morgan had been spending the majority of his time getting his apartment cleaned up and grocery shopping for his new roommate. he didn't want quinn henriksen to think that he was a complete mess. after all he was coming from denmark. morgan would want a nice place to sleep after a long flight, so he would give his new roommate one.

the idea of finishing his cleaning had been spoiled when morgan was invited over to auston's to hang out with some of the boys after skating.

"hey a-matts." morgan said as auston opened the door.

"hey mo." auston greeted as he moved out of the way to let him into the apartment.

morgan walked into the living room to see mitch marner and freddie andersen playing nhl.

"FREDDIE THATS NOT EVEN FAIR" mitch yelled as freddie just shrugged.

tyson barrie was sat next to them quietly laughing at mitch's rage. mo sat down in the empty place next to tyson. auston walked back into the room and sat next to freddie.

"excited for your new roommate mo?" tyson asked.

"yeah. pretty pumped to have someone to live with." morgan responded.

"i'm pretty pumped to have another dane on the team." freddie said focused on the tv.

"have you seen her highlights? they're insane." auston raved.

morgan pondered to himself. he said 'her'? he must've made a mistake.

"she'll drop the gloves on your ass too. it's scary from what i've seen." mitch said.

"wait what? she?" morgan said very confused.

everyone on that couch's eyes went onto morgan. the game was paused and everything.

"you didn't know!?" everyone yelled at once.

"no!" morgan shouted back.

"it has been everywhere morgan. how do you not know that we have the first woman in the nhl on our team?" mitch exclaimed.

"i didn't watch the draft. i was spending time with my family in vancouver and my phone has been broken for days." morgan said.

"but she's your roommate?" auston questioned.

"i volunteered before the draft even happened." morgan answered.

"why? what if it was someone you didn't wanna live with?"

"dude i'm lonely. ever since jake got married, i have had no one to live with, so i volunteered to house the rookie." morgan semi-whined.

"so you don't even know what she looks like?" freddie asked.

morgan shook his head.

"oh that's tough." freddie mumbled.

"yeah it is." auston said.

"why?" morgan asked.

"well mo, let me say, if she wasn't a very successful hockey player she could be a very successful model." auston smirked.

morgan groaned frustratedly and threw his head back.

"lowkey jealous that you get to live with her. this is coming from two singles." auston said pointing from himself to freddie.

"here's a picture mo." mitch said holding his phone out.

morgan grabbed the phone to see this stunning brunette. his eyes widened.

"oh my-" he handed the phone back to mitch.

"see?" auston said, "the danish blood is good."

"you guys have more of chance than me." morgan said to freddie and auston.

"she's 18, i'm 30. i'm too old." freddie said, "though i really don't care. i have a feeling we're going to be danish buddies. it's auston you have to worry about."

"mo if you don't go after her i might." auston said.

"shut the hell up auston. i'm afraid. i cant fall in love with a teammate." morgan complained, "does she have a nice personality?"

"hey maybe not. freddie, could you check? all the interviews are in danish." mitch said.

freddie nodded and listened to some interviews with her. his expression turned sympathetic as he listened and read.

"good luck mo." freddie said.

"what does that mean?" morgan pressed on.

"she is definitely a character. she's got sass and humor to her, but she's also very kind from what i see."

"oh no." morgan groaned.

"you've just described mo's ideal woman fred." mitch said laughing.

"we'll just see tomorrow mo." tyson said and clapped him on the back.

"can someone come with me?" morgan asked.

"i'm coming. she knows english, but not very well. i can help with that." freddie explained.

*the next day*

"you ready mo?" freddie asked as they arrived at the airport to pick quinn up.

"yeah. i'm excited to not be alone anymore." morgan said and freddie chuckled.

morgan and freddie got out of the car to wait for quinn.

"there she is." freddie pointed at a beautiful girl.

she looked even better than her pictures on instagram. it didn't matter that her hair was tied back or that she was wearing sweats and a hoodie to fend off the colder toronto temperatures. she still looked beautiful.

but morgan couldn't focus on that. she was his teammate now. no falling in love. he didn't even know her yet.

freddie lead the way towards her and morgan kept up right behind him.

as soon as quinn saw them, she recognized them.

she stuck her hand out immediately, "hi i'm quinn."

she had an absolutely adorable accent coating her english.

"i'm freddie." he shook her hand.

quinn immediately moved to morgan after meeting freddie, "quinn."

"morgan." he stared at her fondly as he shook her hand.

quinn smiled and blushed as they began to walk to the car.

on the ride home, freddie began to talk in danish which caused a fast conversation between the two of them.

not only was quinn speaking in english adorable, speaking in her native language was even better.

it was going to be hard to resist her.

*a few months later*

it was the maple leafs holiday party.

it was always nice. the atmosphere was fun. the only thing that wasn't that fun was going without a significant other. there would be no one to dance with. morgan was used to it, but it just wasn't fun.

that was the situation this year as well.

quinn had been asked to dance with almost every single person in the room. well, except morgan.

"mo!" someone called out, trailed the o's out.

morgan turned around to see quinn.

"dance with me mo." she grabbed onto his hand and pulled him up out of the seat he was in.

morgan put his hand on her waist and they danced away to song after song.

"watch your hands rielly." quinn would whisper while moving his hand back up to her waist when it would fall down to her hip.

"you look absolutely beautiful tonight quinn, as always." morgan said spinning her.

quinn's cheeks turned red from the flattering compliment.

"thank you." she said shyly, "you look pretty handsome yourself, as always." she mocked him.

to thank her, morgan decided to risk it all. he snaked his hand around quinn's head and leaned in for a kiss.

morgan was prepared for rejection, but ended up getting the exact opposite.

quinn deepened the kiss so it turned into a heated makeout. they kissed until they needed air.

morgan breathed heavily. he looked past quinn to see that practically everyone in attendance at the party had been watching them makeout.

"FINALLY." freddie said.

auston winked at morgan.

"well this is awkward." morgan said.

"just kiss me again." quinn said forwardly.

morgan granted her wish. the guests of the party cheered as quinn and morgan kissed like the end was near.