𝐂𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑, a.b.

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"And hold, two, three-" Practicing. They were practicing on there day off even though they were supposed to be sleeping. All Harvey wanted to do was lay in bed while Adam held her, but no. They were out in the sun doing stretches.

"Coach isn't here, why do we have to be?" Harvey looked over at Connie and nodded, agreeing completely with her.

"We have a game tonight. We have to work out." Harvey groaned and stood up, stopping her stretching.

"You guys have a game tonight, I don't. I want to sleep Dean, please?" No one answered her about her sleep problem but most of her team apologized again for her not getting to play. She just shook them off and sat on the floor, falling backwards and laying down.

"I say mutiny, who's with me?" Harvey didn't stand up, but she raised her hand as she laid on the grass. "Thank you, Harvey." She let out a small, no problem before Adam grabbed her hand and pulled her off the floor.

"Goldberg, I'm too tired to mutiny." Harvey let out a giggle as she held onto Adam, keeping herself standing up straight so she didn't fall over. He just wrapped his arms around her and held onto Harvey, as if she'd disappear if he let go. But, she let go. She looked at Dean and sighed.

"C'mon guys, its not like we couldn't use the conditioning." She heard groans coming from her teammates as she spoke to Dean.

"Speak for yourself, babe." Harvey knew Dean never meant anything he ever said, especially to Harvey, but Adam didn't know anything. He stepped in front of his girlfriend and glared at the tall boy.

"Her name's Harvey, not babe. At least not to you." Harvey walked up next to him, not wanting them to do anything to each other.

"Don't tell me how to talk rich boy." He shoved Adam and walked up towards him, but before he could Fulton grabbed him and Harvey blocked Adam. She knew Adam would have done something to get even with Dean, but it wouldn't have ended well for either of them.

"Hey, Portman, chill." Everyone huddled around, not wanting the two boys to fight.

"Hey team USA, what are you gonna do today? A million jumping jacks?" Harvey rolled her eyes and dropped her hand right down next to Adam's. His hand lightly brushed against hers before he grabbed it, like he was holding on for dear life.

"Hey, man. I'm getting sick of you." He skated closer towards the team.

"And I'm sick of the USA represented by a bunch of whining babies." No it was Harvey's turn to get mad. He was at almost every game, and almost every time, he had something to say about the team. Harvey stepped forward, but was stopped by Adam's hand on her lower back. He turned her around to face him and stared into her brown eyes.

"This is a fight that doesn't need to be fought by you, Harv. Got it?" She sighed and looked at the floor before nodding and turning around.

"Too bad you can't back up that mouth." Adam looked Harvey as she rolled her eyes and kissed her temple, not wanting her mad or angry anymore. The guy kept talking about how his team could beat theirs, and Harvey didn't believe it, no one did. They kept listening to the guy as he talked about how great his boys were. The boy began to get dragged away by one of the workers and Harvey let go of Adam, making her way to the front. She looked at Luis and smiled, knowing how equally Greta they both were at street hockey, and the she looked at Charlie.

"What do you say, Ducky? Wanna play some puck?" He nodded his head as they all made their way towards the boy, agreeing to play.

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"My little brother, Russ here has been telling me that you have been choking big time." Harvey rolled her eyes and tightened her grip on her stick. She hated being reminded of how bad she and the team were doing.

"Well your brother's got a big mouth." There was a moment of silence where the older boy looked at his brother.

"He does, doesn't he." Russ gave the team a smile, making Harvey chuckle. "Anyways, we'd thought we'd call y'all and see what you've got." Harvey and Luis smirked at each other, low giving each other behind their team so no one could see it.

..........

For the first time ever, Harvey had watched the Dean Portman get slammed into a fence, and she loved it. She skated down the court at super speed as Averman liked to call it with the tallest player right behind her.

"Take it like a man, Dean. Don't be a wuss." He glared at the girl as she shoved a boy into the fence, making Dean smile. For some odd reason, hurting people made Dean happy. She skated over to him and patted his back hard. "Sometimes, you just have to learn to play rough." She winked at him before turning back around and skating towards the puck. That was why she was Dean's best friend. She wasn't afraid to push around the biggest person on a team. People fell, and skated, and hit others, this is why hockey was Harvey's favorite sport. She skated backwards with the puck towards the "net" which was just a trashcan on its side and flew past everyone while her team cheered her on as she scored.

"How is she so fast?" Charlie looked at the boy who was standing there in awe of the girl. "She's cute too." He turned to Charlie with a hopeful smile. "Is she seeing anyone?" Charlie patted his back and looked up at the tall boy before pointing to Adam, who had just shoved down two guys at once.

"Yeah, him." Harvey cheered as she past everyone, high fiving her team.

"Guy, get in there for me." Harvey skated towards the bench and poured water on her face as Guy made his way onto the rink.

"On it, boss." Guy skated out onto the court while Russ got the puck, standing it up and hitting it, making it do a weird curve. "Woah. Hey, uhm Harvey, we need him." She looked at Charlie and they both nodded. Kenny jumped over a pile of guys and passed it to Guy, scoring. "Yeah Kenny." Guy switched with Connie and Harvey switched with Luis, making her way to Kenny and high fiving him.

Russ's older brother smirked at Kenny and skated towards him, telling him he was gong to get him, making Kenny scared. Harvey skated towards them and was about to shove the boy until he smiled.

"I'm just messing with you, okay. Listen." Harvey stood next to them with a smile on her face. She knew what was happening and she was glad because she's been trying to teach Kenny how to stick up for himself for a long time. "When a guy comes at you like I just did, you do this:" He turned towards Harvey and motioned towards her jacket, which had a shirt under so she didn't mind. "Stick." He threw his stick down on the floor at Harvey's feet and looked at Kenny to make sure he was still following along. "Gloves." He softly threw his gloves at Harvey's chest as she tucked in her under shirt. "Shirt." He pushed her upper body down and grabbed the back of her sweatshirt, bringing it almost completely over her head. "Okay?" He moved away from Harvey as she fixed her shirt and looked at Kenny.

"Okay. My turn." Harvey smiled as Kenny threw his stick and gloves before pulling on the boys shirt, bring a smile to his face.

"Good job, Ken. You are a natural." He high fived her before she skated back to her team, grabbing her water bottle.

"Harv, the bus is here." She looked up and met eyes with Adam. She nodded her head and sat down on the bench, taking off her skates and putting her converse back on. She packed up all of her stuff and looked up at Adam who was already smiling at her.

"I love you. Did you know that?" He chuckled and wrapped his arm around her.

"I think we all know that, Harvey." She looked behind her to see Goldberg smiling at them.

"Shut it, Goldie."