Six months later

"Dean stop talking crazy! What are you thinking?" Lessie cried for the second time.

"Les it's only Randy, will you relax." Dean stressed once again to his best friend.

Lessie just shook her head she couldn't believe what her best friend was saying. Dean was talking about having a title match against Randy for the WWE-WHC. Dean had already been WWE-WHC over twelve times. Lessie though for sure that he would at least give the title scene a break. But Ambrose was a stubborn. To stubborn for his own good. It's a dumb stubborn but when the man would get an idea in his head you couldn't talk him out of it.

"Les will you just relax Tressa isn't even that worried."

"You do realize that means that Tressa and I will be brought into this right?"

"I know look it's not going to be that bad."

Lessie just laughed as she took another sip of her beer. The two were hanging out in the kitchen of Dean's apartment in Vegas. They'd both gotten a two to three day break from work and Dean had invited Lessie out to stay with him. Over the last six months the two had become very close. Lessie had even gotten a good foot into the Divas division. A few months ago she had her first ever Divas Title match against Paige and have almost beaten her. Halie and Tressa where now both former Divas champions and Lessie had honestly just about wondered if her two best friends really even though she'd be good enough.

"Not that bad?! Not that bad! Dean I'm talking about having to be at ring side watching three of my best friends have to fight mean while I'm suppose to be in the middle of this." Lessie told him.

"Les, for god sake it's a freaking story line! We aren't actually suddenly going to start hating each other. I mean you, Tessa and Randy will still be friends. Nothing is going to change that." defended Dean.

"You don't understand..."

"Then explain it to me because over the last six months every time I mention about working with one of your friends you flip out about it and act as if your going to loss those people or like I'm making you chose between me and them. What is going on Les?"

If there was one thing Lessie hated talking about it was her past. Sure she and Dean told each other everything about their past. But this was one thing she could never tell him, in fact she could never tell anyone about this past. Well that wasn't really true. Tressa and Halie both knew about it but mostly because they'd seen it and had been the only two that had stud by her threw the whole ordeal. It was one of the reasons why she hadn't anyone in almost five years and why she always seem to keep Dean at least at arm length until she was sure she could trust him not to judge her on certain things.

Losing friends was something that Lessie feared more then anything. Almost five years ago she'd lost every friend she ever had expect Tressa and Halie. All her other friends even her family had stop specking to her because she'd picked Tressa, Randy, Halie and Taker over everyone else. None of them could understand how she could pick strangers over the people she'd known her whole life. But she had and now she was paying the price.

She hadn't spoken to her parents in close to five years, her siblings, and none of her friends from back in close to six. When she'd broken up with that sick son of a bitch Lucas Connor everyone had turned against her. He'd told everyone that she been sleeping with someone high up the WWE food chain and that was the only reason she'd picked it over him. All Lessie had done after all the hateful calls from her family, hate emails from her friends and even the hate filled voice mail from Lucas's parents she'd cried her sleep every night and at one time though about leaving WWE. But it had been Halie, Tressa, Randy and Taker that had picked her up and been there for her. They were her family now and the only people she could count on.

"Les, hey Lessie it's okay come here." Lessie hadn't known she'd even started crying until Dean was wrapping his arms around her tight. She clinged to him until she could get herself under control enough to try and speck.

"S-Sorry, I.. I was thinking about..the past."

"You where thinking about what happen with your family and old friends?"

Lessie just nodded in response.

"What happen with all that Lessie? I mean Halie told me some stuff, Tressa told me things. But neither of them have really gone into a lot of details about it."

"I don't know if I can.. it's hard to talk about even now. It's been five years almost."

"Can you at least try?"

Lessie gave him a small smile as she pulled away and walked over to the counter and grabbed the bottle of water that was sitting out. After talking a couple of sips she turned around faceing her best friend she took a deep breath in and began her tale.

"Almost five years ago. I was dating this guy named Lucas Connors. We'd grown up together in Knoxville and our families were part of the "founding families" the Connors and Conroys were two of the oldest in town. So when Lucas and I started dating in Jr. High everyone though for sure we'd end up together. Our parents even started planning things for us. We'd go to the same college, Lucas would go into business and I would study what ever my parents picked out for me."

"So this was basically the 18th century and you were just suppose to marry the man your parents told you to?" asked Dean stopping her mid tale.

Lessie laughed a bit and shook her head. "Not excatley. See it was tradition in the founding families that every generation two of the four families would start a new "blood line". Lucas and I were the youngest the last two. Until one of the other two families kids had their own. Things between us where going really well. But the second I joined WWE things began to change."

"How?"

"The whole town found out I hadn't gone to college but to Texas for wrestling school. The Connors were so upset they wanted me sent to a rehab because they though I'd gotten on drugs or something. Lucas was told never to leave my side when I went back home. When I left to go Florida after getting signed. Lucas came with me. I'd only been working a while at NXT when I meet Tressa and Halie. So I started hanging out with them, Randy and Taker a lot. I'd go visit Tressa and Randy in ST. Louis or Halie and Taker in Houston. I'd even go visit Edge and the Harts up in Canada once in a while. Lucas didn't like this neither did our families. So finally after six months I told Lucas I didn't want to be with him anymore."

"Bet that didn't go over well with the southern stuck up."

"Nope," Lessie smiled softly. "I lost everyone after that. Lucas went back home and told everyone that I was picking a stupid sport over him, my family, friends and even home. Course my parents didn't like this news. They came all the way down to Florida to try and drag me home. It didn't work though. So they cut me off. I haven't spoken to anyone from Knoxville in almost five years. And they haven't spoken to me."

"If you ask me they're all a bunch of stupid jackass if they actually chose him over you."

Lessie just shurgged. She never though that Dean would want to know about that part of her past. It wasn't something she liked to talk about. But he'd told her things about his past that he didn't like. And from the way he was acting he didn't like the way she'd been done by her so called family and friends.

"It was a long time ago now."

"Does any of your siblings come to visit or see you when we do a show up in Knoxville?"

"My two older brothers Alek and Clay. They come to just about every show we have in Knoxville."

"At least two people in your family are smart. What about your sisters?"

"Please those two... No they're to worried about who is joining the country club and who is wearing what to the galas they host. Not to mention which of their daughters is going to marry into which family. And which of their sons is going to be a lawyer or doctor or senators or Governor or president."

"So you do you ever see any of your nieces or nephews at all? I mean when was the last time they saw you?"

"I see Alek and Clay's kids all the time. Alec has two boys Samuel and Davey. Clay has two sons of his own Bobby and Liam."

"Like I said those two have to be the smart ones."

Lessie giggles. "They both are. Stubborn as mules and mean when they drink to much. But they've always been loyal to me. Because I've been loyal to them."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, When ever Alec or Clay would get in trouble or something. I never let it be known it was them. Once Alec got into a fight with this huge football player at school because the guy said Clay had cheated in the game. Alec punched him right in the jaw and then from there it was a down right beat down. After Clay got threw with him the guy tuck his tail and left."

"Did the cops get called?"

"I told them the other guy start it and that Jamie was just defending himself because the other guy threaten to kill him." Lessie shurgged with a sly smile.

"So you lied for your brothers a lot huh?"

"Only when they where in the right. But I never told on them if they did wrong."

"I can understand now why they are so loyal to you. Does your family know that they.."

"Call, visit, check on me from time to time? They know. My dad almost disowned both of them. Alec and Clay both told him to go to hell and that if he so much as told them to leave his house they'd be glad to do it. Because they had their own."

Dean busted out laughing and said that her dad must have pissed off about that. Lessie told him just how pissed her father was. The laughter roared threw the apartment as Lessie explain her father's rage towards her brothers for disobeying him. When she was done Dean said he'd have given anything to see the look on her father's face when his own sons told him to go to hell and that they if he ever told them they couldn't see their sister again they'd disown him and say he was dead to them.

To Lessie it felt great to be able to speck of her two older and loyal brothers. Neither of them had ever left her in the cold and they such weren't going to start now.

"Okay now that I've told you my horriable past story. It's your turn tell me something horriable about you."

"Okay, only fair."

Dean told her about how it was growing up as a kid. Moving from place to place and how it was hard on him to go to school because he didn't have the new stuff like the other kids. Lessie listen without saying a word as he told her about how wrestling had saved him. Given him people like Bret Hart and a few others to look up to as a kid. See the thing with Dean was that even though he had parents and a roof over his head growing up the way he did could mean you'd either end up in jail, prison, rehab or worse death. So when he found wrestling it gave him a way out. And that was what had happen to him when he'd started working for the Heartland Wrestling Association.

Lessie could understand the wrestling saving your life part. From the time she'd turned thirteen she'd been drowning in a darkness that it had at one point almost killed her. Until she was fifteen and found wrestling. So both of them had found the light they'd been looking for in wrestling. Only Dean's light had gotten brighter and brighter showing him the way early on. While Lessie's was honestly just getting out of the dark tunnel that she'd been living in for years.

"The tunnel gets darker the more I tried to see the light at the end of it." Lessie suddenly said taking Dean by surprise.

"What do you mean Les?"

"You know how sometimes you feel like there is something just trying to drown you like suck the life right out of you?"

"Yeah, everyone feels like that sometimes."

"I feel that way all the time. I've never told anyone not even Tressa and Haile because I don't know how to explain it to anyone. I've been in this tunnel for years and years. An every time I think I'm going to finally see the light and get out of it. The darkness just gets thicker and thicker. I hate it."

Once again being the good guy that he was. Dean wrapped her in arms and held her close. It was so hard for him to understand what she was going threw. But he knew that he had to help her in some way. Of course he had to know how to help her first. He'd have to figure that out as they went along. For sure though he'd be there and listen to her when she needed to talk about something, or be her shoulder to cry on when she needed him. He'd even be her punching bag if she felt like she wanted to punch someone. Honestly it hurt Dean more than anything to see his best friend fighting to keep her head above water in life.

Lessie didn't understand why. But being in Dean's arms always made her feel like she was safe and that nothing could hurt her. It wasn't something she was use to. When ever Lucas had held her it always felt like he wasn't keeping her safe from the world or more importantly herself. It felt like he was just trying to show the world that she was his. For some reason though Dean, didn't do that. When ever he held her it made her feel like she was loved, safe and protected from the world and more importantly protected from her self. Which lets face it there are a lot of scary things in the world. But the most scary thing is the thoughts that run threw someone's head when they are left to have nothing to keep their minds from thinking to much when someone is alone.

"If I can I'll stop the darkness Les I promises." Dean suddenly spoke up breaking the quite.

"How? No one not even my brothers can save me from this."

"I'm your best friend, I'll be here for you when ever you need me. And I promise that no matter what if you ever feel like the darkness is getting to much come talk to me. Alright."

Lessie just smiled and nodded. But she didn't pull away she wanted to stay in Dean's arms just a bit longer because this was where she felt safe and sound. But isn't that the way it's suppose to be?

Maybe so but there something else at work with Lessie and Dean. Of course neither of them had any idea just how much they would really need the other in the years a head.