Forever and Always

Madeline could hardly stand up so much so she was leaning on Aaron for support. "You really did a number to yourself." He picked her up and carried her into the locker room untying her skates and taking them off. "Fuck Monahan." While playing in the four on four tournament, Sean had hit her from behind and she took a nasty spill. Her ankle hurt like mad. "If he injured me I will end his life." Aaron slapped her arm. "Don't talk like that, let's bring you into the trainers. We'll see what he says." Madeline used Aaron's support to hop into the trainers room next door to the locker room. "First injury on the first day of training. Who would of thought it would be you." She wasn't in the mood for Jim Ramsay's jokes. He was the Rangers head trainer and he also had been the head trainer for the 2010 and 2014 Canadian olympic hockey teams.

"Hey Rammer." Michael Del Zotto walked in after them and laid down on the bench next to Mads. His eyebrow dripping blood. "How many times do I have to stitch up that eyebrow DZ. This must be the 20th time since you were 18." Michael laughed. "It's prone to injury, what can I say." Michael turned to Madeline and glanced down at her bruised foot. "Sean's sorry." She shook her head. "Fuck Sean." Rammer grabbed some bandage,a scissor, and tape. "It doesn't look too bad, just a bruise. You should be off of it for the next few days. I want to examine you in the next two days or so. Mads please stay off it." She never listened to him, and sometimes that caused more injury. "Yeah, I know the drill. Hand me a pair of crutches and I'll let you stitch up Del Zaster." Rammer taped up her foot, adjusted a pair of crutches to her height and handed them to her.

"Aaron please keep your eye on her. Your girlfriend likes to think she's invincible." Aaron smirked. "Oh do I know that." Michael grabbed a towel and patted his eyebrow. "What happened?" Aaron asked. "Puck to the eyebrow. The usual." Aaron sat down next to them. "Not what I asked. Who." Michael looked at him. Since last summer Michael and his bromance buddy Tyler Seguin have been at war. Michael was looking to settle down, Tyler not so much. They were barely talking anymore. "You know who." Rammer stitched up Michael and let the three of them get on their way. Madeline hobbled over to the rink, and tried to open the door to the bench but Aaron caught her. "Let me." He opened it and the three of them walked on. "Ekblad back on the ice, Del Z, Mads you have the day off. Injured reserve. Mads you know the RICE drill. DZ let the stitches heal please." The two nodded. "I'll take her home Ekky." Aaron nodded. "See you later babe." He kissed her and then skated back to team Weiss. "Come on Gilly, I'll buy you an ice cream." She laughed. "Alright Del Z."
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"A what happened?" Morgan Rielly skated over to him. "Bruise she should be fine in the next couple days. I guess the TML will probably make an announcement that she hurt herself." The two of them turned to look at Sean Monahan. "What? I am sorry! Tell her I am sorry!" The two of them glared at him. "It was a dirty hit Sean." Morgan wanted to tear his head off. The hit was so unneeded. "I am sorry. I am sorry. I was in the wrong." Dumb shit moron. "Should I come over later? Maybe we can make her dinner. I can bring Lauren over, we can watch a movie or something?" Aaron shook his head. "We're having dinner tonight in Toronto with the Shanahan's your boss. But when we get home we'll head over to your place." Morgan nodded. "I have wedding cake testing again today." Aaron let out a giggle. "What?" Aaron grabbed a bottle of water. "Nothing I just can't believe your getting married. We're young, carefree, we're not supposed to think about Wedding Cake testing, and tuxedos, and bridal showers." Morgan understood Aaron and Mads were worried about him but they had to loosen the reins on him. "I know but I love her, and I just want to marry her now, not in 5 years, not in 10 years, now." Aaron nodded. "Hey we support you, we love you man." Morgan sat on the boards as he grabbed a gatorade. "So Aaron, I kind of already promised Dylan Mcilrath to be my best man since we have been best friends since birth. But I was wondering would you be one of my groomsmen?" Aaron looked at him shocked, then the Aaron smirk came on. "I thought you'd never ask brother." Morgan let out a sigh of relief. "So do you think Lauren would like the idea of Mads being a bridesmaid?" Aaron laughed. "Not a single chance." Morgan was going to get Lauren to like the idea. He didn't want Mads being left out on the most important day of his life. Even if it meant she would be a grooms lady. It was happening.
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Madeline crutched over to where Michael found them a table outside the Dairy Queen and sat down. "Look at us, the season hasn't even started yet and we're on injury reserve." Madeline let out a laugh. "Michael will you and Tyler ever become friends again?" No one really knew what happened between them, just that they had a disagreement about where they were in each others lives. "Maybe one day, when the shit head grows up and stops acting like a man child." She nodded. "Will you and Lauren Milton ever become friends?" She let out a laugh. "I don't know, I don't speak ice princess." He smirked, taking a lick of his soft serve. "I don't know your kind of an ice princess. You like the ice." She rolled her eyes. "Yes, Ice rinks, Iced Cream, Iced Coffee, Shaved Ice. Not bitchy puck sluts who think their gods gift to the world." She couldn't believe she just said that, but now it was out there. "I knew it! You finally unleashed what you think about her! Oh Mads I am telling Morgan!" She knew she was headed for the shit hole. "No MDZ please! I hate her, I absolutely hate her. But you can't tell Morgan it would ruin our relationship that we just got back rebuilding. Please." He looked at her, she was giving him the puppy dog eyes. "Fine Injury reserve, let's get you home Cripple." Michael helped her up and handed her, her crutches. "She is a puck slut though, he's going to find out the hard way. Once a puck slut, always a puck slut." She agreed. She didn't think Lauren was marrying Morgan for the right reasons, and she was going to show him that girls like her don't change. And she will hurt him, and she wasn't going to let the ice princess get her way. If no one knew already, Madeline Gilmore was the princess of Markham. Not Lauren Milton.

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