Chapter 20

Pixie

One week since the brick incident and my life has been turned completely upside down. The first thing that changed is I’m not allowed to go anywhere by myself. I have two to four guards at a time depending on what I am doing. Nixon and Casper installed a security system on our house and updated the one at the rink. I now have a guard that stays in the house, one one that roams outside. All of the Red Devils and the Renegades are talking shifts.

I know most of the Devils so that isn’t a big deal. It is annoying but I’m dealing with it.I can’t talk Nixon and Casper out of all of this. I argued for two days but I got nowhere. They are determined to keep me safe even at the cost of my privacy. I was worried we would lose clients or attendance would drop if people thought the rink wasn’t safe. Casper and Nixon had every client on a conference call and explained the situation.

Would you believe that all the clients had no problem with the extra safety measures if it kept me safe. So yep, I lost the fight. I am having a hard time adjusting to the Renegades. Axel and Rowdy I have had some interaction with so I’m ok around them when it is their shift. But I don’t know the others. I don’t know how to interact with them. They all seem to know that Viper and I are married. Don’t get me wrong, they have all been really nice to me. And respectful.

A little too respectful. They treat me like Viper’s ol’e lady. As family. I’m not family. Not really. Just on paper. I’m not sure what to do about it. I have tried correcting them but that didn’t do any good. I gave up. They will figure it out sooner or later. I have a few of the Renegade prospects complaining about having to guard an ice skater. They don’t like being stuck in the cold for someone to move on the ice. Quote ‘ It isn’t even a real sport.’ My boys put them in their place quickly.

Then there is Viper. He is around a lot more now. He even took a shift at my house. It is making it hard to keep up my resistance. But I’m determined to not let him win, or at least not make it easy on him. He is here with me today as I’m training my elite team. I just finished my girls team and I have been working with the boys which includes Jax. I notice his whole performance is off. The boys have been working on a short song to use in the home competition and he isn’t landing any of the jumps he could do just a few days ago. As his coach I can’t let him go backwards.

I pull him aside while I have the other boys work on their sit spins. I squat down “ Jax are you ok? Do you feel sick?” He shakes his head “ No, Coach I feel fine.” “ So why are you having trouble today? Two days ago you landed a perfect double axel. Now you keep falling. I can’t help you unless you tell me what the problem is.” I said. I want him to know he can talk to me. I notice he keeps looking over his shoulder towards Viper,Casper and a Renegade prospect I don’t know.

“ Jax, you have been working just fine with the Devils here. So I’m going to guess the Renegades are the problem. Do I need to have them go to the lobby?’ I asked him. Jax looks down “ Uncle Viper hasn’t seen me skate yet. What if I embarrass him? And I heard one of the prospects say skating isn’t a man’s sport and any man skater must be a sissy.” Oh poor Jax. But I know just what to do. “ Jax, I’m going to take care of the problem with the prospect. As for you Uncle Viper,I haven’t known him for long but I believe with all of my heart you won’t embarrass him. If he has a problem he will have to deal with me. Got it.” Jax smiles and nods. Perfect.

I give him a hug and send him to practice with the other boys. I skate to the wall where Rocket is sitting. “ Rocket sweety, put me on speaker.” She pushes a button and tells me I am good to go. I skate back a bit so I can get a good view. “ Renegades.” I shout. I see four turn around to look at me. “ If any of you have a problem with male skaters, get the hell out of my rink.” I yell. I point to the boys behind me. “ If you think this is not a true sport I will gladly put you through the paces to prove otherwise. If you think only sissy men skate. Those boys are bigger men than you. My Devils don’t have a problem with male skaters. As a matter of fact they support one of yours and you want to run your mouth. Show me what you got. I don’t allow small minded assholes here. You know where the door is.”

I hear and see several of my Devils clap. Yea these are my boys.I turn to the team “ Boys, show them how real men skate.” I said. I saw Jax’s kutte sitting on the bench and had Rocket grab it for me. I went to Jax and handed it to him. He looked confused until I said “ Show them how a true Renegade skates.” Rocket put on a mashup of ‘It’s My Life/Confessions’. A short song they have been working on. I was in the middle watching and bouncing up and down because they executed every move perfectly.
When they were done I heard two shouts “ That’s my boy.” and “ Yea,go Jax.” Rowdy and Viper. I look up and see them both clapping. That is what I like to see. “ Hey Pixie, why don’t you show the assholes what a champion looks like.” Rocket shouts. The boys agree with Rocket and plead with me to do one routine. “ Fine. Go get Rocket to put something on.” I got a chorus of ‘Yeah’s” and the boys skated to Rocket. I just stand in the center while they find a song. They picked the fast paced “ Gloria” from the glee album.

And because I want to show these assholes a thing or two I add a few triple axels, a back flip, two slit jumps and a Biellmann spin. And I shook my ass at them just for fun. Nothing those couch surfers could ever do. Halfway way through the song Issac joined me on the ice and we did a death spin and a lift where I bent backwards over Issac’s head.
When we finished I skated to the wall for some water. I hear Viper laying into the prospect “ If you ever disrespect my nephew or my wife again you will be out on your ass. If you don’t like watching skating don’t watch. Just keep your trap shut and do your job. Protecting my wife.” he yelled. Then sent the prospect outside to patrol.

I lean against the wall and Viper winks at me when he sees me. I’m glad I’m wind blown from the ice or he would see me blush. He melts me everytime he does that. “ Now that is settled. Have you guys settled the schedule for tomorrow?” I asked. Viper looks confused “ What’s tomorrow?” Nixon answers “ Pixie has a photo shoot. It starts on the ice for some full costume pictures then to the gym for workout photos.” Viper does not look happy at all. Rocket is smirking.

“ I’ll be here. I love watching Pixie get sweaty.” Rocket said laughing when she saw Viper’s face. I had to turn my head to keep from laughing. “ I’ll be here as well. I don’t need my guys seeing Sabine sweaty from her workout.” Viper growls out. I swear he is grinding his teeth. “ Someone’s jealous.” Rocket sings and I burst out laughing. Tomorrow is going to be fun.