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Finn worked on getting the ring set up. One city quickly blended in with the next when you worked like she did. Set the ring up and take it down, city after city. But she didn't mind the work, it was hard and time consuming and after you were done, you had the rest of the day free, till it was time to tear it down again.

It had been a couple of days since her run in with Doug. He was long since gone, thanks to Joe.

She found her mind going back to Dave, she hadn't seen him since that day.

"Hey Finn."

She looked up to see Chessy standing there.

"Hey."

"Joe said you could have a break." Chessy said grinning. She knew that was only way to get Finn to take a break.

Finn sighed and got up.

"Well I suppose a couple minutes wont do no harm." She said.

"Come on lets grab a quick bite." Chessy said.

Finn just followed her, she had learned arguing with Chessy was pointless.

Finn and Chessy walked in the cafeteria and grabbed a sandwich and juice.

They sat down and Chessy immediately started the interrogation.

"So I heard about the fight..I heard you kicked that guys ass..are you okay...Dave said he met you and Mark too..what did you think of Dave?" Chessy asked out of breath.

"How do you do that and breathe?" Finn asked seriously.

"Believe me its not easy."

Chessy turned at Shawn's voice.

"Really funny boy toy."

"Hey Pax." She said to Paxton.

"Pax, Shawn this is Finn, a friend of mine. Finn, this is Boy Toy, and his smart beautiful wife and the little munch kin there is Lily." Chessy said.

"Nice to meet you." Finn said solemnly.

Finn smiled when she looked at the cute baby girl. She had green eyes and brown curly hair.

"She's very beautiful." Finn said smiling at the baby.

"Thank you." Pax said.

"Shawn why don't you go find your buddies, I'm going to join these two." Pax said sitting down and settling Lily in her lap.

"How come I feel like I'm not wanted?" Shawn said laughing.

He leaned down and kissed Paxton and then leaned over to kiss Lily.

"Be good Princess Lily, Daddy will be back real soon." He said giving his daughter a goofy smile.

Chessy laughed.

"God...do all men get goofy like that when they have kids, Scott and Mark do the same thing, I don't think they even realize." Paxton said smiling.

Finn had watched Shawn with his daughter. She guess not all men cared about having sons. It warmed her heart to see Shawn making a fuss over his daughter.

"I was just asking Finn about the other day." Chessy said.

"Yea, you're all Dave talked about the other night." Paxton said.

"You know Dave?" Finn asked.

"Oh yea, sorry, he's my big brother." Paxton said.

Finn nodded. She wondered why Dave was telling his sister about her.

"I just kicked that guys..." She stopped and looked at the baby thinking better of cussing around her.

"His butt..cause he put his hands on me..Dave walked me down to the medic." She finished.

Finn smiled at the baby who was smiling at her.

"Would you like to hold her?" Paxton asked.

"Sure." Finn said.

Paxton got up and laid Lily in Finn's arms.

Finn smiled down at the pretty girl.

"You're such a beautiful lass, you'll be running around in no time, huh?" She asked causing Lily to burst out in a full fledged grin.

Paxton looked at Chessy and nodded. Chessy grinned. She knew Paxton would agree, this girl was perfect for Dave.

Dave walked in the cafeteria and stopped. He had been trying to catch up to Finn for the last couple of days, but always ended up missing her. He smiled as she played with Lily. She might be dressed in those big clothes with that ball cap parked on her head, but her face was beautiful. She must reserve that smile for babies he thought .

Dave walked over and bent down to kiss his sister.

"Hey Pax." he said.

"Hey Davy."

"I see my little princess is in good hands." Dave said standing to look at Finn.

Finn looked up and her breath caught. Dave had a suit on and he looked good as hell. He was wearing shades and not a hair out of place. He looked like some hot male model.

"Hello Dave." Finn said turning her attention back to Lily.

She might think he looked good, but she knew how to hide it.

"Ya know what, I completely forgot..I have to go get Little Kevin, so Scott can go practice for his match and Pax, you promised to help me..with." She stopped trying to think of something.

"Scrapbook." Paxton said grinning at her quick thinking.

"Yea we're making a scrapbook of the babies." Chessy said getting up.

Dave stood there watching the two of them. They weren't very subtle he thought smiling.

Finn stood up and handed Lily back to Paxton.

"It was so nice meeting you Finn, we'll all have to go shopping." Paxton said.

"I don't really shop." Finn said.

"Girl, we'll teach you to love it." Chessy said grinning.

"Can I get a kiss from my niece?" Dave asked.

"Oh yeah, sorry." Paxton said holding up Lily for Dave to kiss.

Dave kissed the cute little face and smiled at her.

"I'll see you later doll face." He said making Lily grin.

Dave sat down next to Finn, assaulting her with his cologne which smelled so good, she figured she should leave.

What the hell was wrong with her. She seen him wrestle a hundred times and he never had any effect on her.

"You going to eat?" He asked.

"No..not hungry."

Dave lifted her chin to look at her forehead.

"How's it feeling?" Dave asked running his finger lightly over the bruise on her cheek.

"The bruise is fine, don't hurt." She lied.

"What about your cut? Dave asked still holding on to her chin.

"Itches like a bitch."

Dave smiled and nodded. He let go of her chin and sat back.

"Have you been avoiding me..I been looking for you the last couple of days?" Dave asked.

"No, I've been around." Finn said.

"So we're laid over here for a couple of days. You going to hang around or travel to the next city?"

"I usually just get one of the coach seats, sometimes I travel with the equipment..They have a trailer on the back with a couple of beds, depends on my mood. I guess I'll stick around here and catch the flight out." Finn said staring at him. She wished he would take the shades off.

"You room by yourself?" Dave asked.

"Yea being the only girl on the crew has its benefits, the guys share."

Finn looked at the time.

"I've been gone way to long, I have to get back." Finn said standing up.

Dave stood up pushing his chair back.

"What time will you be done tonight?" Dave asked moving closer to her.

"Should be done taking everything down by twelve-thirty."

"Okay..I'll meet you around Twelve-thirty and give you a ride back to the hotel." Dave said.

Before Finn knew what he was doing, he had pulled the ball cap from her head.

"Dammit what ya do that for?" She asked.

"I wanted to see that beautiful hair." He said grinning at her.

"Yea well now I got to pin it back up." She said fussing.

Dave reached out and ran his hand lightly over her red waves.

"I'll see you tonight."

"Okay." She said pinning her hair back up and shoving the cap back on her head.

Dave watched her leave with a smile on his face.

Little Miss Finn, had him intrigued, and that was something he hadn't felt about any woman in along time.

Finn climbed the scaffolding up to the top of the arena to a long walkway that ran across the top of the arena. She always watched the show from up here.

She had a soda and book if she got bored with some of the matches.

When she heard Dave's music she stood up and leaned over the edge of the railing to watch.

Finn watched as he took Edge apart. He really was graceful. But he seemed so different out of the ring, than the self proclaimed animal he was in the ring.

Dave won his match and the referee raised his arm.

Dave felt a prickle on his neck like someone was watching him and looked up and his heart about jumped from his chest. That little idiot, he thought as he watched her lean on the edge of the walkway that ran across the top of the arena. Dave jumped out of the ring and hurried up the ramp.

Dave knocked On Mark's dressing room door.

Mark opened the door.

"Whats up Dave?"

"How do you get to that walkway at the top of the arena?" He asked.

"Well I'm not sure, there should be a door to a stairwell that will take you up there..usually its on the bottom floor somewhere. Why?" Mark said shutting the door.

"Finn is up there watching the matchs."

"Whats wrong with that girl, she is going to break her damn neck." Mark said picking up the phone.

He called the security and found out where the door was that lead to the top of the arena.

"Okay, come on, I am going to bust that girls tail." Mark grumbled.

"Let me handle this, is that your answer to everything?" Dave asked following him out the door.

"Believe me Dave, it works in situations like this, that girl is a damn hard head, you can talk to you're blue in the face, it wont do any damn good." Mark said.

Dave climbed the narrow stair well that went to the top of the arena. The door had been locked, so he was pretty sure Finn hadn't come up this way. He got to the top and started down the narrow walkway.

"Finn...Get your ass down off this thing right now." Dave hissed at her.

Finn looked over at Dave.

"I don't take orders from anyone." She said and sat back down.

Dave didn't have a quick temper most of the time, but she was pushing.

"Finn, if I have to come over there and get you, its not going to be pleasant." Dave said and stated walking toward her.

"I'm not bothering no one, why cant I come up here?"

"Because if you fall, you'll be dead." Dave said grabbing her arm and pulling her up.

"Hey let me go." Finn said,pulling away from him.

Dave bent and picked her up and threw her over his shoulder.

"Dave let me down!" Finn shouted as he reached the stairwell and started down.

"You need to calm down, lucky for you I came up to get you and not Mark."

"Thats just great, now I got to listen to him bitch too." Finn said.

Finn was pissed , however she wasn't to pissed to notice how Dave's body felt under hers. God he was built. She could feel his muscles shift as he walked. The man was definitely built.

Finn felt herself being sat down and when she turned she found herself staring right at a very angry Mark.

He shifted slightly forward and blasted her.

"You do realize if you fell from up there, you would be dead right? What the hell were you thinking? You cant go around here doing whatever the hell you want! This is a job, not a daycare and we don't have the time to follow behind you making sure you're not doing dumb shit!" He exploded at her.

Finn two words in to his diatribe had schooled her features to show no emotion, she knew who he reminded her of now, her Pa. His crazy yelling, the way his body was tensed like he was ready to hit her, she expected him to at any moment.

Dave had seen men tremble at a tongue lashing from Mark, but Finn just stood there looking bored.

Mark narrowed his eyes. He read people pretty good, she was trying her best to look uninterested in what he was saying, but he had a feeling she was somewhere else altogether. Mark took a step toward her and her whole body tensed, it was subtle but he seen it.

She expected him to hit her.

"I'm not going to hit you Finn." Mark said taking a step back.

Dave put his hands on her shoulders and felt how tense she was. She was definitely not as calm as she appeared to be.

Finn looked up at Mark, but it was her Pa she was seeing.

"I'm not scared of you." She whispered.

"Naw, I don't think you are." Mark said studying her. This kid had some issues buried deep.

"Dave try to keep her out of any more trouble tonight." Mark said and walked off.

Dave took her shoulders and turned her around.

"The show will be over soon, why don't you come back to my dressing room."

Finn was pissed, she didn't need anyone trying to tell her what to do and where to go.

"I don't need you or that other bastard telling me what to do, just fuck off." She said pulling away from him.

Dave grabbed her arm and spun her back around.

"Fine, you just go an do whatever you want, I don't give a damn. You're a foul tempered little brat, sorry Mark and I gave a damn if you got hurt." Dave said.

Dave let go of her arm and stormed off.

Finn sighed her temper leaving as quick as it came. The show would be over soon. She would go hang out backstage so she could get right to work.

She figured Dave giving her a ride back to the hotel tonight was out. Finn didn't usually regret anything she did, but she was wishing now she hadn't gone off on him.

Finn actually like him, he probably wouldn't never speak to her again. She stopped in the bathroom and she caught her own glance in the mirror and stopped. Her clothes and the cap were awful, she wore the rattiest stuff she could find, so people wouldn't want to bother her. She looked like a bum.

She was lucky someone like Dave had even bothered to speak to her.

Finn pulled off her cap and looked at her hair.

Dave said it was beautiful. Finn turned from the mirror. She should just cut it all off and be done with it, thats what Pa had done, she remembered the way he had kept it buzz cut, just like a boy.

Finn closed her eyes trying to wipe the memories out of her head. But unfortunately it didn't work.

Finn finished up on the ring and they got everything packed up.

"Alright Joe, I'll see you in a couple of days." She said walking over to him.

"Need a ride to the hotel?" he asked.

"No." She said and waved to him.

The hotel was only a couple blocks away, she figured she would walk, it was a nice night out and the fresh air would be great.

She opened the back door and stepped out. She pulled a cigarette from her pocket and lit it.

She leaned against the wall taking a long drag on the cigarette.

"That will kill you."

She looked up to see Dave standing there.

"Lots of things will kill ya, sides it not a habit, I have one every once in a while." She said taking another long pull.

Finn didn't figure he would ever come near her again. She was surprised he was still standing there.

"You ready?" Dave asked taking her arm lightly.

Finn glanced up in surprise, he still wanted to give her a ride?

"I don't expect you to give me a ride, I don't blame you..I'm sorry I yelled in your face." She said stubbing out the cigarette.

She didn't go around passing out apology's unless she meant them. Dave seemed to get that.

Dave nodded an lead her over to his car. "I hope you were not about to walk to the hotel?" he asked turning her to look at him.

Finn looked down and decided silence was the best answer.

"Hard headed, you need a keeper, You know that?" he said opening the door to his rental.

She got in and he shut the door and went and got in on the drivers side and started the car.

Finn looked at him, he seemed even bigger in the confines of the car and she watched his big arms in fascination and the muscles moved as he drove.

"What are you staring at?" He asked glancing over at him.

Finn rolled her eyes and laughed. "I'm sure you know you're attractive right? Or were you unaware of that?"

Dave shook his head, she spoke her mind at least.

"You must work out a lot." Finn said still watching him.

"Yea I have to, to keep in shape, keep my spot at work." He said turning into the hotel.

Dave parked the car and hopped out and opened the door for Finn, before she could move.

"Do you have your room key already?" He asked.

"Yes." She said pulling it out of her pocket. "I checked in earlier today."

Finn looked up and seen Mark heading into the hotel and practically stopped and Dave ran into her.

Dave brought his arms around her to keep her from falling.

"His bark is a lot worse than his bite, Mark wouldn't really do anything to you, besides lecture you." Dave said leaving his arms around her.

"I don't feel like being yelled at again, sides, he reminds me of my Pa...yelling and screaming in my face." Finn said almost to herself.

Dave tightened his arms around her. He had a feeling, there was a lot of pain in her past, that she needed to deal with.

"Want to talk about it?" He asked.

Finn stood there not moving, she never realized how good it was to have someone touch you. Finn had never been held or loved in her life, the only touched she had relieved was fists or a belt. She should pull away, but she didn't she just stood there.

Dave leaned over her shoulder to look at her.

"You asleep?" He whispered in her ear.

"No." She said sounding a little out of breath.

"Whats wrong." Dave asked a little concerned.

Finn really didn't know how to express herself without sounding like a idiot. But she figured she might as well have a go at it.

"It feels good." She said feeling more than a little stupid.

Dave smiled. He tightened his arms around her. It didn't take him long to figure out she had trouble expressing any kind of emotions or talking about feelings. She was taking a baby step.

"It feels good to me too." Dave said.

Finn smiled. He got what she meant, so she didn't have to make a fool of herself trying to explain.

"Come on let's get you up to your room." Dave said letting her go and taking her hand instead.

Finn stared down at their clasped hands and looked up at Dave who was smiling some kind of smile that made her stomach flip flop.

"Come on." Dave said pulling a little on her hand to get her going.

Dave was starting to worry her. He made her feel stuff, stuff she wasn't sure she was ready for. Finn kept her emotions under tight rein, if they got loose, she didn't know if what kind of crap would come boiling up out of her. Maybe the tears she had buried most of her life. The tears she had never cried. They were just there under the surface, waiting to boil over. No it wouldn't do at all she thought.