Because You're Home

Slowly but surely all of guys in Patricks apartment left, knowing that someone else had to come back eventually but Jonathan stayed. The whole night everybody had been extremely chipper, but also secretive, like when Patrick and Corey came out of the kitchen looking guilty as hell. And when Patrick asked him when he was leaving Jon knew that something was going on, well actually he knew the whole time what was going on.

"How long is she here for?"

Patrick looked away from the tv towards his teammate, at first he had no idea what Jonathan was talking about, "How long is who staying for?" Jonathan raised his eyebrows, Patrick finally understood. "How did you know?"

Jonathan shrugged, "Other than everybody acting weird the entire night, I smelled her perfume when I walked in. Three years later and she still smells like vanilla." Jonathan smiled to himself. He did love that vanilla smell.

Patrick looked away from his captain, "Three days, she got some offer from a cosmetics brand to represent some of her shampoo and conditioner." Jonathan looked over at Patrick, shock written all over his face. Patrick just nodded his head, understanding Jon's train of thought. "Jon you can't be here when she gets back."

Jonathan nodded his head, standing up from Patricks coach and walking towards the door, "She coming to the game?"

Patrick shook his head, "Would you if you were her?" Jonathan chuckled before shaking his head. Finally opening the door and starting to make his way out of Patricks apartment.

Patrick quickly pulled out his phone, texting Leah that it was fine to come back.

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Leah woke up early on Friday, her meeting was at ten in the morning, but her nerves and noise from the kitchen were keeping her from sleeping in just a little bit.

"What the fuck are you guys doing?"

A fourth of the Blackhawks roster turned around towards where the voice was coming from and laughed. Leah stood at the dining room table, looking into the kitchen. Her hair was everywhere and she looked like she hadn't slept a wink. She hadn't.

Patrick was the first to speak, "We're making you a good luck breakfast."

"At seven in the morning?" Leah said, pulling her hair up into a messy bun, not really caring how she looked to any of these guys at the moment.

"Coach let us go early from morning skate," Corey came over with some bacon in a pan and put it on a plate in front of Leah, kissing her head as he walked back to the kitchen. Leah smiled, she had missed these guys.

"Hey Leah you're coming to the game tonight right?" Leah looked over towards Duncan Keith, and then towards Patrick. He had tried, and failed, to get Leah to make an appearance at the game against Detroit, which was bound to be a good game. But Leah knew that if she even stepped foot into the United Center, her face would be on the big screen with the words "She Ruined Our Captain" in big letters.

Leah looked back at the men standing in front of her, "I think it would be best if I just watched it on tv."

"Oh yeah because of Avery right?"

Leah heard a clang, and then a few coughs, and then the sound of someone being hit upside the head. Leah turned towards Patrick, he had dropped, and shattered, multiple plates, not moving to pick up the pieces. Brent Seabrook and Duncan Keith were dragging Andrew Shaw to the ground and Corey Crawford was looking Leah dead in the eye.

Leah laughed, "She must be something special huh?"

All the guys had no clue what to say. They were speechless. No one was supposed to tell Leah that Jon had been seeing someone, for quite sometime. But then again if no one was going to tell her than how was she going to find out? Probably at the game tonight when the girlfriend came down to whatever section Leah would of sat in to tell her to stay away from Jon. Leah would understand.

Patrick walked over to Leah, "I was going to tell you, but I thought that hearing it from me wouldn't lessen the blow, that it would be better to hear it from Jonathan."

Leah turned towards Patrick, shrugging her shoulders, "So he's seeing somebody, I can't blame him. I gave back the ring," Every guy tensed up, remembering three years ago. "If he's happy, I'm happy." Leah got up from her chair, pushing it in, and then thanking all of the guys for making her breakfast. She quietly excused herself to go get ready for her meeting and shut the door to her room.

When they heard the door click shut, Corey turned to Patrick and spoke, "When are we going to tell her he's not happy?"

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Leah sat in in L'Oreal office, her knee bouncing up and down, and it had been bouncing since she sat down ten minutes ago.

"Ms. Moore?" Leah looked up from the carpet on the floor and to the receptionist behind the desk, "Mr. Jones will see you now."

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Patrick had been waiting anxiously for Leah's return. He had two tickets in his hand for the game later that night, and he had called Kylie, Leah's best friend, to tell her that one ticket was for her, since she hadn't seen Leah in a while. She immediately accepted the offer.

"Patrick?"

Patrick jumped off the couch at the sound of Leah's voice, she was just shutting the door when Patrick came up behind her, "How did it go?"

Leah bit her lip, not quite knowing what to say because she honestly had no idea how it went. It started off good and then they asked one question that she couldn't answer, at least not then and there. Leah took a shaky breath, "They asked me to have a line in their company," Patrick pulled Leah into a giant bear hug, yelling so many different things at the same time that Leah couldn't understand any of it, she pulled him away.

Patrick looked down at Leah, who wasn't as excited as he thought she should be under the circumstances, "What? What's wrong?"

"They want me to move to Chicago."

Notes

I'm sure that Jonathan has a girlfriend in real life, but I faked one just so that I could make up information. So no obviously Avery isn't his actual girlfriend, but just play along!

Anyways hope you like the update. I will try and write another one tomorrow (which will be more eventful), but if not then, then the day tomorrow.

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