Fic Rec List - Pierre/Esteban
the only thing I love more than friends to lovers, is childhood friends to rivals to enemies to acquaintances to team-mates to tentative friends to ??????
below are some of the pierresteban fics i've been loving recently. if you enjoy them too, don't forget to leave the authors some love in the form of kudos, bookmarks, and comments 🤍
p.s. is there a pierresteban server? if not, can we make one? please. i desperately need more. i need to talk about these two more. please.
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I have listed the rating, word count, and a personal favourite quote from the fic. I haven't included any tags or warnings. please be mindful of each fic’s tags before you begin reading. please protect your own peace.
If you have another pairing you’d like me to write a fic rec list for, please let me know. I can’t guarantee I’ll be able to help but will try where I can.
ache it till you make it by anonymous | T | 3.2k Pierre joins Alpine. Beautiful relationship study.
'Esteban looked over at Pierre—laughing, pink-nosed, indistinguishable from another Pierre in his memory—and for a burning second he couldn’t remember why they never talked anymore.'
nsfw: tip of the tongue by @leclercenjoyer | E | 3.3k Esteban has an oral fixation, and Pierre is sensitive. Incredibly tender. Everything this author writes is fantastic.
'They’d been awkward the first few times, both playing their cards close to their chest, too afraid to give too much away, but now that they’ve settled into their casual arrangement Esteban makes no secret of how much he wants Pierre like this, at his mercy, in his bed.'
People You Know by @estemick | M | 6.5k Pierre's flight home from Switzerland is cancelled. He stays with Esteban. I haven't stopped thinking about this one since I first read it. Beautiful.
'Pierre considers how things might have been different. If he and Esteban had never fallen out. Maybe if they had never done karting together at all. Maybe he actually could have been a successful footballer. He and Esteban had been so close for so long. They were the centre of each other’s universe. Then everything had gone completely wrong.'
telephone by @grandprix-ao3 | M | 7.2k Unhealthy relationships. Small towns. Gorgeous, as everything GP writes is.
'Esteban can’t help the way Pierre’s name sits in his mouth, now: like pulling teeth. There’s a hole where it used to sit, one he can’t help but slot his tongue into, taste the blood off the enamel.'
strawberry wine by @eiffelover | M | 7.8k A/B/O AU. Alpine assume that Esteban will support Pierre through his heats. A gorgeous imagining of their relationship through an a/b/o lens.
'There was a chasm between them, and being on the same team didn’t suddenly create a bridge.'
elle me dit by @unabashedlycasualangel | T | 8.8k (ongoing) 5 times Esteban gives Pierre flowers, and 1 time he gets them in return. Stunningly written.
'He had never met an opportunity that hadn’t asked him to walk through fire first. He would prove himself here and make them care.'
nsfw: At the Shrine of Your Light by @seafoampearlygirl | E | 13.2k Pierre and Esteban attend Catholic school together. Haunting and clever and beautifully written. This fic is anonymous, but the author has given me permission to tag them here.
Pierre dug under his white school shirt, shoving his striped tie to the side and fumbling between the buttons for the small gold crucifix he always wore. He gripped it hard, the corners digging into the flesh of his palm. He knew they would leave marks, like stigmata.
Snowstorms and Olive Branches by @gaslybottoms | T | 20.1k Pierre and Esteban get caught in a snowstorm. So beautifully written. Manifested the snowball fight way ahead of time.
“Este?” Pierre asked, the nickname sounding almost foreign on his tongue after nearly ten years of him not saying it, aside from the slip up the day before. Esteban had looked up, his eyes wide and posture nervous, and Pierre could have kicked himself.
nsfw: hold me like a grudge by @ferawrri | E | 24.2k Esteban and Pierre switch bodies. Very sweet and fun, and well written.
'Esteban inspects Pierre's (temporarily his) face, letting his eyes fall on the contours of his cheekbones and slope of his nose unabashedly, for the first time in years. He’d changed a bit, obviously, grown into his features and matured since they were fifteen and since Esteban felt a conflicting mixture of emotions looking at him. Still painful, albeit a lot less. Still handsome. He could live carrying Pierre's face. Maybe.'