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   To Protect, To Hold by takoyaki_squid for Kranti_Amar_Rahos

   Fandoms: Men's Football RPF  

   • Not Rated
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen, M/M
   • Complete Work

   10 Sep 2026

   Tags

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   • Pep Guardiola/Lionel Messi
   • Pep Guardiola & Lionel Messi
   • Lionel Messi
   • Pep Guardiola
   • Xavi Hernández
   • Gerard Piqué
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Miscommunication
   • Touch-Starved
   • Lionel Messi Needs A Hug
   • and he will get more than one
   • Hurt Lionel Messi
   • Pep Guardiola is an idiot
   • Mutual Pining
   • protective xavi
   • Tooth-Rotting Fluff

   Summary

   Leo suddenly felt that he understood something he hadn't wanted to understand.

   He’d thought he missed Pep's touch. In truth, he missed being the person Pep touched without thinking. All those casual moments had seemed so ordinary that Leo had never thought about them. Only when Pep stopped doing them did he realize how much they had become a part of his life.

   or

   Pep tries to keep his hands to himself. Leo is touch-starved. Neither of them communicates.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

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