Jack keeps accidentally having sex with Connor McDavid.

Also, he may or may not be falling for some dude over Twitter that he's never even met.

(These two facts are in no way related.)

Connor would never have dreamed of it happening, when they were named to the same team.

He certainly doesn't expect it to continue.

...

(Or, Connor and Jack hook up at the World Cup. What comes next is... well. New.)

Magic isn’t real. Having psychic visions of a future full of Connor McDavid is the kind of thing Jack can only describe as bad luck.

"I kissed McDavid and then we won a game," Jack blurts out. He flexes his hand nervously.

There's a suspicious silence on the other end of the phone line, but Noah is probably not laughing at him. Out loud.

This would be easier if Connor had a tighter grasp on what he's hoping for. He's starting to think he doesn't really know.

Connor mutters "I thought you didn't like me," out of the corner of his mouth.

"I don't," Jack says.

Connor's staring at him. "But you knew," he says. His words might be generic-- gave him a time and place, maybe, but not person. But Jack's weren't. Aren't.

In which Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel become reluctant friends, and then accidental boyfriends, despite some struggles to communicate and many, many air miles in between. The course of true love never did run smooth.

“Okay,” Jack says. He sounds deceptively calm as he takes a few steps forward and throws himself onto the bed next to Connor, lying on his stomach and propping himself up on his elbows. “What are we watching?”

Connor doesn’t answer immediately, just messes with his computer for a few seconds, and then spins it so that Jack can see what’s pulled up on the screen. It’s porn, which is what Jack expected. That’s what people watch to jerk off; it’s what he watches and of course it’s what Connor McDa...

Connor swears he didn't put his name in the Goblet of Fire.

So, like.

Dylan's having a shit year.

(It probably makes him an asshole, the fact that it makes him feel better that Jack is, too. And yet.)

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"[Eichel] can be engaged in the game vocally and that's really to me a big indicator of where he is on the ice," Bylsma said. "Doing it night in and night out is a challenge. Traveling and getting in at 5 in the morning is a challenge. It's a challenge for everybody, but a challenge for young guys that may not be accustomed to play this many games in this rapid succession. [Talking on the bench] translates into him skating. It translates into him using his feet."

and jack gives his tinder hookup connor mcdavid a blowjob in the stairwell, the end.

They agreed, back before they'd left school, that it was better to break up. It's just hard to remember that sometimes.