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rsadelleClaude gets traded to the Pens. (Possibly there is a meeting ahead of the trade where Pens management and Bylsma sit down with Sid and makes sure he'll be okay playing with Claude.) At some point after that, Sid finds out that Claude is still living in a hotel (if he finds a real place to live, it'll make it all too real), and then invites him to move in because he has a lot of bedrooms: "My house is big enough that we don't even have to see each other if we don't want to."
So Claude moves in, and they slowly start to become friends. Claude looks at Sid completely differently the first time he hears Sid respond to one of Flower's chirps in French.
They start eating together, which means Claude eats way healthier than he ever has because that's how Sid eats (except for their pre-game rituals; then they sit across from each other in the players' lounge and Sid has his peanut butter and jelly and Claude has his grilled cheese with ketchup). He almost hates to admit it, but it does make him a better player.
And then Claude comes into the kitchen one morning on an off day and Sid is kissing some guy by the sink.
Sid turns white and says, "You weren't supposed to be home!"
The guy looks at both of them and steps away from Sid as far as Sid will let him. "Boyfriend?"
"Roommate," Sid says.
Claude says, "Sorry. I decided to come home last night." He's kind of surprised about all this - although now it makes some of the conversations and looks he's heard and seen between some of the guys who've been with the Pens for a long time make more sense - but he also really needs to eat something, so he ignores them and goes to the fridge. Sid is glaring at him when he turns around, but he just shrugs and says, "I need to eat," and then he makes breakfast for all three of them - Sid and the guy Sid doesn't even introduce him to take theirs upstairs - and they don't talk about it again.
Sid gets a hat trick in the last game of the regular season. They've already clinched a playoff spot, and that just makes it better, so they all go out after the game, and they're all drunk by the time they start piling into cabs. Well, Sid and Claude are definitely drunk, stumbling into each other as they fall into the house.
"Playoffs," Sid says happily from under the brim of the hat Flower shoved on his head a couple of hours ago.
"Playoffs," Claude says, grinning back at him. And then he falls into Sid and kisses him, and Sid makes a surprised noise that Claude ignores until Sid pushes him away.
"What the fuck?"
"Someone should blow you for that," Claude says. "I want to blow you." And then he sinks to his knees and does, and jerks himself off afterwards, and they stumble only as far as the living room couch before they fall asleep.
Things are awkward in the morning, but they can't be awkward for long because they have playoffs. So they have an awkward conversation where they agree that things just aren't going to be weird and they're not going to worry about it because playoffs are more important. Except then they have sex after every round they win. They get knocked out in the Conference Finals, which they both hate, and they have sex after that too, less fun and more angry.
Sid tries to make them have an awkward talk about it after that, but Claude just kisses him instead, and they have sex again, better this time, and totally sober. They have sex one more time, just after locker cleanout, and in the morning, Claude kisses Sid for a long time and then says, "Have a good summer," before he gets in his car for the drive to Ottawa.
At the end of the summer, Claude drives down from Ottawa to Philly to figure out what he does and doesn't want from his place in Cherry Hill, and if he wants to sell it, and then takes what he wants to keep with him and moves it all into Sid's house in Pittsburgh.
"Oh," Sid says when he arrives the next day and sees the additions to the house. "You're still staying here."
"Yeah," Claude says. "And I don't think we should have sex just during the playoffs."
"Oh," Sid says. "Yeah, okay."
And then it somehow comes out in conversation that neither of them hooked up with anyone else during the summer. They don't talk a lot about what that means, but they both smile a lot.
So Claude moves in, and they slowly start to become friends. Claude looks at Sid completely differently the first time he hears Sid respond to one of Flower's chirps in French.
They start eating together, which means Claude eats way healthier than he ever has because that's how Sid eats (except for their pre-game rituals; then they sit across from each other in the players' lounge and Sid has his peanut butter and jelly and Claude has his grilled cheese with ketchup). He almost hates to admit it, but it does make him a better player.
And then Claude comes into the kitchen one morning on an off day and Sid is kissing some guy by the sink.
Sid turns white and says, "You weren't supposed to be home!"
The guy looks at both of them and steps away from Sid as far as Sid will let him. "Boyfriend?"
"Roommate," Sid says.
Claude says, "Sorry. I decided to come home last night." He's kind of surprised about all this - although now it makes some of the conversations and looks he's heard and seen between some of the guys who've been with the Pens for a long time make more sense - but he also really needs to eat something, so he ignores them and goes to the fridge. Sid is glaring at him when he turns around, but he just shrugs and says, "I need to eat," and then he makes breakfast for all three of them - Sid and the guy Sid doesn't even introduce him to take theirs upstairs - and they don't talk about it again.
Sid gets a hat trick in the last game of the regular season. They've already clinched a playoff spot, and that just makes it better, so they all go out after the game, and they're all drunk by the time they start piling into cabs. Well, Sid and Claude are definitely drunk, stumbling into each other as they fall into the house.
"Playoffs," Sid says happily from under the brim of the hat Flower shoved on his head a couple of hours ago.
"Playoffs," Claude says, grinning back at him. And then he falls into Sid and kisses him, and Sid makes a surprised noise that Claude ignores until Sid pushes him away.
"What the fuck?"
"Someone should blow you for that," Claude says. "I want to blow you." And then he sinks to his knees and does, and jerks himself off afterwards, and they stumble only as far as the living room couch before they fall asleep.
Things are awkward in the morning, but they can't be awkward for long because they have playoffs. So they have an awkward conversation where they agree that things just aren't going to be weird and they're not going to worry about it because playoffs are more important. Except then they have sex after every round they win. They get knocked out in the Conference Finals, which they both hate, and they have sex after that too, less fun and more angry.
Sid tries to make them have an awkward talk about it after that, but Claude just kisses him instead, and they have sex again, better this time, and totally sober. They have sex one more time, just after locker cleanout, and in the morning, Claude kisses Sid for a long time and then says, "Have a good summer," before he gets in his car for the drive to Ottawa.
At the end of the summer, Claude drives down from Ottawa to Philly to figure out what he does and doesn't want from his place in Cherry Hill, and if he wants to sell it, and then takes what he wants to keep with him and moves it all into Sid's house in Pittsburgh.
"Oh," Sid says when he arrives the next day and sees the additions to the house. "You're still staying here."
"Yeah," Claude says. "And I don't think we should have sex just during the playoffs."
"Oh," Sid says. "Yeah, okay."
And then it somehow comes out in conversation that neither of them hooked up with anyone else during the summer. They don't talk a lot about what that means, but they both smile a lot.
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