[ It's a great night for the team; they'd just won the Stanley Cup after months and years of grueling practice and all the blood, sweat and tears every one of the members had put in. The bar is full of supporters and fans, rowdy and in high spirits, with beer flowing like water and everywhere she looks, everyone's recounting the glorious moment that had transpired, the plays that had gone down that night.
Mako has never been happier, because victory is a sweet, sweet thing and they had deserved it after all the work they had put in, all the effort Stacker had put into the team, and not forgetting the team members themselves. She mingles with the team, all of whom are so much a part of her; family members who'd stuck together through thick and thin, but her eye doesn't wander far from Raleigh, even if his time is taken up by his team-mates, well-wishers, and anyone who wanted to thump him on the back.
Tonight's his night, tonight belongs to everyone on the team, and she smiles behind her glass of beer when the girlfriends of the respective members start to come in, and someone cranks up the jukebox. ]
[At this point, Raleigh isn't entirely sure if people keep hitting him on the back because he scored the winning goal or because five minutes after that, after the handshake line, but before the cup was presented to the team, he grabbed their assistant coach and kissed her hard-- on live television.
Worse, right in front of her father who is also the head coach and could kick him down to the minors but he's pretty sure he wouldn't even care because she kissed him back and he's floating on air.
Winning the cup helps a lot with that feeling, because it was his and Yance's dream since they were little kids, because when Yancy died, Raleigh thought his hockey career was over but then Mako came along and demanded better of him and he fell in love with her somewhere along the way.
He's just tipsy enough and so fucking happy that when someone passes a microphone into his hand, he takes it with a laugh and starts singing the first stupid, cheesy love song that pops into his head. Guess who that's for.]
i guess, you'd say, what can make me feel this way?
Oh. The opening refrains are startlingly familiar, although what's deeply unfamiliar is Raleigh Becket belting the first few lines of the song out with incredible, impressive gusto, much to the uproarious cheers of every single male specimen present in that bar.
"--when it's cold outsiiide, I've got the month of May -- "
Which, really, makes her want to laugh and cry at the same time because what the hell, Becket? Mako almost wants to sink into her barstool in amused, horrified mortification because that is so ridiculously cheesy, so marvelously over-the-top and everyone's joining in and suddenly Sasha Kaidanovsky is there, impossibly smug and amused and Mako just wishes that the ground would swallow her up already because you're such an adorable, hopelessly lovable embarrassment to humanity, Raleigh.
"Your boy, he has balls of steel." Sasha tells her and Mako only laughs, shaking her head -- where's her clipboard when she needs it? "He's just drunk," she responds, but his exuberance and his happiness makes her breath catch all the same, because this is the happiest he has been for the longest time.
Quite about to say more to Sasha, she stops when Aleksis comes over and sweeps her up in his arms for an impromptu waltz, singing to her in off-key Russian. ]
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silly love songs. (dancing / karaoke)
[ It's a great night for the team; they'd just won the Stanley Cup after months and years of grueling practice and all the blood, sweat and tears every one of the members had put in. The bar is full of supporters and fans, rowdy and in high spirits, with beer flowing like water and everywhere she looks, everyone's recounting the glorious moment that had transpired, the plays that had gone down that night.
Mako has never been happier, because victory is a sweet, sweet thing and they had deserved it after all the work they had put in, all the effort Stacker had put into the team, and not forgetting the team members themselves. She mingles with the team, all of whom are so much a part of her; family members who'd stuck together through thick and thin, but her eye doesn't wander far from Raleigh, even if his time is taken up by his team-mates, well-wishers, and anyone who wanted to thump him on the back.
Tonight's his night, tonight belongs to everyone on the team, and she smiles behind her glass of beer when the girlfriends of the respective members start to come in, and someone cranks up the jukebox. ]
imma let you pick the song
Worse, right in front of her father who is also the head coach and could kick him down to the minors but he's pretty sure he wouldn't even care because she kissed him back and he's floating on air.
Winning the cup helps a lot with that feeling, because it was his and Yance's dream since they were little kids, because when Yancy died, Raleigh thought his hockey career was over but then Mako came along and demanded better of him and he fell in love with her somewhere along the way.
He's just tipsy enough and so fucking happy that when someone passes a microphone into his hand, he takes it with a laugh and starts singing the first stupid, cheesy love song that pops into his head. Guess who that's for.]
i guess, you'd say, what can make me feel this way?
[ Oh.
Oh. The opening refrains are startlingly familiar, although what's deeply unfamiliar is Raleigh Becket belting the first few lines of the song out with incredible, impressive gusto, much to the uproarious cheers of every single male specimen present in that bar.
"--when it's cold outsiiide, I've got the month of May -- "
Which, really, makes her want to laugh and cry at the same time because what the hell, Becket? Mako almost wants to sink into her barstool in amused, horrified mortification because that is so ridiculously cheesy, so marvelously over-the-top and everyone's joining in and suddenly Sasha Kaidanovsky is there, impossibly smug and amused and Mako just wishes that the ground would swallow her up already because you're such an adorable, hopelessly lovable embarrassment to humanity, Raleigh.
"Your boy, he has balls of steel." Sasha tells her and Mako only laughs, shaking her head -- where's her clipboard when she needs it? "He's just drunk," she responds, but his exuberance and his happiness makes her breath catch all the same, because this is the happiest he has been for the longest time.
Quite about to say more to Sasha, she stops when Aleksis comes over and sweeps her up in his arms for an impromptu waltz, singing to her in off-key Russian. ]