Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Mighty Ducks.
When we got to the park Bombay and Casey were surprisingly easy to find. They were even so absorbed in each others company that we could fallow them close enough to hear their conversation.
"I don't know how they sculpt these." Casey said admiring an ice sculpture of a half moon and clouds. "Hmmm, I wonder, I used to sculpt, but now I do mostly paintings. How do you think they do the details?"
"Oh, little men. Tiny chisels, big mittens." Bombay replied with a smile.
"Oh…I'm nervous." Casey admitted. "I'm rambling on and on here. You probably think I'm weird."
"No, I think you're great." Bombay leaned over and kissed Casey on the cheek. I nudged Charlie and he smiled. Next thing we knew Casey started to turn around and Charlie and I had to quickly get out of her sight so we hid behind an ice sculpture. Bombay fallowed Casey.
"When I was a little girl, I used to pretend that that was an ice castle." Casey said. "And that was my room, that window right up there and last winter I gave Charlie that one."
"Awe." I whispered and Charlie nudged me as his face turned red.
"What about me? which window is mine?" Bombay asked. "I want to live there too."
Casey's smile faded and she walked away. I looked over at Charlie, who looked as confused as I was.
"What? What did I say?" Bombay called after her. Casey turned back towards Bombay and he walked up to her.
"Its not that easy." Casey said. Charlie looked down at the ground in disappointment.
"What's not that easy?" Bombay asked. "Casey I was just playing around."
Casey sighed. "Look, I don't know how you feel about me, I don't even know how I feel about you. But I do know that there's a kid back home, who's absolutely falling in love with his coach. And if you cant deal with that, if your just playing around, then you'd better let me know."
"What are we talking? Till death do us part?" Bombay asked and it was my turn to bow my head in disappointment. He was still trying to joke around. "I have to decide of the first date?"
"Stop it, Gordon." Casey demanded. "Charlie's gonna be there when we get back. And tomorrow and ten years from now. Look I can take it, but if Charlie gets too attached, Every time this happens, it gets a little rougher on him. and now there is another child involved and I don't want it to become harder on him."
"Just on him?" Bombay asked. Bombay slowly got closer to Casey and gave her a sweet and innocent kiss on the lips. Charlie and I quickly left before we couldn't hold back our excitement back and blow our cover. When we got inside the apartment we started to cheer.
"You are brilliant Charlie." I said giving him a hug.
"Do you realize that if they get married, we'd be brother and sister." Charlie asked and I smiled. That would be cool. I looked up at the clock and realized it was nine thirty. They'd be coming home any minute. Charlie quickly grabbed his text book, a not book and a pin. We sat down at the table and just as Charlie found the correct page, the front door opened.
"So carbon dioxide is CO2?" Charlie asked.
"Yeah see, its not that hard." I said with a smile.
"So its one part carbon and two parts dioxide?" Charlie asked and I sighed as if I had spent this whole time trying to teach him.
"No O means oxygen like the O in H2O." I explained then looked up. "Oh hey guys."
"Looks like you two are working hard." Bombay said looking over our shoulders. "Well finish that last question and then it will be time to take Amore home."
"Ok." I replied the turned back to Charlie. "So how would you write carbon dioxide?"
"A big C and O then a two?" Charlie asked.
"Small two, but you get the idea." I said standing up while Charlie pretended to write down the answer. Bombay and I said our goodbyes and headed down to the waiting van. The moment the doors shut Bombay started to laugh and turned to look at me.
"What?" I asked.
"I love how you two had been working on homework the whole night, yet the writing on Charlie's paper was done in pencil and he only had a pen in his hand." Bombay explained. I smiled at him. I had forgotten that he was a lawyer and was very good at noticing detail. "So what did you see."
"Oh not much…Casey's ice castle. You goofing around at the wrong moment…the kiss." I said and my smile widened.
Next Day
I looked at the team standing in line next to me. The Hawks. In front of me was Fulton and behind me was Adam. Larson and McGill had forgotten about me. McGill smirked over at Adam and I wished I could do something about it. The National Anthem was sung and the teams took to their benches.
"Now we are going to be down one player for a while." Bombay informed us. "Amore will be sitting out for a while because of her arm."
"But we need Slick!" Guy protested. "She's one of our best scores."
"I didn't say she was benched." Bombay said. "I just don't want the Hawks to find out about her arm."
Bombay paused and waited for the Hawks to stop chanting so the team could hear him.
"Ducks lets get fired up." Bombay said and we all put our hands in. We started to quack along with the crowd. When we finished Charlie, Adam, Averman, Jesse, and Guy took to the ice.
"Hey Banks, don't forget what team your on." Jesse said before leaving the bench. Adam looked down and skated away.
"He's a Duck Jesse, He'll play like a Duck." Bombay said but Jesse just rolled his eyes and skated to his spot. Bombay turned towards me. "What's Jesse's problem with Adam?"
"Adam knocked Jesse's helmet off the first game you coached, he bullied us in the alley one day…oh and last year Adam called him a no talented loser." I said then thought a little. "There's more but hey who's keeping track."
Charlie was on the left against Donny Brown. Jesse was on the right with Ray Larson opposite him. Adam took the face off against Bryan McGill. When the puck was dropped McGill seemed to forget about the puck and pushed Adam towards Larson. Larson let Jesse go and sandwiched Adam hard against McGill. Adam hit the ice hard.
"Good hit! That's the way I want you guys to play it!" Reilly called from the bench. I glared over at him as he looked over at him pulling on the collar of his coat, which was popped up.
"Look at him trying to look gangsta." Terry said bitterly. "I bet he never even been on that side of town."
I smiled, knowing Terry was probably right. When I looked back towards the game Adam had possession of the puck and quickly iced the puck in the Hawk's zone. Larson got the puck and headed back on the attack. Adam stole the puck and passed to Averman. As Averman turned back towards the Hawk's side the puck was stolen by Herek. Charlie came out of no where and stole the puck back from Herek. McGill came up from behind Charlie and the puck slid to the left corner of the rink. Guy got possession of the puck and almost got it to the blue line but got checked by Larson and Brown. Guy passed the puck back towards where he had gotten it from and Adam quickly took possession.
"Banks two coming hard!" Charlie warned. I shook my head when I saw Larson and McGill skating hard towards Adam. Right before he got checked Adam passed the puck to Charlie. I watched as Adam took his time getting up. He was really hurting from that hit. The puck was intercepted by Herek. Herek passed the puck to Larson. Guy was coming hard at Larson so he passed the puck to Brown. With his favorite shot, Brown backhanded the shot and scored.
"Bombay let me out there!" I said pleadingly. "Let me back up Adam. They're all over him."
"Not yet Amore." Bombay said calmly and I sighed. Larson ad he puck now. Guy knocked him down and took the possession of the puck. He passed back to Adam. Adam shot and sadly Wise saved it. Adam got possession of the puck again only to have it stolen by Stevens. Stevens moved the puck down past the blue line and passed to Larson. Larson passed the puck to McGill faking out Goldburg. McGill rounded the net and scored.
"Averman! You're off!" Bombay called then turned to me. "You're on Witts."
I jumped over the board and skated hard towards all the action. McGill had possession of the puck. When he saw me coming he quickly made his shoe only to have it saved by Goldburg. Guy got the puck. He came around the net and I called for it, but before he could pass it, Larson stole it. Adam tried to help Guy to only be knocked don by McGill. Guy stole the puck back. I skated forward to try and help. Stevens came out of no where and bent down in front of me. there was no way of avoiding him. I flipped over his back. I protected my arm as I hit the ice only a couple of inches away from the board. As I got up I saw Jesse stop Herek and Charlie got the puck. I got to my feet and just as I started to skate towards Charlie to back him up McGill stole the puck and I stopped, waiting for him to come my way. He skated for me and right before he ran into me he passed he puck to Brown who made another goal. McGill laughed as he skated passed me.
"That's how we eliminate traitors." He said with a smirk. "How's the arm?"
I hadn't even realized I had been holding it. But now he knew. I skated back to the bench with the others. It was the end of the first half.
"Is your arm ok?" Adam asked.
"Yeah. How are you holding out?" I asked.
"I'm hurting." He admitted.
"I wish could help you out but I have to be careful." I said. "Bryan knows about my arm."
"Be careful." Adam warned. Bombay walked over to me.
"I saw you holding your arm." He said.
"I was just protecting it." I replied. He nodded then turned to the Ducks.
"Don't be scared of them Ducks. That's what they want." Bombay told us. "Keep your heads up. Play proud. Lets fly! Come on, lets go!"
Adam and I headed for the ice but I grabbed his arm and nodded towards the Hawks bench. Reilly was talking to McGill and Larson in a hushed voice. I looked at him nervously.
"What your back." Adam warned.
"You too." I said and we took our spots on the ice. I lined up against Larson and Adam took the face off against McGill. The puck was dropped and Adam put up a good fight but McGill got it and passed back to Stickler. Larson tried to trip me up with his stick as he pushed the handle hard against my left arm. By the time I got away from Larson, Charlie had stolen the puck and was headed back towards the Hawk zone. He passed the puck to Adam who had McGill on his tale. I started to skate fast towards McGill, but I was quickly stopped by Larson. I watched McGill push Adam from behind. Adam made his shot. He kept sliding forward till the goal post stopped him. he scored despite McGill's attempt. I got to my feet and looked over at Larson. He had taken off his helmet and started to skated towards Adam. I then noticed Adam wasn't getting up. I made it to Adam's side just after Larson.
"Adam, Adam are you ok?" Ray asked. Adam didn't answer.
"Oh no." I said putting my hand on Adam's back. He didn't move. Ray looked back at Bryan.
"What did you do?" He asked with a glare.
"My job." Bryan said bitterly. I stood up but Ray stopped me before I could jump Bryan.
"Reilly told you to take him out of the game didn't he!" I asked angrily. Bryan just smirked. The ref came up behind Bryan and escorted him to the box. Bombay and he rest of the Ducks that were on the ice came up to Adam. Larson went back to the bench when Reilly called him back over. I glared over at the Hawks. Reilly was looking pleased. S the medics put Adam on the straight board I felt a tear streak don my face. Bombay saw and pulled me into a hug.
"Reilly told them to take Adam out." I said angrily. "Don't you dare take me out of the game."
"They'll be after you next." I turned to see Adam was awake. "Did it go in?"
I was so relieved to see Adam awake that I became speechless.
"Yeah man." Jesse answered with a smile.
"Jesse, do me a favor." Adam said as the medic shined a light in his eyes. "Kick some Hawk butt."
"All right, Cake-Eater." Jesse said smiling. As they started to take Adam away I skated over to the Hawks bench.
"Well if it isn't Amore Witts." Reilly smirked. "Come to beg for your spot back?"
"I don't play for scum like you." I spat. "Adam could have really gotten hurt."
"At least we aren't traitors." Brown said. I was about ready to jump him when I felt a hand on my shoulder. I looked up to see Bombay.
"You got something to say to me Bombay?" Reilly asked.
"To think I wasted all those years worrying about what you thought." Bombay said disappointedly. "Your going down Reilly."
Bombay walked away and with a smirk I fallowed him.
"Let me got after 'em, Coach, let me get 'em." Fulton said.
"No we're better than that." Bombay said and the Ducks started to protest. "Look, look its time to play smart hockey, Duck hockey. All right? Now we got the power play. We're gonna hit 'em where it hurts the most! Up there."
Bombay pointed up at the score bored. The Ducks cheered. "Fulton, your in."
"Coach, They'll be rushing him." Averman reminded him. Bombay thought for a moment.
"Right, Jesse make sure you give Fulton plenty of time." Bombay said. The team got into their positions. I took the face off against McGill.
"Your going down Witts." McGill said with a smirk. I smirked and before he could stop me I passed the puck to Fulton As Jesse cleared the net I was in a full out battle with McGill. McGill took his stick and as hard as he could scrapped it against my left arm. I muffled my cry and angrily pushed McGill to the ground. Fulton took his shot. It was so powerful, it knocked Wise into the goal. Fulton scored. I raced over to Fulton and gave him a huge hug. We all raced over to the bench in celebration. We then heard the whistle. We turned and looked around. The ref went and talked to the Hawks. Not finding what he was looking for he skated over to us.
"We have a major amount of blood on the ice." That's all the Ref had to say. Bombay turned towards me.