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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Thoughtless Drumming- Yes, Bombay got children. Ever since I saw the third movie (and maybe a little before that) I thought that he would make a great father, with all that he had been through with the Ducks. Glad that you like. If you don't want me to ask, then I won't. I hope that you like what happens next.

PrincessH- Ahhh, who can blame Tammy, that is the question. Sorry about that. I'm glad that you liked that part so much. So you don't have to worry, Fulton will be heading Dani's advice soon enough. I hope that I write it well enough.

BrokenAngel1753- Glad you like. Thank you!

mdgirl18- Thanks to the new reviewer!

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Connie and Julie were walking around the Eden Hall campus together. They were the only ones, excluding Adam, that had gotten all of their homework done, so they decided against staying inside. The weather wasn't too cold yet and both of them missed the time that they got to spend together, without Scooter or Guy or any of the other Ducks, it was just girl time.

They had been walking around for what seemed to be several hours, and they had gotten through all of the topic's of conversation that filled their girlish minds. The team, their boyfriends, the annoying preps and snobs that they had to be classmates with, and, most importantly, Adam and Dani's budding relationship "Please tell me you agree with me and think that they would be so great together." Connie said as the duo passed the football field.

"Of course I do." Julie said, "But there is one problem. Portman." Connie nodded in agreement, "I mean, he is obviously protective of her. But one would think that he wouldn't really have a problem with his sister dating one of his friends."

"Either that, or it would make it worse." Connie replied. Just then she stopped dead and sniffed in heavily, "Oh my God, do you smell that?" Julie did the same and nodded, "That smells so good!"

"Glad you approve." A voice said from behind them, Tammy walked up with a plate of cookies, "Dani is a complete wiz in the kitchen. Want one?" Connie and Julie nodded and each grabbed a cookie.

"These are good. You weren't kidding when you said she was a wiz." Julie said, licking white chocolate off of the corners of her mouth, "How did she learn to cook like this?"

"From what I hear, her dad." Connie and Julie raised their eyebrows, "I know, you would think that it was her mom, but Mrs. Portman told me herself that she's a master of disaster in the area of cooking. But what can you say, the Portman's are defiantly not the All-American family." Julie and Connie nodded in agreement. If Dean Portman was a member of the All-American family, they would have to start to wonder about the term 'All-American'. Now, if it were Adam and his family that they were talking about, Connie and Julie would have to be somewhat inclined to agree. But Portman? No! "You guys want some more, Dani always over cooks."

"Yeah." Connie said, "Where does she get to cook anyway?"

"In our dorm building. It's that one." Tammy pointed to the brick building that stood near the football field.

"People are always making up stupid rumors that that place it haunted." Julie said with a laugh.

Tammy laughed as well, "The only thing that haunts that place is the annoying and oh-so-clumsy one I have to call family, my brother. Poor Tommy." She turned, "So come on." Julie and Connie followed her into the dorm, and they were pretty sure that they had left Eden Hall. They walked into a stainless steel kitchen, with Twisted Sister blasting out of the radio, and Dani humming along as she pulled more cookies out of the oven. "Hey, Dan." Tammy said

"Hey." Dani said, then she turned around, "Hey Connie, Julie." Both girls said hi, "Did you two come for cookies?" She asked, both nodded, "Well, I've got chocolate chip, white chocolate chip, peanut butter, and peanut butter chip. Enjoy thy selves."

Julie and Connie swapped surprised looks, "I told you," Tammy said, "This girl is crazy, she overcooks!" Dani did a little bow and turned off the radio. "So Dani, you didn't finish telling me your story."

Dani suddenly blushed bright tomato red, "There's nothing to tell, trust me." She went back to cleaning up the mess that she had made while making cookies.

Julie looked at Dani, "Does this story have something to do with a certain really cute, really sweet hockey player. And does this hockey player happen to have the number 99 slapped on his jersey?" Dani turned around.

"Maybe." She said as she walked passed the trio of girls, opened a cabinet, and put a large bag of flour away. Tammy nodded as Julie and Connie exchanged knowing smirks. "Guys, yes, I like Adam. But, no I won't go out with him."

"Why not?" Connie asked.

Dani looked from one girl to the next, they were all asking the very same question with their eyes. Dani placed her hand just below her neck, "This tall, my bother, goes by Caleb." Then she placed it a few inches above her head, "This tall, my brother, goes by Dean." Then she placed her hand as far as it would go, "This tall, my brother, goes by Alec!"

"We've never heard of Caleb before." Connie said, looking over to Julie.

"He's ten and he watches me like a hawk." Dani said as she sat at the island in the middle of the kitchen and placed her head in her hands, "Those three are very bad for my love life." Dani looked back up, "I need to get out, feel free to eat as many of those as you want."

"That's cool, Dan." Tammy said, "I have to get Tommy and we have to met up with our family. I guess we'll see you tomorrow."

"Bye, Tam." Dani replied as Tammy ran up a flight of stairs and out of sight. Dani sighed, "How long have you two known that I liked Adam?" She smiled as Connie and Julie looked from each other to Dani.

"Well, that first practice that you sat in on. When you sat with Scooter and disclosed that Rick Riley was gay." Julie said, "You winked at Adam before you left the Rink, and Adam looked like he was about to faint." Dani let out a laugh, and Julie continued, "I don't think any one but Scooter and I noticed it. I told Connie."

"And I thought that it made perfect sense." Connie said. "I figured that that was the reason that Scooter picked Adam up after practice was over."

"He did what?" Dani asked incredulously, hoping beyond hope that Scooter hadn't done what Connie had just that he had done. She was wide-eyed and completely confused. Connie merely shrugged.

"So, Dani," Julie said, "you said that you needed to get out, so lets go." Dani got up as Julie and Connie pulled out plastic bags in the boxes that Dani had left out, and loaded them with left over cookies. "No need for these to go to waste." Julie said, as she loaded her bag. Connie nodded in agreement

"Whatever." Dani said as she grabbed one of the cookies, "So are we going or what?"

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Dani walked along with Connie and Julie until they had to met up with the rest of the Ducks in the Mess Hall for dinner. And they met some interesting and unwelcome faces along the way.

"So, how are you Portman's sister?" Julie asked when Dani agreed with her about change of the 'Anaheim Mighty Ducks' name change to just the 'Anaheim Ducks'.

"My brother and I may be twins, but we are two completely different people." Dani said as she turned around and walked and talked to them backwards, "See, I can do this and if Dean tried he would fall flat in his ass." Julie and Connie laughed. That was, until...

"Well, well, well!" A cocky voice said, causing Dani to turn around. "If it isn't the Lady Duck!" The group in front of her consisted of three boys. Connie was looking at two of them with shock and disgust. "Oh yeah." The boy said, looking towards Julie, "TWO Lady Ducks. Your brother told us that." He said to the boy that Connie didn't recognize. He nodded.

"McGill? Larson?" Connie asked indignantly. "What the hell are you two doing here?"

"Nat over here," He indicated the boy that no one recognized. "he invited us to come, and Larson and I, well, we've wanted to see Banks for a long time now." Banks? What did they want with Adam? Dani looked from Julie and Connie to the group of boys.

"Why?" Connie asked venomously. "Are you going to try and kill him again?" Now Dani was really confused. Kill? Was she being serious? What the heck was going on?

"I never wanted to kill Banks, I was just following orders and doing my job."

"Can it, McGill. You could have broken his back or his neck with what you did." Connie spat out. Julie seemed to understand what was happening, but Dani was as confused as ever, and now she was pretty mad.

"Connie?" Dani asked, "What the heck is going on?"

"Hello sweetheart." The boy called McGill said, "Why are you hanging around with rejects like these two." He waved nonchalantly in Julie's and Connie's direction. Sweetheart? Who the hell did this guy think he was? "You need to get with the big boys, like us." He indicated him and his friends. Dani played along.

"Really? Do I?" She said in a flirtatious voice. She flipped her hair and walked up to McGill, "And just what is it that you 'big boys' have they these 'rejects' don't?" McGill smiled as Dani put her arm around his shoulder. If Connie and Julie hadn't had a hint that she was just playing along, they would have been very confused and disturbed.

McGill laughed, "What do you think, Chicky?" He asked. Dani hated being called 'chick' or 'chicky'. It annoyed her to no end. But she played along and leaned in to kiss the disgusting boy. But, just before their lips touched, Dani pulled away and trust her knee between his legs. Then she did a spin kick and knocked him to the ground. Connie and Julie laughed hysterically.

"Well, you can't be that much of a big boy, because I certainly didn't feel anything." Dani retorted as McGill writhed on the ground. "Cons, Jules, I think you have dinner to get to." With that she linked arms with the two girls and waved to the boys, "Bye, boys." She said. With that the three girls walked away towards the Mess Hall.

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When Connie and Julie finally made it to the Mess Hall, they didn't bother themselves with getting school food, they decided to eat cookies for dinner. When they got the the table that the Ducks sat at (Scooter was sitting with them as well), both girls sat down and cracked up again. Everyone shot looks to them and then around the table, trying to make some sense of what the heck was the matter with their teammates. "Anyone else just a little confused?" Ken said to the occupants of the table.

"Yup." Averman replied, "I think that Cons-meister and the Cat-lady have gone crazy on us." He dug into his enchilada and accidentally flung a little piece of it at Julie.

"Ew, how do you eat that?" Julie asked as she pulled out her bag of cookies and stuffed one into her mouth, "I bet you that Dani could make those if we asked her."

"Yeah, I probably could." Dani's voice said, causing Julie and Connie, and everyone on the same side of the table to turn. Dani pulled up a chair and shoved it in between Julie's and Connie's chair. "But then again, I can make a lot of things. And hopefully they are better then school food." She put one hand into each Julie's and Connie's cookie bags and took one from each, "Well, I made them." She said to the girl's protests.

Shaking off having one of her cookies stolen, Connie said, "On, Guy, just so you know, I've become a lesbian and I will have to break up with you." Everyone stopped and Guy nearly choked on his milk, "From now on I will be dating Dani." Now it was Dean's turn to choke.

"Nu-uh!" Julie cried out, "Dani's mine!" Scooter dropped his fork with a loud clatter, "Sorry Scooter." Dani was about to burst out laughing, while the whole of the Ducks and Scooter seemed ready to pass out!

"Ladies, ladies." Dani said, soothingly, "We'll draw straws, that will be a fair and unbiased decision."

"Do I want to know?" Dean asked incredulously. He looked from Julie to Connie to Dani and back around. Dani was sure that her poor brother's head was about to explode, or implode, it didn't really matter.

"I don't think I need to answer that." Dani said, looking towards the door. She saw that boys called Nat and Larson holding McGill's arms over their shoulders, as McGill tried to walk. A smile crept on her face as the boys walked passed a familiar beefy, blond ex-enforcer. Cole went just a little bit insane. "Hiya, boys!" Dani said as they walked passed the Ducks table. Adam stiffened as he came to recognize the boys as his former Hawk teammates.

"You're a psycho chick, you know that!" McGill managed to breath out. He was gasping in pain. Cole walked up behind them in an attempt to intimidate the people at the table.

"Hey!" Dani said, "I'm not a chick! I'm a hellcat! So remember it next time and we won't have any problems. Also remember that I don't take kindly to people making mean and rude comments to and/or about my friends, which is exactly what you did, 'big boy'!" Then Dani turned attention to the boy named Nat, "Is that your bother?" She asked pointing to Cole. Nat nodded menacingly, Dani laughed to herself, "Bad, bad, bad. Wrong ethnicity people, wrong ethnicity!" Scooter, who was the only one who knew that boys name, got the joke.

"His middle name is Christopher." Scooter said when all of the boys had left the vicinity, "Not King, so you don't have to worry about that."

"I can't believe that McGill and Larson are friends with Cole's little brother!" Connie said, "I can't believe that they were here! And I can't believe you did that!" Connie said to Dani.

"Well, what can I say, I hate being called a chick. He got what was coming to him." Dani said, looking tickled pink. "Adam, that's your phone." Dani said, hearing a small buzz coming from Adam's pocket. He looked at her strangely and pulled out his phone. And... he had just gotten a text message.

Adam,

My girlfriend and my friends just got into town.

Meet me at Mickey's at 6:30 tomorrow, so that you can meet her and the guys.

Don't tell mom and dad, I want it to be a surprise.

Feel free to bring the Ducks.

Don't forget to bring an open mind, they can get a little strange sometimes.

Jamie

This little episode left Adam more confused about Dani then ever. She was defiantly a strange girl, but that somehow intrigued him even more. He had aways been up to a challenge, but he wasn't sure if he should take this one. He liked her a lot and wanted to get to know her, but he was worried about Dean's reaction. Jamie was going to be another problem, in what way was he going to try and 'help' Adam along? Yet another problem, his parents. If he had to bring an open mind to met Jamie's friends, what would his parents reactions be? Well, he was certainly going to find out. This could work out without a hitch, he hoped.