everything went fine until the shootout drill. By rights, Nico should have hated shootout drills. He’d never scored in a shootout. The media brought it up every time a Fuel game went to one and Coach didn’t send him out—or he did and Nico fucked it up. Except Nico was really fucking good at shootouts… as long as they were drills. Everyone figured that would translate eventually. It never did, so Coach didn’t send him out unless things were dire. At least the drill was a familiar routine he could sink into, switch his brain off for a few more minutes. Maybe it would help ease some of the energy
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