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   itâs moments like these that will cannot remember a time before ben andrews in his life ( he has friends, of course â the ntdp is as much a cult as it is a development program, u18s and u20s; usa hockey is do or die, you know ). but ben, ben is something else, a new concept when thrust into contrast with old teammates and ever present hockey. and yet he fits, slides in perfectly and will is going to hate to lose him at the end of next year. ( itâs become more than just hockey, somewhere along the line ). â oh fuck off, benny. â the words lack all the menace they ought to have, a smile crossing willâs face. itâs not normally like this âwill is confident one, the one who smiles at ben and lifts him up after tough losses. thatâs his job as his captain, as his friend. it shouldnât be the opposite way around. â âyou ready to go? â
   in a way will is a part of a world that will never ever be benâs -- perhaps at some point it could have been. if his brain hadnât been so imbalanced, if he didnât doubt every step he took like it was thin ice about to crack. will is unmistakably nhl bound and ben is proud of him for it ( even as he lets his own dreams of playoff hockey slip through fingers like sand because he knows better ). his parents say they would support him, but he knows they wonât settle for anything less than med school. he supposes heâs happy to have just shared in the light with will even for these past two years -- heâs looking forward to the impending season, heâs not looking forward to it ending. â yeah. â ben says, a smile of his own flickering to life, the last dregs of lukewarm coffee tossed back. â you got more stuff to unpack or you wanna see if we can hit the rink? â
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   will frowns but falls quiet finally â he knows that ben speaks largely to the truth, that the câs long been made his, that that fact has been placed beyond his control for too long now. ( like draft days and sitting with your heart in your mouth wondering where the fuck youâre going to get up at the end of all this ). â fine ââ he says, â i guess i believe you. â itâs said with exaggerated emphasis, a hint of a smile twitching up lips, blue eyes rolling as he concedes.
   â you guess you believe me? â oh will. he thinks about reaching across the table, a comforting hand on willâs arm perhaps, but promptly thinks the better of it. he settles instead for more casual words, a hint of a joke perhaps. â câmon stop stressing so much over this --- i donât even know if you were this hung up over it when you were an itty bitty sophomore with the c.â itâs a half lie --- because ben remembers some warm late fall night, the bitterness in the wake of a loss. his own hanging head and how will had settled down next to him with a beer in hand - âsometimes i donât feel like i deserve it, benny. sometimes i wonder how the seniors donât hate me for it.â
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  - heâs just gonna keep knocking, isnât he? ugh. she all but rolls off her bed and gets to her feet. the door is tugged open just a sliver. âwhatâs the password?â
   it seems far too long before thereâs any response and a less persistant person would have given up. but the door cracks open, finally. â uh --- sellyâs the best? andâs gunna let me in? â
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     âselly ! â cue incessant knocking. â --- hey selly, you in there? â more incessant knocking.
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âNo, because I put as much stock into what I read online as I do into Perez Hilton and the Kardashians: nothing.â
â fair point. â ben shrugs. â but you can believe whatever you want --- doesnât change that fact that people do believe it. â
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  will frowns into the depths of his coffee. itâs not that he doesnât believe ben âthe guyâs a lot of things but a LIAR certainly isnât one of themâ itâs just, he thinks ben might be a little biased is all. â i dunno â it just seems â what if they just voted out of obligation? like, i dunno. â he hopes he doesnât sound completely ungrateful for being able to keep the c into his senior year, because really, heâs grateful. so grateful. â they couldâve â voted riley or â or you.â
   â riley --- dude you gotta be fucking kidding me. netty plays good d but heâs the worst influence ever, no way in hell heâd ever get the c from you. â riley bennett with the c. ben almost snorts at the thought. as if. â look man, stop moping over it --- we picked you because you were the best for the job and because youâve done us good the past two years. and for the record, iâm sure a hell glad it wasnât me, cuz youâre always gunna be my captain, okay?â okay maybe that last bit was a bit too sappy for this, but that doesnât mean itâs not the truth.
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   â and you donât? ---you donât have to believe something for it to be destructive. it doesnât even have to be the truth to be destructive, yeah?â
âWait, you canât be serious. There are people here who believe this whole gossip blog crap?âÂ
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   â do i really need to spell this out for you, mallory? alright then --- there was the time you didnât drink after we made it to the fucking frozen four because you felt you had to look after the rookies. you are always, always the first one to practice and the last to leave. people look up to you --- they did when you were puny and a sophomore so why would that be any different now when you, you know, have seniority-- â ben is not amused, but hey, if anyoneâs going to have to list out all the qualities that make will mallory an amazing captain, benâs glad to do it.
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Some say love is a burning thing
That it makes a fiery ring
Oh but I know love as a fading thing
Just as fickle as a feather in the streamâŚ
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grayson hadnât even realized that he was wearing the damn sweatshirt â this morning was kinda hectic, & he just threw on whatever was on the floor that didnât desperately need a wash & went from there. it being one of his own ( & actually his own ) or brandonâs was a plausible possibility, not what literally caused the stranger to stop in their tracks. the boston sweatshirt. â oh, uh âŚ. â he stumbled on his words, a hand coming to his chest, rubbing the faded crest in the midst of grey fabric. people didnât just walk around wearing sweatshirts of colleges they didnât go to, so this was definitely AWKWARD. he didnât want to tell him that he wasnât, but he feared that if he went along with it, then thereâd be more questions that he was unable to answer, so he shrugged his shoulders & looked back up. â no, no âŚ. not ââ i didnât go there. itâs someone elseâs. â
       smile fades a little because ben's sort of a loser like that --- one of those that thinks just because you got your degree from the same place it means you've automatically got some sort of awesome KINSHIP even if you never once crossed paths while actually on campus. ( and there's merit in that -- ben just maybe amps it up a bit TOO much ). " oh --- sorry. " ben offers the stranger a sheepish looking smile, one hand rubbing the back of his neck. " don't --- uh --- don't feel bad or anything, i shouldn't've assumed, considering my roommate back in chicago used to steal my hoodies all the time. ---guess it's just something about the bu crest. " oh whoops, he accidentally chirps the last bit even though he really HAD been trying not to be that person here. whatever. dude probably assumed he was an alum anyway because who else would be stopping people in the street to interrogate them about their sweatshirts?
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   benâs rambling again, brown eyes lighting up in playful fondness that will canât miss or quite ignore as the plastic bag rustles around the take out boxes are removed. heâs right of course, will always seems to buy more take out than he can eat in one sitting ( dinner the next day is always reheated dumplings and lo mein ). yes, will knew ben would pick up on this, no heâs not forgotten that in whatever they where âareâ that ben would know this as easily as he knows how he likes to tape his stick. still, he gives ben a playful shove because he can, before mockingly holding hands up in surrender. â alright, alright, dude. you got me there. you can have some fucking lo mein. â he can hear the word ( â captain â ) in all its heaviness hanging on benâs tongue, though, half uttered, half swallowed and overshadowed in bright eyes. will looks away so his face is half hidden in profile, so that maybe the tightening of lips and clenching of his heart isnât so blatantly obvious. because if thereâs ever one thing he canât ever be to ben again, itâs his captain, his teammate, his idolâŚ
           ben had once looked at will like he put the sun in his world; maybe now he still does, but for a different reason. ( that comes with loving something you've admired so much --- seeing their flaws among the perfection, seeing them as human and not a god ). will seems content in seattle but he doesn't seem happy and it shows in the little moments like this, a turned head as if he can avoid some imaginary blow. this is a shadow of sorts because ben knows will, knows how he looks when he wins --they win--, when it seems there's nothing in the world that can stop him, and it pains him.
          " yeah --- " he says roughly. ben knows it's a miracle that he's here at all and not driven away by the icy walls colder than any rink that will seems to build up around anything with the most tenuous thread connected to hockey. but that doesn't make his desire to drag will along with him to one of the eagles' practices, because he thinks --so strongly believes-- that this is killing will no matter how hard the other tries to smile and pretend this is normal, normal, normal. he wonders if this is some punishment of sorts and the words to tell will he doesn't deserve this, that he deserves the sun and the stars and hockey dig their sharp nails into his throat and ben swallows painfully around them. " yeah. that's right. " he tries again. " --- i'm not going anywhere any time soon and i don't think you want me to starve. "
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           heâs careful to loiter for a little bit, playing tetris on his phone and drinking his coffee heavily sugared and so diluted with milk itâs paler than his skin, until the line has dwindled and the only patrons left are himself and a few college students furiously typing at their computers. only then does ben drag himself up to the counter again, empty mug placed down on counter and friendly smile pulled up on his face. â hey, man --- âs will around? â
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