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It’s on the tip of her tongue to ask what this is, and she doesn’t know if she wants to hear the answer. She doesn’t absolutely know what answer she would give if it was the other way around. But it feels strange to even think about describing it, defining it, holding it up to the light for analysis, because all Iga can think about right now is how it makes her feel, how much she likes it.
How shy she feels about even the thought of Karolina taking last night lightly, when it meant so much to her.
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- Part 7 of the fine line
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‘Why did you say you wanted me to win?’
‘Isn’t it obvious?’
‘If it was obvious I wouldn’t need to ask.’
‘Oh, I don’t know. You might just have wanted to hear me say it.’
‘Say it,’ Iga says matter-of-factly, ‘and I’ll tell you if I like it.’
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my only hope (is to let life stretch out before me) by delacourt (delafield)
Fandoms: Tennis RPF
11 Oct 2025
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It’s weird how it kind of creeps up on you, the realisation that she’s not just really talented, she’s also really pretty. But you’re used to wishing you had her height, her movement, her spin, so it feels natural to think wistfully about her eyes and her hands as well.
(It takes you longer - a lot longer - to realise that maybe you don’t want to be her at all.)
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It’s the kind of thought she usually shies away from these days, it feels like pressing on a bruise to look back on it, but she makes herself remember how grateful she is to be here, how close she was to losing it all forever. She thinks about how happy she was in Australia when she expected people to turn their backs and instead they were so kind to her. She reminds herself that this is a job, she doesn’t have to love it all the time.
She’s lucky. She’s so, so lucky.
However it feels right now.
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They’re professionals. They’re not at a sleepover.
Although that comparison is slightly ironic, because they’ve wasted years playing tennis instead of doing whatever normal teenagers do with each other, and they’re too busy now to meet anyone normal anyway, and they see each other half-naked on a regular basis, and to be honest there’s so much waiting around that they’re often quite bored.
So sometimes they do also make out.
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through the sliding doors by delafield
Fandom Women's Association Football | Women's Soccer RPF
29 Dec 2021
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She often wonders what it might be like to be a different person. Sometimes a different person in a different life. Other times, life as it is, with a completely new her.
If she were a different person, a different her, maybe she would take Aryna’s advice to get frustration out, release tension, smash a racket, scream a little, get laid.
But she is her and she doesn’t, hasn’t, wouldn’t?
But what if she did?
Her entire life has been turned upside down in the past several months and she’s somehow still standing, so why not test the limits and actually do something reckless for once? She has always done exactly what she’s supposed to do, and for what? To sit alone in a hotel room, wishing she was somebody else?
Bookmarked by delacourt (delafield)
05 Apr 2025