AN: Well here is another story involving Mickie James and my OC, Asya Stewart. As some of you might know, this is going to be femslash, and it will contain girl on girl scenes to the best of my ability. This is a story that is going to lead up to the final story, and that is still a work in progress as this goes on. With that said, let's begin, shall we?

Chapter One: Staying Apart Makes The Heart Stronger

She hated this. She really fucking hated this. Asya was still at home, on leave from being shot by Tara, and she literally could not do anything. Katie was at school, and Mickie was on the road performing in TNA. She was going to be on leave for a few months longer, and that was going to drive her nuts. Well, scratch that, she was already driven nuts, because not being able to do anything was making her angry. She couldn't go work out, she couldn't do any work, and that really made her angry. But what really made her angry was not being able to support the family that she had. Katie was living with her, and already looking for her a job to support herself, and Mickie James was a wrestler performing in TNA, something in which she loved.

But of all things that really made her sad, it was not being near the woman that she loved, Mickie James. She hated that she was gone most of the time, but Mickie was doing something that she loved, and being a cop was something that Asya loved. So in this relationship, she hated being away and having the woman that she loved be nearly a thousand miles away from her.

Letting a tear fall from her face, she laid on her bed, and fell asleep.

Mickie found herself running through a hospital, fear and dread in her heart. She knew that Asya was here, and it wasn't for a good reason. She heard from Katie that Asya was shot in the chest trying to protect her from Tara, and Tara was in those two lives because of her. Now all she could do was try to see what she was going through.

Mickie finally found her way to the room in which Asya was placed in. She calmly walked in, and saw the state that Asya was in. She was laying in bed, her breathing was helped by a machine that was close by. Mickie choked back a sob, and walked in to take a seat right next to her. This was her fault. If she never came to Asya in the first place, Tara never would have kidnapped Katie, Asya wouldn't have had to save her, and Asya would not be in this situation right now. Mickie knew that the only thing that she could do right now was to be here for the woman that she loved. She pulled a seat close to the hospital bed, and took Asya's hand in hers.

"I'm...I'm sorry...for all of this..." Mickie said through a wall of tears.

Mickie woke up, and realized that she was on an airplane, an airplane from Impact! all the way back to Richmond, Virginia. She was going to wonder what happened to her to get in this situation, but she remembered that she was here due to the fact that she was flying home from a show taping. She stretched out her body, and felt strangely relaxed. She missed Asya, who was still home, recovering from the gunshot wound that she recieved almost a year earlier. Mickie knew that Asya hated being at home, not being able to do anything but literally sit there, but what can she do? Asya also urged Mickie to go back to wrestling, because she knew that it was something that she loved to do.

The plane slowly made it's decent into the airport, and she knew that at that moment that it was only a matter of time from then on. Mickie smiled, because it was only going to be a matter of moments before she was reunited with the woman that she loved.

Whenever Mickie was away from home for a long period of time, Mickie could not wait to get home. She knew that Asya and Katie would be here, waiting for her to get back home, especially Asya, because she would be especially happy to see her girlfriend. As she slowly entered her home, and locked the door behind her, she placed her bags near the front door, and slowly made her way upstairs to where Asya was waiting for her. She opened their bedroom door, and saw Asya sound asleep in her bed. Mickie smiled, and slowly stripped out of her clothes to the fact that she was only wearing her bra and panties. She slowly slid into bed beside the woman that she loved.

Mickie was about to kiss her goodnight when she noticed that there were tear stains on her face, and that caused the older woman to be concerned immediately.

What is she crying about? What is wrong with her? Mickie asked herself. I hope that it wasn't something that I did. Maybe me being away is what caused this...

Mickie didn't think about it further. All she did was pull Asya close to her, and fell asleep herself...

Mickie's eyes shot open when she heard a sound right next to her. On instinct alone, she turned to see Asya laying there, but tears were streaming from her eyes, and it seemed to her that she was fighting someone in her sleep. Mickie did not know what to do, but the more time went on, the more violent the thrashing became.

Right when Mickie was going to bring Asya out of her sleep, Asya laid back down, and didn't move for a while. Mickie, completely worried about her girlfriend, wondered if she should wake her up to check on her.

Mickie ran a hand through Asya's brown hair, and almost on Mickie's contact with her, Asya began to breath peacefully, and she stopped crying. Then Asya began to sleep peacefully. Mickie laid back down, but she didn't go back to sleep, she wanted to make sure that Asya was not going to have another nightmare.

After a while of Asya falling asleep and not making another noise, Mickie smiled, and fell asleep on her own.

AN: Alright, now it is time to clear somethings up. One, if it was not made clear in the first Author's Note that I typed at the begginning of this story, this is a regular story, not a series of one shots. Two, I plan on this story being finished on the same night as Bound For Glory. With that said, stay tuned to see what happens next!