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sun-crisp · 3 months ago

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10 Reasons to Choose Suncrisp for Your Hotel Needs

In the competitive hospitality industry, finding the right partner to enhance your hotel operations can make all the difference. Sun Crisp stands out as a trusted name in hotel management services, offering innovative solutions tailored to meet the needs of diverse hotels, including luxury hotels in Visakhapatnam.

From advanced technology integration to personalized guest experiences, here are the top 10 reasons why Sun Crisp is the ideal choice for your hotel needs.

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Managing room bookings efficiently is crucial for any hotel. Sun Crisp provides a streamlined room management system that ensures seamless booking processes. With real-time room availability tracking, hotel managers can avoid overbooking and ensure guests have a smooth check-in experience.

The software is designed to adapt to varying guest volumes, making it ideal for peak seasons and large-scale events, especially for luxury hotels in Visakhapatnam seeking to maintain their high standards.

Customized Guest Experiences

Sun Crisp is dedicated to making each guest feel special with tailored packages that cater to their preferences. By offering personalized customer service, hotels can ensure higher satisfaction rates, encouraging guests to return.

Whether it's a romantic getaway or a family-friendly package, Sun Crisp's approach to customization sets it apart from the competition, making it a perfect fit for luxury hotels in Visakhapatnam looking to provide exceptional guest experiences.

Advanced Technology Integration

Technology plays a pivotal role in modern hotel management, and Sun Crisp is at the forefront of this trend. With smart room features like automated lighting and temperature control, guests enjoy a comfortable stay.

Additionally, Sun Crisp's hotel management software optimizes back-end operations, reducing manual work for staff and improving overall efficiency. This technological advantage makes Sun Crisp an ideal partner for luxury hotels in Visakhapatnam aiming to stay ahead in the market.

Enhanced Security Measures

Security is a top priority for any hotel, and Sun Crisp integrates advanced security systems to ensure the safety of both guests and staff. From surveillance solutions to data protection protocols, Sun Crisp’s approach to security helps hotels provide a safe environment while maintaining privacy standards for guest information.

This focus on safety is particularly important for luxury hotels in Visakhapatnam, where guests expect top-tier security throughout their stay. Sun Crisp ensures that all measures are in place to meet these expectations.

Focus on Customer Satisfaction

Customer satisfaction is at the heart of Sun Crisp's operations. The company uses various metrics and strategies to ensure that guests enjoy their stay, resulting in positive reviews and repeat business.

For luxury hotels in Visakhapatnam, maintaining a high standard of guest satisfaction is key to retaining their elite clientele. Sun Crisp's dedicated support and continuous improvements to service quality help these hotels exceed guest expectations, ensuring a memorable experience.

Commitment to Sustainability

In today’s eco-conscious world, sustainability is more than a trend—it's a necessity. Sun Crisp’s commitment to eco-friendly practices includes implementing energy-efficient solutions and reducing waste through optimized processes.

Hotels partnering with Sun Crisp can appeal to environmentally conscious travelers, all while reducing operational costs. This approach aligns perfectly with the values of luxury hotels in Visakhapatnam, which often prioritize sustainability as part of their brand promise to guests.

Strong Industry Partnerships

Sun Crisp’s network of partnerships with leading hotel chains provides a significant advantage. These collaborations enable access to industry insights and best practices that can be implemented across various hotel properties.

Hotels that partner with Sun Crisp benefit from these connections, gaining an edge over their competitors. For luxury hotels in Visakhapatnam, these industry ties ensure that they remain updated with the latest trends and innovations, helping them maintain their status in the market.

24/7 Support for Hotel Partners

Issues can arise at any time in the hospitality industry, and having a reliable support system is crucial. Sun Crisp offers 24/7 customer support to ensure that hotels receive prompt assistance whenever they need it.

This rapid response capability helps hotels maintain their service standards and address guest needs without delay. Luxury hotels in Visakhapatnam can rely on this continuous support to ensure that any challenge is addressed immediately, helping them maintain the high-quality service their guests expect.

Case Studies: Success Stories with Sun Crisp

Real-world examples speak louder than words, and Sun Crisp’s portfolio is filled with success stories. These case studies showcase how Sun Crisp has helped hotels improve their operations, increase guest satisfaction, and achieve better profitability.

By analyzing these stories, potential clients can see the tangible benefits of partnering with Sun Crisp. For those in luxury hotels in Visakhapatnam, these success stories provide a clear picture of how Sun Crisp's tailored services can elevate their offerings.

How to Get Started with Sun Crisp

Starting your partnership with Sun Crisp is a simple process. The onboarding process is designed to be smooth, with a dedicated team guiding you through every step. From initial consultations to implementing the software, Sun Crisp ensures that your hotel is set up for success from day one.

With easy-to-understand steps, even luxury hotels in Visakhapatnam can quickly integrate Sun Crisp’s services into their operations, making the transition seamless and efficient.

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travelagencysoftware · 7 months ago

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sparklingandtwinkling · 2 months ago

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HUGtto! Pretty Cure Origin Story

🩷📣🌸💙🪽👩‍⚕️💛👩🏼‍✈️⛸️❤️💜🎤🎸👶🏼🐹

Mother Heart is a winged lioness and the Goddess of Time and Love. She was born a century in 7884 BCE after Mother RaPaPa’s demise, to become the next guardian of Mobius. At first, Vanessa was unhappy with Mother Heart's birth, feeling like the Universe was trying to erase Mother RaPaPa. However, Mother Heart explained that the Universe knew of the Linkle Smartbook and that it would take many millennia before her reincarnation was set free. Mobius needed a guardian now, and she was created to watch over it. Vanessa believed her and brought her to the Crystal Empire to introduce her to her family and to discuss her powers. After meeting her nieces and nephew, they went to Vanessa’s workshop, where Mother Heart explained how her time powers worked. When she was done explaining the two decided it would be best to make it harder for someone to stop or control time.

Mother Heart also revealed Tomorrow Powder, which is the source of her power. It was created when she was born and helps guide the future. Vanessa also asked if she could make something to tie the future of her world to so she could watch them. Mother Heart told her that she could but by doing so, if she made more worlds then the same objects would be made for them too. Together, they created two objects, Time Books and Mirai Crystals, later when Vanessa made more worlds these items were made for them too by Mother Heart.

Time Books use Tomorrow Power to print the future of each world on its pages, it can also see the future of anything in that world (however it's a spell that you use for this, you use the spell on an item and then you can see that things future), freeze time but only of the world it represents, and be used to teleport to the past of that world. However, the person who went to the past can’t leave that world, or they’d be teleported back to their time. No one can use the Time Books to teleport to the future. Vanessa kept the Time Books in the Crystal Castle’s library for safekeeping.

They also created eleven Mirai Crystals for each world, which are the solid form of Tomorrow Power and very powerful. In order to stop time permanently, someone would need all eleven Mirai Crystals of that world and you couldn’t use another world's Mirai Crystals, it wouldn’t work. You can also stop time by collecting a lot of Tomorrow Powder but you need the same amount that's in all eleven Mirai Crystals and that takes a lot of time and effort. Mother Heart became the guardian of them and all future ones.

A month after Cure Whip, Cure Custard, Cure Gelato, Cure Macaron, and Cure Chocolat defeated Elisio, Diabolos was in a rage, he couldn’t believe that they managed to defeat him. He decided to make another Negative Boss since the power he had used with Noir had returned to him. However, he realized that he had used a lot of his magic on making his other Negative Bosses. He then had an idea to turn someone on Mobius into a Negative Boss - someone drowning in negativity and has a strong desire but is impossible to accomplish.

He started to search Mobius for such a source but he couldn’t seem to find it. That was until he was over the outskirts of Hagukumi City, he felt a powerful desire. He followed it and found that the desire was coming from a male black swan of twenty years. Diabolos was ecstatic, this swan had a powerful desire and would make a fine Negative Boss. However, when Diabolos tried to push his magic into that desire he found that the desire wasn’t there. Confused, he looked again and discovered that the desire wouldn't manifest until 30 years in the future, which infuriated him. He decided to investigate what the desire is. He sees that in the swan’s future, his wife, whom he loved more than anything, would die, throwing him into despair. The swan's desire is a future where everyone is smiling.

Diabolos looks on in shock as he tries to find a way to even do that. He thinks of ways but he knows that the only reason the swan has that desire is because of his wife and that if he suggests any method of force he wouldn’t agree to it. Then he thinks of a way; freezing time so that nothing can move forward and happiness remains. In addition to that, if time doesn’t move his power will remain on Mobius forever, and no more Cure’s will be created. However, he needed to find a way to give the swan in the future his magic and guide him from the present, find a time-stopping spell, and ensure that Mobius was the only thing that froze because if he froze the whole Universe not only would Diabolos be frozen but he also knows that a time freezing spell didn't work on Vanessa. However, she also can’t use any time spells unless she put it in an object and even then she still couldn’t use it. Diabolos was also sure that, since Sapphire has her mother’s power she too wouldn’t be affected, now if she had the same effect as Vanessa did, he had no idea. He then remembered a powerful book that could solve most of his problems - the Mobius Time Book.

He sent one of his generals to steal it, which caused chaos in the Crystal Castle. Once Diabolos had the Mobius Time Book in his hands he used it to cast the swan's future on a crystal ball. A picture of the swan, now older, sitting in a hospital waiting room after they told him his wife was dead. Diabolos smiled as he watched before corrupting the book, making it so that the swan would become a Negative Boss once he gave him the book. When he looked back he saw that the swan was now sitting under a gazebo by himself. Perfect. Diabolos started to push his power into the desire and it worked. He learned that the swan’s name was George Kurai. Diabolos offered him the power to create a world of eternal happiness by freezing time so that nothing can move forward and happiness remains. George initially refused, but when Diabolos mentioned his wife, George accepted. Diabolos sent him the book, and the minute it was in his hands, power pulsed through his veins, turning him into a Negative Boss.

Diabolos explained how the book worked, what Tomorrow Powerer was as well as Prickly Powerer, negative energy that others can spread. However, there was one thing Diabolos forgot about that they needed; the eleven Mirai Crystals of Mobius. Diabolos was angry that he had forgotten about them, he knew that there was no way he could get them now because not only would they be heavily guarded now that he stole the Time Book but they weren’t even in the Crystal Empire they were protected by Mother Heart. Diabolos wasn’t stupid enough to send any of his generals or even one of his bosses to go steal them from her because not only would she destroy them but so would the other goddess once she called them to help her. Soon, however, Vanessa solved his problem, leading to a bigger issue.

Back at the Crystal Empire, after Diabolos’ general stole the Time Book, Vanessa and Sapphire were in panic mode. They knew he would use the book to create another Negative Boss, and they needed the same type of magic to create Cure items. However, their panic only increased when they discovered who the new Negative Boss was or rather, where he was from. Vanessa desperately needed the book's spells to send a Cure team to fight the boss. That is until Amethyst came forward. She revealed that she had once studied the book to learn about Time Magic, but since she could not take the book out of the room, she had taken pictures of the pages. Sapphire asked if she still had the pictures, but Amethyst gave her a look, causing Sapphire to apologize for asking.

Vanessa then contacted Mother Heart for the Mirai Crystals, who gave them to her. However, Mother Heart told her that if she makes new ones, they will not be linked to the world's future’s Tomorrow Powerer supply and rendered useless with the help of stopping time. The Cheerful and Mother Heart Mirai Crystals were the only ones Vanessa made.

Later, Sapphire asked her mother who the next Cure team would be, and Vanessa replied that she would be making the team herself. Sapphire was surprised and asked why. Vanessa explained that no one in that future had the potential or responsibility to take on such a burden (this is because, A it’s the future so all the girls are adults or haven’t been made yet and B, one of them is dead and the others took on other futures because they had no one to help them stick to the path they wanted or help them realize what they wanted). Sapphire then mentions that most of the Cures who have defected the bosses before were teenagers with the youngest being nine, but she did have potential and responsibility. While a handful of adult Cures had locked away bosses or perished while battling them. Vanessa tells her that while that may be so this time is different. Additionally, if she created the team, they would not need a civilian form, meaning fewer Mirai Crystals would be out in the open. Sapphire then asked how many Mirai Crystals Vanessa planned to send out. Vanessa held up the white Mirai Crystal.

Before Sapphire could say anything, her siblings arrived with four different Earth animals - a squirrel, a bluejay, a chickadee, and a fennec fox. Sapphire looked at her mother, confused, but Vanessa smiled and turned all four animals into Cures before sending them to the future Mobius. There was just one problem with her mother’s plan, well scratch that, there were a lot of problems. The biggest one was that the Cures lacked something to fight for, unlike other Cures who fought for their family, friends, and just anyone else they cared for, a reason to keep going. Because they had no one to fight for, something that could be stripped from them at any point, they couldn’t power up their attacks, and because her mother had only granted them one group attack, which relied on strong emotions to power up, they weren’t winning in the slightest.

As George's Criasu Corporation expanded, the Cures struggled to keep up. Sapphire soon gave up on them but soon she gained hope for one in particular; Cure Tomorrow, the squirrel, after she went into Criasu Corporation and freed a hamster Flicky who was overwhelmed by Prickly Powerer, turning him into a monster. After she saved him her team was defeated. When they were Vanessa was livid and tried to bring the magic she used to create them back to her but Sapphire convinced her to spare Cure Tomorrow and explained her plan. She showed Vanessa the sketches of the items she and her siblings created, explaining how each worked, which impressed her.

When the monster of Criasu Corporation, Oshimaida, tries to finish Cure Tomorrow off, she is protected by the white Mirai Crystal. Diabolos realized that this was Vanessa’s doing and ordered George to capture Cure Tomorrow and take the white Mirai Crystal, but it always returned to Tomorrow no matter what they put it in. They locked her in a cage and tried to manipulate her, but she refused to cooperate.

Meanwhile, Sapphire and her siblings created items while Vanessa looked through the present Hagukumi City to find people worthy of being Cures. Once the items were done they showed them to Vanessa who was happy they were done but angry that she couldn’t find the ones to be Cures. Sapphire suggested looking beyond the present to the past and future, leading to the selection of the new Cures. Vanessa powered up the items and linked them to a card before asking Mother Heart for help with the next team, and she agreed. They find the hamster Flicky, Harry, and show him a dream of Cure Tomorrow in captivity. They hoped he would go and free her. He soon runs off to help her.

They attempted to escape, but a Criasu Corporation employee tried to stop them. Harry turns back into his hamster form, then tries to break the chain keeping his monster side at bay but Tomorrow stops him and pulls out the white Mirai Crystal and pleads for Mother Heart's help. Vanessa uses a spell from the Time Book, from the pictures Amethyst took, and sends them back to the present, 2018. Vanessa also turns Cure Tomorrow into a baby squirrel Mobian Cure Spirit and Harry into a Cure Flicky. When Harry opens his eyes he sees he is flying over a city, confused he looks over at Cure Tomorrow to ask what’s going on only to see she is a baby. She then lets out a cry which causes a mass time freeze, except for four girls selected by Vanessa to become Cures.

The two land outside the city near a lake. While Harry tries to find out what is going on, Sapphire and Vanessa watch. Sapphire comments how she is impressed he hasn’t gone nuts yet. Just then Mother Heart walks in and asks why Vanessa wanted to see her. Vanessa explains the situation to her, requesting that she go there and tell Harry what to do next to which Sapphire then says, “before he freaks out and tries to on his own.” Mother Heart listens as Vanessa tells her what to say before leaving and appearing in front of Harry on the lake's surface. Harry is surprised but then realizes who she is and Baby Cure Tomorrow seems to know who she is too. Harry asks her what is going on and she tells him she will tell him everything. She tells him where he is, what happened to Cure Tomorrow, and what he must do now.

Once she is done she gives him the four PreHeart and the Mirai Pad and explains how each item works. Harry then asks how he is going to carry all of this stuff, Mother Heart gives him a suitcase that he can store them in. She also gives him some stuff for Baby Cure Tomorrow and explains how they work. By this time it is night so Harry asks where they are going to stay. Mother Heart tells him that she will send them to one of the future Cure’s houses but he can’t tell her she is a Cure.

She then blasts them off to the Cure’s house before appearing next to Vanessa back in her workshop and asking how she did. Sapphire tells her aunt did good and that she was impressed that Harry kept it together. Vanessa then says that while she was talking to Harry, George used the Time Book to transfer the Azababu branch office to the present. Mother Heart says she felt it when she was down there. They then watch as the first Cure, Hana, names Baby Cure Tomorrow, Hugtan.

When Ruru changes her ways and becomes friends with the Cures, Sapphire suggests turning her into a Cure. Vanessa is against it at first but after seeing her get along with Emiru and how close they become she agrees. She also decides to make them partners and create another PreHeart. When the time comes for Ruru and Emiru to transform, Vanessa hands the second PreHeart to Mother Heart and asks if she'll do the honors.

When George is defeated, Diabolos sends one of his generals to retrieve the discarded Time Book, but Mother Heart snatches it, purifies it, and disappears, giving it back to Vanessa.

When the time comes for Ruru, Harry, Hugtan, and the reformed villains to return to the future, Sapphire realizes that if they return to the future Hugtan will turn back into Vanessa’s magic. Sapphire then asks if there was someone to prevent it. Vanessa said that she could link her to one of the girls so that when she has a child it will be Hugtan. Sapphire suggests Hana because she has the strongest bond with her, Vanessa agrees. Once the train taking them back to the future hits the portal Vanessa casts the spell.

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niemernuet · 10 months ago

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Mentally I've been stuck here ever since I learnt that Dani had to babysit this ⬇️ Odi through his worst hangover during his very first wc finals in 2018:

The head coach is terrifying to approach at the best of times; today, in his current mood, he looks downright menacing as he drives past the entrance to the parking lot. Neither Daniel nor Justin are deterred though, and hurry across the uneven, icy ground as fast as they can. In their back, the long, drawn out lake lies grey and calm at the bottom of the valley.

They begin to talk at the same time.

“Excuse me, I think there has been a misunderstanding,” Daniel says.

“You can’t do this, Coach!” Justin says.

The coach, still half-way hunkered over as he is exiting the car, stops in his tracks, and glares at them. Both Daniel and Justin are wise enough to stop what they are saying. For a few heartbeats they are both quiet as the coach’s frightening glare rests on them. Daniel is the first to read his expression correctly.

“Hello,” he says.

“Hi,” Justin adds quickly, and they both follow the coach as he walks towards the boot of the car.

“Hello, boys,” the coach rumbles. Justin’s mouth is wide open again, though this time, Daniel shoves his elbow in his friend’s ribs, and takes over.

“I’m sorry but I think there has been a misunderstanding with the allocation of the lodgings.”

“It’s the last race week of the season, you can’t do…” Justin begins but again is silenced with a well-placed elbow to the rib cage.

“I’m just not sure there’s a good reason for your decision…though we fully respect it,” Daniel hurries to add. “But we thought that maybe there are some improvements we could do…and it would be beneficial for the whole team. Also…”

The coach raises a finger, and Daniel stops mid-sentence. Again the coach glares at them for the fraction of a moment too long.

“You will not share an apartment,” he eventually says. Daniel and Justin sputter like stalling snowmobiles in his back while he pulls a suitcase out of the car, and puts it on the ground.

Once more he silences them with a raised finger. “Do you want to know the reason?”

“Yes!” they exclaim.

“You!” the coach says, and points his finger at Justin whose expression immediately turns to utter shock.

“What? I didn’t do anything!”

The coach laughs as he pulls out another suitcase. “But you did! Because of you and your idiotic post on smartbook I had to sit not in one but TWO meetings with our organisation’s president and someone from FIS.”

“It’s facebook,” Daniel says softly, his shoulders now slumped at the sudden realisation of their endeavour’s futility.

“Do you know how much I’ve had it with meetings? Up to here!” the coach barks at Justin, and draws a line across his forehead with his extended finger. “So no, you will not share an apartment this week. You received your flatmates, and I told the team everyone who swaps with you will walk to South America next summer.”

“This is retaliation!” Justin cries out.

The coach laughs, and closes the hatch of the car. “I guess you could say so, yes.”

Daniel grabs Justin by the shoulder, and with a little bit of struggling mangages to push him away. “I understand that must have been annoying but I don’t see how that is a reason to punish me for it.”

The coach locks the car, and grabs his suitcases. “You’re not being punished.”

“You put me in the apartment with the rookie!” Daniel almost shouts, his nerves getting more frazzled by the second as he struggles to keep Justin back.

“This is so unfair!” he throws in over Daniel’s shoulder.

“Listen!” the coach barks, and both straighten their backs. Again the finger lands on Justin.

“I’m giving you a bit of friendly advice, because I’m your coach, and it’s my job: The next time you want to call out FIS’ marketing strategy, I want you to go to a home-trainer, and I want you to pedal until your tongue touches the ground. Because this will be a much smarter use of your energy than anything else you could do.” Justin throws up his hands but the finger wanders over to Daniel, and he gets no chance to rage further.

“And you are not being punished. He’s a good kid, and I’m sure you will get along just fine. In fact, why don’t you go over and lend him a hand?”

Daniel and Justin whirl around. They barely register the coach taking off at a brisk pace as they stare at the bus and Gisin that have arrived on the parking lot while they have been busy.

“I’m sure you’ve already heard of Daniel and Justin from the slalom team. They’re…well, you’ll get used to them,” Marc says to the young man climbing out of the passenger side of the bus. “Laurel, Hardy, this is Marco.”

Strands of blonde hair peek out from under Marco’s oversized hat and curl around his shoulder, and even though he is quite tall himself he is so lanky that he could disappear entirely behind Gisin’s large frame. He snorts at Marc’s last remark, and bites down on his lip. From the other side of the bus, their service man appears and opens the back.

“This is all your fault,” Daniel hisses to Justin, and walks over to Marco. “Hi, I’m Hardy.”

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Their lodgings take up an entire street of long barracks separated into units, a short stretch behind the main street, and just elevated enough to get a glimpse of the lake through the naked birches. Justin and Daniel take off with Marco’s baggage while Gisin keeps Marco back by the shoulder. They have reached the first doors already when he catches up with them.

“It’s all true,” Daniel says.

“What is?” Marco asks. He is skipping along, only a backpack and his jacket dangling from his arms.

“Any warnings he told you about us.”

Marco laughs. “No warnings, he told me the number of his and Beat’s apartments, in case it gets boring with you.”

“That’s even more insulting,” Daniel grumbles, and fishes the key out of his pocket. They shuffle through the door of the tiny apartment, and drop the bags in the small space between the kitchenette and the rickety table. With a sigh, Daniel turns around to face Justin.

“Is this because…” He breaks off when he realises where Marco is heading. “Excuse me, that one’s my room,” he says loudly.

“I thought so,” Marco says, his feet right at the edge of the threshold, and with slumped shoulders stares wistfully towards the window with the breathtaking view over the lake and mountains behind it. “Pity.”

Daniel waits until he moves on towards the other room facing the back alley to turn back to Justin. “You don’t need to sulk because I said it’s your fault.”

“I am not sulking!” Justin exclaims. “Because it is not my fault!”

“I told you you’d just stir the pot without changing anything!”

“Someone had to finally say what a clown organisation FIS is!”

“Everyone knows that!” Daniel shouts from the other side of the table. They both pause in their yelling to stare at Marco coming back from his room. He shrugged out of the top layer of clothes, and his hair is standing up in all directions from the static of the hat’s synthetic fibers.

“Oh, don’t stop because of me,” he says, and grabs his bags by the handles. “I just need these here….thank you.”

“Yeah but nobody puts any pressure on,” Justin snaps as soon as Marco has disappeared.

Daniel shakes his head. “Is this still because of your DNF in…”

“IT IS NOT! Frankly, I don’t even know why you had to go and complain. Now the coach will…”

“I?” Daniel barks. “I had to go? I did this for us but okay, I guess you prefer Loïc’s company over mine then…”

“You did it because you didn’t want to bunk with the rookie,” Justin shoots back, and crosses his arms in front of his chest while Daniel furiously tries to shush him. An apologetic smile washes over his face when Marco’s head peeks around the corner of the hallway. He is topless now, and a towel is dangling from his shoulder.

“I didn’t say...it like that.”

“It’s okay,” Marco answers light-heartedly. “I’d much rather be with Thomi too, even though he sounds like a chainsaw when he sleeps on his back. At first I thought the coach hates me but now I’m glad to know it’s because of you.”

Daniel blinks. “Oh.”

Marco smiles at him. “Right. Hey, would you mind if I took some of your soap? I’d like to take a shower before dinner but I forgot it at home.”

“You forgot your soap at home?”

“Well…more like my toiletry bag,” Marco explains, and stares at Daniel with his big, brown eyes.

Daniel needs a few seconds before he can answer. “Sure,” he eventually manages.

“Cool, thanks,” Marco laughs, and disappears in the bathroom.

Daniel chuckles when he turns back to Justin. “This is so much worse than I thought. He’s like you! This week will be hell.”

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It is not easy to talk with a pair of lips on his own but Daniel is quite practiced.

“No!”

As if he could convince him if he just pressed against him harder, Justin wraps his arms tighter around Daniel’s neck, and kisses him with even more fervour.

“Please,” he begs in Daniel’s mouth, and grinds his hips against Daniel’s just hard enough to make the narrow bed squeak.

“Absolutely not…not when I’m bunking with the rookie.”

Justin whines, and shoves his tongue even further in Daniel’s mouth.

“He’s not here yet,” he mumbles.

Daniel snorts, and pulls his head slightly back. “He better come back soon, he has a race tomorrow.”

“He’s young,” Justin shrugs, and follows Daniel until his head bumps against the wall and he can no longer evade his kisses. “He’ll be fit enough. Please, Poulette…”

“M-mh,” Daniel answers, and shakes his head so that their lips lose contact. He drags his fingers through Justin’s hair, and smiles at him. “I’m sorry, not tonight.”

“We’ll be quick, come on…” Justin begs, and Daniel laughs again.

“I know you will be quick,” he teases, and silences Justin’s outrage with another kiss until he stops fighting, and melts against his chest. Just when Justin tries another angle by putting his hand over the bulge under Daniel’s sweatpants, something heavy crashes against the front door. At once they pull apart. The noise outside just barely reaches Daniel’s room at the other end of the apartment, separated by two doors and heavy insulation but they still hear the breathless, almost shrieking laughter.

“Jesus, are you alright?” Gino yells.

Again something heavy drops against the door. Justin lifts one leg, ready to slip off the bed but Daniel keeps him in place, and shakes his head.

“I’m okay, I’m okay!” Marco’s voice assures.

“So…do you want to get up again?” Gino asks after a short moment of silence.

“Uh, yeah…as soon as I know which way is up.”

Again Gino’s laughter reverberates through the apartment.

“Silence!” Marco laughs. “I’m with Yule and he’s already sleeping.”

“Sleeping, right,” Gino grunts. “Which one’s your room?” Something heavy moves over the floor, and then drops against the wall to Daniel’s room.

“Thank you,” Marco says. “This one there. And it’s true. I saw him leave earlier, so we really have to be quiet now or…”

The door springs open and with a loud bang slams against the wall. Light from the kitchen as well as Marco follow right behind, though Gino can catch him at the last moment before he faceplants to the ground again.

“Wait, no, that’s not my room, that’s…ohhh…” Marco’s voice dies down as he takes in the scene on the bed. Then, a big smile spreads over his flushed cheeks and the blonde hair clinging to it, and he waves enthusiastically at the people on the bed. “Hi Daniel, hi Justin!”

Justin chuckles, and waves back. “Hi, Marco.”

“I was twelfth in the downhill today!”

“We saw. Congratulations.”

“Thanks.”

“Okay, let’s get you to your real room,” Gino presses through clenched teeth, and hoists Marco towards the hallway. “Sorry about that, guys.”

“No problem,” Justin says but neither of them is still listening as they shuffle off.

“Told you he’s sleeping alright,” Gino giggles, and another door gets slammed.

Justin chuckles, though he pauses when he looks down at his boyfriend and sees Daniel’s exasperation.

“Come on, he’s endearing,” he says, and kisses him.

“Annoyingly so,” Daniel snorts, and pushes against Justin’s shoulders.

“You used to love it when I did it,” Justin sighs but does not fight as he gets shoved off the bed.

Daniel grabs Justin’s jacket and throws it over his shoulders. “That’s because you used to be much more charming and sexy and handsome and overall breathtaking than him.”

Justin grins and leans in for another kiss. “Used to?”

Daniel smirks, and shoves him towards the door. “Good night, Honey Bear.”

-----

The slats of the bed are groaning almost as shameless as Daniel. His knuckles shine white as he clings to the headrest like a drowning man.

“Fuck, Justin…,” he moans, his legs twitching over the rumpled sheets. “Oh, fuck…”

Justin hums around Daniel’s cock in his mouth, and picks up the pace with his strokes. Daniel does not need more, and with a choked cry comes in spurts down Justin’s throat. He is still riding the wave down from the climax when Justin plops down next to him, and snuggles against his chest.

“See? I told you there’s enough time.”

Daniel laughs softly, still out of breath, and plants a kiss on Justin’s sweat-sheened forehead.

“Okay, for once you were right.”

“M-hm,” Justin hums with a satisfied grin. For a few moments they lie together in silence before Justin pats Daniel’s chest, and sits up.

“You’re going already?”

Justin snorts, and grabs his trousers from the floor. “I only have the one back with me and I need it in two days…” He pauses, and checks the watch on his phone, “...no, tomorrow. I can’t share this cot with you tonight.”

Daniel sighs, and boxes the pillow under his head a few times. “This week sucks.”

Justin pulls his shirt over his head, and leans down for another kiss. “It’s almost over. Only two more nights with your new best friend.”

Daniel rolls his eyes. “Considering the way he partied yesterday for a twelfth place I’m sure I won’t see him until we’re on the plane after today’s race. Tell Loïc my regards.”

“No, thanks,” Justin laughs, and softly shuts the door.

The party of the sponsor down in the village is still shooting rays of colourful light into the sky but Daniel is tired enough that he feels sleep crawl over him the moment he closes his eyes. He is almost entirely dozed off when his phone starts to vibrate again. For a second he considers ignoring it.

“Missing me already?” he mumbles as he puts it against his ear.

“Uh…no, sorry.”

Daniel shoots up. “Fuck…I mean, hi.”

Gino chuckles. Thumping bass music fills the background. “Hi. I’m just calling because I was afraid you wouldn’t see it if I wrote.”

“Okay?”

“It’s stupid but could you maybe check whether Marco’s already home? I was just on the toilet and when I came back they told me he left.”

Daniel silently throws up his hands and rolls his eyes, though he cannot hide the drawn-out sigh when he answers. “Okay, fine. Though I’m pretty sure he’s not here ye…” He stops abruptly as the front door slams shut.

“What?” Gino asks in the growing silence. “Is he with you?”

“Oh no no no!” Daniel cries out at the terrible sounds coming from outside his bedroom. “I swear if you…” He pulls the door open, and stares at the scene unfolding in the small kitchenette.

“What? Daniel, what’s going on?” Gino yells through the phone.

“Everything’s okay,” Daniel sighs, and slumps against the door frame. “He’s not puking on the floor.”

“He’s puking?” Gino echoes, still loud enough that Daniel does not need his phone to hear him from the village square.

He walks around the table, and steps to Marco who is hanging over the sink, and throws up another part of his dinner from earlier in the evening.

“Oh yeah, like mad,” Daniel chuckles. “But don’t worry, there can’t be much left inside of him.”

“Okay…” Gino answers, and hesitates for a second. “So…could you maybe…”

Daniel sighs again. “I’ll make sure he won’t asphyxiate on his own vomit…wouldn’t want to lose our junior world champion, right?” He pats Marco on the shoulder and elicits a soft whimper from him.

Whatever Gino says next drowns out in a new song and the DJ shouting, and Daniel takes it as cue to hang up. He leans over Marco’s hunched body, and turns on the faucet. While the ice cold water takes care of the worst mess, Daniel flips through the few cupboards until he finds a plastic mixing bowl. In the faint light from Daniel’s room shining into the rest of the apartment, Marco’s face and hair have the same grey colour.

“If you feel like there’s something else you need to go over in your head, aim here!” Daniel says, and hands him the bowl.

“Thanks,” Marco mutters, and traipses off towards his bedroom. Daniel turns off the water, and follows him. He finds Marco laying on his stomach on his unmade bed, the plastic bowl next to his head.

“I will fucking delete Justin’s facebook profile,” Daniel mutters as he bends down, and pulls Marco’s shoes off his feet. He does not budge even a little, his breath coming slow and steady, and quietly Daniel slips out of his room. His feet have just warmed up again under the blanket of his own bed, when something heavy crashes from one end of the hallway to the other. With a heavy sigh he listens to the hollow, gurgling noises of Marco throwing up into the toilet. He stays put, and without realising that he has fallen asleep, jolts up a few minutes later when the same happens again. The third time he is wide awake, glaring into the darkness around him, too annoyed even to pick up his phone and write an accusing message for Justin to read in the morning. The fourth time Marco’s journey to the toilet wakes him up he notices that the lights of the party have stopped. The silence is heavier now, without the distant noise, and Daniel’s breath hitches when he hears something else between Marco’s retching. With a few whispered swear words he peels the toasty blanket back, and makes his way towards the only illuminated room in their apartment. The sharp, pungent smell of vomit hangs in the windowless bathroom, though luckily, Marco has managed to only stain the inside of the toilet bowl. Marco bites down on his lower lip when Daniel appears in the door but he cannot stop the tears from rolling down his cheeks.

“Is…everything alright?” Daniel asks even though the answer is apparent.

Marco shrugs, his cheek pressed against the cool porcelain of the toilet. He sniffles, and looks up at Daniel with red-rimmed eyes.

“Am I cool?”

Daniel’s brows fold into a frown as he tries to find something to say. “Like…right now?”

He cringes when Marco closes his eyes, and a new flood of tears rolls down his cheeks and into the matted strands of the hair clinging to them.

“I’m so stupid,” he chokes.

Daniel stares at him for a second before he turns on his heel, and hurries away. When he returns with a glass of water, Marco is still hunched against the toilet.

“Drink this!” Daniel orders. “And then tell me what’s going on.”

Marco takes a small sip. He stares at the ground, mute and deep in his thoughts.

Daniel keeps staring down at him until something occurs to him. “Is there a reason why you left the team at the party?”

Marco’s lip wobbles, and quickly he takes another sip. “I feel like I’ll never stop failing and I’ll never be as good as the others.”

Daniel rolls his eyes with a chuckle. “That’s because you’ve slept three of the last 48 hours and you’ve had two races in that time.”

Marco looks up, and blinks at him.

“Not to mention all the alcohol you’ve been putting away,” Daniel adds. “Well…temporarily, at least. Drink up, go to bed and I promise tomorrow everything will be different.”

He grabs the empty glass from Marco, and fills it again before digging a pill out of his almost depleted toiletry bag. Marco is already face-down on his bed again when he reaches his room.

“Do you think I could ever have the same that you have with Justin?” he mumbles from the depths of his pillow.

“Depends who you want to have it with,” Daniel answers, and puts the glass and the pill on the nightstand.

“Gino…” Marco sighs, and groans slightly as Daniel pulls the blanket out from under his body.

“You’ll have to ask him,” Daniel laughs.

Marco lifts his head, and scans the room.

“Not now,” Daniel adds hastily. “Tomorrow, when you’ll be sober again…and maybe realise that you have terrible taste.”

Marco’s head drops back into his pillow, and he mumbles something inaudible.

Daniel throws the blanket over Marco’s limp body. “Take the pill here first thing in the morning,” he says, and points at the nightstand, but Marco has already fallen asleep.

“Rookies…” Daniel mutters, and quietly slips out of the room.

-----

The ending of the season two days later is sadder than anticipated, with two cancelled races and stormy weather. The teams disperse, washed away by the rain, and one after the other the rental busses stuffed with skis and other equipment leave for the airport. Daniel is checking the sidepocket of his backpack for his passport when Marco appears by his side. He huddles close to get under the open hatch of the bus. The hair poking out from underneath his hat is dark from the rain, almost as dark as the shadows under his eyes.

“Sorry you couldn’t race,” he begins.

“It’s just my luck,” Daniel says without interrupting his search. “One whole week with you and nothing to show for it. You look terrible by the way.”

“I feel terrible too,” Marco admits. “I think I’m dying.”

“It’s called a hangover. You’ll get over it. Okay, all there.” With a satisfied smile, Daniel closes the zipper of the backpack and puts it back with the rest of his baggage.

Marco shakes his head, and stares out into the rain. “I’m not sure…the only thing I know is that I’ll never drink again.”

Daniel laughs.

“Never ever! I don’t remember a thing from that night.” For a moment, Marco stares out into the rain before he dares to ask the question. “Did I say anything about Gino?”

Daniel frowns, thinks for a second. “Not that I remember, no. Why?”

Marco shakes his head. “Just because…not important.”

Before Daniel can prod further, Marco throws his arms around him.

“At first I really did not look forward to living with you but then it turned out to be quite cool. If you ever switch to giant slalom, I’d love to bunk with you during the season. But don’t tell Thomi.”

Daniel chuckles, and hugs Marco back. “And if you ever tried slalom I would gladly lend you my toothpaste and shampoo.”

Marco laughs, and skips back towards the bus where his service man is waiting. Justin rounds the corner, and joins Daniel under the hatch where they watch the other bus jolt over the gravel toward the road.

“He’s in love with Gino,” Daniel explains, and smiles at Marco who is frantically waving at them.

“Awww, Rookie,” Justin coos. “So endearing.”

#typical case of writing 1000 words for the one scene i had in my head #rpf #text #mine #alpine skiing #marco odermatt #daniel yule

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