I apologize for the lateness of this chapter. I try to get a chapter one once a week at least, but last week was a very hard time for me, so once again, I'm sorry for the wait.

Hope you all enjoy this chapter! I had a great time writing it, specially because I feel such love for Leah and I really wanted to show you guys some of her background before starting to write Leah and Jon. Next chapter, Leah and Jon will be the main focus and we'll be going down memory lane.

Well, with all that being out there. Please leave a review or so! Thank you!

- Reese


Her few days at home were about to end. Pretty soon, Leah would be back on the road, this time with Jody - and she sure had mixed feelings about it.

Of course, she was pretty happy with returning to the job and being able to, once again, do what she loved. Plus, going back to travelling with her friends like she previously did. On the other side, she didn't feel great about spending so much time away from her family and she definitely didn't feel to secure about Jody being so close to Jon.

Most of the superstars and divas were travelling down to Texas, where RAW was being held the following monday on saturday so Paul had called her and told her to be there that day, which gave Leah one extra day at home.

"I was thinking about driving to Atlanta tomorrow." Leah started, during dinner.

The Hall of Famer looked at his younger daughter, not really surprised by her idea. Both, Ted and his wife, were positive Leah would want to go down to Atlanta before going back on the road. After all, who knew when she would return home.

"You're driving alone?" Melanie asked, visibly concerned about the long drive.

"I'll be fine, mom." Leah tried her best to tranquilize the older woman. "It's not the first time I've made the drive by myself."

"She'll be fine, Mel. I'm sure." Ted intercepted the conversation, rubbing his wife's arm. "You're not taking Jody though, are you?"

"No, it's too long of a drive." Leah told her father. "Plus, I'm going out early - if I leave by six, I'll get to Atlanta around one in the afternoon and I'll be back around ten - safe and sound."

"We'll keep Jody, enjoy the last few days with our grandson." Ted smiled, looking over towards Jody, who stood on the right side of Leah completely oblivious to the current conversation.

"Thanks, you're the best." Leah smiled, before silently returning to her food.


Six in the morning and Leah was starting her car. She had a long day ahead of her and she didn't want to return home very late, so her best choice was to get up when the sun was still caving his way out. She stopped by a coffee house two blocks away from her parents house and ordered a caffè latte with extra sugar. All help was needed to keep her very awake.

Even though the long drive, Leah was happy to have the chance to head back to Atlanta, Georgia. She was born there, that was her hometown and that had been home up until she was seven. It wasn't an easy year! She lost her biological parents at age seven, after a fatal car crash. Her mother Michelle was Melanie's best friend and once she gave birth to the brunette, Melanie was named Leah's godmother.

So when the little girl lost her parents, Melanie and Ted took her in, taking her to Mississippi. She was pratically raised there but eventually, they would take her to Georgia - because that was good for the young girl, it helped keeping the memories alive.

She learned everything from them, they were more then uncles or friends, they were family and they were mom and dad. It was a natural process, and the young girl just allowed herself to call mom and dad to Melanie and Ted - yet, she never once forgot about Michelle and Tom. To her, she simply had two dads and two mothers. And that was fine.

Leah arrived to the cemetery around one in the afternoon, immediately leading herself to her parents grave. Once the brunette was there, she left a bouquet of roses on top of it and kneeled down, as comfortably as she could.

"Hey mom, dad." Leah started slowly. The twenty-six years old had always found it hard to start talking to them.

"I came down here to say goodbye - for a while, I mean." Well, that wasn't the greatest beggining. "I took the job. I'm going back on the road this saturday - I'm heading to Texas."

"Jody is coming with me - I could never leave him for so long, God knows when I'll be coming home again." Leah explained, moving her hair out of her face and closing her jacket as she protect herself from the cold.

"I'm happy I took the job I am but you know, this whole mess with Jon.." Leah trailed off, leaving the rest out in the open. Talking to her dead parents about it all didn't really help the situation, not at all.

"Well, you know I'm concerned but I'll work something out." The brunette decided to leave it that and just changed the subject entirely. "I'm GM. That's the storyline - I'm happy about that, it will give me time to work on the ring some more before I actually get put in matches."

"Phil, Jay and Layla are helping me train - I feel like I should learn some new moves, I just need to bring something new to the table." Jon's offer to help her train lingered in her mind for a second to long but Leah choose to ignore it and push it right to the back of her mind.

"Well, I guess Leah DiBiase is officially back."

Leah smiled, her hand running through the pictures of her parents on the grave. When she signed with WWE, Ted had told her she could use the DiBiase name - he had actually insisted she did so, if that was what she wanted - because for all that counted, she was his daughter.

Leah felt like she should, she needed to. Because, what other way did she have to thank Ted and Melanie for everything they had done for her, other than to do justice to their name?


Friday had come rather soon after the long day Leah had in Atlanta. Her bags were done since the weekend before when she had dropped Jody in Mississippi. Most of her stuff were still at her and Phil's place in Chicago. The two had moved in together back in late 2009 and things worked good for them - even when Leah was worried things would change when she gave birth to Jody, they didn't. Phil loved the little boy and Jody couldn't like Phil anymore than he already did.

Leah watched Jody play in the living room with a few of his stuffed animals as she got his bottle ready. The kitchen watch marked 10:33 am when her phone vibrated in the balcony. Leah walked over to it as a picture of Jay and her sparkled in the screen.

"Missing me already, Reso?" Leah grinned as she held her phone pressed against her left ear.

"Not to much, no." She heard the Canadian reply and couldn't help but shake her head at the greeting they shared. "What's up?"

"Getting Jody's bottle ready." Leah announced, checking on the milk she was warming. "What about you guys?"

"Phil and I are waiting on Lay before we head out. We're about to go to the gym." Jay told her.

Leah put the phone on speaker as she finished Jody's milk. "Always waiting on that girl. Some things never change."

"You're on speaker and I can hear you." Leah heard the voice of the British diva at distance. "I'm here these two are the ones who don't get up from their beds."

"We've been waiting on you for half an hour." Leah heard Phil shout in the back and couldn't help but chuckle - God did she miss them.

"Well seems like you're all there, up and ready so get your asses to the gym and stop annoying me." Leah told the three. "I don't know if you noticed but I'm a mom, I've got stuff to do other than listen to you three."

"See, I told you she was gonna be a bitch." Phil kept on shouting in the back. "Never call that girl in the morning."

"I'm plenty pleasant at any time of the day.." Leah was interrupted by the laughters from the other side. "Oh, shut your mouths."

"We're gonna go now, girl." Layla spoke up, closer to the phone this time. "We'll see you tomorrow. Love you."

"Love you guys." Leah said her goodbyes and hung up the phone. She left the phone on the same place and walked towards the living room with Jody's bottle.

"Jody." Leah called trying to get the two years old attention. Jody lifted his head so he could face his mother. "Momma's got your milk."

Leah left the bottle by the small table in front of the big television and picked the boy up, sitting him down in the couch. "You wanna see some tv while you eat?"

Jody nodded his head and Leah smiled, turning the television on and leaving it at a cartoons channel. She handed him his bottle and the two-year old held it with both hands as he lost himself in the cartoons playing.

Right then, Melanie walked in carrying a few bags from the supermarket. "Hey mom." Leah greeted the older woman and got up to help with the bags.

"Good morning. Jody woke you up?" Melanie questioned, handing her daughter a few of the bags.

Leah shrugged. "He was hungry." She looked once again to the boy on the couch before walking back in the kitchen and leaving the bags up in the counter. "Where's dad?"

"Outside, he's on the phone but he'll be in at any moment now." Melanie told her as the two started packing the groceries.


Later that day things were as quiet as they could be. Jody was sleeping in his bedroom, while Melanie watched some television by the living room and Ted read some book in his office. Leah herself, she had just took the moment to check her computer and take a look on twitter and stuff.

She read some articles about last monday's RAW. Almost a week had passed and she still hadn't checked out what people were saying about her return.

Overall and considering the thousands of messages she had gotten in past few days, fans were happy about her return and the idea of her being co-GM of RAW.

Leah herself, she was happy about her return - even with all her concerns - and about being able to be part of such a big storyline. Leaving her laptop on the small table in front of the couch, Leah left the living room area and went towards Ted's office. Knocking slowly, she opened the door just enough to take a look inside. "Dad?"

Ted's eyes shifted from the book he was reading at the moment towards the door where he saw the young girl. "Come in." The Hall of Famer closed his book leaving it on top of the big table and waited for the brunette to take a seat. "I haven't asked you, how was Atlanta yesterday?"

"It was alright." Leah shrugged simply. "I had lunch and then went to the cemetery - stood there for some time and then got back on the road home."

Ted simply nodded, deciding against pushing that subject any further. He could tell something had been bothering his younger daughter but he couldn't exactly put his finger on it, so he just waited and hoped that she would come to him if she ever needed it. Hopefully, this was the case!

"I don't know what to do, dad." Leah let it out after a few moments of silence. Ted looked concerned at the outburst but remained quiet, waiting for her to continue. Leah got up from the chair and started pacing, back and forth. "Jody's coming with me and Jon's gonna be around - all the time."

Leah paused, stopping to face her father. "I have no way out of this. I got myself in a big mess and now I just don't know what to do."

"Sweetheart, you knew this would happen when you signed back with the company." Ted started, slowly getting up from his chair. "And you still went through with it."

"Have you considered, maybe you want to be able to tell Jon and end all of this?" The older man raised a question Leah was quite not sure how to answer. Had she considered that? Definitely not! Last thing she wanted right now was to tell Jon everything - she was not ready for that.

"When you showed up pregnant three years ago, I was obviously not happy Leah - you know that." Ted told her and Leah took a seat back in her chair. "You were twenty-three years old, you had your whole career ahead, your whole life ahead of you."

Leah looked down, her mind wandering back to those times. "And then you told me you weren't planning to tell Jon. I supported you Leah, you are my daughter and I'll always support you in everything you do - but you knew where I stood when it came to Jon knowing the truth."

"I know you thought you were doing what was best to protect Jody and yourself, but you didn't think it through - and now, in the long run, you've got a big mess to sort out." The brunette looked her father in the eye. She knew the man hadn't agreed to her decision in the past, and now, he still thought the better was to tell Jon once and for all.

"I'm gonna tell you what I did back then." Leah closed her eyes, memories of the past coming up to her.

"You're no one to hide a father from his son - but most importantly, you're no one to hide a son from his father."


"We'll see you next week, then?" Melanie asked for the three hundred time as Leah sat in the chair beside her, flipping the pages of a magazine.

"Mom, I've told you I'll call you when I'm sure of the time I'll be able to fly to Mississippi." Leah replied, yet again. "I promise not to keep Jody away from you two for too long."

Melanie and Ted were both taking turns at saying goodbye to their grandson. It was quite a lovely picture to see, if Leah was the one to judge.

"You've got everything you need?" Ted asked, letting Melanie take Jody from his lap and looking over to his daughter.

"Yeah, don't worry." Leah nodded. "I brought everything I needed from Chicago last week, remember?"

The three got up from their chairs when the last call to Leah's plane was comunicated. Saying her goodbyes to Ted and to Melanie, Leah took Jody in her hands and the two walked away - waving back from afar at the couple of worried parents. Even with her living in Chicago, Leah would spend a lot of time down in Mississippi with her parents, and now that she would go back on the road, they all knew the opportunities to see each other would be a whole lot less.

It was a small flight. In about 1h30min, they would be in Austin, Texas. Jody was asleep for most of the flight, which allowed Leah to just go through the magazine she was previously trying to read.

Once the two arrived to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Leah and Jody were suprised by a little welcome committee. Aparently, Jay, Layla, and Phil's flight had arrived not so long ago and knowing the time Leah was catching hers, they just decided to wait on her and the little boy.

"Uncle Phil." Jody was the first one to notice the three waiting on them and immediately protested on Leah's lap for her to let him go. Leah smiled, handing Phil the two-year old.

"You guys didn't need to come pick us up." Leah told them, as she gave Jay and Layla a hug.

"We got here like an hour ago - our flight was delayed." Jay told her. "We knew you would arrived around this time so we just decided to wait for you."

Leah nodded, turning to Phil and Jody. Phil was great with the boy. The two were incredibly close, probably because since his birth Jody lived with Phil (well, for most of the time he was on the road but still).

Phil gave Jody to Layla and the boy wrapped his arms around the petite brunette. She felt truly blessed to have such good friends who were always so present in her life and so sweet to her boy. Phil gave the Georgia native a hug as Layla and Jay both talked with Jody.

"How was your flight?" Phil asked, one arm wrapped around the brunette's shoulders.

"It was fine, it was a short one so." Leah replied, shrugging her shoulders. "How was yours?"

"Delayed." Phil told her the same Jay had. Leah knew that must had annoyed the hell out of the Straight Edge superstar. He hated having his flights delayed - there was a big part of the reason he had bought a bus, yet sometimes, he would fly with the rest of them.

Layla and Jay took Jody to the rental car they had while Phil stayed with Leah and helped with her luggage. They met back in the car around fifteen minutes later and drove back towards the hotel most superstars were staying.

They all settled in Layla and Leah's hotel room after the boys dropped their luggage by the room they were both sharing.

"Did you talk with Ted?" Jay asked, taking a seat on top of Leah's bed. Her and Layla had just opened their luggage and were taking off some dresses not to get them all wrinkled.

"No, he was in Florida with Kristen and Tate." Leah replied, knowing exactly Jay was refering to her older brother.

"Have you talked to him?" Layla questioned, looking over to the single mom in the room. "You know, since returning?"

"Yeah, I talked to him on the phone." Leah shrugged. "He called home and I was the one to pick up. He's not to happy about it - mainly because of the situation with Jon."

"We all knew where Ted stood in this whole thing." Phil called out, walking out of the bathroom with Jody. "He never agreed to it in the first place."

The conversation died there now that Jody was in the room, but the topic didn't leave Leah's head. Ted was never a big fan of Jon and didn't like it one bit when Leah showed up pregnant and decided to not tell Jon about it. He always thought she should have told him and Jon should have faced his responsabilities.

Now that Leah was back, Ted didn't like it either. Now, he thought Leah and Jody didn't need Jon in their lives. "You've spent almost three years without that bastard, you don't need him in your life now." - Ted's words.

While Phil, Layla and Jay avidly thought Leah should come clean. Ted didn't share that opinion now, not at all. Her mother, she would support Leah in everything the brunette decided, which had her thankful. Her father, she knew he would always be there but she also new that if the decision had been his, she would have told Jon back when she found out about the pregnancy.

Leah, she wasn't sure what she wanted to do at this point. She knew that once she was back in the same company as him, there was no lying anymore but she was not ready to tell Jon. She didn't know how he was now but back then, the guy was a mess.

Leah didn't need that guy in Jody's life - or in her life for that matter. What Leah needed was someone steady and ready to be a father figure to Jody. She just wasn't sure if Jon was that exactly.


Next chapter:

Jon corners Leah.

She makes her presence known as the GM in Austin's RAW.

Jody questions Phil on a hard subject.

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