Eve was extremely nervous the rest of the week. She thought she had done really well during the tryout but there were still butterflies in her stomach. Finally the phone call came. Eve was making dinner when the phone rang. She dropped the spoon and ran over to the phone as she did every time the phone rang.
"Hello? Miss Torres?" the voice asked.
"Yes! This is Eve!" Eve answered excitedly. Her stomach wasn't full of butterflies… it was way past that. There were frogs jumping around in her stomach.
"This is Hunter. I just wanted to call to let you know that you have made it into the WWE. Congrats. You are officially a WWE diva" Hunter told her. Eve let out a scream.
"OHMYGOSH! REALLY?" Eve exclaimed. Hunter chuckled.
"The fact that you just broke my eardrum tells me that you are happy with the news" Hunter stated.
"Of course! This is a dream come true!" Eve answered.
"Well. I'm glad you're happy. So here's the deal. This Friday, I want you to pack all of your essentials and fly down to Tampa again. We will meet with the creative team and discuss a plan of action. Now I know you have plenty of wrestling experience but we are going to be sending you to FCW for about a year before we'll call you up to the main roster simply so you can learn the WWE method of wrestling. I hope that is okay?" Hunter asked.
"Yes! Yes it is! I will be there!" Eve replied happily. FCW wasn't where she had wanted to be but as long as she was in the WWE, she was happy.
"Great. Vince, Stephanie and I will see you there!" Hunter stated before hanging up. Eve started jumping up and down.
"I'M IN THE WWE!" she screamed before grabbing her phone and calling all of her family.
That Friday Eve flew to Tampa with almost all of her belongings and her apartment locked up. She was slightly nervous to meet Vince because she always heard that he was a tough man to please. She entered the FCW building and ran into a man.
"Hello there. I've never seen you before. Can I help you with something?" the man asked.
"Oh yes… sorry about running into you. My name is Eve. I'm one of the new divas and I'm supposed to meet with Vince, Stephanie, Hunter and the creative team today" Eve told him. The man smiled.
"Well then. Welcome Eve. I'm sure you'll love FCW! I'm Paul Heyman by the way. I am basically in charge of FCW" Paul told her.
"It's nice to meet you… wait… were you Brock Lesnar's manager once?" Eve asked. Paul chuckled.
"Well I see you know your WWE history. Yes, that I was. Do you need any help getting to the conference room?" Paul asked. Eve shook her head.
"No. I think I remember it from last time" she told him. Paul nodded and said goodbye before leaving. She walked over to the conference room and walked in. Vince was sitting at the head of the table. Hunter was on his left and Stephanie was on his right. There were several other men sitting around the table who Eve decided must be the creative team.
"Eve. Welcome" Hunter said.
"Please sit down Miss Torres" Vince stated. Stephanie smiled at Eve.
"Congrats on becoming a WWE Diva. You'll love it here" she told Eve.
"Thank you and I'm sure I will" Eve answered before sitting down.
"Okay. So let's get to it. Eve, we are going to try to make you our next big diva. Since Maria and Maryse left, the top diva spot has been left empty and we need to fill in the gap. The creative team is assembled today so that we can pick a gimmick or name for you. Go ahead Gerwitz" Vince stated. The head of the creative team, Brian Gerwitz, stood up.
"Thank you Vince. So we looked over some of the biodata of Eve's and we've come up with a few suggestions. First of all, we believe that Eve should keep her name. A lot of words have e-v-e in them and she could do a play-on words with them. Now onto gimmicks. I think she really doesn't need one. She's a gorgeous girl who just needs to smile and wave and people will cheer her!" Brian announced. Stephanie scoffed.
"Oh please. Is that all you could come up with in a week?" Stephanie complained before turning to Vince, "I can't believe you haven't fired him yet!"
"Now hold on Steph. I know Brian's not dumb enough for that to be his only idea!" Hunter stated slightly threateningly. Brian looked nervous.
"Of course not! That was just the first. Our second was a dumb blonde gimmick. It worked wonders with Maria and Kelly!" Brian stated. Eve rolled her eyes.
"But I'm not blonde and I can't dye my hair blonde because it'll look weird with my tan skin!" Eve retorted. Stephanie nodded.
"Exactly! Besides, why can't you come up with a better idea instead of recycling old ones?!" Stephanie exclaimed.
"Okay… the third option is to pair Eve up with a superstar. She is Hispanic and we were thinking of pairing her up with a Hispanic male down in FCW. The two of them could be siblings. We could do some interesting storylines with that" Brian stated as he hoped that this idea was good enough for the McMahon family. All three looked thoughtful.
"Hmmm siblings… we've never done that" Stephanie murmured.
"A mixed tag team could be the revitalization we need…" Hunter thought aloud.
"I like it" Vince exclaimed, "That's the one!"
"But which superstar should we pair her up with?" Stephanie asked, "They need to look a little alike"
"What about um… what's his name…. the Mexican one who we hired two weeks ago…" Vince stated.
"Rodríguez? The one who is going by Del Rio now?" Hunter asked running through his list of new hires.
"Yeah. Alberto. How about him? He's young, Hispanic and I bet if Eve darkened her hair a little, they might look alike!" Vince stated. Eve tried to think of who they were talking about but she didn't follow Mexican wrestling.
"He could work. Let me just call Heyman and ask Alberto here" Stephanie stated before calling Heyman.
"Hey Paul. Is Alberto in today? … Del Rio. Real name Rodríguez … Mhhmmm …. Ok … Yes … Thanks Paul" Stephanie said before hanging up and turning to the others in the room, "He's in. He was in the training room today and Paul said that he will send him over"
"Good" Vince stated before turning to Eve, "Do you have any complaints against this gimmick as of now?"
"Not yet. Siblings sound really cool. We could do something like my brother… um Alberto you said? … could get upset anytime another guy hits on me and if we turn heel … I could distract other guys and Alberto could win matches" Eve said thinking aloud. Vince grinned.
"I like it! You're good. I think you're going to be a great asset here" Vince announced.
"If you ask Johnny Ace, he'll give you another, more perverted reason" Hunter chuckled. Stephanie rolled her eyes.
"Oh god. Did he hit on you Eve? And don't worry. If he bothers you, punch him or something. We won't care" Stephanie announced. Eve smiled.
"Don't worry Stephanie. I can handle myself. I teach self-defense and know ju-jitsu. If Johnny bothers me, I'll punch him so hard that he'll swallow his teeth" Eve answered. Stephanie blinked twice before laughing.
"Oh I like you!" Stephanie stated before turning to Hunter, "Great job finding her honey!" Before Hunter could reply, there was a knock on the door and a man walked in.
"Hello? I'm Alberto Rodríguez. Paul told me that you wanted me here" Alberto stated. Vince nodded.
"Yes. Come on in" he said and Alberto walked in, "So what do you think?"
"Hmmm… I think it could work…" Stephanie stated. Hunter nodded.
"I think Eve could die her hair a shade darker and we will be good to go!" Hunter gave his opinion.
"Eve? What do you think?" Vince asked. Eve stood up and Alberto turned to look at her before doing a double-take. Eve smiled at him and he smiled back. "Wow. He has a cute smile" Eve thought.
"I think we could do it! We could learn to do cool wrestling moves together like a normal tag team would! It'll be fun!" Eve stated. Alberto looked confused.
"I'm sorry but what are we talking about?" Alberto asked. Hunter chuckled.
"Yeah, I would be confused to. We haven't told you anything and just started judging you. This is Eve Torres. She's our newest diva. We were thinking of pairing her up with a male superstar and we think you're perfect. You two will be siblings. Are you okay with that?" Hunter explained. Alberto glanced at Eve.
"Si. That would be fine. I don't have any direction right now so I would love any storyline. Would I be playing the overprotective brother?" Alberto asked. Stephanie nodded.
"Yes. We are still in the brainstorming stage but that's basically the idea. The two of you will be in FCW for a year so that the two of you can learn to wrestle together. We want you two to look as though you know each other inside and out!" Stephanie answered.
"And it would be different if you two learned some tag moves together. It will make your pairing look more believable" Vince said, adding his two cents. Both Alberto and Eve nodded.
"It will be our pleasure" Alberto stated. Eve smiled and held her hand out.
"I am looking forward to working with you" she stated.
"Si. It will be fun" Alberto answered as he took Eve's hand and kissed it.
~ 6 Months Later ~
Eve skipped over to Alberto.
"Hey hey! Have you heard the news?" she asked Alberto. Alberto looked up from lifting weights.
"What news?" he asked. Eve grinned.
"We've got a new superstar coming to FCW today! CM Punk! Isn't that exciting?" Eve asked sitting down next to Alberto.
"So? We always get new wrestlers here. A lot of them come and go" Alberto stated turning back to his weights.
"Yes but this is CM Punk! You know him! He's been wrestling over in ROH for a long time and he's amazing!" Eve answered excitedly. Alberto grinned.
"Okay okay. I know him. I was just bothering you. I'm not surprised the E signed him. They always snatch up the ones that are hot commodities" Alberto said. Eve punched his arm.
"Jerk!" she giggles before glancing around the training area. The FCW training area was pretty large. There was a ring in the center where some superstars were wrestling while the trainers, Bill DeMott and Joey Mercury were giving them advice. Paul was in the back checking over some scripts. Along the outer sides of the arena were weights and mats where the FCW roster would work-out and grapple. Right now most of the mats were being used by the divas as they were doing yoga.
"What are you doing over here anyway? Shouldn't you be doing yoga with the other girls?" Alberto asked nodding over to the divas. Eve shrugged.
"I got bored so I decided to come visit my brother" she teased nudging him. Before Alberto could answer the door flung open and a man stomped in. He had long black hair, a lip piercing, thick eyeliner and a scowl on his face. CM Punk just entered the building.
"Oh my gosh!" Eve sighed, "He's so much hotter in person!" Alberto glanced at her out of the side of his eye.
"Really? He looks like a slob" Alberto stated. Eve shook her head.
"A very hot slob. Look at him! He's… he's… he's such a bad boy!" Eve swooned. She wasn't the only one. Most of the other divas had seen him walk in and were giggling amongst themselves. Alberto rolled his eyes.
"Women…"
"Shut up! If a superhot diva walked in here, you would do the same!" Eve teased. Alberto smirked.
"There's one sitting right next to me and I'm not swooning" he answered but Eve ignored him.
"Mhmmmm" she muttered. Alberto frowned.
"Look Eve. I can understand that you think he's good-looking and all but don't forget yourself. In 6 months we are going to be on the main roster. No distractions!" Alberto told her. Eve nodded and waved him off.
"Don't worry about it! I know what's at stake! I won't lose my focus" Eve answered watching Punk walk away.
Sooooo what do you think? Punk is finally in the story like I promised but in the next chapter he will be more prominent! BTW if your curious, the CM Punk I was describing was the one in FCW with his long hair, no beard and thick black eyeliner!