Fic-Post: Déjà-Vu (Swimming RPS)

[miss_pam]

Title: Déjà-Vu
Pairing: Ryan Lochte/Anthony Ervin (friendship) | Ryan Lochte/Michael Phelps
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3,321
Summary: Tony helps Ryan understand
Disclaimer: nope
Author's Note: it occurred to me that there are some people are not familiar with Anthony Ervin's history (which everyone should be because he is the most amazing and

Comments

[icygrace]

ALL THE FEELS. I don't know much about Tony, but you made me really love him here. He's such a great person to give Ryan perspective.

And a couple things I especially liked:

So maybe it’s the signs that make Anthony look a little closer when he sees Ryan arrive on the pooldeck in Istanbul. Maybe it’s the fact that suddenly he doesn’t seem so sociable anymore, that his face seems hardened by something that can’t be explained by cancelled flights. Ryan is an absolute professional at what he does, he knows when to get his head in the game. But he never holds back a smile. And even though he barely knows the guy, seeing his lips pressed in a tight line makes Tony see all the signs again and he almost hurts on his behalf.

Ryan's smiles . . . and suddenly them not being there. GUH.

Conor is pretty much glued to his side. Partly probably because being confronted with Matt makes him realise that he should have just made that move on Elizabeth when he had the chance

ICU, Conor/Elizabeth (even if it's one-sided)

Tony can tell by the look on Ryan’s face that he just doesn’t get it. It won’t settle in his head how someone can not want to swim. Tony doesn’t know anyone with that kind of attitude. Most of them, all of them, reached the point where they just didn’t want to do it anymore at least once in their career. Where getting up early sucked and where swimming for hours on end sucked and where weight-training sucked and where they had to force themselves to do it every day because it was all part of the game, a tiny piece of the big picture. But Ryan had never reached that point. He always seemed stoked about everything, like he was awaiting the gruelling sets instead of waiting for them to be over. It’s this almost childlike enthusiasm, still there after so many years of being around, that Tony is actually jealous of.

I loved this, because Ryan. And racing.

[miss_pam]

I don't know much about Tony, but you made me really love him here.
this is just about the nicest thing to say, honestly.

when ryan was in istanbul, i just got hit by these thoughts of 'omg bb, why you so sad?' because he didn't really seem like himself anymore. so i hope he got to re-charge and relax and he's back to smiling ryan soon again.

haha yeah, i had to throw the conor/elizabeth thing in there.

i actually loved writing that part of ryan (i loved writing the whole story, tbh), how his approach is a bit different from everyone else.