#the primoz/sepp/jonas dynamic...it haunts me

[joutsummer]

a hole in my heart (it's got your name on it)

@wtfanworkclassification stage 12: prompt -> loyalty (204 words)

also on ao3.

it's a strange thing, having primož on his wheel again. it almost feels like coming home.

if jonas closes his eyes, he can picture the way it used to be - back before he won the tour, back when he spent his days pulling primož up mountains and dropping all their rivals, back when he spent his nights on his knees pulling the stress out of primož in other ways.

there's little time for reminiscing on the road to le lioran, even less when jonas drops primož from his wheel on the pertus and his world narrows to the yellow jersey ahead, just out of reach. out of reach, until it isn't.

he doesn't see primož after, and maybe it's for the best. jonas doesn't know if he could see the blood on primož's knee, elbow, or shoulder and fight the urge to care like he used to. he wonders which of primož's new teammates will steal into his room tonight. jai, perhaps? sobrero?

suddenly, almost violently, jonas misses sepp. it will be matteo who gets on his knees for jonas tonight, and it will be good, jonas knows - but sepp understands it, this loyalty that makes jonas looks at primož and want to serve.

(@tadejonas this one's for you 🤗)