Of Fanfiction And Hockey
It was a lonely Monday night around eleven o’clock and even though he knew he should have been in bed over two hours ago, he just couldn’t help but stare at his laptop before him in awe. It was as if a whole new world had been opened to him and he still wasn’t quite sure on how to take it just yet.
It had started off completely innocent. Googling himself. Of course people did it and now that he was a professional hockey player his name was everywhere. He had just gotten to the third page of Google when he noticed a site that weren’t quite like the others. Actually, it was nothing like the other sites that had “Brayden Schenn worth trading for the Philadelphia Flyers?” So naturally he clicked on the site and scrolled through. He was shocked to find love stories written about him.
He had figured that there had to be more of these stories so naturally he typed into Google “Brayden Schenn Love Stories”. He not only found tons of sites that had love stories written about him on it but he had found one that intrigued him the most, a site called Hockey Fanfiction. He quickly pulled up another tab on safari and Googled the term “fanfiction”. This was the first time ever hearing of the word.
“Fiction written by a fan of, and featuring from a particular television show, movie, etc.” He wasn’t quite sure if he should feel flattered that people loved him that much or if it was just plain creepy. He felt that it would take some time to figure that part of it out. He closed out of the little google tab and went back to the Hockey Fanfiction site where a list of stories with his name next to them were.
He had accidentally clicked on the top of the site that said homepage not really paying attention to his actions at this point and more still in a state of shock. The page refreshed and brought him to a new layout where names upon names of NHL players were. He knew a lot of the guys names up there on and off the ice and even if he didn’t personally know all of the names on the site he at least heard of them and it seemed as if there were stories of them too.
“Kane, Crosby, Stamkos, Letang, Staal, Price, Giroux, Neal, Skinner…” Brayden shook his head and starred at the screen. “That really says Claude Giroux…” He mumbled to himself. “What would happen if I?” His questions got answered as he clicked his captain’s name and brought him to a page where stories upon stories of his captain and featuring a love interest were shown.
He clicked on the first story on the top of the page and got sucked into a whole different world where his friend/captain wasn’t with the girl that he had now but was single and wanting something more with a whole different girl.
Brayden was on about the fourth chapter when he glanced up at the time and shook his head. He knew that the story wasn’t real but with how well the story was written he couldn’t help but think it was. The clock read twelve thirty. He closed his laptop and headed off to bed knowing that tomorrows morning practice was going to be brutal but he vowed to learn everything he could about this world of fan fiction.
Notes
A/N: Here is my brand new story! I might change the title only because I don't absolutely love it but I might stick with it so we will see. Any who, I would absolutely love to put a lot of the stories of players into my story and I'll probably go asking the authors if they'll let me but if you have a story and want me to put it in that would be great! Just message me.
But as you can see I have had this thought floating through my head for a while now. What would happen if the NHL players found out about these stories that were written about them? Well this is it!
Let me know what you think!
xxx
