Disclaimer: I do not own Dergrassi.
Author Note: Here we are with another chapter. A big thank you to Halawen for all your help in Co Writing and beta. Hope you all like this chapter.
Owen's POV
"Dude I'm so glad hockey conditioning starts Friday!" Luke said as we grab a table for everyone, sat our lunches down and waited for everyone else to join us.
"I know I can't wait to get back out on the ice, and slam Saunders into the boards every practice since he doesn't know how to keep quiet and leave us alone." I said taking a bite of my burger while roaming the lunch room to see if Maya and the others were coming yet.
"And better yet, were the captain's so rookie will defiantly have to listen to us." Baker said causing us to share a smirk before we heard commotion in front of us.
"That fucking asshole!" Zig roared as he slammed his tray down along with Jenna, Eli and Adam who were each carrying an extra tray.
"Calm down dude what happened and where's everyone else?" I asked wondering where Maya was along with Clare and Becky and Tris.
"We were heading towards the table when Maya was knocked in the shoulder and almost got knocked down by Saunders." Zig started explaining what happened.
"WHAT!" Baker and I exclaimed in unison before I started talking again "Where is she? Is she ok?" I asked worriedly looking for her.
"The food spilled on her, so Tris, Clare and Becky went with her to help try and salvage her shirt so she could still wear it in school." Eli said looking pissed.
"I have a hoodie she could wear in my locker." I said standing up about to leave "What bathroom are they in?"
"The one by the MI Lab, you might want to buy her another lunch too she said she only brought enough for lunch today." Jenna said looking up at me and stopping me.
"Shit, Saunders is so dead." I said digging in my pockets for my wallet and grabbing some money out.
"Dude go help your girl, I'll go get her another lunch." Luke said standing up and grabbing the money from me.
"Thanks man." I said before leaving the lunch room and stopping at my locker to grab the hoodie and head towards the girl's bathroom while thinking along the way ways to hurt Saunders.
"It's busy in here, go to another bathroom." I heard Becky say as I knocked on the door.
"It's me let me in." I said and I was able to walk in since Becky and Clare where leaning against it to stop girls from coming in, and see Tris trying to clean Maya's shirt which look like it wasn't working.
"Hey." Maya said looking up at me with a small smile.
"Hey baby I have a hoodie you can change into and Luke's grabbing you another lunch." I said handing her the hoodie and helped her get it on and take the shirt off with no one seeing.
"Thanks am I glad to be out of that shirt." Maya said laying her head on my chest.
"I figure, let's go get some food in you." I said guiding her out of the bathroom with everyone else following behind us as we made our way back to the lunch room and to our table.
"Here's your food Maya." Baker said sliding it to her so she could eat and everyone started to dig into their food.
"So please tell me you guys will cause trouble for Saunders when you guys start practicing for the season?" Zig asked causing everyone to stop and look at Baker and me.
"Of course we will be. That asshole should learn to leave everyone alone." I told them putting my arm around Maya.
"It helps that he has no choice but to listen to us since we're the captains of the team." Luke said smugly and smirking along with me causing everyone else to laugh.
"Just don't get hurt yourselves we need you two, especially you." Maya said looking at the both of us but stopping at me with her pleading eyes.
"Of course not beautiful." I said before kissing her until the bell rang singling lunch was over with and time to go back to our other classes.
Maya's POV
We were hear for our next check up to see how the baby was, we gotten here a little bit early since it was after school. So while we were waiting we were still thinking about names and stuff.
"I like Austin and Chord." I said looking at Owen.
"I like them to they're both unique and could work real well." Owen said before going on our names were called.
When we made our way to the room we did the normal routine have the nurse give me the gown, she leaves and Owen helps me change and on to the table and wait for the Dr. to come in, which is now.
"Hello Owen, Maya. How are you guys today?" The doctor asked.
"We're good Doc," Owen answered for us.
"Great well let's have a look," the doctor said/
Owen helped me to lie back and lift up the gown; the doctor put the gel on my stomach and moved the wand around to spread it. He turned the ultrasound monitor so we could see.
"Everything looks great, you're right on schedule. You'll need to make an appointment for next week and if you haven't already pack your bags for the hospital and write up your birthing plan. Given your age and size it's not very likely that you'll make it to your due date but we want to get you as close as we can. Don't worry that's not a reason to panic just keep doing what you have been and listen to your body. If you feel tired take a nap, if you feel hungry then eat. The baby will tell you what it needs. Take it easy but that doesn't mean you have to be on bed rest just know your limits." The doctor advises.
"Don't worry doc I'll make sure she does." Owen assures him.
The doctor smiles and reminds us to make an appointment for next week. Owen helps me get dressed again and we go out to the front desk to make an appointment. Then we get back in the car and start driving home when my cell phone rings and I answer it.
"Hey Zig," I answer.
"You'll never believe what I just heard. Tori got sentenced to 200 hours of community service part of it is being served at the community hospital where she gets to change bed pans and other gross stuff and the rest picking up trash at Maple park. We're going to try and find out when she's going to be picking up trash so we can go make fun of her." Zig tells me.
"Sounds great we'll be there, she deserves it." I reply, say goodbye to Zig and hang up.
"What's up?" Owen asks.
"Tori got sentenced to 200 hours of community service part of which she gets to serve at a hospital changing bed pans and stuff. The rest she's serving at a park picking up trash. They're going to try and find out when she's going to be picking up trash so we can go make fun her." I tell him.
"Good that bitch deserves it; she should get more for breaking Clare's wrist." Owen remarks then looks at me. "How you feelin' baby? You want something to eat?" He asks as we pull into the driveway.
"I'm not that hungry but I am kind of tired." I reply before getting out of the car.
"Then let's get you inside for a nap," Owen says.
He unlocks the door and we go in to our bedroom, he helps me off with my shoes and I lay down on the bed. He lies down with me, holding me close and soon I fall asleep.
Owen's POV
Today was the start of hockey season. Everyone was in the locker room getting ready to head onto the ice but at the moment all I could do was have a glaring contest with Saunders from across the room.
"Dude quit glaring at him, we'll get him during practice and pull him through all the ringers we can." Baker said knocking me out of the glaring moment's with Saunders, causing me to nod and agree with him as our coach came in and started talking.
"Alright guy's head out to the ice and start drills. If we want to win this season we got to work hard and play hard." Coach said getting us pumped for the season as we started making our way to the ice. On the way out the door I was a shoved aside by someone and heard a whisper in my ear "you better watch yourself!" and I noticed it was Saunders trying to act tough and threaten me as Baker and I walked out behind him onto the ice with our sticks gliding on the ice.
"If that fucker thinks I'm scared of him he's got another thing coming." I muttered to Baker before the coach told him and I to start the warm up drills.
"I know." Was all that was said before we skated to different sides of the ice to start warming up.
After all the warms up coach decided to see how well we've kept in shape and been practicing so we had a scrimmage. Well looks like I get back at Saunders since Baker and I are on one team and he gets the Swiss twins team. Let the games begin.
"Think I'm going to let you mess with my friends and me again you got another thing coming." I whispered hasty to Saunders as I slammed him into the boards keeping him there until I skated towards the net with Baker having the puck and passing it to me to shoot and score.
"That's what I'm talking about teamwork. Way to go keep it up Milligan." The coach congratulated us.
"Thanks coach!" Baker and I said in unison before sitting on the bench and looking over at Saunders who was skating slow and getting yelled at. Take that asshole.
After playing for a while and our team winning of course. The coach declared practice over and we all headed towards the locker room to get ready and go home. While getting ready the coach passed out our schedules for both games and practices and along with workouts in the weight room.
"You think you'll be able to handle it all with all the Dr.'s appointments, you working and school." Luke asked looking at me as we looked over the schedule.
"Yeah I already talked to both the coach and Peter and we worked it all out and they both know if I'm late its not on purpose." I said before heading to the showers and him following me.
When I exited out of the shower and dragging a towel over my wet hair I saw the coach and Rookie talking and when the coach saw me he waved me over.
"What's up coach?" I asked wondering what rookie said to the coach.
"Milligan are you attacking Saunders on purpose?" the coach said shooing the other person away so we can talk in private.
"No I'm not you can even ask Baker. I mean I hate the guy and he and his friends have been trying to start shit with my friends and me, especially Maya. But I wouldn't take it out on him here." I said half lying half telling the truth telling the coach.
"Ok I'll talk to him. See you at the next practice Milligan." He said walking away.
"Of course but I'll be a little late Maya's got an appointment weekly now since it's getting closer to the due date." I explained to the coach reminding him.
"That's ok. Get home to your girlfriend and take care of her.' He said then continued out the door and I went to grab my stuff and meet up with Baker since I was his ride.
"What the coach want? Becky text me while you talked they found out Tori's community service is in a park picking up trash and were all going to make fun of her. Maya rode with Clare and Eli." Luke explained reading his text while walking out of the player's entrance and headed to my car.
"Saunders whined to him and I just explained to him I wasn't picking on him and intently trying to hurt him. Sweet time for some fun." I said getting into the car and heading towards are next destination.
"What a whiner." Was all Baker said.
When we pulled up we saw everyone sitting at a picnic table munching on some snacks and talking and laughing.
"Hey baby, guys." I said as Baker and I greeted everyone and I kissed Maya hello and sat next to her and Baker sat next to the only other open seat next to Zig who had his arm around Jenna, they actually do make a great couple.
"Hey how was practice?" Maya asked leaning into me rubbing her stomach.
"It was good were all looking real good and we got our schedule for the season." I said taking some of her snack from her.
"That's good maybe I'll be able to see you play after the baby's born." She said looking up at me smiling.
"That'd be amazing baby, that's if you're not tired at the time. How you feeling anyway?" I said rubbing her back.
"Ok a little tired but I'm happy to just hang with our friend's with no drama involved." She said before looking over hearing Adam talk.
"Hey look whose coming miss trash girl." Adam said making everyone laugh and point at her.
"Why don't you shut up and go away." Tori yelled over to us and causing Zig to go off.
"Why don't you do your job and pick up trash, see you missed some. By the way it's a free place to go and it's a nice day we decided to come out and enjoy time with everyone especially our girls." Zig said waving his arm to all the couples then kissing Jenna in front of her, which had me laughing at the tenner's burns.
"Look the trash is picking up the trash," Eli remarked and then high fived Adam over their girlfriend's heads.
Tori glared at us and looked like she wanted to come attack us but she was being closely watched by angry looking female cops.
After a while Maya started getting tired and we were running out of ideas to say to the wanna be bitch so we divided up and headed to our cars and headed home for the night. After dropping Zig, Luke, Becky and Jenna home we went home just in time for dinner and to spend some time together.
Maya's POV
The bell rang and I left class with Zig, Becky and Adam to go to lunch while we glared at Tori and Cam. On our way to the caf we were joined by Clare and Jenna.
"Ready for your doctor's appointment this afternoon?" Adam asked Clare.
"So long as the doctor tells me this cast can come off then yes." She replies.
"Tired of the cast already?" Owen teased her as he and Luke joined us and Owen put his arm around me.
"It's been a month, its driving crazy, I would like to use my hand again!" She complains.
"I'll be your hands," Eli smirks going up behind her and putting his arms under hers, then tickling her.
"Agh! Eli!" She shrieks trying to hit him but not able to quite reach the back of his head with her one good hand. "Adam smack him in the back of the head for me please." She requests.
"Sure Clare," Adam smiles and then does so.
"Ow!" Whines Eli.
"Thank you," Clare says and the rest of us laugh as we enter the caf.
"Okay you two go sit while the rest of us get lunch," Owen says giving me a quick kiss and gently pulling Clare away from her boyfriend.
Clare and Eli share a quick kiss too and then she and I start walking to an empty table.
"Oh goodness," I exclaim putting my hand on a table to steady myself.
Clare stops and looks at me worried. "Maya are you okay? Are you dizzy? Is the baby coming? Do you need Owen?" Clare asks in one breath putting her hand on my arm.
"No no I'm okay, the baby just turned." I tell her and she just looks at me. "He flipped over and shifted a little lower, it just means he's starting to get ready to come out. I'm okay it was just a lot of movement, felt very weird." I assure her.
"Okay good you had me worried, come on there's a table right here let's sit down." She says taking me by the arm and we sit at the nearest table.
Everyone else joins us a couple minutes later, Owen placing a lunch tray in front of me and Eli one in front of Clare.
"The baby turned, he's sitting low now," I tell Owen putting his hand on my belly.
"Whoa he really did move down." Owen smiles.
"Does that mean you'll be going into labor soon?" Becky asks.
"No just means he's getting ready but it could be weeks still, probably will be." I assure them.
"Oh good," Becky smiles.
"Hey has anyone seen my brother? He's usually one of the first people at lunch." Owen comments and we all stop eating realizing he's right. Everyone shakes they're head and looks around the caf but there's no sign of Tristan, Owen gets out his phone and calls him but he doesn't answer. "He's not answering his phone either I have to go find him!" Owen states getting up from the table.
"We'll go with you," Luke says standing up with Eli, Adam and Zig.
"Jenna and I will check the music room," Becky says.
"Clare and i will look in the resource center he might be there checking facerange or something." I suggest.
"Great, call me if you find him and be careful Baby." Owen says kissing my cheek.
We all get up walking out of the caf and separating to go find Tris. He's not in the resource center or by his locker.
"Wait sometimes when something's wrong Tris goes to the second floor boy's bathroom." I tell Clare when we get to the stairs.
"Okay you stay down here I'll go look," she says.
I nod and sit down on the steps, Clare goes up and I wait then a minute I hear her and look up.
"Maya call Owen I found him, Cam beat him up!" Clare says with an angry and worried tone.
"Oh my god that bastard!" I exclaim getting out my phone. "Tris is in the second floor boy's bathroom, apparently Cam beat him up!" I tell Owen through the phone.
"He did what?! Rookie is a fucking dead man, we're on our way baby." Owen tells me and hangs up.
Owen and Luke come first, Owen running up the stairs fast. Eli, Adam and Zig are next and then Becky and Jenna sit down with me as Clare comes down the stairs and joins us.
"The guys are taking care of him; they're cleaning him up a bit before taking him to the nurse." Clare tells us.
"Is he okay?" I ask her.
"He's going to have a black eye, he's got a busted lip, and probably a broken nose and he was kicked in the ribs a few times." Clare says.
A couple minutes later Owen and the guys come down the stairs and we all get up. We all walk with Tris to the nurse's office, his shirt is covered in blood and he looks like hell. The nurse looks shocked when she sees him and tells Owen to call his mom that Tris needs to go to the doctor. Owen calls Heather and tells us his mom's on his way. We all go out to the front steps to wait for her with Tris and then Owen starts walking away.
"Where are you going?" I ask.
"To find Rookie and rip his throat out!" Owen sates.
"Owen beating up Cam isn't…" I try but it's no use Owen walks off followed by Eli and Luke.
"Just let him do it, Cam got the drop on me, cold cocked me from a round a blind corner and then kicked me a bunch of times when I fell on the ground." Tris tells us angrily.
Owen's POV
I stalk off to find Saunders followed by Luke and Eli, I'm pretty sure he's eating on the bleachers of the football field since I heard that's where he and those two bitches have been eating recently. I see them as we get near the football field and I run over grabbing Rookie by the collar and tossing him to the ground. Those two bitches get up and start hitting me but Luke and Eli each grab one and stop them.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU SAUNDERS! TOO AFRAID TO TAKE ME ON SO YOU GO AFTER MY BROTHER YOU FUCKING COWARD?!" I holler at him.
He gets up holding up his fists like he's going to try and fight me. He takes a swing but I dodge it and punch him hard, giving him a black eye to match the one he gave Tris! He stumbles back and I give him an uppercut to the jaw and then a couple more strong hits before he falls to the ground.
"Stay down you fucking loser!" I command him.
"We'll see you at practice asshole," Luke adds.
"Why don't the three of you get a fucking clue and some fucking lives and leave us alone!" Eli barks at them.
We turn around and head back for the stairs, the others are still there but Tris is gone now, Mom must have picked him up.
"Heather came and got Tris, she's taking him to the doctor. She said she'd call when they were done. So how bad did you kill Cam?" Maya smiles at me.
"Not as much as I wanted too but we'll get him at practice this afternoon too." I tell her.
"I told your mom we'd take Maya home and come over after school to help take care of Tris and Maya since you have a practice and a short shift at the Dot after that." Clare tells me.
"Thanks Clare," I say with a grateful smile as I take Maya into my arms.
"You don't mind do you?" She asks Eli.
"No of course not," he smiles kissing her.
"Adam and I are coming over too, Luke can you pick me up after practice?" She asks her brother.
"Not a problem," he says just as the bell rings.
"Come on beautiful I'll walk you to class." I tell Maya putting my arm around her as we all walk in.
Luke and I started practice with a quick warm up and then puck drills. The drills went on for about 30 minutes until the coach decided to have us work in groups to help with our stick handling, and would you know lucky Baker and I get Saunders in our group oh joy.
"Come on Saunders let's get this over with." I said looking over at the younger boy and skating towards an open spot for the three of us.
The whole time we were stick handling dirty looks where thrown at each other but I thought we were handling it pretty civilly until Saunders decided he wanted revenge.
"Come on Saunders try harder.' I said skating back and forth with the puck trying to get rookie to steal it from me as Baker watched on waiting for his turn. When I felt instant pain in my right knee just as I skated past him and then meeting the ice.
"Ahhhh!" I screamed out in pain causing the coach to race over as I grabbed my knee.
"What happened?" the coach asked as he kneeled by me.
"Saunders hit Owen in the knee with his stick." Baker explained as I was in too much pain to talk.
"It was an accident." Saunders said lying through his teeth since both Baker and I knew he did it on purpose.
"Like…hell...it…was." I said through the pain clutching my jaw together.
"Ok let's get you off the ice practice for the day." The coach said standing and along with Baker helped me up, even skating was making it hard on my knee.
When we made it to the locker room and everyone headed to their lockers to change I limped my way to my locker and sat on the bench and rolled up my pad of my right leg and already saw it starting to bruise and swell a little.
"That little fucker." I said getting Baker's attention and glaring over at Saunders who was smirking at me.
"Shit dude that looks bad maybe you should call off and rest that knee dude." Baker said looking over my knee.
"I know and it sucks cause we need the money but my knee is throbbing and it even hurts to move it and bend." I said as I tried to do just that and winced in pain.
"It's just one day." Baker said as he handed me my clothes from the locker and we got changed quickly and got our equipment packed up and as stood to stand it hurt to even move my knee little as I limped slowly with my equipment to the players entrance and making it slowly to where mine and Baker's car was parked and loaded our stuff in.
"Are you ok to drive with your knee?" Baker as he looked over at me since I was leaning against the car.
"Yeah I'll be fine your heading to my house to pick Becky up remember, so you'll be following me the whole way." I said limping to the driver's door and getting in and waiting for Baker to get into his before heading out of the parking lot and towards home.
Driving was starting to hurt my knee since I needed to put pressure every time I stopped or go. But we finally made it to my house. Now it was just to call Peter and rest and ice my knee and even spend time with Maya.
By the time I got home my knee was so painful I could barely walk and Luke helped me to the door.
"What happened to you?" Eli asked when we came in making everyone else look over at us.
"Rookie whacked his knee hard with his stick. Told coach it was an accident of curse." Luke told them.
Tris moved over so I could sit next to Maya, she put her arms around me and kissed me.
"Saunders has turned into a real jerk this last year! First he beat up Tristan, then he hit your knee, how bad is it?" Eli asked.
"OUCH!" Eli, Adam, Clare and Tris all said together after I rolled my pant leg up and showed them.
"Here I got you some ice." Becky said handing me an ice pack in a towel.
"Thanks," I smiled.
"You're mom went to the store she'll be back soon. The doctor said Tris had a couple of cracked ribs and he should stay home from school tomorrow. With your knee you should probably stay home and rest it." Adam said.
"Maybe we'll all stay home from school tomorrow and rest." Maya said cuddling up to me.
"Yeah right now though I have to call Peter since I can't work my shift tonight." I told them taking out my phone. "Hi Peter I'm really sorry but I can't work tonight."
"Everything okay?" Peter asked.
"Maya's ex hit my knee with his stick, it's bruised pretty badly and I can't put much weight on it for long." I told him.
"That sucks I'm sorry, don't worry about it, it's slow anyway rest up your knee." Peter told me.
"Thanks man." I replied and hung up.
Mom came home and wasn't happy that Rookie had hurt my knee. Mom started dinner and our friends left to go to their own houses. Between Tristan's ribs and the pain meds he went to bed pretty early. Even me and Maya went to bed right after dinner, we didn't fall asleep right away we watched a movie. Mom gave me one of Tristan's pain pills to put me out though. Next day the three of us pretty much spent all day on couch watching movies at least by the time I went to bed my knee was feeling a lot better and the swelling had gone down.
Mayas POV
"Rookie is dead when we get back to school Monday." Owen said as he helped me on with my gown at our doctor's appointment.
"Owen don't please, I'm not saying Cam doesn't deserve it because he does but if you hurt him again he's just going to hurt you again." I pleaded with him taking his face in my hands so he'd look at me. "Or he could go after one of our friends, or Tristan or me. Just let it go, work him extra hard in practice if you have too but no revenge beating please."
"Okay for you I'll keep it to practice's." Owen said kissing me just as the doctor knocked on the door.
"Come in," we both said breaking from the kiss.
"Good morning guys, Maya why don't you lie back," the doctor said turning on the ultrasound machine. Once I was lying back Owen pulled up my gown to show the bulge in my belly. "How are you feeling?" The doctor asked.
"Good but he turned the other day," I tell the doctor.
"He certainly did," the doctor nodded turning the monitor so we could see. "He still has to move down, I'd say you have a few more weeks yet but everything looks great. Make an appointment on your way out and call us if you have any questions or concerns." The doctor said.
The doctor left the room and Owen helped me get dressed again. We made an appointment for next week on our way out and got in the car to meet our friends at the Dot for lunch.
When we arrived we seen everyone in the corner talking and we went to join them after saying hi to Peter.
"Hey guys." I said as Owen helped me sit before sitting himself.
"Hey chicken little how was the appointment?" Katie asked sitting between Jake and Adam.
"It was good the Dr. said everything was ok and I should be ok for another few weeks before I could go into labor." I explained to overtone what the Dr. said.
"Everything is already set to go to incase she does go into labor to, just like he told us to do." Owen said picking up where I left off on confusing everyone.
"What you mean?" Becky asked what everyone was wondering.
"Like the birthing plan is all worked out of all the stuff that will be needed to take to the hospital, who's going to be in the room with us and all that other stuff." Owen explained as he rubbed my back.
"The bag is all packed to and sitting in the closet. Katie I was hoping you'll be in the room with us when he's born." I said before turning to my sister.
"Really what about Tris?" Katie asked exceed but wondering.
"They already talked with me and I'm ok with staying in the hall." Tris said explaining excitedly.
"Yes of course ill be there with you." Katie said crying.
"Great!" Owen and I said unusually excited.
"Well now on to something else. How about another party." Eli said bring up something great to everyone's ears.
"What kind of party?" Owen asked wonderingly.
"Halloween's coming up in a couple weeks, so a costumes party. We can make sure the three amigos don't find out. But we can invite a few guys from your hockey team, Connor, Dave. CeeCee and Bullfrog already ok it and will be gone for the night." Eli said explaining everything to us and nodding to Baker and I when he mentioned the team.
"I think it's a great idea and it's always fun to dress up." Clare said nodding to her boyfriend and causing a chain reaction to the rest of us.
"We're in and I'll talk to some of the guys when Saunders isn't around." Owen said letting him know that where in.
"I'm in." Tris and Luke said in unison.
"So are we." The rest of the couples answered back.
"Great I'll work on setting everything up. Peter you're invited too." Eli called over to him.
"Cool count me in. Oh Spin and Em are going to be out for Halloween too, can they come?" Peter asked.
"Yeah of course." Eli nodded.
'This will be so much fun." I said leaning into Owen and causing everyone to chuckle at me.
We can't wait for Halloween.