She celebrated as her song, Girl Like That by Every Avenue, came on. The ref held her hand up in victory and she danced around the ring. It didn't last long though, her music was interrupted and everyone looked at toward the Superstar entrance confused. Then it came "I'll be your end of days" and Stu walks out alone.
"Congratulations, love," he says as he gets into the ring and gives Elizabeth a kiss.
"Thanks Wade," she replies breathing heavy, and giving him a one-armed hug.
"Now, I have a proposition for you. As you all may know," he begins, pointing to the arena full of fans, "Eliza Gabriel is the younger, and much better looking, sister of Justin Gabriel. Justin, will you join me in the arena?"
As PJ walks out, Stu starts again, "Now, Eliza, currently your brother is in control of your contract. Is that correct?"
"Yes, Wade. You know that he's my manager. Can you skip all the introductions and just get to the proposition?" she said making fun of him, and then she realizes she'll pay for it later when he turns and glares at her.
PJ is in the ring now, standing protectively by his sister's side. "Okay, okay. We are a little impatient tonight aren't we, Eliza? Here is what I want- and I'm sure that Justin will see things my way- I want you, Eliza, to join The Corre. You would be a great asset to us," he states, as if this isn't completely absurd.
Elizabeth looks at PJ with a hurt look on her face, "Justin, is this for real? No, I will not join The Corre. Wade that is the most insane thing I have ever heard you say. If you think – "
"Now, if you refuse to join us," Stu interrupts, "Justin will release you of your contract. Which means you will be fired from the WWE."
PJ looks at Stu, then at Elizabeth. Suddenly he moves from her side and over to Stu. Telling Elizabeth that what Stu is saying is true. She stares at PJ, trying to make him look her in the eyes, but he wont.
"Justin, how could you do this to me? We are family, why would you chose them over me?" she cried.
"Eliza, you have two options. Join me in The Corre, or be fired. Make the choice," PJ replied.
"Can I think about it? And tell you my answer next week?" she asked.
"No, you answer us tonight. By the end of Smackdown or you are fired," replied Stu.
The Corre music blared as PJ and Stu walked out of the arena, leaving Elizabeth there in complete shock. She stormed out of the arena and into the locker room. "PJ, what the hell is going on?" she exclaimed, "Vince didn't tell me that this was part of the storyline."
"He told me and Stu about it just before we interrupted your celebration. Great match, by the way," PJ answered.
"No, don't try to change the subject. This isn't fair. I've told you from the beginning of Nexus that I didn't want to be a part of that. And now you just let it happen? Why didn't you speak for me when Vince told you? I'm going to talk to him. This is ridiculous," she responded.
Walking out of the locker room, she was on fire. She marched to Vince's office and knocked on the door, hard.
"Come on in," she heard, "Ah Elizabeth Lloyd, I figured I'd be seeing you right about now. You will be joining The Corre tonight," he said when he saw her.
"Vince, come on. You know how I feel about their storyline," she responded. She had more to say but she couldn't think straight.
"Elizabeth, think about it. You are practically part of them already. With PJ as your brother, Stu as your on camera boyfriend, and you're still dating Heath, right? Well any way, those things don't matter. We need to add a female to The Corre, it will give them a better vibe with the fans," he told her.
Elizabeth knew that there was no arguing with Vince McMahon. He was the owner, what he says goes. As she walked out of his office, she felt her stomach sink. The Corre traveled together and stayed in the hotels in their own suite together. Every once in a while she would stay with them, usually in PJ's room and traveling with Heath was actually really fun. But now she would be required to be there, with them, all the time.
She went back to The Corre locker room and began to punch all of the lockers. The guys were all out in the ring for PJ and Heaths match against Santino and Kozlov. Elizabeth knew that when they won she would have to go to the ring and accept the offer.
Heading to the ring, a knot appeared in her stomach. She nodded to the sound guys that she was ready whenever they were, and she interrupted their victory celebration as Stu had to her. Walking to the ring with her head held high, she prepared herself to join The Corre.
Grabbing a microphone, she looked all of them in the eyes except for Wade, "Ezekiel Jackson, Heath Slater, Wade Barrett, and Justin Gabriel," she started trying to keep her voice from shaking, "You want me to join The Corre?"
In all their cockiness, they chuckled, nodded, and prodded each other. Wade yanked the microphone out of her hand, "Eliza, you know what we want. Now why don't you skip the introductions and get to your answer. And I trust you will make the right choice."
"Fine," she says, "I will join your group, but not because of my brother. I will join because my relationship with you, Wade, is more important than my issues with what you all do."
As she said this, she walked up to Wade and gave him a quick kiss. He picked her up and twirled her around, lengthening their kiss. Then exclaimed, " I knew you would make the right choice!"
They all walked out of the arena together, Elizabeth and Stu had their arms around each other. But as soon as she knew the fans couldn't see them she dropped her arm and pushed him away from her. Walking into the locker room, Heath realized, "Yes! This means you will be in our suite all the time now. I call rooming with Elizabeth!"
"Uh, I don't think so Heath. That's my baby sister. You are not coming near her on a bed with a 10 foot pole," replied PJ.
"Good thing I'm longer than 10 feet then," Heath teased while the other guys laughed and Elizabeth rolled her eyes at him.
"Seriously, PJ? I'm not a baby anymore. And you are not allowed to say who I room with," Elizabeth said plainly.
"Well it doesn't matter anyway, because tonight is family movie night. Remember?" PJ reminded Elizabeth. Family movie night was something they did every Tuesday night since they left Cape Town. It was their way to spend time together with their busy schedules.
"How could I forget, PJ? You've only been going on about what movie we were going to watch since last Tuesday," Elizabeth teased, "Just let me get changed and get my stuff packed. I'll ride back to the hotel with you and we can stop at the video store on the way."
"Sound good to me," PJ replied.
She took her time changing because she noticed some slight bruising on her hip form where Stu held her against the wall earlier. She couldn't believe that the guys didn't notice, but she was glad. She changed into a pair of jeans, t-shirt, and her favorite zip-up. When she walked back into the locker room, Stu was the only one there. She thought about turning around, but didn't have enough time.
"I told them I'd take you back to the hotel. They wanted to leave and you were taking too long," Stu said, as if reading her mind.
He walked towards her slowly as if daring her to run, but she felt paralyzed. Her legs weren't listening to her brain as it shouted for them to run, this happened every time Stu walked towards her with that smirk on his face. He closed the door behind her and locked it. When she heard the tick of the lock, Elizabeth knew she was stuck. Looking around, she searched for some kind of weapon but couldn't find one.
"It seems to be just you and me. I wonder what kind of nonsense we could get into," he laughed. He grabbed her by the arm and turned her around to face him. It took her off guard and gave him the opening to kiss her without her fighting back. He kissed her hard, shoving his tongue in her mouth forcing her lips apart. His hands wrapped up in her hair, making it impossible to break apart the kiss.
Elizabeth pushed at him as hard as she could, using all of her force, without any luck. When he finally broke the kiss she had tears in her eyes. She knew what was coming next, what always came next. But this time it was different, he let her go. He never let her go before, and she took advantage of it. Little did she know, that was exactly what he wanted.