Hi! So I had these ideas when I was watching the games and since today is the closing day I wanted to post the first one-shot ^^
I hope you like it! :)
Warning: I have never participated in the Olympic Games (well, that's kind of obvious) so I'm not trying to portray them :P
Also, I do not own Jeff and Nick... :)
Nick took a deep breath as he climbed the small ladder, he couldn't believe he and his teammate had made it to the Olympic Games. All that hard work was already paying off, being there was everything Nick had imagined and more, the people were awesome, the environment inspired the competition and Nick had never felt better.
As they got to the board Nick looked down at the pool with the clear cyan blue water and the words 'London 2012' on the bottom along with the five rings that symbolised the five continents of the world that participated in the Olympic Games.
Nick turned around his back to the pool and quickly adjusted his speedos before giving the sign for Jeff. "Ready?" Jeff gave him a small nod. "3... 2... 1... Go!" They both jumped on the boards at the same time a couple of times before jumping back doing a double flip before diving into the pool in a completely vertical position.
Nick let himself stay under water for a couple of seconds before moving his arms to swim to the surface.
He flipped the hair out of his sight as he swam to the edge, he pushed himself up and hugged Jeff, like they always did when they succeeded their dive.
Nick tried to not think about who he was actually hugging, he couldn't. Jeff was only his teammate he reminded himself.
Sure, he was funny, nice, a great diver, good-looking, and those speedos made Nick crazy every single time, but Jeff was just that, the guy Nick was over heels for but couldn't have.
Jeff patted Nick's back before they both turned to the screens to re-watch their dive. They had been, like always, perfectly synchronised.
"We were perfect! High-five!" Jeff said raising his hand.
Nick smiled and high-fived him.
They walked to the small pool to rest a little, that day they would still have a few dives, and if everything worked alright they would have many more after that day.
Nick and Jeff chatted casually before they had to jump again.
The day went on perfectly, Nick and Jeff qualified for the next phase, which was awesome, they had worked hard for that, they deserved to win. But didn't all the athletes?
As Nick was already in the Olympic village he walked slowly to his room, bag hooked on his shoulder. The hallway to his room was silent, not even a door open or someone talking at the door with someone else.
Nick got inside the room he was sharing with Jeff, it wasn't a surprise when he found it empty, Jeff always took longer to arrive the room.
He threw his bag to the floor and himself to the bed. He was tired, not enough to go sleep yet though.
Nick kept himself on the bed not moving and ended up drifting to a light sleep, he was woken up by the door opening and Jeff getting inside, Nick sat up slowly running a hand through his hair and rubbing his eyes. "You were awesome today," Jeff smiled widely throwing his bag to his bed.
"You were as awesome as me!" Nick smiled back. "If not we wouldn't have been synchronised," Nick mocked.
"So, I wanted to ask you something." Jeff said casually sitting on Nick's bed.
"Shoot," Nick said leaning against the headboard.
"Would you come with me somewhere?" Jeff asked biting back his smile.
"To where?" Nick raised an eyebrow.
Jeff shrugged with a grin, Nick rolled his eyes, he was used to Jeff being like this sometimes so he just had to keep himself cool and not jump into conclusions and he would end up having a good time.
"Okay, fine." Nick grinned.
"Great! Get up and let's go!" Jeff chirped jumped off the bed.
"Now? We had a full day today! Can't it be tomorrow?" Nick whined.
"No. Besides tomorrow we have free morning, so you can sleep until later, come on Nick!" Jeff walked to Nick and pushed him off the bed by his hand.
"Okay, okay, I'm coming!" Nick sighed getting up. "Can I at least know where we're going?" He asked tiredly following Jeff to the still silent hallway.
"Sure! When we're there!" Jeff grinned.
"Ah-ah. You are so funny." Nick laughed dryly and rolled his eyes, pouting a little.
"It's nothing too especial." Jeff shrugged leading Nick outside.
Next thing he knew Jeff was blindfolding Nick and taking him wherever. Nick whined and asked him to let him see, but Jeff just laughed and answered no.
Nick had no idea where he was, he couldn't be that far from the village though, but he was completely lost. Jeff wasn't, at least that.
"Okay you can take it off." Jeff said and his voice echoed, Nick raised his eyebrow and took the blindfold off.
It was darker than what he was used to, but even with those few lights, Nick would always recognise the Olympic pools, and he had to admit the place looked stunning at night. But then something hit him and he widened his eyes. "Jeff! Are you crazy? If we get caught in here we'll be disqualified!" Nick said rushing to the door that led to the locker rooms to get out of there.
"No!" Jeff caught his arm. "First, we won't get caught, second if we do, it's okay, I promise." Jeff said.
"How so?" Nick turned to Jeff.
"Just trust me." Jeff smiled.
Nick sighed, it was impossible to say no when Jeff was looking at him with those big brown eyes and that smile Nick loved so much. "Alright. What are we doing here anyway?" Nick asked.
"Well, I heard you saying the other day you just wanted some time to dive without having to think in scores..." Jeff grinned and shrugged.
"Oh," Nick couldn't help the smile from spreading across his face, Jeff had actually listen to him and tried to help! "I don't even have my speedos." Nick shook his head.
"Me neither." Jeff said starting to take off his shoes and then his shirt.
Nick found himself watching Jeff strip and slapped himself mentally. Stop being a creep! He demanded himself and started taking his own clothes off with a small blush creeping through his neck to his cheeks.
They did a quick warm up and showered quickly, so they wouldn't hurt themselves or have a temperature shock.
"You first," Jeff pointed to the ladder and smiled.
Nick didn't waste a second he started climbing the ladder, he would start with the smaller one.
As he was up there he looked down, he could do anything he wanted, flips, back flips, somersaults... Anything. He was trained to know how to do all that.
A grin grew on his face as he decided what to do, he stepped back and took a deep breath before stepping forward quickly again and jumping higher as possible before pulling his knees to his chest, a wide smile on his face as he hit the water and splashed it all around.
As Nick swam to the surface and shook his hair out of his eyes, he could hear Jeff laugh. "That was a ten!" He said extending a hand to help Nick out of the pool.
Nick chuckled and reached for his hand, letting him pull him out. "Thanks."
"Now's my turn!" Jeff grinned and climbed the ladder.
Jeff didn't waste a second, he turned his back to the pool and jumped a couple of times on the board before giving a double back somersault and diving perfectly in the pool.
Nick clapped and the blond came to the surface and extended him his hand to help him out of the pool. "Show off!" Nick mocked as he pulled Jeff up.
"I'm gonna take that as a 'great job!'" Jeff chuckled and winked.
"Great job!" Nick rolled his eyes.
"Hey! Wanna go for a race?" Jeff pointed with his head to the big Olympic pool with a grin on his face.
"Jeff, I'm a diver, not a swimmer." Nick raised an eyebrow.
"Me too! Let's see who's the fastest!" Jeff said pulling Nick to the pool. "You know how to swim don't you?" Jeff looked back at Nick who was glaring at him. "Yeah, sure, stupid question."
Jeff led him to the middle of the pool and made Nick stop in front of one of the trails and went to the one beside him. They both climbed to their places to start. Nick knew he wasn't a great swimmer, not like the others who were competing at least.
"Ready?" Jeff called out.
Nick prepared himself to jump to the pool.
"Go!"
Nick jumped forward, but as he was still on the air he felt a body colliding with his and instead of going forward he went to the side, making Nick yelp.
Nick struggled to swim to the surface but someone, named Jeff, was still hugged to him.
Jeff made them go to the surface, laughing.
"You think that was funny?" Nick gasped for air, trying to not think how close Jeff was to him. Their bodies were so close Nick could actually feel Jeff's abs pressed against his.
"A lot!" Jeff continued to laugh, letting go of Nick.
Nick rolled his eyes and swam to the edge of the pool. "You're an ass." He mumbled.
Jeff swam to Nick and trapped him against the edge of the pool. "And why is that?" He grinned.
Nick could feel his cheeks warming up, Jeff was so close again.
"Because I nearly drowned now!" Nick whined.
"I wouldn't let my teammate drown!" Jeff chuckled.
"Then why did you do that?" Nick asked making himself look at Jeff's eyes and not letting himself look down at Jeff's lips.
"Because... I felt like doing it." He paused. "And because if you were swimming you would never see that," Jeff said pointing at the screen, where usually they could see their scores but instead of the scores there was a sentence:
Would you go on a date with me?
Nick raised his eyebrow and looked back at a shinny eyed Jeff. "Is-Is that for real?" He asked.
Jeff nodded. "I-I've been wanting to ask you out forever, but whenever I tried the words wouldn't come out... It was easier that way." Jeff chuckled nervously.
"You did all this, just to ask me out?" Nick asked incredulously.
"Sounds kind of silly putting it that way..." Jeff made a face.
"No! It's... I loved it." Nick smiled softly.
"Is that a yes?" Jeff asked hopeful.
Nick nodded. "Yes." He felt so happy, he had liked Jeff for long now and apparently Jeff liked him too, he had never thought Jeff would ever look at him twice.
Nick had never seen such a big smile on Jeff, and once his eyes had landed on Jeff's lips he couldn't take them off there.
Jeff seemed to have noticed because he started leaning forward slowly, gladly they were both supporting themselves on the edge of the pool, or they would be going up and down and that wouldn't work alright.
Nick ended up closing the small gap between them at once and kissed Jeff deeply. Jeff kissed back quickly.
Jeff's lips felt even better than what Nick had ever thought they would, they were soft and made butterflies explode in Nick's stomach.
Jeff tilted his head slightly to kiss Nick deeper.
They continued to kiss for a while until Nick pulled a little away to breathe.
"We should go sleep, tomorrow we still have some dives to do." Jeff breathed out.
Nick nodded but instead of swimming to the ladder to get out of the pool he leaned forward to kiss Jeff again, this time quicker.
"Let's go," Nick mumbled against Jeff's lips, before leaning away and diving to swim towards the ladder.
Jeff followed Nick out of the pool.
They quickly dried themselves with the towels Jeff had left in the locker room and walked hand in hand back to their room.
That night Nick dreamed about Jeff, but this time it was okay, because he knew Jeff liked him back, so it was okay. He felt truly happy, he even slept through the whole night without waking up, like he was used to since they had arrived to London.
On the morning they stayed in bed for a little longer just chatting casually, then they walked together to the pools again, this time not holding hands, the rumours in the Olympic village ran faster than the 100 metres runners.
Before their first evaluation they had some time to practice, it wasn't much since they had to divide the time with the other teams.
At the first jump, before giving the signal Nick tried to clear his mind so he could jump correctly, but Jeff wouldn't get out of his mind and now that he knew Jeff liked him back.
He gave the signal but ended up jumping slightly later than Jeff and diving not vertically.
"What the hell was that?" Jeff asked as they were lifting themselves on the edge of the pool.
"Sorry," Nick mumbled. "I was distracted."
Jeff sighed. "Okay, but concentrate for the next time!" Jeff said. "We don't have that many training dives ahead, and we can't lose now!" He said, Jeff was a very competitive person and getting so far to just ruin everything because of a crush would definitely make him mad.
Nick nodded.
But the next dive wasn't better, neither was the one after, and Nick could see the annoyance in Jeff's eyes.
"I'm sorry! I don't know what is going on with me!" Nick said, he just didn't want Jeff mad at him.
"Just get your head in the game, we have one more dive before the one that will actually count!" Jeff said and by his voice Nick could see he was slightly mad.
"Okay." He mumbled.
Nick tried to concentrate but he failed once again, the other teams were looking at them with mocking smirks and grins. Jeff groaned and pulled Nick to the locker rooms that were empty.
"What the hell is going on with you?" Jeff demanded.
"Sorry!"
"Look, Nick, I didn't come so far to lose because you can't concentrate! All those days training from early morning to late at night, those restless weekends, all of that has to pay off now! So you better get your head in the dives!" Jeff said angrily and got out of the locker room.
Nick waited until Jeff was out of sight to kick one of the small benches angrily. Bad move. "Shit!" Nick yelped and sat grabbing his own foot.
He stood there for a while until the pain eased and then he came back to the pool. It was already time for him and Jeff to jump for the competition. Nick had delayed too much in the locker room and he had lost their last training dive.
Nick could see in Jeff's features he was still mad, and that hurt Nick. One day he was asking him out and kissing him passionately the day after he was mad at him and screaming at him.
Sure, Nick was kind of asking for it, they were in the Olympics, no space for silly mistakes.
Nick climbed the ladder taking deep breaths. He had to focus in something and stop daydreaming about Jeff.
He decided to think about his foot, it was not hurting much, but he could feel something there. He kept his attention to his foot as he walked on the board and turned his back to the pool.
"Ready?"
Jeff nodded.
"3... 2... 1... Go!"
The jump was one of the best of the pair, completely synchronised, and the dive perfect.
"Great job!" Jeff said happily as they lifted themselves on the edge of the pool.
"Yeah, sure." Nick said coldly. Of course, now that he hadn't ruined his chances to become an Olympic champion Jeff was all happy with him again.
This slight rage was what kept Nick doing perfectly that day. In fact he and Jeff made it to the finals that would take place the next day.
"You did very well today," Jeff smiled at Nick and laid a hand on his shoulder as they walked back to their room.
Nick flinched away. "You did too." He said slightly coldly and stepped inside their room.
"Are you mad at me?" Jeff asked closing the door behind him with an eyebrow raised.
"I don't know about you, but I don't like to be yelled at. And before you think otherwise, no your words weren't what made me concentrate again." Nick said coldly with his back turned to Jeff, starting to strip off his clothes. He would call it an early night and sleep. He deserved some sleep.
"Nick... Please don't be mad at me," Jeff asked softly.
"I'm not mad, I'm slightly hurt. You didn't have to speak to me like that, you had never before, and if I was nervous you would have only made things worse. Goodnight, Jeffrey." He said climbing to his bed.
Nick felt Jeff sitting on the edge of the bed. "I'm sorry," He mumbled. "I just got carried away." Jeff mumbled looking down at his hands, he hated to lose his temper, especially if he had hurt Nick like that, he liked him so much – loved even – and he didn't want to see the dark haired man mad at him.
Nick sighed. "Fine, it's okay, but let me sleep." Nick said still a bit coldly. Maybe one of the reasons was because he was tired, so maybe if he slept he would feel better and happier on the next day.
And it was true. When Nick wok up the next day he felt fresher and not so down as the previous day.
"Morning," Jeff mumbled from his bed as Nick sat up running a hand through his hair.
"G'morning." Nick mumbled sleepily.
An awkward silence fell between the two men. After the way Nick had fallen asleep last night Jeff knew he was still hurt with Jeff's outburst, Jeff shouldn't have yelled at him no matter what Nick was doing, if someone should have called him to his attention should have been their coach. On the other hand, Nick wanted to apologise for being rude to Jeff, he was kind of right when he had yelled at him, Nick was behaving like school girl and couldn't get himself concentrated as he thought about his crush, and that could have cost them the medals.
"I'm sorry-" They both burst out at the same time. And then they chuckled.
"It's okay, I wasn't concentrated, and I almost ruined our chances of winning." Nick mumbled.
"No, you were right I shouldn't have yelled at you, if you were nervous I would only making it worse. I'm sorry." Jeff apologised again.
Nick slid his legs off the bed and walked to Jeff's bed sitting on the edge of it. "Let's just forget about it..." He said reaching for his hand.
Jeff nodded and smiled, sitting up. "Okay," He agreed.
Nick blushed a little as he realised how close he actually was from Jeff, Jeff was smiling widely and looking a little down at Nick's lips.
Should I kiss him? Nick asked himself. Why the hell not! He thought and closed the gap between them kissing him deeply.
Jeff quickly answered to the kiss, by kissing back and pulling Nick closer by the back of his neck.
Just like two days ago butterflies exploded in Nick's stomach.
The kiss didn't last long though, they were interrupted by their coach knocking at the door.
"C'mon boys! Get up! We have a long day ahead!" He called out.
Nick sighed as he broke apart from Jeff. "We're coming!" Nick replied before getting up to quickly change clothes.
Jeff groaned, he wanted more time with Nick, alone. With no coach or crowds or even security guards who were making sure they weren't having sex in the pool.
Ten minutes later they were already out of the room.
"Nick, today you won't have dives for training, so what happened yesterday can't happen again." His coach said severely.
He usually wasn't much around in competitions, he would stay out of their way, unless something was wrong and he had to interfere.
He was a small man, probably six inches shorter than Nick, chubby, very white, his hair had a weird shade of red, but overall he was a very nice person, and a great coach.
"I know... It won't happen again." Nick promised.
On the rest of the way Nick was too focused in his own thoughts, somewhere in the way, Jeff leaned a little against him and they walked shoulder brushing shoulder, but it was the maximum proximity they could get without making rumours rise. There should be enough rumours because of the pool's scene already. Even if the security guards had promised to keep it a secret.
Jeff didn't say anything to Nick as they prepared for their dives. He could see Nick was making his best to keep focused and it wasn't Jeff the one who was going to ruin that.
Nick climbed that known ladder keeping himself calm. He continued to review in his head the jump he had to do, that would be the only way he would make it right.
He looked down at the pool nervously. Would he make it? Yes. That was what he had to think at least.
He turned around as always and took a deep breath. "Ready?"
And then it was kind of blurry, Nick found himself already swimming to the surface, Jeff congratulating him for the great jump. The rest of the competition was like that, Nick would turn his mind off a second before the jump and only turn it on again when he was already in the water. That was what made them win, and Jeff's flawlessness at the jumps too, of course.
So now they were waiting for the final results, they only needed half a point more than the ones before them. Only that and the gold would be theirs.
Apparently some teams' scores were being discussed for whatever reason so they had to wait, and the waiting seemed like it would never end.
Nick was getting more nervous by the second. They had been very good, yes, but what if they still couldn't win? Years of hard work thrown to the garbage.
Actually… Nick, with those games, had won the best thing he could ever win. Jeff. And even if they didn't win a medal, Nick would go home the happiest person ever.
That amazing thought made him calm down, whatever would happen it would be okay.
"Calm down, it's going to be fine," He said to Jeff who was biting his nails to the core.
"How can you be so sure?" Jeff mumbled nervously.
Nick smiled softly at him and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Stop biting your nails before you get hurt." He said simply.
It was then when the final label with the final scores and the teams' places.
Nick started reading from the bottom, so his hopes would raise by the time he would read two names in the place above the last one and it weren't either Jeff's or his.
Jeff's hand gripped around Nick's arm. "Nick, oh my God, we made it. Nick, we freaking made it!" Jeff said astonished.
"What?" Nick raised an eyebrow and looked up at the first three teams. His heart skipped a beat. "Holy crap-" He mumbled.
Before Nick could even tell he had Jeff hugging him tighter than ever before, lifting him a little from the floor. Nick held tight to Jeff.
"I can't believe this is happening!" Jeff said exploding with happiness and laughing a little.
"We won! We made it Jeff!" Nick said tears of happiness in his eyes.
Out of nowhere Jeff threw Nick into the pool and jumped right after. The rest of the USA team did the same, divers and swimmers who had came from the locker rooms just to celebrate with their colleagues.
In the middle of the confusion in the pool Jeff pulled Nick for a quick kiss. Luckily they weren't caught by any camera.
After all the moment celebrations, the delivery of the medal and the USA's anthem, Nick and Jeff returned to their room to rest for the night's celebration of not only their medal but also the other medals won by the swimmers.
They were cuddled in Nick's bed, waiting for some sleepiness to strike in so they could take a nap. But they were both so happy they couldn't actually sleep, so they were just enjoying being in each other's arms.
"Nick?" Jeff asked softly after a few long minutes of silence.
"Yes, Jeff?" Nick glanced up at him.
"I know we still haven't been in a formal date but… Winning today made me realise that I really, really like you. I mean, when the results were there the only thing I wanted to do was hug you and kiss you and share my happiness with you." Jeff said looking at Nick's face but ignoring Nick's slightly confused eyes. "What I mean is… I think you're an amazing person and I couldn't help but fall for you... Would you want to be my boyfriend?" Jeff asked hopeful.
"What?!" A wide smile grew on Nick's face. "Yes! Of course! I do!" Nick said turning a little in Jeff's arms to kiss him passionately.
Jeff kissed back bringing Nick closer by the back of his head and tangling his fingers in his hair.
Nick never felt so happy, he had won the Olympic games – to which he and Jeff had worked hard the past few years for – and he was with the man he loved, the one he was over heels for almost two years now. His future was looking pretty bright and he liked it.
Nick had to admit, those were the best Olympic games of his life.
So, what did you think? You liked it? Review it please? :)
Still don't know when the second one shot will be posted but probably soon ^^
Thanks for reading!
I niff you all! :D