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After suffering a meniscal injury during an El Clásico, Gavi is sent to Madrid for surgery and rehab. Alone and in pain in an unfamiliar city, he becomes increasingly desperate for human contact. So, he makes a very stupid decision to talk to a certain Real Madrid player. Unexpectedly, he ends up finding comfort in Jude Bellingham.
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08 Dec 2025
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“25,000€!” the auctioneer cries, “for a date night with Euro Champion Unai Simón-”
“26,000€!” she bids again.
Unai can feel the hairs standing on the back of his neck as he watches the man smile before bidding: “30,000€.”
People gasp. The auctioneer may have a stroke while the woman gives her opponent a curt look before putting her sign down. And Unai… well, Unai is still staring at the winner, still rendered speechless as the crowd finally simmers down enough for him to hear:
“30,000€, and sold to Mr. Pedri.”
(Or: Forced to auction himself as a date, Unai drunkenly confides in his teammate, Pedri, that he's gay and healing from heartbreak. Unai is ill-equipped for the friendship that blossoms and even less prepared for what's to come.)
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03 Jun 2025
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A month after France and Frank Harkness, Slough House is floundering beneath the weight of grief none of them quite know how to deal with. Fortunately, Catherine has returned, and she’s determined to fix things — starting with River, who’s carrying a secret that’s affecting how he acts both with her and with Lamb — until she and River are kidnapped from Slough House by a group of former slow horses that have a very serious bone to pick with Jackson Lamb.
It will be fine. Catherine knows that Lamb will come for River, and River knows that Lamb will come for Catherine, and until he does they simply have to keep the other alive long enough to be found. But what they’re not expecting is that these former slow horses don’t just want to hurt Lamb; they want to break River, and force Lamb to watch it happen.
But the former slow horses have made a significant error of judgement. With every recording they send of River’s torture, the more determined Lamb becomes to rescue his boy, and when he finally does get River and Catherine back he is never going to let them go. It’ll be a long, difficult road to recovery, but they’ll walk it together, all three of them.
[ or: the camcorder kidnapping fic, at last. ]
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18 Apr 2025
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Ghost knew secrets, so he let MacTavish keep them. He didn’t need to know every little detail, didn’t need to know how he ended up with a decorative plate from Iceland or what was up with all the pillows in his house and on his sofa or if that was his cup, a lumpy thing made of clay in the back of the cupboard that had been painstakingly been painted years before and was chipping at the edges.
To Ghost’s chagrin, there was nothing in the field manual about wanting to know someone— nothing about wanting to live outside of the military, and nothing at all about being human with anyone else at all.
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- Part 38 of yours to keep
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12 Jan 2025
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so roll those credits 'cause the sequel's gonna hurt by snowdropp
Fandoms: Men's Football RPF
07 Oct 2024
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“Mate, this PR is getting a little out of hand.”
Heungmin frowns at Ben’s rushed tone. “What are you talking about?”
“Maybe the fact that I found out from your Instagram post that you’re dating Cristian Romero.”
Ferrari fucks up. Naturally, Heungmin and Cuti are the ones who pay the price.
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09 Dec 2024