Title: 80th Minute
Author: parka_girl and metafic
Pairing: John Arne Riise/Steven Gerrard
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: This is not real, this never happened. We don't know them and this is all fiction. Made up stuff.
Author's Notes: Takes place back in 2005. Posted about 10 days ago at footballslash, just reposting here for my own organization.

( You have to bet on it. )

Title: Once Is Enough for Me
Character(s): Steven Gerrard
fanfic100 prompt: #85 -- She
Word Count: 383
Rating: PG
Notes: A bit of background. And a lot of angst.
Disclaimer: Not mine, not real. I know nothing about what or who anyone is or isn't doing.

( It's like when your parents split up but worse. )

Title: You Don't Speak German
Character(s): Steven Gerrard/Xabi Alonso
fanfic100 prompt: #63 -- Summer
Word Count: 611
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Maybe first in a series. This is pre-tournament through the first round of group matches.

( Germany is hot. )

Title: Red and Wallpaper (The First Five Times #2)
Fandom: Soccer/Football
Character(s): Steven Gerrard
Prompt: #1 -- Beginnings
Word Count: 288
Rating: PG-13 (violence)
Notes: outforhire AU. Not mine, not real.

( Steven doesn't actually remember his first kill. )

Title: Strong Language
Fandom: Soccer/Football
Character(s): Steven Gerrard/Xabi Alonso
Prompt: #37 -- Sound
Word Count: 550
Rating: R
Notes: outforhire AU. Not real, not true. There was a West Brom game, that's all. Thanks to parka_girl for handholding above and beyond the call of duty.

( Steven didn't think he could be surprised by anything he heard on the pitch. )

Title: More Like a Mistake (The First Five Times #1)
Fandom: Soccer/Football
Character(s): Steven Gerrard/Xabi Alonso, implied Steven Gerrard/Michael Owen and Steven Gerrard/Frank Lampard
Prompt: #86 -- Choices
Word Count: 864
Rating: R
Author's Notes: outforhire AU. The players are real; the matches really happened. (As did the karaoke.) That's all that's ( Read more... )

Title: It Don't Come Easy
Fandom: Soccer/Football
Character(s): Steven Gerrard/Xabi Alonso
Prompt: #40 -- Sight
Word Count: 363
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: outforhire AU. Steven, Rafa, and Xabi are real. That's all that's true in this story.

( The first time Steven looked through a rifle sight, he had to steady the gun on the railing to keep from shaking. )

Title: Up Against the Wall
Fandom: Soccer/Football
Character(s): Steven Gerrard/Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard/Xabi Alonso
Prompt: #34 -- Not Enough
Word Count: 558
Rating: R
Author's Notes: outforhire AU. Set after the game against Austria. Fully disclaimed -- the players are real, but that's all that is. Everything else is lies.

( Even as he knocks on the door, Steven knows it's a bad idea. )

Title: Waiting
Fandom: Soccer/Football
Character(s): Steven Gerrard
Prompt: #71 -- Broken
Word Count: 449
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: outforhire AU. Pastfic; set sometime early in the 2004-05 season, when Xabi was playing and Steven was injured. Fully disclaimed -- the players are real, but that's all that is. Everything else is lies.

( Being injured is the worst. )

Title: Rituals
Character(s): Steven Gerrard
Word Count: 434
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: outforhire AU, for fanfic100 prompt #56 -- Breakfast.
Disclaimer: Steven exists. That's about all that's accurate in here; nothing is a reflection on him in real life. Because I made it all up.

( Steven can never eat before matches. )