Hey guys! So this story came out of the blue for me! I don't really know where this will be going but I think it will be a lot of fluffiness and not a lot of angst. I absolutely love CM Punk and Eve Torres so that will be the pairing in this story but there will be a lot of other WWE Superstars and divas. The timing doesn't really follow any WWE storylines. For the sake of my story, let's pretend that CM Punk was signed to WWE and went to FCW in 2009ish. In this story Eve is sort of OOC because I said so :). She did not win the diva search but actually had wrestled for four years in Shimmer. I came up with this idea after watching CM Punk's new DVD which I LOVED!
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to the WWE or wrestling! Just my ideas!
Eve Torres had been taking a shower when she first got the phone call from the head office of WWE. She had just finished wrestling against Sara Del Ray and she could feel the ache in her lower back muscles. The phone rang twice and Eve hurried out of the shower to grab it before the person on the other line hung up.
"Hello?"
"Hello. Is this Eve Marie Torres?" a raspy voice on the other end asked.
"Yes. This is Eve. Who am I speaking to?" Eve asked suspiciously. She hoped that some random fan had not called her.
"This is the executive vice president of talent relations, Mr. John Laurinaitis speaking. I am calling you on the behalf of the WWE" Mr. Laurinaitis answered. Eve gasped.
"Oh! Mr. Laurinaitis! It is a pleasure! What can I do for you?" Eve asked excitedly. Was this it? Was she finally going to be signed by the WWE?
"Actually it's not what you can do for me but what I can do for you Miss Torres. How would you like to have a private tryout with the WWE next Saturday in Tampa, Florida?" Mr. Laurinaitis asked. Eve blinked twice but mentally she was screaming in her head and jumping up and down.
"Oh um yes! I would love to have a private tryout! Thank you so much for this opportunity!" Eve exclaimed. She hung up the phone and started jumping up and down excitedly… until she realized that she was still soaking wet and had shampoo in her hair.
Meanwhile over in Stamford, Connecticut, Johnny Ace hung up the phone and turned to the other man in the room.
"I have called her and she agreed to tryout" Johnny reports before laughing, "I mean was there any doubt? Everyone wants to be in the WWE!" The man who Johnny was speaking to shrugged.
"I don't know. Some people don't like the schedule and the amount of work we superstars and divas put in" the man stated.
"Oh come on Hunter! She's a girl. How much work do girls do anyway? She would say yes just for the chance to become famous. You know as well as I do that half of our divas leave to model!" Johnny announced. Hunter rolled his eyes. Johnny only looked at girls as nothing more than tits and an ass. Hunter scoffed in his head. If he thought like that, Stephanie would have beat him five-times-over. That's how Eve was chosen by Johnny.
Flashback
"Hunter. I need you to scout out a diva. We NEED another GREAT one since Maria and Mickie James left!" Vince stated over the phone. Hunter stared at the pile of paperwork on his desk.
"But Vince! You already assigned me the task of going over the tag team division and then I have to read through the biodatas for some of the FCW superstars so I can call some of them up! I can't scout out a diva at the same time!" Hunter complained.
"Well… if it's too much work Hunter, I can assign Laurinaitis to this task" Vince replied. Hunter glanced up and looked out his office door to see Johnny at his desk across the hall. He was reading a swimsuit magazine… well reading implied that Johnny was actually flipping pages and he was just staring at the magazine.
"No! No! That's okay! I'll do it!" Hunter exclaimed. He knew if Johnny was assigned this task all he would do was pick a girl from his magazines who had no wrestling experience. Hunter's exclamation seemed to go straight over Vince.
"Why don't the two of you work on this? It'll teach you how to work with others so you will have experience when you take over the company" Vince announced.
"But…" Hunter began.
"No, no, no! I've made up my mind and you can't change it now! Hop to it, you two!" Vince stated before hanging up. Hunter sighed and put aside all of his other work to look for a new diva. He spent a month studying indie female wrestlers. He checked out their biodata, their matches and their look. He finally narrowed it down to three and that's when he called Johnny into his office to ask him who he thought was the next diva. Johnny had glanced at the three headshots before quickly pointing to Eve.
"Her. That's our new diva" Johnny stated. Hunter raised an eyebrow.
"What? That's it? You don't want to know who they are and what their records are like?" Hunter asked.
"Why bother? This one is hot and sexy. I mean look at her eyes. They just reel you in. She's perfect" Johnny stated. Hunter rolled his eyes. This is why he had not collaborated with Johnny earlier.
"Here's her number. Call her down to FCW next Saturday and we'll give her a tryout" Hunter told Johnny. Johnny smirked.
"Yes sir" he chuckled.
End Flashback
Eve flew to Tampa the next weekend but she was running late because her flight had been delayed out of Denver because of a snow storm warning. The taxi ride seemed to take forever because Eve kept checking her watch.
"I'm soooo late!" she murmured to herself. This was not the first impression she had wanted to make. After what felt like a lifetime, the cab finally pulled up in front of the FCW arena and Eve quickly paid the driver before running inside. The receptionist pointed her towards the right direction. She quickly walked into the conference room and both of the men inside looked up.
"Miss Torres, I presume. You are late" the older man stated. Eve rushed to apologize.
"I'm sooo sorry! My flight was delayed and there was traffic on the way here!" Eve apologized.
"That's alright Miss Torres. Please. Come in. My name is…" the younger man began to speak.
"Your Triple H! Hunter Hearst Helmsley! Oh my! It's such an honor!" Eve exclaimed interrupting him. Hunter chuckled.
"You know who I am" he stated surprised. Most divas didn't know who he was when they came in.
"Of course I know who you are! I grew up watching you wrestle in DX and Evolution!" Eve stated. She wondered if it was wrong of her to announce who he was. Hunter chuckled.
"Well, I'm glad you were a fan. Please, sit down. As I was saying, my name is Hunter and this is Mr. Laurinaitis. I believe you spoke to him on the phone last week" Hunter said. Eve nodded.
"Yes. It's nice to meet you Mr. Laurinaitis" Eve stated nicely. Johnny smiled seductively.
"Please Miss Torres. Call me Johnny Ace" Johnny leered. Eve looked a little creeped out.
"Okay so Miss Torres, let me tell you how this tryout will go. We are going to take you down to the wrestling ring and have another diva join us. You will show us some of your basic moves and we just want to see how comfortable you are at running the ropes. After that, we will return to this room and see how well you are at cutting a promo. We have a script prepared and we want you to act as though you are live" Hunter explained. Eve nodded. The three of them walked down to the ring and Kelly Kelly was waiting in the ring.
"Hi there! You must be the new diva!" Kelly smiled. Eve smiled back.
"Hopefully" she answered. Eve went to the diva's locker room and changed into her normal wrestling gear. As she looked at her black sports bra and shorts and then at Kelly's bright blue sparkly wrestling gear, she felt underdressed.
"Okay… so Eve, Kelly. Let's begin with something simple. Vertical suplex, crossbody, elbow drop and bulldog. We'll add more difficult moves later" Hunter stated. The girls began to wrestle and almost an hour later, Hunter told them they were done. Eve's heart was pounding in her throat. She felt like she did well but wasn't sure what Hunter and Johnny were looking for.
"Great job out there! You definitely know your stuff!" Kelly complimented Eve as they were changing.
"Thanks Kelly! I was so nervous but wrestling is second nature to me!" Eve answered. She returned to the ring and followed Hunter and Johnny back to the conference room. Hunter handed her a script and Eve looked it over. It didn't look too difficult.
"We're ready when you are" Hunter stated. Eve took a deep breath before diving right in. The script told her that she had just kissed a guy that was not her boyfriend and she was supposed to act apologetic. Neither man showed any indication on their faces about how she was doing and that made Eve more nervous. How embarrassing would it be to have been called up for a private tryout but not make it. When Eve finished speaking, the men glanced at each other and back to her.
"Okay… well that's all we have…." Hunter began to say but Johnny interrupted him.
"Actually no Hunter. There's one more thing. Miss Torres, our divas are smart, sexy and powerful. We have seen you exhibiting your power in the ring and your smarts in this promo but we have not seen any evidence of your sexiness. Across the hall is a changing room. Inside of that room are several outfits. Find the outfit that best fits you and return here" Johnny told her. Eve nodded and left the room. Hunter glared at Johnny.
"Trying on clothes? Really? That's how we're going to pick our new diva?!" Hunter exclaimed. Johnny shrugged.
"You have your methods and I have mine," Johnny states nonchalantly before winking, "Besides wait until you see the "outfits" I chose for her to pick from!"
"They're all bikinis aren't they?" Hunter sighed. Johnny just smirked. Eve returned after changing into a bikini.
"That's nice. Spin around for us" Johnny leered. Eve glanced at Hunter who looked tired before spinning around.
"Now, act as though there is a camera in front of you and do some poses" Johnny stated. Hunter rubbed his hands over his face. Oh Johnny. Eve looked very uncomfortable but did as he asked. Johnny looked like he was having the time of his life. After about three poses, Hunter put a stop to this.
"Okay! That's enough Miss Torres. You may change back to your clothes" he stated. Eve nodded thankfully. She didn't normally have a problem with photoshoots but the way Johnny was staring at her sort of creeped her out. After changing, Eve returned to the room.
"Alright, so NOW we are done. We are going to review your tryout again amongst ourselves and we'll probably give you a call around next week to tell you whether you made it into the WWE. We wish you luck!" Hunter told her.
"Thank you so much for this opportunity. I just want to say that even if I don't make it, I'm just honored that I was considered" Eve answered. Hunter smiled.
"Shall I walk you to the lobby?" he asked.
"Thank you" Eve answered and the two headed out the door.
"So. What do you think? Is the WWE a place you can see yourself in?" Hunter questioned as they walked.
"I think so. I love wrestling and entertaining others and what better place to do it but in the WWE?" Eve answered before giving Hunter a sideways glance, "But I do have one request if I do make it"
"And what's that?" Hunter asked. Eve smiled.
"Can I request that I'm never left alone with Mr. Laurinaitis? He gives me the creeps" Eve stated and Hunter started to laugh.
"Oh my wife would love you!" he stated.
And that's it! What do you guys think? Shall I continue? And don't worry! Punk will be in either the second or third chapter!