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A/N: This is the sequel to the other Mighty Ducks story's: "The Way Things Are", "The Way Things Were" and "The Way Things Should Be". We recommend you read those three first. However, this can also be read as a stand-alone story. Thank you to those that are following the story. Please read and review.

Chapter 22

February 16th, 1999

Bella's POV

As Julie, Connie and I came out onto the ice, it had been over two weeks since Charlie and I's break up and he was tearing the team to shreds, which wasn't great considering we were 10 days away from the play-offs. I kept the injury from Coach Orion, I needed to be on the ice tonight there was no doubt about that. Julie and Connie reluctantly agreed to keep it a secret. I felt bad, but I had to do it. Ollie had called me about a week and ½ ago asked if it was true, apparently Gunnar had spilled the beans to him, but Adam didn't know yet. I told Ollie that he may as well tell Adam, because everyone knows that Oliver Phillip Banks cannot keep a secret for shit. He's the kind of guy that spoils someone's surprise party. When I told him that, he declared that he indeed had not told a single person that he invited Gunnar to be visiting Adam in a couple of months. I rest my case.

Everyone had picked a side and that was how they spent practice, in the locker room, lunchtime, class. All of it. Gunnar had it the hardest he didn't have a clue who to root for, so he spent most of his time in the library. He did talk to both of us individually. He seemed to have a schedule written up in his mind: morning Team Bella, afternoon Team Charlie.

Coach Orion skated out onto the ice; "Ace, Conway you're the captains!" he hollered. "Pick your sides, Ducks. Scrimmage, let's go!" Luckily, my wrist was feeling better from Mark's abuse.

Since the beginning of the 'Great Divide' as the rest of the school had started calling it, Coach Orion had become a lot more aggressive when it came to coaching, no nonsense all that, something most Ducks don't understand very well.

He blew his whistle, as Charlie and Luis, took the face off, Charlie won it and began making his way down the ice towards Julie, I slid in and stole the puck off him and took off down the ice. I was faster but he was bigger, he pushed me in the back and sent me flying into the boards, Portman skated to my defense, yelling; "What the fuck, Conway?!" before lunging at him.

"That's what you get you cheating scum!" Charlie yelled at me, then he punched Portman in the face, they had both removed their helmets at this point.

Julie, Connie, and Luis skated over to me and hoisted me off the ground over to the bench. The boys continued to fight and throw a few punches. Luis went back towards the rest, whilst Connie and Julie pulled my helmet off.

"Are you okay?" Connie asked.

"I'm fine," I muttered, as Gunnar skated over.

"Are vou okay, Ace? I'm fery sorry for vhat Charlie did. Do you vant some help?" he asked.

"I have a bit of a headache to be honest-" I started to say.

"What the hell is going on here? Get off him Conway!" Coach Orion thundered as Dean Buckley scurried in.

"All of you my office, now!" Dean Buckley yelled. I blacked out.

CHARLIE'S POV

We threw our skates off once we got off the ice and followed Dean Buckley in full gear towards his office on the other side of campus. There was the odd snicker, and Russ had the unfortunate pleasure of stepping in some horse poop on the way. "Boys, boys, boys," Dean Buckley said shaking his head at us.

"And Girls," Connie said.

"Yes and girls. Anyone care to explain what that was?" Dean Buckley said.

We all started talking at once. "Hold it!' Dean Buckley yelled at us, and we all shut up, ' Mr. Conway do you care to explain?"

"We were scrimmaging, and Bella stole the puck from me, so I chased her and stole it, then Portman jumped me," I said.

"That's not true,' Portman protested. 'He pushed her in the back and started calling her a cheating scum, it wasn't even a legal check. He was just annoyed because he wished he hadn't broken up with her, and he knows getting her back is a lost battle."

"Detention, all of you. And a one game suspension for you Mr. Conway and Mr. Portman. I've said it before and I'll say it again violence will not be tolerated here," Dean Buckley said.

"But you can't do that," Russ protested.

"WATCH ME! It's all in the honor code you signed," Dean Buckley said.

"Yes sir," Russ said.

"Back to your dorms all of you, Mr. Stahl remain please." Dean Buckley said.

GUNNAR'S POV

The rest of the team filed out, and I sat down. "Mr. Stahl, I was speaking to Coach Orion earlier today and he quite agrees that over the past few weeks, the behavior amongst the team has been questionable, shall we say?" Dean Buckley said as he sat on the edge of his desk.

"Ves, I suppoze so. Vhy are vou telling me this?" I asked.

"Because you seem to be the reckoning force between the two sides of this division and I believe that for now it would be best for Mr. Conway to, ah, step down from his position as Captain for a little while and have you take his place," Dean Buckley said.

"Vhat?" I coughed.

"Just for the interim, until he calms down a bit. This will look good on your college applications Gunnar, and you wouldn't want to risk expulsion, would you?" Dean Buckley asked.

"Are vou threatening me? Because I von't do it," I said.

"And of course, we wouldn't want your parents finding out your little secret, would we? A boyfriend perhaps?" Dean Buckley asked.

I grimaced, I didn't vant my parents to find out I vas gay before I told them. I vas already looking at fisownment when I did tell them, if it got to the papers Pabbi would be embarrassed, I sighed heavily and said, "I'll do it."

"That's the spirit," Dean Buckley said.

I had gone and called Adam straight after I left the Dean's office, I had no idea why he was doing this… the only possible reason I could think of was it having something to do with the school finances but that didn't explain why he picked me of all people.

"Hello?" said the voice on the other end of the line.

I recognized that voice; "Hello Mike, it's Gunnar Stahl, Adam's boyfriend. I vas vondering if I could talk to him?"

"Uh, sure," Mike said. He covered the receiver and yelled out to Adam. There was a muffled reply from Adam; "He's coming," Mike told me.

I waited for a minute or so tapping my foot.

"Hey," Adam said, on the other end of the line.

"Hey, how are vou?" I asked.

"Okay, bit tired, but nothing out of the ordinary. You sound tense, what's up?" Adam asked.

"Charlie's been demoted as captain," I said, quickly.

"Wait, what?!" Adam said, shocked.

"Já, the Dean and Coach Orion decided," I said.

"That's crazy, who's the new captain?" Adam asked.

I gulped.

"I am," I whispered.

"Oh, okay. Wow," Adam said, shocked.

"Veah I know," I said.

"Would you look at that, my best friend was captain, my little sister was captain, in peewees, and now my boyfriend is the captain the tables have certainly turned," he gave a little huff, which seemed like he was giving a sad smile on the other end. "Does Charlie know yet?" Adam asked.

"Not vat I am avare of…" I started to say and then I was cut off.

"My advice, steer clear of him for a while once he does. Last time he lost his captaincy, he yelled at Bella and tried to beat me up, then ran away for a few days only to come back and find out Hans was dead. Bunking with the Bash Brothers might be a good option, and if you're really desperate Goldberg and Averman," Adam said.

"Ve'll see," I said rolling my eyes.

"He's not very forgiving that Charles Conway,' Adam said with what sounded like a smirk. 'I'm only glad I'm not there to witness it."

I heard Portman, call out to me from behind.

"I haf to go, I love you," I said.

"Love you too,' he sighed. 'See you in 150 days."

"Já," I said, and I hung up

CHARLIE'S POV

I kicked a nearby chair and then shot it a scathing look. Coach Orion had just, once again, stripped me from my C. That C was all I had going for me now that I didn't have Bella… not that I wanted her back of course I was perfectly fine with Reese. What peeved me off most of all was the fact that the Dean had insisted he give it to Gunnar Stahl, the guy was barely a Duck after all.

I trudged across the school to our dorm, he was sitting at his desk reading the assigned text for American Government, which I should probably start on but that's beside the point.

"My question is, this what you were trying to do all along? Steal it from me?" I asked.

"I had nothing to do vith this," he said turning around.

"Cut the crap, you good for nothing piece of shit," I said, and I punched him in the nose.

He leapt to his feet and punched me in the gut, I jumped on him and tackled him to the ground. Punches were thrown limbs were everywhere, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if I ruptured my spleen, clearly Gunnar knew what he was doing.

PORTMAN'S POV

Fulton and I were 'studying', and by 'studying' I mean we were pretending to whilst trying to figure out what Charlie's reaction to the captain news would be. I flinched when the first punch was thrown, what surprised me was when I heard what appeared to be a groan out of Charlie, Gunnar had always seemed to be the peaceful type.

These were very thin walls.

We decided we ought to intervene after a minute or so and we hurried over to their room. We opened the door and I lunged to pull Gunnar off Charlie whilst Fulton grabbed Charlie.

"Getur þvagið þitt brennt þig feiga geit (Can your urine burn you cowardly goat)," Gunnar yelled at Charlie.

"Rot in hell, asshole!" he screamed back. "Get off me Fult!"

"Vertu frá mér Portman! (Get off me Portman), " Gunnar yelled, scrambling.

I had no idea what he meant by that.

"Ég helvíti hata þig, ykkur öllum! (I fucking hate you, all of you),' Gunnar screamed. He took a deep breath. '"Og ég vil fara heim! (And I want to go home)."

March 27th, 1999

Bella's POV

I was lucky that the concussion that I had gotten from Charlie wasn't bad, I was unable to play for a few days, no wonder Minnehaha Academy handed our asses to us on February 16th, between Portman, Charlie, and I out. The ducks came back and blew Blake out of the water on February 20th, and we got into the district quarterfinals by the skin of our teeth. We went through the districts beating Hopkins, St. Paul Academy and Breck. When we got to state the next weekend we Duck's had our State quarterfinals against St. Thomas Academy, and we beat them 3-0. Julie was superb in her goaltending. On March 5th was Eden Prairie for the state semifinals for another easy win 3-2, again Julie was superb in her goaltending. On March 6th we barely beat Virginia for the title. Mark was there for all the games and so of course I had to come to his track meet today. Which he did well in the 100- and 300-meter hurdles, 4X100m and 4X400m relay races, I was proud of Mark. Gunnar got promoted to the 1st line and was captain. Charlie was pissed when he lost his C again. No one, not even Reese could take him out of his piss ass mood that he had for the last month. There was another smaller party just for us popular ducks, Charlie was in such a foul mood he didn't even show up. I was clinging to Mark dancing, when the same guy that was at the party before districts. Came up to Mark and tapped him on the shoulder and said, "The stuff is ready."

"Okay, I will be right there. Bella why don't you go and get us a drink?" Mark asked.

"Mark bring the girl with you, she looks like she could use it," The guy said.

I had followed Mark into the backroom. "All right you know the deal, 30 bucks a line," another guy said.

Mark nodded his head and pulled 120 bucks out of his wallet.

"Four lines, interesting, Mark," The guy said.

Then I saw it; four lines of a fine white powdery substance that smelled like flour, sitting on a silver tray. Then Mark took a pinch of it, stuck it in his mouth and said, "This is good, Columbia?"

"Only the best," The guy said.

Then Mark took a dollar bill rolled it up stuck it in his right nostril and snorted up the powder. "Oh that is some good stuff," Mark said.

"Like I said only the best," The guy said.

Mark made the next two lines disappear and then turned to me. Mark offered the dollar bill for me to use and said, "Hey Bella you want a hit?"

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