The Best That You Can Be
PG-13 (just in case)
DISCLAIMER- I don't own the Mighty Ducks or the characters except for my own that I made up. If I did then well I would be rich and doing other stuff.
My Changes to the MD story line- Charlie Conway has a twin sister Caitlin who also played on the District 5 hockey team, the Junior Goodwill Games, and got accepted to Eden Hall Academy. At Eden Hall- they wear uniforms (never heard of a prep school in my neck of the woods that doesn't). Casey Conway did not get married in the second movie, instead she went back to college and got a degree in business and is now a manager at the diner she has worked at for many years with dreams of opening her own restaurant some day. Basically follows the third movie but with some minor changes (a sister, no romance with Linda, Dean did come to school with them and new couples)
Summary- Charlie and his sister Caitlin begin high school at Eden Hall Academy with the ducks and face many trials and tribulations as their high school hockey careers begin.
Chapter 1Caitlin Conway looked at her reflection in the mirror and tried to see if the dress she was wearing would look good enough for meeting with the Dean of Eden Hall Academy. She caught a glimpse of something out in the corner of the left side of the mirror and turned to yell at her brother.
"Charlie what are you doing?" She demanded
"Nothing, just laughing at you. I mean come on you're going to be wearing your Ducks jersey over the dress anyway." Charlie stated.
Caitlin stared at her reflection and hung her head. He was right; she was going to have the Ducks jersey over the dress- what did it matter? It did matter to her in some little way; she was hoping that she might look more like a girl and less like a boy to a certain someone.
The meeting with the dean turned into a press conference in front of the school in which the Ducks were granted Full 4 year scholarships to the school. That was the fun part. The not so fun part was finding out later that Coach Bombay would not be joining the Ducks- he was given a high up position with the Junior Goodwill Hockey people thus handing them over to a new coach.
Caitlin was not really thrilled with the thought of a new coach- but as long as she had the team, she knew things would be ok.
The week before school was to start, a letter came from Eden Hall stating that beginning this year all athletes would be living on campus in order to promote team unity and stuff like that. But unfortunately the Athletic Hall as it was being called was two weeks away from being completed, so the in state Ducks would live at home until they could move into their dorm rooms.
Caitlin was in her room packing up some of her room that would go to Eden Hall during the year. She had piles of stuff that needed to go into some boxes and bags. The only thing that was fully packed and ready was her hockey bag, and a suitcase full of the Eden Hall uniform which consisted of a plaid skirt (colors of red, black, white mixed in), white blouse, red cross tie, black sweater or sweater vest, white socks and brown loafers. On Special days a Black blazer was worn. On cold days a wool pea coat and wool tights was added.
Caitlin was trying to figure out which of her books would go into which box when all of a sudden they were grabbed out of her hand.
"What the.." Caitlin started to say.
"Cate, Cate, why do you have to pack all of your books?" the voice said.
"Julie, not all of them are that bad. I mean I gave her a couple of them for her birthday last year." Said the other voice.
When Caitlin turned around there standing in her room debating on her books were her two best friends- Connie Moreau and Julie Gaffney. Shacking her head, Caitlin grabbed the books out of her two friends hands and placed them into a box on her bed.
"So what brings you guys here?" Caitlin asked.
"Nothing much, just decided to come and hang out with our best friend" Julie said.
"And Julie was bored out of her mind in the dorms." Connie added.
Since Julie was an out of state Duck, she was allowed in the dorms- she currently was sharing a 3 person room with some freshman until Connie and Caitlin could move in with the rest of the Duck in two weeks.
"Can you believe we start high school next week?" Julie said as she pushed a pile of Cate's stuff out of the way to sit on her bed.
"Nope." Cate said as she tried to make room for herself and Connie and her bed.
"God, I can't believe that we have to wear uniforms to school everyday starting next week. I don't look good in plaid." Connie said with a disgusted look on her face.
"Connie, you look good in whatever you wear" Julie said. "You make us two look bad."
"Hey" Cate said shooting a look at Julie.
"What, it's the truth" Julie said.
Cate frowned. It was true; Connie could make a garbage bag look good. Cate was beginning to dread Monday morning when it came to wearing the uniform.
"Connie are you all packed?" Cate asked as she tried to change the topic of their conversation.
"Yup all packed and ready to go." Connie said.
"Well since you guys are here, you can help me finish up." Cate asked hoping they would say yes.
"Well, we were going to go to the movies...but I guess we can help a fellow duck in need" Julie said.
"Thank you." Cate said and handed Julie a duffle bag and pointed out some clothes that would be going into it. She handed Connie a half filled box and asked her to put the rest of the boxes on the desk into it.
Some 45 minutes later the girls we sitting on Cate's bed looking at the pile of bags and boxes (2 duffle bags, 1 big suitcase, 3 boxes and a hockey bag) on her west wall of her room.
"I am hungry" Connie said.
"Me too" Julie added.
"Mom hasn't gone food shopping yet, so I don't think there is anything in the house to eat." Cate said.
"Pizza?" Julie said
"Hamburgers?" Connie said
"Taco Bell" Cate said.
They looked at each other- "Taco Bell" they said at the same time.
Cate stood up, dragged Julie up with her and grabbed her wallet of her dresser. They walked out of her room and out of the apartment into the hot muggy day that the state of Minnesota offered. While walking the three blocks that Taco Bell was from Cate's house the girls talked about school, boys, which always lead to the male Ducks.
Julie pulled open the door and stopped suddenly. Cate who was laughing at something Connie said did not notice Julie stop, and bumped right into her.
"Jules, what are you blocking the door for?" Connie asked from behind Cate.
"No reason." Julie said as she stepped out of the way.
Cate and Connie gave her strange looks as they walked around her and looked around to see what would be the cause of Julie's strange behavior. All Cate say was Her brother Charlie, his best friend Adam Banks, Fulton Reed, and Dean Portman sitting in a booth unaware that the girls were in the same building as them. Cate turned to Connie and shrugged her shoulders. They went up to order their food and as they were waiting they filled up their drinks.
"So, do we sit with the guys or do we not acknowledge them" Connie asked Cate.
"Hmm. "Cate said pretending to think it over. "I'm not fighting with Charlie today. Adam has not gotten on my case and the Bash Brothers have been civil to me..."
"I guess that mean's we sit with them" Julie spoke up with a grin. She and Connie knew that if Caitlin and Charlie were in one of their moods then the rest of the team tried to keep them apart.
The girls headed to where the boys were sitting. They caught the tail end of a joke that Charlie was trying to tell and started to laugh.
"Great the girls are here" Fulton said.
"Hey, I resemble that comment" Cate said as she sat at the table near the boys booth.
Charlie shook his head at his sister and took a sip of his soda. Just then their number was called and Julie went to get their food.
"So are you finally done packing Cate?" Charlie asked his sister.
"Yes" Cate said.
"How about you?" she asked
"Haven't even started" Charlie said as he looked up and saw that Julie had returned with the girl's food. He snagged a taco off their tray and started to eat it.
"Hey that was mine" Connie said.
"Hey I'm a hungry Captain" Charlie said back.
Cate just glared at her brother and told Connie to ignore him and offered her half of her Quesadilla .
"It's ok." Connie said with a smile.
Cate shook her head at went about eating her food. When they were done all 7 of them got up and left. The girls heading back to the Conway's apartment and the boys off to Adam's house.