LINKDING

<blockquote>It wasn’t that Jack was an unreasonable person, of course. He understood how things were supposed to work, that there was an order to them, and that deviations from that order led to problems that ranged from “Top NHL Draft Prospect Drops Out of Hockey, Drops in to Rehab” to “this might be a little hard to explain.” It was just that Eric Bittle made him forget that order.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“I dare you,” Kent said, echoing himself through years and miles. How many times did shit go terribly, terribly wrong in Juniors because of Kent Parson looking at Jack that way and saying those words? “No way,” Jack said. “Aren't we a little mature for that now, Parse?” “I double dog dare you,” Parse said. And. Well. Or: Jack wakes up married to Kent Parson. It's annoying.</blockquote> ➤ it's neat to see a fic where the woke-up-married couple is not actually the fic's ship. treated with basically zero angst, which is also nice.