Zimbits Fic — Little Aurora — ‘Interlude: The Reappearance of Jack Zimmermann’
a/n: just a quick little weekend something-something <3
Summary: There’s a box in the Zimmermann’s Montréal home set aside for fan mail.
Excerpt: Hands shaking, Bob slides out an aged postcard, already creased and bent by his steely grip. It's a photo. Two hockey teams set against a snowy mountain vista, ‘Welcome to Mystery!’ scrawled in faded red letters across the top. Bob knows this postcard. For almost five years it stayed taped beside Jack’s game schedule; a small piece of a large set of superstitions that carried Jack all the way through Juniors.
The peanut butter had to be creamy, laces had to be tied left over right, and Mario’s postcard had to stay up until the very last game of the season; not to be touched until Jack could finally hang up his skates for the year.