Title: Tears; Team: Inter
Title: Tears
Author:
marthacalcio
Team of Choice: Inter
Prompt: Aftermath
Character: Clarence Seedorf
Rating: G
Note: Set right after Milan's May 2 dismantling of Man U in the Champions League semifinal second leg.
It all hit him at once.
The penalty, the losses, the criticism. The battles, the disrespect, the mistakes. And the wonder, the majesty of what they’d done here today, proving them all wrong.
How his body hurt, how long he’d been around, how old he felt sometimes. All the new faces -- impossibly young new faces -- around him, all the old ones he’d seen go. And the awesome, miraculous gift that he was still here.
The first time with Ajax, when he was just a kid. The horror at Istanbul, what loomed ahead in Athens, and everything in between.
And Clarence cried.
Author:
marthacalcio
Team of Choice: Inter
Prompt: Aftermath
Character: Clarence Seedorf
Rating: G
Note: Set right after Milan's May 2 dismantling of Man U in the Champions League semifinal second leg.
It all hit him at once.
The penalty, the losses, the criticism. The battles, the disrespect, the mistakes. And the wonder, the majesty of what they’d done here today, proving them all wrong.
How his body hurt, how long he’d been around, how old he felt sometimes. All the new faces -- impossibly young new faces -- around him, all the old ones he’d seen go. And the awesome, miraculous gift that he was still here.
The first time with Ajax, when he was just a kid. The horror at Istanbul, what loomed ahead in Athens, and everything in between.
And Clarence cried.