Title: An Open Letter from Christian Cage to AJ Styles

Fandom: TNA

Pairing: AJ Styles/Christian Cage

Summary: It was all so easy in the beginning…

A/N: Since this is a letter to AJ from Christian, the entire thing is [obviously going to be in Christian's P.O.V.

Disclaimer: AJ Styles and Christian Cage are property of TNA Wrestling, so I don't own them. In fact, I don't own anything or anyone mentioned in this fic. This is simply a piece of fiction, and I'm not getting paid for this. All I get is knowing that my musi are happy now I've written this and got it out in the open XD

AJ,

Do you remember what it was like in the beginning? All those months ago, when the Coalition first came together? It was just you, me and Tomko. It was all so easy back then. You did what I told you to do. So did Tomko. I was the leader, and you listened to me, and only me. Everything worked like clockwork then, didn't it? We were an unstoppable force. Nobody could beat us.

I don't usually make mistakes – I'm the champ, after all, and the champ doesn't make mistakes – but now that I think about it, I did make one with you. I made the mistake of having faith that you would be just as good a leader as I am. I gave you all the power, and you did nothing but abuse it. I gave you the chance to be the captain when I couldn't be there to do my job. And what do you go and do? The second my back is turned, you decide to go and bring the Angles into our team. The two biggest liars, the two biggest cheats in the entire company, and you decide you want them in our group?

And at first, you were too naïve to see that you'd made a mistake. You just went around with your ridiculous childish attitude, talking about how we should 'all be one big happy family'. What a crock of shit. How about you, me and Tomko? Weren't we supposed to be like a family?

I may be bossy. I may be an asshole, I may be a prick – but I know what I am, and what I am is a good leader. I don't go adding people to our group left and right, especially when they're people that I know will go out of their way to split us all up, stab us in the back and push us out because they're so power-hungry and don't want to share the spotlight with anybody else.

And what makes me even angrier is the fact that after a while, you didn't even bother to fix what you did. You just stood back, and surveyed the damage, and watched while it all fell apart. I saw you, watching while I got my head kicked in by Roode and Angle. You didn't bother to help me. You just stood there. And then you left me, battered and bruised in the middle of the ring.

You said that you loved me, AJ. When you love people, you don't turn your back on them. When you love people, you stand side-to-side with them and help them confront their demons. You don't just run away and abandon them. …You know that saying, 'If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen'? Well, this was your kitchen, AJ. And you just ran out and left me in there to burn.

People say that I'm the bad guy. And usually, I am. But not in this situation. Now you're the bad guy, AJ. You abandoned me when I needed you the most. You ruined the Coalition, you ruined our friendship, and then you just shrugged it off like it was nothing. I hope that you never forget this, because I know I sure as hell never will. I hope it haunts you when you're asleep, and when you're awake. I hope whenever you look at Kurt, you think of me, and how you ruined everything that we ever had.

Remember when everything was oh so easy in the beginning, AJ? Well, it's not anymore. I hope you can live with yourself knowing that fact. Everything just got harder, and it's all because of you.