Desert Love

by LostInTranslation12

Jon just wanted to do what he's always done best and not deal with a relationship but when he meets his new neighbor his thought about relationships change. Georgia never expected to fall in love in the desert but she can't deny the tall and handsome Jon, she also didn't expect fate to force them together in almost every way possible.

1. Chapter 1

BE ADVISED THE NAME LOGAN (CARR) WILL SHOW UP IN PLACE OF JON DUE TO THE FACT THAT I HAD STARTED THE STORY WITH LOGAN BUT IT DIDN'T FLOW SO I SWITCHED PEOPLE. BASICALLY LOGAN AND JO ARE THE SAME PERSON AND I THOUGHT I HAD CHANGED ALL TO JON BUT WORD WASN'T NICE THAT DAY SO THERE YA HAVE IT. SORRY FOR THE MIXUP PS I'D CHANGE IT IF I COULD FIND THEM LOL SO MARK IT AND TELL ME AND I'LL CHANGE IT. :D

Jon stared out at the warm Las Vegas night and sighed. Renee stirred in his bed behind him so he closed the window, he needed to think and her voice was the last thing he wanted to hear. It wasn't that she was a bad person like everyone on the internet seemed to think but he was growing restless with her. She was as good in bed as any but he was starting to want more than a fun party girl.

Shit. Not only did that thought scare the hell out of him but the fact that he was willing to say screw it and give up his little sex-do-what-he-wants bot to get more said a lot about him. He had talked to his best friend, Joe. After laughing for a good ten minutes he'd finally told him he'd hit his head to damn hard and just needed to get drunk and have a good lay.

So that's what he did.

But neither of those things had helped. Now his mind was muddied by the start of a hangover and total lack of sleep. He needed time alone and away from people. He needed the clear mountain air of South Vegas and peace. He needed the calm of nature to help decide what he should do. He dressed in black and gray basketball shorts and a gray TapOut shirt with the sleeves cut off as fast as he could in the darkened room. He grabbed the keys to his truck and his survivor's back pack out of the hall closet. As he slowly and quietly closed and locked the door he texted Renee's phone saying he'd be back later. He didn't say when or where he'd gone he had the day off and his plane didn't take off until 2 am he had plenty of time.

Jon walked out into the dim predawn morning and took a deep breath. For a large city full of every gas emitting thing on the planet, Vegas had surprisingly fresh air. He unlocked his red Ford Raptor pickup and climbed inside. He'd only bought the truck a few weeks back and had barely used it. The black and red interior still had that fresh out of the factory smell. He loved that smell. He turned the key and the engine let out a low deadly growl of life. He loved that sound too.

His stomach gave a growl of its own and he gave a growl of his own. He'd been so focused of getting out of the house he hadn't eaten. Jon pulled out of his shared driveway as his new neighbor, a short brunette, gave a small wave. He did the automatic friendly thing and waved back. She was cute and something about her made him stare into his rearview until he heard a honk in front of him making him turn back to the road. He swerved to correct the beast of a pickup.

"Damn boy! One girl catches your attention and you almost wreck a fifty k truck? Not smart, dumbass." He chided himself aloud.

He pulled into the Silver Spoon Café in downtown Vegas. It was a local's only type of dive and not many of them knew about it either so he liked the small throwback style restaurant. As he walked in he gave the elderly waitress, Susie, a grin and wink. "How you doin' sweet thing?"

"Oh." She blushed and waved him off. "I'll get your coffee in a moment, sug."

Jon laughed and set at his usual place at the bar. For this early the place, which only held about 60 people, was almost full. No make that full, he thought as a gust of wind rushed through the door. He turned to see who had come in. His buddy Cory, a long time Vegas native, should be there by now and Jon would have liked to get the older man's advice on his problem. But it wasn't Cory it was Miss Hot as Hell new neighbor.

"Have a seat where ever you can find one, honey." Susie looked up from cleaning off a table. "I'll be with you in a short."

Jon didn't want to hang around all the sudden. The brunette disturbed him in ways he hadn't felt in years. "Hey Sus, I'm gonna grab a large to go coffee and a few doughnuts. Money is under the register."

"Okay, sug. Sorry for the wait, have a nice day."

Susie didn't worry about her regulars not paying and Jon more than most got his own coffee and food, he was a busy man and she knew that. He laid a hundred under the register and walked to the door. "No problem I'm just in a hurry. Keep the change, darlin'. And tell Cory I said hi."

Susie blushed again and that made him smile. She'd told him once that after forty years or more in the business he'd been the only one to ever give her a nickname not even her husband called her sweet. He'd told her her husband was blind and give him a few years and he'd steal her away. Susie was a sweet woman and he adored her so when he got the chance to leave her a large tip without her throwing a fit he did. He knew that struggle well and was damned if a sweet heart like her was going to have to rough it out if he could help it.

Georgia Blake watched her neighbor peal out of the small parking lot. She smiled up at the waitress. "What is the special?"

"His name is Jonathan Good aka Dean Ambrose. He's a pro wrestler and really good from what I've seen." Susie winked at her and gave her a winning stunning smile. "I know honey he is a yummy number. What can I get ya?"

Georgia laughed, "Oh gees!" She felt her face turn beet red. "I…um…Omg that is who he is! I live by him."

"You know him?"

"Not know know but I know of him. My dad got me into wrestling and I've seen him in action the guy is amazing. I can't believe I didn't recognize him." She looked at the menu for the first time. "I guess give me a coffee and two doughnuts to go."

"Well he doesn't really have that face. Large or small?" Susie asked writing the order down.

"Large mocha please. And make one doughnut chocolate, please?"

"Sure thing, hon. Be back in a jiff."

Georgia left about five minutes later, extra-large coffee and two doughnuts in hand, she took the same turn Logan had and wondered if he was going the same place she was. She had just moved to Vegas but loved to hick, which she had told her left side neighbor Josh. He'd been oh so eager to tell her about Red Rock Canyon, she'd promised to check it out with him as tour guide but not really knowing the blonde man she wanted to learn the area on her own first.

So before her flight that would take her to her new job at NXT, a major independent wrestling company, she'd decided to do just that. She'd googled the place and mapped out what she thought would be a good path for her to take on her first hike. Georgia drew in a slow deep breath as she turned into the shadow of a huge mountain. The sign read RED ROCK CANYON: Enjoy the views. Beware of snakes and sharp drop offs. Well that's nice, she thought, at least the scenery was beautiful. She got of her small car without noticing the pickup truck across from her. Georgia took in the view in front of her. The place was huge so she changed her mind and looked at the giant land map there was an easy enough looking path to the tip of the mountain.

She had gone about two hundred feet as far as she could tell by the markers when she finally stopped and looked at her watch. 8:23 shown on the blue face of her Nordstorm sports watch. Good, she thought taking her water bottle from her back pack. She could hike half way to the top and then turn back. That would be no problem. She'd have time to drive the twenty minutes back home, shower, and eat before she had to call a cab to the airport.

Georgia hiked up farther than she meant too. "Damn. I'll be late." She commented to no one.

"Maybe, but take a picture and show it to whoever you're meeting. They can't be mad after seeing it." A voice off to her left said making her jump.

Georgia let out a scream then slapped her hand over her mouth. Why hadn't she thought of someone else being there, it was a public place after all? Oh, maybe it was the fact that it was still early morning that put her off.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to scream."

The stranger watched some birds fly off into the morning then turned toward her. "I'd say sorry to them. They were still asleep and got rudely woke up."

She laughed at that. Her mother would never believe her daughter the queen of sleeping in was awake before any bird. "Maybe I'll bring some seed with me next time." Georgia broke the ice, "You're my neighbor, right?"

"And you are apparently stalking me." Jon ran a hand through his hair. "I'm sorry. It was a really bad night. Can I start over?"

Georgia's phone rang in her back pack, "Yes just after I answer this."

Jon set quietly waiting just staring off into the wondrous view that was the famous Las Vegas Strip. She'd loved to see it from up here at night, she absently thought as she listened to a recording saying her flight had been rescheduled for later in the day. Oh just great! She made a mental note to text or call her boss after she got home as she slipped the phone back into her pack.

"Sorry. You were saying?" She smiled back at Jon.

He made a show of trying to think about what he'd been saying, "Oh, Right!" She shook her head and smiled. "I was saying I'm a jerk and I'm sorry. I'm Jon your neighbor and apparently we hike the same mountain and go to the same dinner. Are you sure you're not stalking me?"

Georgia laughed, "Well I've been going to the….um, silver something…ok fine I googled a place close by this morning before I left home and our neighbor Josh recommended I come here. Of course that was with him but…"

"…He freaks you out?"

She feigned shocked, "Ha ha. Okay, yes I didn't want to say yes and then he know of a giant cave or something and take me there to torture me or something. Oh, God that sounded bad!" Jon laughed a whole hearted laugh that made her want to join in. "I'm sorry do you ever just look at a person and know they have dead bodies in their basement or something?"

Jon laughed harder. "Never heard it put that way before but yes I get it and yes he'd be that guy. Can I make being rude earlier up to you with some breakfast and coffee?"

"Sure my flight just got canceled so I have the time. And besides I hiked out of my protein bars I'm starved!"

Why was Fate having a hay day with his life? Did it not have other people to screw over? He just wanted to be alone. So why did you ask her to breakfast? His inner voice added to the misery party. I don't know was the only answer he had. He sighed as he walked back down the path with Georgia. Was the lack of sleep and energy strangling his brain?

Jon pulled his ball cap off and ran a hand across his sweaty forehand. Georgia turned and smiled at him. "Too old?" She laughed.

"Ha ha. No I decided to do this after a night of drinking. So not a good idea." He pulled his shirt over his head and stuffed it in his shorts pocket then pulled his cap back on and slide the brim around to rest against the back of his neck.

He didn't miss the long eyed look he received…or that small pink tongue darting out to lick her bottom lip. He grinned, Renee hadn't given him that look in months. In fact he hadn't even paid attention to her expressions the last few weeks. He was busy at work, which was the way he liked it but he had at least paid attention to his last girlfriend right up until they split up but with Renee he barely cared.

"I'm Georgia, by the way. Georgia Blake." Her voice drew him from his thought. "You introduced yourself but I didn't introduce myself."

Jon looked at her for a minute then in his usual gruff voice. "Oh. Right. Nice to meet you Georgia."

She laughed and he swore it sounded like bells. It was nice for a change. "Nice to mean you too, Jon. Or should I call you Dean?"

She caught him off guard and he stopped to stare at her, "Jon is fine. I'm not one of those wrestlers that demand people call them their ring name. You follow wrestling?"

"Cool." Georgia smiled. "I hate that! Yes and I now work for NXT. Well if I can get to Tampa sometime today, that is."

He stopped again, "Oh really? Doing what?"

"For real. I want to be a wrestler but I have to settle for reporter until I can get clearance for an old injury." Georgia giggled.

"Yeah old injuries can be a bitch. They planning on training you though too?"

"I hope so. I mean I already have about four years of training and ring work in but you know how WWE works every new person has to retrain under their supervision."

They stopped by her small sports car. "That is true. Gotta get WWE brain washed."

Georgia laughed as she crawled into her car, "Sure do. Silver Spoon?"

Jon nodded and turned to jog to his truck. "Yep see ya there," he called. No doubt there would be fifty voice mails waiting for him. And they would just have to wait he had a call to make.

Georgia watched as Jon jogged to his truck then started her car. The AC blasted, freezing her sweat covered body. Even though she'd teased Jon about sweating the truth was it was already in the eighties when she'd reached the top. She watched him drive out of the parking lot but pretended to be looking at her phone. When he was fully out of sight she grabbed a clean shirt, bra and body wipes from her duffle bag, she didn't mind being sweaty and gross while hiking but going into public that way.

Ten minutes later she was pulling on to the highway, fresh faced and not gross. She added a little mascara just because as she waited at a stop light. It wasn't to impress Jon, she told herself even though she knew she hadn't had any makeup on the last time she'd been in the dinner. She hung a left when the light turned green and pulled in beside Jon just in time to see him throw his phone across the cab of his truck with a cruse as he climbed out.

Georgia acted as if she hadn't seen his fit of rage as she crawled out from behind the wheel and locked the doors. "Sorry I'm late, I…" When he turned around she barely noticed the fresh shirt he wore or the fact that like her he'd wiped his face off. She did, however, notice the intense blue of his eyes, but she chose to comment on the shirt instead of making a fool out of herself, "I see you did the same thing."

Jon smiled, "Hey nobody wants to eat with a smelly sweat laden guy. But I didn't add makeup." He winked and started to walk into the dinner, leaving her there dumbfound. Damn, she thought she'd been subtle. "Coming?"

Georgia gained her wits as the smell of strong coffee hit her in the face like a physical blow and she rushed to the door Jon held open. It smelled so good her stomach almost jumped up and left the rest of her behind. Once they were seated she took a deep breath.

"That hike will do that to you." Jon commented as he poured himself some coffee from one of the caffres placed around on tables. "Next time take an energy bar or something and eat it before you head down."

"I only had one with me today and I ate it going up because I was rushing to get going." Georgia took a drink of the dark roast before adding creamer then said, "But why don't you remind me next time?"

Jon's smile was lopsided as he nodded his head, "Will do."

Georgia pretended not to notice him staring her down as she studied the menu. A cute petite blonde came bouncing up too cheerful for the hour. Probably one of those up before the sun girls, Georgia thought as she looked up and ferreted a smile. "Hi. Jon are you ready to order?" The blonde asked him and ignored Georgia completely.

"Uh, Georgia?" Jon looked to her.

The blonde tried to hide her disgusted but as one woman to another there was no way Georgia missed it. She gave the girl a genuine smile to say na na na without actually saying the words. "I think I'll take the Strip, over medium on the eggs and gravy with my biscuits."

She had a second thought after ordering maybe she should have ordered something from the light menu. Her inner voice laughed. Yeah right! She planned to buy for her own food no reason to pretend she wasn't starved half to death. Plus she had never been one to do the whole not eat in front of a guy type of girls. She did laugh out loud when Logan ordered the same thing with extra everything.

"What?" He asked as the blonde walked away.

"Extra everything?" She laughed then had a vision of the petite blone spiting in her food, "But then again with the look she was giving me we might end up sharing yours."

Jon laughed, "Chloe is harmless. Besides I'm done with the blonde game."

She tried to act like she hadn't heard the last part as he had said it behind his coffee mug. But being the proverbial cat she was she couldn't resist the curiosity. "Done with the blonde game? What does that mean? I saw you with a blonde yesterday.

Jon shook his head and readjusted his cap "I was and I am. Long story short I was getting bored and…"

"Wait. What? You were getting bored. What the hell does…"

Should she be basically defending a woman she didn't know? Probably not but on the other hand there was that whole girl code thing. She'd have to think it other later Jon was talking and she'd found out she couldn't think straight when words were coming out of his mouth.

He gave her an almost dirty look. "It means I was bored trying to keep the front up. We lost the romance a while ago and since then I've just been going through the motions."

Georgia didn't know what to say and was saved from having to think about it when the little blonde put their food in front of them. Offering a small smile to the girl she said, "thank you." She dug into her food as she thought about how to approach the subject again. Finally she came to the conclusion she didn't want to verse it at all and was sorry she'd even asked.

"Hey man!" A very large guy walked up to the table and Georgia had to crane her neck higher and higher until she could see his face. "What's up?"

Jon washed his mouth full down with water then said, "Hey man. Not much."

He didn't introduce her as he shook the man's massive hand. But it was ok because she didn't think she could actually talk. The larger than life man she adored on TV as a kid was now right in front of her even larger than she had thought. Jackson Harper the largest man in wrestling still alive and only stood an inch shorter than Andre the Giant. She chocked on her bacon. Embarrassing. "Sorry." She offered weakly.

"You okay, hon?" Jackson asked.

Georgia couldn't form words so she nodded and took a second to collect herself. "I'm sorry."

Jon chuckled, "So you said. I've never heard anyone apologize for almost chocking to death. Jack this is Georgia my new neighbor."

"Damn. Why do you always get the pretty ones?" Georgia almost chocked again. "Oh now I'm sorry."

Jackson "The Man Killer" Harper thought she was pretty, she could have died and been happy! "I think I better stop eating before I actually chock to death." Jon laughed and she glared at him. "Shut up."

He only laughed harder making Jack crack a grin too. "Fine. Fine no reason to get testy. So what's up, Jack?"

"Well I heard about a certain breakup. I was coming to the diner anyways and seen your truck so I thought I'd ask if it was another rumor whore." He looked ashamed for all of five seconds. "Curiosity killed this old cat long ago and by now I've learned to go straight to the horse."

Jon tossing the rest of his coffee back. "Did I break up with Renee?"

Georgia seen this as her opening to excuse herself it seemed to two men needed to talk or Logan at least needed to vent and he wouldn't do that if she was sitting there. She walked slowly so she could still hear some of their conversation. "So Georgia, huh? What's her story?"

"Nothing, man. We live across from each other and ended up hiking the same trail this morning and I asked her for breakfast. She is really smokin' though, isn't she?"

Georgia smiled as she pushed the door to the women's rest room open. He thought she was smokin'? The giddy inner school girl popped up. YAY! Go Georgia! But wait she was getting ahead of herself he wasn't even separated from this Renee…Oh my god! She slapped a hand over her mouth to silence the scream there. Was his Renee, Renee Young? The commentator for the company? It had been dark last night all she'd seen was blonde hair. She had heard they'd been together for about two years but she'd also heard it was all rumors and that Jon was too nice to push her off the proverbial cliff and say it was only rumors. She looked at herself in the mirror. Jon's comment had to be for show. She was a dark brunette with dark hazel eyes and while she wasn't fat she was on the shorter side with a more athletic build. No sir, Georgia Blake would ever called smokin' hot. Would she? Compared to the blonde she didn't think so.

There was a knock on the door, "Hey Georgia?"

"I'm coming out." She closed her eyes and opened the door…right in Jon's face. Georgia gasped as he went sparling across the floor. "I'm sorry! Oh my gosh! Jon? Are you okay?"

"Nothing broke besides my pride." He shouldn't have said that she thought as the pie rack he'd hit began to lean.

She squealed as a lime mirage pie plopped onto the top of his head. She would have helped him up but the look on his face and the pie was more than she could stand and she laughed. Jon grumbled jokingly and reached up taking her hand and pulling her on top of him. "If you're going to laugh you are so getting it too." He smeared pie into her hair and on her face, laughing.

A waitress who could have passed for Elvira rounded the corner. "Oh heavens! Jon Good is that you?"

Jon laughed and in that gruff voice Georgia was beginning to fall for he said, "Yeah Ellie it's me. I thought it was time for a facial."

"Of pie?!" Ellie wasn't mad as Georgia thought she probably should be. "Well those pies were getting tossed out today anyhow. Clean up your mess and get out so I can close up before lunch, will ya?"

Jon climbed to his feet pulling Georgia along with him. "We can wash up in here."

Jon showed her into the employee restroom where there was a bigger sink. And sturdy too, just right for…Georgia! She chided herself mentally. He was involved with a co-worker no way was she getting in the middle of that. He trashed his shirt and pulled one of the generic tourist tees with Silver Spoon No Better Coffee and Pie in Town scrawled across the back off a shelf. That torso was screaming to be touched and her fingers itched to be the ones touching it.

"Want one?"

Georgia looked down her own white tee was see through from the whipped cream her lacey bra showing through. She rolled her eyes no reason to be modest now, Georgia, he can already see the goods. She crossed her arms over her stomach and pulled up the shirt coming off with a sick sounding ka-plop. It made another sick ka-plop as she tossed in on top of Jon's. Georgia grabbed some wet paper towels and started to wipe away any pie she could see.

Jon couldn't have been more aware of the almost topless woman in the small bathroom with him if he'd been a horny teenager in the girl's locker room. Damn she was sexy. He tried to act casual as he began to wipe pie off his own body but his eyes kept wanting to watch her and little Jon wanted him to lick the stuff off her curvaceous body. Stop it! Come on damn you're a grown ass man…exactly so why don't you do what you want to?

His inner turmoil was wreaking havoc on the cleaning process. Georgia reached up with a towel to wipe some green stuff out of his hair but slipped on some that had fallen on the floor and crashed into him. His bare chest against her almost bare chest was more than one man could handle. He looked down at Georgia…more than one woman could handle too, apparently. The look on her face said let me go but the one in her eyes said kiss me.

So he did. Then he thought better of himself and stepped back making sure she was balanced again on her own two feet. "I…uh…I shouldn't have done that."

"Then why did you?" Georgia asked cautiously.

Because I couldn't help myself. Because I'm a dog…Because…. "Because I wanted to." Why lie? Hell the deed was done only two ways from here to go.

"Oh. Oh, well that's a good reason to do something, I guess. If it isn't murder, that is." Georgia smiled shyly. "Wanna do it again? Only this time I'll kiss back?"

Jon grinned coolly but before he could answer Ellie was knocking the door down. Making them loose the moment completely. Oh well, probably for the best, Jon thought as he slid the t-shirt over his still sticky hair and chest. He caught Georgia following the shirt down his body with her eyes as another bang bang bang bang hit the door.

"We're coming! Gees El it's not that easy to clean off lime pie, ya know." Jon called with a grumble.

Georgia giggled, "Not when you're half making out."

Jon gapped at her but said nothing as he rubbed his hand and a towel through his hair. He turned as Georgia slid her own borrowed shirt over her head. He returned her following eyes and grinning, what had he been doing? BANG! BANG! Oh right, getting out of the diner and into Georgia's bed….well that was half right.

"Please just get out." Ellie said looking exhausted.

Jon looked passed her, their mess had been cleaned up and the floor had been freshly mopped. He felt bad so he kissed the older woman's cheek and slipped the two hundred bucks he had stuck in his pocket before coming into the diner but paid the bill, with Georgia complaining she could pay her own the whole time, with a card.

"So you're going to Dallas too?" Jon asked hoping the answer was yes.

"Yep. My flight was an hour ago but they just sent me a text and changed it once again, so now it's the red eye."

Jon thought for once some super force of the universe was smiling at him. "Mine too. F22-12am. So what you got planned before then?"

"I have flight 22 too. Cool maybe we are row mates too." Georgia smiled then blushed he thought it was the cutest thing ever. "I hadn't really planed past now. I'd planned to be on a plane to Texas. You?"

Jon thought for a minute he hadn't really planned anything he needed groceries not many since he only spent a few hours a week at his house but it was still nice to have something in the fridge when he looked in. Renee should be gone by now so he wouldn't have to deal with that drama fest. He decided he'd ask Georgia if she'd like to hang out for the day.

"Sure. I think we both need showers though and I have to grab some cat food and some stuff for me at the store. So let's meet at your truck in say an hour?"

They parted ways for the hour. Jon couldn't stop thinking about her as he sped home, hoping not to find the tornado Renee probably left him. Georgia stopped in at a small Ma and Pop shop close to the diner and collected her cat's food and the shampoo she needed before heading home.