drabbles: luis/pep, xavi/saviola, luis and leo, gerard and leo [g]
All written for footie_100.
Title: for victory
Prompt: win
Pairing: Luis Figo/Pep Guardiola
There was party at Las Ramblas that night, with flares, endless car horns, dancing and what looked like half the city out on the streets.
He remembers looking out of a window at the city hall and sucking in a breath at the scale of it, the sheer amount of joy on display. He remembers thinking: God, but I think I love this place.
The naivety of it was truly awful, but this was a time when he'd happily dye his hair blaugrana for a victory celebration. He was still young.
The two of us, Pep said, and he believed.
Title: define victory
Prompt: win
Pairing: Carles Puyol, Xavi Hernandez/Javier Saviola
Some people think that Carles doesn't notice things, just because he shouts a bit and looks rough around the edges. But of course he notices. He's captain, it's part of the job.
Some things you just don't talk about, though, so he never mentions it -
- how Xavi used to smile more, properly, back in the old days when all they seemed to do was lose; and how much more practiced the expression is these days, and empty, even though they're doing what they've always dreamed of (winning trophies in the blaugrana shirt) -
And all because of Javier.
Title: what's old is new
Prompt: new
Pairing: Gerard Pique, Leo Messi
Notes: Gerard, Leo and Cesc rose through the Barca youth system together. Gerard has re-signed for Barca this season after spending five years with Manchester United.
It's all not quite right. This plant never used to be there, that passageway wasn't paved, and -
this turn didn't exist.
Reluctantly, Gerard stops. He could ask someone, but it would feel asking for directions in his own house.
"Lost?" Leo says from behind him. His tone is coloured by amusement and self-assured in a way it never used to be.
It used to be Gerard - Cesc - Leo, 5 - 4 - 6, like Koeman - Guardiola - Bakero. They used to dream of wearing the shirt, properly, and now they are (minus one).
He grins. "Nah."
Title: tomorrow waits
Prompt: new
Characters: Luis Figo, Leo Messi
Note: takes place after Barca v Real, 04/05. Based on actual events. My apologies for posting twice in a row - this one came out of the blue.
"Um, Mister?"
Luis has to look around in order to find the person who had spoken, so softly that he'd almost missed it in the post-match haze.
It turns out to be a boy so small that he looks barely fourteen, but that can't be right, because his clothes mark him out as one of the Barca subs.
"Could I - could I have your shirt? That is, if you haven't promised it to someone else already?" The words are quiet, mumbled in a heavy Argentine accent.
He's charmed despite himself. "Sure. And you are…?"
The boy beams. "I'm Leo."
Title: for victory
Prompt: win
Pairing: Luis Figo/Pep Guardiola
There was party at Las Ramblas that night, with flares, endless car horns, dancing and what looked like half the city out on the streets.
He remembers looking out of a window at the city hall and sucking in a breath at the scale of it, the sheer amount of joy on display. He remembers thinking: God, but I think I love this place.
The naivety of it was truly awful, but this was a time when he'd happily dye his hair blaugrana for a victory celebration. He was still young.
The two of us, Pep said, and he believed.
Title: define victory
Prompt: win
Pairing: Carles Puyol, Xavi Hernandez/Javier Saviola
Some people think that Carles doesn't notice things, just because he shouts a bit and looks rough around the edges. But of course he notices. He's captain, it's part of the job.
Some things you just don't talk about, though, so he never mentions it -
- how Xavi used to smile more, properly, back in the old days when all they seemed to do was lose; and how much more practiced the expression is these days, and empty, even though they're doing what they've always dreamed of (winning trophies in the blaugrana shirt) -
And all because of Javier.
Title: what's old is new
Prompt: new
Pairing: Gerard Pique, Leo Messi
Notes: Gerard, Leo and Cesc rose through the Barca youth system together. Gerard has re-signed for Barca this season after spending five years with Manchester United.
It's all not quite right. This plant never used to be there, that passageway wasn't paved, and -
this turn didn't exist.
Reluctantly, Gerard stops. He could ask someone, but it would feel asking for directions in his own house.
"Lost?" Leo says from behind him. His tone is coloured by amusement and self-assured in a way it never used to be.
It used to be Gerard - Cesc - Leo, 5 - 4 - 6, like Koeman - Guardiola - Bakero. They used to dream of wearing the shirt, properly, and now they are (minus one).
He grins. "Nah."
Title: tomorrow waits
Prompt: new
Characters: Luis Figo, Leo Messi
Note: takes place after Barca v Real, 04/05. Based on actual events. My apologies for posting twice in a row - this one came out of the blue.
"Um, Mister?"
Luis has to look around in order to find the person who had spoken, so softly that he'd almost missed it in the post-match haze.
It turns out to be a boy so small that he looks barely fourteen, but that can't be right, because his clothes mark him out as one of the Barca subs.
"Could I - could I have your shirt? That is, if you haven't promised it to someone else already?" The words are quiet, mumbled in a heavy Argentine accent.
He's charmed despite himself. "Sure. And you are…?"
The boy beams. "I'm Leo."