wintersunning

WHAT IF, at the beginning of the suspension, Jannik, who has never done drugs in his life, thinks hey, this is the only time ever when I'm allowed to let go because I'm not going to be tested in however many weeks (I'm guessing they would start again once he was allowed to train, and if not let's pretend that's how it went). so anyway, he decides to try [insert substance of your choice here, not c*ke tho because that would make him even more paranoid]. and Jannik being Jannik he probably barricades himself at home, locks himself out of all sm, etc, because he wants to let loose but still do it in the most controlled way possible. unfortunately, the thing Normal Jannik didn't account for is how No Prefrontal Cortex Jannik thinks it's a grand idea to call Carlos. I mean, he wants to talk to Carlos all the time, he has no idea why he doesn't, let's call Carlos. and now imagine Carlos, at home or maybe already in Rotterdam, getting this absolutely insane phone call where Jannik is all relaxed and giggly and open and telling him how much he likes him and does he know he has a great ass and sometimes Jannik gets hard watching him play but don't tell anyone and this goes on and on and Carlos doesn't know what to do because once he establishes what the fuck going on ("Janni... are you drunk?" "don't be stupid, Carlos, I'm on drugs") he know he will never EVER get Jannik to be this open with him again, so imagine the temptation to ask him stuff he's always wanted to know, but that's awful, so he doesn't ofc, but he doesn't hang up either because Jannik is alone and high off his ass for the first time in his life so he'd rather have him talking to Carlos than doing God knows what, so he starts talking back and telling Jannik how much he likes his hair and that he doesn't know what he's gonna do without him on the tour for three months and so on. and this goes on for a while until Jannik falls asleep or something and Carlos hangs up. and the next morning Jannik doesn't remember anything beyond calling Carlos so he texts him an apology and Carlos interprets it as "I want to pretend this never happened" which hurts but, well, fair enough, he'll play along. and they have no contact for the entire suspension until Rome. and then the night after the final Jannik has a bit of wine with dinner and for some reason, this coupled with seeing Carlos again unlocks the memory of all the embarrassing things he said but also all the things CARLOS said back so he uses all his chilling malevolence to find out Carlos's hotel and room number and you bet he's knocking on that door in record time.

And maybe when they get to Australia and Alvaro is waiting for him at the hotel and Carlos hugs him a little too tightly and Alvaro has to ask, concerned because Carlos looks so tired and so out of it, even though of course he must be exhausted and he looks it, but there’s something else there, so he he asks about sleeping on the plane and Carlos gets a bit of a cagey look and Alvaro drops it but maybe that night once they’re alone again Alvaro prods a little more and Carlos makes him promise not to laugh and confesses that he had barely slept on the flight because he had been watching Jannik sleep all night until he couldn’t keep his eyes open any longer, just because he knows he’ll probably never get a chance to do that ever again. Pretending they’re sharing a bed, he doesn’t say, but it's pretty clear that's what he means, and he’s not looking at Alvaro at all but of course he gets it, so he hugs Carlos tightly without saying anything because this is one thing he can’t fix for his brother. And then maybe the next day someone else, say Flavio, makes a joke like “What did you do to Jannik in Seoul, man?” And Carlos is like "what". And Flavio says, “According to Matteo he’s never seen him this happy and chill before a slam.” Carlos’s face does something very complicated at that and Flavio, because he’s guessed or because he knows or because he’s been friends with Carlos for a long time, knows there's something there and drops it immediately, makes a joke, something like “and I told Matti these guys were making 20k a minute for doing jack shit, of course he’s happy and relaxed”, and doesn’t bring up Jannik or Korea again that day. And maybe when they say goodbye Flavio considers saying something else to make it better, something like how Jannik makes that much money in a month just by walking up, Carlos, that’s not why he was smiling at you like that, he doesn’t look at anyone else like that, haven’t you noticed, how can you not see it. But he’s not sure if it’s his place to say anything so he doesn’t, he just squeezes Carlos’s shoulder a little longer than usual when he leaves the practice court.

And Carlos got the WIFE one aka 婦? 👇🏻