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I see your friends
with benefits fics and raise you friends with kids.

A/N: So this started out as a list fic and then turned into 5,000 words.
 (Ao3)

For your
consideration. Picture Holster as a coach for peewee hockey and there’s this
little girl, let’s call her Piper, and she’s super cute and her parents are
literally always late to pick her up from practice. Once Holster had to
call them and remind them to come pick her up cause practice had ended an hour
ago – and just, this girl is so awesome and loves hockey even though she kind
of sucks at it and she carries this little Dora the Explorer backpack with her
everywhere. 

So whenever she’s
waiting for her parents to pick her up she’ll grab a book or toy or coloring
book out of her back pack and at first she’d just play quietly while
waiting, but then Holster tells the other coaches they can go on ahead (cause
they’re always anxious to leave once practice is done since it’s unpaid
volunteer work) and he starts talking to her. Eventually one day after practice
she just sort of climbs up into Holster’s lap while they’re waiting in the
lobby and gives him her book to read to her and his heart just? melts a little
honestly

And he legit always
comes home to Ransom – they’re roommates, again because Holster tried the whole
nine to five thing three states away from Ransom and he would rather be barely
making ends meet by working at the local hockey rink than making six figures if
it means he gets to spend every day with his best friend – but that’s a whole
other story. But anyway he is always talking about how smart Piper is and
what funny thing she did that day. Ransom even feels like he kind of knows her
because Holster talks about her so much. 

One day when they have
a game on a day that Ransom has off from the hospital he surprises Holster by
showing up. He talks to the other parents in the stands and quickly figures out
which kid is Piper, because when they come out onto the ice Holster is
practically carrying her and it takes almost a full three minutes of coaxing
before she lets go of him and skates over to her spot on the ice. 

Ransom thinks that’s
like the cutest thing ever. He asks the parents who are sitting near him
whose kid she is and all the parents are saying she isn’t theirs and
Ransom is confused before one of the moms sitting nearby asks who he’s talking
about again. He points to number three on the ice and the mom tells him that
Piper is in foster care and the parents – “are a steaming pile of shit.”

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