The Schooners win game seven and dethrone the defending champion Falconers to claim Seattle’s first national title.
Eric was definitely not expecting Jack to propose immediately after losing.
(A rework of the ‘Game 7 PVD vs SEA’ prompt that totally retcons some NHL!Bitty stuff, so timeline-wise: the Falconers took the cup Eric’s second year with the Schooners. The Schooners win the following season.)
Game Seven. Third period. Eric’s running on adrenaline, blue Gatorade, and rage.
Jack and the rest of the Falconers first line are racing to catch up, but Eric is ‘criminally fast’ (thank you ESPN for the lovely descriptor), and it’s almost too easy to whip the puck to Carter and wait for the siren.
Snowy can’t stop it. The Schooners will win in regulation.
For a brief, terrifying moment, Eric sees Morin’s breakaway as the death knell of his relationship. He has flashes of Freshman year and he thinks ‘Jack is going to hate me’.
OKAY SO OBSERVATIONS AS I OBSESSIVELY LISTEN TO HALO
1. The song just started in the first panel
2. From “didn’t even make a sound” to the chorus is a LONG TIME. 25 whole seconds. I think Jack stood there, heart sinking into the floor, frozen, he’s too late, he missed him– until Bitty said “lord”
3. And bitty almost definitely said “lord” at the beginning of the chorus, because he came in with the 2nd line in the last panel
honestly I am still not over the fact that Jack 110% zimmerman vaulted over a snowbank to ask bitty out for coffee and bitty still didn’t have a clue Jack liked him????
to be fair jack didn’t have a clue that he liked bitty either
okay so i know most fics are written from the perspective of “bitty has huge, he-thinks-is-unrequited crush on jack” because that’s what we saw in canon but personally??? i LIVE for ones with jack having a huge crush on bitty first!!! just!!! this poor goober of a boy completely head over heels for this ray of sunshine that showed up suddenly and not knowing at all how to deal with it!!! awkwardly trying to compliment him but not knowing how!!! “your hair is very…yellow, bittle.” yes it is jack but he doesn’t know that’s your favorite color!!! please save this awkward, hopelessly-in-love doof from himself
honestly i am not entirely convinced this is not actually how it happened, especially given that bitty says “chirping and flirting are variants on the same idea.” on twitter and then he proceeds? to document? all of the chirping? jack throws at him? like, bitty… buddy… c’mon… open your eyes….
like. jack “i’m going make it so we can get into the same seminar and also i’m going to carefully plan everything so you have to help me on the big project because of course it involves baking and you’re a baker” zimmermann is 100% head over heels for bitty before bitty has his “never fall for a straight boy” moment in the kitchen during the previously mentioned big baking project, and i will stand by this for as long as i live
there’s a very obvious difference in bitty’s height in these two panels and i need to know more about zimbits hugging like
does bitty jump at jack? does jack just catch him like the 110% he is? or does jack lean down and pick itty bitty up off the ground? look at bitty’s little socked foot in the corner he kicks his legs back and if that isn’t the cutest darn thing
there are so many ways this hug can play out and i need answers
I wish I knew how to draw so I could animate my answer but my hc is that Bitty jumps into Jack’s arms and Jack grabs him around the waist and leans back so Bitty is further into the air, which causes Bitty to lift his legs thus the reason why his foot is in the panel
where is my very soft time traveling fic featuring zimbits where they meet their grown-up selves with 2.5 kids via stanley cup magic just so I can read a scene like this:
Shitty (coming downstairs to kitchen for breakfast): oh hey Bob. I didn’t know you were visiting us. Nice flow, when’d you get it? Who’s the cute blonde dad behind you? Also why are there children in the haus– Older Jack (juggling his toddler, who is playing with his hair): …I’m Jack. Shitty: haha okay–(focuses on Jack’s face, spits out coffee)–holy–
who is going to write this so i can read another scene with Older Bitty meeting Younger Jack and telling his husband, “Oh, honey, look at you! Jack, sweetheart, you’re practically a baby! Can you believe I fell in love with this face 15 years ago? Gosh, it’s been so long.” and Younger Jack is just like….oh God Dad Bitty is hot what do i do while Older Jack kind of narrows his eyes at his younger self in a way that’s obviously saying ‘dont even think about touching my husband’ but then he’s like wait, Younger Jack is still technically himself so now he’s just confused
That’s the most dangerous part of having a warm, smol, enabling boyfriend in the offseason: Jack will sleep until noon if he gets half a chance.
#oh man goood point#what if#from a combination of fourth year uni and netflix binges#most of the time when he did 4am checking practices with bitty#he hadn’t slept yet#like he just finished a chapter in his thesis#or a documentary#and he’s like whoops#there’s the sun#well#might as well do something#before my 8am class#so he goes and bugs bitty (@chocolatechipcookiesplease) you are correct
just moving along like everyone else 