Repeating History
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[Your call has been forwarded to an automatic voice message system. KATSUKI YUURI is not available. Please leave your message after the tone, or hang up and try again later.]
Yuuri? Yuuri, it’s Viktor. Please pick up the phone. I don’t know where you are and Yurio said you didn’t show up for practice this morning. I’m worried about you. I have to talk to you before the free skate this afternoon, all right? It’s important.
Just... please call me back. I love you.
(In which Yuuri gets seventh place at the Olympics and doesn't handle it very well.)
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- Part 1 of Repeating History
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"How is he?"
Mila could lie, she supposes. She could lie to Yuuri and tell him that Viktor’s snapped back like a rubber band, that he’s smiling again and skating his heart out, preparing for next season.
But he’s not, so she doesn’t. At this point, all she can do is slow the bleeding—she can’t patch the wound.
(In which Yuuri calls Mila four months after he broke up with Viktor at the PyeongChang Olympics, and she asks questions Yuuri doesn't have the answers to. Companion piece to "We Were Born to Repeat History," but can be read alone.)
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- Part 2 of Repeating History
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“Do you still think of him?”
They ask this question all the time. Every interview, every competition—it always comes up one way or another. The words change sometimes, articles and verbs trading places and finding new identities as they spill from the mouths of reporters, friends, and family, but the question is always, always the same beneath the crushed veneer of wordplay.
And every time, Yuuri lies. He lies through his teeth.
“No,” he says. A tight-lipped smile. “Not anymore.”
(When tensions run high at the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, Viktor and Yuuri end up breaking off their engagement, much to the shock of the rest of the world. Four years later, Yuuri is preparing Minako's nephew for the 2022 Olympics in Beijing and Viktor is doing the same for Yuri Plisetsky, and no one is really all right with the situation at all.)
(Currently under revision.)
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- Part 3 of Repeating History