This year, two of my favorite players are leaving their childhood clubs behind. Iker Casillas Fernandez, age 34, has been a goalkeeper for the first team at Real Madrid since 1999 and team captain for five years. Xavi Hernandez Creus, age 35, made his first team debut as a midfielder for FC Barcelona in 1998 and was captain this past season, when his team won all three major tournaments for the second time in Spanish history.

Despite the intense rivalry of their respective clubs, these two men have been friends since they met as teenagers. At times, their mutual esteem and affection have been the glue that holds the Spanish national team together, allowing them to win two European Cups and Spain's only World Cup between 2008 and 2012. Even the Prince of Asturias has recognized this OTP.

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<333333333 So much love for these two men, and I wish both of them all the best in this next stage of their respective careers.

Title: Ready to Pop
Rating: M
Word Count: 3384
Characters: Iker Casillas/Xavi Hernández, Sergio Ramos, Cristiano Ronaldo
Disclaimer: While inspired by real persons and events, this is a work of fiction.
Summary: After Real Madrid finally defeat Barcelona in a clásico, Iker gets back into Xavi's good graces with the help of far too much champagne. Sort of a sequel to Embarazada de Nada and Lo Que Quieras.
Warnings: Over-indulgence, belly kink, and make-believe m-preg. Also, I realize that Cristiano didn't actually play in this match, but he charmed his way into the fic, and by the time I noticed the discrepancy, it seemed like it would be much less fun without him.


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Title: Lo Que Quieras
Pairing: Iker Casillas/Xavi Hernández
Rating: R
Word Count: 4966
Disclaimer: While inspired by real persons and events, this is a work of fiction.
Summary: Having overindulged after his team's depressing loss in the clásico, Iker continues to experience the aftereffects with Xavi's eager assistance.
Warnings: Belly kink fic. Stuffing and its imagined physical and sexual consequences.
Author's Notes: This is a sequel to, and takes place immediately after the events of, Embarazado de Nada. There's a bit near the end inspired by clivelive49 's House M.D. fic Whatever You Want.

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Title: no te duermas (que no hemos acabado)
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 980
Pairing: Iker Casillas/Xavi Hernández
Disclaimer: While inspired by real persons and events, this is a work of fiction.
Summary: In which Xavi suggests a solution to Iker's bench-warming blues after Barcelona plays the Supercopa in Madrid.


( "You're slowing down, old man." )

Title: why should you come (when i call)
Pairing: Iker Casillas/Xavi Hernandez
Rating: R
Word Count: 1277
Summary: A smooth operator, Iker is not.
Author's Note: Written in celebration of MMoM 2013, although most likely this will be my only contribution. Unabashedly inspired by (imo) the best awkward phone sex scene ever, in Involuntary Commitment by ignazwisdom.


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Jordi Alba and I apparently feel the same way about this result...

Even biased Barcelona fan that I am, I would never have predicted this victory. Barca arrived at the second leg of this Champions League round without an away goal, having lost to AC Milan 0-2 at the San Siro. In order to stay in the tournament, they had to score at least two goals in regular time AND keep a clean sheet, which they had not managed to do from mid-January to their Saturday match against Deportivo. In that recent match, I had seen promising signs of a sharper Barca, a hungrier Barca... but they had still only scored two goals total against the lowest team in the league standings. Tonight they were going to have to do much, much better.

( And they did. )