Kane finally released the kiss and took her hand heading for the door.

"umm Kane aren't you forgetting something." J.J. asked with a smile.

Kane turned and with a half-smile cocked his head.

"Your mask, and your still in your ring gear." J.J. said still smiling.

Kane nodded and looked at their clasped hands.

"Don't worry baby I'm not going to disappear if you let go. I promise." J.J. said

With a slow nod Kane released his grip on her hand an moved to get out of his ring gear but he never took his eyes off of J.J.

Turning J.J. went and picked up his mask. When he was done changing J.J. handed the mask to him.

"Not that I want you to cover up that beautiful face but…" J.J. said handing it to him. "I wouldn't want to make the other girls jealous that I got the best looking guy here."

Only you J.J. he thought brushing his hand along her cheek before taking the mask.

Taking her hand once more he headed for the door and toward the exit for the building.

"Aren't you going to get into trouble if you leave early? I don't want you suspended again." J.J. questioned.

"Suspend me… fire me… I don't care." Kane said with a chuckle. "Want time with you anyway."

"Sounds good to me Kane I've been wanting this day forever." J.J. replied

Back at the hotel Kane removed his mask and pulled her in for another kiss.

"Why did you come to the hospital? Why did you leave?" Kane asked, looking a little confused and upset.

"How could I not come, I love you. I left because I thought you wouldn't have wanted me there, that you'd be upset." J.J. said.

"You kept in touch with Pete." Kane said.

"Yes I had to, I needed to know if you were ok." J.J. said sounding somewhat ashamed. "I know I said I would leave you alone and not contact you. I did that until the hospital, and then I had to break my word and go to you."

"You should have broken it sooner. I missed you so much." Kane said.

"I missed you too. But would you have accepted me sooner. You were with the ministry." J.J. said.

"Probably not, not until I found out Undertaker was behind the articles not until I talked to Ron and Mike. I should have let you talk to me after it happened. You could have explained."

"Woulda, coulda, shoulda… it doesn't matter now. All that matters is that we're together again and no one will separate us this time." J.J. said.

"Not even death." Kane said.

"Let's not test that particular theory ok." J.J. said with a laugh.

Kane took her to the couch and without letting go of her hand he sat down. Sitting down next to him J.J. just put her head on his shoulder and sighed. They sat like that for a while with the occasional kiss thrown in each just savoring the company of the other.

"You know at some point we have to go and check me out of my hotel and get my clothes." J.J. said breaking the silence.

"You don't need clothes." Kane replied, "Besides I don't want to move."

"I'll need clothes eventually." J.J. said with a laugh. "Why don't we order some dinner and think about it. Or go out and pick them up and stop for dinner. I don't want to pay for a hotel room I'm not using."

"True." Kane replied without actually answering to either option.

Then he kissed her again and got up. "We'll go pick them up and check you out but I want to eat here. I don't want to share you." Kane said.

"Good cause I don't want to share you either, not with anyone."

It didn't take them long to check J.J. out and get back to the hotel. Once they had eaten they took their place on the couch again. However they didn't stay there long before J.J. got up and led Kane to the bed.

Lying together snug in each other's arms they began to kiss.

Slowly they undressed each other and got to know each other's bodies again. They made love slowly as if it could last forever.

"I love you." Kane said into her ear as they separated.

His harsh voice and tender words were music to J.J.'s ears.

Rising slowly Kane noticed the blinking light on the phone for the first time. It can wait he decided and moved into the other room quietly so as not to wake J.J.

J.J. woke and reached for Kane but found the bed empty and cold.

Was it all a dream she thought sitting up suddenly. But then she saw his shirt beside the bed and calmed. It wasn't a dream she sighed.

Climbing out of bed she went into the other room and found him playing video games with the sound turned off.

"What's this?" she asked. "You hooked on video games now?"

"It passes time. I had a lot of time to kill while you were away." Kane said turning to smile at her.

J.J. sat beside him and picked up the other controller. Plugging it in she said "Bet I can beat you."

"I don't think so I've had a lot of practice." Kane said a sparkle in his eyes.

They played for a while then decided to call it a draw and order breakfast.

Going into the other room to change J.J. noticed the light on the phone and knew it must have been from last night.

"Kane hun you have a message. It's probably Vince." J.J. called into the other room.

"I know I decided to let him wait." Kane replied.

J.J. dressed and went into the other room still shocked at his answer.

"You decided to let him wait. You know how he is he'll make things really tough for you." J.J. said.

"No hard was going without you. He can't make things any harder that that was." Kane replied with a huge smile.

"You'd better call him anyway. Besides I need to talk to him too and I don't want him in to bad a mood when I do."

"Why?" Kane asked.

"Well if I'm going to be traveling with you I might as well pull my weight and try and get my old job back." J.J. told him with a smile.

"Where were you all that time? What were you doing?" Kane asked suddenly curious.

"Believe it or not I was working in a small town as an interior decorator." J.J. said with a laugh. "I thought you would have known since x-pac found me there."

"He never said." Kane replied. "So interior decorator does that mean when we get our house it's going to look like a magazine." Kane asked.

"No way, I like the lived in look where you can actually touch things. I was decorating a bar." J.J. said. "Sandy and Rog were so much like me and you it killed me." J.J. added.

"I'd like to meet them some time." Kane said with a nod.

"We will, we'll go see them when we get in the area next time."

"Good." Kane replied.

Kane picked up the phone and found he had two messages. One from Vince as expected and he sounded pissed. The second was from Pete. He wanted Kane to know that Vince was really on the war path.

Hanging up Kane dialed the desk and got connected to Vince's room.

J.J. could hear the conversation because Vince was yelling so loud.

"What do you think you were doing last night skipping out on your match… dragging for all intents and purposes an audience member back into the locker room and then leaving before the show was over? I should fire you… I should I should… "Vince sputtered unable to find sufficient words to take his anger out on Kane.

"Do what you want Vince." Kane said calmly. "I need some time off anyway." Then he hung up the phone while Vince continued to stutter.

"I can't believe you just did that." J.J. said, staring aghast at Kane.

"Neither can I… it felt good." Kane said beginning to laugh.

"I think I'll wait a while before I call. It's gonna take him some time to get over that." J.J. said joining Kane in his laughter.

They sat together for a while watching a movie just cuddling on the couch. After about an hour the phone rang.

"That'll be Vince." J.J. said.

"I know." Kane replied with a smile as he got up to answer the phone.

"Yes Vince." He said as he lifted the receiver to his mouth.

"Damn it Kane.." Vince started.

"Damn it Vince…" Kane said cutting him off.

"Ok. Here's how this is going to play out. You kidnapped an audience member on live television. So J.J. is going to have to play along with this or it won't work."

"Play along with what?" Kane said. "If it's something dangerous you can forget it." Kane added.

"No just that she's going to have to be rescued from you." Vince said.

"What if I don't want rescuing." J.J. said on the other phone in the bedroom.

"So you want to be Kane's manager? Valet?" Vince said.

"No his girlfriend, and a photographer." J.J. replied.

"Kane's a monster.." Vince started.

"No he's not and it's time you realized that Vince." J.J. said cutting him off.

"No one is going to believe you went with him willingly." Vince said.

"Did the footage show me fighting Vince? No I don't think so. It's that or I don't play along Vince and you lose a chance to get any ratings from what happened." J.J. said sounding very serious.

"How do I explain his girlfriend being in the audience?" Vince asked sounding aggravated.

"Easy I'm his long lost love wanting to reconnect with him. No one will remember me as the photographer who helped him before except maybe a few die-hards. Then you play it like it looked he saw me, recognized me and couldn't wait until after his match to come to me. I'm sure you filmed you guys breaking down the door and finding us in an embrace."

"Well yeah I did."

"Then you have your story." J.J. said smugly.

"I don't like it.." Vince said.

"Why because it doesn't paint Kane as stupid or a monster? because that's what you've been showing people for years. Only that." J.J. said cutting him off once again.

"No I won't do it." Vince said. "You'll just go back to being a photographer and we'll forget yesterday ever happened."

J.J. looked at Kane and he smiled.

"Hold on a minute Vince." J.J. said.

J.J. walked over to Kane. "Is this what you want he'll go back to painting you as a monster." J.J. said.

"That's fine." Kane said. "It doesn't fit his image of what he wants he won't do it."

"Ok Kane if you don't care neither do I." J.J. said.

Taking the phone from Kane J.J. said fine we forget yesterday ever happened so you don't get to punish Kane either." J.J. said sweetly.

"Fine." Vince said and he hung up.

Hanging up the phone J.J. smiled. "Guess that takes care of that." She said smiling.

"Now what should we do today. We don't have a show till tomorrow." Kane asked.

"Where is the next show?" J.J. asked.

"Boulder," Kane said.

"Well I know one thing I have to do." J.J. said laughing, "Make arrangements to get there."

"Why not already made?" Kane asked.

"I didn't know if you'd see me or if the dedication was really to me. I didn't know if you wanted me back." J.J. said, "So of course I didn't make any plans for after just in case it was for me and you did want me."

"What if I hadn't seen you?" Kane asked.

"I don't know. Probably would have gotten a hold of Pete."

"Why didn't you call Pete earlier? I waited for you to."

"I'd promised I wouldn't try to contact you. Talking to Pete was a breach of that to begin with but I had to know you were ok. Then after the accident I just couldn't." J.J. said, "It hurt too much."

"I wished and hoped you would call Pete again. But you didn't and you weren't calling Ron or Mike and I was desperate. That is why I did the dedication. It was my last chance to reach you." Kane said, taking her in his arms.

"I'm glad I turned on the radio that day." J.J. said.

"Meant to be, Pete says."

"I guess he's right." J.J. replied.

Finally breaking the embrace J.J. made arrangements to go to Bolder with Kane and the decided to go out walking even though J.J. knew Kane would be recognized.

"So what happens now." J.J. asked. "Will Undertaker go back to trying to destroy us?"

"I don't know if you've been watching but he's too busy trying to take over the company. He claims it's for the higher power who's going to reveal himself soon." Kane replied with a shrug. "Besides we're prepared for him now, we'll never let him or his actions come between us again."

"Right, but who do you think this higher power is? Is there really one? I can't imagine your brother taking orders from anyone." J.J. said, taking his hand.

"Neither can I but he seems to think this is where he's getting his orders, where his power comes from." Kane said.

"Guess we'll wait and see like everyone else." J.J. said smiling.

Getting up the next day they prepared to go to the airport.

"Kane he wants me to be a photographer again. That means I have to reequip myself. I'd love to go back and have that bag again." J.J. said. "I'm sure Ron and Mike have it."

"We'll go by there the next time we have a couple days off. Until then you will just have to get what you can to do the job." Kane said.

"We'll see what we can find in Boulder." J.J. said. "And go from there."

They arrived in Boulder with a few hours to spare so they went looking for a Photography store. J.J. picked up quite a bit including the chemicals and trays for a mini – development studio.

"We know how handy this came in last time." J.J. said smiling as she picked out the chemicals.

Kane just smiled.

"I still can't believe you smashed all of this before you left. That's a lot of gear and money to have destroyed." Kane said as they got back into the SUV.

"I told you I would do it before I hurt you and I meant it. I still do." J.J. said

Once back at the hotel they didn't have much time before they had to be at the arena so they quickly grabbed Kane's stuff and headed out.

"Do they still give you your own locker room Kane?" J.J. asked.

"Yes, why?
Because I need to pick up blacks and get changed before the show and it will be easier if you have your own locker room cause I can change there." J.J. said.

"ok," Kane replied.

Getting there J.J. left Kane at his locker room and went to get the required black staff shirts and then headed back to Kane's locker room to change.

On the way back she felt someone glaring at her. Turning she found Hunter standing in a doorway his eyes burning with hatred.

"Hello Hunter nice to see you again." J.J. said smiling at him as she walked past.

DX

"I can't believe that bitch is back." Hunter said turning into the room and toward his companions.

"Yeah, neither can I." Road dogg said.

"I can she's as sick as he is to want that burnt freak." Jessie said, making a face like he'd swallowed a lemon.

"Well we not only have him to deal with we have his brother. Undertaker has really stepped things up the last month or so, since he mentioned the higher power coming. And we're a man down since the kid walked out on us." Chyna said.

"I told you not to mention the kid again. After all we did for him he up and walks out thinking he's going to do better on his own. Well he's got another thing coming." Hunter said. "I'm still going to end his career for him. Just not right away."

I can't believe he's still going to go after the kid, especially with so much else going on right now. Chyna thought. He's spreading us too thin… we're only four people and he wants us take on the Ministry, Kane and end the kid's career.

J.J./Kane

Getting to the locker room J.J. knocked and walked in. Then she gave a whistle as she saw Kane only half dressed in his ring gear.

Turning around Kane smiled and shook his head. Pulling his shirt on he sat down and said "My turn."

"Your turn what?" J.J. asked confused.

"I get to watch you get changed now." Kane laughed.

"No way you pervert." J.J. said, moving to go into the back and change.

"Hey, no fair." Kane shouted after her.

J.J. just laughed.

His laughter followed her into the back room.

Once she was changed she came out and sat down beside him.

"So who do you face tonight?" J.J. asked.

"Some new guy supposed to be good. Jessie the barber Beefcake."

"What's he got against you?"

"Nothing yet, But he's been requesting a match with me for some reason." Kane said.

"oh," J.J. said, "the barber he's not planning on cutting your hair is he."

"He'd have a hard time doing that from flat on his back." Kane said.

"Gotta go now babe. Time for the photographer's meeting." J.J. said getting up.

J.J.

Walking into the room J.J. was surprised to find everyone staring at her.

"We heard you were coming back but didn't believe it. Not after what you said to Vince when you left." Dan said.

"Well here I am." J.J. said, laughing. "What's changed?" j

"Not much," Steve said. "We're still sending all film out to be developed but even with that we're overworked." He laughed.

"Your right nothing has changed." J.J. said joining in the laughter.

"So where do you want me tonight?" J.J. asked.

"We haven't discussed positions yet."

"Ok, what are we discussing?"

"We were discussing you." Dave said laughing again.

"Are you really back with Kane?" Steve asked.

"Yes, we're back. No I won't discuss that with you guys."

"Ok I guess we can move on to positions then. How about you take announce right so you can catch up on the gossip from the announce table while you're shooting." Dan said.

"Sounds good, though I have been watching it's always a good way to find out what is going on." J.J. said.

Once the meeting was through J.J. headed out to ringside. She hid her spare camera underneath the announce table wishing again that she had the bag Kane had given her with the hard case for her spare.

Squatting down to the right of the announce table J.J. watched the fans file in. People began to hang their banners up on the balcony as they took their seats. "Wow, that's a lot of Kane signs." J.J. whispered to herself. "Nice to see."

Finally time for the show came and she went into action. She was so busy trying to keep up after so long away that she didn't really hear anything the commentators had to say.

She took shots of Beefcake as he pranced around the ring waving a pair of garden sheers, His purple and black outfit shining in the lights.

Then the ring posts exploded. Snapping her head up, she looked toward the ramp and saw Kane coming down. He seemed unimpressed by Beefcake, who was now ducking out of the ring before Kane was even halfway down the ramp.

As with Kane's usual opponents Beefcake thought he would get the drop on him by attacking from behind. It didn't work. Though Beefcake did get in a few shots it was more like Kane was playing with his food before devouring it. In the end Beefcake was as Kane had predicted flat on his back.

Kane flipped over the top rope and looked at J.J. with a quick nod before he headed up the ramp and into the back.

Kane

Walking back into gorilla position Kane was surprised to see the Ministry standing there.

"Undertaker." Kane said as he moved through the curtain.

"Kane." Undertaker growled. They stood face to face for a minute neither willing to step aside for the other until finally Kane turned and walked away.

Still weak my brother. Undertaker thought. I could have made you strong prepared you for the higher power's coming. We could have ruled this company together.

Just as Undertaker and the ministry began to move toward the curtain Beefcake stumbled through and almost walked into Undertaker. Without seeming to move Undertaker pushed Beefcake to the floor and stepped over him and through the curtain.

The Ministry

"As I have foretold the coming of the higher power is imminent. He has spoken to me and told me he will reveal himself in one month's time at BADD BLOOD!" Undertaker said shouting the last. "When he is revealed you will all fall on your knees at his great power."

Then the arena went dark and he was gone.

J.J.

Once the show was over J.J. hurried back stage, eager for a shower and a good meal.

"Kane!" she shouted as she entered his locker room. "Honey I'm home…" she added with a laugh.

Kane stepped in from the shower area already showered and changed.

"I'm going to take a quick shower and get changed and then we can get out of here. I'm starving." J.J. said, giving Kane a kiss on the cheek as she passed.

Kane grabbed her arm and spun her around for a real kiss before letting her go with a pat on the ass.

After she came out J.J. stowed her dirty clothes and looked at Kane.

"Is your brother serious with this higher power stuff… we'll fall on our knees at his power." J.J. asked. "He is kidding right."

"Mark never had much of a sense of humor." Kane said with a shrug. "Less so since he has become the Undertaker."

The month passed quickly as time will with the Ministry becoming more brutal every event as the time of the higher power came closer. Finally the day arrived. Badd Blood.