i like to think that Jack has never really participated in the Dibs tradition at SMH, he got his room because of stuff he did on the ice and he gave Chowder his room for the same reason. He thinks it's kind of silly and doesn't take it super seriously. SO when Shitty and Tater are like "me? best man? me be your best man?!" Jack kinda laughs and goes, "I dunno, dibs off for it," and then immediately forgets he sakd it.
Word that the honour of being Jack Zimmermann's best man is up for dibs spreads around SMH like lightning. Ransom spends half the engagement Kegster refilling Jack's red solo cup with sprite like a waiter in a fancy resturaunt who seems to appear the second you take a sip.
Dex maked Jack's favourite breakfast, Holster folds all of Jack's clothes and puts them in his overnight bag before he and Bitty leave the Haus. It keeps going into the summer, Nursey sends him and Bitty a framed poem about love and hockey that's half engagemtent gift half dibs bribery. After Ransom explains what Dibs are to Tater, he gets in on it. Jack's sticks are always taped for him and Tater volunteers to stay for extra ice time with him.
Eventually most of the team forgets about it, but not Shitty, Shitty will earn best man dibs not just because he wants them but because he has never ever lost a dibs off. Jack mentions that his kitchen could use a new coat of paint and Shitty's there within the hour with a can of paint and Lardo's big brushes. Every little thing he does gets slightly more unreasonable until he's standing in Jack's living room replacing Jack's lightbulbs with energy efficient lights and a dimmer switch because Jack mentioned that the lights at his place are kinda harsh sometimes and it's,
"Shits are you dying or something and not telling me?"
"You dropped everything to come fix my light switch, what's going on?."
"Oh," Shitty says, "Uh, Dibs man."
"No for the wedding. You said uh... dibs off for best man and well..."
Shitty nods and Jack pulls him into a hug that's so tight that Shitty's arms are stuck at his sides.
"It was always going to be you," Jack says
And Shitty looks like he can't believe it
"Who else would it be? There was no competition"
"But I do appreciate you fixing my toilet last week."
"You can tell the other guys you one the dibs off though."
And so just like that, Jack has a best man and Shitty Knight's dibs streak remains unbroken.
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