Five Minutes For Fighting (Completed)

Caroline sat at the end of the Locker room in a chair as she tied up her skates, fiddling with her stick. "Thomas you going to put on you gear? Or are you just going to sit there half dressed until we need to get to warmups?" Chris Drury said messing up her hair on the way to the Rangers kitchen looking for a snack. "No Chris this is one of my superstitions." She repeated as she looked around. Her godfathers flanking her sides, Brendan and Michael on the other side of the locker room. "No it's not, you are literally the first one dressed every time." Derek Stepan said whispering in her ear as he came into the ear. "Whatevs." She quickly got dressed leaving her jersey for last as she taped and re taped her stick, Warmups were in 5 minutes. "Guys just wanted to make a little Speech before warmys, just go out there do some drills, practice your puck placement, try to get a few on Hanky, get the energy up." Cally said as he sat back down beside her.

As the last minute before Warmups counted down, Caroline strapped on her helmet, and placed her jersey on. The number 94 glistened as the Thomas on top of it looked like it was there forever. "Wow." Michael said as she came up in front of him on their way to warmups. "You look beautiful, hot and scary angry all at one time." He said joking. Her straight brown hair flowed from her helmet, she would put it up in a high pony tail at the bench. They stood by the fans as MDZ went to his place right before the door, he would high five and punch and pull all the guys until everyone was on the ice. "94 come over here." She looked up as Michael pulled her over to him, as she stood on the other side of the Rink door. "Alright motherfuckers beat those Pens in Warmys" Michael laughed as the door opened and Henrik Lundqvist gave Michael and Caroline two taps on the legs with his stick everyone else hollering as Caroline and Derek jumped up and bounced off each other. "Love you." He whispered as he skated onto the ice grabbing a puck. "That's everyone babe, go on." Caroline stood right by the door, like she couldn't get herself to step onto the ice cold surface. As she felt a push and then suddenly she caught herself right before falling face down on the ice.

"Thought you may needed a push." Mac said as Michael came on behind him and towards the bench where he chilled with their trainer Mike Ramsay during every warmups chewing double bubble and talking about the other team with Rammer. "May I join this party?" Caroline said coming up next to Michael and grabbing a double bubble. "I am so proud of you Caroline." Rammer said giving her a pat on her shoulder and moving to the other side of the bench to fix Ryan Callahan's Skate. "You're such a hockey player now." Michael said kissing her when no one was looking. "YEAH GO 94 and 88." She knew that voice. She looked up at the first row seats behind the bench. Yup her dad. She waved to him and threw him a puck. No pressure or anything.

"HEY 94 you suck." Sidney Crosby and Brady said laughing at the other end of the ice, they were kidding but she would have some fun with them. "OH yeah Thomas? Because if I suck you suck! We share the same blood. Oh and 87 stop diving." She said as the Rangers laughed. Sid not looking like it was a joke from the other side of the ice. There was five minutes left of Warmups, and the Penguins only had Sid and Malkin left on the ice, as the Rangers had MDZ, her, Steps, and Marty Biron. "I am going C." As Steps left the ice, and Biron left after. It was just the two of them. "Come on you too we have to get off the ice." Mike Sullivan the Rangers Assistant Coach bellowed from the bench. "I want to soak it all up." She said screaming. "You will when you are in the opening line up get to the locker room. She looked depressed. "Fine." She never wanted to get off this ice. This ice was her home, she knew every corner, every nick, every part of this ice she grew up on it.

She sat in the locker room, head between her legs as her mind went blank, she wasn't going to worry about anything. She just wanted it to be peaceful. "Thomas." Her head went up. Torts staring her down. "We've heard rumors that, that Coach put a target on your head, watch everything you do. We don't need you down and out because that's what they want. You're an amazing player." She heard that too. But her brother was in that room, would he let them do it? She didn't want to think about that.

Ten Minutes later Caroline was standing on the blue line on Step's Left, Michael next to her as she had her helmet under her arm as she listened to John Amirante sung the National Anthem, the last line making her shiver. "O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!" The Crowd went crazy shouting "Caroline." stop "Thomas" stop "94" Stop and then repeating everything. The crowd was her family, this was the moment she had been waiting for her. "Here we go." She got ready for the face off, when Derek and her brother went at it and Steps was removed from the face off circle. "Thomas go in." Michael shouted. Caroline could play Right wing, Left wing, Center, Defenseman. Her dad told her she needs to be able to play every position, he was right. "Go in." The Ref screamed at her. Her legs felt like they were going to buckle under her. "FINE" She said getting down in position in the face off circle. "Hows it going?" Brady said concerned. "Fine can we do this?" She said, he nodded. The ref dropped the puck and Caroline won it, throwing it back behind her as Dan Girardi picked it up.

He zoomed past the neutral zone as he stopped in the offensive zone waiting for everyone to get into play. Caroline came up the lane as she grabbed the puck from Dan weaving in and out of Pittsburgh players as she wrapped it around the net, Like Matteau! Matteau! Matteau! tilting it as she stuffed it. The buzzer sounding. Dan and MDZ screaming and crying. Derek and Dubi coming towards her as she fell to her knees. Her arms in the air. She just scored her first ever NHL goal. The first goal to. They helped her up as she huddled in the corner with them. Their bench Errupting, everyone crying. "FUCK YEAH BOYS." Dubi said as he kissed her helmet. "LETS DO THIS." Caroline cried and laughed at the same time. Caroline was on her way to the bench to get high fives from her teammates when she felt a tap of a stick on her leg. "Good goal Thomas." She looked up Brady looking proud and angry all at the same time. There was about 55 minutes left in the game. She could get used to this. 1-0 Rangers.

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