Redshirt Season

Prologue

3rd Person POV:

1 month ago

"Oh Ray was that ever a nasty hit!"

"Honestly Teresa, I don't even think Linnehan made any contact with the ball on that one. She just bulldozed the poor girl"

"It seems as through she's holding on to her knee. It must be bad, I can't say I've ever heard a player scream as loud as Wells just did"

"Teresa, can this be the end of up and coming star Evangeline Wells' college career?"

"There's no way for us to know Ray, we just have to wait and find out."

Eva's POV:

After the pop, I've heard nothing but a constant ringing. Completely tuning out the players and fans around me, I lay in tears. Nothing can prepare an athlete for the moment their life shifts, in an instant everything you've worked for your whole life can be completely out of reach, all due to something you can't control. I knew as soon as I felt the tear in my knee that my ACL was blown. Lying on the pitch I've learnt to call my home, I can do nothing but think in denial of the things I've lost and the long road ahead of me.

Paige's POV:

I wasn't planning on coming to watch the out of conference game between PSU and Uconn, it was Azzi who dragged me here. I guess she has a friend on the team or something. Nevertheless, I'm always down to support my Husky family so I didn't mind sitting through an hour and a half of college soccer.

The game was going good, the Huskies were up by one heading into the 80th minute of the match. I had no doubt that they were leaving the pitch with another win in their stats. While half focusing on the game and half focusing on my phone I heard the crowd start to louden.  As I tear my eyes away from my screen I see what has them all riled up. Payton Linnehan, forward for PSU, is driving towards the Huskies net with the ball at her feet. However, she isn't doing so unopposed. The Huskies star player Evangeline Wells is hot on her heels, not giving Penn State an easy opportunity. Linnehan takes too heavy of a touch and Wells is there in an instant, using her speed and physicality to get ahead of the blonde attacker. I watch as she plants her foot to touch the ball at the same moment that Linnehan races to take it. Touching it out of the way everyone thought that Wells was in the clear, that is until Linnehan runs straight into her, unable to stop the building momentum in her pace.

In the two years since I tore my ACL I have never forgotten the sound of my ligament tearing. I will never forget the feeling of each individual collagen fiber being ripped in half. Because of my inability to forget these things, no matter how hard I try, the second I see the impact on Evangeline Wells I'm immediately aware of what she had suffered.

A/N:

This is my first ever fic!!! Honestly I'm just writing it for fun. I thought it would be such a cool plot to have the mc learning to cope with her injury.

I've never read anything like that so I thought why not write it 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Personally I've torn my ACL and gone through rehab for it so I know the ins and outs of everything medical and emotional that goes on following ACLR.

Hope everyone enjoys, I don't have any concrete plans or directions for this fic but I just wanna have fun with it.

ALSO SIDE NOTE...

Payton Linnehan I LOVE YOU! I love Pennstate and wanted to find a way to include them in this fic and this was it🙌🙌

Anyways will update at some point🫶🏻