Everyone loves the trophy husband Jack, famous chef Bitty. And I am 110% behind that, but consider this.
Master Chef Junior, Judge Bitty.
Bitty just, loving ever kid. so. much. but having a soft spot for the teeny tiny baker. The kids, being completely terrified when they have to make a pie – (”it’s Chef Bittle’s specialty and I’m 9 OMG) and Bitty just being so, so encouraging and telling them how beautiful their pies are.
Then a team challenge comes up, where suddenly the restaurant is filled with hungry NHL players, and the kids have to cook perfect, nutritional meals that fit with strict diet plans; while competing with each other. And Jack had wormed his way into the kitchen to tell the kids about the challenge, and everyone is expecting him to like, barely smile and tell the kids “lots of protein”. But that’s not what happens, because Jack might give the most awkward sound bites ever to reporters but these are kids and Jack loves kids. He also knows how to talk to foodies.
So he gives this speech to the kids, before they start the challenge. Tells them, to work together as a team, and be creative – they’re not as restricted as they think but that the team is super picky about pie so they might wanna try something different for dessert.
Then they try to get him to leave and he doesn’t want to?? They try to film him leaving, do the walk by the tables and giving high fives, but some of the kids have questions, and he stops to answer them. So eventually Bitty has to walk over and be like ‘honey no, the kids have work to do. You can play with them after dinner.” (spoiler alert: he does.)
OH MY LORD Y’ALL
Bitty = Gordon Ramsay.
Like he will be an absolute passive-aggressive terror to adult chefs who should know what they’re doing but are still being ignorant or rude or something, and so he’ll build up this kind of infamous reputation.
BUT THEN when the sweet little kiddos come along, he is 120000% supportive of them and all the kiddos love him oml.
Also yes of course Dad Zimmermann would adopt every child that came on the show I’m alive.
Tag: check please
AU in which Coach Hall’s son comes out to his parents and while they are
obviously very supportive if slightly surprised, they don’t really know how to
deal with it?Like in terms of, should they do more to help him with this
realisation? Are they being supportive enough? Are they smothering him? Can
they ask about boys? Should they tell the rest of the family when they ask
about him?They are honestly good parents trying to do the right thing, they just
aren’t sure how to go about it.Coach talks to Bitty because he has a good head on his shoulders and seems
to have his life together. He asks for advice after making sure Bitty knows he
doesn’t have to talk to him if he isn’t comfortable and Bitty is slightly
confused why he’s being asked but rolls with it.
shitty: [looks at bitty]
shitty: first of all power bottoms are the hottest thing… they are so brave and so strong and they are the backbone of this society
Bitty: That’s so nice of you to say but you should be saying it to Jack
what if… bitty was a lax bro?
i shared this with @pensversusswords and she demanded that i make a post about it bc reasons (i basically just c&p’ed our tumblr convo)
***under a cut bc i realized this turned out to be about 2k of word vomit
i made every mistake
Nice view from up here, don’t you think? It almost makes me forget this is only a comic.
Don’t think about what would happen if Bitty gets injured during a game and Jack’s on a roadie.
Don’t think about Jack’s level of panic when he tries to call/text Bitty after his own game and gets no response.
Don’t think about how he responds when he calls Bitty’s phone and Lardo answers, and he can hear the quaver in her voice.
Don’t think about how he’ll be climbing the walls of his hotel room and practically tearing himself apart because he can’t be there to watch over Bitty.
Don’t think about how he jumps in his car the second he gets back to Providence, with 3 days of beard growth and yesterday’s clothes on, and drives up to Samwell, and he’s driving about 90 and praying the cops don’t pull him over.
Don’t think about him throwing the front door of the Haus open, and the kitchen is empty, and he goes straight up to Bitty’s room, not even saying hi to anyone, and all the frogs are wide-eyed and whispering “that’s Jack Zimmermann!” to each other but no one DARES to get in his way.
Don’t think about how he eases open Bitty’s door, and sees him curled up so small on his bed, and Dieu merci, nothing’s broken but he can see a huge bruise on Bitty’s cheek and his arm’s in a sling, and he’s asleep now but Jack can see the unmistakable signs that Bitty’s been crying, and Jack’s heart just breaks for him.
Don’t think about Jack closing the door behind him and crawling very carefully into Bitty’s bed, curling up around him and holding him like Bitty’s the most precious thing in the whole world.
UUUGGGHHHHHH THIS IS EVERYTHING I WANT/NEED.
My first fanart of Check Please! There’s something so familiar and comfortable in Ngozi’s lines… but Jack’s face is hard, man.
Wait. But what if Future Bitty has a food television show? And he, like, specializes in game day snacks that somehow taste amazing, but don’t make NHL team nutritionists mad. And the end of every episode is a montage of him sharing the food with the Falconers and footage from him cheering at the game. And some weeks, he invites Jack to the show, and Jack is still hopeless at cooking, but the fans love him.
what if this just??? crushed my heart and i DIED????????
also i want everyone else to show up on his show too but in like. very random capacities
like maybe the show is filmed in his apartment
(jack’s apartment lol??? im cryign)and so like, lardo just pops in & is like “whoops sorry” & ducks out of frame & is gone for several minutes (there’s one incredibly loud BANG! in the background and then utter silence for ~30 seconds) so bitty tries to go on with the show & then lardo comes back in dragging this massive block of solid metal across the floor & bitty and everyone in the crew just. watches her do this silently for an unbelievably long amount of time (one of the techs eventually helps her carry it out)ransom & holster bursting in singing that thing from tarzan “THE FUUUUUN HAS ARRIIIIVED”
shitty just sitting at bitty’s counter eating food as it is prepared, bitty occasionally smacking his hand away (he’s baked off his ass & just sitting silently & eating; occasionally spouts some tidbits of feminist theory or history or whatever)
and jack. oh god. jack, after he comes out & is open abt his relationship w/ bitty, appearing on the show in a purely domestic capacity, walking through the kitchen on his way to go for a run, dropping a kiss on bitty’s head, stealing bites of food (stealing kisses when bitty turns to reprimand him)
and then maybe there’s a thanksgiving special or smth & the whole samwell team comes over, all of the members from all four years of bitty’s samwell career, as well as the falconers, and george, and jack’s family and bitty’s family, everyone in jack’s massive apartment around a huge table eating bitty’s food & being happy and mE, ON THE FLOOR, SOBBING FOREVER,
It all started in the pre-season, as most things do. The Falconers don’t know much about Jack Zimmermann, (“He has said 3 non-hockey related words in all the time I have known him. Two of them were ‘eh’.” – Snowy) but they do know one thing: He is. Always. On. His. Phone. Lunch break, before skate, after skate, texting, talking. Tater chirps him about his girlfriend, but Tater chirps everyone about everything always. So, most of the guys on the team just leave Zimmboni to his own devices.
Then, one day before morning skate, Jack walks into the dressing room and says, ever so casually,
“Hey, y’all.”