footballverse fic
Title: Blurred Lines
Characters: Fernando Gago & Juan Monaco
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Fiction
Based on this video
written for footballverse season four. Prompt: sports crossover
It’s a little ridiculous for him to come along but Pico insisted and it isn’t like Gisela had a match today so Fernando agreed. He tries to be quiet when Pico answers the interviewer’s questions, just a little fun before the French Open (Fernando wonders why there aren’t Q&A’s like this one in football). The interviewer is clever however and tries to add him into the conversation and Pico - ever the social butterfly - makes sure everyone who will watch this knows exactly who Fernando is.
Fernando and Pico have been friends for a while now. The Argentines had met a while back, when Fernando was still with Boca and playing in his homeland. As a bonding exercise, the team had gone to watch a tennis tournament in Buenos Aires and naturally met the players, especially the Argentines. Pico had been a brash young man who was ready to spark up a friendship with anyone and naturally they did. Though their schedules are vastly different but equally as busy, they maintain this camaraderie.
It was Pico who had introduced Gisela to Fernando, though accidently. She had dropped by a party he threw as a nightclub and Fernando had found himself sitting next to her. The futbolista is a quieter man than both tenistas so it took Gisela to talk to him first. Pico thought nothing of it, maybe just a one night stand because Fernando wasn’t Gisela’s type whatsoever but funnily enough he never knew what Fernando’s type exactly was. It never came up.
Fernando values his friendship with Pico for so many reasons. He’s a fresh set of eyes outside of football, outside of Madrid. When they talk about football, it’s about the clubs in Argentina but they also discuss tennis as well. Fernando has met so many tenistas who are his countrymen and women who he is sure he wouldn’t have met if it weren’t for Pico. Including Gisela.
Fernando loves what he has with Gisela. She’s beautiful and talented and funny and everything any man could want. Yet here he is, in this car with Pico when he could be back at the hotel with her or on the practice courts with her, watching her body build up a sweat under the French sun. But he isn’t and Fernando doesn’t want to question that. He doesn’t think he will be able to handle the answer.
“We have a nice girl, Gisela Dulko who is the girlfriend of the guy who I have beside...”
Pico breaks into laughter when the interview congratulates Fernando on having a gorgeous girl in Gisela. Fernando whoever just looks down into his hand and doesn’t look up again until Pico introduces him and all but sings his praises.
The guilt fades away slightly.
Characters: Fernando Gago & Juan Monaco
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Fiction
Based on this video
written for footballverse season four. Prompt: sports crossover
It’s a little ridiculous for him to come along but Pico insisted and it isn’t like Gisela had a match today so Fernando agreed. He tries to be quiet when Pico answers the interviewer’s questions, just a little fun before the French Open (Fernando wonders why there aren’t Q&A’s like this one in football). The interviewer is clever however and tries to add him into the conversation and Pico - ever the social butterfly - makes sure everyone who will watch this knows exactly who Fernando is.
Fernando and Pico have been friends for a while now. The Argentines had met a while back, when Fernando was still with Boca and playing in his homeland. As a bonding exercise, the team had gone to watch a tennis tournament in Buenos Aires and naturally met the players, especially the Argentines. Pico had been a brash young man who was ready to spark up a friendship with anyone and naturally they did. Though their schedules are vastly different but equally as busy, they maintain this camaraderie.
It was Pico who had introduced Gisela to Fernando, though accidently. She had dropped by a party he threw as a nightclub and Fernando had found himself sitting next to her. The futbolista is a quieter man than both tenistas so it took Gisela to talk to him first. Pico thought nothing of it, maybe just a one night stand because Fernando wasn’t Gisela’s type whatsoever but funnily enough he never knew what Fernando’s type exactly was. It never came up.
Fernando values his friendship with Pico for so many reasons. He’s a fresh set of eyes outside of football, outside of Madrid. When they talk about football, it’s about the clubs in Argentina but they also discuss tennis as well. Fernando has met so many tenistas who are his countrymen and women who he is sure he wouldn’t have met if it weren’t for Pico. Including Gisela.
Fernando loves what he has with Gisela. She’s beautiful and talented and funny and everything any man could want. Yet here he is, in this car with Pico when he could be back at the hotel with her or on the practice courts with her, watching her body build up a sweat under the French sun. But he isn’t and Fernando doesn’t want to question that. He doesn’t think he will be able to handle the answer.
“We have a nice girl, Gisela Dulko who is the girlfriend of the guy who I have beside...”
Pico breaks into laughter when the interview congratulates Fernando on having a gorgeous girl in Gisela. Fernando whoever just looks down into his hand and doesn’t look up again until Pico introduces him and all but sings his praises.
The guilt fades away slightly.