MASTERMIND | Jamie Tartt

THIRTY FIVE: YOU WILL BE FOUND

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trigger warning: if you're reading this, i assume you've watched ted lasso and know what happens at wembley, if the jamie & james storyline is triggering for you in anyway, please put yourself first and skip this chapter if you need.
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As Billie stood at the gateway to a footballer's dream, the sidelines of Wembley Stadium's famous pitch, it was one thing she never imagined it would be, quiet.

She was waiting for the team to walk out onto the pitch for the first time so she could take photos of their reactions, a few hours before kick off and before the stadium would become a sea of blue. It wasn't her first time visiting the stadium, she was there in 2012 when Chelsea won the FA Cup, two weeks before they won the Champions League.

2012 was a beautiful year of football for the blues.

It was a great year to be Roy Kent's youngest sister too. Everyone at school thought she was incredibly lucky, getting to watch her brother win at Wembley Stadium, represent England in the Euros and win a Champions League title all in one year. But selfishly, she would've traded it all just to see more of her brother.

The red doors in front of Billie opened and out walked AFC Richmond, their faces were a mix of smiles and stunned gazes as they stepped into the cathedral of British football. Billie began taking candid photos of the boys, smiling to herself as each of them took in the space they stood in and the history that came with it.

Jamie had told her just how much playing in that stadium meant to him on their 'not date', he recalled watching her brother's FA Cup win with Chelsea when he was a teenager. He smiled as he told her how jealous he had been that the teenage brunette girl got to walk out onto the pitch with her brother before the match.

Fate, right? That's what he called it.

"Gentlemen, focus up," Ted addressed the group, "Alright, fellas, I want you to close your eyes, look around."

The team frowned in confusion.

"You know, I mean, open them up and take it all in," Ted told the group as Billie wove her way through the crowd of footballers, knowing that there was one who needed her by his side more than anyone, "But remember, this right behind me, just a regular old football pitch, you take away the stadium and all the stands, I think you'll find it's the same size as our pitch back home on Nelson Road."

"Not exactly."

"What's that?" Ted looked at Beard.

"It's five hundred square feet bigger," Nate told him.

"Really? These pitches aren't all the same size?" Ted remarked.

"No."

"This is the biggest pitch in the country," Nate sighed.

"Huge advantage for City," Beard sighed.

"Boy, oh boy, this sport has the loosiest-goosiest rules of all," Ted muttered in disbelief, "Okay, alright, it's bigger, and I know y'all grew up watching games on this field, so you're probably a little nervous, I know I got goosebumps, I remember being a little kid, sitting in front of the television, watching Queen perform right over there during Live Aid."

"No, you didn't," Beard muttered.

"That was Old Wembley," Roy corrected the coach.

"That field was even bigger," Nate remarked.

"So, One Direction, was that this Wembley or old Wembley?" Ted asked Billie, reminded of a conversation they had on the bus that morning, in which she also blew his mind when she told him that the doctor who treated Dr Sharon was also a Kent.