Pond Ice and the In Between
Title: Pond Ice and the In Between
Pairing: Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 48,271
Summary: “I thought your name was Zhenya,” Sid says, which-right, they didn’t talk about that, he just read it on the name tag and also probably butchered the pronunciation beyond repair. He thinks, maybe, that he should have only two states in life: on the ice, and in the office, and there should never exist any in between for him. He feels his face flush as he sort of tries to fix the situation, gesturing to his own chest, to where his nametag would be if he wore one, and says, “Your, uh. Your nametag yesterday said Zhenya? So I thought… I don’t know.”
Or: the coffee shop AU that is still somehow all about hockey.
Pairing: Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 48,271
Summary: “I thought your name was Zhenya,” Sid says, which-right, they didn’t talk about that, he just read it on the name tag and also probably butchered the pronunciation beyond repair. He thinks, maybe, that he should have only two states in life: on the ice, and in the office, and there should never exist any in between for him. He feels his face flush as he sort of tries to fix the situation, gesturing to his own chest, to where his nametag would be if he wore one, and says, “Your, uh. Your nametag yesterday said Zhenya? So I thought… I don’t know.”
Or: the coffee shop AU that is still somehow all about hockey.