Five Minutes For Fighting (Completed)

Caroline walked into the circular locker room while guys in towels tightened them and guys not in towels look for a towel. "Wow Care your supposed to announce yourself before you come into here." Mike Rupp said as he tightened his towel. "Seriously mike? I am the godmother to two of your children whom I am baby sitting tonight so stop." She turned to Ryan Callahan with a puppy look in her eye as she sat down in his staal while he looked for his shirt. "Who took my shirt?" He said looking around. "What's up?" He said pulling on his shorts over his boxers. "My dad thinks I suck at hockey." She said looking up at him as he sat back down beside her, throwing his arm around her shoulder as she leaned into his chest. "Your dad doesn't think that, you are the best Thomas anyway." He said smirking. "I heard that." Brendan said whipping a wet towel at Ryan's head but missing. "You must of did something to annoy him." Brandon Dubinsky said motioning them to move over so he could try to sit down next to them. Only three people could fit into one stall. Henrik Lundqvist's one. "Oh look it's a party! Why wasn't I invited?" Marc Staal said coming from Coach Torts office. He slouched down next to Ryan's Legs as he stretched. "Why can't I be here?" She said looking around the room, this was her locker room. She should have her name in here. "You could be, Glen would gladly write up a contract right now and send it to your agent, but you want to be drafted, you want to be in the First Round, stand up and put your ranger jersey on, you want to go to the Combine, so you deal with it now." Marc said as the rest of the boys nodded.

At that moment Carl Hagelin walked in and stared around, he had been sleeping at the apartment as the Whale didn't have practice today. She knew he would eventually get there soon enough. "Caroline I've been trying to call you!" Carl said walking over and getting high fives from her godfathers. "My phone's charging on the Bench sorry." She said looking away from him. She couldn't look at him, he looked like a puppy who just got a new family. Her family. He was innocent in this whole thing. "It's no problem!" He said staring at the Rangers logo in the middle of the room. a bright light shining on it, it was pretty historic. "I should get a picture of this." He said whipping out his phone from his jeans pocket. "Hagelin? Hags?" Torts said coming out of his office and into the locker room giving a nod to Caroline. Great Torts was already nicknaming him and using it. "Yeah?" Carl said a grin on his face. "In my office..now." Torts said walking away. "Gotta go." He said following Torts like a puppy. "So that's why your not happy. Feds got injured and your roommate is playing when you should be playing." Brandon said messing up her hair. "Go for a skate you'll feel better." He got up from the stall giving her and Ryan room to breathe as Ryan nodded. "You always feel better after a skate." She nodded. She grabbed her skates from Ryan's stall. And her stick from Mike Sullivan's office.

She went down the long hallway leading from the locker room to the Ice. Glass surrounded her as a new feature for the Fans and Al Tratwig to see the team coming to and from the ice. She bent down to re tie one of her laces as she took the skate guards off and walked over to the ice. It shined as she threw the skate guards on the ground and opened the door. "Excuse me, this is for Rangers Personnal only." Somebody said coming up to her. "I am Caroline Thomas." She said ignoring them as they apologized. A new feature to MSG was a app on the team's phones that hooked up their iPhones to the MSG sound system. She plugged it in on the bench as Michael was using the one in the Locker Room. She turned on a playlist that consisted of Taylor Swift and The Maine as she took a bag of pucks and emptied it. "Thomas Number 94 sweeps by Crosby as she makes a run for the net coming up behind it as she tucks the puck under Fleury's pad as he pushes the puck into the net. The Rangers Win, the Rangers win in Double Overtime in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals, the Rangers Win. The Rangers are going to the Cup finals and this one will last a lifetime." She said talking to herself believing it as she fell onto the ice and closed her eyes. The smell of the ice made her happy. Her skates digging in as she got up to practice her shootout goal attempts. She didn't hear them but she could feel their eyes on her. She turned around to see them sitting on the bench. "Who called you?" She said skating to the bench and grabbing a water bottle.

"Michael two days ago, when Feds got injured in practice. He thought you would need us." Alex Pietrangelo said as he grabbed the water from her taking a swig. "I was supposed to be here, playing the Isles tomorrow." Steven Stamkos said, she forgot and he knew it. "I live here. Ya know in Long Island." John Tavares said as he shared the water bottle with Alex. "Yeah I know when you aren't playing you practically live in our apartment." She said as he squirted her a little. Wiping the water from her face. "Where is he?" Alex, Steven, Michael, John, Caroline and Cody Hodgson made up the 6 best friends that ever lived. Whenever they were back home they did everything together. "You know the west it's different then the east, it's harder for us to fly here then Stammer." Alex said. "Roadie in Edmonton." She nodded. She should know their scheds better. "Come on let's go get some lunch." Stammer said getting up from the bench and clicking pause to Better then Revenge by Taylor Swift. "Fine." She said opening the bench door and plopping down next to them.

"Your dad got us seats behind the bench tonight with the Rupp kids Mason and Maddie right?" Caroline nodded. "He said your pretty mad at him." She nodded again. "Can we please talk about his at Rare? I am starving." Alex said getting up and leaving the Bench. "Rare does sound good." She said smirking getting up and joining them. "CODY." She yelled as she saw him come out from the locker room. Cody was always her personal favorite. "Hey there." He said smirking as she flew into his arms. A cast on his right hand. "What happened?" She said. "Just a small sprain 1-2 weeks." She nodded. "Lets get food." He said slinging his shoulder around her as she snuggled into her best friends chest her arms around his chest. She felt okay for the first time that day.

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