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“Why are you here, Art?”
Art hesitates, but only for a beat, “Tashi kicked me out.”
“Why?”
“She, uh,” Art breaks eye contact again, “she said I needed to ‘face my desire,’ or something.”
“And you came here.”
Once, when Patrick was fifteen, his mother forced him to go to therapy for a summer. Patrick fucking hated it, and he definitely bullshit his way through most of his sessions, but if there was one thing he retained, it was this: people don’t learn if you just tell them what they need to know. They have to figure it out for themselves.
“And I came here…” Art repeats, like he’s solving a puzzle. And then, shocking Patrick and possibly even himself, he adds, “To you.”
“Uh huh,” Patrick says, low and gravely. His fingers twitch at his sides. “So,” he repeats, “what’s the plan, Donaldson?”
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Or, the one where Art insists on leaving after his final match with Patrick, without Patrick, and Tashi is sick of their shit. Patrick knows later that night, when Art arrives unceremoniously at the threshold of his shitty hotel room, that this might be his only shot at the thing he's been thinking about for the better part of fifteen years. Art.
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03 Jun 2026
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Art’s sweating, but that’s almost certainly the sauna. He’s nearly motionless. He adjusts his seat on the wooden bench, and Patrick tries to read into the movement but fails. His gaze is as oppressive as the artificial heat. He could be speechless. Fifteen, love.
But, alas, his response: “What happened in Atlanta?”
or: au where tashi wasn't the only one who visited patrick that night in atlanta. patrick's living a charmed life!!
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28 May 2026
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Art knew it wasn't a relationship, but fuck.
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05 May 2026
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Ok, so, maybe he’s thought about it. It’s pretty hard not to think about it when your best friend is always in your personal space, drying himself with your towel, eating your leftovers, making you smell their clothes to determine whether they should go in the wash or not - as if an eighteen year old breathing your sneakers 24/7 and sharing boarding school locker rooms could tell the difference.
Maybe he’s thought about what his best friend kisses would taste like, but isn’t it normal? He’s seen a good deal of Patrick’s heavy petting on his summer holidays at the Zweigs. He’s seen him pressing girls against walls, getting on top of them in the garden of his ridiculously big estate - mind you, he stuck around only if a fair amount of clothing denied all voyeuristic accusations.
He just never thought he’d actually find out.
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28 Apr 2026
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I’m playing for your number by clubatp (iileftherbehind)
Fandoms: Challengers (Movie 2024)
22 May 2024
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2006; Tashi Duncan leaves Patrick Zweig and Art Donaldson’s hotel room after kissing them and telling them she’d give her number to the winner of the us open junior. What could
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19 Apr 2026