Authors Note: This chapter and chapter 4 were originally one huge chapter I got carried away, so, just to make it easier I split it up into two chapters, it almost became thre. Enjoy!

Together

Chapter Three: A Face From The Past

Cam sat at Herb's desk as he watched footage on the Russians. She was grading the tests her dad had handed out. Cam was almost done when she began counting them and realized one was missing. She ran over a list of names and marked off the ones she'd gotten a test back from.

"Dad." Cam called out to him as she glanced through the test again. "Dad." She called out again louder, she was about to call him again when he answered.

"Yeah sweetie?"

"Jimmy's test is missing."

"I know."

"You know?"

"Yeah I talked to him about it, he didn't do it." He answered writing something down.

"Okay, what'd he say?"

"He said he didn't know what it had to do with stopping a puck." Cam smiled and continued to grade tests, as her mother walked in.

"Hey Honey." Patti said hugging Herb from behind. "How much longer you guys gonna be?"

Cam looked over at her mom and smiled. "Grading hockey players tests."

She smiled and padded Herb's arm. "Well I'm going to bed, okay?"

"Okay."

"Okay." She said standing up and heading for the door, but stopped and turned back towards Herb. "Oh, you know, Kelly has ballet at 4:00 tomorrow and Danny's done with Hockey camp at about the same time. Which one do you want to get?" Cam watched as her mother stared at her dad, waiting for an answer. "Herb?"

"Yeah?" He said as he continued watching the film.

"Can you pick up Danny at 4:00?"

"We got team meeting after practice tomorrow." Herb glanced at his wife.

"Well I can't be in two places at one time."

"Well What about Margie? I thought she was…"

"They're on vacation." Patti said cutting him off.

"Well I don't know Honey, you'll figure it out." Herb replied turning his attention back to the film.

"Can you turn that off, please?" Patti said pointing to the projector. "Please."

Cam kept her gaze fixed on the test in front of her, not daring to look up at her parents. The room went quiet when Herb tossed his papers on the table and cut the projector off.

"Herb this is what happens over the summer. The kids are off doing a zillion things, and every once and a while your meeting are going to wait."

"Come on Patti, I'm coaching a hockey team here." Herb said standing up.

"Well…"

"I'm… we already talked about this."

"Oh really? When exactly did we have this talk? Because I don't recall being a part of the conversation. What's I say? Was it interesting?" Cam smiled slightly at her mom, she knew just where she got her sarcasm from. "We never had this talk…Never." Patti sighed and walked out of the office.

Herb stood there for a few seconds, he looked over at Cam who was looking at him. "Well go." She said pointing to the door. He gave her a small smile as she got up from his desk. She placed the tests into the folder and walked towards her dad. "Good luck, and I'll get Danny tomorrow while your at the meeting."

Herb shook his head at her. "Team meeting Cam, you have to be there."

"Hey I'm trying to help you out here. I'm sure it'll fine if I miss an hour. It's not like you can't brief me on it later."

Herb smiled and kissed his daughter cheek. "Fine, Good night."

"Good night, Daddy." Cam watched her dad leave and turned back to his desk cleaning up the small mess she'd made. She was moving some papers when a photo fell out of the pile on to the ground. Her face lit up when she saw it was a picture of Herb and her from her Father Daughter dance in high school.

She stared at the picture until her mother's voice caught her attention. "This. What you're doing, chasing after something you didn't get, that you may never get." Cam put the picture back and finished up. She pushed in the chair and began making her way to her room, still listening to her mother. "What if it doesn't work out Herb? Huh? Are we gonna do this every four years?"

Cam stood outside her door, waiting for her father to reply. "It's okay. Go finish your work, go… go."

Herb walked out of the room to see Cam standing outside her room, one hand against the door, the other on the door knob. He knew she'd heard them, sighing he walked over to her and tapped her on her shoulder, bring her out of her trance. Startled Cam jumped back slightly and looked at her dad.

"Sorry I sacred you sweetie and sorry you had to hear that."

Cam shook her head. "Don't worry about it dad, I shouldn't have eavesdropped on you guys."

"Don't be foolish, we weren't exactly quiet, I'm just surprised we did wake Kelly and Danny up. It'll all be fine, you don't have to worry about it. Get some sleep we've got a long day tomorrow." Heb said kissing Cam on her forehead before walking back to his office.

"Blue line, back, red line, back, far blue line, back, far red line, back, and you have 45 seconds to do it. Get used to this drill. We'll be doing it a lot." Herb said skating back and forth in front to the team. "Why?… Because the legs feed the wolf, gentlemen. I can't promise you we'll be the best team at Lake Placid this February but we will be the best conditioned. That I can promise you."

Cam watched from the bench as he father skated towards her.

"Okay boys." Craig said the blew his whistle sending the boys off.

"Hey coach I need you to sign these papers for me, and then sign here as well." Cam said handing him the clipboard.

"What am I signing?" He questioned flipping through the papers.

"Um, it's your new will, basically states everything will be left to me." Cam replied as she watched the guys.

"Funny, and I don't think your mother would be happy." Herb handed her the clipboard.

"I'd share, after all she is my mother."

Herb chuckled as he turned to watch the boys. Cam flipped through the papers and check to see if he signed all the papers she needed. She looked up to see the guys running drills still.

Herb nudged Cam. "Watch this." He said as she skated farther on to the ice. "Be prepared to go through pain gentlemen. You're gonna skate harder than you've skated in your lives, every minute, of every day you're on the ice with me."

He glanced back at Cam and gave her a smile. "You're horrible dad." Cam took one last look at the boys before heading back to the office.

Mark Johnson took a deep breath as Herb stopped beside him. "What's your mane?"

"Mark Johnson."

"Where you from, Mark?"

"Madison, Wisconsin."

"Who do you play for?"

"Universality of Wisconsin, coach."

"Good, On the line! Come on boys!" Herb shouted making his way to the boards.

"You'd think a coach would know his players names."

Cam looked behind her and sighed. "You'd think people would learn how to stay out of peoples business."

"This is, came to see what I'm missing out on."

"And what is that?"

"A chance to get this team the gold."

Cam rolled her eyes and stood up. "Are you serious Landon? You didn't make the team for a reason so let it go."

She began walking back towards the locker room, but stopped short when she noticed he was following her. "Can I help you with something else?"

He leaned against the wall and smirked at her. "I just want to ask you a question. You just said I didn't make it for a reason, did Buzzy, Rob, and the rest of those guys make it for a certain reason?" He looked her up from head to toe.

"Yeah it's something called heart, a love of the game not for what it might get them." Just then they heard the guys walking into the locker room. Cam glanced to see Buzz looking over at them with a confused look on his face. She turned around and began walking away from Landon.

"How about something called talent? That count for anything?" He questioned her.

"They do have talent, they have the kind of talent you dream about. You know, if you have issues take it up with my father, I'm sure he'll be able to give you what your looking for."

"What about you?"

Cam looked confused. "What about me?"

"What are you looking for? Because from what I heard things with Buzzy ain't that good." He smirked at her, crossing his arms at his chest.

"Whatever is going on with me and Buzzy isn't any of your business. Thanks for your concern and all but go to hell."

Emador – Glad you like it! Yeah there should be more Buzzy stories.

Meadow567 – I'll try not to make you wait too long. O.-

Klinoa – I have to say Cam is my favorite part of this fanfic. She's strong and passionate and knows to fight for what she wants. Originally I had Rammer as her best friends and he still is, I want Rammer just because Robbie is always the best friends in most fanfics. Now I see why, he's just so easy to write in, a really flexible character. I'm happy you like that scene.

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