The newest update of Check, Please! has me losing it, so hereās some fanfic to tide over everyone else who is currently freaking out. And if youāve never read Check, Please! drop literally everything and go read it right now.Ā
Au pays qui te ressemble
Jack waits.
between the weight of family and the pull of gravity
5 times Jackās father just didnāt get it, +1 time he absolutely did.
rake the springtime across your sheets
But maybe that is what love is, Eric thinks: You give people the power to spill your secrets to anyone and your guts out on the floor.
just to see that little smile
5 times Jack surprises Bitty, +1 time Bitty gets him first.
Just Take My Hand
Eric imagines Jack in his billet room, studying his ipod with his playbook face on and feels his mouth curl into a fond appalled shape, one that he hadnāt known it made before Jack Zimmerman. āOh, honey.ā
Jack toes at the ground. āI like that one about foxes and boxes.ā
āI donāt remember giving you any Doctor Suess. Oh my god, wait, are youā¦ Are you talking about Taylor Swift?ā
Of course it is, of course Jack Zimmerman, Canadaās Prodigal Son, likes the song about feeling hunted, scrutinized, about escaping the huntsmen. Eric feels like he may have used up his oh honey too soon.
Like A Brick Wall
Bitty canāt have feelings for Jack and Jack has no idea he has feelings for Bitty and itās a wonder Shitty hasnāt fallen off the roof yet.
You Never Said You Wouldnāt So Here I Am
Eric just wants to get past this crush, but Jack keeps getting in the way.
on the sidelines wishing for right now
Bitty resists the urge to let out a hysterical laugh because apparently this is just his life now. He tries to call his boyfriend and winds up getting hockey advice from a living legend.
5 times Bitty bonded with Bad Bob + 1 time Jack tries to bond with Coach Bittle.
I never saw the signs
Bitty gets asked out on a date, but heās already spoken for. It wouldnāt be a problem, really, except he didnāt know he was already spoken for.
bold; over the worst of it
āSpring C,ā Jack says, āis full of mystery.ā
simmer
Hours later, after letting the pie cool and almost having it stolen by a hungry Nursey, Bitty cuts a slice and declares Jackās work to be āalmost as good as his great-auntās.ā Jack smiles down at his plate.
if thereās anything on my face you put it there
āYou donāt have to tell them it was me. I mean, you donāt have to do anything. Iāll stop leaving marks if you want me to. Justā¦ā He lifts up Jackās shirt and touches one of the hickeys. When he looks back up, his eyes have gone dark. āI really, really like it. Do you mind?ā
To Even Fall
Sometimes Bitty sleeps in Jackās bed. Itās not a thing, until it is.
live through this and you wonāt look back
The worst part about falling in love with a straight boy is definitely not watching him date girls. No, the worst part about falling in love with a straight boy is that you never even had a shot.
Make It If We Can
Jack opens a door he hasnāt walked through in a long time. Bitty holds his hand.
Hockeyed Up
There are many things on Jackās mind. Namely: hockey, hockey, Bitty, hockey, anxiety, hockey, hockey, anxiety, Bitty, hockey, hockey, anxiety, and hockey.
Comfortable Territory
āShit, man, youāve got your eye on someone? Who is it? Do I know her? Whatās the hold up?ā Shitty asks.
Jack furrows his brow, confused. āUh, what? Shitty, no, thereās no girl-ā
āA guy?ā Shitty interrupts, clearly having entirely missed the point. Jack opens his mouth to point his out, but Shitty beats him to it. āOh, shit. Bitty?ā
deets
The grainy cellphone photo on the cover of the magazine is of his own back, his red Samwell t-shirt. Heās got a forearm braced on the wall, his other hand holding the face of someone small and blond, mostly blocked from view, who has his hands on Jackās chest and a blue hoodie tied around his waist. Emblazoned across the bottom of the cover are the words IS JACK ZIMMERMANN GAY? and it feels like someone just punched him in the stomach.Ā
of the nature of the wound
His first year in the NHL isnāt easy, but Jack has spent his entire life playing through the hurt.
Positive Feedback
Ericās never had a postgame breakdown of sex before, but heās not particularly surprised when, before theyāve even caught their breath, Jack says, āTell me how I can do better.ā
Phone, Please!
āBits, you live tweeting this?ā Shitty asks.
Donāt You Wait
Hereās the thing, in the seconds following that buzzer going off, the first thing that crossed Jackās mind wasnāt grabbing a hold on the cup. It didnāt occur to him what exactly that first cup, only two years after he had been drafted, was going to mean and what it already meant. He didnāt even consider going in its direction.
Instead, as heās slammed into and bodies piled around him, foghorns blaring and confetti littering everything in sight, he was thinking of exactly where Bittle might be in that very moment.
(Or, how Jack Zimmermann accidentally came out to the entire NHL a couple of seconds after winning his first Stanley Cup)
Man of Honor
Bitty has to live the rest of his life with the knowledge that yes, Jack Zimmermann cries at weddings, and looks good doing it.
Kent Parson is Not Getting Any Pie
The headline is there as soon as Eric turns on his computer in the morning
āKent Parson Gayā
Eric puts down his coffee and opens the article, wide-eyed and breathing hard.
āLas Vegas Acesā star and Art Ross winner, Kent Parson, was caught performing a sex act with an unidentified male at a New York bar last night. When asked for a comment, Parsonās publicist, Jose Flores, said the star wished to apologise to his team for the scandal and would make a statement later today at a press conference.ā
Coming Out of My Cage
An unexpected phone call from Kent Parson at five AM doesnāt turn into the disaster Jack wouldāve expected. Heās not going to thank him, though. Probably.
Strawberry
Without thinking too hard about anything, Eric gathers Jackās other hand, places his wrists together, and, slowly, giving Jack time to pull away, pulls them up and over his head to pin them on the pillow.
make this house a home
With the prospect of an empty Haus for Thanksgiving, Jack invites Bitty over to his new place in Providence. As friends, of course.
Step One
Five times Jack Zimmermann came out of the closet.
An Abundance of Pies
Five times Bitty is told not to bake pies for professional NHL players and One time they ask him to.
Alternatively - The story of how Bittyās pies become an NHL Urban Legend, start locker room fights and cause Patrick Kane to miss a perfectly good shot on goal.
cream and sugar like an optimist
Jack doesnāt actually pick where he wants to live because of proximity to a coffeeshop. Jack would never do that. That would be crazy.
Whistle Down the Moon
Bittle needs a date. A girl date. Lardo volunteers, and Jack isnāt pleased.
I hear symphonies in my head
Eric listens to a lot of music. Life is never so bad that it canāt be fixed with baked goods and the right soundtrack, and heās really good at providing both, if he says so himself.
Best Laid Plans
āDude,ā said Holster, his eyes huge, āthatās so sad. We gotta get them together.ā
āThis isnāt a romcom, Holtzy, ā Ransom said, patting his arm. āIām sure thatās not what Shitty had in mind.ā
āActually,ā said Shitty, āthatās exactly what I had in mind. And Iāve got a plan.ā
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