A/N – Andie – as if I'd restrain the scariness! Its what makes writing fics fun!

This chapter is pretty uneventful as I'm kinda becoming stuck for ideas, and I thought it was time the other Duckies got some fic time!

It had been a particularly bad practice all around for the Ducks but Julie and Portman it felt like they were in hell. She had been trying to avoid him like the plague and he'd been trying his hardest to apologise to her.

To make things worse, Fulton had been acting as the go-between, relaying messages back and forth (mainly messages from Portman to Julie).

"So what do you thinks going on? Julie's been acting weird for a few days now" Charlie commented to Guy. The two were skating side by side. Coach Orion had decided that the team all needed to uplift their fitness by skating laps and doing sprinting drills.

Guy just shook his head "I have no idea. I doubt that even Connie knows" he commented gesturing to his on/off girlfriend of four years who was skating a little ahead of them.

Connie had heard Charlie's comment and had decided to stay out of it. It wasn't up to her to tell the others what was really going on. She kept her back to Charlie and Guy and sped up a little to catch up with Goldberg and Averman who were less than thrilled with Coach Orion's "fitness lifting" practice session.

"Man, how many laps does that guy think I can skate without getting dizzy?" Goldberg complained giving Luis the evil eye as he skated past him and overlapped him for the third time.

"Oooo Goldberg, getting mad at the speedster, the Gold-man, gonna kick the Coach's butt.." Averman started off on his usual commentary rant when Connie slapped him on the shoulder.

"You know I'd pay good money to see Goldberg try to kick Coach Orion's butt!" she joked turning to see where the Coach was at. She frowned when she couldn't see him.

"So would I Miss Moreau" Coach Orion added making the three players almost jump out of their skins.

"Coach, I……I…." Goldberg stammered trying to come up with a good excuse.

"Goldberg, if its too much for you then take a break" Coach Orion replied. Connie noticed the glint in his eye and knew that he wasn't being serious.

"Really! Oh man that would be great" Goldberg answered excitedly about to skate off towards the benches.

"NO NOT REALLY YOU IDIOT!" Coach Orion blasted. "This is the whole reason we need to get our fitness up. We're becoming too lazy" he said giving Goldberg a final glare before skating off ahead of the trio.

"Ouch!" Averman said ignoring the grunt from Goldberg. He found the whole situation hilarious.

Goldberg was about to shoot a comeback at Averman when the Coach announced "15 more laps then hit the showers. We'll resume fitness training in the morning"

Julie tried her hardest not to groan. She didn't think she had 15 more laps left in her.

"Julie?" Portman seized his opportunity, coming up behind her.

Julie jumped "Get away from me Portman" she hissed speeding up to get away from him.

Portman shook his head and ignored the warning look from Fulton. He too sped up and caught up to her. "Julie, please. I'm sorry" he pleaded.

It did no good, Julie continued to speed up, trying her hardest to get away from him. Portman feeling his stubborn streak overcome his reasoning sped up too and to the other Ducks it looked like he was trying to race her.

"Go Julie! Kick his ass" Goldberg shouted. He was scared of Portman all right, but he'd learned that it paid to keep on Julie Gaffney's good side.

Julie ignored the comment and realised that Portman was still chasing her "Would you just leave me alone" she almost yelled forgetting that no one aside from Fulton and Connie really knew what was going on.

"No, not until you talk to me" Portman pleaded never taking his eyes off of her.

"Don't you get it. I don't want to talk to you" she shouted causing Coach Orion to snap.

"Gaffney, Portman! Enough of the showing off. Either learn to get along or I'll bench the both of you" he threatened.

Portman acknowledged the threat and dropped back behind Julie, allowing her to skate alone again.

Connie let out the breath she hadn't realised she was holding. This has to go stop she thought. She had a plan forming in her mind but she needed reinforcements.

"Fulton" she said tapping him on the shoulder "We need to do something about this before it gets out of control" she explained.

Fulton nodded "Yeah, I know. Portman's going crazy over this. We need to get the two of them talking again" he agreed.

"Meet me in the library after practice?" Connie suggested. Fulton nodded "See you then".