seven drabbles; team of choice: ac milan
Title: Superbia
Author: caydelaura
Team of choice: AC Milan
Prompt: Guilt
Character: Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not true
There aren't too many things he hasn't heard yet, or seen, for that matter. It's safe to say there aren't too many things he hasn't said already, too.
Zlatan knows about his abilities, knows how to work hard to improve his skills (that are already outstanding, but he has a reputation to defend.) He doesn't care to read about the next best thing in football - for all he cares he will be just that until he retires, and it if takes sweat and blood on his behalf to make sure of that, who is he to argue with himself.
Title: Avaritia
Author: caydelaura
Team of choice: AC Milan
Prompt: Guilt
Character: Luís Figo
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not true
Ambição, codicia, avidità, avidité, Habgier, greed, … 'Probably the only word I know in all European languages,' Luis notes wrily as he flips through yet another newspaper in the airport café, his face plastered on every sports page, big bold letters declaring his move from Barcelona to Real, some more cutting than others, some almost relieving in their indifference.
He ducks in his chair, eyes going to the clock on the wall. Almost time to board. 'Too bad time won't fly like this in the next months,' he thinks as he gets up and hides his face behind dark glasses.
Title: Invidia
Author: caydelaura
Team of choice: AC Milan
Prompt: Guilt
Character: Filippo Inzaghi
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not true
Pippo sits in the stands, his hands absently brushing his legs as he watches his team mates on the pitch, doing what he was born to do, has been doing all his life. Sometimes he believes it is the only thing he has half-way mastered in his life.
But not if his body has any say in it, it seems.
Pippo averts his eyes to his knee, a sudden burning jealousy flaring up inside him. It's him who should be out there! And if it costs him his health all over again, then so be it! Anything, anything but this.
Title: Ira
Author: caydelaura
Team of choice: AC Milan
Prompt: Guilt
Pairing: Gennaro Gattuso / Andrea Pirlo
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not true
They are on the bus when Gennaro hands Andrea a piece of paper he pulled from the book resting on his lap.
It's a picture of an elderly woman and a boy.
"You know what they say - you and me, polar opposites, your calm, my rage." Gennaro pauses, and waits, knowing that Andrea will, too.
"It's not rage. It’s different. I’m not a bad person. I gave up rage the day my nonna cautioned me not to turn into an 'angry, young man.' -- I'm glad I know that you know that, too."
Entwined fingers, more than just touch.
Title: Luxuria
Author: caydelaura
Team of choice: AC Milan
Prompt: Guilt
Character: Dejan Stankovic
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not true
People sometimes called him up on his "lust for life", not hiding that deep down they thought him too free with his affections, his love for the sweet indulgences life offers you - offers you more freely still if you are young and rich and with a name to yourself.
Returning from a night of such indulgence (24, black hair, her hunger for life too similar to his), Dejan Stankovic realised that his guilty pleasure wasn't lust, but the search for honest emotion - something apart from what he grew up with (not in the news, but on his doorstep.)
Title: Gula
Author: caydelaura
Team of choice: AC Milan
Prompt: Guilt
Character: Gianluigi Buffon, Alena Seredová
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not true
"I guess it's a warning sign I can't even move any longer," Gigi laughs, stretching his legs under the table, nudging Alena's in the process.
"It's a sign that you have successfully proven that your appetite and stomach are proportional to your 6'3'', my love." she answers smiling more than a little smugly.
He narrows his eyes at her, not even bothering to wave a hand dismissively.
"Not my fault. If anybody asks, I'll just say it's all your doing. You should have told me on our first date that you spent your childhood helping your mother in the kitchen."
Title: Acedia
Author: caydelaura
Team of choice: AC Milan
Prompt: Guilt
Character: Alessandro Nesta
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not true
You spend your life dedicated to something that at times seems pointless in a world that's too big and wonderful and frightening to even start to wrap your mind around it.
And sometimes, that fright transcends into your little part of said world, seeps in through the cracks in the wall (they weren't there when it all started, were they?)
Now you put on your captain's armband again, and you are tired. So very tired, and it's the first time that your mind and legs agree off the pitch, too. The first time that they both tell you to leave.
Author: caydelaura
Team of choice: AC Milan
Prompt: Guilt
Character: Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not true
There aren't too many things he hasn't heard yet, or seen, for that matter. It's safe to say there aren't too many things he hasn't said already, too.
Zlatan knows about his abilities, knows how to work hard to improve his skills (that are already outstanding, but he has a reputation to defend.) He doesn't care to read about the next best thing in football - for all he cares he will be just that until he retires, and it if takes sweat and blood on his behalf to make sure of that, who is he to argue with himself.
Title: Avaritia
Author: caydelaura
Team of choice: AC Milan
Prompt: Guilt
Character: Luís Figo
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not true
Ambição, codicia, avidità, avidité, Habgier, greed, … 'Probably the only word I know in all European languages,' Luis notes wrily as he flips through yet another newspaper in the airport café, his face plastered on every sports page, big bold letters declaring his move from Barcelona to Real, some more cutting than others, some almost relieving in their indifference.
He ducks in his chair, eyes going to the clock on the wall. Almost time to board. 'Too bad time won't fly like this in the next months,' he thinks as he gets up and hides his face behind dark glasses.
Title: Invidia
Author: caydelaura
Team of choice: AC Milan
Prompt: Guilt
Character: Filippo Inzaghi
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not true
Pippo sits in the stands, his hands absently brushing his legs as he watches his team mates on the pitch, doing what he was born to do, has been doing all his life. Sometimes he believes it is the only thing he has half-way mastered in his life.
But not if his body has any say in it, it seems.
Pippo averts his eyes to his knee, a sudden burning jealousy flaring up inside him. It's him who should be out there! And if it costs him his health all over again, then so be it! Anything, anything but this.
Title: Ira
Author: caydelaura
Team of choice: AC Milan
Prompt: Guilt
Pairing: Gennaro Gattuso / Andrea Pirlo
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not true
They are on the bus when Gennaro hands Andrea a piece of paper he pulled from the book resting on his lap.
It's a picture of an elderly woman and a boy.
"You know what they say - you and me, polar opposites, your calm, my rage." Gennaro pauses, and waits, knowing that Andrea will, too.
"It's not rage. It’s different. I’m not a bad person. I gave up rage the day my nonna cautioned me not to turn into an 'angry, young man.' -- I'm glad I know that you know that, too."
Entwined fingers, more than just touch.
Title: Luxuria
Author: caydelaura
Team of choice: AC Milan
Prompt: Guilt
Character: Dejan Stankovic
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not true
People sometimes called him up on his "lust for life", not hiding that deep down they thought him too free with his affections, his love for the sweet indulgences life offers you - offers you more freely still if you are young and rich and with a name to yourself.
Returning from a night of such indulgence (24, black hair, her hunger for life too similar to his), Dejan Stankovic realised that his guilty pleasure wasn't lust, but the search for honest emotion - something apart from what he grew up with (not in the news, but on his doorstep.)
Title: Gula
Author: caydelaura
Team of choice: AC Milan
Prompt: Guilt
Character: Gianluigi Buffon, Alena Seredová
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not true
"I guess it's a warning sign I can't even move any longer," Gigi laughs, stretching his legs under the table, nudging Alena's in the process.
"It's a sign that you have successfully proven that your appetite and stomach are proportional to your 6'3'', my love." she answers smiling more than a little smugly.
He narrows his eyes at her, not even bothering to wave a hand dismissively.
"Not my fault. If anybody asks, I'll just say it's all your doing. You should have told me on our first date that you spent your childhood helping your mother in the kitchen."
Title: Acedia
Author: caydelaura
Team of choice: AC Milan
Prompt: Guilt
Character: Alessandro Nesta
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not true
You spend your life dedicated to something that at times seems pointless in a world that's too big and wonderful and frightening to even start to wrap your mind around it.
And sometimes, that fright transcends into your little part of said world, seeps in through the cracks in the wall (they weren't there when it all started, were they?)
Now you put on your captain's armband again, and you are tired. So very tired, and it's the first time that your mind and legs agree off the pitch, too. The first time that they both tell you to leave.