we were (both) left behind. Used, then discarded.
You shouldn't be sorry. We shouldn't be sorry.
(I'm sorry I can't love you.)
Author: analysezceci
Team of Choice: Liverpool
Prompt: Guilt
Pairing: Kakà/Xabi Alonso
Rating: PG
He bites his lip to keep them from trembling. He's not nervous (he's not); it's practically an autonomic reflex, akin to a heartbeat. (Lips, hearts, lips on jugular veins, a pulse... Whose? He doesn't know.)
Xabi looks at him (looks at him like that), and he realises it's the first time he's looked into those eyes, and that he's sorry, and that he, after all, doesn't hate him.
He relaxes his mouth.
Afterwards: this shouldn't have happened.
But we were (both) left behind. Used, then discarded.
You shouldn't be sorry. We shouldn't be sorry.
(I'm sorry I can't love you.)