The Football Shirt
Title: The Football Shirt
Characters: Fernando Torres, Daniel Agger
Rating: PG
Warnings: Language
Genre: Semi-AU, Fluff
Summary: How Nando and Dagger fell in love.
Disclaimer: 100% fiction (unfortunately).
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Daniel and Fernando met during one of Liverpool’s training sessions. Daniel was there training as usual. Fernando was there stalking Steven as had become the ritual since 12th June. Only Daniel was getting the wrong messages. Who was that sexy blonde that had been coming to watch them train every single day this week? He decided to find out.
"Hey." Gosh, would you look at those freckles.
"Er...hi." Who is this guy? He's blocking my view of Stevie!
Crap, what do I say? Such long eyelashes. "So...you like football?"
"Obviously." Fernando spared him an annoyed glance before seeking out Steven again.
Full lips, big eyes, long limbs, maybe I should just get straight to the point? "Do you have a boyfriend?!" He blurted out.
"HUH?!"
"..."
"..."
"....huh?"
"How did you know I was gay?"
"..."
"..."
"...YOU'RE A GUY?!"
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The next time Daniel and Fernando met was just two days later at a Starbucks. Daniel still had the imprint on his face from when Fernando had slapped him.
"Oh."
"Oh."
"...You like coffee?" Daniel mentally cursed himself.
"...Obviously." Fernando looked down at his cup of coffee.
"I...er...I still think you're kinda hot. You know, even though you're a guy." Someone just shoot me now.
Fernando frowned.
"But...I like Steven."
“...”
“...”
“…Oh.”
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Their next meeting took place at a nightclub. Daniel was there getting smashed. Fernando had been dragged by his friends. On a scale of one to ten of drunkenness, Daniel was about a twelve, Fernando was a zero.
Hey, is that? Fernando grabbed the tail of his shirt.
Daniel turned around, eyes trying to focus on the face in front of him.
"Listen, I was wondering if you could get me Steven's football shirt?” Daniel just looked at him, slap imprint still on his right cheek. “And er…Sor-“ Sorry about the slap he was going to say before he was pulled into an addictive kiss. A few minutes later when they pulled apart his lips were sore and he was out of breath.
It took Fernando a few seconds to realize what had just happened.
The next morning Daniel woke up with the imprint of a hand on his other cheek. And he didn't need to remember last night in order to know who had done it.
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Fernando was sitting in one of the front row seats just behind the net. He had a pretty good view of Reina's backside and that was about it. And that idiot who had stolen his first kiss, albeit a very good first kiss, was supposedly Daniel Agger. The girl next to him wouldn't stop screaming his name. Worse, the bastard looked ridiculously good in the Liverpool home kit. Deep red clinging to his lanky frame and tattoos painting his pale skin. Fernando grudgingly sat there with his arms crossed. He almost wished the other team were playing better so Steven would have to be up at this end defending.
At the end of the match Daniel walked over to edge of pitch, pulled his shirt over his head and promptly threw it into the crowd. And of course, it landed squarely in Fernando's lap. Fernando looked down at it dazed. The girl next to him almost died.
"OMG! Do you want that?! Can I have it?!!"
She had all but grabbed it when Fernando swatted her hand away. The girl gave him a dirty look and sauntered off.
Later when he got home Fernando noticed a telephone number scribbled on the inside of the shirt.
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Fernando didn't know why he'd agreed to go to this restaurant with the lanky, kiss-stealing, sexy tattooed bastard. But anyway, here he was.
"I'm Daniel by the way."
Fernando frowned, he already knew his name, and then quickly realized they'd never properly introduced themselves.
"I'm Fernando."
A thoughtful expression crossed Daniels face, and then; "Quital?"
A smile broke out on Fernando's face. "Muy bien."
They grinned at each other from across the table.
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They'd been dating for about two months now. It was passionate, it was cute, it was everything a sweet romance should be. Cuddling after love making, breakfast in bed, flowers and chocolates and ice-creams in the park.
"Happy Birthday!" Daniel woke Fernando with a big warm hug.
Fernando laughed sleepily. "What are you talking about? It's not my birthday."
"Yeah, but I got you a gift anyway." Daniel grinned.
Fernando pecked his boyfriend on the cheek before opening it.
"Oh."
"You don't like it?" Daniel asked worriedly.
"No, it's just..." Fernando smiled up at him. "I already got the one I want."
Daniel raised an eyebrow and laughed before grabbing Fernando and resuming their morning cuddling session.
On the floor lay Steven's discarded football shirt.