Unsportsmanlike Conduct (Hockey Love #1)

The regular season is wrapping up in April, but the Boulders still have a few more games to play before playoffs begin. One of their last away games happens to be against Detroit, which Tye is absolutely ecstatic about.

Their game is on Sunday and the team flies in directly from Cleveland on Saturday. Foregoing check in at the hotel, Tye instead says that he has a friend that he will be staying with while in town. This is normally not allowed during the season, but their spot in the playoffs with home-ice advantage has already been secured, so the coaching staff lets it slide. With that being said, he still needs to be back at the hotel on time for breakfast the next morning.

He only has to knock twice on apartment 304 before it's thrown open with a loud - BANG - as it slams against the wall. Arms quickly grab him and drag him inside. His boyfriend kisses him hungrily while he blindly reaches for the door to shut behind him. Tye's initial surprise immediately morphs into contentedness as he indulges in the sensation brought on by the pair of lips moving eagerly against his own.

Tye shifts them so Moss is trapped against the closed door. Bracketed between Tye's arms, Moss smiles into the heated kiss and feels a sense of relief at finally being reunited with his boyfriend who lives too far away from him for his liking. Eventually, they break apart to catch their breath and properly greet each other.

"Hi," Moss beams up at him. Tye tugs gently at a curl hanging close to Moss' eye. "Missed you, sweets," he responds with a grin of his own. After exchanging one last peck, Tye gets the chance to scan over the space that he's used to seeing exclusively over FaceTime.

Noticing the hockey player looking around, Moss offers to give him a quick tour of the place. "Obviously it's not nearly as grand as your log cabin mansion, but I can still show you around," he teases.

The tour only lasts a total of ten minutes considering how small the apartment is. Tye also had a handful of questions regarding the number of knickknacks and mismatched furniture strewn throughout the place. He spends the most amount of time, however, observing the pictures that Moss has scattered around in various rooms. There are childhood pictures of the Kettler boys in most of the frames. Several exhibit how nurturing and protective Moss was of his little brothers back in the day.

One picture in particular shows eight-year-old Moss with his arm around a crying four-year-old Eli who must've wiped out while skiing down the bunny hill. As Moss comforts his youngest brother, he has a big smile on his face and is extending a thumbs up with his other hand towards six-year-old Shane who looks to be reaching the end of the beginner hill by himself.

Moss then tells him that he prepared a chicken pot pie which is done and warming in the oven until Tye is ready to eat. "How did I get lucky enough to land a chef?" Tye questions and places a quick kiss on his lips before guiding them to the kitchen. After having to fend for himself in the kitchen for the last few weeks, he is excited to be able to eat his boyfriend's cooking once again.

Blissfully scooping out the pot pie on each of their plates, they then eat as Tye tells Moss about an altercation that went down on the flight to Detroit. Apparently, one of their goalies and their top center almost got into a fight over a card game that they had been playing. "Lando is, like, ultra-competitive. That guy was ready to drop the gloves over a dumb fucking game of cards," he says with a mouthful of pot pie.

The two of them shower and head to bed early so they can fool around at their leisure. Unfortunately, Tye will be fined and benched for the game if he fails to show up on time for team breakfast at the hotel the next morning. Knowing that the next day will be chaotic, they try to fully enjoy their night together before having to deal with the craziness that is game day in Hockeytown.