Chapter 100

Sidney took Karen to a club where the majority of the players were going. As soon as they walked in together, Karen felt all eyes on her. She knew she could handle the backlash, it was if Sidney could handle it. They made their way to the VIP area as Sidney introduced her to a lot of the guys. Karen knew a couple which surprised him but he didn't think anything of it. They got their drinks and sat around to talk to a few guys for awhile.

Karen later excused herself and went to the bathroom. While she was in there, she heard a few female voices talk about Sidney and the talk turned ugly when she heard what they used to describe her. She smiled to herself and walked out seeing the girls' eyes pop out of their head. Karen was going to say something but decided not to belittle herself to make them feel better. Fact was, she didn't care what others thought about her dating Sidney. He loved her and that was all that mattered.

As she was walking back, Karen ran right into a familiar face "well, well, well...Mike Modano. Haven't seen you in a long time."

"I could say the same for you my dear" he said hugging her "what are you doing here in Montreal?"

"I decided to take in the All Star game this weekend, you know didn't really have anything else to do."

"Right, so am I suppose to guess or are you just going to offer up who you're here with."

Karen puts her hand on her chest "what exactly are you implying Mo?"

"Oh come on now, talk around the league is you're dating Sid. He's upstairs and you are here, so I take it being true."

"Well it's not like you waited for me."

"Hey I offered a one way ticket to Dallas, you just never took me up on it."

"It's because I wanted to keep you as a friend."

"It worked out better that way too. You heading back upstairs?"

"Yeah."

"Then allow me to escort the beautiful lady to her date."

"Why thank you kind sir." They both laughed as Karen took Mike's arm and he guided them through the crowd and back upstairs. "Hey Sid? Did you lose something?" Mike shouted as they got closer to where Sidney was sitting with Geno and Vincent Lecavalier.

Sidney looked at Karen and smiled "no, sorry man. You can keep her if you want to."

"Nice Crosby" she said "maybe I'd rather go home with this one" Karen said sitting on Geno's lap that brought out a huge smile from him.

"I told you she'd come to her senses and be with me" he said. Geno began to whisper in her ear to make Karen giggle.

"Ok, I forgot who I was up against here. Can I have my girlfriend back?"


"You didn't want her man."

"Yeah you were so quick to get rid of me."

Sidney offered his hand and Karen looked at it. She smiled giving Geno a kiss on his cheek and took Sidney's hand, standing up as he wrapped his arm around her "I will never get rid of you baby" he said kissing her.

"That's not how it sounded to me stud."

"I'll make it up to you, I promise." They sat down and finished talking to everyone. Karen and Mike were talking about old times and this intrigued Sidney for she had never mentioned knowing him. Everyone stayed for about another hour and then Sidney and Karen left to head back to the hotel.

"Are you going to get a cab to take us back?"

"I was thinking we could walk back. It's not that far and it's a nice night."

"Sid, it's freezing out."

"I'll keep you warm, come on." Sidney took Karen's hand and they headed in the direction of the hotel. When they were about a block and a half away, Karen let go of Sidney's hand and walked to a bench. She gathered up some snow and began to make a little snowman sitting on the bench.

"What? I couldn't resist" she told Sidney who was just watching her.

Sidney just smiled but didn't say anything to her. He reached for her hand, pulling her into him "can I ask how you know Modano?"

"Sure, ask away" she said smiling.

"I thought I just did."

"No, you said 'can I ask'. If you wanted to just ask then you should have said 'how do you know'. There is a difference."

"Fine, how do you know Modano?"

"I first met him a long time ago and then he played for the men's Team USA in the '98 Olympics and we just reconnected."

"No hook up to speak about?"

"Well now that's a different story."

"So the total is now at 4 hockey players you've been with" Sidney said somewhat annoyed.

"Mo was when we were in Nagano and it was 11 years ago. I have not thought about him since and from seeing him after all this time tonight is not bringing anything back. Both teams partied a lot then and there were A LOT of hook ups. Mine just happened to be with one. Besides, I thought whatever happened in our pasts were staying there and had no bearing on this relationship" she said moving away from him.

"They don't but its hard when something triggers a past relationship and another player involvment is revealed."

"Ok, there was only 1 past relationship to speak of, the others were just hook ups. If that made me a puckbunny in the past, then so be it. But after Rick there hadn't been a relationship at all until you. I don't get what's going on here. I have never asked about any of your conquests why does it matter about mine?"

"It doesn't alright" Sidney said trying to bring her back to him without success "it's just hard to hear about it."

"Then quit asking about them. I told you in the beginning about everything. If I forgot about Mo well it's because I hadn't thought about him or nothing jogged my memory about it until we talked about old times tonight. Unless all this is going to continue to bother you, then I need to know because I can't keep investing my heart into you and us with having you get jealous of parts of my life that doesn't matter anymore." Karen sighed and turned around to finish walking to the hotel. She didn't want to wait for Sidney's answer and was scared to know if her past really bothered him.

Sidney watched as she started to walk away and realized that he never wanted that to happen. He took off running after her and stopped, grabbing her arm to stop her too "wait, please. I'm sorry I never wanted it to come out that way. I don't care about your past and you have never asked me about mine. I shouldn't keep letting it bother me when I know you're with me and not them. I figured if you wanted anything to happen with any of them again, you would leave to pursue it."

"But I don't want to leave to pursue any of them. I made a lot of friends with a lot of players in '98 but that doesn't mean that everytime I run into one of them I want another night to rekindle anything. Do you realize how jealous I could get with the way some of these girls go after you and you flash them that smile that is meant for only me?"

"What are you talking about?"

"I've seen it Sid and you know what I'm talking about."

"Baby, it's not what you think."

"Then my friendship with other players is not what you think."

"You know, this is not how I wanted the walk back to the hotel to go."

"Well you started it."

"I know I did and I'm sorry."

"I'm sorry too." Sidney pulled her close and Karen put her arms inside his jacket to keep warm. He closed his jacket around her body and kissed her head as she snuggled closer to him. After a few minutes, Karen looked up into his eyes as she leaned her lips up to his. Sidney met her lips with his own as the soft kiss got more passionate with each passing moment. Sidney brought his hands up to Karen's face and placed them on her cheeks.

"AH, your hands are freezing" she said jumping out of his jacket.

"Sorry, let me warm them up first." He brought Karen back into his jacket and Sidney put his hands inside her back pockets of her jeans. He smiled when he heard her giggle because he was moving them around inside her pockets, pressing himself into her. Karen locked eyes with Sidney and her laughing stopped and her smile faded "your not laughing."

"Maybe because it's not so funny anymore."

"Maybe we need to take this upstairs to our room."

"I think we definitely should." Sidney kissed her forehead and removed his hands from her pockets. Karen got out of his jacket as he took her hand and led her inside the hotel, heading to the elevator. Once they got into the elevator and the doors closed, Sidney captured her lips again for the short ride to their floor. They got to their room and Sidney had Karen pressed up against the door as he was trying to get the key card in the slot. "Need some help finding the slot Sid?" she said noticing he was having trouble.

"I can get it into any slot baby."

"My slot better be the only one you put anything in."

"It is and..." hearing the door click "allow me to show you." As they walked into the room, they both shed theirs jackets, throwing them to the floor. Sidney grabbed Karen by the waist and started to take her clothes off as she did the same to him. When they were both completely naked, Sidney lifted Karen up and pushed her up against the wall, slamming inside of her. Karen let out a moan not caring who could hear her. Sidney kept pounding into her until she couldn't take anymore. Karen dug her fingers into Sidney's shoulders as she came. Sidney stopped his pounding long enough to carry her to the bed and lay her down. He continued his ravishness of her, getting harder with each thrust he entered into her. Karen didn't have time to think about how he was being with her as the sensations overruled her mind. Sidney thrusted once more bringing Karen and himself over the edge. They laid there wrapped up in each other until their breathing calmed down.

"Either I need to get you jealous more often or..."

"Or I'm just going to continue to surprise you."

"I like the sound of that even better. Um, please tell me you are surrounded by other players."

"Nope, my parents."

"I so hate you" she said laughing.

"I can tell baby." Sidney rolled off of her and brought Karen closer to him. Soon sleep overcame them both as they held on to each other.