Taylor Swift Meets Hockey RPF: Advent Calendar Day 20
The 6th ficciest Taylor Swift song of all time is…
Song: Gorgeous
Album: Reputation
Year: 2017
Lyrics: https://genius.com/Taylor-swift-gorgeous-lyrics
Ficciness Rank: #6
The hockey boy dynamic in this one, I am dying. Making fun of each other because you can’t handle the way the other person makes you feel? Ignoring the other person because you want them so bad? Being angry because you don’t want to feel this way but the other person isn’t giving you any choice? Very hockey and also very relatable.
This song is so tongue-in-cheek and also has some serious potential for angst. Check out this bit:
“If you've got a girlfriend, I'm jealous of her
But if you're single that's honestly worse
'Cause you're so gorgeous it actually hurts”
Allow me to betray a little too much of my own life history by saying boy, do I know that feel. If this guy is dating someone, okay, yeah, you’ll be jealous, but if he’s single? Suddenly you have to deal with the maelstrom of thoughts and possibilities and–should you make a move? What if he turns you down? Oh god, what if he doesn’t? That can be overwhelming even if you aren’t a professional hockey player who has to worry about potential homophobia from the public and from his teammates. You should really stop thinking about this. But you can’t, and it’s THIS GUY’S FAULT. So annoying.
(Slight points off this one for the singer already having a boyfriend. But we’re gonna ignore that.)
Pairing I’d assign to this song: This has to be Tyson Barrie. He’s already on record talking about how gorgeous Gabriel Landeskog is. I have no doubt that he spent his years on the Avs feeling exactly this: how dare Gabe be so amazing and make him feel this way?? I think we’re going with Gabe’s POV on this story. He and Tyson are friends, obviously, they have a great time hanging out, and Gabe doesn’t mind if sometimes Tyson does weird things like get a little too drunk and make fun of the accent that Gabe is pretty sure he doesn’t even have. Gabe just laughs it off as Tyson being Tyson. But then one night Tyson maybe has a couple too many drinks and says even more outrageous things about Gabe than he usually does. Gabe still doesn’t mind, but Tyson leaves early–EJ hustles him out of there–and Nate sits down next to Gabe and shakes his head ruefully and apologizes for Tyson. “He just never got past the pigtail-pulling phase, you know?”
Gabe: “The what?”
Nate: “You know, pigtail-pulling. Like when a little kid likes someone so he pulls her pigtails?”
Gabe: “Sorry, did you say when he likes someone?”
Nate, with a dawning look of horror: “…Oh no, I’VE had too much to drink. EJ, take me home too!”
Gabe’s world is rocked to its foundations. Tyson…LIKES him? Gabe’s never even considered this possibility before. Does that mean Tyson’s thinking about the two of them doing…oh god, he probably is. And maybe even…and what if he’s thinking about it right now?? Gabe was not built to handle these possibilities.
He decides, after a sleepless night of picturing Tyson picturing…things, that he’s going to have to let Tyson down easy. It’s the only way to move past this. He goes over to Tyson’s place, but then Tyson opens the door and Gabe looks him in the face and he can’t say it. He can’t say anything at all.
Tyson: “Gabe? Did you want something?”
Gabe: “Yeah, I just came here to give you this.”
And then he gives Tyson the longest and most satisfying kiss of his life. So far, anyway.
Lyrics to title this story: Take It As a Compliment
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I fully headcannon that Simon Riley is the type to take anything you give him, regardless of the impact to his health.
“Simon, you’re home!”
He had just walked in the door as you take a bite of a cooling cookie. you grab another one and hurry over to give him a hug and kiss, then you hand one of the cookies over to him. “You’ve gotta try these. They’re a cherry cream-cake cookie that my coworker gave me the recipe for. Tell me what you think!”
You wait expectantly for him to try it, bouncing excitedly when he tells you it’s good.
you grin as you stuff the rest of your cookie into your mouth and hurry back to finish your last batch. Simon follows and sits at the kitchen table to visit with you while you finish baking and begin cleaning the kitchen.
Before too long you notice his voice start to go a little hoarse when he answers your questions. as he clears his throat for the third time you ask, “You okay? Do you need something to drink?”
“Nah, I’ll b’ fine” he rasps, standing and coming to give you a kiss on the forehead. “i’ll be back in a bit, lovie.”
Is out the door before you can get your thoughts together enough to question him.
That evening you’re laying in bed when the door opens and in walks Simon.
When he crawls into bed you turn to him and let out a “Simon!’ when you see him covered in hives “what happened to you?”
He tells you he went to A&E since he’s allergic to cherries. His throat was swelling up while he was listening to you tell him about your day and he broke out in hives shortly after he left.
When you grill him, trying to figure out what was going through his mind when he accepted the cookie without saying anything, he just shrugs and pulls you into his chest with an eye roll and a, “it came from you, sweetheart. What was I gonna do? Not eat it?”
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