A/N: This is the first ever chapter of my first ever story. Hope you guys enjoy it!
Summary: Vince McMahon makes WWE Superstar Tom Fear train WWE Diva Maria. Their chemistry makes Vince put them in a friendship/tag team storyline, but is it more than just a friendship? OC/Maria. Other wrestlers also feature.
Rating: M for corse language and reasons you will find out towards the end of the story, if I get there ;).
Disclaimer: I own none of the things in this story, rights go to the WWE, Vince McMahon Jr., and any other parties...

A/N: Just before we start, I'd just like to say R.I.P to the greatest musician of all time... Rest in Peace, Michael Jackson...

Here we go...

-Pushed Together-

Chapter 1: Introduction

It was just another day in the life of busy professional wrestler Tom Fear, but this 'average' day turned out to be the first day of something quite special, both in business, and personal terms…

At the age of 18, Tom (his real first name) had one of three life-changing choices. He had just left college in his home country England and had the backing of his fantastic family, no matter his choice of career... His choices were:

Choice 1: Go to University – something he was capable of doing – and getting a job as a Sports Journalist of some sort.

Choice 2: Become a Professional Soccer player: quite a few teams were interested in signing him after watching some of his games for the college team.

Choice 3: Become a Professional Wrestler.

Choice 3, he just couldn't resist, he knew it was going to be a struggle and much harder than the other two, but he didn't care, he couldn't resist the temptation.

For around 18 months, he went to wrestling school, learning exactly what it took to make it in his new found profession. He began working matches in front of what had to be 30 people at most and it was that that got him his first real breakthrough. A fan filmed him cutting a rather harsh promo on the local area (as he was playing a heel in his small feud with a guy who was better suited to be a face) with his video camera and put it on YouTube as he found it funny. The man who recorded it happened to be quite popular with wrestling fans already on YouTube for his videos and the video quickly reached 10,000 views…

Somehow, Alex Shane – competitor and one of the senior booking staff for the now defunct (and former #1 Wrestling fed in the UK) FWA – saw the video and got Tom's contact detail's through the creator of the video and then the company he was working for. He contacted Tom, asking if he wanted to have a trail match for the FWA. Tom – not believing his luck – immediately accepted.

He (Tom) quickly rose to fame in the FWA for his terrific mix of wrestling styles, his European technicality, hint of Japanese strong style and dashing of high flying topped with his excellent microphone skills had him won over with the crowd immediately. Then when the FWA staged a special event called 'International Showdown', Mick Foley – who was to make a cameo appearance – [much like he had done just months previous when he spotted now World Heavyweight Champion (and then ROH World Champion) CM Punk] saw a fantastic 3-way-dance between AJ Styles, Johnny Storm and Tom Fear...

Just weeks later, Tom received a call from none other than Vince McMahon, asking him if he wanted to work for him. At 21, just 3 years after his training to become a wrestler began – he had made it.

After only 8 months spent in the WWE's primary territorial company, OVW, Tom was asked to make a debut on Smackdown where he would job to Carlito under his real name. WWE however, were so impressed with his selling and ability to make other wrestlers look good he was given a permanent spot on Smackdown. He was then drafted to Raw the following year.

Fast forward 3 ½ years and here we are... Tom is now a mid-carder on Raw with a large fan base, mainly comprising of 'smarks' – a term commonly used in the business to describe wrestling fans who know a lot about the business due to Internet access – wrestling under his original ring name: Tom Fear.

So, yeah, here he is, sat alone in a locker room during a house show, just finishing up the un-taping of his right hand after a decent match against Chris Jericho when he heard a knock on the door.

"Wait a sec!" he shouted, trying to finish taping his – what seemed – broken little finger to the ring finger next to it for stability. It took him a few more seconds before he had completed the slightly painful task. He opened the door to find a stage hand looking quite flustered and busy. "The boss wants to see you – in his office – pronto." The hand walked from the door immediately after uttering those words, still as flustered as he was moments before. "What've I done now?" Tom thought…

It wasn't long before he knocking at the door of the Chairman's office, a man he respected very highly, simply for giving him the opportunity to ply his craft in-

"COME IN!"

His thoughts were soon enough interrupted by the loud mouthed boss, and he did exactly as he was told, however, when he stepped though the door and shut it behind him, he was slightly surprised to see that 'Vinnie Mac' wasn't alone…

And so it began…

Instead of Shane, Steph, Linda or Paul like he would've imagined he saw quite a different sight. The slender body of Raw interviewer Maria Kanellis was sat down in a rather comfortable looking leather chair at a 90 degree angle to the boss' desk, with an empty one sat opposite to her...

"TOM! Just the man I was looking for." Vince said in his usual exuberant tone, "Take a seat over there next to the lovely Ms. Kanellis." As he sat down, Tom thought "Yeah, she's lovely alright..."

Being the shy man he is, he's never really communicated with any of the Divas, but of course, being that he worked with them, he at least knew there names.

"Hi…" Tom said, extending his hand towards hers.

"Hey, how are you?" Maria replied as she shook his hand. Trying not to wince as Maria had squeezed his damaged finger in the handshake, Tom replied.

"Not too bad. Yourse-" Just at that moment, Vince cut them off.

"No time for socialising people, lets get down to the reason I brought you both to my office-" at that stage Tom and Maria – for the first time – made eye contact, both quickly looked elsewhere and tried not to blush whilst Vince continued, "because I'm a busy man and have a whole host of things to be doing. NOW, Tom, you have stated to me on a few occasions how you would always have liked to take someone 'under your wing' as it were," Vince made an inverted commas hand gesture whilst saying this. "well, today is your lucky day because Maria over here has been looking for more in ring training. The majority of creative also see Maria as being a prospect for the future as long as she gets the right training. So I'm looking at you, Tom, to take Maria under your wing and give her some training as well as tips on how to handle yourself in situations your likely to face in the business. What do you think of that?"

Tom – nodding his head – seemed quite contempt with the idea and had a question of his own.

"How long are you expecting this to take?"

"I don't care, days, weeks, months, years, decades, it doesn't matter, as long as she improves quite substantially then I'm happy." Vince answered.

"Well… other than working with this beautiful lady-" Maria once again blushed, trying to mask it with a smile, but failing miserably, "what's in it for me?" Tom asked quite cheekily. Vince, knowing Tom has always wanted a push that he has – quite frankly – deserved, answered back in a cryptic fashion.

"We'll just have to wait and see, won't we Tom?" Vince's rhetorical question brought Maria out of her period of silence.

"Well I have to just say thank you so much Mr. McMahon for giving me this opportunity to improve my abilities and I'd also like to thank you Tom for accepting this offer." Maria looked at Tom, who looked back at her and smiled widely.

"It's no problem Maria; I'll be here to help. If you need anything, then you know who to ask…" Tom replied as he looked honestly into Maria's eyes, Maria raised her shoulders and smiled, as if she were an appreciative child.

"Well guys, good luck with the training and oh, I almost forgot, Maria I already knew you currently don't have a roommate because Alexis prefers a room to herself, but Tom, do you have a roommate?" Vince questioned. Tom, not realising where this was going gave a brutally honest answer.

"I never have done Sir…" Maria almost looked sorry for him as Vince made his intentions known.

"Great! That means you guys can share a room together to get to know each other better and so you can arrange training times easier." Maria looked quite confused as Tom replied.

"Oh ok t- wait… what?!"

"You heard me…"

A shocked Tom and Maria nodded almost simultaneously as Vince, with a slight head movement, ordered them out of his office.

Both of them seemed quite apprehensive to even murmur anything to one another as they were in stunned silence, a silence that was increasingly getting more uncomfortable by the moment as they were walking down the corridor to their respective locker rooms… Maria then decided to break the silence.

"How long do you think this will take then?" she questioned.

"The training process?" he asked. Maria simply nodded in response.

"I'm not too sure… all I know is that if it does take decades, like Vince said it could, then we don't have to worry because he'll have met his maker by then." Maria laughed, quite enjoying Tom's company in what had to be the longest conversation they've ever had.

"Oh and about this whole room-sharing thing, don't worry; I'll kip on the couch." Tom said, bringing up the 'touchy' subject.

"Wait, what? Kip?" Maria asked with a confused look on her face, causing Tom to chuckle.

"Ah crap, sorry. Kip is a silly phrase we use in England for sleep…" Tom rolled his eyes in slight embarrassment.

"Ha…" Maria said, "OK, I guess I'll see ya later on then…"

"I guess you will…" Tom replied as Maria met her destination, the women's locker room. Tom walked off as Maria stepped inside as Candice caught a glimpse of her while she was sat down lacing up her boots in preparation for an upcoming match.

"Hey, Ria."

"Hi…"

"Awww, his accent is so cute," she thought as she took a seat in the corner of the locker room, where her stuff was. "And he's not to bad looking either..."

She didn't think it at the time, but she knew deep down that not too bad – in her opinion – was an understatement…

"Maybe I'm not dreading this whole thing so much after all…"

A/N: Well there ya go peeps, hope that wasn't as sh*ite as I thought it was, sorry about the length too, I tend to ramble on a little.

Anyway, please(!) reply, as it will basically determine if there are anymore chapters from me.

Hope you enjoyed it!