For fic purposes, I've pretty much decided to ignore the lockout, and pretend that it's not happening. I mean, it's already AU in that Jess is a girl, right? Right.
And I was going through one of the Canes-related flickrs with photos from last week and I had to pause. Because STAALS + JSKins being ridic.
LOLLL, it makes me want all the fic in the world where Jeff is just this ridiculous puppy, flailing all over the place and falling over his over-sized paws as he tries (and mostly succeeds) to keep up with the bigger dogs.
RIGHT? Like, I know that they all make the some ridiculous faces that get captured in photos but it seems like that is the NORM for Eric, rather than the occasional weird shot.
b/c sometimes I can't help myselfasimplechordSeptember 21 2012, 22:31:46 UTC
Eric really wants to take Jess somewhere nice for her birthday, but it falls on a travel day during playoffs, and the trip between Raleigh and Montreal isn't as bad as the flights to either LA or Vancouver will be, but still. She's pretty adamant: they are not interrupting any kind of karma they have by him shaving his playoff scruff or disturbing the team routine when they've gotten this far. It can wait. Plus, it's only dinner.
But it's Jess's 22nd birthday, and they've been together long enough that Eric feels like it's a big deal - they were still in the tentative phase of dating on her 21st, so they did a team thing, and Eric didn't make a big deal about it. And maybe it's too soon for him to be giving her jewelry, but at least it's not the ring he thought about when Marc chirped him about being the last bachelor Staal in the NHL.
Re: b/c sometimes I can't help myselfasimplechordSeptember 22 2012, 01:10:29 UTC
It's not a break in routine that they stay at Jess's condo the night before - it's closer to the RZ and to the airport, and they sort of alternate between their places. (They've had the argument about whether she should move into Eric's house; it came right before the 'discussion' about whether to tell management they were together. It ended with Jess hanging up on Eric and Eric coming to Toronto from Thunder Bay to hash it out, and hurt feelings aside, he sees her point: she deals with enough PR and chirping on the ice, and a public announcement about them would only make it worse, in addition to drawing scrutiny to how he treated her vs the rest of the team
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Re: b/c sometimes I can't help myselfasimplechordSeptember 22 2012, 01:50:16 UTC
The team knows, but it's not something the other players talk about, or that Jess and Eric ever addressed directly. Jess and Eric had a long, serious discussion after their first couple of dates about keeping team business separate from personal business, and Jess enlisted Cam in her efforts to make sure that Eric didn't censor himself when it came to giving her hell about hockey-related issues. (She knows she needs it, okay? Jess's temper-related issues aside, Eric's got the better part of a decade of experience on her, and she needs to know that he'll give her an honest assessment of her performance, no matter what.) They do stuff with Cam & Cody, and Jordy & Heath, and Faulk and his GF, but nothing that's earned them any notice. Hockey players just aren't a big enough deal in Raleigh to worry about paparazzi. (Yet
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Re: b/c sometimes I can't help myselfasimplechordSeptember 22 2012, 16:20:37 UTC
It turns out to be a good thing that Jess planned to meet PK & Carey for breakfast on their day off between games three and four - there's no point in traveling back to Raleigh between games - because the game that night gets chippy. Armstrong's been pushing at Cam, and Prusty and Boychuk have been going back and forth all night, so all it takes is one scrum in the crease and gloves drop
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Re: b/c sometimes I can't help myselfasimplechordSeptember 22 2012, 20:10:12 UTC
Faulk pokes at Eric. A lot. But Eric just grins this stupid, giddy grin because JESS IS WEARING HIS NECKLACE. SHE HASN'T TAKEN IT OFF SINCE HE PUT IT ON.
The Canes practice ends just as the Habs are getting onto the ice, and Eric hangs back so he can talk to Erik Cole. He's surprised to feel a stick slap his ass, but then Carey skates by with a quiet, "It suits her. Good job."
Erik looks at him inquiringly, but Eric just shakes his head and asks after Erik's wife and kids.
PK bumps Eric as he leaves the ice, and tells him, "Don't make me have to give the 'don't hurt her speech', Staal."
Which is pretty unfair, Eric thinks, since he's pretty sure that his heart is the one that'll get broken in a bust-up between them.
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And I was going through one of the Canes-related flickrs with photos from last week and I had to pause. Because STAALS + JSKins being ridic.
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also OMG ERIC WHAT IS YOUR FACE
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RIGHT? Like, I know that they all make the some ridiculous faces that get captured in photos but it seems like that is the NORM for Eric, rather than the occasional weird shot.
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But it's Jess's 22nd birthday, and they've been together long enough that Eric feels like it's a big deal - they were still in the tentative phase of dating on her 21st, so they did a team thing, and Eric didn't make a big deal about it. And maybe it's too soon for him to be giving her jewelry, but at least it's not the ring he thought about when Marc chirped him about being the last bachelor Staal in the NHL.
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Does anyone notice it at the skate? Does the team know about them??
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lolol carey
do they chirp eric about it later?? does faulk???
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The Canes practice ends just as the Habs are getting onto the ice, and Eric hangs back so he can talk to Erik Cole. He's surprised to feel a stick slap his ass, but then Carey skates by with a quiet, "It suits her. Good job."
Erik looks at him inquiringly, but Eric just shakes his head and asks after Erik's wife and kids.
PK bumps Eric as he leaves the ice, and tells him, "Don't make me have to give the 'don't hurt her speech', Staal."
Which is pretty unfair, Eric thinks, since he's pretty sure that his heart is the one that'll get broken in a bust-up between them.
(Wow, Jess and Eric REALLY need to talk more.)
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what next?????
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