Hockey One Shots

#2. Tyler Seguin

You heard the door slam shut downstairs and you instantly flinched knowing it was Tyler.
"Ty?" You asked as you jogged down the stairs. He walked through the house reaching the door to the garage; he opened the door and threw his hockey bag into the room furiously.
"Ty?" You repeated this time a little louder.
"What?" He turned around yelling at you. You jumped back, you've never seen him like this and you weren't sure how to handle it. 
He saw you just about jump out of your skin and he sighed.
"We need to talk." He said walking over to you.

"Listen, the guys on the team... they've been ragging on me about you."
"What about me?  Am I not good enough?" You asked looking down at your feet.
"No, nothing like that.  Just, are you unhappy?"
You didn't answer right away.
"Dammit Y/N, if you weren't happy why couldn't you have just talked to me about it instead of telling the team?" He said boiling with anger.
"You know what Tyler; maybe I would have gone to you if you were ever here.  All you ever do is go get drunk and party!  And don't think I don't see the pictures of you with other girls because I do.  God only knows how many times you've cheated on me."
He didn't say a word, he just stared at you.
"And another thing, you come home drunk almost every single night, but have I complained to you once? No.  I understand your career is stressful and demanding so I get wanting to go out and get a drink with the guys once in a while, but I feel like you don't even care if I'm here anymore.  You probably only keep me around because I clean and cook.  When you asked me to come to Dallas with you I was so happy, I thought it was going to be a fresh start from Boston.  We were happy at first, then you started partying again, and you started treating me the same way you did in Boston.  You don't know how many times that while I sat up waiting for you to come home that I wanted to just go pack my stuff and leave.  One time I actually booked a flight, but when I saw how drunk you were I couldn't leave because I was afraid you were going to do something stupid." You said as a flood of tears spilled from your eyes.
Tears were pooling in Tyler's eyes too as he listened to everything you were saying. He wanted to say something but every time he opened his mouth he couldn't say anything because of the growing lump in the back of his throat. 
"Whatever." You said getting up ready to walk away.  He jumped up quickly wrapping his strong arms around you letting out a sob. 
You've known Tyler for a long time and you've never seen him cry.  You didn't know what else to do except to just hug him back.  He gently pulled back and looked into your eyes.
"I am so sorry baby." He said cupping your face in his hands.
A tear slid down your cheek hitting his hand. He kissed the top of your head and then kissed each cheek.
"You mean the absolute world to me.  I don't know what I would ever do if I lost you, and I mean that.  I didn't think I would ever love anything more than hockey until you came along.  But I guess I just got too comfortable, I thought you would always be there no matter what I did.  I forgot about your happiness because I was being so selfish thinking about mine." He said as tears spilled out of his eyes. 
"Baby, I don't know what to say.  When the guys told me you were unhappy, I couldn't imagine why.  We live in this amazing house, we have all this money, we have amazing families, and we have a dog.  I didn't think there was anything else either of us could want.  But I was wrong.  Without each other's love we're nothing.  I know that now, and I'm so sorry for not showing you how much I love you before." He said.
You couldn't believe he was saying all of this.  It was such a surprise; you didn't know he even had this much emotion in him.
You wrapped your arms around his middle tightly.
"Please don't ever leave, I don't know what I would do without you." He whispered.
"I'll never leave Ty, I love you." You replied.
"You don't know how amazing it is to hear that.  I love you too baby." He kissed the top of your head and wrapped his arms around you even tighter than you were holding onto him.