She paced the hallway, waiting on her sister to show up, nervous and scared all in the same. What she'd done before coming to the arena had been nothing short of scary and the current mess she found herself in, well, it only served to remind her why this time, she was away from the hell she'd been living in for a little over 2 years now, she needed to do the smart thing and stay away from it.

"Come on, AJ.." she muttered as she watched the door to the arena's backstage area open, then Kaitlyn walk through it. She scowled as Kaitlyn walked past but quickly resumed her search for her older sister, watching the clock as she did so. She turned and bumped into Big E who blinked and asked, "Alanna?"

"Yeah, it's me, E.. Where's my sister?" Alanna asked, biting her lower lip, her nerves really operating overtime right now.

"She's on her way in, she and Dolph stopped to sign these little girls autographs on their way into the building."

"Good.. I need to talk to her, now."

"What's up, Al?"

"Oh, trust me when I say I am officially in completely over my freakin head this time, E." Alanna answered as she sank down, sitting on the floor, her head in her hands as she tried to ignore the harsh words, the violent sounds of glass shattering, the way his hand felt as it locked firmly around her throat almost choking her to death.

She tried to stand, but wincing, she wound up sitting back down. She knew people were staring at her bruises and scratches, the scars, but she didn't care. All she wanted, at this point was to find her sister, figure out how the heck she was going to get herself out of this mess.

Big E studied the girl, who looked like she was torn between shock, horror and rage at the moment and then he sighed as he remembered AJ telling him about how she suspected Alanna's boyfriend Grant was abusing her, controlling her and scaring her to death, making her too afraid to get away, too afraid to tell someone what was happening.

He looked at the bruises and cuts, and felt himself getting sick. Helping her up onto her feet, he started walking her towards the medic before asking a simple question.

"Does it have to do with Grant?"

Alanna looked up and bit her lip, keeping quiet. It did have to do with her ex boyfriend, very much, and yet it also didn't. It had to do with her being pregnant and now being afraid for not only her life, but the life of her unborn child, as well, because the baby's father was nothing short of a psychotic monster.

A monster who was going to come after her now, because she escaped him and nobody ever really escapes their nightmares, now do they?

"I'll go get AJ and Dolph, now. You tell your sister everything, I mean it. She's worried about you, hardly sleeps." Big E said as he got her settled into the medic's office, explained what he thought might have happened to Alanna while sitting, waiting on her to tell him she was finally going to tell her sister everything she'd been through, before it was too late and AJ was getting a call during the night to come to a morgue, identify a body.

Alanna sighed, feeling guilty. She hadn't been 'allowed' to reach out to her sister often, she'd had to sneak the phone calls and emails, letters she had managed to get to her, because Grant was trying to dominate her life completely. She sort of figured that with AJ being her twin, and the older of the two by a whole 15 minutes, that AJ suspected something, her twin spidey senses going into overdrive, but AJ never acted like she suspected.

"I will, Big E, I promise." Alanna said quietly, as she dropped her head again, digging through her purse with shaking hands, finding a bottle of Tylenol, swearing when she was so shaky she couldn't just get it open. She'd really done it this time and if she lived to tell about it later?

She'd be pretty darn lucky.

AJ spotted Big E jogging towards herself and Dolph and right away, she got this odd feeling that he was going to tell her something she didn't want to hear, about Alanna, her 15 minute younger twin sister. And true to her feelings, as soon as he was within ear shot, he said quietly, "Your sister's here.. I had to help her to the medic.. AJ it's not pretty."

Dolph raised a brow, then asked, "How bad, E?"

"Let's put it this way, when she came in, I'm surprised she didn't pass out. She looks like she's been in a war, not fighting off some jerk." Big E said quietly, as he said "I took her to the medic, she's still there now."

AJ sighed and then said quietly, "Dolphy, I'll be back in a few." as she took off at a panicked run towards the building.

Dolph found a security guard and found a picture of Grant and Alanna on his phone, taken of all four of them the Christmas past, and he pointed to Grant saying quietly, "If you see him, call the cops."

The guard nodded and Dolph took off to make sure his future sister in law was alright.

AJ rested her hand on the knob of the door, unsure as to whether she wanted to go into the office. Finally, she did, and she winced as she set her sights on her twin sister, hugging her carefully as she looked at her and said firmly, "You're done. I do not care what low down and dirty trick he pulls, sis, you will not go back to him. If I even see him, he's dead."

Alanna nodded and the medic returned with the results of the tests they'd ran and said with a comforting smile, "You and your baby are fine, Ms. Lee."

AJ's gaze pivoted to her twin once more and she blinked as Alanna bit her lip and said "I was gonna tell you, but I guess now the cats out of the bag.."

"You are definitely not going to be going back. I'll figure something out, just let me think." AJ said as she paced in front of her twin, ignoring the wide open door, the curious look she was getting from some of her male rostermates who had no idea she even had a sister, let alone a twin.

"Sis, sit. Stop pacing like a crazy person. You're drawing attention, and it's the last thing I want right now." Alanna said in a tired voice as she lie back, squeezed her eyes shut, tried to ignore the sinking feeling of panic as it washed over her.

AJ stopped pacing, glared at the two or three men outside the door and firmly shut the door in their faces as she turned to her sister and said quietly, "How bad is it?"

"Trust me, sis. If he catches up to me this time, I'm probably dead. I did a number on him to leave. He won't forget it anytime soon."

"yeah? Well he's lucky I wasn't there to do what I have wanted to do since I met the jerk." AJ fumed as she looked at her sister, shocked that Alanna had been keeping this from her, a little hurt, definitely pissed about it.

"Does mom even know anything?" AJ asked finally as Alanna dropped her eyes guiltily and shook her head. "Grant did everything he could to make sure nobody knew what he was doing. And he was trying to make me a prisoner."

AJ looked at her sister and then said quietly, "I'm so pissed at you right now I can't even.. Why would you not tell someone?"

"Because, AJ, if I had, he might have done something to you guys or mom." Alanna said quietly, disgusted with herself now for not getting away sooner, feeling weak, hating the feeling as it hit her. "Look.. I'm not strong like you, okay? I'm just not."

"You are, you just make the stupidest decisions sometimes, Alanna." AJ said as she sighed and muttered, "Sorry, it's just.. All the things Mom sacrificed for us so we wouldn't grow up in the very enviorment you keep finding yourself drawn to. It just scares me that you can't find a good guy, a nice guy. It scares me that this Grant jerk's got such a hold on you that you go a month almost without calling any of us, now you show up here and look like you've been dragged through the 9th ring of hell."

"I know, AJ. And I'm not going back this time, ever.I'm not just thinking about me anymore. And I realized that if I keep going back, if I keep letting him win, then I'll wind up dying before I even really get to live." Alanna said as Vickie burst in, but stopped in mid rant to look from AJ to Alanna, then ask AJ, "What is this?"

"This is a family conversation, Vickie, kindly get out of here." AJ ground out as she looked at the woman angrily and crossed her arms.

Vickie looked at them and then said quietly, "What's going on?"

"Can't you tell, lady? Isn't it obvious? Once again the fuck up of a younger twin's gotten herself in over her head." Alanna said quietly, a bitter tone in her voice as Vickie spoke up and said casually to AJ, "She stays. Thank me later." before turning her attention to Alanna and saying, "Oh and for future references? I hope to God you stay away from whoever did that to you." before walking out, leaving AJ stunned and Alanna with a brow raised.

"Okay then.."

"Yeah.. She's hardly ever nice. I'm just thanking God that she's not running to tell Vince everything, finding some way to t wist this, exploit it on air." AJ said as she looked at the doorway Vickie walked out of moments before, eyes full of questions.

Out in the hallway, Dolph Ziggler was fielding questions from a few ofthe other men of the roster, left and right.. Well, only a select few of them.

"Look, you guys just leave her alone, got it? She's just getting out of something really, really scary and she's always been skittish to begin with." Dolph warned as someone asked, "Why didn't AJ ever tell us about a sister?"

"Because look how all of you idiots treat her?"

"And?"

"Can you really answer that, honestly, and tell me you don't blame her for not divulging every little detail about her personal life?" Dolph asked as he turned and walked away, into the medic's office where AJ told him everything that was going on and what Vickie had just done.

The door opened again and Vickie peeked in as she said "I've talked to McMahon. There is a job opening with the show, if your sister can do it, it's hers. Thank me later. And Alanna? I meant what I said moments ago.. I truly hope that if you've gotten away this time, you stay away."

AJ turned to Vickie and then asked, "Why do this?"

"Because, AJ, despite how I feel about you, I know how hard it is to be away from your family. And, you dropped a letter from your sister once, and I read it. Doesn't take a genius to figure out that she needed help getting away, or what was going on." Vickie said calmly as AJ fought to keep her calm. After all, Vickie being nice was a rare and fleeting occasion. Especially where she was concerned.

"What's the job?"

"Can you do massages?"

"Actually, yes, I happen to be a massage therapist.. Or I was before this jerk.." Alanna muttered as she added quickly, "I was trying to get my medical license. I still want to, online."

"Good. Because our medic is old, and could use a lot of help." Vickie stated firmly as she turned and walked out, yet again, leaving AJ gaping at the door, torn between anger and gratefulness at what'd just happened.

But she had this feeling that she shouldn't expect Vickie to start being nicer to her. Nor anyone else. But at least now, her sister was here and safe, so one of the biggest reasons of her loss of sleep, her constant stress and strain was gone now.

Now she could focus on her fighting, and she could work on helping her twin sister get back on her feet and for the first time in her life, maybe get it into her head that a real relationship was not like the one she had with Grant.

They walked out of the medic's office with AJ saying calmly, "Move along people, nothing to see here, get out of the hallways, damn, seriously, don't any of you have matches to prepare for or scripts to read, something?" as she looked at her 15 minute younger twin and said quietly, "Let's just get you settled in back here with some food and something to drink, sis. Ignore all of these jerks and harpies, nobody really likes me and Dolph, and I don't much care, to be honest."

"AJ. I'm not 3. I can do things on my own." Alanna said quietly, as she bit her lip, muttered an apology as she sat, dizzy suddenly.

"Are you okay, Alanna?"

"AJ, I promise, I'm fine."

"Fine doesn't look green, Alanna."

"AJ, I'm not a baby." Alanna said quietly, as she squeezed her eyes shut, tried to make the room stop spinning for a little while. The medic earlier had told her she might have dizzy spells, this was alright. She kept repeating this quietly like a mantra, and she took a few deep breaths.

"I know you're not a baby, Alanna, but you need to realize that it's okay to ask for help sometimes."

Alanna bit her lip. She deserved the slight hurt and anger her twin felt with her right now, and she wasn't going to explode about it.

The pair continued to argue quietly amongst themselves, and Alanna rubbed the back of her neck once, her head pivoting around. Maybe it was nerves or paranoia, but she got the distinct feeling she was being watched just now. She took a deep breath and reminded herself that for the moment, her ex, Grant was out of comission, safely in a hospital in New Jersey.

But soon, she'd have more than enough reason to panic and worry, and she knew it. And she also knew that she deserved it. Or at least she felt she deserved it. She honestly had been through so much lately, she wasn't sure what to believe, and what to not believe anymore.

He did tell her he was the best she could do, and she'd be sorry for leaving him. She could only hope that he was wrong about that. Her scowl prompted AJ to ask, "You okay?"

"AJ, I told you five seconds ago, I'm fine... Just trying to remind myself that Grant's not hiding behind every dark corner, that I'm really out this time." Alanna admitted honestly.

Okay, so she'd gotten out of the bad relationship.. But would she ever really get out?


NOTES:

Okay, so this came to me while watching the movie Enough with J Lo, earlier today. I had an AJ Lee twin fic a long while back and while I liked it, I just never really got anywhere with it, the muse and the time to write wasn't there. Hopefully this time, this story is liked and gets a ton of good reviews, because my faith in my writing abilities is very shaky right now, and I've considered stopping for a while now because I'm well aware of the fact that I can't actually write for crap.

Anyway, beyond that, if you like this, tell me. I'm completely up in arms as to what I'll do with Alanna, however and who I'll ultimately pair her with.. So if you like this, tell me and keep reading.

Opening a poll for pairing, though I will say Alanna, I feel, is an oc that needs a strong and dominant male.