Therapy Pt: 1 MAL

Here it is! Honestly I didn't know when or how the story would continue just that it would. All of a sudden Mal was talking to me again so here we are! As always let me know what you think!

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“So tell me Mrs. Talbot what will we be talking about today?” he asked sitting all superior like across from me.
“Mal please. Mallory is name I go by Mal why do we have to go over that every week.” I say as I do each week.
“Ok Mal. If you’re will I’d like to start from the beginning, or your version of the beginning of how we got here.”
I nodded and sighed knowing it was time. There was only so long I could rage on about my Mother and childhood in these sessions. I was here for a reason and this was a part of it.
Max and I had been together for a year and a half in theory when the Pens won the cup. Sure we had our time apart where he cheated and then I saw someone while we were apart. We’re both at peace with that though. I ended up telling him and he flipped out and we both cried since it was playoffs and emotions were all over the place. Sarah and Kris were planning their wedding and thank God Kris has recovered from his concussion. It was the scariest thing ever seeing a friend get hurt like that. Max and I started talking in February around the trade deadline the prospect of him no longer being in Pittsburgh. Thankfully we made it past that but knew his contract was up. I knew his agent was trying to keep him in town and keep everything as it was here so we could be happy. I forgot about it though as the guys pushed through round and round of the playoffs. I was busy helping Sarah with wedding stuff and adoption stuff. I went back to working at the hospital too, just picking up shifts here and there. I was doing a lot of education stuff with families which I thought I would hate but ended up liking.
The boys made it through to the finals and everyone was on the edge of their seat. I mean you know you’re a sports therapist. You deal mostly with athletes and these times of pressure. I mean there were three states for Max. Game time where he was so in his head we’d barely talk, resting where he was so beaten and broken I would cry since there was little I could do to fix his broke body aside from ice and rub and heat. Then there were the pent up sexual moments where we’d be so ready but stop due to the crazy must drive for the cup then we fuck theory all the guys seemed to ascribe to.
I mean long story short the guys won and everything we had all been going through was worth it. A team really is a family and all the fellow wives and girlfriends, kids and Parents, we were all there to see it. Kris and Sarah grabbed the headlines but everyone felt like winners and we were so happy to let them have the spot light. I mean they’re perfect and my best friends.”
“So you aren’t jealous of Sarah?” he asked making random notes on his sheet. I was pretty sure he wanted to be a caricature artist as a child and just used this therapy thing as a chance to practice.
“No. Well maybe her dress size and ability to be blond but not stupid. But no in the way you think. Sarah is my best friend and we’ll all be on one another’s team. “ I could tell me made a note when I sighed.
“It was in the crazy sex fest after the cup that Max started to become distant. We had a month to wait till free agency. We stayed in town. I worked Max healed up. We took a trip to Haiti the two of us to see the orphanage and to do vaccines. Then we went to Montreal to just wait it out with his family. I didn’t ask one thing about anything concerning his contract and such. I thought I was being the most awesome girlfriend in the world. I mean winning the cup made him a hot commodity but I never thought we’d leave Pittsburgh. I was shopping with Sarah the opening day of free agency when we heard it on the radio.”
“Philly and Pittsburgh aren’t far apart.” He didn’t know it but it was when people said things like that they were most likely to get punched in the face.
“No they aren’t far but they are different. It was the choice of stay in Pittsburgh and put every stressor possible on my relationship with Max or go with him.”
“And you went with him.”
“I am with him. We’re here in Philly. We’re together it’s crazy and I’m not sure if we’re happy but we’re here.”
“You seemed to skip a rather important part of the story.”
“Yeah well, I’m not to keep on how I came to be Mrs. Talbot so maybe when Max is back in to see you he’ll tell you how he tricked me into that happening.”
“Would this be anything like how you’re trying to hide from him that you’re pregnant?”
“I really hate you sometimes. You should be glad we’ve dealt with my anger already or I’d have given you a black eye by now. Yes though. I am hiding that I’m pregnant from him for now. He’s just getting settled with the team and I don’t want to mess that up for him. We’re days away from getting the place we want here so I’ll tell him before we start moving in. Things are already tight in the hotel and I don’t want things to be any heavier than they are.”
“You’re going to tell him though right Mrs. Talbot?”
“Yeah. I mean I love him. Obviously I’ll tell him he’s going to be a Dad… when the time is right.”