"Eric teach me the quadruple axel."

Eric starts laughing, then glances at Ani, "oh you're serious?"

"I know you know how to do it," she tells him. "I saw you land it the other day."

"Do you know how hard it is?" Eric asks, "you can't do after a series of jumps or before. It puts too much strain on you."

"Please Eric," she begs. "I've been wanting to do it since I was little. Especially in competition."

"Fine," he sighs. "For starters you need a lot more speed, so you get more momentum." Eric starts from the other side and gains a lot of speed before jumping and landing cleanly.

"You're amazing," Ani says with wide eyes. "Teach me your ways."

"Do your triple axel," Eric says, standing to the side. He watches Ani carefully as she lands it. "Now speed up before jumping and mind the distance."

For the next hour she takes several hard falls, "Ani we're done for the day," Eric waves her off the ice.

She follows him off, clutching her side, "that jump's so hard."

"And let me look at your bruise," he says grabbing the medical kit. Ani pulls her shirt up slightly, revealing an ugly purple bruise, "that looks bad."

"Thanks," she growls. "What do I do?"

"Well," he applies some ointment to it gently, "I suggest icing it until the swelling and pain go down."

For the practices leading up to the finals, Ani attempted and failed tons. Until, "Ani amazing!" Eric pumps his fists in the air, "you did it!"

"Yes!" She screams happily, "I am invincible!" Then Ani clutches her bruised midsection, "nope still mortal," she groans.

"Up next we Annika Nikforov."

"Well this is it," Eric smiles at Ani. "You sure about your hair?"

She was wearing her hair loose, and it hung down her back, "I'm sure," Ani smiles.

"Remember, no mercy, no hesitation," he says, grasping her hand. "I don't care how well you score, just remember how proud I am of you."

"Thank you," she whispers, before skating out to the center of the rink.

The music starts and Ani starts skating letting her body flow with the music, "this season, she's enthralled us all by showing us just how capable a skater she is. Her first planned jump is a quad toe loop, triple toe loop combo." Ani lands it, "very clean."

"So this is what the finals are like?" Ani starts thinking to herself, "I wasn't one of those girls that was skinny and pretty during school. I always envied the girls that Victor brought home, but he always showered me with more hugs and kisses." She closes her eyes as she goes into her spin, "is it the second half already?"

"Ricky." Ani starts to pick up speed, "you always told me to pursue my skating dreams. Too bad you're not here to see me make it a reality."

"She has a quadruple flip jump planned here."

Ani goes into the jump, feeling herself soar, "no mercy, no hesitation," she whispers.

The crowd cheers loudly, especially Victor, Otabek, Yurio and Yuri, "Annika Nikforov just made history! She's the first person to ever attempt and succeed at a quadruple axel! What a beautiful step sequence following!"

Ani finishes with her spin, hair following her. She ends by pressing both of her hands to her mouth and blows a kiss to the sky. The crowd roars, but Ani blocks it all out, and can only hear the sound of her heartbeat. A crown of navy blue roses land perfectly on her head, "Ani amazing!"

She skates off the rink and then finds herself enveloped in a hug, "Ani amazing," Eric hugs her tightly. "I'm so proud of you. Let's go to the kiss and cry."

Ani sits down alongside Eric and Micah, clutching another plush tightly, "the score is in! Annika Nikiforov has surpassed her personal best with a score of 220.49. her total score is 339.05!"

The trio cheer, "that's my girl!" Eric yells high giving her, "you're in first!"

"Let's go!" Ani lifted off the ground by Victor who comes running over, cheering for her. The rest of the cheering squad tackle her, "hag, you did well," Yurio smiles. "Otabek got you something," he smirks.

Otabek turns slightly red, but hands Ani a box, "it's a necklace I found at the market," he mumbles.

She opens the box and sees the necklace, before smiling in delight, "Beka it's beautiful." It's two charms on a pendant, a red rose and black one on a silver chain. Ani slings her arms over otabek's shoulders, and leans against his chest, "thank you Beka."

Instead of responding, he tilts her head up and kisses her, his other hand in her silver locks, "i love you," he gives a half smile.

Meanwhile in the corner both yuris and Chris are restraining a really pissed off Victor, "that...!"

Yurio clamps his hand over victor's mouth, "she's really going to be a hag at this rate."

"Victor, she didn't beat me up after you kissed me," Yuri reminds him, "or when we got engaged."

"That's different," he responds, "I'm going beat the crap out of that guy!"

"Victor, don't fight young love," Chris says, "or do you want your little sister to hate you." Victor just looks over at Ani smiling at Otabek as they chat ringside, "she looks happy, doesn't she?"

He sighs, "you're right Chris," Victor responds sitting down. "You know I missed pretty much half of her life."

"I didn't come home for 5 years," Yuri said. "And look at my family. They still support me anyway they can."

"When she was younger, Ani was scared of thunder," Victor chuckles. He flashes back to when he was about 17, and she was around 6, "she'd wander into my room, clutching that koala bear she loves so much. Then when I asked if she was scared, Ani would say that Kenny was scared not her."

"She had a stuffed koala named Kenny?" Yurio snickers.

Victor smiles, "she'd crawl into my bed, then fall asleep within seconds." A memory of her sleeping with her head on his chest, and his hand wrapped around her head flashed into his head, "it stopped when I moved to St Petersburg. Before I left, I told her that she was one that had to comfort Kenny through rainstorms."

"Victor, you're still a huge moron." Ani wraps her arms around his waist, "you missed 9 years, but you can have a lot more."

His eyes widen at her comment, and he returns her hug, "I'm so sorry for never being around."

"Well you're here now," she responds. "Ricky was my brother, but so are you."

"I'm glad he was," Victor responds. He holds her closer and tighter, "you've gotten so strong." Victor kisses the tops of her head, "I'm so proud of you, and I love you so much."

"I love you too," Ani smiles cheekily up at him, "you big moron of a brother."

"You're still a tiny runt," he pouts. "Just a lot sassier."

"And the results are in! Would Annika Nikiforov, Sala Crispino and Mila babicheva please report to the podium?"

"Ani you're in first!" Micah shrieks, looking at the scores, "your first gold medal!"

The younger Nikiforov climbs the finals podium for the first time in her life and smiles as she kisses the gold medal. Just like Victor has done for most of her life. Except this time, he's in the audience and Ani's in the spotlight becoming her own legend.