Eric R. Bittle, First Openly Gay NHL Player

itsybittle:

des-zimbits:

Headcanon I’m working on now: Bitty is team captain in his senior year. He has nebulous “omg what to do when I graduate???” thoughts but his plans are mainly “move in with Jack in Rhode Island, get a job”

Then scouts for NHL feeder teams start showing up to his games.  And practices.  And taking him out for coffee.  And asking him who his agent is. Because let’s get real, someone who can start playing a sport and end up at NCAA championship level five years later? Is a pretty special athlete.

When he gets the offers Bitty is originally like, but I don’t WANT to play pro hockey! I wanna be with my boyfriend!  

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The greatest part of this would be when Bitty and Jack have games against each other, because their competitiveness would get ranked up to a million, since the loser will basically get chirped non stop by friends, teammates, family and of course each other.

And maybe Jack and Bitty start making small harmless bets. It starts with winner picks what we eat for dinner and what we watch afterwards, but then they move to stuff like if Jack wins Bitty can’t use twitter for the whole weekend, or Jack will have to appear on his next vlog post etc.

(And of course there’s the private fun stuff they also bet on but will never tell anybody about winkwink)

So it’s always small silly stuff, but they take it super seriously. And then they start using the games to settle arguments like this:

“Y’all, we need to win. You don’t understand, we have to. If we don’t Jack is taking us to the most boring vacation in history. He wants to go to
Gettysburg,

Pennsylvania

to watch a reenactment of the battle and of the
Gettysburg

Address and if I have to go, you will see a grown man cry of boredom. I want to go to the beach. I deserve to go to the beach.”

“We agreed the winner will get to set the thermostat. Bitty always puts it too high and it’s annoying.”

“If we win Jack will finally admit he has been pronouncing
pecan

wrong! No you don’t understand, this is important, we have been arguing about this for years.”

“Bitty will stop breaking diet and I’m afraid if we don’t win this, his nutritionist will kill him.” (They don’t win this, because there is 0 chance you will get Bitty’s team to give up all the baked goods they have been getting since he joined the team.)

Also, it is absolutely impossible to get interviews afterwards with either of them, because turns out playing against each other is like the weirdest most intense form of foreplay ever.

Like they can’t see each other very often during game season, so by the end of their games they honestly couldn’t care less about anything other than making it to each others apartments, so they skedaddle

with 0 shame and sometimes just go straight to the car and shower at home.

George: Jack, you have interviews…

Jack: (speed walking away) No.

George: Jack!

Jack: (pretends not to hear her) Goodbye.

And well, George figures there’s some battles you can’t win and at least she’ll get an apology pie for this.

Jack lives alone, but Bitty has roommates. However they know better than to show their faces after a game, like we are talking complete pie ban for the whole team for a month here.

Also, if you think Jack Zimmermann is scary on the ice, you have never seen his face when you interrupt marathon sex after weeks of not seeing his boyfriend.