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Jack knows logically that ACL tears are common enough that his surgeon will have done this procedure dozens, if not hundreds of times, but—
—but something can always go wrong. Most people in Jack’s situation will recover completely and without incident, but most is not the same as all. Nothing is sure. No one can make promises. He’s had eighteen months in the NHL and no power in the world can guarantee him any more.
The plane flies over Lake Ontario. Somewhere thousands of feet below him, the Maple Leafs are preparing to take on the Capitals. His own team is thousands of miles behind him, flying south to California to play the Kings.
Jack tips his head back against the seat and cries.
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Written for the 2017 Check Please Big Bang, with a fanmix by francisfourever.
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Eric has a sudden vivid memory of his own childhood room, the one he had before they moved to Madison. Mama had decorated it, of course, but she’d done it with Coach in mind, with an eye toward the sort of father-son bonding that seemed to come naturally to all his cousins and classmates. There’d been a football-patterned wallpaper border and a gridiron rug that scratched under Eric’s bare feet when he got out of bed every morning. And every night he’d fallen asleep under a duvet printed with cartoon football players, running and making passes and tackling without fainting once. The night after his first disastrous peewee practice he’d pushed the comforter to the floor, not sure he could look at it without crying, and blamed the unseasonably warm night when Mama asked him about it the next morning.
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Not all of it is for the world, but perhaps not all of it has to be.
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- Part 8 of The Locker Room: Check Please! ficlets
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The Stroke of Midnight by DoubleNegative
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
22 Mar 2017
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A private reminisce about a pivotal moment.
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Because everyone gets to see Jack on TV, but only Eric gets to take him home, and only Eric gets to see him like this.
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- Part 7 of The Locker Room: Check Please! ficlets
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“Jack turns in a slow, aimless circle in the middle of his living room. Blank white walls. Bare floor. A sofa, a TV, a coffee table: just the basics, really. Well, no wonder it doesn’t look like home; he can’t blame his apartment’s sudden coldness and its empty echoing spaces solely on the absence of one Eric R. Bittle. It just… doesn’t look like anyone lives here. It doesn’t feel like anyone lives here. He has no idea how to change that.”
(Or… Jack comes home from Madison to an apartment that doesn’t smell like cinnamon, and teammates who don’t know what he means he says ‘swawesome. It feels like it should be easier, turning the place he lives into a home and the people he plays hockey with into teammates. But even ‘easy’ things have always felt harder than they should.)
Written for the first Check Please! Big Bang, with art by AuntieSuze!
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Five pictures Bitty didn't post to social media and one he did
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The biscuits don't look quite right.
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- Part 6 of The Locker Room: Check Please! ficlets
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Holster comes back to himself with a start. “Sorry. Just thinking, I dunno.” Birds circle above the water; he tracks their progress to avoid looking at Ransom’s stupid salmon shorts and stupid Samwell croakies and stupid perfect face. “Everything’s weird,” he adds softly, still not trusting himself to look at Ransom.
“Weird as fuck,” Ransom says, and then he leans his head against Holster’s shoulder, short-buzzed hair scratchy against his bare skin.
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- Part 5 of The Locker Room: Check Please! ficlets
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“I miss him,” he whispers to Violet, and once those words escape, others inevitably follow.
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- Part 15 of The Beehive: 221Bs
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Your Fake Name is Good Enough for Me by DoubleNegative
Fandoms: Check Please! (Webcomic)
16 Jul 2016
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Eventually Jack came back to himself, as he always did, shaky and exhausted but alive, and Shitty wrapped up his rambling story. “Anyway, man, that’s why if you ever have kids you shouldn’t make bets with your hedge fund buddies on their names. You’ll end up with a son named Barnaby Sylvester Knight, and trust me, that is no way to start a father-son relationship.”
“That’s a pretty awful name,” Jack whispered. “Thanks, man.”
Shitty just squeezed him tighter and didn’t protest at all when Jack finally drifted off, drooling a little on his pillow.
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Fifteen minutes, he promises himself. Fifteen more minutes of socializing, and then he’ll duck away to read Bitty’s text. It’ll be a reward system. It’ll make the night go faster.
It does not make the night go faster.
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- Part 4 of The Locker Room: Check Please! ficlets
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When Jack comes back out ten minutes later, towel around his waist, his phone is blinking with a new notification--one new Snapchat from bitty15. Still holding onto his towel, he opens the app, expecting a ten-second kitchen panorama, or possibly another picture of Chowder, sleeping on the green couch and wearing a clipart flower crown.
The photo Bitty’s sent is nothing of the sort.
Jack and Bitty have some fun despite the distance.
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- Part 3 of The Locker Room: Check Please! ficlets
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Going to a public ice rink is always the first mistake.
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- Part 2 of The Locker Room: Check Please! ficlets
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Jack and Eric have done nothing but talk since graduation--and now that they're finally alone together in Madison, it turns out there's more talking left to do. Being able to touch makes it easier.
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- Part 1 of The Locker Room: Check Please! ficlets
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Sherlock Holmes and the Pavlovian Problem by DoubleNegative for redscudery
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV)
29 Apr 2016
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“Thing is, Sherlock, your o-face and your deduction face look—and sound!—exactly the same. If I pop one more awkward stiffy at a crime scene, Sally’s going to have me sectioned. Do you think you can, y’know, work on that?”
Spoiler: they don't really work on that.
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The Seafarer; or, A Question of Time by DoubleNegative
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
26 Apr 2016
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“Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time, that is all.” - Jules Verne
The Indian Ocean, 1880: John H. Watson, MD, meets Sherlock Holmes and is deduced.
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The Curious Incident of the Cat in the Nighttime by DoubleNegative
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
16 Mar 2016
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Three times the cat killed the mood and one time she didn't.
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Get Your Five a Day by DoubleNegative
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
11 Nov 2015
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"You know how to eat a banana, don't you? You just put your lips together, and..."
Well, I might be misquoting. But Sherlock does know how to, um, eat a banana.
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- Part 14 of The Beehive: 221Bs