Chapter 4
Tori was rudely awoken by knocking on her hotel room door. Sighing as her husband grunted and stuck his head under his pillow she slowly sat up and glanced at the clock as the knocking persisted.
"Give me a minute will ya!" Tori grumbled as she found Shawn's t-shirt on the floor and yanked it over her head.
On opening the door she was met by Ally and a sleepy looking miniature Jeff Hardy.
"Al, it's 7am!" Tori complained as NJ let go of his moms hand and tottered over to the bed where Shawn still had his head buried under the pillow.
"I know!" Ally replied as she handed over NJ's bag.
"Wrestlers don't get up till noon!" Tori took the bag and promptly threw it on the floor behind her.
"As you well know that goes out the window when you have kids! Besides I told you I had a shoot"
"Whatever, couldn't you have just got John to drop him off later?"
Shawn sniggered from under his pillow, he'd hand it to his wife, she was straight to the point.
Ally looked slightly agitated as she quickly replied "I didn't want to bother him"
"You sleep with him! You could have left both of them asleep"
"And us for that matter" Shawn grumbled as he appeared from under the covers to pick NJ up and put him in the bed.
"Are you going to look after him or not?" Ally snapped
Shawn raised his eyebrows at his wife before turning his attention to the little boy who was trying to get under the sheets with him.
"Of course, I just don't see why John cant have him, he doesn't have any appearances today does he?"
"He's not John's responsibility and John already said he doesn't want kids! So I cant dump NJ on him"
"He said that before he was with you, he loves NJ!" Tori pointed out as Ally impatiently hopped from foot to foot.
"Look I'm gonna be late, I'll find you when I'm done! See ya"
With that Ally disappeared off down the hall leaving Tori stood in the doorway.
"Well that went well" Shawn said as Tori shut the door.
"I don't know what's wrong with her, none of it makes sense"
"Let them fight it out then, we both know that's coming" Shawn replied as he smiled down at NJ who had curled himself up next to Shawn and was promptly falling back to sleep.
"This kids well trained"
Tori smirked, "Good, that means we can all go back to sleep"
"Fine, but didn't you want to find out if Paul and Candice had killed each other?"
Tori yawned as she hopped back into the bed "That can wait till breakfast"
Paul woke up in bad mood. He had a crick in his neck and his back ached from sleeping on the sofa in his hotel room.
"I'm so gonna kill Tori" he muttered as he got up and stretched, wincing as his muscles popped.
Candice was in the bathroom, he could hear the shower running. Paul shrugged and rummaged through his bag, he figured he'd shower in the next city, the sooner he palmed Candice off to Tori the better.
He'd only just dressed when Candice emerged from the bathroom, looking immaculate apart from the bruise on her cheek and her broken nose.
"Erm…good morning" she mumbled
"Morning" Paul grumbled as he threw the rest of his stuff into his bag.
Candice looked nervous, she didn't really know what to say to Paul, they always seemed to fight.
"Thanks….for….erm……helping me…..last night. I guess I should go now" she grabbed her stuff and made for the door.
Paul sighed, he really couldn't wait to get rid of her but he had a feeling someone, namely Tori, would kill him if he let Candice go off on her own.
"Wait" Candice turned around so Paul continued, " Do you have a ride to the airport?"
"No, I normally ride with Shane"
"Then how do you intend to get there?" Paul didn't mean to sound grouchy but it came out that way.
"Not with Shane if that's what you meant!" Candice snapped
'Tori's dead, women make no sense' Paul thought before replying
"I didn't mean it like that! Look, come down for breakfast and Tori and Shawn can take you to the airport. Then I suggest you get your own rental and stay well away from Shane"
Candice really wanted to snap at him for being so condescending but thought better of it as he looked rather grumpy.
"Okay" she sighed
"Let's go then" Paul replied as he grabbed his bag and left, Candice trailing behind him.
Shawn and Tori where in the hotel restaurant eating breakfast. NJ was in a high chair pulling a banana to pieces.
"NJ, say Shawn!"
NJ's response was to throw a piece of banana at Shawn.
"You know your fighting a losing battle there?" Tori said as Shawn picked up the offending banana piece.
"It's worth a try, I want him to say my name before he says John!" Shawn grinned
"He already says John" Tori replied as NJ pointed at a yogurt pot and banged his hands on his highchair tray.
"No, he says non, not John"
"But we all know he means John"
"That doesn't count" Shawn replied as he gave NJ the yogurt and a spoon, the laughed as NJ smeared it all over himself.
Tori smiled as she watched this, "Ally would kill you if she could see this"
"He's a kid, they're supposed to get sticky" Shawn replied with a smirk.
Before Tori could reply NJ started shouting,
"NON, NON"
"John" Shawn said slowly, trying to sound it out for NJ who just replied "NON!"
Tori smiled as John Cena approached, "Hey soldier, what do you look like"
"NON, NON" NJ held his arms out, wanting to be picked up.
John smirked and picked the little boy up, he sat down at the table with NJ on his lap. Tori handed him a wet wipe as NJ wiped his yogurt covered hands all over John.
"Thanks" John replied as he cleaned the kid up.
Shawn and Tori smirked at each other, John was great with NJ, Allysa had a screw lose.
"NJ, say Shawn!" Shawn tried again as Tori went back to her breakfast whilst John handed NJ a piece of his banana.
"Non!" John laughed and smirked at Shawn
"I give up! The kid's broken, can we have another one?" Shawn looked at Tori.
"Ask Ally!" Tori replied
"I meant us!" Shawn laughed
"If your gonna be the pregnant one, sure!"
"Now I'd pay to see that, you have three, ain't that enough?" John sniggered
"They're not cute after the age of four" Shawn replied
"Hey!" Tori threw a piece of toast at her husband.
"What!? They're not" Shawn laughed "They answer back and cause mischief"
Tori laughed "I though you liked that about them?"
"It's better when they're like that" Shawn nodded in NJ's direction.
Tori just shook her head as John laughed "Your poor kids"
"Poor kids? You've met Carter?" Shawn replied speaking of his eldest son.
John just laughed, Carter caused mischief wherever he went, which would be why Shawn and Tori tended to leave him with his aunts and uncles when they could.
Tori wasn't listening, she'd spied Shane McMahon lurking in the hotel lobby.
"What you looking at?" Shawn asked when he noticed Tori was no longer paying attention to them.
"Shane's in the lobby looking sneaky"
"Waiting for Candice you think?"
"More than likely"
"What's going on?" John was confused
"Shane has been abusing Candice" Shawn replied quietly as his wife continued to eye Shane.
John raised his eyebrows, he wasn't really surprised, "So, where's Candice?"
Shawn smirked, "With Paul"
John snorted "With who?"
"Paul"
"Oh boy, that must be interesting!" John laughed, all Paul and Candice ever did was snipe at each other.
"It was my beautiful wife's idea" Shawn smirked
"If only I could be a fly on the wall" John replied, feeding NJ more banana as he did.
Tori continued to watch Shane, she was about to get up when the elevator doors opened and Candice stepped out. Shane had made a move towards her but stopped when Paul came stomping through the doors after her. Tori smirked as Paul glared at Shane, then raised an eyebrow when Paul put his hand gently on the bottom of Candice's back and guided her towards them.
"Morning Candice, Morning Paul" Tori said sweetly
Paul flipped Tori off behind Candice's back as she replied "Good morning"
"Sit down, grab some breakfast"
Candice sat between Shawn and John, smiling at NJ when he tried to clamber onto her but was tempted back to John with more banana. Paul sat between Tori and John, glaring at Tori as he took his seat.
"How are you this morning?" Tori asked as Candice got into a conversation with John and Shawn.
"Grumpy" Paul replied
"Aww poor baby!" Tori sniggered
"You're so dead Michaels"
"Whatever Levesque!"
Paul was distracted by NJ who was now shouting 'Ips' at him and waving his arms around to be picked up.
"Why does he call me ips?" Paul asked as he took NJ from John.
"Ally calls you Trips" John pointed out
Paul smirked "Remind me to have words with that girl"
"She ain't scared of you either" Shawn reminded him
Paul just smiled, Ally had him wrapped round her little finger and he knew it, he'd never once got angry at her, even he tried she'd just give him puppy dog eyes and he'd melt! She was too much like Tori.
"Anyway, Candice needs a ride to the airport, can you guys take her?" Paul asked as NJ pulled his hair.
Shawn was about to say sure but Tori stomped on his foot, he jumped slightly but only John and Paul noticed this.
"Our car is full, got NJ and John, you've got plenty of room in your car" Tori grinned, Paul looked at John who just shrugged, he had his own rental car but he wasn't gonna get involved in whatever scheme Tori was cooking up.
"But you'll need to sort the flight so she's not with Shane" Paul replied, not caring that Candice was listening.
"I've done that already, you can pick up the new flight details when your there"
Shawn just shook his head as Paul glared at Tori.
"How about I take NJ?"
Before Tori could reply to that NJ started shouting "NON"
John took NJ back as Tori thought 'I love that kid'
"Seems he wants John, look Shawn and I will meet you guys at the hotel, I'll sort the rooms out when I get there"
Paul was about to complain again but Tori kicked him under the table, hard!
"Fine" he looked at Candice "We'd best go then, my flight is in just over an hour"
"Okay" Candice replied quietly
"See you later Candice" Tori smiled
"Bye"
Shawn, Tori and John watched them leave with smirks on their faces.
"Girl your crafty!" John laughed
"Oh I know!"
"What flight have you put her on?" Shawn asked, already having an idea what the answer was.
"Paul's, they're sitting together too"
John and Shawn laughed,
"He's going to kill you!"
