Chapter Two; Je veux que cette nuit dure pour toujours

I know it's been a while, but I've been busy. How bout our boys finishing off the Flyers today? It was a scary series, but I'm glad it's over. LETS GO PENS. Comments are greatly appreciated.


Chapter Two

"He told me that he was glad that he met me and that he wants us to be friends." It was the truth; she had just left out the part where they had exchanged phone numbers. Oh, and the part where they hugged and she had definitely felt something, but neither of them need to know. And there was no way that anything could happen between them; she was with Jared, whom she loved, and Marc was with Vero, the girl that he obviously loved since they had been together since they were fifteen.

"Oh that's cool," Jared said. Kailey tried to breathe a sigh of relief without being noticed. "So you think we'll have 'career' seasons?"

"I hope so," Kailey said. "Colleges are gonna be looking at us. I hope I can get into RMU and make their hockey team, if not I might try for Boston."

Jared laughed at the thought of Boston, "Baby I know you really want to play college hockey, but I really can't see you going to Boston."

"Well then I better make RMU's team," she said with a smile. Soon they pulled into Jared's driveway and Kay left the car running while she got out to say good-bye. Jared pulled her into a hug before placing a gentle kiss on her cheek. "Bye baby, I love you."

"I love you too, bye Kailey." he pressed his lips to hers, only holding them there before pulling away and walking inside. When the front door had closed Kailey walked back to her car and revved the engine before heading off to her house, two streets over.

The next morning Kailey was at work in the sports store in the local ice rink and was stocking sticks when her cell phone began to ring. For fear of dropping and/or damaging the sticks or her manager coming in she let it go to voicemail. With her lunch break only an hour away she decided that the message could wait. With sticks and skates restocked she sat down in the back from for lunch at noon.

"Hey Kailey, this is Marc-Andre. I was just wondering if you would want to hang out sometime, maybe help me to learn my way around the city. If not I understand, but either way give me a call. I'll talk to you later and hopefully see you soon."

Finishing her peanut butter sandwich she went to her contacts scrolled down to 'M' and pressed send upon getting to Marc-Andre's name. "Hello?"

"Hey Marc its Kailey, sorry I didn’t answer before, I'm at work."

"It's okay, I'm glad you called back." A smile was evident in his voice. "So I know that we only met yesterday, but would you want to hang out?"

"I would love to, are you free tonight?"

"Sure, would you want to met at the ice rink where we met yesterday?"

"Sure, I get off work at three so I'll meet you there."

"Okay, good-bye Kailey, see you in a few hours."

"Good-bye Marc." She hung up and finished her lunch while trying not to freak out. Amy walked in the door as Kay walked back into the store at twelve forty-five.

"Kailey lace up!" The manager yelled in. "You're rink guard for the public skate."

"I take it you want me to skate with you, huh?"

"Lace up." They hit the ice a few minutes before the few skaters did. There were only about five skaters so Kay and Amy hung out by the bench.

"What are your plans for tonight?"

"Showing Marc-Andre around the city."

"No you’re not."

"Yes I am, I can prove it." She pulled her phone from her pocket, calling her voicemail before handing the phone to Amy. She listened to the message carefully, blocking the skaters out. "Guys off the boards!" Kay yelled. The kids continued to sit on the boards and Kailey skated up to them. "Guys either get off the boards or you gotta go." Finally the guys got off the boards and Kay made her way back to Amy.

"I can’t believe you’re showing Marc-Andre around the city."

"I know, I'm excited! He's such a cool guy and I really want to get to know him."
"You like him, don’t you?"

"Yeah, but I'm with Jared and he's with Vero, and we're all happy. Off the bench! I get off work at three and he's meeting me here."

"Does he know you work here?"

"No, he'll find out when I walk out wearing this shirt though. I mean I've only known him for a day and he just wants to get to know people here."

Public skate went by slowly and Kailey skated skillfully most of the time. Three o'clock finally came, the ice was cleaned and Kailey placed her 'work' skates in her locker in the back room. Marc-Andre was waiting outside at three and the two girls exited the building as soon as they could.

"See you later Aims, hi Marc."

"Hello Kailey, are we going to take your car?" he asked kissing her hand.

"Sure." They made their way to the car and started off through the city. They didn’t get out of the car much when she showed him parts of Oakland and downtown. They did get out when they got to Station Square and took the incline to Mt. Washington. "Isn't the view beautiful?"

"It is, I'm really liking this city, and I can't wait to play here."

"Everyone else is excited for you to play too." As Kailey looked out at the city Marc's eyes were on her. Because she was so in love with the city a smile was upon her lips and as a slight wind came through her bangs were blown from behind her ear, causing her to be brought from her 'trance' and Marc focused on the city as she focused on him. "So do you want to get something to eat?"

"Sure." They took the incline back down to Station Square where they ate dinner at the Hard Rock Café. "So I see that you work at the ice rink?"

She looked down at the polo that displayed the logo from Blade Runners. "Yeah, I normally work in the store but sometimes I get to be rink guard and skate all day."
"Sounds like a fun job, does it pay well?"

"It's decent, I only get half of my paycheck though because half of it goes right to the ice to pay for my ice time."

"Oh, so what job did you do today?"

"Both, I was in the store when you called and then I was rink guard during the public skate." They continued to talk throughout dinner and then they decided to go to the point. "This is my favorite place in the city, other than the arena. This is where I want to be proposed to."

"It’s very pretty here," he said aloud before thinking to himself, "Just like you."

They spent a few more minutes at the fountain before walking back to the car downtown . For the ride back to Blade Runners the two continued to learn more about each other, including each other's significant other. Kay learned that Veronique was a very pretty girl, the same age as she and Marc, and grew up down the street from him. Kailey told Marc about how she met Jared when she was eight and he switched from playing deck hockey. They had always been friends but only started to have feelings for each other towards the end of the previous season.

They arrived at the rink and saw that it was only seven fifteen. "Hey public skate just started and goes til nine, would you want to come skate for a while?"
"You really love you skate, don't you?"

"I've been skating for as long as I've been able to walk, it's just natural for me."

"Let me grab my skates from my car," he said with a smile. Marc walked to his car and Kailey to the door to wait for him. "Alright, let's go."

"Hey Jay, he's with me," she said walking past the front desk to the benches where they sat to put their skates on.

"I'm glad you decided to hang out with me today, I had a lot of fun."

"I had fun too, you ready to skate?" Marc nodded and they hit the ice to find more skaters than had been there earlier that day, but dramatically less than there would be at the same time on a night in December. Since there were very few skaters there was a lot of open ice allowing Kailey to skate freely, quickly switching between skating forwards and backwards. Marc managed to keep pace with her and after twice around the rink they stopped when they came to the bench.

"You're a very talented skater," Marc said running his fingers through his hair.

"Thank you," she said simply. "You’re not too bad yourself."

He smiled. "I know you play defense but have you ever thought of playing goal?"

"Nope, Jared wanted to teach me, but I didn't want to embarrass myself in front of my team."

"Well I'll have to teach you some time. We'll make sure that no one's around so that you don't get laughed at if you end up being really bad at it." A smile came to his face.

"Sounds good."

They continued to skate until nine o'clock when the buzzer rand to signal that it was time for everyone to leave. Kailey and Marc took longer than they normally would to take their skates off, enjoying each other's company. Five minutes passed and they stood and went to the parking lot. "Goodnight Kailey, thank you again for spending the day with me."

"You're welcome, thanks for wanting to spend the day with me. Goodnight," She said as his arms wrapped around her. 'I want this night to last forever' she thought and rested her head against his chest.

Offense or Defense?

My new story, Offense or Defense? about Kris Letang is offically up!!! It starts in the 2006 season in which Letang played less than ten games. Please read and feel free to comment. Also continue to read both Staal and Le Petit Fleur. Thank you all so much for all of your support and continue to spread the word about all three stories.

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Kris Letang?

Hey guys!!! I want to thank everyone for reading both Staal and Le Petit Fleur, I really appreciate it. As you may have noticed I have been really motivated to write lately, I have no idea why, but I'm not complaining about it. I know Staal and Le Petit Fleur are a lot, but I was wondering if anyone would be interested in really a Kris Letang story? I seem to be the one who writes about the guys who only have one or two stories anywhere about them. I just like to show my appreciation to those guys and what they do.

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Chapter One; Peux Je rester dans vous bras toujours?

Hey guys this is a re-make of an old story of mine. I hope that you enjoy it, not many people write about Marc-Andre so I thought why the hell not write one myself. Haha. I really hope that you guys like this story, please spread the word and comments are greatly appreciated.



Chapter One

“The Pittsburgh Penguins chose from the Cape Benton Screaming Eagles of the Quebec Major Junior League, Marc-Andre Fleury.” Craig Patrick, the Penguins general manager, said on the stage of the 2003 Entry Draft.

“This may be the beginning of a very good future for the team,” Kailey said.

“I hope so, I love our boys but I’m sick of watching them lose,” Kailey’s best friend Amy said as the next draftee was chosen. It was a cute blonde eighteen year old from some place in Ontario, his name was something Staal… oh yea Eric Staal, that’s right. “I’ve heard Fleury’s pretty good; let’s hope this jump starts the team.”

“I hope so; he’s kind of cute too. Look at his hair and his smile is so adorable.”

“Seriously if people didn’t know you they’d think you were a puck bunny,” Amy said with a laugh.

“As I’ve been saying for years, the fact that some of the guys are cute is just a perk.”

“A very nice perk,” Amy giggled. “You think he’ll make the team out of training camp?”

“I would hope so, do you think they would draft a goalie first overall if they weren’t going to use him?”

“True.” The girls continued to watch the draft all the while thinking of the new addition to their team.

Amy and Kailey had been friend since the first day of fifth grade and were practically sisters, spending most of their time at each other’s houses.

The week after the draft the girls woke up to find the newspaper on the kitchen table. There was a rather large picture of Fleury doing a cannon ball into the pool in his backyard in Sorel, Quebec.

“I’m so glad we drafted this man,” Amy said with a smile.

They read the three pages of articles and learned about Marc and the town where he grew up. “Damn he’s taken,” Kailey said.

“Of course he is, look at the man. Besides you’re taken too.”

“I know, but a girl can dream right?”

“About this man, yes,” Amy couldn’t help but laugh as she said this.

The end of June came and all of July past as both girls worked and spent the remainder of their time swimming and hanging out. Jared, Kailey’s boyfriend, also spent a lot of time with them. He was a few months younger then the two girls making him seventeen as Kay and Amy had turned eighteen within three days of each other in mid-July. He had known both girls since they were all pretty young as they played hockey together for about ten years. Having been friends and teammates for so long Kailey and Jared started to have feelings for each other and early in the summer they started going out.

“Special Kay!”

“Yea Bob?” Bob was her hockey coach of six years and liked to call her special Kay because she was the shortest player on the team but the toughest, even tougher than all the boys.

“I was just wondering if you were signing up for hockey this year, registration’s next week.”

“Damn it’s that time already?” She didn’t play for her school team because they had a thing against girls playing on the boys team, so Kailey and Amy both played for a local team.

“Look Bob, I’ve been skating for as long as I’ve been able to walk and playing hockey for fifteen years I’m just worn out so I’m not gonna play this year.”

“Really?” Bob asked shocked.

“No way in hell, I love hockey way to much to ever quit. I’ll still be playing when I’m sixty.”

“Okay you scared me. I need my star defenseman.”

“I know, who else are you gonna get to go out to hit, kill penalties and play on the power play?”

“Just no suspensions this year, okay?”

“Uh, I’ll try.” She had been suspended during the previous season for two games. A winger on the other team was going after Kay’s star center and she was getting fed up. Being the physical one on the team at five foot three she dropped the gloves with the six foot winger and soon after dropped him to the ice. “But you’ve gotta admit that if I didn’t fight him he would have kept beating up on Ronnie.”

“True, I’m sure Ronnie appreciated it. Didn’t you know that kid?”

“Yea, he was in my English class last year.”

Kay ended her call as Amy walked in the front door, “What’s the plan for the day?”

“Go home and get your skates; we’re hitting the rink.”

Amy left and quickly returned with her Bauer skates draped over her shoulder. Piling into Kay’s black Jetta, well her dad’s Jetta; they headed to the local ice rink, showed their passes and laced up. Jared had met them there and laced up as well. “It’s so weird not seeing you in goalie gear,” Amy said stretching before stepping onto the ice.

They finally hit the ice to find only a few people since it was one in the afternoon in the beginning of August. Amy who was a winger worked mostly on her speed while Kailey and Jared worked on back checking and changing direction quickly. After they had been there for about half an hour some one new stepped onto the ice causing Kay to stop quickly along the boards. “Oh my God.”

“Is that who I think it is?” Amy asked stopping beside her.

“I’m pretty sure it is.”

“Huh?” Jared asked.

“Marc-Andre Fleury,” both girls said staring off at the man across the ice. He skated so flawlessly and held Kay and Amy’s attention. His hair flowed behind him as he quickly and skillfully skated around the rink. He took his hat off and ran his fingers through his hair causing Kailey to almost fall to the ice. She used the boards to hold herself upright. “I think we should be nice and say hi. Ya know welcome him to the city,” Somehow she gained her composure and skated up next to Marc-Andre. “Hi.”

“Hello,” he said turning towards her, his brown eyes looking directly at her, taking in her whole body.

“I don’t mean to be creepy, or weird, or whatever, but I just wanted to welcome you to the city,” her excitement was evident in her smile and eyes, but she tired to keep her voice normal in an attempt to not freak him out. “Oh by the way my name is Kailey Schwartz, Kay for short.”

“Well thank you, you’re the first to recognize me and I’m glad you didn’t come up screaming and asking for my autograph,” he said with a laugh.

His smile sent shivers down her spine “You have no idea how hard it is to be calm right now Marc-Andre.”

“You can call me Marc, those friends of yours?” he pointed to Amy and Jared.

“Yea,” she motioned for them to come over. “Guys this is Marc-Andre Fleury, Marc this is my best friend Amy and my boyfriend Jared.”

“Nice to meet you,” he shook hands with both of them, but when he reached for Jared’s hand his smile faded.

The four of them spent about an hour and a half more skating and getting to know each other. At three o’clock though the public skate ended and the ice was abandoned for the bench where everyone removed their skates. Everyone said good-bye to Marc and started towards the door, “Kailey can I talk to you for a minute?”

“Sure,” she said before turning to Jared and Amy. “I’ll meet you guys in the car.” Amy and Jared went to the car and Kay walked back to Marc.

“I’m glad I meet you today Kailey, I hope that we can be friends.”

“I would love for us to be friends, give me your phone.”

“Huh?”

“Let me see your cell phone so that I can give you my number.” A smiled spread across both faces and they exchanged phones.

“I’ll call you,” he said giving Kailey back her phone.

“Okay, good-bye Marc.” She reluctantly gave him a hug but relaxed when both of his arms wrapped around her; making her feel safe.

“Good-bye Kailey,” he release her from his grasp and placed a gentle kiss on her hand.

Kailey made her way out to the car with a wide smile on her now glowing face. ‘I hope Amy and Jared don’t ask any questions,’ she though while walking through the parking lot. “So what was that about?” Amy asked when she closed the driver’s side door. ‘Oh boy, what do I say?’