TITLE: Sleeping With Ghosts
AUTHOR NAME: Marlena Snape
CATEGORY:Angst
RATING: R - For Adult Situations, Sexual Circumstances, Adult Content, Adult Language, Stalking, Etcetera.
PAIRING: Chris Sabin / Leigh Dominguez [OC]
DISTRIBUTION: Not unless you ask me.
GENRE: Wrestling - TNA/Indy

SUMMARY:Leigh Dominguez didn't have an easy life. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, moved around a lot when she was younger due to her father being in the military, and finally ended up in Richmond, Virginia where she resides today. She got into wrestling in high school, and got a break to do it professionally, but it wasn't a dream of good nature. Many things complicated her life, until she met Chris Sabin. But even then, people were trying to destroy what they had made. Would Leigh be able to overcome the ghosts in which she still slept with? Would their love overcome? Or would fate, and the odds, be just too much to bare for this young couple?

DISCLAIMER: Leigh Dominguez is credit souly to me. All TNA/Indy people, I don't own. I don't own TNA, I don't own RoH, I don't own any of that. The title, "Sleeping With Ghosts" is from a song, by Placebo. All created characters are credit to friends of mine, which as they show up, will get their props. This story is fiction, and that's it. A.J Styles is not really a stalker/psycho, I'm sure of it. Shazam. Enjoy.



Chapter One: A little back story

She was born Leigh Amelia Dominguez, December 1rst 1984, in Boston Massachusetts to parents Jenna Salvatore and Karlton Cade Dominguez. No brothers or sisters, being an only child, Leigh grew up in the center stage of her parents eyes. In turn, that made Leigh love to be the center of attention, but it also gave her a chance to know her parents to respect them for them, not just for their superiority over her.

At 9, her family moved from Boston, to Osaka Japan. Her father was stationed there for 6 years while in the military, where Leigh learned to speak the language. In Japan, she also attended a wrestling school from age 11 where she learned a bit of the basics, until 15. From Japan, her family relocated for the last time, in Richmond, Virginia. She was still 15 when they settled down in Richmond.

In Richmond, she finished high school, and stated college at 18. But at 18, she also got interested in something else again. Sports. Her dedication for wrestling re-ignited.. Having had the exposure to it in Japan, where she actually met a man by the name of Ryu Kaemon. Ryu was a spiritualist, and a man who expressed himself through lyric, word, and body. One line of a piece of Ryu's work that stuck with Leigh, was "Mou harisakebu koe wa dare ni mo todokanai", ( My voice that's crying out can no longer reach anyone ) To this day, when Leigh wants spiritual direction, she turns to her callous guardian Ryu Kaemon.

Also when she was 18, another event concerning Ryu. It was told to Leigh, that Ryu had been in a plane crash in the middle of the pacific ocean, while he was on his way to visit America, and the Dominguez family. Devastated by the news, Leigh left Richmond, and went to Tennessee. Months later it would be found out, that Ryu was in fact alive. He had spent time in a Hawaiian hospital, before successfully making it to the mainland, and then to the Dominguez home. By then, Leigh was gone.

That's when, she met a man named A.J Styles. At first her attraction to him was just physical, but it became more. Their relationship, was based on sex, not love, and his treatment of her was unjustifiable. Despite her family's warning, and despite the warning of Ryu, Leigh continued to see Allen, and he even allowed her to come with him into the NWATNA. Leigh took his abuse, as love, saying "you only hurt the ones you love, that's why Allen hurts me.". She was in denial for the longest time about his intentions.

The relationship itself? It was short lasted, and on pay-per-view ( in front of a full asylum crowd, and an even bigger crowd watching around the world on PPV ) he broke up with her. The definition of it, was the "Styles Clash" in the parking lot. He was said to have loved the girl, violently, but because he heard of her taking advice from Ryu, broke it off with her, to hurt her. He knew she loved him unconditionally, and figured that way - was to make her pay for her betrayal against him, for listening to someone who didn't even matter. He was the only one supposed to matter in his eyes, and when she stopped believing that, he stopped believing in her. In fact, he never had started.

But someone was there to pick up the broken girl, and bring the light back to her life. His name? Chris Sabin. He was a bit older than Leigh, but not by more than a year. He helped Leigh get back on her feet, but what would that mean? Allen, got jealous. To the point of immeasurable hostility. When he broke up with Leigh, he wanted to ensure that this girl would never, want to have another relationship. He had expected Leigh to crawl back to him on all fours, ready to serve him like the 'bitch' she was. That never happened. And this, bothered Allen beyond words. It fired up a demon deep within him, that was brutal - and lived to feed off the hurt he administered.

A year had past, before Allen really got fed up with Dominguez and Sabin's relationship. Work wise, Sabin and Styles weren't enemies, in fact, they had been friends. But the emotion that Allen was putting on Leigh, began to spill into the ring. The largest X-Division Feud in recent history was formed. Styles VS. Sabin. Sabin had been the X-Division Champion, until he was injured by a drive by car in the parking lot of the TNA Asylum in Nashville. He was forced to forfeit his title, and it was Styles who obtained it, after defeating Frankie Kazarian, The Amazing Red, Michael Shane, and Nosawa. This was much to the displeasure of both Sabin and Dominguez.

Chris was out of action, for almost 9 months. He had to have rehab on his knee, which was the portion of his body that was injured. After a long road back from the highly invasive knee surgery, Sabin made his return to the Asylum. At the time - A.J was a 2-time X-Division Champion, having lost it in Ultimate X - to Julio Dinero ( who was in that match with Low Ki, and Kid Kash, as well. ) He didn't appreciate the return of Sabin and Leigh one bit. What angered him the most, was that Chris and Leigh were still together. He didn't want that, at all. In fact, it was the last thing that Allen wanted. He had done everything, including lied, and paid people off to break them up. Nothing had worked.

Allen was done. He knew, he had to dig deeper into this to make them break up. He didn't love Leigh, he just wanted total control over the girl. Sabin treated her like a woman, like a queen, and that disgusted Allen to no end. He said, Sabin was "pussy whipped", said that Sabin "was a bitch", and that Sabin "needed to be put down like the dog he was". The so called friendship he had with Chris Sabin before the entire fiasco with Leigh, had long since perished, and the only thing Styles wanted, was revenge on his former friend, for HIS betrayal, and for letting a "cunt" like Leigh Dominguez interfere.

That's where our story keys up, after Chris' return to the NWATNA with Leigh, and after Allen's failed attempts.
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[A/N:] This is just the beginning. I've been planning this story for quite a while, and I figured it would be cool to write. For the record, yes, portraying Allen like this DOES bother me, but it's for a common purpose, and to make a good story. That's my attempt. So the fact he's a stalker, a psycho, and a mad-man in this story, is completely fake! I hope you enjoy the story.