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For the first time, Bitty looks at Jack with absolute determination. “I think we need to go.”
Jack quirks an eyebrow. Bitty exhales and continues, “I want to go to this stupid gala for a charity I don’t know, and I want to dance with my boyfriend, and I want the world to see us and understand that their stupid threats aren’t worth anything because we love each other too much for that, and I’m aware that’s over the top and political but I really won’t feel right unless I do something about them."
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everything he wants by gambitspryde (beaches_at_treasure_island)
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31 Aug 2025
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Bitty never thought he'd make it to the NHL - he had only been playing hockey for seven years, he was very publicly out as a gay man, and, honestly, he wasn't sure he had what it took to go pro. Fortunately, scouts didn't think about any of that. Offers roll in, each more tantalizing than the last, and Bitty decides to see if he really does have what it takes, and Jack supports him every step of the way.
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- Part 1 of NHL Player Eric "Bitty" Bittle
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Bitty wants to pull Jack in by the collar of his shirt and kiss him right here, right now. Instead, he says, “I don’t get it. Why I’m supposed to hate you, I mean.”
Jack shrugs. “Teams like having a common enemy. It bonds them, I think,” he says. And then, so quietly Bitty almost doesn’t hear it, “For what it’s worth, I’m not doing a very good job hating you either.”
Or: After the overdose, Jack traded in his hockey stick for a lacrosse stick. This proves to be very inconvenient for Bitty's budding crush on him.
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When Kent and Jack were racing toward the National Hockey SuperLeague, they made lies of the vampire-werewolf rivalry and crossed bonds with each other, sharing their emotions at will. But Jack’s fear of his wolf got the better of him, and Kent went to the draft alone in body and mind.
Years later, Kent starts receiving Jack's emotions again. Jack's happy at college, and Kent's glad to feel it. But when glimpses aren’t enough, he goes to visit, and finds a cheery blonde fae has Jack wrapped sinisterly around his finger. Though he knows he may lose Jack forever over it, Kent challenges Eric Bittle, binding them together until one stands victorious, with Jack the prize.
A vampire, a werewolf, and a fae walk into a lake house. There may be more than one bed, but there is also garlic, and iron, and fangs. And eventually, Kent starts to realize that he may be wrong about more than just Eric.
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The Falconers are a team of hockey players, and friends, but above all of idiots with too much imagination.
So yes, maybe they shouldn't assume things, BUT, to their defense, they knew that Jack had a girlfriend and that he stays really mysterious about her. Who can blame them to reach some sort of conclusions about this relationship?Series
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“You have to understand, Jack’s stuff, it’s so specific to his perspective,” Lardo says. “I like his photos because it’s like looking at the world through his eyes. So I guess you could say his world is…”
“Bitty,” Shitty exhales. “His world is Bitty.”
Or: 4 times Shitty was oblivious about Jack’s sexuality, +2 times he wasn’t.
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Across the Ice by gambitspryde (beaches_at_treasure_island)
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31 Aug 2025
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Bitty ends up going pro and playing for the Pens. Sidney Crosby looks like his boyfriend in certain angles. Bitty gets concussed on the ice and is sent back mentally to that night in freshman year, and accidently outs his and Jack's relationship to his captain. It turns out that everything will be okay.
inspired by Chapter 21 of NHL! Bitty AU by onawingandaswear
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- Part 3 of NHL Player Eric "Bitty" Bittle
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heart on your sleeve by neversleepingagain for luckie_dee
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24 Dec 2016
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Bitty had always wanted to get a soulmark, but never had the opportunity to while living in Georgia. Once at Samwell, he struggles to find the courage to take the leap and get the soulmark, but he's so glad when he does.
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C’est à ton tour de te laisser parler d’amour by sylviarachel
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29 Jul 2020
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Prompt: “Jack’s mini-me rookie”
Sure, Gabriel’s about to meet a two-time Stanley Cup winner who’s also the NHL’s very first out queer player, whose posters he had all over his bedroom walls as a teenager. And also his husband the best-selling cookbook author and YouTube celebrity, who was the first out queer captain of an NCAA men’s hockey team and led his team to a championship. But no need to be intimidated, right?
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"C’est à ton tour de te laisser parler d’amour" by sylviarachel
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It’s not the first time Bitty's seen Jack get recognized or even fawned over. It’s just hard to draw a line connecting the guy who’s begged for autographs with the boy who kissed him awake today and asked if they could have chicken tenders for dinner.
Or: 5 times Jack gets recognized for being a Zimmermann in Georgia, +1 time he’s recognized for being a Bittle.
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Dex sat up fully, crossing his feet at the ankles and giving him a wry look. “You wanna come pretend to be my boyfriend, Nurse?”
There were a lot of reasons Nursey was glad he wasn’t white. Subtle blushing ranked really high up there. “I, uh,” he started.
Dex shook his head at him. “It’s okay, I was kidding. I appreciate the suggestion but I know you weren’t offering—“
“I would,” Nursey heard himself saying. Which he’d always thought was a dumb literary convention, but here he was, words coming out of his mouth without his useless fucking brain’s influence at all. “If you actually want me to, I would.”
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- Part 3 of Best Laid Plans
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It’s almost funny. All he ever wanted was to play hockey, to play in the NHL, to win the Cup. This—Samwell, the team, the Haus—was supposed to be just a detour, but now it feels more like a destination he failed to realize he’s already reached.
(Or: Jack signs with the Falconers, graduates, and leaves. It's the hardest thing he's ever done. What comes after is even harder.)
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maybe i'm waking up - idrilka
what happens after Jack joins the Falcs, I care about/like the OCs in this one (Jack's 18-yo line-mate Cory, Ian Davis who gets drafted in the edge of burning out), fandom/social media
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In which Bitty is a country singer and Jack plays for the Falcs.
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send you back home with a light that's beaming by speedboat
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14 Jun 2025
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“Holy shit,” Kent whispers. He drops Jack’s face like he’s been burned.
“What?” Bittle asks. He moves closer to where Kent is motioning, reaches out to touch Jack’s forehead. Jack jerks away from his hand.
Jack’s right eyebrow is intact, missing that little scarred gap from he got from eating shit on the concrete on Rue St. Germaine.
That must have been 2009, Easter break of their draft year, because that was right about when Jack’s drinking slid from ‘concerning’ to ‘scary’ and he started doing things like taking a swing at Poulie’s older brother, slipping on ice, and busting his head open on the sidewalk.
“I think he’s—” Kent takes three wild steps backward. “I think he's eighteen.”
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the comment i left on this fic: "ahhh such a great fic!! i think this might be the most vivid a portrayal of jack at 18 that ive seen, perhaps all the more so for being in this future context, instead of through the eyes of teenage parse or through future jack's own narrative of his past self.
i really liked kent's emotional journey throughout this, it was understated but really well grounded. you can see that this kent has come a long ways from where he was as a teeanager, or even as he was in the comics, and he gets to realize that himself throughout. but you know, still messing up sometimes and growing.
sorry for bitty who definitely ended the fic less at peace than he was prior, but honestly... good on him for being angry and not letting jack off the hook entirely. I'd be curious to see what happens when they're back in Providence... maybe this is what they needed to finally have frank conversations about the hard stuff... or maybe it breaks the trust"
no need to add anything more to my bookmark, i said it all there
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Jack likes his spot in the cafe slash bakery. It's mostly hidden from everyone else, and lets him work on his thesis. Then one day, someone slides into the chair opposite him and things start to change.
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- Part 4 of Zimbits Meet-Cute Au's
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“If pucks could talk I bet they’d just be constantly screaming,” Kent muses through a mouthful of chips. “Like, shit, what a life, always getting banged around like that.”
Everyone laughs, but Jack shakes his head. “They love it,” he says quietly.
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“OK, but seriously,” Holster adds on, looking around at everyone's who's generally just gathered around the island. “can we talk about how fucking lucky Bitty's future husband is going to be?”
“Legit!” Lardo says, eyes wide while she nods in agreement. “Unlimited pies, authentic southern food-”
“Not to mention a hot as fuck husband,” Ransom says, making everyone laugh and agree. “Just look at him!”
This causes everyone to turn around, looking at Bitty. Jack's chest feels tight. Bitty could have a crush on anyone in the this room, and they're all seeing him look so beautiful. Anyone in this room could have a crush to match Bitty's.
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When Jack is woken up by a phone from Bitty in the middle of the night, he knows there's only one reason why his boyfriend would be calling him from the Arrivals terminal at Logan. Once he's picked Bitty up, he's tasked with the hardest task in the world, trying to get him to tell him exactly what prompted his hasty exit from Georgia.
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- Part 3 of Prompts, Please! 2025
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i can't hide from you like i hide from myself by andtimestoodstill
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15 Oct 2023
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Baltimore was particularly troubling, though. What was there to do in Baltimore? Surely there weren’t the kind of tech companies Dex had been hoping to work for there. Derek had done a lot of research on the city when he was applying to Johns Hopkins—
Derek’s blood turned to ice in his veins, and he sat on his bed, frozen for a few moments. Sparing a quick glance at Dex, who was still fully immersed in his coding, Derek minimized his thesis.
On his desktop there were four folders, one for each of the MFA programs he applied to. In each one he stored copies of his applications, writing samples, and recommendation letters. The folders were sorted in alphabetical order. Brown. Columbia. Emerson. Johns Hopkins.
Providence. New York. Boston. Baltimore.
(In which Dex has only applied to jobs in cities that Nursey has applied to grad schools in. They are Not Together)
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- Part 1 of true blue
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Under normal circumstances, Eric would be thrilled that Ransom and Holster managed to find him a cute English rugby player as his Screw date.
But the circumstances he happens to be in involve, among other things, spending the evening watching Jack having fun with his scantily-clad date, so he's a little distracted. Especially by the fact that he's distracting Jack a little, too.
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- Part 1 of Canon-divergent Year 2