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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RIP MuM i love you so much- The roses and gumdrops line was a spur of the moment thing... I think I was channeling my band teacher, he says weird stuff like that. Yes, Adam was at a spa with his mom whilst she got her hair done, that will be explained late in this chapter or sometime in the next chapter, I haven't decided yet.

PrincessH- Luck? Well, I didn't plan it as luck because their dorm got broken into, but I can see the luck in that... It moves up Dani and Adam's plan! Fulton's reaction should give an interesting mental image, I hope.

mickEmousina- I must say that I am happy that you are reviewing once again, but I know how school can get in the way. I'm happy that you like what I have written since you last read, and I hope that you get to read more.

Thank you to mdgirl18!

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Dani pulled her wet hair into a ponytail to keep it out of the way as she brushed her teeth. It wasn't really in the way anymore, but pulling it back was pure habit. The gray Happy Bunny tank top she was wearing was wet around the top, but it only water, it would dry. Her black jeans were wet around the bottom from the puddle of water she was wiping up with a beach towel and her foot. Tammy stood next to her, brushing her teeth as well, eager to get out of Fulton's house as soon as possible. Dani shook her head and attempted to stifle laughter as Tammy bent down to spit. "Chill." Dani said with a mouthful of toothpaste.

"Chill?" Tammy asked as she rinsed her mouth, "Dani, I am in Fulton's house, using his bathroom, about to take a shower in his shower. How can I chill?"

"First of all, Ms. Duncan, last I checked the name on the lease was Bethany Reed, not Fulton. So, taking that into consideration, you aren't in Fulton's house, using his bathroom, and about to take a shower in his shower; you are in Mrs. Reed's house, using her bathroom, and about to... OW!" Dani exclaimed as Tammy's hand collided with the back of her head and her left arm.

"How did you get those?" Tammy asked, pointing to the immensely noticeable scars that went from Dani's hand to halfway up her upper arm.

"I tripped on Dean's favorite hockey puck when I was 11." Tammy scrunched up her forehead in bafflement, "Dean had left it on the stairs. I tripped on it and put my arm through the window next to the door. You've seen the layout of my house, the stairs end near the door."

"Yeah. That must have been painful. Now I see why all of your skating dresses have one long sleeve."

"Yeah, but I attempt to forget it." Dani replied as she rinse out her mouth, "I'll see you when you're done." She waved as she walked out of the bathroom and pulled her hair out of it's ponytail and wrapped the band around her wrist, "Hello, Mrs. Reed." Dani said as she entered the kitchen, where Mrs. Reed was reading the newspaper.

"Hello Dani." Mrs. Reed replied, "I'm sorry, but if you want to eat anything you'll have to settle with oatmeal or cereal. I've been busy with my shift at the hospital, and I haven't gotten much shopping done."

"You work at the hospital?"

"Oh, yes. I'm a medical assistant."

"Saving lives one day at a time." Dani replied.

"Paperwork."

"Well, if you didn't keep everything in order then some diagnosis' could be messed up. So if you think about it, the doctors need you. Don't trust them to do their own paperwork." Dani said as she sat down with a bowl, a spoon, milk, and a box of Fruity Pebbles.

"You don't like doctors, do you?" Mrs. Reed asked as she folded the newspaper and placed it on the table.

"Bad experiences." Dani responded, trying her best to not yell what she thought about doctors to the world. Some peopled might get offended. She was lifting the spoon to her mouth when she heard the knob on the bathroom jiggle and someone groan.

"Man! Who is in the shower? Mom is always up at the crack of dawn!" Fulton complained to Dean. He grumbled as he and Dean walked towards the kitchen, "Mom! Who's in the bath..." He walked in and saw Dani eating breakfast, "room. Dani?"

"'Ello." She replied as she took in the boys appearances. Dean was wearing his usual bedroom attire, black boxers and a gray wife beater. Fulton was wearing a pair of black boxers with gold flames. "You look great." She joked.

"Ha ha." Dean said, "Dan, what the hell are you doing here? And what happened to your hair?" He asked, dumbfounded.

Dani looked down at her cereal, "Eating breakfast and I cut it." She replied innocently, pointing out her obvious breakfast. Both of them crossed the room and looked expectantly at Mrs. Reed.

"Don't look at me like that." She muttered in a strong, authoritative voice.

"Fulton." She said as he began to protest.

"Thanks again, Mrs. Reed." Tammy's voice rang through the hallway as she walked towards the kitchen, "We really do appreciate..." She walked in and saw Fulton and his clothes, or lack thereof, "it." She managed to finish.

Fulton turned bright red and seemed to be swallowing his tongue, and Dani didn't blame him, Tammy was a knock out at the moment. She was wearing tight blue jeans and a brown and white horizontal striped belly shirt that showed off the bellybutton piercing that she had gotten just after she made to the Olympics. Her mother hadn't approved of it, but her father signed so she could get it, he was a little more lenient then Mrs. Duncan was. "I... um... I... Excuse me." Fulton mumbled before running out of the room.

"I'll make sure that he isn't going to jump out of a window or something." Dean said quickly as he raced after his friend's retreating back.

Mrs. Reed laughed, "Excuse me, ladies. I have to get to work."

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Fulton and Dean had left the apartment to find that Tammy and Dani were already gone. Fulton was slouched over and embarrassed as he walked with Dean to meet the Ducks at the building that Terry and Jesse's parents owned and were turning into an Art Gallery.

"Finally!" Russ called as they entered the building. Surprisingly, what looked like all of the instate Ducks parents seemed to be given the grand tour of the building. "Now all we have to do is wait for Julie. What took so long?"

"Nothing." Fulton mumbled.

"Nothing?" Dean asked, "Dude, Tammy Duncan was in your shower." The Ducks, all of whom had learned about their relationship (but not all of it, thank goodness), perked up to listen.

"You make it sound like I walked in on her." Fulton retorted, "She was fully clothed when she came into the kitchen."

"But you weren't." Dean pointed out. "You were in your jammies."

"Shut up, Portman." Fulton said as he silently thanked god that the parents had left the room before the conversation had gotten this far.

"'Jammies'?" Max said, "You sound like you're talking to Felix or Caleb." Dean thought about this for a moment and nodded in agreement. Max glanced toward the window and sighed, "Shit." He whispered as he closed his eyes. Opening them again, he said, "Portman, go hide."

"Huh?" Dean asked.

"Unless you want Sir and Amanda to know that you are here, I suggest you hide." He said, pointing towards the door. Dean looked out the window in the door and sighed.

"I am so lucky that not all of my friends parents hate me and my family." He stalked out of the room and met the parents. "Hello, everyone."

"Dean?" Casey Conway asked, "What are you doing?"

"Max's parents are here. Considering that they hate me and my family, both of us figured it would be better if they not know I'm here so that Max doesn't get moved again for a stupid reason." They stared at him with confusion written on their faces as the conversation between Max and the dreaded monsters from the black abyss.

"Max!" A stern voice yelled, even though Max was standing three feet away. Max shook off his father's yell and didn't answer, as was custom, "Have you spoken to that piece of trash lately?" No response. "Answer me!" He screamed.

"Sir, no Sir." Max replied with venom dripping on every word. "I haven't spoken to Cami in quite a while Sir."

"Is she still with that... eww." His stepmother shuttered to get the point across as Dean balled up his fist and began to bang it into his thigh.

"Alec?" Max asked, wanting to get under their skins, "Yeah, I would suspect..." His father shot him a death like glare, "Ma'am." He added sweetly. "Last I heard, they were ring shopping." Dean stifled his laughter while a shuttering gasp left the lips of Amanda Newmen.

"Antone!" She growled out.

"I know dear, don't worry. You did try your best." Dean inserted an eye roll at this comment while Max fought one. "Lets go."

"Have fun." Max called as he waved. Dean stood in the same spot until Max called out, "They're gone. The banes of my existence are gone!" Dean walked out with a smile on his face as he and Max bumped fists, "They're going to kick me out soon." Max said randomly, "I can see it already. I'll bet the minute I turn 18, I am out of there."

"Yeah, but at least you can come back to Chicago."

"Yeah." Max agreed as he looked from curious parent to curious parent.

"Portman, that part about the ring shopping..." Dean nodded, loving Max's joke to make his parents leave. Dean pulled out the water bottle he had brought from the Reed household, "I wasn't lying." Dean choked on half of the water in his mouth and spit the rest out.

At that moment, Julie walked in and stopped suddenly so that she wasn't sprayed with water. "Um, did I miss something?" She asked.

"Oh, not really." Max told her nonchalantly, "My asinine parents were here just a moment ago and I disclosed to them that Dean's brother and my sister were engagement ring shopping." He looked over to Dean, "From what Alec told me they'll probably end up getting engaged and wait until Cami graduates."

"Mom'll love that." Dean said, "She took to Cami like flies to a garbage dump. Probably because 'Camilla' was the name of her best skating friend, who was, in fact, from Italy." Max agreed with a head nod.

"So, it's good to know that I didn't miss much." Julie replied, still a tad bit confused as to what had happened before she had arrived.

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Ted Orion sat in the Hospital waiting room as he waited for Becky to get finish with her Physical Therapy for the day. He was leaning on his hand while his elbow rested on the wooden arm of the chair he was sitting on. Letting out a deep sigh, Ted let himself get lost in his thoughts. Becky wasn't getting much support from the Hospital staff, nor did she like to be at hospitals in general; she thought that they were too depressing. Sighing, he rolled his eyes. But he was startled when he heard a light laugh.

"You've been doing that for the past half hour." A familiar and friendly female voice said, "Are you trying to have yourself pass out?" He looked up and saw a young Latina woman with sparkling brown eyes, silky black hair, and an ever-present half smile.

"Thanks for being so concerned with my wellbeing, Matilde, but I'm fine." He replied to the young nurse.

"Okay, I got it through to Becky that I prefer Mattie, not Matilde. Now we have to work on getting that into your hard head." She replied.

"You sound like my daughter."

"Good, at least one of you has more then a modicum of retention." Ted scoffed sarcastically, Mattie always joked around with him if he was stuck waiting for Becky. He didn't mind, she was a nice person who always tried to give encouragement to the children, and even teens and adults, who had disabilities of some form.

"Ha ha. Very funny." He retorted. She laughed and motioned to the door through which the Therapy room was.

"I think she should be done soon."

"Thanks." Ted replied, feeling slightly disheartened.

"Look, I really should be saying this, but you look like you need to hear it." Ted stood up, "From what I can tell, for the past few months, Becky has been loads happier, and to me that means she might have more confidence with her therapy."

"Your point?"

"It's just that..." She sighed, trying to find the right words, "Whatever you have around that lit a fire under her... I'd keep it around."

"Won't Dr. McAllister be angry that you told me that?" Ted asked of the head pediatrician in the hospital.

"Why would I care? He's not my boss. I'm in adult medicine. I'm just calling it as I see it."

"Hi, Mattie!" Becky's voice called from behind her.

"Now see." Mattie said, getting back to her earlier banter with the man standing in front of her, "She has retention... She remembered."

"Sure, Matilde." Ted replied just to get a ruse out of her. She shot him a glare as he turned his attention back to his daughter, "Ready Becky?"

"Uh-huh." Becky said, "Is Uncle Eric going to be staying with us again tonight?" Ted nodded, "Yey." Becky said lowly, yet excitedly, as she clapped her hands together lightly.

"Bye." Mattie said as she walked away smiling.

"I like her." Becky said, "She reminds me a little bit of Dani, just older." Ted nodded and turned Becky around in her chair. "Dad? Don't rush out of here like a maniac." She told him to make sure that he didn't run out of the hospital and make her wheelchair go at warp speed.