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The remaining girls in Denver are waiting for their private plane for their flight to Tennessee to board, mere seconds later a flight attendant comes into the room where they’re all waiting and the lady says “Ladies your flight is ready to board” and Christen gets a sinking feeling in her stomach but pushes it off and grabs Tobins hand. They all walk out with their suitcases and hand them to the person packing the bags. All the girls text their families that they’re about to take off and that they will see them soon.

Moments pass and the captain comes back and gives the girls the safety talk and then goes to the cockpit and begins the take off process. The girls just chat and watch out the window as the world passes them by as they take off. Once they're in the air the tv’s come on and all the girls take advantage of that. Ashlyn just has a bad feeling in her gut so she doesn’t undo her seatbelt and Megan notices this and asks “Babe, are you okay, you know you can take off your seatbelt” as she goes to undo hers Ashlyn stops her and looks at her. Megan swears Ash looks like she's going to cry. So Megan brings her hands away from the belt and just holds onto Ash’s hand to try and put her at ease. The rest of the girls are okay. Becky and Alyssa and watching a movie they’ve never seen. Tobin and Christen are napping, and Alex and Kelley are talking about random stuff.

2 hours into their 3 hour journey the captain comes over the intercom and says “Ladies we will be experiencing some turbulence as of now so i please ask you to put your seatbelts on. All the girls quickly put the seatbelts on and go back to their activities but they are not more aware. Once the turbulence starts the girls know that something is wrong, they can hear talking up in the cockpit and soon they feel the plane start to go down. That’s when they all hear “BRACE FOR IMPACT” and everything goes black.

Tobin comes back to reality by someone screaming and Alex calling out to her, “TOBIN, TOBIN WAKE UP” and Tobin sits up slowly saying “What happened Alex” and Alex says with a wavering voice “We were in a crash Tobin and we have no cell service” and that’s when Tobin’s panic sets in “Where’s Christen?” and Alex says “I don’t know, I can only find Becky and she’s screaming” Tobin looks up and sees Becky writhing in pain, Tobin tries to stand up and is met with only pain and blood on her shirt. She walks a little on her ankle and finds a stick to use as a crutch. Tobin walks over to Alex and they both walk over to Becky and sees that her hip is clearly out of its place. Alex crouches down to help Becky sit up against the door of the plane that is conveniently right there and they leave her and see Megan still buckled into her seat and they wonder how her seatbelt stayed and no one else’s did. They shrug it off and try waking her up. Slowly but surely Megan wakes up and is confused but her hand goes straight for the back of her neck and Alex looks at the back of her neck and sees no obvious injuries and Tobin goes to help her unbuckle and they see that it’s jammed and that’s why so didn’t fly out like the rest of them.

They finally get Megan’s seatbelt undone and they start searching for the other girls. Tobin hobbles over to the wing of the plane and looks around it and she sees a foot peeking out and she walks around to see Alyssa unconscious with her leg under the wing of the plane. Tobin calls out to Megan and Alex and they come over as Alyssa comes to and she’s very quick to cry out in pain. So the girls try and lift the wing off of Alyssa’s leg and they are successful but only a little bit. Apparently that helped Lyssa’s pain because she calmed down slightly. They’d need Ashlyn to carry Becky over to Alyssa. If only they knew where Ashlyn was. So they settle on dragging Becky over to Alyssa which results in a lot of pai for all parties involved. Eventually they get Becky to Alyssa and they sit Becky up on the part of the wing that wouldn’t cause Alyssa pain and they both grab each other's hands and smile at each other. That cues the other girls to go find their significant others. If they only knew where to look…

Megan walks slowly to the beginning of the brush and sees a hobbling figure and it’s getting closer and she says “Who are you” as loud as she could with what she suspected were broken ribs and the person yells weakly back “CHRISTEN” and Tobin looks over and comes to Megan and walks as fast as she can over to Christen and they embrace is a soft hug. Alex and Megan look at each other and hug softly too, just wanting either Ash or Kelley.

Ash comes to and sees Kelley with a stick in her foot and she was screaming and she couldn’t see the rest of the plane. Ash gets up and goes over to a screaming Kelley and just picks her up, even though it kills her wrist and starts to walk in a direction, hoping it was right. As Ash walked her Ankle was slightly throbbing and Kelley was no longer screaming which was nice. She heard a distinct yell of “CHRISTEN” and put Kelley down and looked around and she saw smoke coming from somewhere in the distance and she also saw a flash of lilac and knew it was her lilac haired girlfriend and she picked up Kelley and started walking towards the smoke.

Tobin finally lets Christen go and looks her over and sees that her shoulder is hanging down and that seems to be her only major injury. Tobin opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out. So Christen says “I’m glad I found you all, I wasn’t sure I was following the right path” and Tobin just gives Christen a dopey grin and they walk together to the makeshift camp they've set up by Alyssa and Becky. Tobin gets Christen situated with a makeshift sling and they look over long enough to see Alex and Megan take off running towards only god knows what.

Alex and Megan were staring into the distance when Alex sees a flash of bright orange and remembers that Kelley is wearing her bright orange hat and takes off running and out of panic Megan follows her, not wanting to be alone any longer. Megan almost stops when she sees what they are running at but doesn’t only because she wants Ash’s protective arms around her. After a few more seconds of running the Alex and Megan reach their lovers and Ash sets Kelley down carefully and goes over to a now crying Megan and just hugs her. Megan winces when Ash first hugs her which makes Ash pull away and Megan looks up at Ash and says “My ribs might be broken and I have some pretty bad whiplash” Ash thinks back and remembers that she didn’t let Megan take her seatbelt off. She looks at Megan and Megan says “It was jammed, I wasn’t going anywhere” Ash just hugs Megan again, but much softer this time.

Alex leans down and brings Kelley into her arms and they hug. After a few moments of just holding each other Kelley says “Al, there’s something in my foot” and Alex looks down and as Kelley said. There was a stick in her foot, Alex started to cry and hugged her girlfriend again whispering that she was sorry that she couldn’t protect her from this. Kelley shushes her by kissing her and says “take me back to the plane so we can be more comfortable” Alex just nods and picks Kelley up and looks over and Megan and Ash and says “ We should get back to check on the others” and they nod and the four head back for “camp”.

The four make it back to camp and they go over to Christen, Tobin, Alyssa, and Becky and Alex sets Kelley down beside Christen leaning against the wing. “Ash says “Where’s Lyss” and Ash hears the small voice come from the ground and she gasps as she sees Alyssa’s leg being crushed by the plane. Ash speaks again “We have to get her out of there” and Tobin says “We’ve already tried Ash, it’s too heavy, and Christen and Becky can’t help and neither can Kelley, we’d really only be adding you” and Ash looks at the ground and says “It’s worth a shot” and they slowly move Becky and Kelley and Christen and they lift the with and Alyssa shifts away from where the wing held her captive and she gets away from it and the girls slowly drop it to the ground and rush to Alyssa who is now crying in agony.

Alyssa calms down and they slowly migrate over to the body of the plane and they get the girls in seats, bit not the same one’s they were sitting in earlier and they open up the cabinets and notice blankets and flashlights and matches and water and snacks. Alex and Megan grab all the stuff and then open another once to reveal more blankets and water. The third cabinet held a first aid kit. The fourth held more food. The fifth held a phone and Megan picked it up and dialed the number on the phone and someone picks up “Hello Denver airport, how can I direct your call” and Megan says “hello, my name is Megan Rapinoe and we've been in a crash” Megan swears she heard the woman drop her pen and then she quickly says “don’t hang up, we’re tracking the phones location, what are the injuries?” Megan says “No crew is with us anymore but all passengers are alive and injured, one has a dislocated hip and another a shoulder and one was stuck under the wing, please hurry!!” and the woman says “It’s going to be okay Megan, I know where you are now, people are coming to get you, If this phone rings, please answer it” and Megan says “okay do i hang up now” and the woman says yes and Megan hangs up the phone and smiles at Alex and says “Someone’s coming for us”.

Alex and Megan hug and they bring the stuff to the other girls and do the basic first aid that they know and divide up the blankets, lucky there’s enough for everyone. Megan finally sits down with Ash and leans into Ash’s chest and Ashlyn covers them up and for the first time in the last few hours Megan feels at peace. Alyssa on the other hand is freaking out that her career is over and looks at Becky who is laying beside her on the airplane floor and says “is my career over” and Becky shakes her head no, then Becky asks “is mine over” and Alyssa shakes her head no and they grab each other’s hands and just talk about anything else but what’s going on. Tobin and Christen and just staring into each other’s eyes like a newly married couple on their honeymoon, no talking or crying, just staring. Alex and Kelley are talking as well about absolutely nothing important. Suddenly Alex brings up babies and they start talking about a family.

Hours pass and the sun has set and rose and they hear helicopters landing outside. So Alex and Megan get up and see a bunch of medical personnel get out and come over to them and ask them questions and slowly Megan goes over to Ash, and Alex goes to Kelley. The people come in and take one couple at a time. Ashlyn, Megan, Kelley, Alex in one helicopter and Tobin, Christen, Alyssa, Becky in the other. They slowly take off and safely make it to Tennessee and to a hospital there. The second helicopter circles around the city a little bit while the first one unloads and soon the first one takes off so the second one lands on the helipad and the girls are taken in one by one in the hospital.

Becky wakes up to the sound of beeping and looks over to see Alyssa sleeping peacefully in the bed next to her and tries to reach out to her and she hears a voice “Hey Becky, it’s Julie can you hear me” and Becky nods and Julie says “she’s okay, they gave her a sedative because she was freaking out that you weren’t awake after your surgery so they had to put her out” and Becky nods and looks at Julie who looks like she hadn’t slept for 3 days and Becky reaches a hand to Julie who grabs it and says “It’s gonna be okay now Jules, it has to be” Julie nods not knowing what to say to her best friend.

Kelley instantly feels that her foot is no longer the heaviest limb on her body and looks down and wiggles her toes, just to make sure. Bad idea, it hurt a lot and Kelley hears a voice “Now why would you do that” and she looks over and Alex has a bandage on her head and a bandage on her nose. Kelley reaches for Alex and is gifted with Alex’s hand and smiles and says “I had a stick in my boot” in a horrible western accent. Which makes Alex and Kelley laugh, they’re interrupted with a voice that makes them remember that they are safe “Good to know kell will still be making her jokes” and Allie smiles at them and all feels okay again.

Ashlyn wakes up, looks over to her right immediately and sees Megan looking back at her. Ash smiles at Megan and she smiles back and says “I missed you while you slept babe” and Ash says “I missed you while i slept baby” and they hear a voice that drags them from each other’s loving gaze, “good to know that you two will still be just as sappy” and they both giggle a little at Syd’s words and they go back to staring into each other's eyes. Syd just rolls her eyes and goes back to thanking every god that her best friends are okay.

Christen wakes up with a start and yells out for Tobin and she is calmed by a voice that she knows really well “I’m right here baby girl, I’m right here” and she lays down as a nurse comes in and check son them “you guys okay in here” and Tobin responds “As okay as we can be” and the nurse nods and walks away, another voice can be heard and Christen swears her heart sunk even more when she heard the tears in Mal’s voice “I’m sorry Chris, I wish I could have been there to help you” and Christen shakes her head at the teenage girl and reaches a hand out, Mal accepts Christen's hand and Christen says “Mallory, I never want you to be in the situation I was in, okay, that would kill me” and Mal nods and holds Christens hand as Tobin holds Christen and some normalcy floods back into their now even crazier lives.

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It’s a cool sunny day in Phoenix, Arizona and the U.S. Women's Team is playing France tomorrow. The day starts like it normally does for Tobin. Wake up, cuddle Ash, wake up Ash, Shower, brush teeth, get dressed with Ash, breakfast with Ash. So nothing seemed like it was going to cause a panic attack, so Tobin left her blankie in the room tucked in her suitcase so she knows where it is. Tobin finishes zipping her suitcase and looks at Ash who is by the door looking at her funny, so Tobin says “What Ash?, you’re kind of scaring me”

Ash says “Sorry baby, it’s just that you’re leaving your blankie, you sure you want to leave it” Tobin nods and grabs her room key and Ash’s hand and they start their trek to breakfast. They finally arrive after what seems like hours and they get their plates and fill them and go to sit in their normal spots with Megan, Christen, Alyssa, and Becky. They sit down and Ash joins the conversation while Tobin just stays quiet and smiles at Alyssa, who smiles back at her. Soon everyone’s eating and it’s pretty quiet except Sonnett who’s still cracking weird jokes. So Jill takes that moment to announce the team meeting this afternoon, then she turns the girls loose for their few hours off before practice. After she stops talking she glares over at Tobin and just stays like that for a minute until Dawn sees and stops her quietly.

Once Jill stops, Tobin turns back to her food and just puts down her fork and looks at the floor. Ash notices this and takes Tobin's chin into her hand and slowly brings Tobin’s eyes to meet hers. Ash asks “What’s wrong baby girl?, you’re looking at the floor like it ate your cookie” and Tobin just lets the tears flood her eyes knowing that Ash will protect her and she has her… oh shit, blankie is in the room. That causes Tobin to start breathing really fast. Ash just grabs Tobin's hand and takes her to the hallway to calm down.

Once in the hallway a bit of distance from the meal room and Ash brings Tobin into her arms and rocks and shushes her and then realizes that blankie was up in the room. Ash pulls out her phone and texts Becky

Ash: Becky, this is urgent, can you come to the hall quick
(9:05am)

Reeba: yea, on my way
(9:06am)

Ash: Okay, thank you!
(9:07am)

Ash hears the door open and sees Becky walking towards them. Becky says “where’s blankie” and Ash says “In tobs suitcase” and Becky nods and takes the room key and starts to jog to the elevator. After a minute the team comes out and they don’t even stop to see what’s happening because they know it will overwhelm Tobin more. Alyssa, Megan, and Christen stop and stay close by just in case Ash needs them to help her. They start to have a conversation which brings Tobin off the edge of her panic attack because they’re not talking about her and they don’t hate her.

After a second of them having their own conversation, Becky jogs back into the area that they’ve claimed and is about to give Ash the blankie when Jill walks by and stops and says “She is not a damn baby, she does NOT need that blanket thing” and she goes to grab it from Becky, who tosses it to Pinoe who runs with it, Christen following behind her. Jill starts up again once the two start running “Why are you guys helping her, she’s just begging for attention because her childhood was “oh so tough” and i think her dad was right, she is useless, on and off the field”
This sends Tobin over an edge that Ash didn’t even know existed. Tobin started uncontrollably sobbing into Ash’s chest and shaking, that’s when Ash lost it, “How fucking dare you say that about her, she is one of the best players on this team and especially you know it, and what her father said is wrong she is not useless, she is the most necessary person on and off the field, just because she is quiet and reserved does NOT mean that you get to hate on her, My Toby is the most beautiful, amazing, caring, kind person I have ever met and no one gets to talk to her like that, especially when I’m around, am I clear” this got the attention of the members of the team that were heading for the pool (Sonnett, Lindsey, Sam, Mal, and Rose) and they came over and saw and heard Tobin sobbing and rushed to Ash.

Sonnett asks “who has the blankie, I can text them to see where they are” Ash nods and says “Megan and Christen”. Em is on her phone typing within seconds and she shows Ash her phone and it says “Ash and Tobin’s room, come up here and do the special players knock and we’ll let you in” Ashlyn looks down at Tobin who is still sobbing and picks her up and Tobin’s legs immediately go around her waist and her arms stay around her neck. Ash starts walking with Sonnett on one side and Lindsey on the other and the others blocking Jill from in front and behind.

They get to the elevators and Tobin’s breathing gets more ragged, they get in the elevator that was to them in record time and Ash starts talking “Tobs, you need to breathe baby, deep breaths” and slowly but surely, Tobin’s breathing becomes a bit more regulated but still not back to normal. The elevator dings and the door opens. They all get out and walk Ashlyn and Tobin to their room and Becky knocks for them and Megan let’s Ashlyn and Tobin in and Becky and Alyssa. Ashlyn hears the other girls talk about going to the pool and giving them privacy.

Tobin can only hear the words of Jill in her ears, “Useless on and off the field”, “not a baby”, and “begging for attention”. Suddenly she is brought out of her thoughts by the soft texture of her blankie. She just grabs blankie from the person who gives it to her and buries her face in it. Ash slowly rocks them while looking out the window trying to calm herself so she doesn’t yell and scare her Tobin more. Slowly but surely Tobin’s tears taper off and the redness leaves Ashlyn’s face and the worry lines leave as well. Tobin lifts her head from the safety of blankie and Ash’s shoulder and looks at Ash and gives her a small smile. Ash takes that and leans in and pecks Tobin’s lips and kisses away all the remaining tears. Tobin speaks in a small voice “You’re always my knight in shining armour” and Ash smiles and sets Tobin down and they go lay down in the spot they had been only hours before and they just hang out with their friends until practice, but this time Jill is absent but Ashlyn and blankie are both right there if Tobin needs them in any way.

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Becky sits down in her seat at SeatGeek Stadium just as the ball is kicked off to begin the Red Stars vs Courage game to secure a place in the playoffs. Becky immediately sees her girlfriend of now four years in the net raise her hand to give a direction to the team. Alyssa’s voice echos through the stadium as the Red Stars make an advance to the net.

JJ crosses the ball into Mal and it goes straight into the back of the net. The stadium erupts into cheers as the Red Stars go up 1-0. The ball goes back to half and the game restarts and Becky hopes the game will continue on this path until it was over.

Becky stands up at half time and realizes how tense she was and goes into the spouses box and chats with Zach who is in town for the game. After what seemed like too long the team took the field again and Becky took her seat and the game began again but this time with a lot more fouls from the Courage.

The 90th minute couldn’t come fast enough for Becky. She felt so out of control because she was so far away from her keeper and couldn’t help her. The score was 3-0 Red Stars and the Courage were really trying to get a goal in any way they could.

The ref blew the final whistle and Becky stood up and made her way to the field to congratulate Alyssa on her amazing game, she makes it down and there’s a crowd by the Red Stars tunnel. Becky emerges from the tunnel and forces her way into the crowd to see Hinkle yelling in Alyssa’s face, at this point she sees red. Becky goes forward and pushes Hinkle away from Alyssa and starts to yell “who the hell do you think you are talking to her like that, you’re just sour because your lost, and that is no reason to take it out on her, she did her damn job, and don’t think I didn’t hear you calling her those things! I did hear and all I have to say is that your view on your religion sucks and I agree with everything Ashlyn said about you, and I wish I was the one to say it myself because you are NOTHING but a low life and loves to think that her religion is a good enough reason to share someone, I have nothing against Christians and Christianity but I have a lot against you, so back up and shut up and stay away from her or this is not the last you will hear from me!” and Hinkle stammers and turns red and storms out of the crowd and everyone cheers for Becky and the crowd breaks and Alyssa’s still standing there stunned at everything that just happened.

Becky grabs Alyssa’s hand and looks into her eyes and says “let’s get you out of here” in a nice soft voice so she didn’t scare her keeper anymore. Becky gets Alyssa to the locker room and let’s her change and Alyssa grabs her hand and says “can we leave now” in a quiet voice. Becky nods and they walk out to Alyssa’s car and get her stuff in the back and Becky offers to drive and Alyssa let’s her because she knows she’s in no state to drive.

Becky pulls out of the parking lot and drives the short drive to Alyssa’s apartment building and parks in her spot in the parking garage underneath, Becky turns off the car and turns to face Alyssa who is now silently crying hoping Becky won’t notice, Becky puts a soft hand on Alyssa’s face and says “oh baby, I’m sorry” and Alyssa just shakes her head “it’s not you, I guess what she said just really got to me this time” and Becky just looks into Alyssa’s eyes and says “okay, let’s get up to your place, it’s getting late” and Alyssa nods and grabs her stuff and Becky grabs some of her stuff as well.

The pair enter the elevator and press the button to go to Alyssa’s floor and when it arrives they get out. Alyssa starts to fumble with her keys just trying to focus her brain on trying to find the key but she just can’t find it, tears rush to her eyes and her actions become more frantic, Becky turns to look at her girlfriend and sees this and puts her hands over Alyssa’s and says “take your time baby, it’s okay” and grabs the correct key with ease.

Alyssa slows herself down enough to unlock the door and enter the apartment and turn on the lights. The couple sets down all of their belongings in their places and Becky goes up to Alyssa who is just leaning on the counter and gripping it for support, Becky places a hand on Alyssa’s shoulder and the younger woman just turns into her girlfriend and starts to sob, letting all her pent up emotions just flow.

Becky slowly lowers them to the floor and she holds Alyssa in her arms as she cries and hold on to Becky like she may slip away at any second, as Alyssa cries Becky rocks her slowly and rubs her back with one hand and keeps telling Alyssa that she is loved and safe.

This continues until the younger woman cries herself out and just lays her head on Beckys shoulder and tries to regulate her breathing, Alyssa goes to stand up and Becky goes up with her so now Becky has picked Alyssa up, so she turns and sits Alyssa down on the counter and kisses her softly, “do you feel better baby?” and Alyssa nods lightly, Becky looks into Alyssa’s eyes and asks “can I go get you some water, you’ll be able to see me the whole time, and then we can go watch a movie or a show and cuddle or we can talk and cuddle, okay?” And Alyssa nods apprehensively and Becky goes to where Alyssa keeps her collection of Gatorade water bottles and fills one up with water and some ice and goes back over to Alyssa and places it in Alyssa’s hands softly.

Alyssa brings the water bottle up to her mouth and has some of the water, to Alyssa it felt like she was finally calming down after what seemed like everything was slipping away from her, Alyssa brings the water back down from her mouth and holds it in her hand and looks back to the woman standing between her legs and says “thank you” and Becky just says “anytime baby” and reaches out her arms as if she was asking Alyssa if she could carry her to bed, Alyssa wrapped her legs around her older girlfriend and placed her arms around her neck and lays her head on her shoulder and feels Becky start to walk towards the bedroom.

As they get to the bed Alyssa thinks how lucky she is to have Becky to calm her down from her anxiety and worries of the world and just hold her while she cried and calmed down, Alyssa is snapped out of her thoughts as Becky lays her down and takes the water bottle and sets it on the bedside table, Becky walks into the bathroom and grabs a washcloth and sets it with warm water and makes sure it’s not dripping and brings it over to Alyssa.

Becky brings the cloth up to Alyssa’s face slowly and wipes the dried tears off her face gently to make sure it doesn’t hurt her, when Becky feels like she’s done she gets up and grabs a dry washcloth and dries the water off Alyssa’s face, Becky places both washcloths in the bathroom by the sink, she walks back to the bed and crawls in to the opposite side of Alyssa who quickly gets as close to Becky as possible, and they choose an Animal Planet documentary on Dolphins and curl into each other.

Alyssa now calm and just in love with Becky.

and

Becky now calm and just as in love with Alyssa.

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The sun just set over the city of Orlando, and the weather forecast for the night is not looking as nice as one of the members of the national team hoped, Emily looked up from her phone and begins to shake a little, one thing that people don’t really know about Emily is that she has a phobia of storms.

Dinner slowly comes to a close and some girls head to their rooms and some go hang out in the lobby, but Emily feels glued to her chair as the rain begins to pour down from the dark clouds, she looks around to see her fellow defender Kelley O’hara looking very concerned that she is not following.

Kelley turns around and goes over to Emily, “Son you okay?” she asks with growing concern for the younger woman, “yup, never better Kell” Emily says with a fake smile that Kelley sees right past “you’re lying and shaking Sonny, what’s going on” at this point Emily wants the floor to open up and swallow her and only her so she does not have to tell Kelley that she’s afraid of storms like a baby.

A loud boom brings Emily out of her thoughts and she looks outside forgetting that Kelley is right beside her, Kelley is wondering what is going on, Em looks terrified, it suddenly clicks that Emily has never been a fan of storms but she always goes to her room after a few minutes, Kelley stops thinking and slowly takes Em’s hand into her own “come on hun lets get you upstairs” and Emily just looks over to see her best friend and secret crush and doesn’t see disgust or pity, just sees worry and concern.

Emily stands up slowly with Kelley and they go to their shared room, their room is on the first floor so no risk of the elevator stopping from a power outage, Kelley fishes the room key from her pocket and opens the door, she leads Emily over to one of the beds and sits her down.

At this point tears have made their way into Emily’s eyes and she is shaking even more and she really just wants Kelley to hold her, Kelley sees the tears start to escape from Emily’s eyes and are followed by a quiet sob from the younger defender, Kelley just picks Emily up from her seat on the bed, and Emily’s legs just go around Kelley’s waist and her arms around her neck, Kelley walks around the room and says quiet soothing words to Emily.

“You’re safe son”

“It’s okay, it can’t hurt you”

“I’ve got you baby girl”

That sentence makes Emily look up at Kelley and into her eyes and says through ragged breaths from sobbing “you really want to protect me?” and Kelley nods and slowly brings a hand off Emily’s back and softly places it on the back of her head and slowly guides Em’s head back onto her shoulder and just rocks in place as the storm rages outside.

But for the first time Emily doesn't feel like the storm can hurt her, because Kelley has her and Kelley will keep her from the storms and all the scary things in the world, Em knows this is true,

Because she is Kelley’s baby girl.

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“Kriegs are you listening” pulls Ali out of her thoughts, “huh, what did you say Pinoe?” Ali just looked at her friends confused, they look back at her confused and HAO says “we asked if you were okay?” Ali nods and looks out the window as her phone rings, she jumps up at the caller ID.

Ash<3

Ali jumps up and grabs her phone off the table she yells to her friends “I’ll talk to you guys later, it’s Ash” they just look at each other and shake their heads and go back to their conversation as Ali walks out the door and unlocks hers and answers the phone and the face she misses the most pops up of the screen “Hi, baby!” Ali smiles and says “Hi” they sit in silence for a second just enjoying looking at each other.

Ash breaks the silence first “how are you?” and Ali has to take a second with that second but she tells Ash the truth “I could be better, I miss you a lot today” and Ash looks at her and says “I’m sorry baby I miss you too” Ali nods and suddenly there’s a bunch of commotion on Ash’s side of the call, Ali says “Ashy, is everything okay?” Ash just says “I love you I, I have to go, I’ll call you later” and the call ends and Ali just has a really bad feeling about this.

Ali rushes to Pinoe and HAO’s door and knocks loud and fast enough for them both to come running to the door “Kriegs are you okay” Ali looks up and just lets the tears flow and the both rush to bring in and comfort their distressed friend, “can you tell us what happened?” Ali only hears this question and shakes her head and continues to cry, soon her sobbing gets the attention of some training staff, who try to ask the same questions and they get the same answers… just sobs.

After about half an hour of sobbing Ali’s tears slow and she looks up at all the worried people and she explains her situation as best as she can “I was on call with Ash and I heard a lot of bangs and then she said goodbye and hung up really abruptly and I’m so scared something bad was happening to her, please tell me I’m just overthinking this..please” Ali finishes and Dawn’s phone rings and she excuses herself to take the call and Ali just waits because what if it’s Ashlyn.

Please let it be Ash, Please let her be okay, please please

“Ali, that was Ashlyn’s deployment officer” her heart sinks and she begins to sob “oh god oh god please no” and Dawn is quick to say “that they think she’s okay, the don’t have official numbers but they think they seen the only blonde women in that battalion, Ali looks up and she is the picture of heartbreak and relief at the same time “so they don’t know for sure they, but they think she’s alive?” Dawn nods and Ali just cries but this time tears of relief.

The next morning rolls around and it’s game day and Ali slept like shit, tossing and turning just worrying about Ash, Ali hears movement beside her and Pinoe sits up “morning Kriegs, did you sleep?” Ali shakes her head and looks out the window at the end of the sunrise hoping her Ash was safe out there, Ali gets up and gets ready for the day and goes to breakfast and eats her pregame meal and goes to the team meeting.

The meeting feels like it lasts 1000 years but it finally ends and Ali learns that she’s starting, she musters a small smile and goes and does her rituals, she calls her brother and vents to him about what’s going on and her assures her that “She’s okay, trust me Als” and she just nods and they finish their talk and by then it’s time to get so she goes to the lobby and gets on the bus and sits down in her seat and plays her music and just ignores the rest of the world until the bus pulls up to the stadium.

Ali stands up and gets off the bus and changes into her warm up clothes and goes and warms up with HAO and Christie, soon warm ups are over and Ali goes and changes into her game gear and waits for coaches pep talk, coach starts to talk but she zones it out and gets up when everyone else does and follows them to the line and stands in her usual spot behind Carli who offers a warm smile, not knowing what’s happening but offering her teammate that small piece of comfort before this game, this makes Ali smile genuinely for the first time in a while, the announcer says their peace and they begin to walk out, they get to the lines and Ali high fives everyone on her way down and they wait for the anthems which they play and then a Jill comes onto the pitch “As some of you know, one of our players has a partner overseas, fighting for our safety and freedom” the crowd erupts into cheers, they quiet down and Jill begins again “I have seen the ups and downs of having a partner overseas through this woman and have nothing but respect for her, so please help be do the honour of welcoming, Sargent Ashlyn Harris of the United States Armed Forces” Ali looks around frantically until she sees those brown eyes looking right at her and she runs.

She jumps into Ashlyn's arms and just cries tears of pure joy, she stammers out “I thought you were hurt” and Ash just says while laughing “I’m okay, they sent me home so I thought I’d surprise you” Ali just berries her head back into Ashlyn’s shoulder and basks in the scent of the person she loves the most.

Once they separate the game begins and Ali plays all 90 minutes which seems like so much longer when you have the love of your life waiting for you on the sidelines, but the ref blows her whistle and Ali shakes hands with the other team before running of the pitch and placing herself in Ashlyn’s open arms, and suddenly the whole world is gone and it’s just them in that moment.

They arrive at the hotel and Ali showers and lays down next to Ashlyn who is also freshly showered and lays her head on her chest and listens to her heartbeat and says “I’m so happy you’re home” and Ashlyn nods and says “good, get used to me because I’m retiring” and Ali looks up at her and says “home forever” and Ash nods and Ali smiles and lays down and just before falling asleep says “I love you Ashlyn, no matter how far or close you are” Ashlyn just says “me to babygirl, me too” and the both fall into the most peaceful sleep they’ve had in a while, together.

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Lindsey stands up out of her spot in the coffee shop Her and Tobin used to frequent at before practice, she throws her trash away and walks out and begins walking towards Providence, passing by all the places she made memories with Tobin and seeing them play out in her head as she walks.

Providence Park comes into her view and she begins to see all the goals and happy and sad times she shared with Tobin there, she could only ever think about Tobin and how she’ll never play with her in the NWSL in Portland again, only against her Lindsey shakes all these memories and thoughts out of her head as she arrives to the locker room.

Lindsey walks into the locker room and goes to her locker and looks over to Tobin’s old locker which is now empty with her nametag still lingering, just waiting to be thrown out, Lindsey gets ready for practice and it goes oddly fast and she decides to go to the beach when she gets out.

Lindsey showers and walks out of the locker room and down the street to her and Tobin’s favourite beach, Lindsey sees more memories with Tobin as she walks towards the beach, one memory sticks out, Tobin’s last day in Portland.

“Linds, are you listening?” Tobin looks at Lindsey questioning if she was actually listening, Lindsey nods as she looks out to the coast , Tobin grabs her hand and says “I’ll always love you, you know that, no matter how far away I am” and Lindsey just stares back at her girlfriend of 4 years and nods with tears in her eyes and Tobin asks again “Do you wanna go home and lay down?” Lindsey nods again and they gather their stuff from the patio they were sitting on and head back to Tobin’s one last time and just cuddle until Tobin has to get up to go to the airport.

Lindsey arrives at the usually busy beach and it’s empty, It’s never empty, Lindsey looks down the right side of the beach and in Her and Tobin’s spot there's a figure dressed just like Tobin, Lindsey decides to investigate and she walks down the beach and she gets closer and realizes that is Tobin.

Tobin stands up and Lindsey breaks out into a run and as she collides with the love of her life
She wakes up,
Alone without Tobin,
Just with her Wildest Dreams.

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“SOLO” is all Hope hears as another ball hits her in the head because she was too busy staring at Kelley’s teasing little ass, Hope switches with Ash and keeps watching Kelley and her stupid smirk because she knows she’s working Hope up, Hope just thinks about how she’s going to give this all back to Kelley later.

Training ends and Kelley seems pleased with herself as she catches up with Alex and stays with her as they walk down the tunnel, that for some reason works Hope up more, they get out of their training clothes and go to the bus where Kelley sits with Alex again and Hope goes to the back of the bus and stews in her sexual frustration.

They get back to the hotel and go straight to dinner and Hope knows Kelley will sit with Alex again so she doesn’t react when it happens and she sees the “oh shit” look on Kelley’s face and Hope eats her food and just lets it all stew and the 30 mandatory minutes is up but Hope waits 40 minutes and gets up and goes over to Kelley and Hope whispers in her ear “Meet me in our room in 10 minutes” and Kelley just nods and tries to go back to talking to Alex and Allie which doesn’t go well.

Hope goes up to the room and grabs the bag of toys and goes to that bathroom and gets Kelley’s favourite dark purple dildo in the strap and pulls her sweats back up and sheds her shirt and leaves her sports bra and brings the bag back into the room and sits down on the bed and reads her book and waits for Kelley to get to the room.

Hope hears the deadbolt release and Kelley pads in and locks latch behind her and the look in Kelley’s eyes is so desperate the second she looks at Hope, so Hope doesn’t prolong it, she gets up and walks over to Kelley and captures her lips in a kiss that turns into a make out once Hope gets dominance over Kelley’s wondering tongue, Hope’s hands wonder to Kelley’s ass while Kelley’s go over Hope’s neck and Kelley jumps up wrapping her legs around Hope’s torso and pulls away from the kiss to say “fuck me” Hope can’t say no to that.

Hope turns Kelley towards the bed and walks close to it and throws Kelley on it and takes off her bra and when she looks back to Kelley her mouth waters a little because Kelley is wearing this light blue lingerie body suit and if Hope had a dick it would be very hard right now. Hope crawls on the bed and hovers over Kelley and leans down into a kiss that doesn’t last long because Hope goes to work on Kelley’s neck and then works her way down to her mound.

Hope takes the body suit off of Kelley and goes to work on her clit immediately which results in Kelley’s hand in Hope’s hair and soft moans fall out of Kelley’s mouth, Hope begins to trace the alphabet into Kelley’s dripping core and she gets to Q before Kelley is squirting all over her face, Hope stays to ride Kelley through her orgasm.

Kelley pulls Hope up by her hair and presses a kiss to her lips and says “strap” and Hope smirks and shimmies out of her sweats to reveal the strap, she lines up with Kelley and pushes in and the moans coming out of Kelley almost make Hope cum on the spot, Hope speeds up and that’s when Kelley knows she’s in for it.

Hope falls beside Kelley and it’s not long before Kelley is straddling Hope to ride her and Hope can not wait for that, Kelley gets it lined up and doesn’t hesitate before falling down on it and bouncing up and down and the only thing Hope can look at are her tits, up,down,up,down, a loud moan pulls her out of her thoughts as Kelley squirts on her again, but before Hope can think Kelley has pulled the strap off her legs and her head is dangerously close to Hope’s new very wet core, and then Kelley takes her plunge and Hope sees stars.

Both panting Kelley laying on Hope’s chest, Kelley pipes up “Totally worth teasing you all day” and Hope smiles and places a kiss on Kelley’s head, and says “I’m sure it was baby” and they both fall asleep moments after that.

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It’s a rainy day and Jordan is sitting on the couch cuddling Blu as Leah paces the sitting room just worrying and thinking up every little scenario that could happen, at this point Jordan is worried about Leah just breaking down into tears.

Leah’s mum and Jordan’s mum are on FaceTime on laptops with the families, Leah’s mum sees the worried look on Jordan’s face and says “are you alright Jord?”, Jordan nods and says in a whisper “ I’m more worried about Leah” and both mums look at her until Jordan flips the computers and face them to a pacing and panicking Leah who looks like she could just burst into tears at the slight mention of an email.

Jordan turns the mums back to her and then looks back to Leah who now has tears rolling down her cheeks and Jordan whispers to the mums “I will be right back” and mutes both computers and then gets up and stops Leah in her tracks and looks her in the eye.

Leah looks back and Jordan and just starts to sob “what if we loose again, what if I let everyone down again, what if I don’t even get called up because I sucked so bad in 2019” and Jordan pulls her into a tight hug and guides her to the part of the couch that doesn’t have cameras facing it and sits down and Leah sits beside her but Leah feels that she’s not close enough to Jordan.

So Leah stands up and Jordan scoots back so her back is completely against the couch and Leah sits down on her lap and just puts her head in the crook of Jordan’s neck and just lets all her worries and sorrows float away as she sobs but the scent of Jordan’s Lavender and Vanilla shampoo makes her feel like she’s safe from everything that she is afraid of, Leah feels Jordan’s strong arms holding her securely so she doesn’t slip away to begin pacing again and she also feels one of Jordan’s hands rubbing her back where her shirt came up knowing Leah needed lots of touch to be guided out of her thoughts and into reality, Leah hears Jordan’s calming words trying to coax her back into reality, and then Leah realizes she’s full on sobbing, but the one thing that really helps Leah calm down, is the fact Jordan just knows what she needs, wordlessly knows.

It takes a few minutes but Leah’s full on sobs turn to small hiccups and slowly into nothing and Jordan speaks up “hey baby girl”, Leah looks up at Jordan as a wordless response as she doesn’t trust her voice quite yet, Jordan gets that hint and says “We should check in with our mums, it’s been a while and I’m sure they are a little worried” and Leah nods but doesn’t make an attempt to move so Jordan just picks her up and walks to their original spot and Jordan unmutes the mic’s as they sit down and Leah gets comfortable on Jordan’s lap again and just sticks her head back into the crook on Jordan’s neck.

Leah’s mum speaks up first “is everything alright” and Jordan looks down at Leah and says “Yea, just some worries and jitters but I think she’s okay now but I’m not totally sure” and Leah just nods not moving her head as she’s suddenly just exhausted, until both phones ding, and Leah can’t help but burry her head deeper into Jordan’s neck feeling all the worry come back and Jordan grabs both phones and says “baby girl I know your scared and worried but I need you to read mine” so Leah takes her head out of Jordan’s neck and grabs Jordan’s phone and sees how Jordan is holding hers.

Leah and Jordan both take deep breaths and open the others email and huge smiles spread across both of their faces and the look up at each other and Leah forgetting their mums were watching pulls Jordan into a kiss filled with joy and passion, they split when they hear “awww” over the screen, they pull apart and say “you did it” at the same time and share another shorter kiss as they turn to their mums blushing.

Leah thinks “I am so helplessly in love with her” and they go on talking to their mums and emailing the team back accepting the offers to go to the 2023 Women’s World Cup.

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Leah knows that all she has to do is say that Jordan is hers and everything would be fine, but to Leah it seems like everyone is flirting with Jordan, even her best friend Beth is flirting.

Leah knows she is being ridiculous when Viv comes over “What’s wrong, you look like you could hit someone” as she sits down, Leah just tells her “ for some reason I am jealous of everyone who talks to Jordan and I feel like they are going to upset her by talking about the summer” Viv just looks at her and says “If you want to go monitor the talking you could just go talk to her?”, Leah shakes her head “No, Jordan got mad at me for being “too possessive” the other day so now I am supposed to back off” Viv laughs and says “ well you really were” she gets up and says, do something that isn’t too possessive but to remind everyone around you that she is yours” Viv walks away and somehow leaves Leah reeling more than she already was.

Now it’s Beth turn but Beth has the same look on her face that Leah does and says “thank god it didn’t look like you were flirting with her” Beth and Leah make eye contact and laugh “sounds like we are having the same kind of day” Beth nods at Leah’s comment and says “I am assuming you aren’t taking all of that well” and Leah shakes her head and asks “wanna go on a walk to get away from it” Beth nods and thy walk around the social area just talking tactics until it is time to leave.

Leah gets in the driver's side and immediately apologizes for making Jordan wait, but when Leah looks over Jordan is just smiling at her and says “ It’s alright Leah, let's just get home” with that Leah puts the car in drive and takes them home and during the drive Jordan plays a bunch of loves songs including Steal My Girl by One Direction.

They pull up at home Leah shuts off the car and grabs both kit bags and opens Jordan’s car door and she gets out, Leah locks the car and they head inside.

They walk in the door and are greeted by a very excited Blu, they greet him and pull their stuff away and Leah asks “what would you like to eat love?” Jordan walks over to Leah who is now standing looking in the fridge and goes under her arm and presses herself back against Leah and grabs the one arm that Leah isn’t using to look in the fridge and wraps it around herself.

“I don’t know, is there something you want?” Leah looks in the fridge again and says “thai take away?” Jordan turns in Leah’s arms and nods into Leah’s chest “sounds good to me” and Leah takes her phone out of her pocket and orders it and without Jordan knowing pays for it online.

The delivery guy shows up and hands the food to Leah and leaves again, but Leah looks over at Jordan who looks horrified, “Leah! You didn’t pay him” Leah just starts to laugh and Jordan says “It’s Not Funny!” but that just makes Leah laugh more but before deceiving Jordan anymore she says “Baby it’s okay, I paid over the phone” that makes Jordan relax immediately but not before lightly hitting Leah on the shoulder and look up to meet her gaze “not funny” and Leah giggles and picks Jordan up and places her on the counter “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you” Jordan huffs a little and smiles “it’s okay, I bet the look on my face was hilarious” Leah nods and leans in and places one of the softest kisses on Jordan's lips and says “I wanted to spoil my girl” Jordan smiles and hops off the counter and walks into the dining area and sits down and waits for Leah to eat.

Once the two are done eating they clean up the little mess and go lay down on the couch but with both girls being cuddlers they end up a mess of tangled limbs under a blanket watching the 100 on Netflix and occasionally making out when characters they don't like appear on screen “God I really don’t like him Lee” Leah always laughs when Jordan make commentary during their Netflix watching.

Once Leah sees that Jordan is falling asleep on her chest she says “ I think it’s time for bed baby” all Jordan can do is nod before she gets too tired to keep her head up, so Leah picks her up and carries her to the bathroom and sets her down gently to stand on the bathroom floor and hands Jordan her toothbrush and once they are both done brushing their teeth Leah picks Jordan up and sets her gently to sit on the counter then Leah grabs two washcloths and wets them with warm water and gently wipes Jordan’s face and then her own, once Leah is one she hangs the dirty cloths on the shower curtain rod and goes back to Jordan and picks her up and carries her back to the bed and sets her down.

Leah tells Jordan to raise her arms but her effort is short so Leah helps her out and raises her arms the rest of the way to get Jordan’s shirt off and then her sports bra and places one of her own larger t-shirts that she knows is Jordan’s favourite and moves on to remove her shorts but leaves Jordan’s underwear not wanting to confuse her when she is this tired, after Jordan is changed into her nightwear Leah lays her down and says “I am going to change, I will be right back baby” with that said Leah goes in and changes into her usual night attire of a random t-shirt and baggy athletic shorts.

Leah walks back into the room to see Jordan sitting up looking bleary eyed Leah asks her “why are you still awake baby girl” Jordan says to Leah “I never got to tell you, I seen you being all jealous of people talking to me but you didn’t get all possessive and I wanted to say thank you for not doing anything stupid” Leah just smiles and crawls into the bed and kisses Jordan and says “it was hard but I will do anything for you even if I don’t like it” Jordan smiles and says ‘now come cuddle me I am sleepy” with that Leah cuts the light and cuddles into Jordan who places her head right in the crook of Leah’s neck and Leah says ‘goodnight baby girl, i love you” she gets a muffled response “goodnight, I love you too stud”.

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Ella has just won the Euros and the only thought in her head is of Ona, they began to fool around just before the tournament kicked off, and all Ella wants is Ona naked on her bed.

The party ends and Ella finally makes it back to her hotel room, she opens the door and toes off her shoes and goes into the bathroom, to pee, takes off her makeup and puts her hair up into a new pony tail as the last one had fallen down and goes to get her pj’s when she hears “Hola mi amor” Ella can’t help but smile as she turns around to her spanish lover laying on her bed and is a bit surprised to find Ona already naked on her bed.

Ella doesn’t even say anything before stripping and walking over to Ona, Ella straddles Ona and says “Hola sexy” pulls her up by her shoulders into a searing kiss, during this kiss, no one can keep hands to themselves, Ona’s hands go straight to Ella’s ass and slowly to her clit and starts to slowly touch it and that makes Ella go pliant is Ona’s arms but the kiss is not yet broken, Ona brings her hand back and puts it right back and sticks two fingers in and Ella just moans as Ona somehow figures out all of the little spots that drive her nuts, Ella feels herself teetering on the edge and when Ona mutters the word “cum” Ella’s word goes balnk and all she can feel is the pleasure that Ona’s hand is bringing her, they both pull back for air at the same time and just stare into eachothers eyes as they breathe, but not for long before Ona attaches her lips to the side of Ella’s neck and slowly makes her way down to her collar bone and then back up to her lips being careful not to leave any marks that could be seen.

Once Ona gets back to Ella’s lips they heavily make out for a while longer before Ella decides she wants a turn and kisses down Ona’s neck and stops at her breasts and focuses on one nipple at a time drawing tiny moans out of Ona’s lips, Ella makes down to her belly button and past the neatly trimmed hair and dives straight into Ona’s folds which makes the spanish defender moan loudly, Ella smiles and slowly gives into the desperate moans and pushes two fingers into Ona, all Ella can do is smile at the noises that Ona is making and hum knowing it driver the spanish girl mad, all Ella hears is a string of spanish expletives before her legs begin to shake and her moans turn into a blissed out expression as Ella comes up from between Ona’s legs.

Ella lays down with her head on Ona’s chest and she speaks up “I missed you” and Ona giggles a little bit and says “I missed you too hermosa, but I really hope you're not done after one because I still want to taste you”, Ella smirks and just lets her legs fall open as Ona goes down and Ella can’t hold back any moans due to how sensitive she is from her previous orgasm and Ona just doesn’t stop and it makes Ella think she hasn’t eaten is days and this is her first meal and they go like this for hours, and to Ella it is all a blur of grinding, panting, moaning and a whole lot of pussy eating.

Orgasm washes over Ella like a freight train for the 6th time that night and all she can say is “fuck” and “Ona please” by the time they finish and Ona isn’t much better off as she rolls off of Ella and stands up, she walks to the bathroom and Ella hears the shower come and she pulls herself up and just as Ona gets in she walks into the bathroom and gets in the shower and wraps her arms around Ona’s waist, Ona jumps “I thought you were sleeping hermosa?” and Ella just smirks “No, I was staring at your ass as you walked away baby” Ona blushes, she turns in Ella’s arms and pushes their lips together in another kiss, they go on like this until Ella turns and pushes Ona up against the wall and starts fingering her and Ona just grabs onto Ella for dear life to make sure she doesn’t fall over as Ella pushesher over the edge again, Ona cums with a yell of Ella’s name and then “¡mierda!” which Ella knows means fuck. Ona opens her eyes and sees Ella still holding her up and standing up properly and quickly switches the rolls but instead putting her head between Ella’s legs and putting a quick tongue through her folds before sucking her clit into her mouth over and over again until she hears Ella scream out her name and her slick go all over Ona’s face.

Ona lets Ella basically sit on her face until she comes down from orgasm when Ella stand up fully and puts her two hands on Ona’s face and Ona stands up and they share a very sweet kiss and then they wash each other as they hug and kiss gently both getting tired and coming down from the highs of the night, they get out of the shower and talk back to the bed and just decide to sleep naked and they get into bed and cuddle into each other and just make a mess of limbs and just before sleep Ella mutters “Good Night Ona, thank you for coming” and Ona smiles nearly asleep and says “buenas noches hermosa” and they both drift off to sleep Ella dreaming about winning and seeing Ona in the crowd cheering her on and Ona dreaming about seeing her girl that happy on the pitch and hopes they can repeat a win like that for united so they can do it together.