Fic: On The Edge Of My Breath (RPS - Hope Solo/Alex Morgan)

[ripptyd]

Title: On The Edge Of My Breath
Author: ripptyd
Pairing: Hope Solo/Alex Morgan (US WNT, Soccer)
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,081
Summary: Sweat pants and a hoodie. Nothing spectacular, but pretty close to perfect. And she’s looking at you with something in her eyes that you’ve only just started to understand.

Comments

[sexonastick]

Well, so this is pretty much great.

But especially:She’s holding onto the upright with one hand and looking right at you.

You play hard. You have to be as amazing as she thinks you are. But she blocks you. And again. And you’re colliding with her, desperately trying to hit the back of the net.

You’re worked up. Really worked up. She looks at you with a quick grin, and it just makes it worse.

Because that right there is basically everything about why athletes are so god damn unf.

You should really do more of this sometime. Like... maybe August?

[ripptyd]

Thank you! You don't even know how much I love this comment. Your Krieger/Solo fic was the beginning of my USWNT OTP.

I'll write more Morgs/Solo if you write more Krieger/Solo, mkay? :D

[sexonastick]

Aww, thank you. That's genuinely flattering. :)

I feel like Hope can work with so many people. I've written her with former players like Aly Wagner and Cat Reddick, and I could easily see her with Kelley too, but in many ways it really feels like Kriegs is possibly the only person on the team who would be able to make Hope stop and settle and think. She's much better overall at just doing and feeling, without involving her head. Poor Hope. Poor kids in her way. Poor Baby Horse, emphasis on baby.

Which is all to say: I really want to write more of them and I've ben thinking about it. Ali's injury presents a bit of a challenge -- god, that feels so dismissive and awful, just saying it that way -- because I'm not sure I really want two angsty and morbid fics for them in a row. Don't they deserve to be happy? Ugh, life. Stop getting in the way of Hope Solo's happiness, you know how ephemeral it is!

[ripptyd]

I can totally see what you're saying about Hope, because that's exactly how I see Ali as well. She's so calm and infectious with her smiles and happiness, that I can't help but get mushy thinking about a grouchy Hope just finally giving in and being happy.

Re: her injury, it's not dismissive. She's effectively cut off from the girls while she heals, so it's completely valid. Painfully valid, but valid nonetheless. But I'm just saying, I could live with some angst. I think Hope lives and breathes angst if she's not winning or working out, to be honest.

What I've been TRYING to write for just...ages, is Morgs/Krieger and I just cannot get that one to fly. It's killing me. And lack of Krieger in my life is just ruining everything, lol.