#kentbittyjack

[keentpeerson]

@ all’a y’all who use a threesome with kent parson as your ‘jack and bitty get together’ plot device and then leave kenny p out in las vegas alone:

square up bitch i’m comin’ for you

[keentpeerson]

it goes like this: a kentbittyjack future not-fic

it goes like this: 

kent comes out first, entirely by accident. he’s been seeing someone, a guy he met at the library of all places, when his laptop was broken and he wanted to figure out what kind of dog he could get while living in his apartment. the guy, ryan, is tall and cute and most importantly, doesn’t know or care enough about hockey to be impressed with kent. kent and ryan are being that obnoxious same-side-of-the-booth couple at a diner in san diego–which, by the way, doesn’t even have a hockey team–when they’re photographed and the pictures end up on hockey gossip sites before getting picked up by the big gossip sites. no one really cares about hockey but the first out player in a national league? that’s a big deal. 

it goes like this: 

ryan breaks up with kent on a rainy tuesday. well, it’s raining in new york when kent gets the text. it’s probably sunny in las vegas. kent blinks at his phone for what feels like thirty seconds but is probably closer to five minutes before it pings with another message. it’s from his sister, asking why she had to find out about the break up from tmz, especially in such a gross way. kent clicks the link and it’s. well. ryan sure didn’t pull any punches. all of kent’s worst habits are now on the tmz archive. 

it goes like this: 

jack zimmermann, hockey prodigy, falconers captain, and all around good guy, is the second out player in the nhl. kent gets a single text before the story breaks, from an unfamiliar number: i couldn’t have done this without you. i’m sorry. there’s a press conference and there’s jack’s small blond boyfriend standing off to the side, only sometimes visible on camera. kent gets another text, from another unfamiliar number after jack’s stilted but sweet speech is over: it’d mean a lot to him (and me) if you came for dinner. when kent looks up the address, it’s only about a twelve minute subway ride from his apartment.

it goes like this:

having two boyfriends is both harder and easier than having one.

like this:

bitty also gets drafted right after samwell, to the aces’ feeder team, the reno spades. bitty likes reno because it’s hot like georgia but not nearly as humid. jack hates the entire state of nevada and has tried to get both of his boyfriends traded to new england teams multiple times.

it’s this:

when jack buys a house in providence, he doesn’t tell either of them. he feels a little guilty but it also like it’s a too big too soon gesture. it’s a house like. a forever home. bitty doesn’t tell jack that he’s been in talks with the falconers management for four weeks. kent knows because he’s been going through the same talks. kent’s contract with the aces is up in two years, bitty’s with the spades in one. they both know that nevada isn’t for them. 

and it’s this:

when kent comes home after grocery shopping, bitty’s in the shower and jack is stretched out on the floor by the coffee table, kit purring away on his chest. there’s real housewives playing in the background and kent can faintly hear kesha from the bathroom. the sun is shining. 

[keentpeerson]

Check please AU where bitty and kent's roles are swapped. bitty is in the nhl and his best friend/love of his life shut him out after his OD and is at samwell falling over some douchebag.

!!!!!!!!!

i think this could work in like, maybe one or two really specific ways because what makes bitty so so good for jack is that one of bitty’s essential character traits is caretaker. like he takes care of everyone around him, if occasionally not himself. bitty is incredibly selfless, unfailingly polite, and infinitely kind

… which could really irritate someone who’s just had an emotional breakdown …

so yeah if bitty and jack were Kids In Love and Hockey together and dating in secret, and the timeline goes the way it does with jack overdosing and bitty going first in the draft. i can 100% see how bitty’s Southern Hospitality could be really grating? and if bitty’s far away in las vegas or whatever, living it up, playing hockey, doing everything jack had ever wanted to do, i can 100000% see how jack ‘i am bad at feelings and generally most things that aren’t hockey’ zimmermann would get bitter and resentful towards bitty.

kent, on the other hand… kent’s a dick. he wears that asshole persona like a protective casing. a queer kid from new york state? maybe he grew up in a not-so-liberal neighborhood and he had to become a scrappy, sarcastic douchebag because he’s small and blonde and he likes boys and cats and figure skating (we’re really going for switching almost everything i guess???) like. of course he’s a jerk. of course he doesn’t let himself get impressed with jack ‘eyes too blue butt too big’ zimmermann. of course he keeps jack on his toes, never lets jack get away with anything, which is super refreshing to jack i BET. but also? kent gets it? just like. understands jack in a fundamental way and no one ever really did that before?

so of course they hit it off and get closer every day and fall in love, of course they do.

((and when bitty comes to visit for the epikegster, kent also falls in love with bitty a little? bitty is so small and cute and fucking deadly, like kent absolutely understands why jack liked this guy. and maybe after the party, which ends a lil differently mostly because bitty is fundamentally incapable of hurting anyone on purpose, especially jack, who he never reallly got over (because how does one get over jack zimmmermann? how?), there’s a Talk. maybe after the talk, they start a group chat. and then jack goes to providence and kent is in college and bitty’s in vegas and the nights are long and everyone’s schedule is fucked up but when jack says ‘goodnight i love you’ they know he’s talking to them both (and not just because he put it in the group chat, which is called '💖🏒⛸🏒💖’), and maybe one day bitty’s having a shit day and the only person he wants to call is kent. maybe one day when he aces are playing the falconers in rhode island and kent took a few days off from school, maybe then they end up falling asleep in the truly ridiculously large bed in bitty’s hotel room. maybe the first time bitty says 'i love you’ out loud in seven years is to a pair of wide grey eyes and the first time he hears it back, there’s two pairs of hands on him and two warm bodies against his.))