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The next day, Connor works out at the gym. He skates for over an hour. He texts Dr. Terry and Kyle that he’s good to rejoin the team once they start practicing again after the All-Star break. He tries to cram as much protein as he can into his (essentially entirely liquid) diet to keep his weight up. He pulls the sheets up on his bed, showers, throws on a load of laundry, and talks to his mom and tells her that he’s fine.
He thinks about Kevin.
And he watches the Blackhawks lose.
So basically - just a routine, typical day in Connor’s life at this point.
[Set in January / February 2024, Connor Bedard fractures his jaw, begs the team doctor to clear him to return to play, and realizes his feelings for his teammate. Sort of, but not necessarily in that order.]
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Maybe with Kevin away in Rockford, Connor can get his feelings under control. At the very least, he doesn’t have to worry about facing them, confronting them, doing anything about them. Because what’s he really going to do - call Kevin and tell him that he misses him? That every day he walks into practice and Kevin isn’t in the locker room he feels the pit of sadness in his stomach expand a little wider? That at the start of every game when he’s skating during warmups, and he doesn’t have Kevin to spin off of into the boards, it makes his heart ache in such an intense way he has to stop for a moment because it feels like a physical pain piercing his chest?
That nothing is the same, and everything feels so much worse without him?
[Set between April and December 2024, Kevin gets assigned to the AHL out of training camp, only to get recalled by the Blackhawks months later. Which would be completely and wholeheartedly amazing - if Connor hadn't almost kissed him the last night of their rookie season.]
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07 Jun 2025