(Tw vom i guess?? And OD and injury mentions) AU where Jack is living out a life where he didn’t OD, going through the motions of being picked by the aces, training with them.
But he keeps having these reoccurring dreams.
There’s three in particular he remembers. One of getting sick and throwing up in a bathroom before passing out and waking up in his bed again. One of running down a street, into an decrepit looking house, going inside and into a room, where there stands a really familiar looking boy but he knows he’s never seen him. And a third where he’s in the playoffs, and suddenly he’s flying through the air and hitting the ice, he can see there’s blood and people yelling, but its muffled. He’s taken to a hospital, and he swears he sees the same boy from the second dream getting into the ambulance with him and begging him to stay with him. He always wakes up from that one crying.
His dad tell him reoccurring dreams are just a product of stress but Jack can’t shake them from his mind because they seem to be escalating a little more every night, more intense and more real.
And then he starts having them in the middle of the day, randomly.
And he swears he hears voices that come from nowhere. Different ones.
Some sound like his parents, some he can’t pinpoint but he knows he recognizes them. Sometimes he hears Alexei Mashkov for some reason?? They’re always familiar, and they’re always sad sounding. Sometimes it’s just rambling about their lives, and other times it’s crying and asking him to hold on. And again, sometimes he hears the blonde boy. Jack isn’t sure how he knows it’s him, but hes sure it is.
Then, Jack starts feeling something on his ring finger. Almost like a phantom pressure, like he’s wearing a ring but there isn’t one.
It’s almost like something is trying to break through, but can’t quite get it yet.
Two weeks pass, and Jack finally wakes up in a hospital bed, and he remembers. He remembers Bitty, and Samwell, and the Falconers, and the playoffs, and then there's vague, fuzzy memories of taking an illegal check, helmet flying, and being knocked down onto the ice.
