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I think this story might be heading to the genre of humor/fun more and more. Oops. So this is not to be taken seriously at all. And though my sense of humor may be somewhat lacking I don't think there will be much angst in this. Only a dash maybe. Well, at least until I kill them all in the last chapter :D Not.

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Holly and Chloe had spent an hour and a half with Sam, the team's personal trainer. They'd been given their training programs. Tomorrow instead of attending the team's morning training the former Hornets would be sweating it out with Sam and his battery of fitness tests.

"Oh my God.. Sam's gonna squeeze us dry tomorrow! Did you see this list of test?" Chloe whined, while they made their way to the Rockets locker room. She waved a paper clutched in her hand.

"I saw it." Holly nodded as she swiped her key card to open the door to the locker room. "It's going to be draining."

"I hate tests.." Chloe groaned.

"In the morning?" Holly teased knowing her friend's dislike for tests in general.

"Whenever." Chloe sighed, but a little smile tugged her lips. "So.. Gail?"

"Hmm?" Holly acknowledged. "What about her? I've been.. civil and so has she." She added sounding a little surprised.

"She has been civil to you. Yes… I thought she'd be a bitch troll from hell, but she's.. okay? A bit edgy I guess.. But I think she likes you Holls." Chloe said softly as she peered into the brunette's eyes. "For real."

"Oh?"

"You're the only one she smiles at." Chloe nodded. "She stares at you.. all dreamily and stuff. She likes you."

"She likes me? Oh that's why she threw me out of her room in the middle of the night snarling? After we had great sex and snuggled. And if I may point out, she started the cuddling."

"Despite all that. Maybe she's got some issues or just overreacted…"

"Now who's making excuses for her?" Holly looked at Chloe confused. "You agreed I should keep my distance."

"I know." Chloe sighed. "I just get the feeling, she might deeply regret acting that way. With you I mean. She purred, when you checked her for injuries earlier. Purred!" She exclaimed.

"What's your point?" Holly sighed. She had noticed Gail's enjoyment of her touches and that's why she had so hastily withdrawn her hands. If the situation between them had been different, she would have been tempted to let her fingers linger on Gail's soft skin.

"I don't know." Chloe shrugged.

"You told me to keep my distance." Holly repeated. "I think I should."

"Yeah.. Maybe you should." Chloe admitted. "I just think.. I don't know. She.. Maybe.. You should just talk to her."

"Maybe later.. I'm not ready. Perhaps someday we can become friends. I don't think I can let her in, you know, trust her not to hurt me, but.. " Holly shook her head trailing off. "Gail said she was sorry. You know, for what happened in Montreal."

"Really? When?" Chloe gasped a little. She hadn't expected the blond to apologize so soon. Was the striker really trying to bond with Holly this quickly, Chloe pondered.

"When we were doing the warm-up laps."

"So.. What did she say?" Chloe prodded hesitantly.

"I'm sorry." Holly shrugged a little.

"Ah. Short and straight to the point. Seems like something Peck would do." Chloe snorted lifting an eyebrow. "And you said?"

"Okay." Holly said looking a little sheepish. "That's it." She finished, when Chloe looked at her expecting her to continue.

"Wow. That's was it? What a riveting conversation you two had." Chloe scoffed in disbelief. "Let's shower and get home so we can analyze your conversation thoroughly. With spreadsheets you love so much. And diagrams?"

"Shut up." Holly smirked starting to peel off her clothes.

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The Montreal Swans had come to Toronto for a friendly off-season practice game. The Rockets had had good training sessions this week in preparation for the weekend's game. Both teams were out on the field doing their final warm-ups, before the game.

Holly and Jen were warming up together per Chris' instructions, while the rest of the Rockets were under Dov's care. Head coach Shaw sat in the dug-out going over his notes, but kept his eye on his players moving about out on the field.

"Are you nervous?" Jen asked Holly, while they went through their quick stretches.

"A little." Holly admitted. "Surprisingly big crowd for an off-season match, huh?" She swept her eyes across the bleachers.

"Torontonians like soccer." Jen chuckled. "You'll do great." She patted Holly's shoulder encouragingly.

"Yeah.." Holly sighed. "I just need to get this first game checked of my list. The next one's gonna be easier, right?"

"Right." Jen snickered to herself.

"What?" Holly smirked curiously.

"It's just that.. I still get nervous before games. Luckily I don't get nauseous anymore."

"Oh?"

"As a kid I used to barf, before getting out on the field.." Jen snorted. "Jake still teases me about it."

"Jake?"

"My eternally annoying brother."

"Yeah, brothers are like that." Holly smirked knowingly.

"You have a brother?" Jen smiled.

"Tim." Holly smiled fondly. "Very, very annoying." She chuckled happily.

"Figures." Jen nodded grinning.

"He's actually here. So he is supporting too." Holly said.

"Are you folks here too?"

"No. They live in Montreal. They'll come to the season opening though. Us versus the Swans in Montreal. "

"That's nice. My folks couldn't care about less about soccer."

"I'm sorry."

"Oh, don't be. It's fine. Besides Jake comes to see my games, when he can."

"Okay. Holly, Jen are you warmed up enough to start catching some balls?" Chris jogged to the women, who both nodded. "Holly, you first between the posts. We're gonna do some dives, high-balls, crosses, kicks, throws, footwork and after all that some shots."

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Gail had been shooting glances at Holly during their warm-up. Gail noted with a excited shiver how flexible the brunette seemed to be. Traci had already called Gail out on her watching Holly, but still the blond couldn't stop. Coach Oliver yelled out a drink break, when the warm-up was drawing to an end. Gail's eyes followed Holly, who jogged to the bleachers.

"Where's she going?" Gail waved towards Holly and met Jen's eyes, who sat down on the bench next to her. "Who is that?" She hissed seeing Holly hug some guy.

"That's Tim. They're having dinner after." Jen said nonchalantly.

"Tim? Dinner?" Gail spat her jealousy spiking. "Who the hell is he?"

"Her brother." Luck scoffed with a 'duh' expression.

"Oh. Right." Gail swallowed feeling an odd mixture of relief and utter embarrassment laced with sadness about not knowing that Holly even had a brother.

"You okay?" Traci asked, when she walked up to Gail and saw the blond's morose face and Luck getting up and walking away.

"I'm fine." Gail assured shrugging. "It's just.. I wanna know stuff about her. Luck knows stuff. Personal stuff."

"We're talking about Holly again?"

"Who else would we be talking about?!" Gail roared with a twitchy wave of her hand.

"Ain't that the truth." Traci huffed flinching a little. "You wanna know stuff, go talk to her. You already apologized. Now you explain and grovel. And go from there."

"What if she doesn't want to talk to me? Get to know me. What if she thinks we're done? She's always so cool, calm and collected.. And I'm a mess. Staring at her and.."

"Peck, just calm down. Just talk to her and find out." Traci said. "Come on. Let's beat the crap out of Montreal." She said standing up and tugging Gail up with her.

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Practice game against Montreal had been an uneventful one. Boring some might say. The Rockets' were heading for a sure win based on earlier matches, but scoring had been difficult for them tonight. Be it rigorous training or the heatwave tiring the players, but something had slowed down Rockets' forwards.

The game had ended in a tie with the score being 1 -1. Coach Shaw had given them 30 minutes to shower, get dressed and get into the conference room. He wanted to quickly go over some points of the night's game. He didn't call it a disaster, but was still clearly displeased. The season was soon starting and this wasn't the quality of playing he wanted to see from his team.

Gail groaned, when the coach informed of the little get-together. It was painfully obvious to Gail, that she couldn't slip out to shower at home. She'd been dodging showering at the stadium after training not wanting to get caught perving on Holly. And so far she had succeeded. Sort of. At least she hadn't ogled the goalkeeper, while she was naked. Yet.

Gail was unaware that Holly was groaning for the very same reason. Holly's eyes found Chloe's, who just shrugged a little as she was already undressing. 'You can't get out of it' Chloe seemed to be thinking. Holly sighed shaking her head and decided to bite the bullet. Let's get this over with. It's just showering, she grumbled. In and out, before Gail would be coming.. Oh Gods, don't think about her coming, Holly snapped inwardly. Just shower and get out. She stood up and started peeling off her clothes not noticing a pair of blue darkening eyes latching on her.

When Holly was dressed only in her panties she turned to Naomi asking, if she could loan her shampoo. As the brunette had turned Gail's eyes had found the soft perky mounds now visible to her. The blond's gaze caressed Holly's breasts with tenderness and awe. Holly was such a beautiful creature, Gail hummed. Such an exquisite.. A hard punch on her arm caused her to snap out of her vigorous ogling. Her eyes darted to Traci's, who was fuming.

"Stop staring!" The captain hissed. "You'll get caught. You're lucky that Chloe already strolled to the showers. Remember her bat Gail. The bat she's gonna whack you with!"

"But.." Gail's eyes were starting to sneak back to Holly, when Traci took the blond's jaw between her fingers stopping her.

"Don't. She's your teammate. You can't devour her with your eyes like that!"

"You watch her then." Gail hissed quietly. She wasn't at all sure her frail self-control would hold, if she let herself look at Holly any longer. She might just pounce on the woman and embarrass both of them. "For me."

"What?" Traci scoffed. "Why?"

"Follow her with your eyes and tell me, when I can be normal. You know, when I can lift my head."

"It's obvious you're not normal." Traci rolled her eyes.

"Trace.." Gail whined keeping her head bowed.

"Gods! Fine." Traci relented sighing. "I'll be your lookout."

"Thanks."

"Don't look now. She's totally naked." Traci teased whispering. "I said don't look!" She hissed, when she noticed Gail lifting her head up.

"But.." Gail wanted to get just a.. little glimpse.

"Shh!" Traci shushed and then met Holly's curious gaze as the goalkeeper shuffled to the showers with a towel wrapped around her. The captain gave a small sheepish smile.

"Oh great. Just great!" Traci groaned. "You can look now. Holly's in the showers." She said growling in low tone and smacked Gail on her thigh with her fist.

"Ow! What the hell was that for?" Gail huffed rubbing her stinging leg with her palm.

"Holly thinks I was ogling her! Perving!" Traci ranted whispering.

"That's.. priceless." Gail laughed gleefully.

"I hate you." Traci hissed to Gail, before storming to the showers nodding to Chloe, who was already coming out.

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Traci took the shower next to Holly's. There were no stalls, but just a row of showers. The other women gradually finished and sauntered out leaving only Traci and Holly in the shower room. Traci adjusted the temperature nervously fiddling with the knobs, before chancing a glans at the brunette. She was met with Holly's big brown eyes giving Traci a.. suggestive look. Traci's eyes quickly darted away and she stepped under the warm spray of water trying to think of something to say to fix the obvious misunderstanding.

"I have a boyfriend, you know." Traci said after a moment, but Holly still stayed silent. "Um.. You're really pretty.. Gorgeous really and everything, but.. Uh.. I have a boyfriend." She repeated looking at Holly almost pleadingly.

"So you said." Holly said, before lifting her face towards the ceiling to rinse out her hair. "That's never stopped me before." She husked as she caught Traci's wide eyes.

"No. No. Really, I.. I.." Traci stuttered panicking.

Holly let out a tinkling laugh. "Calm down Traci. Don't have an aneurysm. I'm just messing with you." She smirked.

"Oh. Thank God." Traci sighed relieved.

"You're cute, when you get all flustered." Holly grinned mischievously. "Kinda hot actually."

"Shut up." Traci groaned embarrassed realizing that Holly was still yanking her chain. "I hate you."

"You seem to hate everyone today Trace. What's up with that?" Gail said as she came in trying to look all calm and collected. She draped her towel on the hook and took the shower next to Traci.

The blond hoped she wasn't failing miserably at being calm. Cool and collected. Her blue eyes were struggling to keep off of Holly's body. Struggling to stay on her face or not on Holly at all. Shit. I should have waited until she was finished and gone, Gail groaned inwardly as her betraying eyes hastily raked all over the brunette's glistening naked body. The clear water droplets thrumming down on that soft olive skin. Water droplets gliding over those inviting mounds with hard nipples and down to.. Oh crap.

What the hell is Gail doing, Holly fretted feeling her cheeks flush and her body start to react to Gail's hot gaze roaming boldly on her. Holly swallowed as she was getting all hot and bothered. Her own eyes fell on the blond's ivory skin. Taking in the soft curves and smooth flesh. The skin she had touched all over and.. A quiet gasp fell from her lips making Gail find her eyes. Caught red-handed! Well, shit. Holly quickly averted her eyes and cleared her throat, before deciding that a cold shower would do her a world of good. She flicked the shower colder and stepped fully under it.

"Holy shit! Jeez! Cold!" Holly shrieked jumping quickly from under the icy spray. "So.. um.. I'm done. Bye." She hastily sputtered on her way out noticing the baffled look on Traci and the wide smirk on Gail.

"We're not done. She'll talk to me." Gail smiled happily staring at the empty doorway. "She wants me." Gail told Traci.

"No shit." Traci mocked. "I was totally uncomfortable standing between you two. Naked. While you both hungrily stared each other. Thanks for that by the way. I'm scarred for life!" She snarled sarcastically.

"Not done." Gail smiled softly.

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A/N I'll try to get the next chapter written in a week or so.