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Chapter 1: Calm before the Storm
Story Notes: Part of the series The Story of the Mighty Ducks.
Summary: Coach Bombay, Muck and Mike are away on a convention, so the Ducks get a substitute coach for the up-coming tournament in San Diego. The new coach’s influence has a weird effect of some of the girl, especially Connie...
Rating: PG-13, language.
Warning: Nothing major, I’ll list them as they come, instead of babbling about them here...
Timeline: November/December 1998.
(Un) Important babbling-notes from Cimmy: I was watching an episode of ‘Smallville’ when I came up with the idea of this fic.
Disclaimer:
Disney owns The Mighty Ducks, Roy MacGregor owns the characters from the Screech
Owls-books, and I own my beloved Swedes.
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Notes: From Connie’s point of view.
I never got why those problems started. Why me?
I’d always been part of the gang, one of the guys. Why did I get that thought of inadequacy all of a sudden? I was a tough hockey-player; we don’t have problems like that. Up until that point when I left Eden Hall to play in Los Angeles, I’d been the only girl on the team. It had always been like that.
I was the tomboy, and I liked that. I liked being the girl that the guys were over-protective to. Guy in particular. Even if I never admitted that, I know that it was true.
Once I met up with the rest of the girls, Cecilia, Sarah and Julie, I started to fear that they would take that away from me. That they would take the guys away from me, that they would make them forget about me.
Guy had always told me that I was one in a million. Well, that was a big, fat lie, but he was twelve and thought he loved me. I’m not sure that I believe that it was true love. What I have with him now is true love. We’re both fifteen now, and it seems like that day back in sixth grade was a decade ago.
I wanted to be the best. That must be the answer to ‘why’. I’d always been the only girl on the team, and I had some high expectations on me. I had to be better then the guys, otherwise I’d be considered as ‘lame’. Well, I got some weight off my back when Tammy started to play for us, but she left after Bombay did. She wasn’t a better hockey-player then me, but she was a better skater. God, that really ate me up inside.
I decided not to let anything get to me ever again. But when Guy and I broke up everything just got so much harder.
I’ve never told him about what happened. It was way before that doomed summer when we were apart. It was before I had to take care of Daniel. Before Ben left for college. That felt like ages ago. But it was only two years ago, actually.
I would like to describe this, using one of Fred’s most common phrases.
This really sucks.
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Author’s Notes: Try to hold a whole team’s personal business apart, writing from each and everyone’s point of view, and see how confused you are after writing a couple of stories...
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