Under Pressure

Rewrite

Dean Portman/Ava Bombay

Summary:

*rewrite of Under Pressure* Ava Bombay had always wanted her father to pay attention to her and have a relationship with her and after he gets arrested for a DUI and is sentenced to community service things start changing.

eventual Dean/OFC

Introduction

"Hey Grandpa?" Ava Bombay asked as she came down the stairs at Jack Reilly's house.

"Yes?" He asked as he pulled on the black Hawk's coat he wore everywhere.

"Did my dad call at all last night?"

Jack pursed his lips as he yanked the zipper up, "no he didn't Ava."

Yesterday was Ava's 12th birthday and all she wanted was for her father to call her and tell her happy birthday. It didn't matter that her grandparents had thrown her a party and invited the Hawks and most of her friends to the local ice rink. All she wanted was her father to remember her and call. That and she wanted to true friends.

Ava scoffed sadly and moved down the rest of the stairs to where her own winter coat was hanging at. "I shouldn't have expected him to call. He never does."

Jack was silent. He never really liked talking about the kid that he thought would be his star player or be his son in law. He hadn't since the day he dropped a 2 year old Ava off at the Reilly's house and never looked back.

But that's all she ever wanted.

"Adam wants me to go play a pick up game with him and some of the boys after school. Is that okay?" She asked changing the subject.

Jack nodded his head in agreement, he was secretly hoping that Ava and Adam would end up together. That he would get his perfect family with his granddaughter and his newest big star. But he knew deep down, not to get his hopes up because they always ended up shattered.

"God would you look at them?" Roger McGill asked as he, Mark Larson, Adam Banks and Ava walked down the sidewalk past frozen pond that kids their age trying to play hockey, "they are awful."

Following his gaze Ava shrugged her shoulders, "So were you before Grandpa whipped you into shape. They just need guidance."

"And tell me Bombay, what do you know about it?"

They all knew that Ava wasn't allowed to play on the Hawks due Jack's rule of no girls on his team.

"I know damn more than you do. I may not play hockey. But I know hockey." She returned as she moved from Adam's side and moved further out ahead of them.

She wasn't stupid, she knew the only reason why they put up with her was because she was their coach's granddaughter and they all wanted to keep making the team.

"Hey Ava, wait up." Adam called shooting glares at his two friends.

"What do you want Banks? Come to rub it in?"

He shook his head, "No. Just didn't want you walking by yourself."

Coach would never forgive them if anything happened to Ava. And personally he liked her alot better than the boys at that point in time.

Ava nodded her head and pressed her lips together as they came to a stop at the corner to cross the street.

"Hawks." Peter said pointing seeing the group retreating away from the pond, the two boys calling for the other two to wait up.

"So? They didn't bug us and its not like we have anything for them to want to try and copy." Jesse Hall said as he span around to look at him.

"They had a girl with them."

"Your point? We have a girl too.' Guy Germanie commented, Connie had seen her first and pointed her out to him and it made them both wonder if the age old rule for the Hawks was coming to an end.

"I don't think we have anything to worry about. She hasn't played before and we don't play them until later on anyways." Charlie Conway said before skating towards the edge of the pound to get his water bottle. "So drop it and let's try and practice."

Ava bade her friends goodbye before she climbed the de-iced stairs to her grandparents house before she sighed, the pushed back thoughts of being lonely and her dad not wanting her came back in full force. She had felt silly the night before wishing for good friends and her dad to be around a little bit and even more silly for hoping for friends like the kids she saw skating on the pound.

She just had to go with what she had and that was it. No more. No less.

*** I decided for this rewrite I was going to do stuff differently and have Ava be raised for the most part with Coach Reilly and be friends with Adam. Her friendship with Adam will play a bigger part in the story when she starts dating Dean.****