intentions (prince william fanfic)

Chapter One - Practice

August 12th 2008

There comes a time in your life when you realize why you are here.  When you realize that everything you had worked so hard for had finally come in full circle and brought you to where you are now.  It was time for the 2008 Olympics and Madison Metcalf was the twenty-four year old seven time gold medalist along with a silver medal for USA Gymnastics.  She also received a one time silver as well as a gold medalist for the Winter Olympics.  

Madison loved the thrill of it all.  She loved the excitement she got from the fans.  The medals.  The way she and her teammates were always there for each other.  It made her who she was today.  She loved seeing all of her hard work and dedication pay off.

When she was performing on the bars - she felt alive.  Free.  Flying like a bird without a care in the world.  It was one of her favorite things in the world and where she most excelled.  

Madison was on a zoom call with her boyfriend in her hotel room.  She was exhausted after competing that day.  She was eating her sour patch kids candy with no makeup on and in her USA gear that the Olympics had gifted her.

"You were amazing," William told Madison and she smiled.

"Thank you," she smiled at him.  Having his support along with her family meant the world to them.  "I wish you were here."

They were still technically dating in private.  Of course, there was always speculation that they were dating as they were seen out at different places on a few occasions but nothing had ever been confirmed yet.  The only people who knew were their friends, family and her team.  They had been dating for eleven months, almost a year and Madison could recall the time she met the young prince.  It was four years ago when she had won the last Olympics.  William and Harry were at the Olympics in Greece.  She was only twenty and he was twenty-two at the time but William could remember being amazed at the young Olympian even then.  

But then again there were rumors going around that he was possibly back together with his ex-girlfriend, Kate Middleton, which were not true.

"I do too," he let out a sigh, knowing that they didn't get to see each other much when it was competition season and especially the Olympics.  "I might be able to make it out there in a few days though.  I'll get the chance to see you in action?"

"Can you really?" Madison perked up at the thought.  "Will the military allow it?"

"Yeah," he let out a laugh.  "I had actually put in the request a month ago and they said I'll hear back either today or tomorrow."

"That would be awesome if they do.  I've missed you."

"I've missed you too, Mads.  How have your coaches been?"

William was worried about his girlfriend and the other girls, but especially Madison.  He had seen a handful of times some odd behavior from her coach Mark and just hoped that she was being safe.  

"Coach Lindsay and Erin are great.  Mark is just being Mark," she rolled her eyes.  "He's an ass as always."

"I wish there was something I could do," he told her.

"Honestly, I don't know if there's anything any of us can do.  How have you and your family been?"

Madison had only been able to meet Harry so far and that was four years ago when they weren't even dating yet.  

"They're good.  We're all happy that Harry's home from deployment."

He was deployed back in 2007 for ten weeks so he had been back for a few months.  They were enjoying their time together.  Madison knew that William was kind of jealous that Harry got to be deployed and he doesn't and knew it was kind of a sore spot with him.