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Carlos didn’t realize it until it was too late.
He had been warned thoroughly of what could happen if two alphas engaged in a sexual relationship with each other - if the conditions layered perfectly together to create a disaster to biology.
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15 May 2026
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Hate wouldn’t be the proper term for what Carlos feels for Jannik - pretty sure fucking someone you hate would signify he doesn’t truly hate him - but is Carlos itching for the next match so he can be the one pressing Jannik down into the mattress as payback? Absolutely.
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03 Feb 2026
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"Something happened while he was out, exiled. While he watched from the sidelines as everybody kept improving and playing and giving interviews. While journalists and men of culture speculated about drugs he never used. Something in him stopped, in those interminable weeks, something in him broke and he can’t put it back together, regardless of how much he tries, how much he has tried for the last few months."
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Things get worse, and then they slowly get better.
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- Part 1 of Futile Devices
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02 Feb 2026
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"Jannik, why would you get this?"
"Because it would look good on you."
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01 Jan 2026
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Years later, Jannik often thought back to the day when he first met Carlos Alcaraz, because perhaps the most interesting thing about it all was that their first meeting wasn't so earth-shattering. Jannik didn't feel like the ground had been pulled out from under his feet, and there weren't even butterflies in his belly. He simply turned around and found the young boy in the corner of the burning red clay court, who he had no idea at the time would change his whole life.
He was a lanky, short boy, with dark brown curls falling from his forehead, clutching in his hand a racket that might have been too heavy for him at the time. He flicked his eyes back and forth, as if he didn't believe where he was at first. For a moment, their eyes met. Carlos smiled broadly and waved boldly at him, as if they were ancient friends, not two strangers whose only thing in common was a racket in their hands. Jannik may or may not have waved at him, but he remembered that he immediately looked down at his shoes, red with clay and did not dare to look at the boy again.
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19 Dec 2025
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Traveling 12 months of the year - 11 months of those he is working - it’s hard to find time to satisfy his needs. There isn’t time nor energy for a relationship, so something has to give. So Jannik either finds some groupie and goes through the trouble of NDAs or -
That familiar face pops up on his phone screen, the same smile Jannik had been using to get himself off every chance he got. Though he is there the moment the stream starts, the notification comes anyway.BallboyCharly is live!
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09 Dec 2025
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Out on the deck, the sun is so bright Carlos has to shield his eyes from the blinding reflections dancing on the deep blue of the lake.
"So beautiful," Jannik says. He has come to stand right behind him to look over his shoulder, but Carlos doesn't need to look to know his exact position, the exact scrunch of Jannik's face in studious awe as he contemplates the lake.
A part of him always knows exactly where Jannik is, a part of him always tries to figure out exactly what he's thinking. Years of playing Jannik have left their mark, and now Carlos couldn't erase the knowledge even if he tried.
He ignores the warmth pooling in his belly.
After Wimbledon, both Carlos and Jannik only want to go somewhere no one knows them, where they can have a real holiday. When Juanki offers Carlos his holiday home, he invites Jannik along for some time away from the spotlight.
Away from prying eyes, will they become closer than ever? And what will happen when the world of social media notices their absence?
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01 Nov 2025