The Journey to Gold

searchingwardrobes:

A little ficlet about our babies growing up together as pairs figure
skaters. Because I’ve been watching the Olympics tonight.

Rating: T (but only because of one little line, really)

Words: 865       

Emma is 9 and
Killian is 12 when they are forced together as pairs partners. Emma is pissed
that her coach/foster mother thinks she’ll do better in pairs than in singles,
and it shows in the tilt of her chin and the way her lips are pressed in a thin
line. Killian laughs with a cocky grin, then scoffs and calls her a baby. When
she shoves him, he doesn’t see it coming.

              Emma
finally smiles when his butt hits the ice.

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              Emma
is 10 and Killian is 13 when the bullying he gets for being a figure skater
reaches its peak. He comes to practice late one afternoon dirty and covered in
bruises with a deep cut across his cheek from the blade of a hockey skate. At
the ER it takes ten stitches to close up the wound.

              The
next day, Ingrid has to pull Emma off one of the hockey players who had pinned
Killian down in the parking lot. But not before she breaks his nose.

              Killian
decides Emma isn’t a baby after all.

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