Fics like All That I've Got

Joss prompted: AU in which every time a person falls in love, a red line like a tally mark appears on their wrist. I may have taken some liberties with the "on the wrist" part, though. "You could love multiple people across the span of your life, or you could love only one, but everyone was capable of love, they said. And because Patrick was young, because he still held the belief that teachers held all the knowledge in the universe, he thought it was true. This is where his troubles really began. He remembers a boy on his Junior Flyers team almost a year ago. Just like that assembly, Patrick can’t forget Jonathan Toews, if not because of his hockey skills then because of the sheer amount of tallys that already marked up his skin. They’d met for the first time when they were eleven, a couple of years before they played on the Flyers together, hadn’t spoken besides the compulsory handshake after the game when Patrick had stared longingly at Jonathan’s single tally, muttering, “Good game,” even though it hadn’t been."

Fics like All That I've Got

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