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the best luck I had was you
When Andres was at La Masia, they told the students that Cruyff was the first person to use bonding in football. It wasn't exactly true, but it was close enough - Cruyff was the first person to figure out how to make it work. People had tried before, but unless you were even a little sensitive nothing happened, and then if you were sensitive but you got bonded to the wrong partner, it drove you both crazy. Supposedly a couple of Dutch players in the second division had killed themselves, and after that nobody was interested in trying anymore. Then there was Cruyff, and the Dream Team. Of course, it all collapsed so suddenly and so spectacularly that even if anyone had worked out why the team sometimes seemed able to read each other's minds, there would have been no attempt at ( ... )
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"Yes, mother," Andres sighed. Victor grinned again and wandered off towards Carles and Oleguer.
"Trouble?" Xavi inquired.
Andres blinked. "Oh. No, just, Victor… worries."
"It's not a bad thing, Andresito," Xavi said, smiling. "Shall we?"
Xavi didn't seem to mind the silence as they made their way up to their room, but Andres was nearly squirming by the time the door was shut behind them. "Should Carles be here too?" he blurted out.
Xavi turned to stare at him. "Puyi? Why?"
"If it's… I don't know, captain things, or…"
"Oh - oh." Xavi fumbled behind himself for the bed and sat down, still watching Andres and now frowning a little. "It's not anything like - Andrew, you didn't do anything wrong. You're not in trouble ( ... )
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"…and nobody would - wait, what?"
"You can tell the míster I said yes. It's okay so long as it's you."
Xavi stopped dead for a moment, completely frozen. Then he brought up his other hand up to cup Andres' cheek, and hold his face still. "You don't have to do this."
"If it will help the team, then I want to," Andres said firmly. "The míster wouldn't ask if it wasn't necessary. And I trust you ( ... )
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"Victor!" Andres hissed. "He's our vice-captain and my bondmate, you are not allowed to threaten Xavi."
"I didn't threaten him," Victor said, with an eyeroll that Andres could actually hear in his voice even if he couldn't see it. "We just talked."
"But you're not going to tell me about what, right," Andres said.
"Right."
Andres sighed. He could probably pester whatever it was out of Victor, given enough time, but he wasn't sure it was worth it, and anyway Xavi was waking up. "All right. I'll be right back."
"Go back to bed! It's after midnight!" Victor called after him. "If you oversleep and make me late to practice tomorrow morning I will kill you ( ... )
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"I'm sorry," Andres blurted, "but I can't - please don't."
"Oh god, I'm so sorry," Xavi said, horrified. "I didn't think - I have to cut everyone else off, I'd go crazy if I knew where they all were off the pitch, too. I didn't realize - "
"I'm not everyone else, I'm your bondmate," Andres said, and maybe he was more upset about it than he'd realized, because he was starting to get hysterical. "You can't ( ... )
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"Good game," Xavi said behind him. "Even if you did cheat."
"You did too," Andres said, and leaned backwards into Xavi, knowing he could support his weight for a moment. "Are you going to tell me what that was about?"
It was a sincere question and Xavi considered it as such, although Andres realized after a moment that his wording had been harsher than he'd intended. "Emili said they weren't sure how I would react to the bonding," he said eventually. "Because they've never seen anyone who could hear everyone the way I can. He said there was a possibility I wouldn't be sensitive to anyone but you anymore. It wasn't a big possibility, or else the míster ( ... )
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"Wait, is that it?" Andres asked, when Emili didn't start any other medical procedure. He didn't feel any different, except for the weird blurriness at the edges of his vision, and the humming sound… oh.
"Shit, Andrew! Andrew, wake up!" Andres blinked his eyes open. The world was still kaleidoscoping around him in very interesting colors, and for some reason he appeared to be lying on the floor, but he knew the fuzzy lump in front of his face was Xavi. He closed his eyes again, because the dancing lights were starting to make him nauseous, but he still knew exactly where Xavi was. He was pretty sure that they could be standing at opposite ends of a completely dark football pitch and he would know exactly where Xavi was. He could feel Xavi inside his head - his bare ( ... )
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