Rec: Assorted Check Please! Recs
if we bite (the pain is sweet) (57162 words) by shellybelle
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter, Adam "Holster" Birkholtz/Justin "Ransom" Oluransi
Characters: William "Dex" Poindexter, Derek "Nursey" Nurse, Adam "Holster" Birkholtz, Justin "Ransom" Oluransi, Chris "Chowder" Chow, Larissa "Lardo" Duan, Eric "Bitty" Bittle
Additional Tags: Casual Sex, Friends to Lovers, Porn with Feelings, Under-negotiated Kink, in the form of college boys with no clue what they're doing, but everyone gets their shit together eventually, Derek "Nursey" Nurse is Unchill, William "Dex" Poindexter has a thing about control, kink compatibility is a great thing once you figure it out
Summary:
After two and a half semesters at Samwell, Dex has gotten used to people handling their stress in weird ways. Bitty bakes up a storm, Lardo is constantly covered in what Dex really, really hopes is paint, Ransom turns into a curled-up ball of anxiety on the nearest flat surface. He gets it: people are just weird here.
That doesn’t mean he doesn’t choke on his Red Bull when Nursey sighs, “God, I’m so tense right now. I just really need to suck a dick, y’know?”
(Or: five times Dex and Nursey really don’t quite know what they’re doing, and one time they’ve really, really figured it out.)
our permanent address (4593 words) by shellybelle
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter
Characters: Derek "Nursey" Nurse, William "Dex" Poindexter
Additional Tags: Friends With Benefits, Unrequited Love, (perceived), Unresolved Emotional Tension, Derek Nurse's Emo Poetic Soul, Emotionally Stupid College Boys, Ambiguous/Open Ending
Series: Part 1 of you asked me to be an open book
Summary:
He’s not usually a procrastinator, is the thing. He’s not sure what makes this different, why he doesn’t just tell Dex the truth and get it over with.
After all, he thinks that he’d want to know if his friend-with-benefits, sometimes-hatesex fuckbuddy had fallen stupid in love with him.
i wanna go (where the lights burn low) (7737 words) by ofhobbitsandwomen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter
Characters: Derek "Nursey" Nurse, William "Dex" Poindexter
Additional Tags: Pining, Canon Universe, Roommates, nursey as mercutio is my kink and if i have to deliver the goods so be it, dex pov
Summary:
“Benvolio!” Nursey shouted. “Now art thou sociable!”
“Christ,” Dex mumbled. He pushed himself off the wall and made his way toward Nursey whose hands were still extended out, dramatically toward him.
“Think you’ve probably had enough there, Nurse,” he said, plucking the mostly empty cup of tub juice from Derek’s hand.
Nursey just ruffled his hair.
or: the one where Nursey is Mercutio and needs a Benvolio to run lines with. Reality gets a little blurry for Dex.
chiaroscuro (6542 words) by shellybelle
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter, Derek "Nursey" Nurse & William "Dex" Poindexter, Chris "Chowder" Chow & Derek "Nursey" Nurse & William "Dex" Poindexter, Derek "Nursey" Nurse & Chris "Chowder" Chow
Characters: Derek "Nursey" Nurse, Chris "Chowder" Chow, William "Dex" Poindexter
Additional Tags: Depression, Hurt/Comfort, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Suicidal Thoughts, discussion of suicide, insecurity for days, Derek "Nursey" Nurse is Unchill, everyone is sad but there are cuddles
Series: Part 1 of catch me, i'm falling
Summary:
“Nu, habibi,” Derek’s mother says to him gently, as they leave the registration table. “Are you sure about this? Hockey is a rough sport. It’s going to hurt, sometimes.”
Derek, all of eight years old, squares his shoulders. “That’s okay, Ammi,” he says. “I’m not scared.”
(They warn him that hockey hurts. They don’t warn him that depression hurts worse.)
Leave Out All the Rest (34074 words) by 2012bookworm
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter
Characters: William "Dex" Poindexter, Derek "Nursey" Nurse, Chris "Chowder" Chow, Eric "Bitty" Bittle, Samwell Men's Hockey Team, OC's, Whiskey (Check Please!), Ford (Check Please!), Adam "Holster" Birkholtz, Justin "Ransom" Oluransi
Summary:
Will’s stumbling tired, but he manages to dredge up a mostly sincere smile when Kit comes barreling towards him as soon as he opens the front door.
bless this mess and call it a home (27463 words) by pepperfield
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter
Characters: William "Dex" Poindexter, Derek "Nursey" Nurse, Chris "Chowder" Chow, Eric Bittle, Samwell Men's Hockey Team
Additional Tags: The Haus, Fluff, Mutual Pining, Magical Realism, Home Improvement, Background Relationships, Friendship, Meddling, Getting Together, dex can talk to buildings, haus just wants all of its hockey children to find love, Falling In Love, Sharing a Bed
Summary:
The thing is, being able to talk to houses doesn't actually preclude them from conspiring to ruin your life. Dex finds this out a little too late. First comes the Dib Flip, then Nursey's bed, and the water heater...the Haus definitely has it in for him.
In which Dex has house magic, Haus has Haus magic, and at least one of them is in love with Nursey.
Driver's Ed (969 words) by omgericzimmermann
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter
Characters: Derek "Nursey" Nurse, William "Dex" Poindexter
Additional Tags: maine roadtrips are bad for Nursey's mental health, there is bickering about music, nursey's got a secret, unrepentant stupid fluff
Series: Part 1 of Mechanics of Poetry
Summary:
Dex and Nursey drive to Maine for the summer.
All Hail the Underdogs (74620 words) by xiaq
Chapters: 29/29
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter
Characters: Derek "Nursey" Nurse, William "Dex" Poindexter, Larissa "Lardo" Duan, Eric "Bitty" Bittle, Jack Zimmermann, Justin "Ransom" Oluransi, Adam "Holster" Birkholtz, Shitty Knight, Chris "Chowder" Chow
Additional Tags: Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Friends to Lovers, Alternate Universe - High School, Implied/Referenced Domestic Violence, Dex's childhood was not the best, Sharing a Bed, Dorms, Slow Burn, ish, how much can these losers platonically touch each other before realizing it's not platonic, THE ANSWER MAY SHOCK YOU, Happy Ending, NHL Draft, Alternate Universe - Boarding School, Dex is an angst prince and Nursey just wants him to wear some goddamn sunscreen, I had to mess with their ages a little for the plot to work, just go with it, discussions of race and privilege, Dex is a problematic asshole for the first few chapters, Nursey is a little oblivious, But they figure things out, also, There is a baby
Summary:
Lucifer was an angel once.
That’s what Nursey thinks, the first time he sees William Poindexter.
Because the boy is beautiful even though he shouldn’t be. Even though he’s doubtless the kind of person who would punch you in the face if you said the words “you” and “beautiful” to him in the same sentence.
His skin is choked with freckles. It’s potentially more freckle than skin. Not just his face, where his nose and cheekbones are so hyper-pigmented they look tanned, but his collarbones and forearms and knuckles. The close-shaved dark ginger stubble of his hair should make his ears look too big or his mouth too wide but instead it accentuates the long curve of his throat, the cup of velvet skin between the tendons in the back of his neck.
“You’re the new defenseman?” Nursey asks. “William Poindexter?”
And the boy turns around and considers him with what might be contempt but what might just be the way his face looks and says, “Yeah?” like its a challenge.
And Nursey thinks:
Oh no.
the name game (3426 words) by sapphee
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Chris "Chowder" Chow, (and his family)
Additional Tags: Family, Chinese American, Diaspora Feels, cantonese, Racism, Microaggressions, Identity, Asian American Characters
Summary:
Names are weird. Or: What's in a name?
(for day 3 of Chowder Week 2017. prompt: future)
your life as a transient variable (3263 words) by pepperfield
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Chris "Chowder" Chow, Derek "Nursey" Nurse, William "Dex" Poindexter, Caitlin Farmer
Additional Tags: Family, Diaspora, Chinese New Year, Ching Ming Festival, Minor Chris "Chowder" Chow/Caitlin Farmer, Cantonese Language, questionable use of a tree metaphor
Summary:
Chris gets older, but he never quite manages to feel less adrift.
Expectations (2990 words) by jedusaur
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Derek "Nursey" Nurse, William "Dex" Poindexter
Summary:
Derek is great at adapting to other people's styles. That's what makes him a good D-man. You watch what's in front of you and you stay with it. You pay attention to what other people are doing and you fit yourself in. You take on the high-pressure situations and you keep your cool and most of the time nobody notices you doing it.
in your head, your heart, your bed (21325 words) by nightswatch
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Kent "Parse" Parson/Jeff "Swoops" Troy
Characters: Kent "Parse" Parson, Jeff "Swoops" Troy, Las Vegas Aces (Ensemble)
Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Getting Together, Sharing a Bed, Fluff and Angst
Summary:
The story of how Kent Parson and Jeff Troy ended up in each other's beds. Repeatedly.
don't come for me today (8524 words) by achilleees
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kent "Parse" Parson/Jack Zimmermann
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Supernatural Elements, Chess with Death, Soul Selling, Canon Compliant, KonMari | Marie Kondo's Tidying Method, Gallows Humor
Series: Part 15 of jack/parse tumblr prompts
Summary:
“I sold my soul to the reaper and now it’s time to collect,” Kent blurts out. It comes out easier than he thought it would. “Tonight.”
There’s a pregnant silence on Jack’s end of the phone.
(hold on) when you get love (21779 words) by AugustaByron
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Larissa "Lardo" Duan/Shitty Knight/Kent Parson, Larissa "Lardo" Duan/Shitty Knight, Larissa "Lardo" Duan/Kent Parson, Kent Parson/Jack Zimmermann (past), Shitty Knight/Kent Parson
Characters: Larissa "Lardo" Duan, Shitty Knight, Kent "Parse" Parson, Jack Zimmermann, Las Vegas Aces - Character
Additional Tags: Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Friends to Lovers, Polyamory
Series: Part 1 of soulmates 'verse
Summary:
In which a simple (although epic) defeat at flip cup turns into a soul bond, turns into friendship, maybe turns into something else. Whatever, Lardo can roll with it.
What I Wanted Was To Fall Asleep (5467 words) by halfabreath
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adam "Holster" Birkholtz/Justin "Ransom" Oluransi
Characters: Adam "Holster" Birkholtz, Justin "Ransom" Oluransi
Additional Tags: taking shitty check please aus way too literally, Greek Mythology - Freeform, tree!holster
Summary:
The gods are real, which everyone knows, but when they’re not fighting among themselves they’re usually partying and humans have generally learned to accept their meddling without too much complaining. Ransom just never thought he’d actually know someone who’d been godtouched and he never, ever expected that it would be Holster.
Alternatively: Holster becomes a tree.
this dream isn't feeling sweet (11855 words) by Idday
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eric Bittle/Jack Zimmermann, Alexei Mashkov/Kent Parson
Characters: Jack Zimmermann, Kent "Parse" Parson, Alexei "Tater" Mashkov, Eric Bittle
Additional Tags: Post-Trade, Angst with a Happy Ending, Breaking Up & Making Up, Past Kent Parson/Jack Zimmermann, Kent Parson & Jack Zimmermann Friendship
Summary:
“I’m sorry,” Georgia says, her voice soft. “We would like to thank you for all your contributions to the Falconers. You will be missed in Providence. We wish you all the best with the Houston Aeros, and know that you will have a great career there. They’ll need you in Houston for tomorrow night’s game.”
(It's just hockey. Nothing personal.)
if you're going through hell (keep going) (11875 words) by onawingandaswear
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Jack Zimmermann, References to Jack/OFC
Characters: Jack Zimmermann, Bob Zimmermann, Eric "Bitty" Bittle, Shitty Knight, Providence Falconers (Ensemble), Samwell Men's Hockey Team
Additional Tags: terminal illness, Ghosts, Angst with a Happy Ending, Kinda, Major character death - Freeform, Jack finds out he has a terminal illness and rediscovers a lot about himself, Hallucinations, Bitty might be a ghost, Jack is trying to figure that one out, frank discussions of mortality, end of life planning, I don't think this is as bad as it sounds, I really enjoyed writing it, Jack moved on but not really, Bitty really didn't move on, but he's doing alright, Supernatural Elements
Summary:
Eighteen years ago, Samwell suffered the tragic loss of one of its most promising young athletes. Ever since, rumors have circulated that the school is haunted by the ghost of Eric Bittle. At least, that’s the only way anyone can seem to explain why the locker rooms smell like freshly baked apple pie on game days instead of the usual, omnipresent hockey funk.
Now, in the twilight of his career, Jack Zimmermann is facing his own mortality and the last item on his bucket list: return to Samwell and disprove the rumor that his long-dead boyfriend is haunting Faber Memorial Rink.
Mama Bittle's Rule Number One (2634 words) by Jenrose
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eric Bittle/Jack Zimmermann, Eric Bittle & Suzanne Bittle
Characters: Suzanne Bittle, Eric Bittle, Jack Zimmermann
Additional Tags: Coming Out, Mama Bittle knows best, Rule Number One, Rule #1, tw: mention of homophobia and transphobia, tw: mention of sexual assault, Supportive Coach
Series: Part 1 of Actually, I Do Make the Rules
Summary:
Rule number one is that Mama Loves You. Maybe Dicky has forgotten that? Suzanne Bittle decides it's time to remind him. Of that, and that nothing on the internet is ever private.
maybe i'm waking up (157904 words) by idrilka
Chapters: 20/20
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eric Bittle/Jack Zimmermann, Past Kent Parson/Jack Zimmermann - Relationship
Characters: Eric Bittle, Jack Zimmermann, Bob Zimmermann, Alicia Zimmermann, Kent "Parse" Parson, Larissa "Lardo" Duan, Shitty Knight, Adam "Holster" Birkholtz, Justin "Ransom" Oluransi, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Mixed Media, Social Media, Coming Out, Closeted Character, Homophobia, Mental Health Issues, Fandom Politics, POV Outsider, Angst, Mutual Pining
Series: Part 1 of for all of the perfect things that i doubt
Summary:
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.)
touchy subject (49578 words) by applecrumbledore
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eric Bittle/Kent Parson, Eric Bittle/Kent Parson/Jack Zimmermann, Eric Bittle/Jack Zimmermann, Kent Parson/Jack Zimmermann
Characters: Kent "Parse" Parson, Eric Bittle, Jack Zimmermann
Additional Tags: Alcohol, Threesome, Sexting
Summary:
Bitty finds a photo booth strip and almost doesn't recognize Jack because he's not sure he's ever seen him grin off-ice before, and his hair is so long it curls around his ears, and he's so, so young. It takes Bitty a few long seconds to realize the boy he's kissing is Kent Parson, with the same backwards cap and everything.
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Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter, Adam "Holster" Birkholtz/Justin "Ransom" Oluransi
Characters: William "Dex" Poindexter, Derek "Nursey" Nurse, Adam "Holster" Birkholtz, Justin "Ransom" Oluransi, Chris "Chowder" Chow, Larissa "Lardo" Duan, Eric "Bitty" Bittle
Additional Tags: Casual Sex, Friends to Lovers, Porn with Feelings, Under-negotiated Kink, in the form of college boys with no clue what they're doing, but everyone gets their shit together eventually, Derek "Nursey" Nurse is Unchill, William "Dex" Poindexter has a thing about control, kink compatibility is a great thing once you figure it out
Summary:
After two and a half semesters at Samwell, Dex has gotten used to people handling their stress in weird ways. Bitty bakes up a storm, Lardo is constantly covered in what Dex really, really hopes is paint, Ransom turns into a curled-up ball of anxiety on the nearest flat surface. He gets it: people are just weird here.
That doesn’t mean he doesn’t choke on his Red Bull when Nursey sighs, “God, I’m so tense right now. I just really need to suck a dick, y’know?”
(Or: five times Dex and Nursey really don’t quite know what they’re doing, and one time they’ve really, really figured it out.)
our permanent address (4593 words) by shellybelle
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter
Characters: Derek "Nursey" Nurse, William "Dex" Poindexter
Additional Tags: Friends With Benefits, Unrequited Love, (perceived), Unresolved Emotional Tension, Derek Nurse's Emo Poetic Soul, Emotionally Stupid College Boys, Ambiguous/Open Ending
Series: Part 1 of you asked me to be an open book
Summary:
He’s not usually a procrastinator, is the thing. He’s not sure what makes this different, why he doesn’t just tell Dex the truth and get it over with.
After all, he thinks that he’d want to know if his friend-with-benefits, sometimes-hatesex fuckbuddy had fallen stupid in love with him.
i wanna go (where the lights burn low) (7737 words) by ofhobbitsandwomen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter
Characters: Derek "Nursey" Nurse, William "Dex" Poindexter
Additional Tags: Pining, Canon Universe, Roommates, nursey as mercutio is my kink and if i have to deliver the goods so be it, dex pov
Summary:
“Benvolio!” Nursey shouted. “Now art thou sociable!”
“Christ,” Dex mumbled. He pushed himself off the wall and made his way toward Nursey whose hands were still extended out, dramatically toward him.
“Think you’ve probably had enough there, Nurse,” he said, plucking the mostly empty cup of tub juice from Derek’s hand.
Nursey just ruffled his hair.
or: the one where Nursey is Mercutio and needs a Benvolio to run lines with. Reality gets a little blurry for Dex.
chiaroscuro (6542 words) by shellybelle
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter, Derek "Nursey" Nurse & William "Dex" Poindexter, Chris "Chowder" Chow & Derek "Nursey" Nurse & William "Dex" Poindexter, Derek "Nursey" Nurse & Chris "Chowder" Chow
Characters: Derek "Nursey" Nurse, Chris "Chowder" Chow, William "Dex" Poindexter
Additional Tags: Depression, Hurt/Comfort, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Suicidal Thoughts, discussion of suicide, insecurity for days, Derek "Nursey" Nurse is Unchill, everyone is sad but there are cuddles
Series: Part 1 of catch me, i'm falling
Summary:
“Nu, habibi,” Derek’s mother says to him gently, as they leave the registration table. “Are you sure about this? Hockey is a rough sport. It’s going to hurt, sometimes.”
Derek, all of eight years old, squares his shoulders. “That’s okay, Ammi,” he says. “I’m not scared.”
(They warn him that hockey hurts. They don’t warn him that depression hurts worse.)
Leave Out All the Rest (34074 words) by 2012bookworm
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter
Characters: William "Dex" Poindexter, Derek "Nursey" Nurse, Chris "Chowder" Chow, Eric "Bitty" Bittle, Samwell Men's Hockey Team, OC's, Whiskey (Check Please!), Ford (Check Please!), Adam "Holster" Birkholtz, Justin "Ransom" Oluransi
Summary:
Will’s stumbling tired, but he manages to dredge up a mostly sincere smile when Kit comes barreling towards him as soon as he opens the front door.
bless this mess and call it a home (27463 words) by pepperfield
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter
Characters: William "Dex" Poindexter, Derek "Nursey" Nurse, Chris "Chowder" Chow, Eric Bittle, Samwell Men's Hockey Team
Additional Tags: The Haus, Fluff, Mutual Pining, Magical Realism, Home Improvement, Background Relationships, Friendship, Meddling, Getting Together, dex can talk to buildings, haus just wants all of its hockey children to find love, Falling In Love, Sharing a Bed
Summary:
The thing is, being able to talk to houses doesn't actually preclude them from conspiring to ruin your life. Dex finds this out a little too late. First comes the Dib Flip, then Nursey's bed, and the water heater...the Haus definitely has it in for him.
In which Dex has house magic, Haus has Haus magic, and at least one of them is in love with Nursey.
Driver's Ed (969 words) by omgericzimmermann
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter
Characters: Derek "Nursey" Nurse, William "Dex" Poindexter
Additional Tags: maine roadtrips are bad for Nursey's mental health, there is bickering about music, nursey's got a secret, unrepentant stupid fluff
Series: Part 1 of Mechanics of Poetry
Summary:
Dex and Nursey drive to Maine for the summer.
All Hail the Underdogs (74620 words) by xiaq
Chapters: 29/29
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter
Characters: Derek "Nursey" Nurse, William "Dex" Poindexter, Larissa "Lardo" Duan, Eric "Bitty" Bittle, Jack Zimmermann, Justin "Ransom" Oluransi, Adam "Holster" Birkholtz, Shitty Knight, Chris "Chowder" Chow
Additional Tags: Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Friends to Lovers, Alternate Universe - High School, Implied/Referenced Domestic Violence, Dex's childhood was not the best, Sharing a Bed, Dorms, Slow Burn, ish, how much can these losers platonically touch each other before realizing it's not platonic, THE ANSWER MAY SHOCK YOU, Happy Ending, NHL Draft, Alternate Universe - Boarding School, Dex is an angst prince and Nursey just wants him to wear some goddamn sunscreen, I had to mess with their ages a little for the plot to work, just go with it, discussions of race and privilege, Dex is a problematic asshole for the first few chapters, Nursey is a little oblivious, But they figure things out, also, There is a baby
Summary:
Lucifer was an angel once.
That’s what Nursey thinks, the first time he sees William Poindexter.
Because the boy is beautiful even though he shouldn’t be. Even though he’s doubtless the kind of person who would punch you in the face if you said the words “you” and “beautiful” to him in the same sentence.
His skin is choked with freckles. It’s potentially more freckle than skin. Not just his face, where his nose and cheekbones are so hyper-pigmented they look tanned, but his collarbones and forearms and knuckles. The close-shaved dark ginger stubble of his hair should make his ears look too big or his mouth too wide but instead it accentuates the long curve of his throat, the cup of velvet skin between the tendons in the back of his neck.
“You’re the new defenseman?” Nursey asks. “William Poindexter?”
And the boy turns around and considers him with what might be contempt but what might just be the way his face looks and says, “Yeah?” like its a challenge.
And Nursey thinks:
Oh no.
the name game (3426 words) by sapphee
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Chris "Chowder" Chow, (and his family)
Additional Tags: Family, Chinese American, Diaspora Feels, cantonese, Racism, Microaggressions, Identity, Asian American Characters
Summary:
Names are weird. Or: What's in a name?
(for day 3 of Chowder Week 2017. prompt: future)
your life as a transient variable (3263 words) by pepperfield
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Chris "Chowder" Chow, Derek "Nursey" Nurse, William "Dex" Poindexter, Caitlin Farmer
Additional Tags: Family, Diaspora, Chinese New Year, Ching Ming Festival, Minor Chris "Chowder" Chow/Caitlin Farmer, Cantonese Language, questionable use of a tree metaphor
Summary:
Chris gets older, but he never quite manages to feel less adrift.
Expectations (2990 words) by jedusaur
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Derek "Nursey" Nurse, William "Dex" Poindexter
Summary:
Derek is great at adapting to other people's styles. That's what makes him a good D-man. You watch what's in front of you and you stay with it. You pay attention to what other people are doing and you fit yourself in. You take on the high-pressure situations and you keep your cool and most of the time nobody notices you doing it.
in your head, your heart, your bed (21325 words) by nightswatch
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Kent "Parse" Parson/Jeff "Swoops" Troy
Characters: Kent "Parse" Parson, Jeff "Swoops" Troy, Las Vegas Aces (Ensemble)
Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Getting Together, Sharing a Bed, Fluff and Angst
Summary:
The story of how Kent Parson and Jeff Troy ended up in each other's beds. Repeatedly.
don't come for me today (8524 words) by achilleees
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kent "Parse" Parson/Jack Zimmermann
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Supernatural Elements, Chess with Death, Soul Selling, Canon Compliant, KonMari | Marie Kondo's Tidying Method, Gallows Humor
Series: Part 15 of jack/parse tumblr prompts
Summary:
“I sold my soul to the reaper and now it’s time to collect,” Kent blurts out. It comes out easier than he thought it would. “Tonight.”
There’s a pregnant silence on Jack’s end of the phone.
(hold on) when you get love (21779 words) by AugustaByron
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Larissa "Lardo" Duan/Shitty Knight/Kent Parson, Larissa "Lardo" Duan/Shitty Knight, Larissa "Lardo" Duan/Kent Parson, Kent Parson/Jack Zimmermann (past), Shitty Knight/Kent Parson
Characters: Larissa "Lardo" Duan, Shitty Knight, Kent "Parse" Parson, Jack Zimmermann, Las Vegas Aces - Character
Additional Tags: Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Friends to Lovers, Polyamory
Series: Part 1 of soulmates 'verse
Summary:
In which a simple (although epic) defeat at flip cup turns into a soul bond, turns into friendship, maybe turns into something else. Whatever, Lardo can roll with it.
What I Wanted Was To Fall Asleep (5467 words) by halfabreath
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adam "Holster" Birkholtz/Justin "Ransom" Oluransi
Characters: Adam "Holster" Birkholtz, Justin "Ransom" Oluransi
Additional Tags: taking shitty check please aus way too literally, Greek Mythology - Freeform, tree!holster
Summary:
The gods are real, which everyone knows, but when they’re not fighting among themselves they’re usually partying and humans have generally learned to accept their meddling without too much complaining. Ransom just never thought he’d actually know someone who’d been godtouched and he never, ever expected that it would be Holster.
Alternatively: Holster becomes a tree.
this dream isn't feeling sweet (11855 words) by Idday
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eric Bittle/Jack Zimmermann, Alexei Mashkov/Kent Parson
Characters: Jack Zimmermann, Kent "Parse" Parson, Alexei "Tater" Mashkov, Eric Bittle
Additional Tags: Post-Trade, Angst with a Happy Ending, Breaking Up & Making Up, Past Kent Parson/Jack Zimmermann, Kent Parson & Jack Zimmermann Friendship
Summary:
“I’m sorry,” Georgia says, her voice soft. “We would like to thank you for all your contributions to the Falconers. You will be missed in Providence. We wish you all the best with the Houston Aeros, and know that you will have a great career there. They’ll need you in Houston for tomorrow night’s game.”
(It's just hockey. Nothing personal.)
if you're going through hell (keep going) (11875 words) by onawingandaswear
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Jack Zimmermann, References to Jack/OFC
Characters: Jack Zimmermann, Bob Zimmermann, Eric "Bitty" Bittle, Shitty Knight, Providence Falconers (Ensemble), Samwell Men's Hockey Team
Additional Tags: terminal illness, Ghosts, Angst with a Happy Ending, Kinda, Major character death - Freeform, Jack finds out he has a terminal illness and rediscovers a lot about himself, Hallucinations, Bitty might be a ghost, Jack is trying to figure that one out, frank discussions of mortality, end of life planning, I don't think this is as bad as it sounds, I really enjoyed writing it, Jack moved on but not really, Bitty really didn't move on, but he's doing alright, Supernatural Elements
Summary:
Eighteen years ago, Samwell suffered the tragic loss of one of its most promising young athletes. Ever since, rumors have circulated that the school is haunted by the ghost of Eric Bittle. At least, that’s the only way anyone can seem to explain why the locker rooms smell like freshly baked apple pie on game days instead of the usual, omnipresent hockey funk.
Now, in the twilight of his career, Jack Zimmermann is facing his own mortality and the last item on his bucket list: return to Samwell and disprove the rumor that his long-dead boyfriend is haunting Faber Memorial Rink.
Mama Bittle's Rule Number One (2634 words) by Jenrose
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eric Bittle/Jack Zimmermann, Eric Bittle & Suzanne Bittle
Characters: Suzanne Bittle, Eric Bittle, Jack Zimmermann
Additional Tags: Coming Out, Mama Bittle knows best, Rule Number One, Rule #1, tw: mention of homophobia and transphobia, tw: mention of sexual assault, Supportive Coach
Series: Part 1 of Actually, I Do Make the Rules
Summary:
Rule number one is that Mama Loves You. Maybe Dicky has forgotten that? Suzanne Bittle decides it's time to remind him. Of that, and that nothing on the internet is ever private.
maybe i'm waking up (157904 words) by idrilka
Chapters: 20/20
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eric Bittle/Jack Zimmermann, Past Kent Parson/Jack Zimmermann - Relationship
Characters: Eric Bittle, Jack Zimmermann, Bob Zimmermann, Alicia Zimmermann, Kent "Parse" Parson, Larissa "Lardo" Duan, Shitty Knight, Adam "Holster" Birkholtz, Justin "Ransom" Oluransi, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Mixed Media, Social Media, Coming Out, Closeted Character, Homophobia, Mental Health Issues, Fandom Politics, POV Outsider, Angst, Mutual Pining
Series: Part 1 of for all of the perfect things that i doubt
Summary:
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.)
touchy subject (49578 words) by applecrumbledore
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eric Bittle/Kent Parson, Eric Bittle/Kent Parson/Jack Zimmermann, Eric Bittle/Jack Zimmermann, Kent Parson/Jack Zimmermann
Characters: Kent "Parse" Parson, Eric Bittle, Jack Zimmermann
Additional Tags: Alcohol, Threesome, Sexting
Summary:
Bitty finds a photo booth strip and almost doesn't recognize Jack because he's not sure he's ever seen him grin off-ice before, and his hair is so long it curls around his ears, and he's so, so young. It takes Bitty a few long seconds to realize the boy he's kissing is Kent Parson, with the same backwards cap and everything.
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