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POV: Dual, Khyle and Gunner

The first period was a disaster before it started.

Khyle knew this the way you knew weather, not from a single indicator but from the accumulated evidence of everything at once. The specific quality of the Hollows coming off the bench. The way their first line hit the ice with the focused energy of a team that had been told something specific in their locker room and had decided to implement it immediately. The way Kyle Irons went into the boards thirty seconds in an
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    POV: Dual, Khyle and GunnerHe lifted the key fob and hit the button, and his car chirped back at them, the sound echoing off the cement walls of the structure around them, confusing the senses. Gunner, though, turned his head toward the sound. But his expression quickly became annoyed, like he was thoroughly stuck on a crossword puzzle."Where's your jalopy?" he frowned. Khyle felt his eye twitch, but the typical slight against his car was forgotten in the next instant, and he nodded toward the space ahead, feeling a small upward pull on the side of his sore lip."You're standing in front of it."Gunner seemed to take a moment to process where he was supposed to be looking. Khyle pressed another button, and an engine fired up. Blue eyes widened, first in surprise, then amazement. Not that the car in front of him was the most expensive thing on the road. But it was admittedly as nice as his own. Better maybe. Except that this one apparently belonged to Santos."Get outta here!" he bar

  • Pucking Around with Fate   PMS

    POV: Dual, Khyle and GunnerKhyle winced, grimacing as well when Gunner scuffed his hair and slung a heavy arm around his shoulders, practically dragging him into a walk. They weren't going running today. Khyle had declared a day off. Besides, he knew Gunner would have worked out already. He was aware of his habits, and he knew the man was anal about keeping himself up to par, and then some.Instead, he had some stuff to drop off at the local animal shelter, worn blankets from his dad's clinic, things of that nature. Gunner had, almost too agreeably, been all in on Khyle's morning plans. He'd said he had a few old towels to add to the donation pile, even though the ones in his hand looked suspiciously brand new.Khyle scowled back at him. Everything from his own general discomfort to Gunner's many faces, it was all throwing him off his determined stride and into a willful state of petulance he couldn't seem to reel back in."What's that supposed to mean?" he shot back. "You think I lo

  • Pucking Around with Fate   War Wounds

    POV: GunnerThe skin of Khyle's lip was warm and soft.He only wanted to see what damage Khyle had done to himself last night. And before he knew what had possessed him, he'd reached out and taken Khyle's chin in his hand. It was nothing, really. They were a physical bunch, and close contact with another guy on the team was as normal as taking a piss, nothing at all, but.As soon as he felt that hot skin burning under his fingertips, sinking into his palm, he felt something about himself letting go. Maybe it started before that. He wasn't sure. But Gunner's eyes slit in concentration, and almost like an afterthought, he felt himself slipping somewhere.Until he felt the vibration run through his fingers when those lips moved.Distantly, he heard a low voice. And he blinked slowly as if waking from a fog dream.It sounded vaguely annoyed. That was never a good sign."You know, some people just ask."The world suddenly got brighter, the late-morning sun breaking through the clouds above

  • Pucking Around with Fate   His Mark

    POV: Dual, Khyle and Gunner"Yo, Santos. For such a pretty boy, you took that stick to the face like a boss."The thin January air curled like cold steel around their breath on this Canadian-est of days. The storm had dragged a cold snap in its wake. A large man, his appearance smooth and controlled, an unlikely contrast to his feral and often savage nature, moved toward a deceptively leaner but equally tempered and eruptive male as the two took stock of each other for the first time in what felt like weeks.In reality, it had been little more than a day and a half.Pretty boy raised an irritated eyebrow before the flesh between his rich brown eyes rumpled into the deeper version of his trademark scowl. He choked on a nameless sound and took in cold air as he opened his mouth, at first intent on coming up with something as deeply scathing as pretty boy. Something Gunner could suck on.But last night's texting debacle was on the shortlist in his mind. And regardless of Gunner's stupid

  • Pucking Around with Fate   His Mark

    POV: Dual, Khyle and Gunner"Yo, Santos. For such a pretty boy, you took that stick to the face like a boss."The thin January air curled like cold steel around their breath on this Canadian-est of days. The storm had dragged a cold snap in its wake. A large man, his appearance smooth and controlled, an unlikely contrast to his feral and often savage nature, moved toward a deceptively leaner but equally tempered and eruptive male as the two took stock of each other for the first time in what felt like weeks.In reality, it had been little more than a day and a half.Pretty boy raised an irritated eyebrow before the flesh between his rich brown eyes rumpled into the deeper version of his trademark scowl. He choked on a nameless sound and took in cold air as he opened his mouth, at first intent on coming up with something as deeply scathing as pretty boy. Something Gunner could suck on.But last night's texting debacle was on the shortlist in his mind. And regardless of Gunner's stupid

  • Pucking Around with Fate   Something

    POV: KhyleNow, there were moments in a young man's life, such as Khyle's, where he felt he had a relative handle on things. Like the good ones, where he passed a test, nailed an interview, made the team, or even had a deep nod of respect from his crazy father.Or the great ones, where he fixed his little sister's bike and then watched her pedal off down the road like she was driving a brand new Ferrari.And then there were those other more disturbing occasions, the ones where his world promptly did an awkward sideways turn. And Khyle was left wondering just one thing. What the hell had just happened? No, really.He'd made a serious decision last night. Several in fact. First and foremost, the whole feelings for someone who could never reciprocate thing was wearing thin fast. That infuriating enforcer slash man-child addiction needed to go. Khyle had to get his head out of the clouds and back into the game. That was a given. Allowing Gunner Jäger to get under his skin as easily as he c

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    POV: Dual, Khyle and GunnerThe second best part of the day so far was that Gunner's fears of being mobbed by pre and post-pubescent demon spawn had been mostly unfounded.Turned out, kids playing video games couldn't be distracted by anything less than a nuclear bomb, or another more exciting vide

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    POV: Dual, Khyle and GunnerNearly two hours later Gunner was slamming the button home, taking Khyle out with head shot after head shot in the fiercest first person shooter game they'd played yet.They had started out on the same team, playing against the computer, but oddly it had quickly devolved

  • Pucking Around with Fate   He Was In Hell

    POV: GunnerHe suddenly wondered what Khyle's hair would look like wet. Would it ever go down completely? It was always scuffled into disarray when he came out of the showers at work. But what about when he was in them? He should have known that by now, but except for checking out his bruised post-

  • Pucking Around with Fate   Stagnant

    POV: Dual, Khyle and GunnerGunner watched with a morose sense of foreboding as the dark blades made another long sweep across the broad windshield of his car.The rubber wipers combined with the heat blasting inside the car were clearing away flakes that were melting almost before they landed. And

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