Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better

Practice, Memories, and Fights

Wolf Pack practices were never your basic team practices. A lot of the time we didn't wear equipment, just skates, jerseys, and gloves. We wore all the stuff in games but practice was more about being a team.

The band and Jamie sit in the bench while we 'practice'. The coach stands at centre ice, telling us what to do. James stands behind me, towering over me. CC stands beside me as Shep talks at us. Shepherd points to CC.

"You're it, boy." Is all he says.

It takes us a minute to catch on. Someone yells scatter and we all skate away from CC. We play tag for about an hour before we change to stick handling drills. We all have a puck and we're lined up in front of one of the nets. James is behind me and he shoves me forward a bit.

"James." I hiss and he laughs.

I get pushed forward again and I turn back.

"James I am going to hurt you." I say and James laughs again.

"You don't scare me little girl." He says and I scowl.

"I should." I half mutter as I make it to the front of the line.

Shep tells us to partner up and James grabs my arm, CC looks disappointed. We're doing one one one for defence and offence practice. James is doing offence first.  We skates towards the net. I block his path to the net and try to get the puck. I've always been smaller and faster than James. I take the puck and skate away with it.

"You're a real asshole sometimes." James smiles.

"Let's how for our sake hope you're better at defence." I smirk as I skate towards the net.

I keep myself between the puck and James. I make it to the net and our goalie comes out to challenge me. I dike three times before taking my shot. The puck goes straight into his gloved hand. Not a lot ever got past our goalie. I guess that's a good thing. I skate back around and James bumps my shoulder with his.

"I went easy on you because you're a girl." James says.

"Very well spotted, James." I half smile. "And I know you, that was your all. You're just lucky the Devils forwards aren't that good."

Once everyone goes through with the one on one thing, I feel like practice is almost over. Shep then yells.

"Lockman! You're it."

James Lockman. I look over to him and he lights up.

"Oh shit!" I say as I skate away.

James skates after me and I turn around to challenge him. I skate around backwards, looking back to make sure I'm not running into anyone.

"Jesus, you have a girlfriend." I call and he laughs.

"I'm James but close enough." James calls back and I laugh.

I collide with someone and I'm pretty sure we both fall on our asses. I look back to see my twins sitting on the ice beside me.

"I think you skate faster backwards." He half mutters and I laugh.

The team circles up and we do our cheer. So we howl like the wolves we are. We skate back over to the bench and Rikki leans over to the boards. I smile at him as I skate in front of him. I put my forearms between his and I lean in towards him.

"I think we should make a bet." He says as the team goes into the change room.

"You do?" I question and he nods.

"Yes. If you guys win tomorrow you get a kiss. If you lose tomorrow I get a kiss." Rikki smiles.

"Or I could kiss you now." I say and I press my lips to his.