Football imagines (Misc players)

A special spooky visit (Dominik Szoboszlai) / Halloween '23

**First of four Halloween inspired imagines I'll post to end the Spooky season. Hope you enjoy them ❤️**

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Several Liverpool players were gathered near the entrance of the training centre, waiting to be told why they were even there.

"Hey guys! Sorry this is very last minute but we'll need you to do a little event for the club after training".

"What is it?", asked Trent.

"A hospital visit. For Halloween".

"Halloween?", asked Dominik, confused. He was used to visiting children for Christmas but not Halloween. "What gifts are we supposed to bring them? There are no gifts exchanged on Halloween, right?"

Some of his teammates were amused by his confusion, even if they shared it. But they were all told it wasn't about gifts, just about being there for the children on a special day.

So, after training, those ten players made their way to a few hospitals, ready to make some kids very happy. Unless they were actually Everton fans or, even worse, United fans. They wouldn't enjoy the visit much then.

"Hello everyone", said a doctor when they got to the floor where the kids were. And then she looked at Robertson. "Hello Andrew".

Dominik saw the interaction and was confused again. There was a lot of familiarity in that greeting. And wasn't his teammate married to someone else?

"If you follow me, I'll take you where the children are. We have some activities prepared for the day. Just games for children, nothing too fancy really. And so it'd be great if you could just play with them. It'll make their day".

They followed her and were introduced to the children. Dominik saw a game he recognized and thought it could be fun to start with that one. But when he did, he walked past the doctor and Robertson chatting.

"I brought the one you like", he told her.

"I don't like anyone, stop it".

"You sure?"

"Yes, you know my rules too".

"Nonsense. It's all just nonsense", he said and laughed.

And then the doctor turned and her eyes fell on Dominik, who didn't realise was staring at her. She cleared her throat and introduced herself to the Hungarian player.

"Nice meeting you too", he said. "What do you know Andy from?"

"Hell", she said, rolling her eyes. "Sorry, inside jokes. He's married to one of my best friends. So I must put up with him a lot".

Well, that made sense. "Cool. Um...I'll go play with the kids".

"Of course. Let me know if you need anything. They can get a bit restless and will be a bit overexcited because of the visit too".

Dominik nodded and moved to join a group of kids to start playing the game they had on the table. It was really nice, actually. One of the things he loved the most about being a footballer was how easy it was for him to make children happy. It felt like a superpower.

The doctor, however, felt her superpowers were at their lowest levels that day. One of the kids started to cry and there seemed to be nothing she could do, so she took him out of the room to try and calm him down. Dominik followed them with his eyes the whole time. He was so intrigued by her.

"She's pretty, right?"

"What?"

"The doctor", said Andy. "She's a friend of mine".

"She said she was a friend of your wife's".

"Of course she did", laughed the Scotsman. "She likes me too, sometimes. Do you like her?"

"What? I just met her. I spoke two words to her".

"She likes you".

"What are you talking about?", laughed Dominik. He knew his teammate's sense of humour was odd sometimes but this was another level of strange.

"We were chatting one day, right? And we had a couple of drinks. The poor doctor is a bit of a lightweight and so we asked her some questions while she was tipsy. Silly stuff. But one of the things she said was that the new Liverpool player was cute. And when we tried to get her to say which one, she said you. So I asked for you to come to this visit so she could meet you".

Dominik didn't know whether to laugh or clap at the story. But it was Halloween, not April Fools so...

"Do you really mean it? That she likes me and you organised this?"

"Yeah. Clever, right?"

"But what if I didn't like her?"

"Then you and your stupidity could deal with that problem yourselves", said Andy, getting up from the chair so he could go hang out with more kids. "Don't miss this chance. And you'll thank me later".

A couple of minutes later, the doctor entered the room again with the little child who had been crying before. He seemed to be fine then but Dominik approached them anyway.

"All good?"

"Yes", she said, surprised to see him chatting with her. "It's been a long day for some of them. But we're good, right Alfie?"

The little boy, Alfie, nodded. And Dominik looked up from him to look at the doctor again. Robertson was right. He would be stupid if he wasted that opportunity. She was really pretty, obviously really smart and seemed incredibly kind to the children.

"I can play with you, Alfie. If you want to".

"I was going to be alone with him for a bit...", she started to say.

"Can I join your party of two?"

"Yes!", said Alfie, smiling at last.

And so the three of them picked up some pieces of paper to do Halloween drawings. The doctor was the best at it and, well, Dominik was the worst. He was never an artistic kid.

Alfie was highly amused too by trying to pronounce Dominik's last name and the doctor tried too. Dominik found his name sounded especially nice when she said it. How interesting.

"I'm going to play with Mindy", said Alfie all of a sudden, leaving them alone.

"Bye then!", laughed the doctor, smiling widely at the little boy.

"You're really good at this", said Dominik.

"Thank you. I try my best but some days are harder than others. Today is easier. You should come visit more often", she joked.

"Do you mean you as in the players or you as in me?"

"What's that supposed to mean?", but then she realised. "You talked to Andy, right? It was just a silly comment".

"I'm wounded. I liked thinking you liked me".

She blushed slightly and laughed. "I mean, I don't dislike you despite the obvious flaw".

"You lost me".

Now she really laughed. "Andy didn't tell you one of my main rules then".

"No. What is it?"

"I don't date Liverpool players".

"Why?"

"Because I'm an Everton fan".

"Can I do something to change your mind?", he asked.

"Maybe come visit again".

It turned out after all that an Everton fan did enjoy the Liverpool players visiting. Must have been a spooky season miracle.