Does anyone want to hear my Sound of Music au for team canada ft. geno 🫣
The Adults
Captain Sidney Crosby, Royal Canadian Navy
Evgeni Malkin, resident governor
Commander Brad Marchand, Royal Canadian Navy
The Children
Nathan - 17yo
Connor - 15yo
Mitch - 15yo
Cale - 13yo
Nick - 10yo
Seth - 7yo
Macklin - 5yo
more plot below!
Sid's technically working in a reduced capacity since the death of his spouse, but he still takes really long business trips and its just the children in the house with the staff for the majority of the year, so the older children cook up all these schemes to get their governesses/governers to storm out, so that Sid has no choice but to come back and sort things out.
(Can they be loved, like genuinely)
So Sid's at his wits end, and he's writing about his troubles to his old acquaintance Sergei Gonchar who was part of a diplomatic delegation from Russia many years ago, who is like "i might have the answer to your troubles"
And the answer is Mr Malkin who turns up at the estate front gate in a suit thats more patches than anything else, and a letter of recommendation from Gonch
He's got literally no experience looking after children, worked in a factory before this so he's got none of their fancy manners or anything, speaks english in whatever way he wants, and Sid's thinking what the hell is gonch thinking sending him to me, but then he reads the letter that accompanies geno, and how he's someone who will love the children wholeheartedly and sid might as well try something completely different, since everything else has failed
and so he reluctantly accepts geno for a trial period, that he secretly isnt confident geno will see the end of, and he leaves literally the next morning to go back to the base and work
the children when they first meet Mr Malkin are so taken aback by his appearance that they start getting to know him, and geno just throws himself wholeheartedly into getting to know the children and their interests and just talking to them, finding out more about their life
the 3 older children have memories of living in Halifax, of playing with their father when his lower rank meant less pressure and less work
for the younger children he was mostly away at war, Cale and Nick have some memories of their father being home, hugging them, playing ball hockey in the corridors
Seth remembers almost nothing about him and Macklin has practically no knowledge of what kind of man he is, like to them that's just another guy that occasionally has dinner with them and sleeps in the house
the children from Nate to Cale attend school until the afternoon, and Nick and Seth go to dayschool in the village until lunchtime, so daytime is just Macklin hanging out with geno, learning their letters together and geno's studying books on etiquette with a dictionary (so he can make sure all the children are learning proper manners) with macklin reading picture books next to him. He's not letting them slack on homework either, he runs that study like a drill sergeant, you will do your sums and you will write your essays, he worked in a factory yes but he was a good student up until he had to leave school and those kids will be educated if thats the last thing he does
but on the weekends theyre out playing lacrosse, and theyre swimming in the lake, taking excursions out to the village and visiting the candy store so that nate can get a glimpse of his crush jo drouin who runs the counter in his family's store
none of the children have ever felt so seen or supported, like what do you mean this member of household staff wants to know my aspirations in life, wants to know that i want to be exactly like my father and haven't the first clue how to start because he's never here for me to ask him
and when sid returns home after his like 3 months business trip, with commander brad marchand who's visiting while he's on shore leave, the house is so bright and open and the children are glowing with happiness. brad tells him he needs to do whatever it takes to keep geno around forever, or atleast until macklin is grown, and sid wants to lock him down. like ring on his finger, shared bedroom, master of the house locked down
(anyway feel free to blow up my inbox talking about this)