Chances | Erik Durm & Mats Hummels

prologue

//Thomas//

"Hello may I speak with Mr. Müller?"

"Yes, he's speaking.."

"Um, hello Mr.Müller, I'm calling from Necker Hospital here in Paris I'm sorry to inform you that your father, step mother and step sister were all involved in a fatal car accident, both your step mother and father died on impact and your sister is okay she only has a broken leg and bruises but she will be okay, since you are the only family listed can you please come to Paris?"

"Oh god, I'll be there as soon as I can."

Once Thomas found out about the news he and Lisa quickly arranged two flights to Paris to go see Lilly and recover his father's and step mother's bodies. That same day was the first meeting of the German National team so they could discuss the plans for Euro 2016. Müller decided to go to the meeting quickly to inform the team and the coach about the situation.

"Hey can I get everyone together for a moment?" Thomas said.

"What's wrong? You seem off." Neuer said while patting Thomas' back.

"I will be gone for about a month"

"What!?" All his team mates and coaches said at the same time.

"I got a phone call earlier this morning from Paris that my father and step mother died in a car accident and Lilly is injured so I need to go see her and bring her back to Germany."

"I'm soo sorry." was muttered throughout the room.

"Go ahead Müller, take your time and go get Lilly she needs you." Löw said while embracing him into a hug.

//Mats//

"...Lilly is injured so I need to go see her and bring her back to Germany..." Lilly is injured? I hope she's okay. Yeah I know the last time we saw each other was four years ago before she moved to Paris with her parents for her to go to a ballet school, she was 15 and I was 22 and I acted like a complete jerk to her. I remember making fun of her because of her two pig tails and her nerdy glasses and her pink braces, I would always pull pranks on her just to make her mad. Yeah I know me being 22 at that time I should have been mature but I couldn't help but to always mess around with the 15 year old girl because it was funny to see her reaction. But now Lilly Müller was coming back to Germany, and she wasn't the 15 year old girl who had pig tails, glasses and braces, the girl who I used to call a book worm, Lilly was now a 19 year old young woman, possibly a very beautiful young lady. For some odd reason I haven't seen a picture of her, Thomas would never bring her up or show us pictures of her. Once I found out that Lilly was coming back I felt this feeling of excitement something I couldn't explain I wanted to know if she's still the same girl, if she has changed, I have so many questions on my mind about her and I couldn't wait for her return.

//Erik//

"Thomas has a step sister!?" I asked Mario and Basti oddly confused, I never knew that he had a step sister.

"Yeah he does but he doesn't really like talking about her to us for some reason." Basti said while putting his cleats on before heading out to the field so we can warm up.

"How old is she?"

"Hmm I'm pretty sure she's 19."

"Does she look like Thomas?"

"No she looked more like her mother, she was a pretty little girl last time I saw her which was like four years ago" Basti said.

"I see, well I can't wait to meet her."

"Why?" Mario asked.

"I do know I'm just curious that's all."

"Come on let's go before Löw starts yelling at us."

Throughout training I couldn't stop thinking about Lilly, Thomas' mysterious step sister. I wonder how she looks like, how she's like, is she like Thomas' personality? I really wanted to know.

//Lilly//

I killed my parents, it was all my fault. I should've seen that truck heading our way but no I was too busy arguing with my parents because of my boyfriend Andrew. I was the one driving the car, I turned around to argue with my father who was sitting in the back, all I remembered was my mother screaming "watch out" and when I turned around to see, a truck was right in front of us and everything went black. I remember waking up in a cold plain quiet room, where the only sound was the beeping of the machines connected to my body. A nurse came in and I asked what happened, she told me that I was a miracle and I knew exactly what she meant. She also told me that Thomas was on his way. Again I was left alone in this cold hospital room, I should be crying right now but I wasn't, I was filled with so much anger I was the cause of my parents death. I should be the one dead not them, and I knew I was going to live with this guilt for the rest of my life, and I decided that life has no meaning anymore there's nothing to look forward to anymore.

--A/N--

Hi guys hope you'll love this story. My other fanfiction "Unforgettable" will be on pause for bit, I have ran out of imagination for that story. But for this fanfiction "Chances" I have so many ideas and I'm so excited for you all to read.

This story will take place when Germany is preparing for Euro 2016, but I will write it as it was happening right now in the present happening this year, so Mats is 26, and Erik is 22 if that makes sense. All events are not real and it's completely my imagination so feel free to comment.

Thank you bunches ,

Dana x