Our old friend fear, and you and me
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Novak makes a request. Rafa is a selfless boy.
What does this have to do with Roger?[Set in about 2008-2009]
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- Part 1 of Our old friend fear, and you and me
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“I hope that, after our career, we can have a drink on the beach, talk about life”.
Novak Djokovic on Rafael Nadal, 2023
[Future-fic mixed with ghosts of the past, I suppose]
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- Part 2 of Our old friend fear, and you and me
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It's all about a big misunderstanding.
"Whatever Novak says, they have become a sort of triad: from mutually exclusive to reciprocally necessary, as if each one of them legitimizes the existence of the other. Life has a sense of humor, sometimes."
[Conceptually set in 2028 or so]
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- Part 3 of Our old friend fear, and you and me
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“We decided to bury this a long time ago. Digging it up makes no sense now… Only the bones are left."
"The bones stay forever, though," Roger says, in a very low voice.In 2028, Roger's still trying to sort things out with Rafa. Will it be the right time? Hasn't love got something to do with waiting, after all?
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- Part 4 of Our old friend fear, and you and me
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“Maybe you can't help being bad,” says Rafa, glancing at him, “but… I don’t think you’re enjoying it that much, Nole [...]."
Even without Rafa, Novak would still hate Roger, by the way.
Wouldn't he?
[2006-2029]
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- Part 5 of Our old friend fear, and you and me