Title: Can you feel me?
Author: caydelaura
Team of choice: AC Milan
Prompt: [Hey Ya]
Pairing: Paolo Maldini / Filippo Inzaghi
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not true
Notes: written for
finnygan.
You don't turn from friends to lovers because it is convenient. Paolo doesn't know why these words are the first that come to mind. They aren't bitter, or judgemental. They are only curious, yet Paolo refrains from saying them out loud as he watches Filippo. The striker just shifts, uneasy, not really focusing on what his hands are doing, or his feet, because avoiding Paolo's eyes is obviously that much more important a task.
"I am here. Not looking at me won't change that. Do you want it to change?"
The younger man dares a glance, and it is insecure.
Title: Denial
Author: caydelaura
Team of choice: AC Milan
Prompt: [Hey Ya]
Pairing: Lionel Messi
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not true
It's raining hard, and it fits his mood. Leo faces the window, his eyes follow the raindrops sliding down the glass, changing colours when a car passes below. Changing colours as the sun creeps up. His own tears have stopped, have given way to a hollow feeling deep inside, and he asks himself whether that's the way it is going to be from now on. Working so hard, just to have it ripped from him again and again. He shifts and winces as the pain shoots up his leg, and he catches himself wondering whether he is living in denial.