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asimplechordShame is for other people, right? Right. I posted some porn. victors/spoils. Genderswap hockey RPF. Je(ss) Skinner/Justin Faulk, post-game 6March2012.
Some of these things were posted in a comment over at AO3, but all of these are bits and pieces of things in my head about Jess and Justin in this 'verse that may or may not ever make it into fic.
Odds and ends about Justin and Jess, the draft/prospect-camp edition:
1. Justin thought that the Panthers were going to draft him, but when they took Gudbranson in the first round, he figured they didn't need two young defensemen, and that one of the other teams he'd met with would draft him high in the second round.
2. He watched with a lot of curiosity when the Canes drafted Jess. He knew of her, of course - they were at the Combine together - but he'd never played against her. He didn't go to the IHMC tourney last summer, and Hockey Canada declined to invite Jess to play on the men's U-17 teams when there were women's teams available for competition. But no one missed the sick goals she put up for Kitchener this season.
3. Some of the other guys at prospect camp are dicks. It's not that this is news, really, but there's competitive and then there's being a misogynist asshole. If Jess is better than them, then she deserves a spot on the roster. Of course, that's easy for Justin to say: since she's a forward and Justin's a defenseman, he doesn't feel quite so threatened. Plus, he's already 80% certain that his commitment to UMD for his freshman year is going to happen - he's not ready for the big league. Yet.
4. Jess has great eye-hand coordination and she maneuvers really well, changing direction on ice, but she needs to work on her speed, and because she's lighter than most men her height, she can be pushed off the puck. Justin's a good offensive defenseman, passes and shoots well, but he needs to work on stamina and speed, and he could stand to be more defensively responsible.
5. Jess's nickname for Justin comes from her sisters' efforts to make sure she doesn't remain an uneducated heathen despite not attending college. They gave her a copy of The Sound & The Fury before the flight to Raleigh and told her they'd discuss it when she got home, and somehow Faulk -> Faulkner -> Oxford, MS connected in her brain, and that was that. Basically no one gets the origin, but half the guys at camp are calling him that by the end.
6. Jess's eye-hand coordination and ability to move quietly and smoothly are fucking useful when it comes to the team-building paint-ball battle. Chalk one win up to the Js (Jamie, Jess, Justin, Jared). [Also, for someone who doesn't mind being sweaty, she hates being dirty. Which Justin finds hilarious.]
7. No, really, some of the other prospects really are assholes. Jess seems to take it in stride - Justin supposes she's had some experience with it - and tells them to fuck off when they speculate about her being a lesbian. She's got a guy - "Gabe's in Europe right now, we email and skype when we can" - who Justin assumes is also a hockey player, and she sympathizes when he tells her about Katy, the girlfriend who's already suggested that they'll be better off not trying to maintain a long-distance relationship when he goes to UMD and she heads to Oberlin.
8. Neither of them loses well. Someone always sulks at the end of a Call of Duty session, so they should probably find some other game to play as a team, or stick to streaming episodes of Psych or Scrubs. They absolutely do NOT play NHL10 against each other. That wouldn't end well.
9. They agree that Raleigh in late June and July is fucking miserable. How did people live there before central air existed?
10. Jess works harder than anyone Justin's ever seen, spending more time on the ice, in the weight room, on the treadmill or bikes than pretty much everyone else. It makes him conscious of the extra effort it takes her to be accepted, where a guy in her shoes could slack a little bit and still make it. It makes him work harder too. He's not going to waste an opportunity; he's going to earn his spot just she is.
Other things about Jess and/or Justin:
1. Jess lived with the Gleasons her first season in Raleigh. Sort of. Their garage had a mother-in-law apartment, so she wasn't in the way when Candice and Tim were busy being newlyweds. It was actually pretty nice, because it gave her independence without being really isolated, which was good because she'd never actually lived by herself before. And she babysat Olivia when Tim finally convinced Candice that the world would not come to an end if Candice left her for a few hours.
2. Tyler Seguin is the most ridiculous person Jess knows. And since she's friends with PK Subban and DZ, that's saying something. She played minor midget hockey with him in the GTHL, before juniors, and when Hockey Canada conceded that she was good enough for one of the men's teams, she played in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament with him too. They hooked up there. Segs was still skinny and not smooth at all, but he had potential. She's just as glad that it was only a hook-up, though, because she doesn't think she's particularly possessive, but she could not deal with his shenanigans. Or his tattoo.
3. Look, there's a reason Jess deleted her facebook account after major juniors. She's not going to start twitter, no matter how many provoking tweets Justin sends out to the interwebs. [He needs a Valentine date? Oh, it is on.] She gets enough grief from the media as it is; social media would compound it.
4. Having her feet rubbed is the best. thing. ever. [Seriously, Justin comes over one afternoon expecting to engage in a Tomb Raider marathon and finds her painting her toenails. His somewhat mocking offer to help ends with a bottle of An Affair In Red Square splattered all over the carpet and her coffeetable when he digs his thumb into the arch of her foot in just the right spot. She's so not getting her security deposit back. Neither of them cares.]
5. Fashionable clothing and makeup are awesome. Jess doesn't really understand why some female athletes are so determined to be androgynous. It doesn't change things. Screw the pantsuit-and-sensible-shoes thing that Jordan Eberle and Shay Weber both favor, trying to tone down their femininity. Jess wears suits with fitted skirts and stockings and heels on game days. All the haters and misogynists who say she's not a proper woman or complain that she's taking a man's roster spot can fucking choke on it.
6. The break-up with Gabe wasn't horribly dramatic, but that didn't make it easy. If he'd been drafted to the Eastern conference, they might've started seeing each other again. Maybe. But other than one last night for old time's sake after he was drafted, they were done for good. They still text and talk on a fairly regular basis, although it slows during the season. Bea still sends her birthday cards.
7. Justin buys a copy of The Scarlet Pimpernel when he's sent down to the AHL for the lockout. Bobby gives him a ton of grief when he reads it on their first road trip, a swing through Texas, but Jess sends him :) :) :) when he texts her asking if she'd recommend any of the sequels. He's got plenty of travel time on his hands.
8. Gleason is really good at keeping secrets. Jess and Justin manage to stay on the down-low until after locker clean-out. It's Jess's bad luck that Eric stops by to talk about Worlds and Justin's still sprawled on the sofa when she answers the door, rumpled and clearly sex-addled after a heated debate over a Jays/Twins game led to other athletic activities. [Jess never ever wants to talk about sex or relationships with Eric again. It is even more traumatising than the sex talk with her mom.]
9. Ugh, Cody and Tanya are the worst. She can't unhear that shit. On one hand, it's nice to be included and not viewed by her teammates' SOs as a threat or some other stupid bullshit. But fuck, is it wrong for Jess to hope that she is never invited to another baby or bridal shower for a team spouse ever again? She really doesn't need to know any of that gossipy stuff about Staaler or Wardo. She needs brain bleach. [Justin laughs when she complains to him about it. And then asks if she shared. A million times no. Although she has talked to Andrea about some things. Just, you know, when she's looking for some advice. She's not talking about her sex life with someone who'll report details back to one of the other guys.]
10. Jess isn't telling anyone what Nichol said when he was leaning over her against the boards. She shouldn't've kicked him. She should've gotten up and punched him square in the face. Or the junk. Whichever.
Some of these things were posted in a comment over at AO3, but all of these are bits and pieces of things in my head about Jess and Justin in this 'verse that may or may not ever make it into fic.
Odds and ends about Justin and Jess, the draft/prospect-camp edition:
1. Justin thought that the Panthers were going to draft him, but when they took Gudbranson in the first round, he figured they didn't need two young defensemen, and that one of the other teams he'd met with would draft him high in the second round.
2. He watched with a lot of curiosity when the Canes drafted Jess. He knew of her, of course - they were at the Combine together - but he'd never played against her. He didn't go to the IHMC tourney last summer, and Hockey Canada declined to invite Jess to play on the men's U-17 teams when there were women's teams available for competition. But no one missed the sick goals she put up for Kitchener this season.
3. Some of the other guys at prospect camp are dicks. It's not that this is news, really, but there's competitive and then there's being a misogynist asshole. If Jess is better than them, then she deserves a spot on the roster. Of course, that's easy for Justin to say: since she's a forward and Justin's a defenseman, he doesn't feel quite so threatened. Plus, he's already 80% certain that his commitment to UMD for his freshman year is going to happen - he's not ready for the big league. Yet.
4. Jess has great eye-hand coordination and she maneuvers really well, changing direction on ice, but she needs to work on her speed, and because she's lighter than most men her height, she can be pushed off the puck. Justin's a good offensive defenseman, passes and shoots well, but he needs to work on stamina and speed, and he could stand to be more defensively responsible.
5. Jess's nickname for Justin comes from her sisters' efforts to make sure she doesn't remain an uneducated heathen despite not attending college. They gave her a copy of The Sound & The Fury before the flight to Raleigh and told her they'd discuss it when she got home, and somehow Faulk -> Faulkner -> Oxford, MS connected in her brain, and that was that. Basically no one gets the origin, but half the guys at camp are calling him that by the end.
6. Jess's eye-hand coordination and ability to move quietly and smoothly are fucking useful when it comes to the team-building paint-ball battle. Chalk one win up to the Js (Jamie, Jess, Justin, Jared). [Also, for someone who doesn't mind being sweaty, she hates being dirty. Which Justin finds hilarious.]
7. No, really, some of the other prospects really are assholes. Jess seems to take it in stride - Justin supposes she's had some experience with it - and tells them to fuck off when they speculate about her being a lesbian. She's got a guy - "Gabe's in Europe right now, we email and skype when we can" - who Justin assumes is also a hockey player, and she sympathizes when he tells her about Katy, the girlfriend who's already suggested that they'll be better off not trying to maintain a long-distance relationship when he goes to UMD and she heads to Oberlin.
8. Neither of them loses well. Someone always sulks at the end of a Call of Duty session, so they should probably find some other game to play as a team, or stick to streaming episodes of Psych or Scrubs. They absolutely do NOT play NHL10 against each other. That wouldn't end well.
9. They agree that Raleigh in late June and July is fucking miserable. How did people live there before central air existed?
10. Jess works harder than anyone Justin's ever seen, spending more time on the ice, in the weight room, on the treadmill or bikes than pretty much everyone else. It makes him conscious of the extra effort it takes her to be accepted, where a guy in her shoes could slack a little bit and still make it. It makes him work harder too. He's not going to waste an opportunity; he's going to earn his spot just she is.
Other things about Jess and/or Justin:
1. Jess lived with the Gleasons her first season in Raleigh. Sort of. Their garage had a mother-in-law apartment, so she wasn't in the way when Candice and Tim were busy being newlyweds. It was actually pretty nice, because it gave her independence without being really isolated, which was good because she'd never actually lived by herself before. And she babysat Olivia when Tim finally convinced Candice that the world would not come to an end if Candice left her for a few hours.
2. Tyler Seguin is the most ridiculous person Jess knows. And since she's friends with PK Subban and DZ, that's saying something. She played minor midget hockey with him in the GTHL, before juniors, and when Hockey Canada conceded that she was good enough for one of the men's teams, she played in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament with him too. They hooked up there. Segs was still skinny and not smooth at all, but he had potential. She's just as glad that it was only a hook-up, though, because she doesn't think she's particularly possessive, but she could not deal with his shenanigans. Or his tattoo.
3. Look, there's a reason Jess deleted her facebook account after major juniors. She's not going to start twitter, no matter how many provoking tweets Justin sends out to the interwebs. [He needs a Valentine date? Oh, it is on.] She gets enough grief from the media as it is; social media would compound it.
4. Having her feet rubbed is the best. thing. ever. [Seriously, Justin comes over one afternoon expecting to engage in a Tomb Raider marathon and finds her painting her toenails. His somewhat mocking offer to help ends with a bottle of An Affair In Red Square splattered all over the carpet and her coffeetable when he digs his thumb into the arch of her foot in just the right spot. She's so not getting her security deposit back. Neither of them cares.]
5. Fashionable clothing and makeup are awesome. Jess doesn't really understand why some female athletes are so determined to be androgynous. It doesn't change things. Screw the pantsuit-and-sensible-shoes thing that Jordan Eberle and Shay Weber both favor, trying to tone down their femininity. Jess wears suits with fitted skirts and stockings and heels on game days. All the haters and misogynists who say she's not a proper woman or complain that she's taking a man's roster spot can fucking choke on it.
6. The break-up with Gabe wasn't horribly dramatic, but that didn't make it easy. If he'd been drafted to the Eastern conference, they might've started seeing each other again. Maybe. But other than one last night for old time's sake after he was drafted, they were done for good. They still text and talk on a fairly regular basis, although it slows during the season. Bea still sends her birthday cards.
7. Justin buys a copy of The Scarlet Pimpernel when he's sent down to the AHL for the lockout. Bobby gives him a ton of grief when he reads it on their first road trip, a swing through Texas, but Jess sends him :) :) :) when he texts her asking if she'd recommend any of the sequels. He's got plenty of travel time on his hands.
8. Gleason is really good at keeping secrets. Jess and Justin manage to stay on the down-low until after locker clean-out. It's Jess's bad luck that Eric stops by to talk about Worlds and Justin's still sprawled on the sofa when she answers the door, rumpled and clearly sex-addled after a heated debate over a Jays/Twins game led to other athletic activities. [Jess never ever wants to talk about sex or relationships with Eric again. It is even more traumatising than the sex talk with her mom.]
9. Ugh, Cody and Tanya are the worst. She can't unhear that shit. On one hand, it's nice to be included and not viewed by her teammates' SOs as a threat or some other stupid bullshit. But fuck, is it wrong for Jess to hope that she is never invited to another baby or bridal shower for a team spouse ever again? She really doesn't need to know any of that gossipy stuff about Staaler or Wardo. She needs brain bleach. [Justin laughs when she complains to him about it. And then asks if she shared. A million times no. Although she has talked to Andrea about some things. Just, you know, when she's looking for some advice. She's not talking about her sex life with someone who'll report details back to one of the other guys.]
10. Jess isn't telling anyone what Nichol said when he was leaning over her against the boards. She shouldn't've kicked him. She should've gotten up and punched him square in the face. Or the junk. Whichever.
