you may be wondering why i've called you here

Except, then he gets to know Will, and Will is confident and unapologetic about wanting things in a way Mack hasn't known. Will knows how to make jokes that could be understood as mean if Will wasn't so damn charming. Will was supposed to harbor some remnant of hate for Mack after their BU/BC days but instead, he took one look at Mack and decided that they were partners now, and he never cared about any of the things that make Mack feel like an alien among human people sometimes.

Will tells Mack to dream big and be proud and speak things into existence. He laughs when Mack is intense and ridiculous. He listens to Mack's yapping, throws in a 'yes, and...' every once in a while. He made Mack his partner in crime for pranking teammates. When Mack says or does stuff that warrants getting mad, Will asks what's wrong, and when Mack doesn't want to talk about it, he finds a way to distract him instead.

Will and Mack have confirmed that Mack punched Will's windshield when he got impatient and annoyed because Will didn't take him home fast enough at the end of a long day, and that Mack refused to apologize for it. Will told this story with a big fat smile on his face and Mack blamed the softness of Will's windshield. Can you imagine Canada's prince of hockey accidentally breaking anyone else's windshield? He'd be mortified and apologizing a million times.

"He's a healthy eater?"

"Yeah, he's a pro"

botg from after the game

okay but alpha will being obsessed with banana bread since he was a little kid like as soon as he’s old enough colleen teaches him how to make it and it becomes their weekly thing, he’s genuinely obsessed with the smell of it he’ll walk into the kitchen and just stand there inhaling like it’s the best thing on earth.

warm, sweet, comforting it’s his favourite scent in the world. he gets genuinely excited every time they bake it.

then he meets omega macklin, who always wears scent patches. will knows pretty much from the first week that mack is it for him.

like fully gone, ruined for anyone else and that was before he ever smelled him.

a couple months into their first season he goes over to jumbo’s guest house and mack’s there without a patch on for the first time.

and mack smells exactly like warm banana bread.

will basically short circuits on the spot. just stands there frozen in the doorway, breathing him in slow and deep while mack’s casually talking about practice or something.

macklin’s scent hits him like a truck, that same sweet, warm, comforting smell he’s loved his whole life, but now it’s mack.

his mack.

he’s so gone he doesn’t even realize he’s moving until he’s stumbling forward, crowding into mack’s space and stuffing his face into the side of his neck, inhaling deep.

mack freezes for half a second, then lets out a surprised little laugh “will?”

will just makes a low noise and presses closer, nose buried against his scent gland, completely lost in it.

he already knew mack was his omega, smelling him just confirmed what he already felt in his bones.

but when mack met will he was floored by how easily will bared his neck to him the first time this strong prideful alpha was presenting such a vulnerable place to him, a lowly omega?

will never grew up with those beliefs, extremely fortunate to grow up with parents who loved each other and gladly showed off their mating bites high up on their neck

after a year of courting, their heat and rut synced up which was the perfect time for them to mate and make it official only when mack was close to finishing and was mentally preparing himself to bare his neck and not flinch at the feeling of teeth breaking the skin of his neck will shocked him yet again

“bite me, baby. i love you so much” he said while baring his neck at mack, tears filling his eyes and a soft lovestruck smile on his face

and so mack did