Ruth Sadelle Alderson

Jeff Carter is going to play his 1,000th game today, and everyone has been having Carts and Richie feelings for a few months, so here is a thing. Back in February lakeeffectgirl was talking on Twitter about an AU where Jeff showed up at Mike's farm and never left, and I said I would also read the version where it was Jeff and Megan and the kids, and she said she would read that and also the "whatever happened to Jeff Carter?" fictional article version, and then I couldn't stop thinking about it and sent this to her with the subject line "Unexpected hockey fic." And then two months later, she sent me a link to this piece of wall art that would be the Tumblr post image header if this were a real story.

Content warnings: brain damage, depression, implied suicidal ideation.


( I went looking for Jeff Carter. I found something far more important. )

Given how long Jeff and Megan have been together, she was probably around in the summer of 2010 when Danny was partying with Jeff. I was throwing out ideas about this, and lakeeffectgirl called it "Megan's Guide to Dating Danny Briere." If I'd written this as a story, that would have been the title, and it would have been broken up into sections with Megan's advice as the section headers. Instead, there are just some bits of it that I played around with.

( Plot Bunny )

I didn't cobble together enough holiday spirit to send cards this year, I'm feeling a little stuck on my current writing projects, and I have a few days off for holidays this week and next week, so it seems like a good time to do prompt snippets.

Leave me a prompt by the end of the day Saturday and I will write you something by the evening of January 4. (If there are a lot of prompts or circumstances change, posting may extend beyond this date.)

Fine print/guidelines: One per person. Lurkers and anonymous commenters welcome. If you're posting anonymously because you don't have an LJ account but I know you elsewhere and you leave me your name, I will do my best to write something catered to your tastes. Generally first come first served, although things may jump the queue depending on inspiration and what can be written at work. I will write hockey, but not Patrick Kane, Drew Doughty, or the Avalanche. I may write other fandoms; feel free to ask if you want something else. I may veer from your prompt. I will take lyric prompts, but be forewarned that I'm not necessarily good at them. This is for new story ideas, not sequels or timestamps. I make no promises about length, but in the past prompt snippets have tended to be 300-3000 words.

Summary: Mike has no idea what to do with the teenage version of his best friend.

Notes: Happy birthday lakeeffectgirl! This is not exactly the teenage!Jeff shows up story I meant to write, but I hope you like it anyway.

Content Note: Non-celebrity partners appear in this story; skip it if that's not your thing.

Story on AO3


( Time Out of Sync )

This is a collection of Jeff/Megan and/or Mike/Lindsey snippets.

( Jeff and Megan, New Year's Eve )

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( Mike/Lindsey, baby names )

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( Hangovers )

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( Mike and Lindsey break up )

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( Jeff/Megan kidfic )

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( Jeff/Megan porn )

I like doing wip roundups occasionally, and the end of the year seems like a good time for it, especially since I'm not going to get around to doing my usual December wip amnesty and plot bunnies posts. (Maybe in January.)

( Things in the editing process )


( Things I'm working on/would like to come back to )


( Things I'm no longer working on and should wip amnesty )


( Things I could figure out what to do with )


( Things I have not yet begun to work on but maybe want to write )

Way back before Danny signed with the Habs, I kept coming up with ideas for stories depending on where he went, mostly about Pittsburgh and LA (because they were two of the three funniest possibilities [the third is Columbus]).

The LA ideas were pretty much all Danny/Carts/Richie variations; this is a snippet of a variation where there would be threesome Danny/Carts/Richie times but also Danny/Claude feelings. If anyone needs a fic writing project, I really want a 50,000-word version of this where Carts and Richie keep Danny for two years and then send him back to Claude with the ability to cook and give a really great blowjob.


( Snippet )

Summary: Claude doesn't treat Danny like a sub.

Warning/Enticement: D/s AU.

Story on AO3


( Unorthodox )

It starts before they really know there's anything to start. It starts at camp, both of them eighteen and wanting nothing but hockey. It starts with Jeff being the audience for Richie's dry sense of humor. It starts with Richie looking to Jeff for a reaction every time he cracks a joke or makes a really great play. It starts with Jeff pushing, just a little, to get Richie where he wants him, and it starts with Richie pushing back and then doing what Jeff wants.

And then it would be about how it looks like Richie's in charge from the outside, but he really isn't, and about how in Philly, Jeff is what makes it okay for Richie. He lets Richie push back against him without ever winning, and that makes it okay for Richie to deal with everything else.

And then something happens, maybe they figure out this is more than just how they act with each other, that they both want more than what they've had so far, and they both freak out, and they're not doing their thing. And when Richie doesn't have Jeff to push back at, he pushes back against everything else, the press attention, Prongs trying to be a leader, Lavvy's idea of what they should be.

And then Columbus is horrible, but it's even worse because Jeff knows it was his fault. If he could have just gotten it together and been what Richie needed, they wouldn't have gotten traded.

And then they're both in LA, and they finally get their shit together.