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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foreeverjinxed- Well, thanks! I'm glad that you like this story.

BrokenAngel1753- THANK YOU!

Thoughtless Drumming- Wrong? Wrong you ask? Who said that anything was wrong with our little Maxie? Something may or may not be wrong, but you'll find out soon enough. Yes, Dean is WAY too overprotective, and it will prove a hindrance, maybe. I'm glad that you thing that my stories are funny, but I really don't want your brother to inflict violence upon you because you are laughing so loud. Oh well, sorry.

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Adam was walking down the all of his dorm, making his way to the room that he shared with Charlie. He could have been in a much better mood then he was. His parents had just called to inform him that his older brother, Jamison (Jamie for short), was visiting home for the first time in what seemed like forever (but it was actually only about three or four years), and he had to visit with him. This meant that the plans that the Ducks had made for that weekend were totally and completely OFF! Once he reached his room, he roughly opened the door, stormed in almost unaware of the fact that all of the Ducks were inside with Charlie, slammed the door, and flopped onto his bed and buried his face in his pillow.

"What's up with him?" He heard Julie ask, "Is he trying to smother himself in his pillow?"

"I don't know." Someone replied, probably Russ, "Yo, cake-eater? What's up with you?" Adam groaned into his pillow, but didn't make any decipherable comments. "Cake-eater?" The voice said again in a singsong voice.

"Can I help you?" Adam asked angrily as he raised his head and looked at the shadows of his teammates on the wall. He knew he should tell them that his weekend was was basically ka-put, but if he did, then there was no going back, and he would have to stay with Jamie. All. Weekend. Long. Oh, crap!

"What's the matter with you?" Ken asked as Adam continued to stare at the wall.

"It's nothing, it's just that..." He didn't have time to finish. At the same time as he planned on telling them the truth, his cell phone rang. 'Saved by the cell phone.' Adam thought. "Hello?" He asked into the phone.

"Get your ass out here, now!" A voice commanded. "Or not." It was Jamie, why was he calling Adam now? "I'm serious, you have to show me around this place."

"What? Now?" Adam asked incredulously. He was going to have to spend the whole weekend with the guy, why did he have to show him around Eden Hall now? "Why?"

"Look!" A voice called as his dorm room door flew open, the person closed his cell phone simultaneously with Adam "It's obvious that you have plans this weekend," Jamie was standing in the doorway in a white wife beater and black jeans, his arms, one of which had a dragon tattooed on, were crossed across his chest. "That look must be new." Adam thought, "and my girlfriend is coming into town tomorrow, and I don't really want to have to spend the whole weekend with you anyway." He walked into the room and kept talking, "So we have to get as much brotherly bonding time in as possible until then. That way, mom and dad won't be completely on our asses about 'you two don't spend enough time together', so lets go. I'll be waiting outside." Jamie uncrossed his arms, walked out, "Just so you know, mom and dad told me your dorm and room number when I called them." and slammed the door.

"I see that Jamie is still as pleasant as ever." Guy remarked, "Or, is that really Jamie? Because, if so, he has seriously made some changes." Guy was right. The last time that any of the in-state Ducks had seen Jamie he was wearing a button-up top, a pair of tan slacks, and there was a distinct minus of a certain black, green, and blue dragon tattoo. None of the out-of-state Ducks even knew that Adam had a brother.

"Ahh! How college changes thee." Averman said in an over dramatic voice Everybody just shook their heads or rolled their eyes or, in Dean's case, threw the closet thing to them at Averman's head. "Ow!" Averman declared as a puck collided with his head.

"Well, I guess I should go and show him around. If I don't then I might have to stick with him and his girlfriend over the weekend, I'll see you guys later."

"Another thing," Charlie said before Adam had the chance to leave the room, "Since when does he have a girlfriend? I thought that Jamie was the self-proclaimed 'King of all Bachelors'?"

"Hey, I don't know this stuff. I was warned about him coming right after practice, it seemed to have just slipped my parents minds!" Adam made his around his friends and left the room.

"He doesn't seem to like Jamie that much, maybe they don't get along that well." Max said. All of the out-of-state Ducks agreed, but the in-state Ducks vehemently denied this claim.

"No," Charlie said, "no they get along great. Actually, Jamie was the first to come and visit him in the hospital after the Ducks vs. Hawks fiasco. That was when I first met him."

"Yeah." Connie continued, "Adam told us that Jamie was the one person in his family that didn't look at him with pity after he got switched. And he said that Jamie tried to convince him that it wouldn't be bad to switch to the Ducks, even though Jamie was a Hawk himself."

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Adam walked out of the dorm, only to be engulfed by his brothers muscular arms and "KNUCKLE SANDWICH!" Jamie called out. Adam struggled against his brothers arms, this was defiantly not the skinny, pale, timid, and preppy kid that had left for college in Nevada, just before the Junior Goodwill Games. Adam just thought that Jamie wanted to get as far away from their parents and hockey as possible and figured no place like the desert. Especially since Jamie had gotten yelled at for trying to put a positive side on the Hawk/Duck exchange. But that was before their father had gotten to know the Ducks, and Adam was sure things would be better.

"Jamie, let me go!" Adam called out from under his brother's arm. Jamie let go and Adam flattened his hair, "I think I kind of do like what collage did to you." Jamie laughed, "When did you get so... big and tan? When... what's with the tattoo? And what was with the attitude?"

"One question at a time little man." Jamie smiled, "Now I can actually make sense when I say that!" It was true, when Jamie was 18 he was scarcely two inches taller then a 13 year old Adam had been. Now Jamie at 21 was at least a head taller then Adam, and Adam had added some considerable height since he last saw his brother. "As for your questions, four years of college, an early college graduation present to me from me, and I just wanted to make an impression. I see you've noticed that I've changed."

"Yes. Sorry about playing the stubborn little brother part. How do you think mom and dad will feel about your new accessory?" Adam asked, raising one of his dark eyebrows.

"Now you're making me feel like a girl. That word, "accessory", I don't like it!" Jamie said, "So are you going to show me around here, or what?" Adam nodded and Jamie looked around, "It looks structured and good for growing minds like yours." Jamie teased, "And it seems that we have interested some ladies." Jamie pointed in the direction of the court that could get you anywhere in school.

Adam sighed, "Oh, them. That's Crissy Thomas and Janey Louis. They're sophomores and have been working on their high school reputations since they were in the seventh grade, mostly seniors and juniors." Jamie breathed in through his teeth, "Yeah."

"Hi Adam."

"Oh, hi Crissy. Janey." Adam replied as he tried to hide a look on his face that said 'Get me out of here or kill me now!' "How are you doing?" He was trying to be as gentlemen-like as possible.

"Oh, I'm fine." Crissy said in a trying-to-be-sexy-but-it-wasn't-really-working kind of way. "But, unfortunately, I have nothing to do on Saturday night. I was wondering if you wanted to do something?" She fluttered her eyes in a flirtatious fashion.

'She's being vague, we all know what that means.' Adam said to himself. "Sorry Crissy. I can't." He looked from one to the other, "If you two would excuse us, we should be going." He grabbed Jamie by his shirt and pulled him towards the football field.

"What lovely girls." Jamie said with sarcasm. "Are they all like that here?" Jamie looked at Adam with a confused look in his face as he and Adam reached the far end of the field. Adam had grabbed a hold of a low hanging tree branch, swung himself up, and kicked out a section of the old wood.

"Don't worry, it always falls out." Adam said to Jamie's indescribable look. "And no, not all of them. Most of them, but not all." He had Jamie follow him, "This leads to part of the school were no one goes, it's shorter this way." He said as he let Jamie pass him and he put the wood back.

"So, about the school of sluts in training..." Jamie began.

"Well, there are a lucky few that are like Connie and Julie, but other then that, nothing really." Adam said, shrugging his shoulders. "And the ones that are here that don't go to school here are nice too."

"Wait, you have girls here who don't go to school here?" Jamie asked, "Has anyone caught the eye of my shy, sweet, and adorable little brother?" Jamie said in a mocking voice, pinching Adam's cheeks.

"No." Adam said indignatly.

"I beg to differ." A voice said, forcing Adam to turn around. Scooter was sitting on an old concrete bench, reading a book in French, and eating an apple. "I believe you are forgetting a certain brunette figure skater, about 5 feet give or take, really cute?"

"Scooter, hi." Adam said, "Scooter, this is my brother, Jamie. Jamie, this is Scooter Vanderbilt."

"Scooter?" Jamie asked as he shook Scooter's hand.

"Scott. But I prefer Scooter."

"Pleasure. What was that about a figure skater that my little brother failed to mention to me? He knows that I have to know everything." Jamie shot a look at Adam, who looked ready to run.

"U.S.A Women's Olympic Figure Skater." Jamie widened his eyes. "She's his age, smart as a whip, and can kick someone's ass in about five seconds."

"How did you know about here?" Adam asked.

"I followed you remember. Last year when you were with the Varsity and you came up here to mope and moan and sob and what ever else it was that you did." Scooter said. Adam rolled his eyes, "I figured that you had to right about something, so during the time that Cole and Reily wanted to kill me, I took over for you."

"Yeah, whatever." Adam retorted. He looked over to the old brick building that he thought was a storage building. "At least I got... What the hell happened to you?" Adam practically screamed. It seemed that the "storage building" was the Figure Skater's dorms. Oh, joy.

"Adam, you don't need to yell." Dani walked up behind Scooter, "Hi Scooter." She had scrapes on her arms and a cut above her eye that had liquid stitches on it and a split lip. Her mid-back length hair was up a little higher then normal in a single braid, except some hair framing her face. "I got into a fight with my ex's new girlfriend. I don't know why she was here, something about how I was trying to get back with him and that that wasn't going to happen on her watch. It was the biggest crock, considering I hate the bastard. She wants him, she can have him."

"Oh." Adam replied. Jamie elbowed him in the ribs. "Dani, this is my brother, Jamie. Jamie, this is Dani Portman."

"The figure skater?" Jamie asked. Dani shook her head yes. "I saw you when the Olympic Teams were being interviewed in Las Vegas."

"Did you now?" Dani asked, "And?"

"All of you looked ready to kill that reporter." Jamie said.

"I was. He was complaining about me being a third-generation Olympian, even though my mom backed out, so that technically makes me just an Olympian. It was very annoying." Dani sighed a stray tendril of hair fluttering in the wind that had just picked up. "Anyway. I have homework calling my name. Bye." She walked back up to the door and opened it.

"Dani!" Adam called before she went inside. She walked back towards him with her eyebrows raised."The... the team is getting together at m-my place for a movie marathon on Saturday. I was wondering that, if you had the time, if you wanted to come. Ask Tammy and Tommy, too." Everyone was wide-eyed and Adam looked ready to be sick.

"An excuse to get away from here? I'd love too. Besides, Gia is going to visit her fiancée. Actually Tammy and Tommy have to go see their sick grandparents, but I'll run it passed them."

"Great." Adam said. Dani smiled and walked back to the door, and walked in and out of sight. "Oh my God!" Adam said once she was gone, "I can't believe I just did that!"

"Alright, little bro!" Jamie praised, "You might really be my real brother after all." He clapped Adam on the shoulder and tried to get him to make intelligible comments.

"Now all you got to do is kiss her and you'll be all set Banks." Scooter said with a twinkle in his eye.

Adam clapped Scooter on the shoulder and said, "You're a little behind in the grapevine." He walked back towards the school. Scooter and Jamie looked as he walked away, but then ran up to him, demanding explanations, "Just do me a favor and don't tell anyone." For once in his life Adam felt what it was like to hold the information that people really wanted to know, and that power felt great. Now just to make sure that his slip wouldn't get back to Dean and make sure that he wouldn't look like a complete moron at the movie marathon. This was certainly going to be a challenge.