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Works which have used it as a tag:

• What Leaves Was Never Meant to Stay by Turn_the_friggin_frogs_gay

  Fandoms: Men's Hockey RPF  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M, Multi
  • Work in Progress

  25 Aug 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Leon Draisaitl/Matthew Tkachuk
  • Brady Tkachuk & Matthew Tkachuk
  • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
  • Quinn Hughes & Matthew Tkachuk
  • Connor McDavid & Matthew Tkachuk
  • Leon Draisaitl & Connor McDavid
  • Leon Draisaitl & Matthew Tkachuk
  • Leon Draisaitl
  • Matthew Tkachuk
  • Brady Tkachuk
  • Quinn Hughes
  • Connor McDavid
  • Background & Cameo Characters
  • Whumptober 2024
  • Organized Crime
  • Spies & Secret Agents
  • Sort Of
  • Kidnapping
  • Panic Attacks
  • a very minor one that is not explained in detail
  • Implied Violence
  • Wrongful Imprisonment
  • that is not mentioned again after the third chapter
  • Theft
  • Pain
  • Implied Human Experimentation
  • Exhaustion
  • Sleep Deprivation
  • Implied Cannibalism
  • (no cannibalism actually happens i promise)
  • Minor Character Death
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • (matthew is like barely coherent for a lot of this)
  • Enemies to Allies To Lovers
  • Fainting
  • Car Accidents
  • i think thats it? if you read this and think i missed smth pls let me know!
  • no beta we die like the leafs every time they make it to the playoffs |:

  Summary

  His father had always told him that, one day, his pride would be his downfall. He just hadn’t expected that day to come so soon.

  —

  nhl mafia au + my first attempt at whumptober (2024)

  Series

  • Part 1 of bean's whumptober attempts

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  6,975

  Chapters:

  4/14

  Comments:

  7

  Kudos:

  39

  Bookmarks:

  3

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