help_japan fic #1: minus the shooting 1/? (trek rps, football rps[? ????])

[dorkorific]

title: Minus the Shooting (1/?)
author: Rave (dorkorific)
rating: PG
characters: Chris Pine, Xabi Alonso, Zachary Quinto, Steven Gerrard, etc.
disclaimer: Absolutely 100% untrue
words: ~3200.
summary: fragment of a larger AU. Chris Pine, the highest-paid American player in the EPL, makes an ill-thought-out transfer; Xabi Alonso, PR guru, has to handle the

Comments

[jadejester7]

I love this! I can't wait to see how he interacts with the other players on the team. (i like how he thinks Pepe has an "American tempo" I've always thought so too) :D

[dorkorific]

thank you so so much! I'm so glad that part in particular rang true to you -- i wasn't sure if it would make sense to anyone else, so i am always delighted to be wrong about that. :)

[anna_unfolding]

They wouldn't call him anything, because nobody in America would give a shit, because it's soccer.

Oh GOD. Already. SO MUCH LOVE.

"What's your name again?" Chris mutters back. "Shabby?"

The guy only gives him a patient little smile that makes Chris feel petty and mean. "Spanish, it's a subtle language," he says. "Shabby is okay."

Hysterically lolling @Shabby, and at Xabi's totally classy response, refusing to be insulted, and refusing to embarrass Chris for being a dick. Annalets were all MOMMY WHY YOU LAUGHING? And I was all CULTURAL INSENSITIVTY AND SNARKINESS IS FUNNY! And they were all OH. CAN WE GO GET POPSICLES?

that stringy blond fauxhawk I CAN’T EVEN. CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIS

He knows guys who have to tie their shoes a special way, sleep in their jersey, do a little dance, all that shit, that's not him.Rly? I know fans who paint their fingernails white before Real Madrid games OR THEIR TEAM WILL LOSE, GUARANTEED. Oh, I love this moment, actually, where he traces the crest anyway. [LOVES

[anna_unfolding]

NATAAAAAAAAAAASHAAAAAA ASFJGKALKFHGAKFHGAJDKFGHJDKFHGJASFJV

[anna_unfolding]

I went to find a good agent-like pic of Natasha for you and couldn't really; she's far to FYEAH and HANG LOOSE.

LIKE SO:

[publicspeaking]

this is so perfect, i mean everything you do basically is, but everyone is so well developed and they're just characters but reading their interactions and the things they do and everything just puts the biggest smile on my face? idek but you're amazing this is amazing thank you for this

[mythologized]

this is sooooooo good

[mardia]

Oh, this is delightful. *claps hands excitedly*