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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PrincessH- Yes, Dean is a big softy when you look at him hard enough. He's one of my favorite characters to right because you get to do a lot with him. I love the RENT movie too and Aaron Lohr has a fantastic voice. We will be ending this story after a few more important things have happened, but you are correct, we are coming to a close. Thank you!
sphinx005- Well, Dean isn't the kind of guy to just shrug off his sister dating someone, he has to set a few ground rules. So, of course he's going to tell Adam that he gets to break his knees if Adam breaks Dani's heart, that's who he is. But we will get on with him and his love life later. Yes, Mrs. Banks is a sweet women, not many people would genuinely give someone a place to stay without asking for something in return. I wanted to make her that kind of person. Thanks!
AznIntegra- Dean finally approved! Happiness! I agree that it's fair that Dean gets to break Adam's knees if he breaks Dani's heart and I'm sure that Dean would agree with us... He needs to watch after his sister. Again, I agree with you, Adam is a great guy and won't treat Dani badly. As for Abigail, yup. She got burned. Yes, Dani is based on a real person and she says thanks for the compliment. Although I think her boyfriend was a little taken aback... Oh well.
Thank you mdgirl18!
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Adam sat in the kitchen counter top in his house, watching Claribel cook Jamie's favorite food, Jerk Chicken and cheese quesadillas. When Adam was younger he had always watched Claribel cook and sometimes he got to help, "So, you think this is still Jamie's favorite?" Claribel asked.
"Yeah." Adam replied, "He said so... You don't have anything to worry about."
"What about his fiancée?" Claribel asked worriedly.
"She likes spicy food as hot as she can get it." Adam said, "I think she said something about it has to do with fire eating... Or something."
"Fire eating?" Claribel asked.
"Apparently."
"Um." Claribel replied, "Xavier, come here." She called out the open window towards the open window of the guest house. Almost immediately a small boy around the age of 8 bounded out of the guest house and entered the main house with a smile on his face. He pulled off his hat showing his bald head, "What have you been doing?"
"I was drawing for the girls in the cancer ward." He admitted, "They said that they wanted some pictures."
Adam raised his eyebrows, "He's eight and he's already a ladies man." Adam chuckled as Claribel swatted his shoulders, "What?"
Claribel opened her mouth to respond, but she was cut off by two figures entering the house, "Holy Christ it's cold." Thalia said, "We are not moving out of Nevada after we get married if that is what you are thinking."
"Honey, I thought your father owned a penthouse in Boston? Did you think that it would be warm here if it wasn't there?" Jamie asked as he pulled off his jacket.
"Did I think it would be warm? Um... no. But I plan on being as warm as possible for the rest of my life." Thalia said, shaking her hair out of her face, "As for the penthouse, whenever I visited that particular property, I never stayed for that long and we only ever visited Boston during the summer. We stopped visiting that house when I was 11, remember?"
"Oh, yeah." Jamie said sheepishly. Jamie turned to his brother and smacked him in the head, "So where is that girlfriend that I need to meet?"
Adam fixed his hair and scoffed, "I don't know where she is at the moment, but even if I did, I wouldn't tell you because you aren't going to meet her."
"And why not?" Jamie asked.
"For the same reason that you weren't too hyped about your family meeting me." Thalia said, "Embarrassing stories... Like having to run home from the pool naked."
"Ha." Claribel said, "I remember that. You were so skinny and pale."
Thalia chuckled and Jamie sighed, "Thanks, Claribel. I really appreciate the input."
"I know you do." Claribel replied.
"Zachary ran out of the ward naked when the doctors said they had to do more tests." Xavier said while eating some orange segments, "Then he bit the nurse."
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All of his life he had dealt with the rumors. He had been the center of plenty of them, but they all seemed to go back to the same thing... Even when he came to Eden Hall... Not that he expected any different. Eden Hall was full of closed minded peopled who would start a rumor for the sake of starting a rumor. Although he had to admit, being a male figure skated made him an easy target for people who believed the stereotype of being all male figure skaters being gay. Ken Wu had gotten use to it.
Nowadays Ken devoted the majority of his time to hockey, understandably, but when he had first head that there would be other figure skaters at Eden Hall, he was ecstatic, even more so when he meet them. Tammy was your typical figure skating princess who liked pink... But he had a thing of bad boys and had actually managed to have a relationship with one that was more then a fling. Gia was a Southern Bell to be sure, but she didn't mind picking up a football and roughing around with the guys. Dani, however, was someone that could hardly be categorized. She was smart, funny, athletic, and sweet but if you got her mad she would kill you, not to mention she could see through anything that anyone lied about. Adam was a very lucky man, hopefully he wouldn't blow it.
As a Bash Brother, it was his job to look after Tammy and Dani for Dean and Fulton... It was just the icing on the cake that they could talk about things like figure skating and not get looks that asked if he was gay or not. Luckily figure skaters know that not all male skaters are gay.
Sometimes when Ken was alone or bored it was good to be able to talk to people who were interested in all of the things he liked, not just some of them, "Kenny!" A voice said as he walked towards the exit of his dorm room.
"Hey Dani, Tammy." He replied with a smile.
"Uh... Why is she first?" Tammy said in a mock-preppy voice.
"It's called 'Alphabetical Order', dear." Dani replied in a patronizing voice. Tammy stuck out her tongue, causing Ken to laugh, "Anyway, Ken I was wondering if you had seen Adam."
Ken shook his head, "I think he went to see his mom. After she had her asthma attack, Adam wanted to help her some more. Plus, I think he promised to help move their housekeeper and her son into the guest house."
"Aw." Dani said, "That's sweet."
"That it is." Tammy replied, "What about Fulton?"
"Um..." Ken said, "If I remember correctly he had a lot of things to do for his mom... Either that or he wanted to look up more on that Doctor that his mother has been interested in."
"You mean Dr. Kowalski?" Tammy asked.
"That would be the one." Ken replied.
"And where are you going?" Dani asked.
"To send a letter." Ken said. It would have been a mundane sort of activity to admit to, but when Ken replied he looked nervous and panicked like he was hiding something it changed from mundane to interesting.
"To who?" Tammy asked, noticing Ken's reaction.
"No body." Ken replied.
"Then why are you sending a letter?" Dani asked again. "Okay, look. If you hadn't looked like you were going to jail when you answered in the question in the first place, we wouldn't have pressed the issue."
"Kenny?" Tammy pouted.
Ken tried to look away, her pouts were hard to resist... He had a feeling that Fulton had fallen pray to them several times before, "Um..." Ken said, "A person. Yeah, I'm sending it to a person."
"Ken?" Dani asked, "Would this have to do with our previous conversation about you needing a girlfriend and you denying that you need one?"
"Maybe." Ken said, causing Tammy and Dani to squeal, "Jeez, why do girls squeal so much?"
"Who else knows you have a girlfriend?" Dani asked.
"No one ever asks!" Ken exclaimed, "She lives in San Fransisco, so no one here has met her."
"Now you have to give us details, you know that right?" Dani asked as Ken rolled his eyes, "All of the details that we won't tell anyone about." Tammy nodded in agreement and pretended to zip and lock her lips shut.
"Do you really need to know?" Ken asked. Both girls nodded vigorously, "If I must." He replied. Ken pulled his wallet out of his pants pocket and ruffled through it. After finding what he was looking for, Ken pulled out the picture that he was looking for. He handed to the girls and smiled when their jaws dropped, "What?" He asked.
"Damn." Dani said, "I never took you for a guy that liked this kind of girl."
"What's that suppose to mean?" Ken asked, but not in a bad way.
"Well, she's... different." Tammy said.
Ken chuckled, "You mean she's an artsy girl with black and pink hair, a nose and a labret piercing, and a closet full of black clothes?" Tammy and Dani nodded, "Well, that's what I like about her."
"Are you sure it's not the fact that she has enormous boobs?" Tammy asked sarcastically.
"They aren't that big." Ken retorted, turning slightly red.
"Aw... Ken's all embarrassed." Dani said, "What's her name?" Ken mumbled something, but it was illegible to both girls, "What?"
Ken sighed, "Maybelle."
"That's pretty." Both girls said just before Dani squealed with indigence. Turning, Dani sighed at the sighed of Adam and slapped him on the arm.
"What was the for?" Adam asked, rubbing his arm.
"For tickling me." Dani replied. She smiled at Adam and waved once she noticed that he was not alone. Coming in just after Adam had 'attacked' her was Mrs. Banks, Jamie, and Thalia, who waved back.
Ken looked around, "I will take this opportunity to leave." He said, "I'll see you later." He finished. As he walked passed Adam, Ken raised his index finger and middle finger to his eyes and then pointed them to Adam's, leaving the poor guy very confused. Tammy sighed and waved, following Ken out, hoping to find more information about where Fulton was.
"Um... what was that?" Adam asked once Ken was completely out of the door.
Dani sighed, "That was Ken being the little Bash Brother." She said, "He's being loyal to Dean by looking out for me and that was him looking out for me."
Adam sighed, "That's great. First I get the 'Rules' speech that include something about breaking my knees and then Ken gets to... do whatever that was."
"Wait a minute." Jamie said, "Does that mean that you are the girlfriend?" Dani nodded slowly, "It's about freaking time." He almost yelled, causing his fiancée and his mother to jump back.
"Honey." Thalia said, "Please calm down. You reacted this way the last time you found out that they were dating."
"What?" Corrie asked, "This is saddening. I've missed so much."
"Mom..." Adam said.
Jamie's face lit up like a Christmas Tree, "Hey, Dani. Has Adam ever told you about the time that he ate an entire box of Crayola Crayons and danced around the living room while singing the names of the colors as he spit the crayons out on the carpet." Adam turned extremely pale.
"Um... no. He never mentioned that." Dani said.
"Oh, I've got a million of them." Jamie said.
"And I have a better idea." Thalia said, "Corrine, why don't you, Dani, and I go out for a while... Just us girls... If one minds."
"I have no qualms." Dani said. Corrine shook her head, but both of her sons looked petrified, "Oh, stop worrying." Dani said to the boys, "I'm sure she won't embarrass you."
"Of course I won't." Corrine said. Dani and Thalia waved goodbye to Adam and Jamie and left with Corrine.
"Should we be worried?" Adam asked.
"Um... I don't know." Jamie replied.