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From then on, I knew that nothing changes. That all things remain as before. The spinning wheel turns round and round in a circle. One fate tied to the next. A thread, red like blood, that cleaves together all our deeds. One cannot unravel the knots.
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Mathieu is pulled towards Wout like a magnet, and Wout had only ever found understanding on Mathieu.
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- Part 1 of Never Break the Chain
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The Tour de France.
One of the most prestigious sporting events in the world, known by everyone, the pride of a country, the biggest event in the cycling season. Months worth of preparations, countless hours of sweat and tears, strategies with back-up strategies with back-up strategies for if the back-up strategies failed, every move planned to the second, barely recovered injuries and weeks of preventing more injuries.
All of it was meticulously planned down to the smallest detail by every party involved so that the only thing that could go wrong was in the hands of the peloton.
Turns out that someone, somewhere, somehow, managed to screw it up.
Spectacularly.
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Or: The teams of the Tour de France accidentally get messed up, forcing all riders into different teams with new teammates.
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Wout kissed Mathieu once. Now he's in a hoodie-sharing domestic hell of soft touches, lingering looks, and toast.
Disgusting.
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A dinner party with Tiesj, Matteo, Jonas, and Wout’s rapidly crumbling heterosexuality.
Featuring: oiled thighs, unspoken truths, and parmesan.
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Brefs passages dans l'intimité des uns et des autres, sans jamais savoir à l'avance le pairing.
Expérience littéraire !
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Wout beams, “Maybe, but you think I’m hot.”
Mathieu winces slightly. “Unfortunately.”
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Mathieu makes choices, regrets them, then doesn't.
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“I don’t even know if I want him or if I want to be him.”
Mathieu dreams of Wout as his therapist.
It’s supposed to be a joke. It doesn’t feel like one.
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“Bro. Okay. I think - maybe - I’m like, uh. Psychic?”
“Or maybe I’m… soul-cursed? Is that a thing? I don’t know. I think I have… a person in my head. Sometimes.”or how Jonas and Tadej accidentally fall in love through a shared telepathic bond, an obsession with cookies, some mild emotional panic, and the universe getting tired of waiting.
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Mathieu and Wout were never built for the same cause. It might look like it, they’re doing the same things, but carnally, they both know they were never forged from the same mold.
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Wout and Mathieu are raised differently, they grow into people that don't recognize the other.
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La légende racontait que la nuit suivant Paris-Roubaix, un fantôme apparaissait dans les douches du vélodrome.
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La nuit suivant sa troisième victoire consécutive à Paris-Roubaix, Mathieu décide d'aller vérifier la véracité de la légende.
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“It’s impossible for us to be friends. What really motivates us is the fact that we don’t like each other.”
He’d said it in 2023. Smiling. Dismissive. Cool.
Because it was easier than explaining the truth: that he couldn’t be friends with Mathieu because being less than friends hurt. And being more - being anything more - was terrifying.Because “I don’t like him” was safer than “I don’t know what I’d do if he ever walked away.”
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Mathieu has long since accepted that whatever he feels for Wout isn’t strictly platonic or a novel brand of passion only a good rivalry could trigger. He’s not clueless; he’s pretty in tune with his body and emotions—years of being a professional athlete will do that to you.
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Mathieu easily falls back into old habits, even when the situations changed.
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There was definitely a time where Wout thought he was going to quit, he hopes every cyclist has that moment in their career when they think it’s over. No matter what they do, this fall might be the last one they take.
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Wout falls, somebody helps him up.
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Saying that Mathieu was repulsed by Wout might have been an overstatement. Repulsed was not the right word—bothered, maybe; aggravated, most certainly. When Mathieu was young, there were a lot of things Wout did that rubbed him the wrong way.
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Mathieu is a vessel of hatred, a victim of love.
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“Do you—” he croaked out.
“Yeah,” Mathieu cut him off breathlessly.
Do you get it now?
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Mathieu sometimes needs to look farther than his own nose.
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“You’ve never, ever been normal about him.”
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Mathieu spirals into a realisation.
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Catharsis.
The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.
Or at least that’s how the Oxford dictionary defines it, catharsis can be much simpler Mathieu thinks
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The room was dark when Wout came in. Only Mathieu's phone emitted light, giving a single strip of the room a slightly blue glow. The curtains, bought for this specific reason, blocked out the afternoon sun.
Wout didn't say a word; there wouldn't be a response.
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Two years on from Hoogerheide, Wout is riding Worlds again. This wasn't in the script. Both he and Mathieu must come to terms with his decision, before it derails their lives... again.
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glimpses into the life of Freddy and Mathieu