Title: Hockey
Challenge: TMNT-Event-Blog's "Snow Day Play" Bingo Card (Leonardo)
Prompt: Hockey
Fandom: TMNT 2003
Word Count: 579
Author: aquietwritingcorner/realitybreakgirl
Rating: PG/K+
Characters: Leonardo, Casey Jones
Warning: NA
Summary: April certainly didn't expect this when it came to a certain turtle in blue, and hockey.
Notes: Ten points to whoever can correctly guess where I pulled all the hockey players' names from. (Hint: it wasn't from hockey players)
Hockey
"Whoo! Yeah! That's right! That was a great shot!" Casey cheered out.
"A great shot?" Leo shot back. "He only got that shot because there wasn't a penalty called!"
"A penalty?" Casey looked over at Leo like he was crazy. "How in all a' everything can you think that needed a penalty!"
Leo gestured at the ice. "Oh, come on! That wasn't a check! That was obviously too aggressive to be a check!"
"If you think Williams can't handle a baby check like that, then maybe he needs to get off the ice!" Casey shot back.
"Oh yeah?" Leo said. "Look at Braginsky's record! He had a history of 'accidentally' injuring his opponents! The refs are biased!"
"You just can't handle that your team is doin' bad this year!" Casey shot back. "You shoulda never traded Vainamoinen!"
"Yeah? Well at least we didn't lose Oxenstierna!" Leo shot back. "He left on his own!"
"You take that back!" Casey said, bristling.
"Why?" Leo challenged. "You know it's true!"
From her kitchen, Raph, Don, Mikey and April watched as the verbal argument broke down into name calling, Leo and Casey getting in each other's faces, spouting out figures, stats, and rumors about hockey teams and players.
April blinked. "Huh," she said. "I never would have guessed that Leo of all people would get this worked up over a hockey game." She glanced at them. "Honestly, I'd have thought it would be Raph."
"Nah, I like football better than hockey," Raph said.
"Still," April said. "Leo? Really?"
"Oh, he's always liked hockey," Mikey said. "I just don't think he's ever had anyone to yell about it with before." He cocked his head to the side as he watched Leo and Casey move incrementally closer together. "I think he's having fun."
"It started when we were kids," Don explained. "Leo was having a hard time with math, and we had recently gotten a TV."
"He means, that he had found a TV, fixed it, and figure out how to get signal," Raph said.
"Best day of my life," Mikey said, putting a hand over his heart and looking up dramatically.
"Anyway," Don said, giving his brothers a look, "we very quickly discovered sports and were immediately hooked. In an effort to get Leo to practice his math more, Master Splinter gave Leo the task of watching various sporting events and keeping track of the points. But the only sport that was really playing regularly at the time was hockey." Don shrugged. "It worked to build his math skills, but it also got him invested in the game. He's been a fan ever since."
"Interesting," April said, "I—"
Whatever she was going to say was cut off by the sound of a plastic bowl and snacks hitting the floor, and furniture scraping.
"Hey!" she yelled, immediately heading towards Casey and Leo who were tussling now. "Not in my living room! I'm not afraid to kick either of you out!"
The tussling immediately stopped as both Leo and Casey looked up at April from the floor. Hand on her hips, she tore into them about spilling things in her home lecturing them even as they let go of each other and started picking up the snacks. Of course, it didn't stop the muttering under their breath at each other as they threw insults back and forth when they thought April couldn't hear them—and it definitely didn't stop their grins as they did it.