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tulowitzki · 5 months

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WHY

#avs lb #gabe/ej

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offside-the-lines · 1 month

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Gabe/EJ

Epilogue

Yeah, things have returned to normal because I am once again writing the saddest shit. I am going to warn you now, if you are a Gabe fan or an Avs fan, this is going to really hurt your feelings.

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Gabe refuses to look at Erik, he knows what he’ll see there, and continues to pick at the label on the beer he isn’t really drinking.

EJ reaches across the table, his big hand engulfing his as he squeezes Gabe’s fingers still. “Gabe, I’m serious.”

“So am I,” he says. He knows he sounds petulant, and can’t bring himself to care. His eyes fixate of Erik’s thumb rubbing circles on the back on his hand.

“Gabe, come on,” he sighs, his voice impossibly tired, “Look at me. Please?”

Gabe’s breath catches in his throat, and he swallows around it. When he looks up, his vision is blurry. “I’m only 31.”

EJ makes a face that he can only describe as pitying, and it makes Gabe wish he didn’t look up. “The rest of your life isn’t just an epilogue to your hockey career, Gabe,” he says softly, and Gabe feels his face redden, the panic morphing into anger in an instant.

“Is that what you would’ve said when you were 31? Don’t patronize me.”

“It’s different,” his voice still soft, his remarkable calmness digging under Gabe’s ribs more.

“What’s so different?” he glares.

“That was before. Before the cup. Before us.” There is a pause; when their eyes meet, fiercely loving blue against fiercely loving blue, Gabe feels himself deflate.

“I don’t want it to be over. I’m not ready,” he whispers so quietly he’s not even sure if he said it out loud.

EJ reaches his other hand up to cup his face, gently brushing away the tears. “I know, baby, I know. God, trust me, I know.” He laughs humorlessly, gesturing to himself.

“I don’t know who I am without hockey,” Gabe leans into the hand on his cheek, letting his eyes shut to luxuriate in the feeling.

“I don’t either, Gabe, but I want to find out. Together. You and me.” He lets out a shuddering breath. “I want to hike that stupid mountain in Sweden you always talk about. I want to ride horses with you in the plains. Maybe we’ll have kids, and I want to watch you chase them in the backyard and teach them hockey.”

Gabe’s eyes fly open. “You want that?”

“Yeah, Gabriel Landeskog, you fucking idiot, of course I want that,” he chuckles softly before sobering up. “Look, I’m not asking you to do anything. I’m just asking you to, I don’t know, listen? To think about it— the future. I don’t want to watch you burn yourself to the ground so completely you can’t enjoy the rest of our lives together. I don’t know if I would be able to handle it.”

“Okay—“ Gabe makes himself breathe. “Okay, I’ll— I promise I’ll tell you if the doctors recommend that I— I promise to talk about it with you.”

“Thank you,” Erik says, a small toothless smile on his face as he presses a kiss to their conjoined hand.

“Just you and me, eh?” Gabe smiles. “I do like the sound of that.”

“Well, let’s be real, Nate’ll probably just be there,” he laughs.

“Right,” he laughs back, feeling lighter than he has in months. “Yeah, of course. Nate’ll just be there.”

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Send me a player or pairing + a word, and I’ll write a mini fic about it. (I am running on quite a backlog right now so it might take me a while to get to your request).

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hunterrrs · 11 months

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get yourself some besties who support and objectify you

#EJ????#gabe landeskog #nathan mackinnon #erik johnson #colorado avalanche

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sidsthekid · 5 months

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the only horse girl i care about

#im emotional #its ej night #IM GOING TO FUCKIN CRY #and i hope gabe is there hes gotta be #his hot horseback boyfriend is back in town #erik johnson

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toffoliravioli · 7 months

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ITS MONDAY MORNING WTF GUYS 😭😭💔💔❤️❤️💕💕😥😥🫶🫶

#I’m in shambles what is dissss ej #erik johnson #gabriel landeskog #gabe landeskog #colorado avalanche #buffalo sabres

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annieqattheperipheral · 8 months

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vet presence + horsegirl🎠 talk with EJ!

Erik Johnson joins Sabres Live // sep 14, 2023

When we had Makar & Byram & all those guys come in i just wanted them to feel super comfortable bc then you'll be more productive and be a better player on the ice; you don't want to be tiptoeing around the locker room. The open-minded communication is so huge.

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He's the new Craig Anderson!

I have hair, though.

That is true. He has his teeth, though, that's the difference.

But I wear dentures. Did he wear a wig?

No he didn't.

Ok good. There you go.

Horsey talk🐎

Interviewer: Are you still doing it? Are you still involved with it?

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You team up, 10 guys buy 10 percent so you're not in it for too much money.

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We bought a horse and named it Landeskog

[so he convinced his 9 other co-owners to name it after his bff🫠]

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I have a horse named Sabres right now.

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I could get creative with the names here [in Buffalo] with some of the guys.

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Interviewer: Have you tried to ride?

#erik johnson #horsegirl EJ #buffalo sabres #colorado avalanche #gabe landeskog #craig anderson

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samgirard · 2 years

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ej on waking up with the cup

#erik johnson #gabe landeskog #colorado avalanche #avsedit #ej #gabeej #GABE TOOK THIS PICTURE IN THE BUFF #exactly how i imagined #me watching ch*clets so you don't have to #mine

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tulowitzki · 11 months

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will ej ever be normal about gabe

#no. but.#gabe landeskog #erik johnson #gabe/ej

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msmargaretmurry · 5 months

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LET EJ GO BACK TO HIS FAMILY, YOU MONSTERS (everything about this game is killing me)

anon i was so unprepared for the emotional onslaught last night..... ej crying during the media scrum, gabe & kids with the we love you uncle ej sign, the tribute video......... it was all 2 MUCH for my tired tender heart to handle!!!! more than one of my friends said about gabe and the sign that if someone wrote that in a fic we'd be like okay that's a bit much and they were CORRECT except for how once again we somehow underestimated how THEY'RE IN LOVE IN REAL LIFE

i was thinking last night about how there is some sort of horrible but poetic irony about how ej was so convinced he was going to retire and then they won the cup and it totally revitalized him, while gabe rightfully expected that he'd still have years of his career ahead of him and yet now he's the one watching from the sidelines. and like yeah he's working on coming back but he's been out for so long and you never know if your body will ever be the same......... obviously i hope he makes a full recovery but beyond the romance of it all, it was so striking to see him watching ej from the other side of the glass. i love their love but also i'm sad!!!

#ask #hockey for ts #gabe and ej

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official212th · 4 months

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