#haaslow

is this anything? I am always looking for ways to get marlow + luca together so maybe will write more of this...

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If there’s one thing Cliff Marlow can’t stand, it’s a good kid getting his feelings hurt. And Luca Haas—the Ottawa rookie, all big green eyes and shiny blond hair with a wicked-ass slapshot—is, by all accounts, a real good kid. 

Which means Cliff is now watching, increasingly horrified, as a packed ballroom collectively decides to make his night miserable. Worse, it seems like Roz wants this to happen. 

So Cliff has to fix it. Not that he’s into dudes, really, but, like. This shit isn’t okay.

After sex, in a similar fashion to Shane waking Ilya up at the cottage, Luca wakes Cliff up and is like

"Babe, babe, I have the perfect idea" and Cliff, still 90% asleep just "Hmm? Yeah, mhm's" his way through the whole conversation. He's trying to listen, but that man is a bear when he's asleep. Just hibernating.

A few days later, Luca excitedly is like "I found everything we'll need, they're gonna be perfect." and Cliff is confused and admits he was trying to listen to Luca that night, but he was still pretty asleep.

So while Luca is going through the explanation again with the biggest grin on his face, especially when he explains that Cliff should be Patrick because that was Heath's role and technically Cliff is Heath, Cliff can't help the massive smile and lifting his boyfriend on to the counter. "I'd love to be Patrick and Kat for Halloween."

At Bood's party, they walk in dressed in perfect replicas of the paintball scene (with the after clothes underneath). They even have the paint colours on the exact or closest to the exact spots on the clothes, their skin, their hair.

Eventually, when the jumpsuits come off and the party is hitting the karaoke hour, everyone assumes Cliff is drunk when he starts doing a as perfect (without being on a sports field) as he can replication of the "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" serenading scene.

However, Ilya, having been the recipient to many sober Cliff serenades is watching with a huge grin on his face. Shane, having heard Ilya's serenading stories is laughing at his husband having such a dork for one of his best friends. And Luca, having lived through many serenades at home from Cliff is just having the best time watching the love of his life.