A/N: Alright so the story is moving along nicely. I hope every one is enjoying it! There's another in joke in this chapter, sort of like the Creek one only much more subtle! First one to pick up on it and leave it in a review gets a shout out in the next author's note!

Summary: Julie and Luis say good bye, and Julie vents her confusion to Jen, and then has a serious talk with Adam. Meanwhile, back in Minneapolis, Luis reunites with the friends who left him behind.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Mighty Ducks. I do own Jen. Poor Jen, who is stuck being the therapist listening to Julie and Adam's slashy duck angst.

Chapter 3: What now?

Luis sighed as he saw a taxi pull up to take him to the airport. He had booked a flight back to Minnesota. He had gotten the result he wanted out of the trip, but after their initial talk he went back once and Julie agreed that she would stop hanging up on him if he called her. She said she was willing to make the effort to be friends again. She had called him the cab though; she definitely didn't want him to stay in Boston. And although friendship wasn't exactly what Luis had in mind, it was better than nothing. They both stood up and she gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek.

"Call me when you back ok?" Julie said. "And give Charlie and Bombay my love!"

"I will." Luis smiled at her. "Bye Julie. See you at New Years?" He asked, referring to the planned Duck reunion in Minnesota for New Years Eve.

"Definitely, Bye!" She crossed her arms across her chest as she watched the cab drive away. She walked into the dorm room and fell onto her bed.

"Everything good?" Jen asked.

"No." Julie said. "This is why I knew I couldn't talk to him until I knew I was over him. I'm more confused about him now then I've ever been. Even right after junior prom."

"What's confusing about it?" Jen said. "You still love him?"

"Yes." Julie nodded. "I still love him, but also, well, things here were so good. With Adam I mean, and Scooter."

"Well, you sent him back to Minnesota, that's good." Jen said. "Did you tell him not to call you?"

"No, actually I told him to call me. I figured we could talk about things." She shook her head. "AHH!" She shouted pushing a pillow over her face. "I hate that he does this to me."

After the long flight Luis hopped on a bus that took him to a stop a few blocks from the skate shop. He had called Charlie from the Airport and asked him to pick him up.

"Strike out?" Charlie smiled smugly. Luis shook his no.

"Nah, it was more like a pop up caught in the outfield." Luis said.

"Dude, how much you know about baseball always astounds me." Charlie laughed.

"Well, I was the best baseball player in the neighborhood!" Luis said proudly

"What?" Charlie said confused.

"Nothing," Luis quickly spit out.

"So she talked to you then?" Charlie asked.

"Yeah," Luis said dejected. "She wants to be friends. She told me to call her, and that we'd see each other at the New Years party."

"So you're going to come now?" Charlie smiled, before his talk with Julie Luis had refused to come to the reunion.

"Yeah," Luis said. "I figure if Julie's talking to me the others will have no reason not to. So what does coach have for us to do tonight?"

"Nothing. We have the night off." Charlie shrugged.

"Great so, what's going on?" Luis said.

"Well," Charlie said. "Portman's in town. So, everyone who's still in Minneapolis, meaning you me, Fulton, Goldberg and Guy are getting together."

"A night out with the Ducks?" He laughed. "Sounds good to me!?" He had never been happier to be hanging out with the Ducks again.

"Hey Julie." Adam wandered into their room while Julie lay in a fetal position in her bed. "Did Luis go?"

"Yeah, he'll be back in Minneapolis by now." She sighed.

"Scooter and the guys are having another party." Adam said sitting at the foot of her bead. "Do you want to go?"

"No." Julie said. "I'm not in a partying mood. You go."

"Nah," he said "I wouldn't want to go without you. Let's stay here and watch a movie or something."

"Adam, can I ask you something?" Julie said sitting up.

"Anything." He smiled. "You know that."

"We've been friends since we were thirteen, and well, we've been together almost every day since we came to Boston, and," she took a deep breath. "Well, Adam, have you ever thought that maybe, we could be, well, more than just friends? Because well, I'm starting to think we maybe could."

"Tell me Luis?" Portman said, as they sat on the couch in Charlie and Luis' apartment, "What exactly prevented me from kicking you ass last year?" Luis, Charlie, Fulton, Goldberg and Guy all laughed as Charlie brought some beers over from the fridge.

"Man, to be honest, I'm not really sure." Luis said. At the time of Luis' infidelity Portman had been dating Julie's room mate Heather. Luis could never fully shake the thought that Portman's insistent silent treatment was less about how Portman felt towards Julie and more about Heather's intense hatred of the boy who broke her best friend's heart. It was the same with Guy, who had been equally cold to Luis, but he always had the sneaking suspicion that this came more from Connie than from Guy. "I'm pretty sure I deserved it!"

"Well," Fulton said. "I propose a toast. To Luis, welcome back to the team, man!"

"To Luis!" The guys said shouting and clinked their bottles together.

"Thanks guys." Luis laughed. "It's good to be back."

A/N: As always I leave you with the request for reviews.