Chapter 3

Summary

- Krystal Kabra is a world class skater who dreams of becoming an Olympic gold medalist. At the finals in the women's Grand Prix she injures her leg, and can no longer land quads. Her only shot at making her dream of becoming a olympic gold medalist is to learn how to skate pairs.

- Viktor Nikiforov is in a slump, he's run out of inspiration (pretend Yuri's video never happened.) Can he find the inspiration he needs in Krystal? Read to find out!

DISCLAIMER

~I don't own Yuri on ice!, The Cutting Edge, or the Olympics.

A/N I'm not sure if you guys know this, so i'm going to clarify… the OC is skating pairs because pair skating has a lower jump difficulty.

Krystal's POV

The two weeks had gone by fast. After I that news clip, I loosened up and thoroughly enjoyed my vacation. We had flown back to London and I wasted no time, and headed back to the ice.

I take a deep breath and clear my mind, focusing on my breathing as I skate a few warmup laps. My mind starts to wander and I can't help but think of the vacation I just took. The vacation really did me some good, it's been eight days since the break and those eight practices were very successful. The stress had gone down and my mind was clear. I am proud to say that I can now land triples with a very high success rate.

I come to a stop after the last warm up lap and just close my eyes. I picture a triple flip, how you go into the jump, what you do with your arms, and finally the landing.

Opening my eyes I exhale and move forward. Soon after I start to speed up, faster and faster. As my left leg pushes off the ice I raise my arms and tuck them tightly into my chest. I keep my arms tucked in during the fall until my skate hits the ice. As soon as I feel an impact hit my right leg by arms go out fighting for balance.

Feeling pretty good I roll my shoulders and mentally prepare myself for a quad. Just a small one, the toe loop but a quad no less.

My skates are the only thing I hear in the empty rink, shink shink over and over getting faster and faster until all sound stops as I spin once, twice, three… and a half… Not being prepared for the landing I very gracefully fall on my bum.

Sighing I get up and brush the ice off my bum I look up and see Kadence. She waves me over, and I comply. Sitting down I began to unlace my skates and Kadence takes a deep breath and begins to talk.

"The Olympics are 18 months away, and I don't blow up until you've heard me out completely."

I stop unlacing and meet her gaze. She just stares right back... rolling my eyes I nod.

"Me and you both know it, it will be a serious gamble for you to compete in the Olympics without a quad."

I open my mouth to argue, but she shoots me a look saying um hello? Not one minute ago you agreed to shut up. I close my mouth and settle for a frown.

"I would gamble the Olympics if you could land a quad with more than the amazing zero percent we have."

The frown quickly turns into a glare.

"So instead of risking the Singles gold… let's go for a doubles gold instead."

Her statement has thrown me off guard. I am left completely speechless.

She gives me a cheshire grin, as if her idea is the best idea in the history of ideas.

What!

"I know right! It's the best idea ever! You can still have a shot at the gold even without a quad."

You are bonkers. Ab-solute bonkers.

This makes her grin falter slightly, so like the grin turns into a smile.

"Ok, so what's wrong with the plan?"

….EVERYTHING! Yes I want a gold, but 1 I don't know the first thing about pairs, nor do I want to know. 2 No No No after all the effort, the time, the sweat and blood i've put into skating I will not settle for a gold that I may get for relying on some random dude.

"Ok listen, 18 months. We have 18 months till the olympics. We can either gamble that in this small, very very small time frame you can land a quad like land a quad very and I mean like Very often. OR…. we can get you a partner and use those 18 months teaching you how to pair skate.

I open my mouth, but I don't know what to say. I want the gold more than anything, but do I want to get it by relying on someone else's help?

As if Kadance is now a mind reader

" are you shitting me right now? Rely on someone? Hello?! What about me and you know… like everyone who has supported you throughout this career of yours?"

Then she promptly whacks me on the head. "Sleep on this and tell me your answer in the morning.

Lying in my bed, I do exactly as Kadance has instructed. Weell not exactly, I'm not parsay sleeping, but I'm thinking yup I am thinking of stupid things like how do I sleep on this.

She's right. I want a gold and it wouldn't be bad to have someone I rely on slightly more… Picking up my phone, I type in 'pair skating videos. I start watching videos, and it's not the same dialect I know, but it's still the same language.

I open up my messages and shoot a quick text.

"I'm in. When do we start training.'

Done! Sorry I haven't updating in like forever. But like this whole writing thing is well hard… So like if anyone is interested in Betaing I answer all PM's.