hrpf fic recs :-) please respect both the authors' wishes and proper rpf etiquette and keep these confined to fandom spaces only! no tt, ig, public twt accounts, etc. some of these may contain heavy/dark subject matter, so heed any tags/warnings and make the correct judgment for yourself.
aftertaste by @ridingwithghosts - e | bedmint | 3.3k | 1/1
Fraser's not stupid, is the thing. Buzzed, but not stupid. The concept of Connor coming onto him is just so absurd he's struggling to fit his head around it.
american teenager by @maxz-b - m | mattgabe, willgabeleno | 2.1k | 1/1
Will was everything, back then. A shining star.
Sometimes in that season without him, Gabe felt like he and Ryan were sunflowers, turning to each other in the absence of the sun.
antiseptic by @macklinenjoyer - e | willgabe | 6.1k | 1/1
Gabe's trying really hard not to get in his head about it, but in some sick way, it kinda feels like they're married. It sounds so stupid that he giggles at nothing in the pitch-dark.
ask not by @litafordvsferrari (sequel to boy blue) - e | willmack | 31k | 7/7
It's June, 2036. Will is 31 years old. He has a C on his chest. His fingers are shaking so hard they're going numb, and he nearly drops the Stanley Cup when it's handed to him.
Or, the dangers of getting everything you ever wanted, and what happens after that.
best guess by @litafordvsferrari - e | willmack | 55.3k | 6/6
It's fine. The kid is just being friendly, probably. There's a chance that he and Will will be teammates someday soon, in a year or two.
Or, an AU where Mack and Will get to know each other sooner.
Black Licorice by @moncuries - e | mattgabe | 26k | 3/3
Gabe looked up at Jeremy's awful popcorn ceiling and he took a steadying breath. "I should--" Gabe started unbuttoning his jacket. "There's another, um, to try. For the Gala."
"What, you want me to turn around for you?" Matt's grin was lazy and a thrill went up Gabe's spine.
--
Gabe takes Matt to see his tailor
boy blue by @litafordvsferrari - e | willmack | 5.2k | 1/1
Mack grins. "Come on, Smitty. It's just hand stuff." He shrugs easily, like this is no big deal, just fooling around between boys.
Chew and Swallow by seulsa - e | mattgabe | 3.3k | 1/1
A lot changed after Gabe got drafted. And maybe that's okay. And maybe it's because Matt's there, smiling and messing around and treating Gabe like he's worth something for once.
Comiskey Park by @moncuries - e | willmack | 5.5k | 1/1
Will Smith, heir to the Comiskey Park White Sox, has returned to Chicago after years at boarding school--the prodigal grandson with something to prove. Star player Macklin Celebrini once promised to write. He never did.
the cool mirage by @planetadfic - e | willmackleno, willmack, lenowill, mackleno | 7.2k | 1/1
It's really very easy to picture what's going on, because Will knows what Mack's mouth looks like, all wide and pink, and he's seen girls on their knees for Leno.
credit card baby by @loglady1980 - e | willmack | currently 7.2k | 1/3
So when Mack sees blonde hair and big eyes and parted lips and he sees Will, twenty-seven, male, grad student, profile picture on a boat somewhere, silver chain glittering on his neck, toned all the way down to his wrists, pretty in a way that makes Mack's stomach drop about six inches, he clicks on the profile with steady fucking hands. Silky fucking mitts.
darker and darker blue by @funnyboneys - e | willmack | 2.8k | 1/1
He should push Will away and remind him they shouldn't do this, that they can help it, that neither of them want this very much. He thinks that he'd be lying if he said any of that.
detonate by @whirlpool-blogs - m | mack/trevor zegras | 2.3k | 1/1
Trevor looks at Mack, and really lets himself look this time. At his shoulders, his forearms, a torso that Trevor could sink his teeth into.
Trevor knows what kind of impression he gives off when he does it: all East-Coast, private-school, country-club sleaze. For some reason, it seems to be really working for Mack.
freezer burn by @funnyboneys - e | willmack | 4.2k | 1/1
"Oh," says Mack, looking at him with huge eyes. His mouth is very pink and open. Holy shit, Will thinks, his dick was inside of there.
good men die too (so I'd rather be with you) by @maxz-b - e | willmack, lenowill, jamesgabe, willgabe, gabeleno | 20.4k | 2/2
"I do have to ask: were you going to walk to San Jose?"
"Well," Mack says, at least having the grace to look bashful, "I was thinking of looking for a bicycle before I met you."
"Good thing you did, then." Will tells him, keeping his voice light. "Meet me."
or:
"I really think I could survive truly horrific circumstances if I had a crush on someone there." - will smith hockey, probably
i think i'm done with all the speeches by @funnyboneys - e | mackleno | 3.1k | 1/1
His legs are shaking a bit. He sits on the edge of the bed and tries to breathe deeply. you sent me a dick pic???
Yeah, Leno texts back, did u like it?
i wanna hitch my fire to your candle by @funnyboneys - m | willmack | 3.9k | 1/1
That's the thing with Will. He lights people up, then burns them out. And Mack's never had anyone like Will--someone who lights him up--and he has this strange feeling that it's never going to happen again.
L'Action de Grâce by @moncuries - t | mattgabe | 6.4k | 1/1
When Gabe opened the door, the delivery guy turned out to be six-foot-nine and dripping rainwater onto the porch.
"Gabo," said Matt, grinning wide enough to split his face. He stood on the doorstep clutching a milk crate full of groceries, looking like some kind of waterlogged stray. "There's another one in the trunk."
--
Gabe is treated to Canadian Thanksgiving.
let the lights bleed by @maxz-b (sequel to american teenager) - e | mattgabe, background lenowill and willgabe | 7.7k | 1/1
Gabe bangs his stick against the boards, yelling along with thousands of other voices.
As Matt goes down, he can almost see him heave with laboured exertion, and becomes abruptly aware that he's hard in his jock.
-
The New York Rangers are not making the playoffs.
Loser by seulsa - e | mattgabe | 7.4k | 2/2
Matt's got insomnia. Gabe's got... problems. A lot of them, from the looks of it.
not that type by @apatasaursorority - m | willmack | 21.8k | 1/1
Mack stares at Will long past when he's turned back to his laptop, not caring if he looks back up and notices. Thinks, as hard as she can, Want me, want me, want me. Want me for real. Want me.
"Mack," Will says suddenly, head lifting to look right at her, so intense it makes Mack's breath catch in her throat. "Wanna go get Oreos when we're done?"
For fuck's sake.
The Only Boy I'd Anything by seulsa - e | mattgabe, background willgabeleno and willmack | 5.3k | 1/1
As far as Matt's concerned, Gabe deserves the world.
Over the Wire by @moncuries - e | willmack | 42.1k | 5/5
The morning before Macklin flies to San Jose, he lies to his mom about having breakfast with friends. Alone at a quiet diner, the waiter writes his number all the way up Mack's arm.
Park Effects by @redgerines - e | willmack | 6.5k | 1/1
"Maybe it's just familiar because every inch of the space is undeniably Will, and Will's as familiar to Mack as the hardened skin of his right hand.
Nowhere in LA has a deck of cards on the dining table or a Bruins pennant above the TV or a cross hanging on the kitchen wall. Nowhere in LA has the only person who knows Mack better than he knows himself, nowhere in LA has the only catcher who's ever liked him for him and not his arm, nowhere in LA has his best friend."
a willmack fic about baseball, growing up, and the transience of home
Real Slick, Nervy by @ghostsinmachine - m | willmack | 5k | 1/1
"Mack runs the pad of his thumb along Will's bottom lip where it's all swollen and scabbed over, touch so light that Will can hardly feel it. 'This hurt?' He murmurs. 'Looks like it does.'"
Mack can be a real freak sometimes. Unfortunately, Will's into it.
running fast and missing by @workingforitallthetime - e | lenowill, background willmack | 4.7k | 1/1
Ryan assumed that no one lived in the pool house. It was just there for rich kids to shoot pool and for Will to bring Ryan on Wednesday afternoons. And then, this summer, Macklin Celebrini moved in.
say i couldn't want you less by @loganes - e | mackleno, background willmack, past lenowill | 9.4k | 1/1
Ryan's been posted up on Dubie's couch, methodically refreshing his Instagram feed about every fifteen seconds for the past hour or so, when his phone buzzes with a new DM notification.
mackcelebrini: my layover is in dc
ryan.leno_4: good for you?
schrödinger's dead kennedy by @iodinejam - m | willmack | 14.2k | 1/1
"What would I do during the games? Sit in the box with all the WAGs? Wear a tarp with your name on it?"
"Sure," Mack says, like that isn't weird. "Or like, with my dad." Fat fucking chance. "Or, neither. Don't sit in the stands. Come sit on the bench with me."
or: mack goes to worlds. will goes to the cape.
Shirley Temple by @thomasmomwell - m | willmack, past lenowill, past willgabe | 7.2k | 1/1
Mack said, "Are you all aggro in bed? Is that like, your thing?" He sounded at most mildly interested. Will was going to kill him; Will was going to fucking kill him.
sleight of hand and twist of fate by @28farabee - m | willmack | 29.8k | 1/1
He unfairly thinks that Mack might stoop low and compare it to the pills if he's feeling caged enough.
Just can't quit, huh?
Will presses his fingertips to his eyelids and he lets the words rush out of him in one breath. "Are you retiring?"
surrender the sound (just to find out that i was a fake) by @vanityfaire - t | lenowill | 2.7k | 1/1
BC is shut out of the Frozen Four championships. Will needs to pick Leno up.
tender hearted jellyfish alien boyfriend by doubledareya - m | willmack | 3.4k | 1/1
Mack points to Will, and waits, painfully, for him to come around the net and down to the bench to join the celly, smiling like he isn't reaching inside Will's chest and squeezing away, and Will wants to complete him.
a story about luck, hockey, and hitting deers with cars that begs the question: why must I be a teenager in love?
then give me another word for it by @rainybelieverland - e | willgabe, willmack, willmackgabe | 12.3k | 1/1
Gabe doesn't even want to be thinking about Macklin right now, probably midair somewhere with a planeful of Olympians around him, Canada's golden hope. It's not like it hasn't made him sick with jealousy enough already.
But, you know, he doesn't have Will's mouth around his dick right now. And Gabe does.
trust by @bluecanvastotebag - t | lenowill, willmack | 2.1k | 1/1
Will's guys always give in to his control-freak tendencies.
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Ryan is nine, when he and Will first come up with this game.
ugly things belong with me by @funnyboneys - m | willaiden | 2.5k | 1/1
"How are you doing?" Will says, like they're seeing each other at another one of the Sharks' family events and not on a TD Garden balcony right after Aiden lost his last Beanpot.
up to you to do the stitching by @funnyboneys (sequel to i think i'm done with all the speeches) - e | mackleno | 2.8k | 1/1
He sort of ghosts Leno after that.
winterlude (this dude thinks you're fine) by @thirtyfourthst - e | mattgabe | currently 7.3k | 1/2
Gabe wants to say something. Anything. He wants to--he wants to ask if it's really over, if they're like this forever, if--if he's insane, if he's just seeing shit that isn't really there. If all of this, all of the summer and all of the fall, has been in his head.
or: the obligatory matt was injured & gabe was down fic
zip-lock by @inlightofitall - m | mack/dickie | 2.6k | 1/1
"You're insane," Sam laughs like he hasn't been daydreaming about spitting his own blood at Mack's feet for the better part of the evening. "Also, you missed."