#pdb

there's a two week break somewhere after the first quarter of the season where there's an impromptu training camp/vacation where rebecca + carlos + team 55 are in [random isolated beach location] and rebecca is horny out of her mind and getting eaten out like her life depends on it but girl wants to get RAILED. this comes up vaguely one evening as rebecca, teto and carlos are drinking a bottle of wine on the balcony of rebecca and carlos's hotel room and teto, annoying, pries until the entire story comes out. yadda yadda charged conversation where rebecca keeps rubbing her thighs together and teto keeps looking at her legs and then looking away red-faced and carlos finally says, you two could--

and rebecca's like we could what? and carlos is like i just want you to be happy and rebecca's like i AM happy and carlos is like you're happy but you're not--you're not satisfied. and i wouldn't--obviously i'd mind if you--but if it's teto, that's--

rebecca and teto have been hanging out at garage 55 for the better part of a year now and sure, there's something, in the way that there's always some connection between two people who love the same third person fiercely and there's something there but they'd never have acted on it but now carlos is giving them permission and for the next few months a situation arises where rebecca and teto fuck while carlos watches. he IS turned on, excruciatingly so, but his dick is non-cooperative.

at the same time gigi says to carlos you're being very hard on yourself and if YOU can't be nice to yourself at least i can and after bad races gigi puts carlos on a massage table and really slowly works all the stress out of carlos's tired body. every time carlos says something cruel about himself gigi calmly reframes it to something positive until carlos is a puddle on the table and in those brief moments where carlos is not allowed to hate himself suddenly carlos finds he IS able to get hard and gigi notices and carlos is humiliated that gigi notices but gigi's like this is fine, don't worry, i'm happy your body is happy. long story short, the only way for months that carlos is able to come is to rut into the massage table, mortified, as gigi massages him and says nice things to him.