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Ikigai
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2026-07-15 19:24:29
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Pucking Around with Fate Puzzle Box
POV: CooperThe office of one honest, handsome, humble, and sometimes perverted coach, Cooper Daniel, was a bit of a tip. A tall jagged pile of paperwork, which sat to one side of his large office desk, had started to develop a mean disposition. He'd been meaning to get to it. Rather, he'd meant to have his assistants take care of it. That was, after all, what he'd hired them to do.He pulled the drawer to his desk open and watched as the slanted skyscraper of paperwork teetered like jelly. He smiled. Just about ready.A computer screen bathed one side of the desk in a black and white glow. He glanced again at the small article, the blurb about a hockey player who had lost a parent. Just over a year ago now, only a month before Christmas. There were no details. The passing of Cooper's former acquaintance had been kept close to home. Cooper was sorry he hadn't been able to attend the funeral. Though he didn't know him well, he knew he'd been a loving father, and a kind and generous man
Pucking Around with Fate Relationship
POV: GunnerGunner glided over to their bench panting for breath. He feigned thirst, but it was oxygen that was currently top of his list of needs. Cooper hadn't run him into the ground, but he was coming close.Unbelievable. A few hours with this character and Gunner had gained a small insight into his puck handling and shooting skills that neither his previous nor current coach had been able to offer. Khyle's old coach seemed to read him and pinpoint his weakness like it was obvious to any idiot on the street.And if it weren't for the fact that it was working so well, Gunner would find it exceedingly creepy. After several hours, with a few breaks in between at Khyle's pointed lecturing that Gunner needed to sit his ass down for a minute, Gunner had managed to improve his scoring on Cooper from absolute zero to a solid best of five.Just over half of his shots going in on average was unarguably better, but Gunner had groused without any whiff of shame whatsoever that it still wasn't
Pucking Around with Fate Breaks
POV: Dual, Khyle and GunnerKhyle finally found his voice."Gun-""No, Khyle," Cooper said pleasantly, "This is up to Gunner." Even as the bluenet snorted heated air against his mask like an enraged bull and twisted away in an embattled effort to leave yet again. "You cannot teach a man what he thinks he already knows."Gunner's entire body went rigid, and he turned slowly, bringing into view a dangerous curl of his lip, and sharp fangs that glinted under the arena's bright lights. The expression on his face said he'd had about enough of squaring off with Cooper. And as Khyle knew, that usually meant trouble.Not a single thing in the empty arena dared move. The air between them nearly blistering from the enforcer's intensity. Remember what Khyle had said before? Well, now Khyle just hoped Gunner wasn't contemplating Cooper's swift demise, that he was instead coming to some sort of conclusion that wouldn't involve violence, or charges."You're on, old man." Gunner's challenge was a lo
Pucking Around with Fate Demons
POV: Dual, Khyle and GunnerBreak accomplished, coach and student were back at their positions, locked once again in a stubborn sort of combat, their short talk having no particular noticeable effect on the enforcer's puck handling skills thus far, as shot after shot failed to make it past the invisible barrier that Cooper seemed to have conjured. As expected by now, the shots from Cooper came just as fast and as hard as the enforcer's. Chirpy, cheap, and fast."Come now." The puck snagged up high in his glove."That one was so close." It bounced off his goal pad."The tension is mounting." He caught it between bent knees."My defense is riddled with holes. Shall I point them out for you?" He batted it away with his stick."Do you even want to put the puck in the net?" A sniper-like slap shot followed."I wonder, if you score, will it not be deserved?" The next puck had a wobble to it as it skipped across the frozen arena floor."Perhaps, the only thing you really want... is to erase
Pucking Around with Fate Ikigai
POV: Dual, Khyle and GunnerThey took a quick break.Elbows out and head resting on his wrists, Gunner was slouched forward against the boards in the player's bench, the position allowing a deep stretching of his back and shoulders while giving his body a chance to rest and recharge. But the man down the bench, noticeably parked just out of his reach, was still keeping his mind as busy as ever.The guy was next level.He turned his head to the side to study him."How come you ain't playing?""Who, me?" Cooper let out a shrill, long-winded howl, the very nature of the sound offensive to Gunner in every imaginable way. "Oooooh! With my back the way it is? I couldn't possibly!" Gunner's back teeth gritted against each other."Your back looks fine to me.""You're too kind, Grim-san!" Gunner sat up and eyed him further."Grim-san?" he muttered to himself, the slightest twitch around one eye. He'd been calling him that all morning. And he didn't like it."But I'm not as young and spry as I
Pucking Around with Fate Peewee Class
POV: Dual, Khyle and Gunner"Che."Just fifteen lucky saves later, and Cooper raised a hand to pause the enforcer."That's fifteen for meeeee," he cooed. "Just one for you, Gunner-san."Gunner growled low to himself, but wasn't going to allow himself to be goaded."Yeah, well, I was goin' easy on you. Cuz, you know." He glanced at Khyle, then back to Cooper and made a winding motion around his temple with his gloved index finger. "You're crazy.""Ah, yes. I must admit I did let myself become distracted," Cooper replied. "I started to think about the peewee class I'm teaching later today. And I thought perhaps that would be more... your speed."Azure eyes popped open. The what. The what? Then narrowed into slits.So, that's how it was gonna be, eh? The gloves were off. Gunner's angry smirk stretched outward. Good then. Good."Now then, boys." Cooper slapped the goal posts once each with his stick, then crouched. "Come at me."Gunner chuffed and shook his head in disdain. He leaned forw
Pucking Around with Fate Relieved and Disappointed
POV: KhyleGunner winced as he came to an abrupt stop at the bottom of the steps and watched Khyle retreat, eyes shielded from the too-bright sun by the flat of his hand.He didn't know what had caused the orangette to grow a vagina like that, but he knew he needed to back off. He'd probably done e
Pucking Around with Fate Room Twenty-One
POV: KhyleHe woke up to the sun in his face.Not gently. Not the gradual brightening of a room coming to life around a sleeping person. The full, direct, unambiguous commitment of mid-morning light that had been working its way across his bed for hours and had finally arrived at his face with the
Pucking Around with Fate Just Add It To The List
POV: KhyleThe medical staff cleared the ice of Gunner and his scattered equipment with the methodical efficiency of people who had protocols and were running them, and the game resumed around the absence the way games always resumed, because the game did not stop for any individual regardless of t
Pucking Around with Fate Open Net
POV: Dual, Khyle and GunnerThe 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 ic
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