A/N: A rohirat OS. I think this is my first PROPER RohiRat OS. My girl 5SOS_TO_MY_HEART requested this weeks ago (way back during the Ashes) finding the parallel between Steve and Virat's 100th test match somewhat similar.
Another fight. It was something really stupid. Really. Virat couldn't get a joke and had dumped an entire glass of protein shake on his head. They'd be fine. It's happened before. Jinks should really not be worried about them. They weren't going to have a fall out over something so childish.
Virat on the other hand was in his room fuming at Rohit with little to no remorse and dumping that shake on his best friend's head. He hadn't meant anything when he said that even Smudge had a 50 in an WC semi finals while neither of them did. It was a casual comment really, he wasn't trying to dig up old wounds when he said it. Rohit took it the absolute wrong way. This conversation began when they were all watching the 3rd test match of the Ashes together and Rohit had made an off handed comment about how Steve had failed in his 100th test match jokingly.
"All that hype for his 100th test match and he didn't make much impact." Ro joked taking a bite of the steamed broccoli on his plate, clearly stating with which team his alliance lied with and it wasn't Australia.
"Doesn't much matter, they're 2-0 up in the series anyway Ro."
"But 100th match is a 100th match. Especially for someone like him who's considered the next Bradman."
"Considered? Ro he IS the Bradman of our generation. Besides he scored a century in the previous test. He's allowed to have one bad test. Joe and him are gonna be trying to one up each other this series." Virat snorted knowing fully well that'll be exactly what those two would be trying to do.
"Okay. Itna kyu defend kar rahe ho usei? They beat us at the finals."
"Yes. Exactly. He scored a century in the finals Rohit against us might I add. He deserved that hype for his 100th and he was a little unlucky today and it's fine. As a fellow sportsperson who's played 100 tests and had an uneventful one at that, I think I will defend him."
"Technically you outscored him in just one innings."
Virat did not know why he got triggered by that one comment (well he did) but he snapped back,
"Smudge has a 100 in a semi finals . Something neither of us have, infact neither of us even have a fucking fifty. Really Rohit don't be so salty. They outplayed us at the WC semi finals back then and they did now at the WTC finals too so we have to move on and just appreciate the game of cricket they're playing."
Rohit taken aback by that tone, snarked,
"Of course you'd say that. You've got a lot of experience losing tournaments as a captain, so you can move on and go be besties with the opponents."
Now, Virat reached for the protein shake next to him and dumped it over Rohit's head, got up scraping his chair noisily over the floor and walked away from the table not sparing a glance at the other occupants of the table who were staring wide eyed at their guilty, drenched captain.
Jinks had been left to clean up the mess with the younger members of the squad all the while cursing his two idiot best friends out for being absolute numbskulls and scaring the children. He knew they both screwed up equally and needed to sort this out together. Jaddu had found the whole thing hilarious of course and Ash had dragged him up to his room before he could make things worse.
It had been hours since either of the stubborn idiots had spoken to each other, Rohit pissed off that Virat wouldn't swallow his ego and come apologize and Virat angry that Rohit would even broach the topic of his captaincy tenure. Jinks stormed into Virat's room and glared at him, petulantly Vi huffed and said,
