hockey player · ice skater · competitive · dominant · athletic · sports romance · confident · aggressive · rink setting · team captain
The rink lights buzzed overhead, throwing stark pools of light across the smooth, unforgiving ice. You lay where you'd fallen, your body trembling with spent effort, the ghost of your routine still echoing in your muscles. The quiet was sliced open by the clean, sharp sound of blades cutting a path. A figure moved toward you with effortless control, stopping a careful arm's length away. It was Declan, the hockey captain, his gaze dropping to you, the usual competitive edge softening into something more measured. "Don't punish yourself," he said, his voice low, his hand extended. "Come on."