Title: The Show Must Go On
Rating: T
Genre: Drama/Romance
Summary: Thinking she still has a shot with her exboyfriend, Ruby gets an announcer job for the WWE. There, she looks to reconnect with her one true love and try to get her fairytale ending. However she finds herself learning that it isn't as easy as it seems and maybe he's not the one she's meant to be with after all.

Disclaimer: I own the OCs. WWE is owned by Vince McMahon.

Prologue:
Fairy Tales of Yesterday

Once upon a time we were in love. It was eight years ago, and as sadly as this sounds, I can still remember everything about our relationship. We met in our freshman year in High School – we were lab partners, and lived just two blocks away from each other. Instantly we became best friends, which was a bit of a shock to the general population of our school. He was a "heartthrob" that many girls crushed on, while I was not unpopular, I just didn't exactly fit the bill of what people thought he associated with; I was tall and lanky for a female freshman, but luckily I stopped growing at 5'7", just as everyone else shot up. My blond hair was bushy and thick, very unmanageable. The only thing that was remotely attractive about me was my big green eyes, which accented my round face. Even though our differences seemed to set us apart, we got each other.

He, John Hennigan, and I dated all the way from the end of our freshman year in high school until our second year in college. We broke up when he decided he wanted to pursue professional wrestling and I wanted to get out ofCaliforniaand transfer colleges. The breakup was hard on me and I threw myself into my school work at Arizona State University.

It was years later, when I looked back and realized that I had given up on us too easily. To me, our relationship was like a fairytale almost, prince charming falls for an unpopular peasant girl who everyone deems not worthy of him. I realized that once he and I broke up, our fairytale ended, but it wasn't the usual happy ever after. It ended in tragedy and heartache, and just like that our story, embedded into my memory, was covered in dust to just lay there and be ultimately forgotten.

I couldn't let that happen, so what did I do? I decided to put my degree in communications to work. I found out through a friend WWE had an opening for a backstage announcer… and I tried out for the job. I didn't think I'd get it, and since I didn't get a call within the first three months I figured they hired someone else and I didn't get the job. I was wrong as I was called about five months after the initial job interview and asked to come in. From there, I was thrown into WWE developmental to work on my skills, and also taught the basics of wrestling (like how to take a bump). About a year after that at the end of 2006 I was called up to the Smackdown roster to start working as a backstage announcer, which is my current job at the moment.

John was shocked to see me, to say the least. But he quickly embraced it and he and I instantly fell back into best friend mode. He and I did some much needed major reconnecting. It was great for things to go back to what they used to be, just like freshman year. We were friends, and I had a great job – I was happy. I am happy…I just wanted more. I didn't make my intentions known – that I did this all to get him back. I didn't want to stir up anything, or make it awkward for us if he didn't feel the same way. Which he doesn't. Because he was in love with his exgirlfriend Melina, who had just broke up with Dave Batista.

Just like that they got back together, and I was left to mend my broken heart in private. As far as John knows I'm happy for him…but I still have hope for us. Like Queen said fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die.


A/N: So, I started this story towards the end of 2009 and after diligently working on it for a month and a half my writing ceased. I slowly lost interest in wrestling which made me stop working on all my fics. Today I got a sudden desire to post and add more to this fanfic, thus my reason for posting this prologue. This decision may not have been the best one I made on the count of this fic, like many others, may never get the ending it deserves. I wanted to post this story not because I just had a desire to post and work on it but because I also believe this is one of the best stories that I have ever written (writing wise, not plot wise although the plot is pretty enjoyable too). I hope you enjoy this story and I hope that I actually get to complete it because Ruby's story, while fictional, is also amazing and I just love it even if I haven't written it yet. If you want you can review (and provide motivation!) or you can flame and curse me out or just sit there and roll your eyes while clicking the back button. All three choices work. -Tiff.