Love Lessons

Scott Hall- Former wrestler- retired..Lives in Miami Florida..Grumpy confirmed bachelor and likes it that way.

Megan Brannon- Just moved to Florida from Virginia. Perky friendly mystery writer. Moves in the house right behind Scott's.

Summary- Take one grumpy man who had swore off marriage and relationships, throw in one friendly perky writer, add attraction and sparks, and see if you get a lifetime of love.

A/N- My Scott muse has been acting up again demanding a story, cant say I blame him, too few Scott stories out there. Anyway I am at his whim right now. This is not a continuation of Broken Halo, but there may be mentions of Characters from that fic, as it is that Scott that this story is about. It really bothered me leaving him in that big dirty house all alone and drinking with no one to love, I just had to fix that.

I don't own Scott Hall or WWE or WCW or any other stray wrestlers that may appear or be mentioned in this fic. I only own Original Characters.

Thanks for the great reviews..Please keep reading and reviewing.

Scott got up the next morning stepping over the garbage running over in the kitchen and made coffee. He looked out the window towards the woods and cursed. Why couldn't he get that girl off his mind. Damn nut is what she was. He had scared men twice his size with his temper and she laughed at him.

He took his cup of coffee and went to sit on his deck. If she knew what was good for her, she would stay off his property.

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Megan had been up for hours, she liked to do her writing early. She had took a break at six am to do her morning run, and then went right back to her writing. It seemed to work best for her.

She printed off the six chapters she had got done and went to the kitchen to make fresh coffee.

She smiled when Duncan jumped on the counter and she petted him. "Want lunch?' she said getting his food down to feed him.

She fed Duncan and grabbed a cup of the fresh coffee and sat down on her back deck. It was so peaceful here. It would be a great place to raise kids.

Megan sighed. She might as well get that thought from her head, she wasn't getting any younger and the last time she checked, you had to have a man to make a baby. Then her thoughts were drawn to Scott, now that was a man and she started smiling again at the way he had tried to scare her off. She read people pretty good, and she sensed over half of the blustering he done last night was a act. That was a man used to pushing people away from him. She laughed and finished her coffee and got up heading for the woods.

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It was hot out and Megan sank in the cool clear water of the creek.

By definition, she would have called it a stream, it looked a little big to be a creek and the water clear and cool. She went down stream a little to where it was deeper and it came to her waist. She smiled. She had on cotton shorts and green bikini top. When it was hot, she dressed as coolly as possible. She sighed peacefully as she rolled to her back to float. She was so glad she moved here, she could get used to this.

Scott stood back aways and let himself enjoy the view for a minute. She was hot, but not in a flashy slutty way. It was like she was hot, without knowing it.

She was pretty, but he had seen more beautiful woman. It was something else, he couldn't put his finger on it. He watched her float on her back, eyes closed. She was humming to herself and smiling, in Scott's opinion no one was that happy unless they were on some kind of drug. He seen she had her wild curls in some kind of pony tail today and the water had made it curl even more.

Scott walked down till he was right beside the bank where she was floating. "Didn't we discuss trespassing last night."

Her eyes opened slowly almost as if she was half asleep. He was startled by the color, somewhere between blue and gray, they were unusual..They stood out and it was like she could see right into his soul. "Good morning or should I say afternoon, now."

Scott frowned at her. Her and damn infernal smiling. He wished she wouldn't smile at him, it traveled straight to his groin and caused him to shift uncomfortably.

Megan seemed to be oblivious to his problem. She got to her feet, the water dripping down her body. He took in the green bikini top.. Her breasts were beautiful, her skin warm and tan from the sun. His eyes took in the tattoo on her stomach. It was a small Celtic knot and it circled her navel.

"Stop Scotty..stop looking at her, you know shes trouble." His little inner voice said.

"You know, there could alligators and snakes in there." He said and stood back waiting for her to scream and hopefully jump up the side of the bank and cling to him for protection, he wouldn't mind coping a feel.

Instead she shocked him again by continuing to stand in the waist deep water. "Really, Alligators..snakes..you think maybe there might be sharks to. I love reptiles..I find them fascinating."

"I'm not joking, this is Florida, could be anything in that water." He said crossing his arms.

Megan looked at him, he had that perpetual frown on his face and this morning he had cut off denim shorts on and again no shirt. This man could be on a sexy man poster. He looked like he was a stranger to shaving too, which just made him look even hotter.

"I'll be real careful." She said grinning at him.

Scott shook his head and held out a hand to her which she grabbed. The feel of her small hand in his sent signals straight to his lower extremities. " Great, another cold shower." He thought.

Might be time to go into town and find him a willing woman for the night.

He hauled up beside him. "I meant what I said, stay off my property, its dangerous back here, you could get hurt.

Megan looked up at him smiling. "Do you have a towel?"

Scott was becoming exasperated with her. "Do I look like I walk around carrying towels?" He snapped.

"Well it might be a good idea, since your new neighbor likes to cool off in your creek." She said laughing.

Scott grabbed her hand and started walking back too his house. "You're the most irritating woman I have ever met."

Megan giggled and let herself be dragged along behind him. "Wow so I'm number one on a what I'm sure is a long list of woman."

Scott turned to look at her. He was pretty sure that was some kind of back handed compliment.

They came to his house and Megan looked at it. It was a two story home, with a huge pool in the back.

"Do you live in this big house by yourself?" She asked as they walked up the stairs to the deck.

"Yea." He snapped.

"Sit here." He said indicating a lounge chair and he disappeared in the back door of the house.

Megan sat down and looked around, this was a really nice place, and she could see he had a lot more property than she did. She leaned back on the lounge and thought about Scott.

He seemed like a man that was used to putting up walls. He wasn't wanting to let anyone in. But Megan was lonely, she had few friends and the ones she did have were far away. She supposed she needed to get out and meet people. But Scott was her neighbor and she was determined to make friends with him, she could be really persistent.

Scott came out and thrust a towel at her. "Dry off and go home."

Megan just smiled as he sat down and sipped on the beer he had in his hand. "Thank you."

He grunted and did his best not to look at her.

Megan dried off as best she could and then dried her hair and laid the towel over the back of the lounge chair. She settled back deciding to let the hot sun finish drying her clothes.

Megan looked over at Scott and held out her hand. "Can I have a sip?"

Scott scowled at her. "Are you old enough?"

Megan laughed. "I'm thirty-two Scott."

He handed the beer over but he was shocked, she sure didn't look thirty-two.

He watched as her lips closed around the lip of the bottle and he groaned inwardly. He needed her to get out of here quick.

She took a long drink and handed it back to him. "Thank you Scott, I guess I should be going and let you get back to your peace and quite." She said getting up.

She stretched and Scott about bit through his tongue, her shorts rode up over the very edge of her cheeks and he wanted to get up and throw her over his shoulder and carry her to his bedroom.

She started down the steps to the deck and tuned around to smiled at him. "See you tomorrow." She said with a wave and took off.

"Goodbye Meggie." He managed to get out of his mouth.

Scott closed his eyes and took several deep breaths. The girl was off her rocker. He was going to have to start being really mean, so she would get the message. If she kept coming around he was going to have to spend all day in cold showers.

He decided he was going to town this afternoon, he needed to get laid and bad, then that little nut wouldn't effect him so bad, he convinced himself his reaction to her was the fact he hadn't been laid in four months. He smiled and sat up. He should start getting ready.

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Megan spent the rest of the afternoon painting the third bedroom in her house. She was just going to use it as a spare bedroom, or at least thats what she told herself as she painted the walls in light pale yellow and trimmed the room in sea green. In her mind she could see it as a nursery. More than anything in the world she wanted a baby, a child of her own. Megan knew it was probably due to her past, she needed a connection with someone. She longed for a child. She had began to think about adoption, but the longing to carry a child of her own was to strong.

She finished up and took a shower.

Megan decided it was time to get out and do something. She had called the animal shelter last week about volunteering there a couple of days a week. They had told her to show up anytime she felt like helping. She decided today was a good day.

Megan figured she needed to get her mind off non existent babies and start meeting people again.

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Scott had went downtown to a bar he frequented and met of with one of his regular sleeping partners. He had several woman he ran around with, but they knew the drill, sex..no strings. It worked for Scott.

Scott walked out of the apartment around ten and out to his car.

His mind was troubled. The sex had been good, hell there wasn't such a thing as bad sex to Scott. It was all good, some was just better than others.

But he still felt unsatisfied. It had been almost mechanical. Jenny was good, she knew all the tricks all the moves to make a man nuts, but it just wasn't there.

Plus all he had thought about was his nutty next door neighbor. Scott decided he needed a bottle of JD and a good nights sleep and he would be fine.

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"Meg we're so glad to have you here."

Megan looked up from the cages she was cleaning and smiled. "Well I'm glad to help. I love animals."

Tracey Stevens was the director of the animal shelter. She was always glad to have more volunteers.

And Megan was proving to be great, she had done everything Tracey asked with out making a fuss. A lot of Volunteers thought helping out was playing with the animals. Megan had jumped right in with cleaning the pens and cages, a job no one liked.

Megan stood up. "we'll I think that takes care of that."

"Come on we'll round up the animals and get them back in their pens and I think we can call it a night." Tracey said.

"Okay...lets do it." Megan said.

About a hour later Megan was headed to her car. She had enjoyed herself, she loved being around animals and she loved being around other people.

Tracey was a nice person and the had made plans to go out to a local bar and grill next week for lunch.

Megan knew she needed to get out, sometimes she became obsessed with her writing and almost became like a hermit, going no where.

She looked at the time, it was close to ten. The shelter closed at five, but a lot of the work involved went on after hours. She was going to be back her same day next week to help out again.

Megan sang to herself as she started her car. It had been a good day. She decided to go home and make something sinfully fatting, that would be a perfect end to a perfect day.

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Megan had showered and cleaned up and fed Duncan. He now sat on a barstool lazily watching her.

"Duncan this is going to be good, but none for you..you cant have chocolate." She said grinning at the cat.

She dumped the chocolate chips in the streusel mix. She loved this recipe. It was a breakfast streusel that had chocolate , what more could a person want.

She mixed the topping in another bowl and then putt the batter in two pans and added the topping.

Her mouth water at the thought of the end results. "I may have to run three miles tomorrow instead of two." She said to Duncan, who looked at her and yawned.

Megan knew she should get to bed soon. She would wait for her treat to get done and go to bed, six o'clock came early.

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Scott sat on his deck with his bottle. It was half gone and he wasn't feeling any pain. He really needed to get to bed before he passed out on the deck. He looked at the woods. He wondered what Meggie was doing. What did the girl do, when she wasn't trespassing and making him crazy, he wondered. He would have to ask her the next time he saw her.

He heaved himself to his feet and decided to head up to bed. He was in the hallway when his phone rang. He sighed and grabbed his cell from his pocket. "Yea."

"Well hello to you to ass wipe."

Scott laughed. "Kev, its after midnight, you know that right?" Scott said going on up to his bedroom and stripping his clothes off and throwing them on the floor.

"Scotty, since when did you become a old man, we used to be just getting started at midnight." Kev said laughing.

Scott lay back on his bed. "If you haven't noticed we are both the same age. We're forty-six now, not twenty-six."

"Speak for yourself man, I'm still the cock of the walk." Kevin said.

"So whats new, haven't seen you in a while, what you up to?" Kevin asked.

"Not much..got a new neighbor thats driving me crazy." he said.

"Somebody finally move into the house next door?" Kevin asked.

Scott rolled to his side. "Yea, mary poppins, she's nuts always smiling and laughing, no matter how mean I am to her, I don't think she's right in the head."

"Is she a dog or what?" Kevin asked.

"No she's ..well she's really cute." Scott said thinking back to her in the creek this morning. Then he winced, did he really just use the word cute. He was slipping.

"So why aren't you at her place screwing her brains out?" Kevin asked.

Scott sat up. "Shut the fuck up man, shes not that type of girl, she's the type you marry, not the type you fuck around with."

"Whoa calm down, sorrrry." Kevin said.

Kevin rubbed his chin thoughtfully. Scott sure seemed to have a burr up his ass about this girl. Was it possible he liked this girl.

"So what is she doing to get on your nerves so bad?" Kevin asked.

Scott looked out his window. "She's been trespassing in my creek and swimming in it, and she sings all the time and she smiles all the time, its not normal to yell at someone and they just smile at you. She acts like we're friends or some shit. I think she's nuts or something."

Kevin had to bit his lip not to laugh. Scott sounded more than a little confused.

"Yea sounds awful, you could always call the cops if she keeps coming around." Kevin said grinning.

"Ha ha very funny, yea I'm going to call the cops on some little girl, you big dummy."

Kevin laughed. "Well if she's really getting on your nerves that bad."

Scott shook his head. Kevin could be such a smart ass. "I can handle one little girl, I don't need the cops to do that. The next time I see her, I will set her straight."

Kevin grinned. "Yea you do that. Look I have to go. I'll talk to you again soon."

"Okay, Kev, take care." Scott said and hung up.

He laid back on his bed and closed his eyes, hopefully tonight he wouldn't have those dreams he had last night, about Meggie and what she looked like naked.