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Title: Meet You in the Middle
Rating: G
Players: Pavel Datsyuk/Henrik Zetterberg
Summary: Henrik takes Pavel to a party while Pavel hopes for a party in June.


Pavel isn’t sure why he’s here. He feels stupidly out of place at a celebration for a medal that isn’t his. But when Henrik grabs his hand, squeezes, grins at him, Pavel feels slightly better. He’s here because he was asked to be. Henrik doesn’t want to be without him at something so momentous. And Pavel knows that if their situations were switched, he’d ask too, and Henrik would have said yes.

He looks at Henrik with his gold medal, thinks about his own bronze one back home, and suddenly smiles.

“What?” Henrik asks. He leans in to make himself heard, and Pavel enjoys the way their heads touch.

“I just thought,” Pavel says, “that we could both end up with silver.”

It takes Henrik only a moment to understand what he means. “That would be pretty awesome.”

Pavel looks up, letting the motion brush his lips across Henrik’s cheek. “Yeah.”