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Grace Kelly and Alec Guinness in a scene from MGM's The Swan (1956)
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Grace Kelly and Alec Guinness in a scene from MGM's The Swan (1956)
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapter 25: De la mano (Hand in hand)
Summary: Javi struggles to find his footing again. He falls.
Fic Premise: Magical realism!AU of Javier Fernandez’s figure skating journey with his training partner, Yuzuru Hanyu, from their fated meeting in 2010 to the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics.
At a Pyrenean folk festival in Jaca, fourteen year old Javier Fernández receives a fortune from a Romani woman who tells him the love of his life is the most beautiful swan in the world that will teach him how to fly. Javi’s not impressed.
Five years later, Yuzuru Hanyu makes his international senior debut at the 2010 Cup of Russia Grand Prix event. Yuzuru’s no swan (what’s up with the feathers though?) but he does show Javi how to fly.
Gracia de los cielos en tus plumas llueve, en tus plumas hechas de oración y nieve[.]
Salvador Rueda
Grace Kelly y Louis Jourdan en “El Cisne” (The Swan), 1956
el cisne © víctor m. alonso
Fue en una hora divina para el género humano. El Cisne antes cantaba sólo para morir. Cuando se oyó el acento del Cisne wagneriano Fue en medio de una aurora, fue para revivir.
(Rubén Darío - El Cisne [fragmento])
Waiting not so patiently for El Cisne to update
Grace Kelly in “The Swan” (MGM, 1956).
El cisne Ch. 25 sneak peek
Javi's not sure what he's expecting when Takahiko swipes him in but watching Tatsuki hold an argument with a squawking swan is definitely not at the top of the list.
“You know what? I don’t even want to know,” he says with a shake of his head. “Have you seen Yuzuru? He hasn’t been answering my texts.”
Tatsuki glances at the bird in the room, which has gone still.
“Hard not to, considering we’re roommates.” A wry, knowing look, like he’s hiding a secret. “But he’s...out right now. I expect he'll be back. Probably late.” Tatsuki grimaces. “He’s a terrible roommate like that. Kicks too."
The swan snaps at his hand. Tatsuki doesn’t even blink.
“Yuzuru, that was rude.”
Javi fails to stop his jaw from dropping.
“You named it after your teammate?”
“It’s a ‘he,’” Tatsuki says firmly.
Javi feels the beginnings of a migraine and wonders why the hell he’s put himself in this situation. He's beginning to understand why exactly the two had ended up making alternate living arrangements in Sochi.
"Not that it's any of my business, but do you mind telling me why exactly there's a swan sitting on your bed? Your swan. And don’t lie. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this damn bird, have I?” It was not in Javi's nature to be suspicious but this was simply too much to overlook. Moscow. Nice. Sochi, even, if it hadn’t been a hallucination that night. Once was a fluke. Twice was a coincidence. Thrice was three swans too many.
Javi has no idea how Team Japan had taken care of the necessary paperwork to clear their feathered mascot for international air travel but Javi wouldn’t put it past them to just adopt one just because it was cute.
Tatsuki silently confers with the bird, which sits there on the bed, its webbed feet tucked neatly under a thick coat of feathers, neck arched imperiously, the avian equivalent of smugness.
Tatsuki holds up his hands and sighs.
“You caught me,” he says. “He’s on loan from university.”
“Actually, he’s my muse.”