I've decided to do the disclaimer again so yeah . . .
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the original mighty duck characters. I own Paige and all of the other characters that weren't in the movies.
I'm sorry my reviewers I forgot to write back to you in the last chapter! And that it took so long to post I just did A LOT of editing there were three different ways that Connie had told Guy that she loved him, I cut out a whole scene with Fulton and Paige and there was a really bad Dwayne scene that I cut. I also rewrote the Paige and Charlie scene! And the chapter was still 'ok' in my opinion anyway.
Beaner (Ktmeister, Beanzy): 23: I'm glad that you liked the chapter and I didn't take 'fairly decent' as an insult. Thank you for another one of your ever so loved reviews!
24: yes Portman was acting mature strange huh? Yes it is annoying when two couples are on the phone and you are waiting for them to get off. Where do you think I got the idea? I practically have to pry the phone out of my sister's hand when I need to use it and she's on it with her bf! I am so unbelievably happy that you don't want Charlie and Paige to break up! When I read it I started to dance in my chair it was crazy! And if they are going to be broken up or not you will have to read and find out! You like the count down thing? I thought it was the best out of the three! Of course you haven't read the other two . . . Maybe I should have a chapter of deleted and alternate scenes? Any way thank you for your review! (Wow I use a lot of explanation points!!!!!! Ha ha)
Banksiesbabe99: 23: Ok that little conversation was funny a little confusing but still fun to read!
24: Your and Adam conversations wouldn't and don't bore me to tears! I'm glad that you liked that Connie told Guy that she loved him on the stroke of midnight I thought that it might have been too corny I had two other ways to do it but I chose that one because well I like corny stuff. Yes Paige is messing with Charlie but I hope that this chapter will provide more of an explanation. I am fine with you not liking her again, I would be really really happy if you did like her but I can see why she had gotten back onto your bad side hopefully she'll get back onto your good side.
HighOnLife: hello new reviewer! I like Dean and Julie fics better too but the way I wrote this one she kind of had to end up with Adam . . . but as you said 'o well'.
anne918: Good to know you don't hate Portman and everyone makes those types of mistakes you aren't an idiot. I'm happy you liked the Adam and Julie stuff or should I say fluff?
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ [There is going to be a slight relapse as you can read! Maybe I shouldn't have written this . . .]
"I love you" she spoke out loud.
"Happy New Year!"
She stood there in shock. 'I can't believe I just said that' she thought.
"I love you too," he told her smiling
"Really?" she asked unsure "Or are you just saying that because I told you?"
"No Connie I really do love you" he reassured her
She smiled brightly as joy and relief washed over her. "I love you too," she told him happy that she could now say it with ease.
He took her into his arms and kissed her affectionately.
"Happy New Year" he grinned
"You too" she smile widely back.
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"Happy New Year!"
"Its mid night already?" Paige asked taking Charlie's wrist and looking at his watch stepping away from their hold.
"Yep Happy New Year"
"Right back at you" she smirked and walked over to the neatly made bed and laid on top of the fluffy covers. He went over and laid beside her, there was still one question that he needed to ask her.
"Paige what happened to you?" he inquired looking at her.
"What do you mean?" she frowned looking back at him.
"What happened to you to make you think that you needed to protect me from you?" he asked
"I thought we already covered this" she sighed
"You never answered the question" he corrected her shaking his head
"Can't we just lay her" she took him arm and wrapped it around her and nuzzled up to his chest "and just save the trip down memory lane for another time?" she peered up at his face hopefully. She was afraid of how much she was going to tell, how carried away she could get with her crisp memories. Memories that had put a permanent wounds in her, some that would never heal never completely.
He gave her a look that told her that he wasn't going to except that. There was so much that he didn't understand about her and needed to know. He knew that things had happened to her. How could he help her if she didn't tell him about them? And he wanted to help her so much, if she would just let him.
"Fine" she gave in and reluctantly began to tell him "There have just been a lot of bad endings in my life and I didn't want you" she paused "and me to go through that" she had to except that it wasn't just Charlie she had tried to protect, she was amazed that she had managed to fool herself for so long.
"What kind of bad ends?" he asked tightening his grip on her comfortingly.
"The kind where the mother leaves her husband and kid, the boyfriend cheats on his girlfriend and where another boyfriend treats the said girlfriend like crap" she answered with an ironic tone. She wanted to keep it short and light.
"But those things happened to you, you didn't do any of that stuff to them so why would you think you were going to hurt me?" he asked still confused
"There was also things that I did" she whispered feelings tears swell up in her eyes but she blinked them back. The horrible memories fled back to her memories that she had tried to keep buried. "But I basically think that I'm cursed" she said making him laugh. She moved her head so her ear was over his heart it was beating steadily.
"Care to elaborate?" he asked curiously
She bit her lip, she had already shared so much with him already, more then she had with anyone else. "On which part?"
"How about your mother leaving you I can kind of relate to that" he said staring at the ceiling.
"What I thought that you lived with your mom and step dad" she lifted her head so she could look him in the eye.
"My mom left and I left my dad when I was younger, so young that I don't really remember him" he confessed
"You're lucky" she said and saw his confused look "because you don't remember" she explained resting her head back onto his chest and listened to his heart and began to tell him.
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Flash back to Toronto when Paige (and the rest of the Ducks) was in grade five.
Paige opened her apartment door with her key and entered the messy area. She wiped her tear-stained cheeks and her nose with her muddy sleeve causing the sludge to be spread over her face.
She had been walking home on a beautiful spring day when she saw some boys playing football. She had asked if she could play with them and they responded by shoving her into to a mud puddle telling her that girls couldn't play football. Paige ran the rest of the way home crying. She had been excluded one more time.
She kicked a couple of empty bottles out of her way and entered her parents' room. It reeked of alcohol. But instead of her seeing her mom lying on her bed watching TV with some kind of drink in hand the room was empty and she noticed that the closet was open. She rushed over to it and saw that the suitcases and most of her mother's clothes were missing. She went over to her mother's dresser and opened the drawers and found only couple of bottles and half eaten TV dinners. Paige slowly walked into the small kitchen and frantically moved the food-incrusted dishes to the side looking for a note. Usually whenever her mother left she would leave a note to her father, it was one of the few responsible things that she did.
Finally she found it. She picked it up gingerly and read it:
Garth, I have to leave this place and find something better. I haven't been happy for a long time and I need to be. I won't tell you where I am going because I am not sure. I signed the last of the papers we are officially divorced now you can have a nice life with that tramp. Tell Paige to look after herself. Mary
Paige read it over and over as more tears poured out of her eyes. She didn't understand. Her parents had gotten a divorce? Why wasn't her mother happy? Was it something she had done?
She fell to the floor a disbelief numbness taking over her. She couldn't comprehend it, her mother was gone and she didn't know if she was ever going to come back. She felt alone. 'My own mother didn't love me enough to stay with me' she thought. She stayed there on the floor in till her father got home the next morning like usual. He found Paige lying on the cold kitchen floor asleep, covered in dirt with the note in her hand.
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Back to 'present'
"When my father got home I showed him the letter" she finished. She had just told him the abbreviated version she had left out the boys that had pushed her, her tears, her falling as sleep on the floor and there weren't as many bottles involved. She waited for him to say something.
"Charlie?" she asked and lifted her head to see his face.
"That's terrible" he said and wondered if it would be too much to ask her what happened with the other people she had mentioned before. He could sense that her mother leaving her was only the beginning.
"There's something else on your mind" she said sitting up and crossing her legs so one of her thighs were against his side and she was facing him.
"Only what you just told me," he said looking up at her.
"No there is something else. You want to know about my ex-boyfriends," she said poking him gently in his stomach wondering how much she would tell him.
"Well . . ." he shrugged
"There was Ray," she said with a small smile. She shook her head "and then there was Mark," she said softly and the smile had been replaced with a scowl.
He waited for her to continue.
"Do you really want to know this?" she asked frowning. Did he want to know about the passion and hate that she had shared with Mark. How she loved him so much but despised him at the same time?
"I don't need to know if they were good kissers or anything like that but I still would like to know," he answered grimacing when he said 'good kisser'.
"Mark was the latest and he was an asshole," she told him shortly not wanting to say anymore about him. She couldn't expose part of herself it was too painful. There was too much emotion involved.
"I met Ray the summer between grade six and seven, he introduced me to the partying side of life. I broke up with him when I walked in on his cheating on me with my 'best friend'" she used her fingers for quotes "Melanie, she was my first girlfriend except she wasn't really a friend at all she just wanted to get to Ray which she did. So I was single and fancy free entering junior high," she said with a joking voice. She left out the other things that Ray had introduced her to there was no need to tell him everything.
"So then you met Mark in grade seven?" he asked knowing that there was something about Mark that made it so hard for her to talk about.
"Yes there were one or two week long relationships and then I met Mark" she told him all of the memories of Mark coming back to her. The way his leather jacket smelt, how he played his guitar, how he kissed her and touched her. How much he hurt her, how she hurt him. How he could drain her yet still want more and she still need him.
"How did you break up?" he inquired shaking her out of her thoughts.
"Which time?" she asked and before he could response she smile mischievously "Ok it's my turn I want to know about Linda"
"Oh no" he groaned
"You cannot honestly think you aren't going to tell me after all of that I dished to you" she told him seriously
"Linda cheated on me" he told her hoping that would end the conversation.
"Looks like we're in the same boat with the cheating. Ok before Linda who was your girlfriend?" she asked happy that the focus was off of her and that her thoughts of Mark were fading away, even though she was sure they would come back again she was content at the moment.
He blushed slightly and didn't speak.
"Linda was your only girlfriend?" she stifled a giggle.
"Yes she was my first real girlfriend. Before her I had those not really girlfriends, you know when you spend more time talking about how you are a couple with your friends then with each other" he said his blush almost gone.
"You don't have to explain yourself to me Charlie I think it's cute that you've only had one girlfriend" she smiled moved and rested her back against the headboard and stretched out her legs.
"Wait your Linda isn't sign my petition or I'll kill you Linda is it?" she asked looking down at him. "Because that Linda blew up at me when I didn't sign her petition about having more of a vegetarian selection in the cafeteria and started to lecture Julie because she was drinking a coke"
"That's the one," he confirmed.
"And I thought that I had bad taste"
"Hey" he said looking up at her, "You picked me didn't you?"
"Like I said I have bad taste," she teased.
"Ah come here" he growled playfully and pulled her on top of him and into a hot kiss.
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"Happy New Year!"
"Oh I have to call Julie" Adam said reaching into his pocket for his cell phone.
"She has you on a short leash already," Fulton said shaking his head
"Yeah when are you to going to tie the not?" Averman asked, "May I suggest pink flowers for the china pattern?"
Adam just rolled his eyes as he punched in Julie's number.
"Hello?" a gruff male voice answered
"Hi can I talk to Julie?" Adam asked walking out side where it was more quite.
The voice grunted and was replaced by Julie's sweat one "Hello?"
"Hi Jules it's Adam. Happy New Year" he smiled just hearing her voice stirred something inside him.
"Hey Happy New Year" she said back. Adam heard a loud crash. "Oh God look I can't talk now I've got to go"
Her voice was gone and Adam was left outside with his phone in hand not making a sound. He turned it off and slipped it back into his pocket. He couldn't wait to see her again when there couldn't be some distraction to get in the way.
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End of Chapter
Do not worry there will be Julie and Adam in the next chapter and Connie and Guy so keep your hats on in till then. Ok I hope you liked the chapter!
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the original mighty duck characters. I own Paige and all of the other characters that weren't in the movies.
I'm sorry my reviewers I forgot to write back to you in the last chapter! And that it took so long to post I just did A LOT of editing there were three different ways that Connie had told Guy that she loved him, I cut out a whole scene with Fulton and Paige and there was a really bad Dwayne scene that I cut. I also rewrote the Paige and Charlie scene! And the chapter was still 'ok' in my opinion anyway.
Beaner (Ktmeister, Beanzy): 23: I'm glad that you liked the chapter and I didn't take 'fairly decent' as an insult. Thank you for another one of your ever so loved reviews!
24: yes Portman was acting mature strange huh? Yes it is annoying when two couples are on the phone and you are waiting for them to get off. Where do you think I got the idea? I practically have to pry the phone out of my sister's hand when I need to use it and she's on it with her bf! I am so unbelievably happy that you don't want Charlie and Paige to break up! When I read it I started to dance in my chair it was crazy! And if they are going to be broken up or not you will have to read and find out! You like the count down thing? I thought it was the best out of the three! Of course you haven't read the other two . . . Maybe I should have a chapter of deleted and alternate scenes? Any way thank you for your review! (Wow I use a lot of explanation points!!!!!! Ha ha)
Banksiesbabe99: 23: Ok that little conversation was funny a little confusing but still fun to read!
24: Your and Adam conversations wouldn't and don't bore me to tears! I'm glad that you liked that Connie told Guy that she loved him on the stroke of midnight I thought that it might have been too corny I had two other ways to do it but I chose that one because well I like corny stuff. Yes Paige is messing with Charlie but I hope that this chapter will provide more of an explanation. I am fine with you not liking her again, I would be really really happy if you did like her but I can see why she had gotten back onto your bad side hopefully she'll get back onto your good side.
HighOnLife: hello new reviewer! I like Dean and Julie fics better too but the way I wrote this one she kind of had to end up with Adam . . . but as you said 'o well'.
anne918: Good to know you don't hate Portman and everyone makes those types of mistakes you aren't an idiot. I'm happy you liked the Adam and Julie stuff or should I say fluff?
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ [There is going to be a slight relapse as you can read! Maybe I shouldn't have written this . . .]
"I love you" she spoke out loud.
"Happy New Year!"
She stood there in shock. 'I can't believe I just said that' she thought.
"I love you too," he told her smiling
"Really?" she asked unsure "Or are you just saying that because I told you?"
"No Connie I really do love you" he reassured her
She smiled brightly as joy and relief washed over her. "I love you too," she told him happy that she could now say it with ease.
He took her into his arms and kissed her affectionately.
"Happy New Year" he grinned
"You too" she smile widely back.
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"Happy New Year!"
"Its mid night already?" Paige asked taking Charlie's wrist and looking at his watch stepping away from their hold.
"Yep Happy New Year"
"Right back at you" she smirked and walked over to the neatly made bed and laid on top of the fluffy covers. He went over and laid beside her, there was still one question that he needed to ask her.
"Paige what happened to you?" he inquired looking at her.
"What do you mean?" she frowned looking back at him.
"What happened to you to make you think that you needed to protect me from you?" he asked
"I thought we already covered this" she sighed
"You never answered the question" he corrected her shaking his head
"Can't we just lay her" she took him arm and wrapped it around her and nuzzled up to his chest "and just save the trip down memory lane for another time?" she peered up at his face hopefully. She was afraid of how much she was going to tell, how carried away she could get with her crisp memories. Memories that had put a permanent wounds in her, some that would never heal never completely.
He gave her a look that told her that he wasn't going to except that. There was so much that he didn't understand about her and needed to know. He knew that things had happened to her. How could he help her if she didn't tell him about them? And he wanted to help her so much, if she would just let him.
"Fine" she gave in and reluctantly began to tell him "There have just been a lot of bad endings in my life and I didn't want you" she paused "and me to go through that" she had to except that it wasn't just Charlie she had tried to protect, she was amazed that she had managed to fool herself for so long.
"What kind of bad ends?" he asked tightening his grip on her comfortingly.
"The kind where the mother leaves her husband and kid, the boyfriend cheats on his girlfriend and where another boyfriend treats the said girlfriend like crap" she answered with an ironic tone. She wanted to keep it short and light.
"But those things happened to you, you didn't do any of that stuff to them so why would you think you were going to hurt me?" he asked still confused
"There was also things that I did" she whispered feelings tears swell up in her eyes but she blinked them back. The horrible memories fled back to her memories that she had tried to keep buried. "But I basically think that I'm cursed" she said making him laugh. She moved her head so her ear was over his heart it was beating steadily.
"Care to elaborate?" he asked curiously
She bit her lip, she had already shared so much with him already, more then she had with anyone else. "On which part?"
"How about your mother leaving you I can kind of relate to that" he said staring at the ceiling.
"What I thought that you lived with your mom and step dad" she lifted her head so she could look him in the eye.
"My mom left and I left my dad when I was younger, so young that I don't really remember him" he confessed
"You're lucky" she said and saw his confused look "because you don't remember" she explained resting her head back onto his chest and listened to his heart and began to tell him.
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Flash back to Toronto when Paige (and the rest of the Ducks) was in grade five.
Paige opened her apartment door with her key and entered the messy area. She wiped her tear-stained cheeks and her nose with her muddy sleeve causing the sludge to be spread over her face.
She had been walking home on a beautiful spring day when she saw some boys playing football. She had asked if she could play with them and they responded by shoving her into to a mud puddle telling her that girls couldn't play football. Paige ran the rest of the way home crying. She had been excluded one more time.
She kicked a couple of empty bottles out of her way and entered her parents' room. It reeked of alcohol. But instead of her seeing her mom lying on her bed watching TV with some kind of drink in hand the room was empty and she noticed that the closet was open. She rushed over to it and saw that the suitcases and most of her mother's clothes were missing. She went over to her mother's dresser and opened the drawers and found only couple of bottles and half eaten TV dinners. Paige slowly walked into the small kitchen and frantically moved the food-incrusted dishes to the side looking for a note. Usually whenever her mother left she would leave a note to her father, it was one of the few responsible things that she did.
Finally she found it. She picked it up gingerly and read it:
Garth, I have to leave this place and find something better. I haven't been happy for a long time and I need to be. I won't tell you where I am going because I am not sure. I signed the last of the papers we are officially divorced now you can have a nice life with that tramp. Tell Paige to look after herself. Mary
Paige read it over and over as more tears poured out of her eyes. She didn't understand. Her parents had gotten a divorce? Why wasn't her mother happy? Was it something she had done?
She fell to the floor a disbelief numbness taking over her. She couldn't comprehend it, her mother was gone and she didn't know if she was ever going to come back. She felt alone. 'My own mother didn't love me enough to stay with me' she thought. She stayed there on the floor in till her father got home the next morning like usual. He found Paige lying on the cold kitchen floor asleep, covered in dirt with the note in her hand.
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Back to 'present'
"When my father got home I showed him the letter" she finished. She had just told him the abbreviated version she had left out the boys that had pushed her, her tears, her falling as sleep on the floor and there weren't as many bottles involved. She waited for him to say something.
"Charlie?" she asked and lifted her head to see his face.
"That's terrible" he said and wondered if it would be too much to ask her what happened with the other people she had mentioned before. He could sense that her mother leaving her was only the beginning.
"There's something else on your mind" she said sitting up and crossing her legs so one of her thighs were against his side and she was facing him.
"Only what you just told me," he said looking up at her.
"No there is something else. You want to know about my ex-boyfriends," she said poking him gently in his stomach wondering how much she would tell him.
"Well . . ." he shrugged
"There was Ray," she said with a small smile. She shook her head "and then there was Mark," she said softly and the smile had been replaced with a scowl.
He waited for her to continue.
"Do you really want to know this?" she asked frowning. Did he want to know about the passion and hate that she had shared with Mark. How she loved him so much but despised him at the same time?
"I don't need to know if they were good kissers or anything like that but I still would like to know," he answered grimacing when he said 'good kisser'.
"Mark was the latest and he was an asshole," she told him shortly not wanting to say anymore about him. She couldn't expose part of herself it was too painful. There was too much emotion involved.
"I met Ray the summer between grade six and seven, he introduced me to the partying side of life. I broke up with him when I walked in on his cheating on me with my 'best friend'" she used her fingers for quotes "Melanie, she was my first girlfriend except she wasn't really a friend at all she just wanted to get to Ray which she did. So I was single and fancy free entering junior high," she said with a joking voice. She left out the other things that Ray had introduced her to there was no need to tell him everything.
"So then you met Mark in grade seven?" he asked knowing that there was something about Mark that made it so hard for her to talk about.
"Yes there were one or two week long relationships and then I met Mark" she told him all of the memories of Mark coming back to her. The way his leather jacket smelt, how he played his guitar, how he kissed her and touched her. How much he hurt her, how she hurt him. How he could drain her yet still want more and she still need him.
"How did you break up?" he inquired shaking her out of her thoughts.
"Which time?" she asked and before he could response she smile mischievously "Ok it's my turn I want to know about Linda"
"Oh no" he groaned
"You cannot honestly think you aren't going to tell me after all of that I dished to you" she told him seriously
"Linda cheated on me" he told her hoping that would end the conversation.
"Looks like we're in the same boat with the cheating. Ok before Linda who was your girlfriend?" she asked happy that the focus was off of her and that her thoughts of Mark were fading away, even though she was sure they would come back again she was content at the moment.
He blushed slightly and didn't speak.
"Linda was your only girlfriend?" she stifled a giggle.
"Yes she was my first real girlfriend. Before her I had those not really girlfriends, you know when you spend more time talking about how you are a couple with your friends then with each other" he said his blush almost gone.
"You don't have to explain yourself to me Charlie I think it's cute that you've only had one girlfriend" she smiled moved and rested her back against the headboard and stretched out her legs.
"Wait your Linda isn't sign my petition or I'll kill you Linda is it?" she asked looking down at him. "Because that Linda blew up at me when I didn't sign her petition about having more of a vegetarian selection in the cafeteria and started to lecture Julie because she was drinking a coke"
"That's the one," he confirmed.
"And I thought that I had bad taste"
"Hey" he said looking up at her, "You picked me didn't you?"
"Like I said I have bad taste," she teased.
"Ah come here" he growled playfully and pulled her on top of him and into a hot kiss.
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"Happy New Year!"
"Oh I have to call Julie" Adam said reaching into his pocket for his cell phone.
"She has you on a short leash already," Fulton said shaking his head
"Yeah when are you to going to tie the not?" Averman asked, "May I suggest pink flowers for the china pattern?"
Adam just rolled his eyes as he punched in Julie's number.
"Hello?" a gruff male voice answered
"Hi can I talk to Julie?" Adam asked walking out side where it was more quite.
The voice grunted and was replaced by Julie's sweat one "Hello?"
"Hi Jules it's Adam. Happy New Year" he smiled just hearing her voice stirred something inside him.
"Hey Happy New Year" she said back. Adam heard a loud crash. "Oh God look I can't talk now I've got to go"
Her voice was gone and Adam was left outside with his phone in hand not making a sound. He turned it off and slipped it back into his pocket. He couldn't wait to see her again when there couldn't be some distraction to get in the way.
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End of Chapter
Do not worry there will be Julie and Adam in the next chapter and Connie and Guy so keep your hats on in till then. Ok I hope you liked the chapter!