Grand Prix Banquet REDUX

[pokesock]

The Grand Prix is over and it's time to celebrate!

✘ Come one, come all! It doesn't matter which character you play, everyone is welcome here! Doubles, triples--who cares? ✘ Have as much fun as you want--I'm not going to put a rating on this post. Just tag your headers appropriately if things start getting frisky~ ✘ This is open to everyone! Tell your friends! Test out a new character from the show! Let's just have some fun!

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[musicinmotion]

While he was trying to stay positive about things, he knew that Victor was very capable of playing people the way he wanted to. It wasn't a malicious thing; it was just how Victor was. He knew how to keep people going. He knew how to get them to fight harder; to work harder.

Yuri just..he was young. And it probably came off as way worse than Victor had meant it.

"I'm sorry. It's..if I hadn't been so rash.." If he hadn't tried to quit to give Victor an out, the other wouldn't have pushed Yuri like that.

The sound of the plastic crinkling makes him cringe and he reaches out to rest a hand over the younger skater's.

"And that's not fair to you. You should be happy about it. You were amazing, Yuri-kun and you deserve that gold more than anyone else that was on the ice."

[borschtkot]

It was hard for Yuri to reconcile with himself as it was. He'd fallen and the points had been close. If JJ had skated his best then he seriously would have lost regardless..

"...what I'm doing isn't good enough to win on its own.. I was lucky JJ messed up. I was lucky you messed up in your first program!"

He knew he was being stupid but he felt just.. over done. His body would be sore tomorrow, his chest still hurt. And Victor hadn't even spoke to him yet.

Not since the podium.. it hurt his feelings.

"This is why I'd rather look up to you anyway, you don't make me feel like shit..."

[musicinmotion]

Yuuri frowned softly.

"This was your first time at the Grand Prix, Yuri. You did amazing! Even if JJ had been in top form you would have given him a run for his money. Even if you had gotten silver it still would have been amazing!" He wasn't going to let the other talk down his accomplishments. He respected the younger skater far too much to listen to him talk like that; to doubt how good he was and how much potential he had.

"You--" Yuuri stops suddenly and he can't help but blush as he realizes what Yuri just said.

What.

"...Me?"

[borschtkot]

"No it wouldn't have. Third time behind JJ.. ugh." He twists the bottle, face growing red as he realizes he'd admitted something he hadn't meant to admit.

"It's stupid..! I just thought.. your step sequences were good and you were so angry last year about losing and I wanted... you started crying and it pissed me off because you shouldn't have been crying..!"

He fiddled more with the bottle, wanting to escape. "I was.. ...angry that you were just going to quit like that..."

[musicinmotion]

"There's no shame in coming in second," Yuuri said sincerely. "If nothing else it would have just made it even more satisfying when you beat him next year." Because JJ would definitely be the one to beat next year if he got over his Grand Prix nerves.

Yuuri sat back, his hand slipping away from Yuri's as he listened to the other go on. He had always known that Minami had looked up to him but..Yuri? That was unexpected. And it made him feel...he felt honored.

"I felt like such a failure it just seemed like the best thing to do at the time," he admitted before letting out a soft laugh. "I spent the next few months so depressed and then I just got tired of it. I got tired of letting myself sink like that..so I came back."

[borschtkot]

"I was angry.. you.. I didn't expect that.. you crying. I was so angry because I thought.." He shakes his head, knowing this conversation was stupid and embarrassing.

"You worked hard and came back stronger so.. and you have Victor now too. And you ... you aren't quitting so Victor got what he wanted."

He still wasn't feeling successful. Maybe.. some day he would.

[musicinmotion]

"...But it's not all about me," Yuuri said softly. "You won the gold, Yuri-kun. You..I couldn't even dream of being where you are at your age!" He hated that the other wasn't proud of himself; that he wasn't excited and gloating and just genuinely being happy about his win.

Victor was definitely going to get an earful later.

"You worked just as hard if not harder than I did. You blew everyone else away with your talent and you're just going to keep getting better. That's far more amazing than my come back."

[borschtkot]

Yuri sets the bottle onto the table, glaring at it like it was the one who had caused him offense. Clearly, it was all Dasani's fault. Whoever Dasani was. Who names water "dasani"? Who was the bastard who thought bottling water was a lucrative idea to begin with? Who was the worst bastard who agreed and marketed it?

At least it wasn't Evian or some other fancy water. What even made water fancy? Fish shit in all water.

"Of course you couldn't dream of it, I saw pictures of you at my age. You were fat." He wasn't THAT fat but Yuuri was clearly trying to get Yuri to react differently to the situation.

"Please, Katsuki, with how badly you did last year I'm sure everyone thought you wandered off to Aokigahara when you got home." He gives Yuuri a dirty look. "Don't say I never learned any Japanese for the sake of communicating with you."

Stupid language. Overly difficult.

"Everyone was just as amazed to see you show your face again as they were with me winning gold."

Yuri was painfully embarrassed that he'd gotten so upset. If he had to deflect with pointed, particularly mean comments he would. Maybe it'd make Yuuri go away and stop doing that weird.. .. Dad thing.