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Hi friends! Sorry it’s been a while since an update, but it’s been a crazy summer for all of us.
Two things to watch for once the season starts though...I’m going to be updating the It Takes a Village to Raise a Child, It Takes a Home to Raise a Captain series as soon as the league has announced all of the new captains. I’m also going to do a series of backgrounds on starting goalies once we have a better idea of who will be the primary goalie for each team. Possibly an A Captain background series, as well? I’ve not decided for sure how I’ll do that series though, so feel free to send in suggestions.
As always, if you have requests send them in! We can’t wait for October to be here! (Oh, and since it’s Olympic time...if you have any Olympic based requests I’ll take those through the end of the month!)
Could you please write a one shot of James Neal? You're stressed with work and sick so he tries to support you. He tries to take care of you.
Title: Supported
Player: James Neal
Word Count: 993
You put your keys in the door to unlock it, home from another week of hell….er, work. You open the door, kick off your shoes and go straight for the kitchen. You pour yourself a glass of wine and then go to the kitchen table. You look at the glass for a moment and then you just lose it. You’re crying. You hate your job, you’re stressed out, and you feel like no matter what you do you just can’t do it well enough. On top of this you know you’re starting to get sick. From anxiety or physically ill, you don’t know. You keep crying, so overwhelmed that you don’t know what to do. You eventually fall asleep crying, your head resting on your arms, on the kitchen table.
You wake up to him putting his hand on the small of your back. “Y/N, why are you sleeping at the kitchen table babe?”
You look up at your boyfriend, you know you look awful. Your eyes are red between the crying and falling asleep in your contacts, but you don’t even care. “I don’t know James, I just am tired of work. I hate my job, no matter what I do I feel like it’s not good enough … I just don’t know. What time is it?” You rub your eyes, trying to get the sleep out of them, only further irritating your contacts.
“Babe, what can I do for you?”
“Um….maybe some cold meds? Can you take care of dinner tonight?” You ask as you stand up, wobbly on your feet. “I don’t feel so good.” you say as you lean on him.
“Y/N, I don’t want you to worry about anything tonight, or this weekend at all. Just leave it to me.” He wraps his arm around your waist, supporting you.
You are so grateful that your boyfriend’s season is over, and that he can be there for you when you need it. You accept his help going to the couch in the living room.
“So, what are you thinking for dinner? Want to just order in for tonight?”
“I don’t care. Anything.” All of a sudden you’re starving. “I just need food. And meds, I need meds,” you say as you try to get up.
James gently keeps his hands on your shoulders. “I will go get you cold meds. Chinese okay?” He asks as he walks off.
“Sure,” you say sleeply, reaching for the quilt on the back of the couch. He comes back with medicine once he has ordered the food and you down them quickly.
“How about a movie, Y/N,” James asks?
“I don’t care babe, I really don’t.”
James starts a movie and comes to you. He cuddles up next to you, wrapping you up against his solid chest in his arms that you love so much. “What’s going on with work?”
“I don’t know. I just hate my job. It’s not what I wanted to do once I graduated, but nobody else would hire me. It stresses me out and I get out of bed every morning dreading the day ahead of me. But I can’t just quit.”
“Why not, Y/N,” he asks?
“Because it’s not fair to you. I need to do something to help out and … I don’t know. I don’t want to be stuck at home all day, bored out of my mind.”
“How about you do this. You put in your two weeks on Monday and start looking for a different job. Or take a month or two off to be your own person. You went straight from college to work. It’s not fair to you, you’re not even doing what you love with your life. You’re miserable from work, and I hate seeing you like this. You deserve to be happy.”
“But … bills.”
“Y/N, I make more than enough for the both of us. At this point the only reason that I’m still letting you even help pay is because you insist. I want to take care of you. I don’t want you to have to have a job just because you feel like you have to pay for things that I am more than capable of taking care of on my own. Hell, I make enough for more than two people to live here. It’s going to be okay, I promise babe. Promise me right now you’ll put your two weeks in at work.”
You snuggle tighter into his chest, scared at the words that he is making you say because you haven’t been dependent on anybody since you left home to go to college. You close your eyes, take a deep breath and say “Okay, I’ll write my letter this weekend and put my two weeks in.”
“Perfect. I want to take care of you, I want to help you. You’re sick, I’m going take care of you. I’ve seen you be miserable for the longest time but you wouldn’t tell me what was going on. I didn’t know what to do. I’ve been trying for you to get me to tell me this for the longest time, but dang are you more stubborn than some of the guys I play with.”
You both laugh at the slight comedic relief when all of a sudden the doorbell rings.
“I’ll be right back, Y/N,” James says, kissing you on the top of the head.
He comes back with Chinese. You each grab a container and chopsticks, and start the movie, cuddled up together.
“Thank you,” you whisper to James as you’re finishing up your Chinese and the movie is about halfway over.
He takes your container, and looks at you “Babe, I’m here to support you, in any way I can. I want to.”
“Okay,” is all you can mutter curling up even tighter into his arms, drifting back asleep, feeling safer, happier, and more supported than you have in months.
Sorry it took ~so~ long for us to post the next round of superlatives to vote on, but, finally, here they are!
Best defensemen
Best veteran
Best stick-handling
Weirdest goal celly
Most superstitious
Worst Coach
Best hockey dad
Best beard
Best team twitter
Funniest Fail
Season MVP
A couple of reminders
Send us your votes in with the players name and the number you are voting them for (any player from any team, noting position/superlative, in other words, don’t say P.K. Subban is the worst coach or I’ll give you the look of shame)…..
Try to keep these from the 2015/16 season
Number 11 will be open to voting through all five rounds of superlatives (counting this set, four left!) so you can change/adjust your vote according to what you see in the playoffs.
I have started a new tag...its called 'pretty boys in pretty things' this is just the first installment because I love doing this too much to stop. Feel free to send boys in! -Sami
Hey friends, we got your phone background requests and the fic request! We will be getting on those ASAP.
I will be writing the Nealer fic because I already have hella ideas for it (get excited, anon!) But I’m hella sleep deprived so it probably won’t be written until this weekend. But I PROMISE I will make it worth your wait!
As for the phone background requests, one of us will get on those asap! I personally will be finishing the “It takes a village to raise a child, it takes a home to create a captain” series before I do anymore backgrounds. But that series should also be done in the next day or two. If Sami or Krista don’t beat me to the background requests
Finally, watch for round two of the hockey superlatives, that should be posted tomorrow! We are already looking forward to your votes!
Thank you guys for all of the love and support lately, y’all are the best!
@ anon who just requested a Knighter background. Could you please send in a phone model so I know what size to make it? Also, I will do it tomorrow afternoon because I am currently madly writing cards to basically every I know and their brother hahaha!
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