Catch Me I m Falling Falling Back Again Ariel Pink
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Catch Me If You Can (four/?)
298 days. That'south how long Killian Jones was abroad from a baseball game field. It'south less than a twelvemonth, only office of a season for him, simply information technology might as well have lasted a decade as he alternated between physical therapy and spending an excessive amount of time sitting on his burrow.
But then he came back and won the World Series.
It'southward something no i saw coming, and it'south certainly not something anyone who knows almost his arm would predict. Now it's a new season with new possibilities, and anything could happen. On-field reporter Emma Swan will be there to cover information technology all even if she is not his biggest fan right now.
Request her out live on-air volition do that.
Rating: Mature
A/N: As ever, cheers to @resident-of-storybrooke for the time that she takes to read through this for me, option up on my niggling mistakes, and then flail in the comments💙 And give thanks y'all to you lot guys for clicking on this story and all of my other stories! It absolutely blows my mind!
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He has two cakes cooling on racks in his kitchen.
Two.
He thought well-nigh making 3.
Killian'south not exactly sure when he turned into Betty Crocker – okay, that's a lie since he knows it was during his injury when he couldn't do much of anything but hang around his apartment, watch erstwhile tapes, and feed himself – but if it doesn't finish presently, he'due south going to have to go up a size in his uniform. He refuses to be one of those players who take a beer abdomen.
Absolutely refuses.
So instead he'southward going to have a java and kokosnoot cake abdomen. Not together, obviously.
They're carve up cakes, though they could get together…no, those two should stay separate.
Definitely.
Why the hell is he having a meltdown correct now?
It'south Opening Day, which is undoubtedly one of the greatest days of the year for him, for sports in America, and he is doing anything and everything non to recall about it fifty-fifty equally he runs over pitches he needs to do against every role player on the Orioles, fifty-fifty the ones who aren't in tonight'due south batting lineup.
His calm mind is obviously back in Florida somewhere, probably melting abroad with the estrus and being eaten by an alligator.
How many stereotypes can he think about an entire state all at once?
Probably more than, but that's a road he doesn't really want to drive downwardly. There'd be too many potholes.
His tum twists, the nerves radiating over every inch of his flesh, and he wonders if Liam and Elsa will take these cakes off of his hands and turn off the power in his apartment so that he'll end stress baking. Honestly, he should have come up with a unlike hobby while out on injury, merely in that location's merely and then much he could exercise with his non-dominant hand. Even baking or reading or getting pants with a zipper on were full of struggles for those showtime few weeks.
Becoming an skillful in every goggle box prove in the past three decades might have been a adept idea. Or even taking online courses to see if he can finish out his degree, or, at least, start finishing his caste.
He's always wanted to do that.
One day.
And maybe he's anxious about his shoulder for today. Maybe he has razor abrupt knots in his stomach because they came dorsum and won the Series concluding year when they had no business organization doing that, and this is the first time he'due south ever really had to defend something. He'southward used to eyes beingness on him, to pundits watching his stats and debating his skills on their shows, and he's honestly never given it much thought. What someone behind a desk says has no merit on how he plays on the field, only all of the sudden he's worried most it all.
His centre may equally well be pounding between his ears as loud as the speaker system in Yankee Stadium.
He reaches up to mess with the silver chain effectually his neck, his female parent'south favorite band absurd against his chest, and he tries to take a deep jiff. Then some other one. His mom would want him to be calm, to recall things through. She would tell him that it's all going to be fine, that he will exist fine if he just calms down.
Every part of him hopes that it'southward true.
Every part of him hopes that she'southward proud of him.
His phone rings, and he turns off the mixer to answer it.
"Hi?"
"Are you stress blistering?" Elsa asks him as he hears Lucy ask for a glass of water in the groundwork. "One moment, sweetie."
"Aw, I'grand your sweetie," he jokes, swiping some icing from the basin and boosting himself up to sit down on his kitchen counter.
"I'm plainly non talking to you."
"Obviously."
"Simply seriously, are you lot stress baking?"
"I am making both you and Liam a cake, and it doesn't take annihilation to practice with stress."
Elsa sighs on the other finish of the line, and he's not sure if information technology's because of him or because she's trying to get the girls ready for school while also getting gear up for piece of work. He knows for a fact that Liam was on call concluding night, and then he either spent the night in the hospital or got upward early and left to do rounds. Either way, he's not habitation.
"And then, you're currently freaking out and so?"
"A petty flake."
"Killian."
"Elsa."
"Killian Jones."
"Elsa Jones."
"Oh my God."
"What?" he laughs, flexing out his ankles and moving his toes underneath his socks.
"Y'all are existence ridiculous," she huffs, Addy's vox coming in through the speakers. "Hold on, Addy wants to talk to you."
"Uncle Killian," Addy squeaks, her voice loud in the speaker.
"Addy Jones! What's up, my daughter?"
"Today is Opening Mean solar day," she squeals, and he can't help merely chuckle at the most mature, notwithstanding playful five-year-onetime girl on the planet. "I'm coming to your game tonight."
"Are you? Are you going to lookout the game? Or are yous just going to play in the playroom with your friends?"
"I'm going to scout, duh," she grumbles, and he tin can imagine her nose scrunching up and making her freckles all blend together. "I'yard wearing my Jones jersey. Number 20-ix."
He never cared if his name was on the dorsum of a jersey until the rule was inverse for names to now be immune instead of it all being simply numbers. It was just in time for him to get his nieces to wear his, and they've been stuffed in oversized jerseys of his since each of the days they were born.
"Hey, that'southward what I'm going to wear too."
"I know. That's why I'thousand wearing it, Uncle Killian."
"I honey you, Addy," he laughs, moving his phone and putting information technology on speaker so that he doesn't accept to concur information technology up to his ear. "Tin you give the phone back to your mom?"
"I love you too."
He hears the line disconnect, Addison very obviously having hung up on him, merely Elsa's already calling him dorsum, a picture of her with the girls popping up on his screen, earlier he can press her contact number.
"Sad about that," she sighs. "They're crazy this morning. I think information technology's because they accept an uncle who is a pretty big deal, and they're proud of him. They both have on their jerseys today. Super proud."
Blush rises to the tips of his ears, and he reaches upwardly to brush his hair back, a few pieces of fringe falling onto his forehead. He had to get it cutting last week, the length of information technology abrasive him, but he still doesn't like for his hair to be too short. Personal preference and all that.
"Well, really, those jerseys have their names on them also."
"Yes, but it'southward yours. Killian, accept a deep jiff. Yous're going to be fine. You're going to kick ass, really. I know it. Be excited. This is what you love. Remember that?"
"I know," he smiles, toying with his chain again. "I know."
"We volition all see you tonight after you lot win, okay?"
"That's non any pressure at all, El."
"Love y'all."
"Love you too."
His brother hit every damn jackpot in the world when he met that woman on his first solar day of residency because he was on the wrong floor to sign in, and she had to show him where to get. He may have looked like an idiot, but he met the love of his life.
It all evens out in the end.
Or so he hopes. He hasn't quite found that yet, but there'due south always that trivial glimmer of light telling him that.
Afterwards all, he hasn't been struck out quite yet. Then against, it'south been a good while since he was at bat.
The fact that he's making baseball game puns in his head about his failed relationships is deeply disturbing to him, and he can't quite believe that he's sunk to this level. At least he's not thinking about the game.
Oh shit. He's thinking about the game.
Advisedly getting down from the counter, he turns his music on, letting Queen play through the speakers hooked up all throughout his apartment, and gets back to whipping the icing for his java cake, figuring that if he focuses on one job at a time, today won't seem so impossibly long.
And it's true. He spends his morning working on his cakes, frosting them and putting them away in containers to accept to the fields so that he tin can put one in the direction's office and give another to the ladies who cater for them, knowing that they like them. He's certain that since he's non giving them to Liam and Elsa, they'll actually ask for them this time, merely that'due south only a risk that he'southward going to have to accept.
He'll have until Midweek to play again, then it's not like he won't accept the time to bake some more.
Or pick up another hobby. That's even so a possibility. He should really tackle the stack of books that he has on the shelf in his guest sleeping accommodation.
After he puts the cakes in his refrigerator, he walks downwardly the hallway to his bedroom and picks up the basket of laundry that he done last night and starts folding them, putting away his do shirts in 1 pile, his generic conditioning shirts in another, and hanging his button-downs and henleys in his closet, adjusting a pair of his loafers on their shelf. He doesn't always recall that his apartment is that much of a bachelor pad, but sometimes it hits him how much it is, even if he has more than than ane chamber. He's got plenty of color, even if it'south mostly blues and greens and chocolate-brown leather with white comforters and pillows. Decorating has never been his thing. Growing up, they didn't have a lot of decorations, even if his mom's paintings were on a lot of their walls, and when he was in college, his dorm room was legitimately merely a bed with a checkered blue comforter and two pillows, admittedly nothing on the walls.
The elevation of habitation décor.
The only reason his place looks nice today is because Elsa'south sister, Anna, is an interior designer, saw his apartment one time, and so forced him to become shopping with her the very side by side day. He swears she tried to max out his credit carte on throw pillows. He'll never understand why anyone needs so many but to each their own.
She did pick out several fantastic blankets, though. He nigh definitely brings i with him on road trips because information technology'due south that damn comfortable.
He should probably purchase another one.
Ariel: Your segment is ambulation at iii PM on ESPN. It's 30 minutes.
Ariel: Practise you want to watch it in the clubhouse, or should I attempt to commandeer a private room for just you and me to picket it in?
Shit.
He virtually forgot well-nigh his segment. How the hell could he forget well-nigh that? He spent an entire day existence filmed for information technology, a day talking to Emma Swan and letting her inquire questions near his private life for him to answer and exist aired. She never got to invasive, never asked for anything he would hate to be aired, and since he knows Emma Swan and the integrity that she shows every time she reports, he permit Ariel corroborate the segment without him watching it.
That was probably not his brightest idea.
His teammates are going to requite him hell.
They already do, peculiarly when it comes to anything having to do with Emma or any daughter that he'due south seen with, and he already knows that every single one of them is going to be watching in the clubhouse if they're not at batting practice or warming up for the game.
God, he hopes they're all warming upwardly for the game.
He needs to text Will and make sure that he'due south prepare to warm upward with him later, see if he can go Eric to hitting a few balls off of him, permit him actually pitch to a batter today before the game starts.
So much to do, so lilliputian time even though he feels equally if fourth dimension could stretch out forever.
He takes a shower, washing his torso downwardly, before getting out and cleaning upwardly his scruff, dressing in his warm up clothes and moving to the kitchen to eat the chicken and spinach he already had cooked and packed away into a container, before grabbing his keys and taking the lift downward to the parking garage, loading up into his automobile and beginning his bulldoze through the city to the stadium.
Sometimes he thinks near moving closer, about being closer to work and then that he's not constantly in a machine or on the train, but he likes his apartment. It's a skilful location in the urban center, only three blocks from Central Park, and honestly, he doesn't heed the drive out to the stadium. Sometimes he even takes the train, wanting to blend in with the crowd and be normal, even if it means seeing some pretty interesting things that he swears would never happen anywhere else in the world. That'due south probably what he should have done today with his headphones and music drowning him out from the globe, but instead he'southward sitting in traffic and niggling his thumbs, wishing that he could stretch out his legs as he runs over several plays in his caput.
Volition is going to signal him tonight. He doesn't need to do that. He knows want to do, how to do this. He'southward been doing it for his entire life, even if he did once play commencement base instead of being a pitcher.
Merely that's all upwards to dear old dad, and his commanding and overbearing tendencies.
No. He volition not go downwards that road today.
Today is a good twenty-four hour period.
And he's got Addy and Lucy wearing his number as they go to schoolhouse because they're proud of him. What more than could he possibly inquire for out of life? Those girls are the best, and he wants to brand them proud. Liam and Elsa too.
His mom likewise.
He finally gets to the stadium and pulls into the private parking deck, flashing his ID and parking before going through the tunnels to get to the locker room so that he tin do a few stretches and meet with Archie to massage his shoulder while he'due south watching the segment. He'll probably be the most stressed so, and at to the lowest degree that way it can exist in private.
Damn. He forgot the cakes at his apartment. How did he practice that? He literally looked in the fridge right before he left.
"Jones," Robin calls out, his mini me post-obit right backside him with his mop of curly hair. "I have been reliably told that your biggest fan is here."
"My biggest fan?" he laughs. "Would that be a immature chief Locksley? I thought his dad was his favorite thespian?"
"He's not starting, then information technology's you," Roland laughs, running forward and wrapping his arms around his legs, nearly tugging his joggers down. "It'll be Dad tomorrow."
"Well okay so." He squats downwardly to hug Roland, ruffling his hair, earlier standing back up.
"Expert to know that your old man will exist your favorite player tomorrow. He might exist mine too."
"What about me?" Will questions, walking through the doors from the locker room, his shirt rolled up to wipe sweat from his brow. "I thought I was always your favorite."
"You're all my favorite," Roland huffs, his nose scrunching upwardly in conversation as he obviously gets frustrated. "Dad is making me go dorsum to schoolhouse, then I don't like him right now."
"Why aren't you in school, kid?"
"Dentist appointment." He flashes his teeth. "I didn't have any cavities."
"Practiced job." Killian holds out his mitt, and gives him a loftier 5. "Will? Yous want to let me practise a few pitches around iv?"
"After your girlfriend'due south segment? Sure."
"Not my girlfriend."
"That'south because she said no."
"Equally she had every right to."
Will shakes his caput from side to side, brushing his hands over the slight fuzz that resides on his head. "Mind, I'm only maxim. You took your shot, and she shot you lot down. It was epic."
"I'm going to peg you with a ball this night."
"Muddy."
"There is a 6-twelvemonth-old in the room," Robin sing-songs, placing his easily over Roland's ears. "Roland, say goodbye to your crazy favorite players. You're going to accept your spelling test."
"Adieu," Roland waves, a cheesy little, non-crenel filled grinning on his face. "I'm going to eat a hot canis familiaris this evening."
"I feel similar there'southward another dingy joke in at that place," Volition laughs, and everyone cuts their eyes at him, the lovable idiot. "What? Hot dogs are disgusting. That was the muddied joke."
Okay, maybe but an idiot.
Everyone goes about their business as they warm up for tonight's game. He runs for xxx minutes, a slow and steady step, just to loosen up his muscles and make him feel like he'due south washed something today, before coming together Archie and having his shoulder massaged. He couldn't run across at 3, and then Killian has to take it done with everyone else in the therapy room, earlier he does a few stretches with bands. He's always worried about how information technology will experience, especially after a few pitches, only he knows that Al will simply keep him in the game through the fifth inning today. It won't be like the Series where he pitched nearly the whole damn game.
He still can't believe that he did that.
Liam: I had a patient today who was aimlessly checking all of the channels to make sure the game was on this evening. I asked him if he'south a fan. He is…of the Orioles.
Killian: Oof. Way to boost my spirits.
Liam: I endeavor. See you lot tonight. Are you going to come up watch from the box when you're finished?
Killian: Every bit long as the game isn't over earlier I stop my cool down, yeah.
Liam: Good.
He's just most to put his phone dorsum in his pocket when information technology dings again, Ariel'due south proper noun popping up.
Ariel: Al is letting us utilize his office. Come on up. I want you lot to await at your graphics for Instagram for tonight too.
Killian pockets his telephone and so, and walks through the doors to become to the offices, winding in and out of offices total of all of the authoritative staff that piece of work hither, until he gets to Al's part, a place he has been far as well many times. He might as well pitch a tent and live in it, honestly. For as much tape equally he watches and equally much research he does into statistics, null compares to their manager.
Nothing.
"Hey," he greets as he walks into the room, only Ariel sitting in there typing away on her laptop.
"Hey, requite me a minute, okay?"
"What are you doing?"
"Killian."
"Seriously."
"Y'all're then annoying."
"Hey, you can't insult me in the same means that I insult you." He plops downward onto Al's old, cracked leather burrow, nudging his shoulder into Ariel'south. Sometimes he thinks that they're likewise close, but and then again, he'southward not going to complain about having someone in his life like Ariel. He often doesn't know what he'd do without her. "I still don't know how you residuum things when your married man is playing tonight, and you're stuck dealing with me all day."
"I'grand a very talented lady." She types a few more things into her email, signing information technology off, before switching files to a video that's paused on a even so of he and Emma walking down a hallway in the training facility in Tampa. His hair is far too long in it. It's a adept affair he got information technology cut. "So, I've been thinking."
"Always a rough affair."
"You're actually telling horrible jokes today."
He winks, and she bites her lesser lip, probably trying to resist calling him a jackass.
"Anyways, I've been thinking that, for today, we post this promo video for the interview. Then once it's aired, I'll link the video in your story. Just that'south all pretty business-similar, and I don't want you lot to seem to stilted so I – "
"Do you ever think we worry too much nearly my social media presence?" he ponders, leaning back on the couch and stretching his hands above his head, cradling his head in his easily.
"Aren't I really just here to play baseball game?"
"Yes, but it goes across that, knucklehead." She taps his caput, virtually like he's a small child, and he tin't assistance but chuckle. "You're a public effigy whether you like that or not, and and then you do take to do things like this. Anyways, tonight, we'll either go a game photo or you can post a individual one that's more personal."
"Whatsoever you desire.
"And I balance you and Eric because I love yous both, and it's something I want to do. And he'due south not quite as difficult to manage as yous are."
"Delight," he scoffs, "that's not truthful."
"It is. Eric listens to me more than."
"Well, he does have more to lose."
"I'm non even going to comment on that."
She reaches over and picks up the remote off of Al's desk, pressing a button before the black screen comes to life, Emma Swan sitting behind a desk the very first matter that he sees. She's got her hair pulled back into a ponytail, and she's dressed in a fitted navy and white striped shirt tucked into either a pair of pants or a skirt. He can't tell. Maybe he'll see her tonight.
Does he want to see her tonight?
Why would he desire to run into her tonight?
There'southward absolutely no style that he still fancies her, none at all, and equally much equally they get on, he wants to be nothing only professional with her. He doesn't want to make her life any harder than he already has past existence an idiot.
He watches as she introduces the segment, her easily moving all over the place now that she doesn't have a microphone in her manus, and earlier he knows it, the screen is transitioning into a video of him practicing his pitching, Volition continuing behind home plate catching each ball before throwing them dorsum. It'due south something he'due south seen beginning-hand a thousand times, but then it changes to shots of Steinbrenner, both interior and exterior, before showing him talking with Emma. It's…unproblematic. That'due south the but word he tin can think to depict information technology. It'due south uncomplicated but straightforward, and he freaking loves it. There is no glossing things upwardly, no trying to create an angle where there isn't one. It's merely the 2 of them talking similar information technology was on that day.
It'due south refreshing in every single manner.
He's grown used to reading magazine articles and gossip site clickbait all virtually how he tin can't seem to date a woman for more than one night and how he'south playing too much off the field than on information technology.
Seriously, there was an article championship like that one time, and he wasn't sure whether to laugh or to throw a baseball at every single so-called reporter's confront who spent all of their fourth dimension taking pictures of him in a private chapters to post it publicly. And he gets it. he went through a phase where he was going to too many confined, where he was casually dating a little loosely, just he was heartbroken and trying to compensate for all of that. His personal life was in actual shambles, but it didn't touch on his game. He wasn't playing corking, but he wasn't necessarily playing horribly either.
At present it'southward been four years since he was so much equally pictured with another woman, and yet people still try to paint him in some kind of negative light.
Not Emma Swan even though she had every right to from his spiral upwardly.
A jiff of fresh air.
That'south what all of this is.
"Your pilus is as well long in that location," Ariel points out. "Information technology's doing that little flippy thing."
"I got information technology cutting."
"I know. I'm just pointing it out."
"You're like the older sister I never had, A."
"I am i month older than you, asshole."
"And yet born in an entirely different year."
Ariel huffs and crosses her arms over her breast, rolling her optics earlier propping her anxiety up on Al'due south desk, the heels of her boots clicking against the forest. "If only you were as charming in existent life as you are in this segment."
"First you lot say my hair is too long, equally if I'k not devilishly handsome no matter how my pilus looks, and now you're saying I'm not charming? You wound me, darling."
"I try."
He reaches down for his water canteen, taking several large sips as he watches he and Emma talk near the craziest fan encounter he's ever had, which probably isn't the craziest just is still pretty damn funny. She's laughing at him, or at the story really, and it's kind of overnice to encounter that she perchance didn't totally detest him before they went into this, especially since he didn't get a hazard to repent until they were eating tiffin and her cameraman went to the restroom. He'southward pretty certain she accepted it, that she may have forgiven him for that, and equally long as he doesn't put his human foot in his mouth again, they should be good.
To think that this is the one member of the media who he cares about, and he's the one who screwed her over.
That is not something he needs to continue harping on and focusing on. He has to motion on from information technology.
When the segment is over, he reaches to plough the tv set off, merely then they cut back to ESPN's studio with Emma withal sitting behind the desk with Sydney Glass, who is near definitely not his favorite person in the earth. He'due south always telling Killian that he should retire whatever fourth dimension he pitches a poor game.
It'southward a flake (a lot) ridiculous.
"Well, that was certainly something," Sydney says, spinning in his chair to look at Emma.
Her jaw clenches earlier she relaxes, and he imagines that she doesn't like him much either.
"He's certainly something of a role player."
"Yous would say that."
"Pardon?"
"You would say that," he repeats, tapping his fingers confronting the desk. "After all, he did ask y'all out on a date? Did you ever become on it? I don't see how someone similar y'all could laissez passer that up."
"Bloody hell," Killian grumbles, sinking down on the couch before running his paw over his face, pinching the bridge of his nose. "What a jackass."
"I told him no," Emma says, a very apparently forced grinning on her face as she tries to keep things jovial, "so, no, I did non go on a engagement with him. And, actually, the only appointment that Killian Jones is concerned with is his appointment with the mound this evening, so let's go ahead and preview this evening's game."
He turns the tv off so, non caring to encounter anymore, and runs his easily through his hair, making it stick up equally Ariel pats his back.
"Did yous apologize to her?"
"Aye, Mom, I apologized, but her life is apparently never going to go back to normal as long as she'southward associated with me. I still can't believe I did that. What'due south incorrect with me?"
"That's a loaded question."
He chuckles and leans back into the couch before standing upwards, adjusting his joggers. "Well, since I certainly don't have time to get into that right now, I think it'southward probably time that I went and did my job, don't you recall?"
"I don't go paid if you don't."
"Ah, now I know why you want me to be successful."
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Information technology's the top of the 5th, and the sunday is setting over the stadium every bit sweat drips downwards his brow and his dorsum, his shirt soaked from the unseasonable humidity of the day and of the city. It'south almost like they're back in Florida grooming, and he'd think that information technology would brand him comfy to throw like he was during all of the practice games.
It does non.
He's miserable out hither, his body aching, and he desperately wants to get inside and absurd downward.
This is non at all how Opening Day is supposed to be, and he knows that it's all chalked upward to his fretfulness and zip else. The weather isn't great, merely he'south been getting in his own mind all night.
The fact that they're upwards 5-1 doesn't seem to stick in his listen.
"Become it together, Jones," he murmurs under his jiff as he looks to Will to see what betoken he's giving.
God, he hopes they don't choice that up on the camera.
He nods his caput, gets his trunk into position, and throws.
A swing and a miss.
Strike three. He'due south out.
And the inning is over, everyone running dorsum into the dugout. He gets a few claps on the back, a few more on his ass, and he sits down on the bench, reaching down to pick upward his Gatorade bottle but for Al to look at him with a raised brow.
"You telling me I'one thousand washed for the nighttime?"
"You look like you've been done for the night since you got out there."
He nods his head, taking a long sip of his drink and letting it cool him down, before twisting the summit dorsum on and continuing up and patting Volition on the shoulder.
"I'll be in a better mood next time."
Al nods his caput, a firm grin on his face. He'southward ordinarily a much more pleasant guy, someone they all desire to be around, but sometimes during games, he won't look happy no matter what happens. So again, his job relies on a bunch of overgrown teenage adults playing a game well, then he'due south probably a niggling tense.
Before he leaves the stadium, he sees Eric hit a foul ball, the ding of information technology ringing through the stadium, only then he'southward walking through the dugout door and walking through the tunnels that lead him back to the locker room. It's empty, not a soul to be seen, and he pushes through the doors to go to the gym, hopping on a bike and riding information technology for fifteen minutes while he watches the game on i of their television screens. They have tonight in the bag, he thinks, but information technology could depend on how Roseman closes things out, if he even closes things out.
He will. It'll be fine.
Killian runs through the residue of his routine, doing a few stretches for his shoulder before heading to the showers, washing the dirt and grime off of him every bit he hums to himself. The shower makes him feel better than he did the unabridged time he was out on the field.
"Jones," Archie calls out equally Killian wraps a towel effectually his waist. "Are you planning on ever coming to see me?"
"Don't be then desperate, Arch," he teases, picking up his uniform and carrying it out of the room to place in his locker so that it'll be washed. "I was just nearly to come past. I don't think I need much more than a quick massage, though. I felt bad, but my shoulder doesn't."
"Are y'all lying to me?"
"Nope. I'd tell you if I was pain, wouldn't I?"
Archie crosses his arms over his chest, his sweater tugging at him. He looks more like a fifth-form teacher than a physical therapist, but the man has magic hands. Magic.
"Like y'all tell the rest of your teammates?"
His breadbasket drops, but he ignores information technology. "I tell you, and no ane else needs to know."
Archie's jaw clenches. "Permit'southward get you on the table. I bet your family is waiting for yous upwardly in the suite."
They are, and as shortly equally Archie finishes massaging his shoulder and this niggling place in his calf, he takes the elevator up to the private suites, having to laissez passer through the printing hallway on his manner there. The inside of this stadium can be like a maze, but he's got a skilful grip on it.
And so he sees Emma Swan walking down the hallway with a giant soft pretzel in her hand, a large chunk of it in her rima oris. She's wearing the same thing that she was wearing before, but he can at present see that she has on wide-legged pants instead of the skirt he thought she had on and that there are heels peeking out underneath them. She doesn't meet him however as she's staring downwardly at her phone, just then she looks upward and he swears she nearly spits out the pretzel in her mouth.
Always the reaction you lot want to see from a woman.
"Whatthefuck," she mumbles, all of her words blending together as he sees her furiously chew.
He has never been more overjoyed by her.
"Is it pretzel day then, Swan?" he questions, fidgeting with the hem of his t-shirt.
She covers her mouth with her hand, the one belongings the pretzel, but he all the same sees the blush rise on her cheeks. "Was that an Office reference?"
"Of grade. Pretzel day is the best day. I like pretzel twenty-four hour period."
"Obviously." She puts her manus downward as she stuffs her telephone into the waistband of her pants. Information technology's then that he realizes she doesn't have any pockets. Why practice women's clothes never accept pockets? "Why did you look similar you hated life out there?"
Ah, shit. He really must accept looked miserable if others besides Al are noticing. He thought he at to the lowest degree faked it for the crowd. Reaching up to scratch behind his ear, he hums, "Because it's humid? And peradventure I actually hated a segment that aired about me earlier today."
"Oh. I didn't – I thought…"
He reaches forward to bear upon her arm, squeezing every bit he smiles downwardly at her. "I'k kidding, Swan. It was not bad. All of my interviews are going to have to be done by yous or something considering I don't think I've ever been then charming."
Emma scoffs, the slightest smiling forming on her face. "You lot wouldn't believe the amount of editing that went into making that happen."
"So none at all?"
She slaps against his arm. "You go along thinking that, Jones. I've got to become back out to my seat. Not all of us end our jobs halfway through the game."
"Is that a jab at my position, honey?"
"Almost definitely," she winks. "I've always preferred third base. It's much more than fun."
She walks away and then, taking some other bite of her pretzel, and he's left standing there trying to figure out if Emma Swan was but flirting with him. There'south no fashion, absolutely none. If anything, he's pretty certain that she still hates him, but who knows? He certainly doesn't, and with what he saw her have to deal with on TV today, he wouldn't bet on her flirting with him.
When he finally gets through the media corridor and into the individual suites, he speedily opens the one where his family always stays, and he'south greeted by his brother who is biting into a slider in the kitchen.
"You looked like shit out there," he mumbles.
"Funny. You look like shit all the fourth dimension."
"It'due south a gift." Liam steps forward and wraps him up in a hug, patting his back. "Yous experience okay, Killian? Your shoulder?"
"I'm fine. I promise."
"And that blush on your cheeks – what is that from?"
"You lot're getting old. I recollect that eyesight is going if y'all call back in that location'due south chroma on my cheeks."
He hums, pulling back from the hug and placing his hands on Killian's shoulders as Liam's eyes browse over his face. "You wouldn't accept happened to run into a pretty blonde out in the hallway, there?"
"Encarmine hell, do yous accept optics everywhere?"
"Blind ones apparently. But nah, Ariel was in the Fox booth, and she saw the two of y'all talking. That was some piece that she made about you. I watched it with one of my patients today."
"The Orioles one?"
"Nope, this woman was on the correct side. She thinks you two make a beautiful couple."
Killian groans, pinching the bridge of his nose again. This is going to be his legacy. Information technology actually is. It doesn't affair how well he plays or what good he does in the community. Request a woman out on TV is going to exist his legacy.
It's starting to move up his list on the dumbest decisions ever fabricated.
"Shut upward, you idiot. I want to go see my nieces."
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