Life's Full of Little Surprises
Disclaimer: I own absolutely none of the 'Mighty Duck' characters or the rights to the "Mighty Duck" franchise, that honor belongs to Disney. So I would appreciate that I wouldn't get sued over something I don't own.
Summary: Dani's life couldn't be going better. She has finally made it to the Olympics, doing the sport she loves the most. But... after arriving in Minneapolis, Minnesota things change. First she is constantly badgered by her brother, then she falls for one of his friends, and, of course, there is always a stalker!
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hockey-girl90- Thank you for reviewing, and for being honest. Which part or parts of the last chapter were confusing? I'll be happy to explain anything that was in anyway confusing for anyone.
PrincessH- As I said before, I try to follow the movies as much as possible when it comes to characters from the movies. It's nice to know that I am doing well. Thank you for the compliments! They are appreciated.
BrokenAngel1753- Thank you! I try to make my chapters as funny (or serious) as possible with out going overboard.
mickEmousina- Yes, unsalted saltines is quite the oxymoron. I got it when a friend of my sister was mad because he didn't have any salted crackers for his chili, but I digress. Which oxymoron's did you come up with? It may seem weird, but I have a little obsession with them.
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At 8:00 in the morning it was an hour and a half before Adam normally woke up, but he couldn't sleep. His mind was completely preoccupied. He was just sitting at the table in the Conway's dining room.
"Earth to Adam." A voice said. He shook his head and looked up.
"Hi Mrs. Conway." He said. All of the Ducks still called her 'Mrs. Conway' despite the fact that she had remarried, it was habit and she accepted it. Adam looked back down to the table and sighed heavily.
"Are you okay." Mrs. Conway asked as she sat down next to him and placed her hand on his shoulder.
"Peachy. Just peachy." He replied.
"Preoccupied about yesterday?" Adam looked up at her with a surprised look on his face, "Female intuition again, and your projecting so it's pretty obvious." She told him.
Adam sighed, "I hope that Connie and Julie don't have that kind of female intuition." He placed his elbows on the table and placed his head in his hands, "Because if they do it'll get to Portman someway or another. And then I'll be dead."
"Overprotective?"
"Very." Adam replied, "And she has three more back in Chicago."
"This reminds me of what happened to a friend of mine when I was about your age." Mrs. Conway said, "She was the only girl with two brothers who would always hound her every move, and attempt to hurt anyone who she had any interest in, or who had interest in her."
"What happened to her?" Adam asked.
"I think she joined a convent, actually." Adam sighed and laid his head on the table in defeat. "Not helping, am I?" Adam shook his head, "Well, I wish I could do more, but I have to get to work. Enjoy trying to wake up the three logs in pajamas."
"Bye Mrs. Conway."
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At ten Terry, Jesse, and Charlie finally woke up after Charlie's alarm clock went off. "What the hell!" Jesse asked in a loud and disgruntled voice, "Charlie, why did you set the alarm for ten?"
"I didn't!" Charlie said in a scandalized voice, "Banksie?"
"What?" Adam asked as he walked back in Charlie's room.
"Did you set my alarm?" Charlie asked. He looked ready to throttle Adam, and the smile on Adam's face wasn't helping matters at all.
"Yes." Adam replied.
"Why?" Terry asked, with fire in his eyes.
"Because it gives us two hours to do what we want before we go to the diner and meet the guys." Adam said, "Besides, this way you don't mess up your sleep schedule."
"Whatever cake-eater." Jesse said, getting out of bed and grabbing his clothes, "First dibs on the bathroom."
"But it's my house!" Charlie said.
"Yeah, but I was up and out of bed first." Jesse retorted as he walked past Adam in the direction of the bathroom.
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Adam finally got Terry, Charlie, and Jesse to leave the house around 11:00. They skated around for about thirty minutes until they reached the pond that they skated on as kids.
"Charlie, remember when we first met Coach Bombay here?" Terry asked with a chuckle. Adam hadn't been a part of the ducks at that point, but he had heard the story.
"Yeah. He got really mad because we climbed all over his limo. It was priceless." Charlie replied. "To bad Banksie couldn't see it, but he was to busy being a prick with his little Hawk buddies."
"Gee, thanks." Adam said in a sarcastic voice.
"ADAM! CHARLIE!" A voice called. The group looked over and saw Dani running up to them. Adam turned extremely red as Charlie, Terry, and Jesse laughed, "Hi."
"Hi Dani." Charlie said, "I don't think you have met Terry and Jesse Hall." He pointed out Terry and Jesse as he said their names and they said hello.
"No, I haven't, not really anyway." Charlie, Terry, and Jesse looked confused, "The bus."
"Oh yeah. Nice to met you properly." Terry said.
"Ditto." Dani replied, "I also remember hearing them try to get you to talk to me, and you kept refusing." Adam's eyes grew to the size of saucers, the others just laughed, "It was adorable in a way."
"You see Banksie? We were being adorable." Jesse teased, making his eyes grow and pouting like a puppy. Adam just shook his head and looked at Dani as if to say 'why must you encourage them.'
"And Adam, you dropped this yesterday." Dani pulled a sidekick out of her pocket, "I figured it was important." Adam took it back and his eyes widened again, "Don't worry, I didn't do any digging."
"Thanks Dani." Adam said, still a little freaked out. The girl he had a crush on had had his sidekick for about 18 hours, who knew what weird things one of the Ducks might have written as a joke.
"MY MUSE!" a voice cried as the body attached wrapped it arms around Dani. She looked shocked and she was speechless for a moment.
"DOE! Let her go. You're goin' to break her ribs!" A British accented female voice called to the body holding Dani in a big bear hug.
"Listen to her!" Dani agreed in a constricted voice. The body let her go and she took in a deep breath before saying, "I love you guys, but if you ever do that again, I will hurt you!" She placed her hands on her ribs and breathed out heavily.
"Dani!" Another female voice said as it ran up to her. This voice was attached to a very attractive girl, about Connie and Julie's heights, with long blue/black hair who was wearing a black leather jacket with a hockey jersey under it.
"Leah!" Dani cried, pulling the girl into a hug. The other girl came up to her, "Eve! My lovely dark chocolate friend." Dani said as she gave the girl a small peck on the cheek as the girl did the same for her, "I love you British person! And your hair!" The girl patted the bottom of her short dark brown hair with red and blond highlights.
"Um, Dani?" Adam asked timidly.
"Oh, right." Dani said, "Guys this is Adam Banks, Charlie Conway, and Terry and Jesse Hall." She told the people surrounding her, "This is Leah Tracy," She indicated the girl with blue/black hair, "Eve Wilton," She indicated the British girl, "And Oliver Adoeben, better known as 'Doe'." She pointed out the body that had grabbed her; a very tall, well groomed young man with chestnut brown hair. "They are my best friends, and I have no idea why they are here."
"Well," Leah said, "We figured that considering out school starts next week, that we could visit you over the weekend and we could catch up. What time is your practice over?"
"Four." Dani said.
"We can entertain ourselves for four hours." Eve said, "I have always wanted to see the Mall of America."
"Wait a minute." Charlie said, "Doe? The one who made Portman turn several different shades of red and purple."
"The very same." Dani told them. Doe looked very pleased with himself. Eve and Leah were on the verge of bursting into laughter and tears.
"What did you do?" Terry asked.
Doe looked like he was fondly remembering something that was very funny, "I'll tell them." Dani said, Doe nodded, "Okay, at the beginning of school, at my school, we always have a showcase. It's kind of like a Talent show, but there are no prizes. The Talent show, with prizes, is at the end of the year, but that's beside the point." Dani pulled a water bottle out of the bag around her waist and took a drink. "Any who, Dean and I were in the showcase and Doe was the host. I bet Doe that he wouldn't kiss Dean in front of the entire school after the showcase." Terry, Jesse, Charlie, and Adam were gaping at them, "Let's just say that Doe got the money, and I gave him an extra five for the hell of it."
"I would have loved to see that." Terry said.
"I've got it on tape." Dani said, "It was funny, even if Dean isn't your type dear." Dani told Doe.
"I know he isn't. You know that I'm not into the whole 'bad boy' thing." Doe told her, making air quotations when he said 'bad boy'.
"Something you and Dani have in common." Leah said.
"LEAH!" Dani scolded her.
"Is that a 'C'?" Charlie asked, finally taking a look at the hockey jersey that Leah was wearing. "Is that a captain jersey?"
"Yeah, I'm the captain of my high school's hockey team." Leah told him, flipping her hair over her shoulder and showing off the 'C'. "Meaning I was Dean's captain until he came here."
"She's been the captain on every team that she and Dean have been on since they were 5." Dani told them, "My guess is that Connie and Julie would love to get their hands on that kind of information."
"Yeah." Adam said, nodding his head.
There was a loud beeping noise and Dani looked at her watch, "Oh crap!" She exclaimed, "I have to get back to practice or my coach will kill me! I'll see you guys later." She said, waving good-bye and running off.
"Pleasure to meet you all." Eve said, "But we should be going."
"Bye." They said as the three characters left, "We need to get going to, it's almost noon."
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"What is with you guys?" Dean asked Terry, Jesse, Adam, and Charlie, "Why do you keep staring at me?" They knew that he was getting a little weirded out, but getting what Dani had told them out of their heads was hard.
"No reason." Jesse insisted, "Everyone is here, shouldn't we go do something?"
"No, not yet." Dean said, "We have to wait for Max."
"Who?" Terry asked.
"Max. Max Newmen." Charlie said, "He is an old friend of Portman's, and his dad got transferred here because he is in the Army. Max ended up at Eden Hall."
"Oh." Terry and Jesse replied.
"There he is!" Connie said, pointing out the window. There he was, unmistakable Max, but he wasn't alone, "Who are they?" She asked as she looked around the group.
"Oh, no!" Dean exclaimed, "Three of the five members of the of Chicago's own fantabulous five!" Dean groaned and smacked his head on the table.
"Portman? What are you doing?" Fulton asked as he watched Dean smack his head repeatedly on the table. "And 'fantabulous'?"
"I am trying to break my skull on this table, and I don't want to talk about it!" Dean said as he continued to smack his head on the table. "If you want to know, ask my sister."
"Well, well, well," A voice said, "If it isn't the little pinprick that I finally got rid of." Leah sat on the table next to Dean's head. Everyone could see Dean turn a shade of puce as he stopped banging his head on the table.
"Hi C. What are you doing here? And why? Is this some form of imaginative torture that you with to try on me?" Dean finally looked up at the slightly goth and scary girl that was sitting on the table. Then he shot a look at Max.
"Sorry man. I ran into them on may way here." Max said.
"What took you so long, anyway?" Goldberg asked.
"My dad isn't the easiest person to get away from or passed." Max told them, "I had to finish up everything that I had to do before I could go."
"Yeah," Eve broke in, "Maxie's old man is a right pain in the ass."
"Eve," Dean said, "You're here too? I thought you were vising you grandparents in London." Dean took in a deep breath, and looked at Eve.
"I was. But school starts on Wednesday for us, so we decided that we wanted to see our little future gold medal winner." Eve told him, "So chill out. It's not like we are going to tell any painful stories about you." Charlie had to spit his water back in his glass to hid his laughter, Adam nearly choked on the pickle he was eating, and Terry and Jesse had to practically eat their own lips to stop themselves from laughing out loud.
"What is up with you four?" Kenny asked as he looked at the hysterical looks on Charlie's, Adam's, Terry's, and Jesse's faces.
"Nothing." Adam said in a gasping voice after he got himself to not choking to death. He took in a deep breath and got himself together.
"Whatever." Dean said.
"What about me?" A voice said as the body of Doe came into view and he looked around the table with a huge smile on his face, "I'm here too." Adam couldn't help but notice that Dean was turning a brilliant shade of beet red. Then Doe blew a kiss somewhere and Adam, Charlie, Terry, and Jesse lost all the control that they had and started to laugh hysterically.
"What the hell is going on?" Russ asked as he looked around to the four laughing machines, to Max, to the three new comers, to Dean, and back around again.
"Should we?" Charlie asked in a low voice; Adam, Terry, and Jesse agreed, "Let's set the scene: Chicago, Illinois, before Portman joined us at Eden Hall. His former school has what is called a showcase, sort of like a talent show..."
"But with no prizes." Jesse interjected. "Anyway, Portman and Dani were in the showcase and and Doe here was the host." Everyone was enjoying the rapidly bright turning color that Dean's face was becoming, he looked ready to kill.
Terry began the next part of the story, "Dani and Doe had a small bet going on that included much embarrassment for poor Portman. If Doe won, he got five bucks." At this Dean practically leaped over the table; he was stopped by Leah and Eve, who grabbed on to his arms and stopped him from moving.
"Let's just say that Doe got the five buck." Adam finished.
"Actually I got ten. An extra five for the sheer element of surprise part that I wanted to put in there." Doe made an elaborate hand gesture when he said 'surprise'. "It was great." Four pairs of enormous eyes later, "No! The money part was great." He jerked his head towards Dean and whispered, "Not exactly my cup of tea."
Again, laughter, "Portman if you didn't notice," Max said, "quello era lui, dissing la vostra abilità baciant." (Italian: that was him, dissing your kissing ability.)
"Vada ad inferno, Newmen." Dean said. (Italian: Go to hell, Newmen).
"Well," Eve said, "We must get going. We need to find something to do while Dani is at practice, and I have a feeling we have overstayed our welcome." She pulled out her car keys, "I'll be waiting in the Scion."
"I'm just getting over the fact that I don't have to worry about you on my team anymore." Leah said, "But just because I'm not your captain anymore doesn't mean that I won't kick you ass when I feel like it."
"Gee, thanks C. That's nice to know." Dean said as Leah walked out of the door, followed by Doe. "Oh god. Watch out Minneapolis."
"What was that about?" Fulton asked, looking over to his best friend, very confused.
"I don't want to talk about it." Dean said, "Who told you guys about that?" He asked Terry, Jesse, Adam, and Charlie.
"Dani." They chorused.
"Well, I guess I'll just have to kill her when I see her. But know, where does anyone want to go?" Dean asked. He looked around waiting for an answer, no one gave one. "Can we forget about what just happened?"
"What happens if we don't?" Averman asked.
"I'll kill you." Dean said.
"Yes sir." Averman replied.