one of these days I need to webweave about chicago steel-era mack seeing national dev team-era will for the first time and every molecule in his body locking in and going “i want that one.”
let's do this now. let's do this NOW.
let's talk about this extremely shrill gap-toothed dweeb, already a little distant from every team he's ever been on just by virtue of how good he is, no matter how much he loves the boys or they love him. always trying to remember to smile close-mouthed because of his teeth. DESPERATE for a best friend, not just a "he's one of my best friends i think" cole eiserman friend, but one where there's no question about it.
and then he sees will, who he's maybe played once or twice, definitely knows about, has some buddies who are buddies with him. he's good, that's what mack knows about him - he's really fucking good. makes things look easy that mack knows better than anyone aren't easy. always surrounded by guys who are laughing and shoving his shoulder and smiling at him like he's the coolest fucking guy on the planet.
and maybe will is bucket off on the opposing team's bench, something weird with his chin strap that he's trying to get the equipment guy to fix, and he looks up at the ice just as mack skates by, laughing at something the equipment guy is saying, so it's almost like he's laughing right at mack, like they're having a conversation somehow, and mack just thinks, oh. Oh. Oh.
and then, of course, he stalks will online for the next year and constantly circles gabe trying to get him to talk about will without making it seem like mack’s asking. texts zeev, who he hasn’t talked to since shattuck, that he hopes it’s going well at the program, just hoping that zeev will tell him what it’s like in a way that involves will. watches all will’s highlights. watches all will’s interviews, too, chest feeling a little tight while he does.
goes to boston and hears something secondhand about will and a girl one of the BU guys knows and can’t stop thinking about it. jerks off in his dorm thinking about it, actually, some combination of will’s smiling, laughing face and will’s hand on his chest, pushing mack down, putting mack exactly where he wants him. bites the side of his hand when he comes, so he won’t make any noise, even though he’s alone. they’re going to play BC for the first time in a few weeks and mack wants, wants, wants. wants everything with this guy he’s never even talked to. everything.
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