Title Maelstrom of Love (11/?)
AuthorBekabulwinkle
Author Email Drama – Romance – Angst - Slash
Pairing
Spoilers Its all over the place I cant really tell so if you know it then well it's a spoiler
Rating Anywhere from G – NC-17 and Slash
ArchiveWell if you want too – just let me know where
DisclaimerI own nothing that you know, just Lilly, she's mine the rest belongs to whoever owns them...
a/n - This is a long chapter about nine pages or so -- it gives you a little background on Lilly, and her relationship with those in the story, i did this because i had someone tell me they didnt understand the relationships - didnt understand what it all meant. Its going to get more details now, things are going to speed up and hopefully you'll enjoy... thanks to those who have reviewed it means alot to me...also i recommend everyone to go ready Shannygoats Body Image story - its the best fic i have ever read...
"Wanna fill me in on what the hell has happened since I left, and who's the redhead?"
Surprised when Jericho smiled up at him, patting his shoulder as he walked past
"Long story, you got anything to drink?"
Frowning Mark stepped back as the other two entered, peering over at the bed he was surprised to see a now alert Matt Hardey. The dark haired man was holding onto the girl so tightly he could already see bruises starting to form on her shoulders.
"Come on deadman - lets have a drink and we'll try to explain just what the hell is happening"
He finally let his gaze slip from the pair to the trio seated across from him. He didn't miss the long looks Jericho sent to the bed, before he started to speak or the hiccups and murmurs coming from it.
"The firecracker on the bed is Lilly..."
Nodding as he pulled a few cans from the small fridge tossing one to each of the guys, the bright red one being handed to Scott as the others opened there beers. Leaning against the wall he waited, Jericho had seemed to fall into his own world as his voice trailed off, those intense eyes glued on the bed. It was the girl's soft murmurs that filled the room, words unintelligible but the tone soothing.
Taking a gulp of his beer he suddenly felt like a peeping tom, turning away Mark was startled to be caught in the hazel eyes of Kevin Nash. They had known each other for what he thought was too many years sometimes, he had seen that look in the big mans eyes before. It meant someone was heading for a hurting.
"Lilly's visiting us for a while, well she was visiting Beniot an he got hurt so she's staying with us"
Scott finally broke the tension that seemed to crawl along them all. Blinking Mark turned to the other big man in the room – he couldn't help but smile at the goofy smile on his face – it had been years since he had seen the dark man smiling like that. Too many demons, and too much bullshit had taken the Scott Hall he knew, but now he could see that man again and it tugged at his heart.
Mentally laughing he wondered just what the guys backstage would say if they ever knew just how tough the big bad Undertaker was when it came to Scott Hall. Locking up those memories once more he pulled his gaze back to the entwined couple on the bed
"Its complicated Deadman – the only one with answers isn't talking"
Nash motioned towards the redhead on the bed, shrugging his shoulders a he was in the dark just as much as everyone else.
"Lilly's here for Dave"
Jericho finally spoke again, letting his head fall on his lovers big shoulder, light and dark hair melding together as Scott pulled him closer. Sad blue eyes closed for a moment as his words echoed in the quite
"Lilly loves Dave, she wants him back"
Frowning Mark didn't understand, but with so many years around the Kliq he had grown accustom to that feeling. Sighing he shrugged his shoulders, loosening the tight muscles as he finally fell back into a chair.
"Not even gonna try to understand, but does Vince know?"
The soft ultimately feminie voice made him turn, looking over his shoulder at the redhead now crawling from the bed. It was the first good look he had gotten of her, her long hair framed her face in messy curls. If he thought Jericho's eyes were sad than her green ones were heartbreaking, he wanted to run over to her and hug her and hold her close and make sure nothing would ever hurt her again but he didn't. As sad as they were there was a strength in them too – a jaded power that made him think that she had walked through hell and nothing could hurt her.
Mutely he as cursing himself, as his body reacted to her. He didn't know he was staring until a almost dangerous growl echoed in the room. Startle he turned to look at Kevin thinking it was him, watching the blond shake his head he turned to Scott who was smirking and pointing back towards the bed. Shock flooded his expression, as he was the dark haired man on the bed glaring at him through slitted eyes.
Matt Hardey looked ready to kill, it was the pale hand on his shoulder that kept him on the bed, following the hand until his gaze fell upon he redhead he was surprised to see her head tilted a little as she smiled softly at him.
"Mathew stop"
She finally spoke, her voice still soft but it held a thread steel.
"I'm sorry about that, but you were staring – I'm Lilly by the way…but I guess you know that"
Waving the words away she stepped forward, holding her hand out towards him. She knew who he was but that didn't mean she could be polite.
"Mark"
Taking her smaller hand in his own Mark couldn't help but return her crooked smile.
"Thank you form taking care of Matt – it's been one of those days, anyway why don't we get out of your hair, you look tired and your stomach has been growling for the last twenty minutes"
Shocked he hadn't even noticed the time passing let alone his stomach. Casting a glance towards the small clock by the bed he saw it had been over an hour since he had arrived with Matt.
"Who are you?"
His voice reverberated around the room before he even know he had spoken
"Lilly – but you know that…"
"Lily stop playing, you don't want to be on Marks bad side he can make things a lot harder than they need to be"
Chris hissed, coming to stand by his friend. Shaking his head as he saw annoyance flash across her face but it was gone as quickly as it came.
"I know who he is, do you really think I couldn't after Scott"
She hissed from behind clenched teeth, taking Matts hand before nodding to the group and by passing them all, leading the older Hardey from the room – hr voice floating back to them
"Now were gonna talk about that little growly episode but first were gonna figure out how to get your brother back…"
Watching her go Chris cursed himself, shaking his head as he turned back towards mark. Of cause she would know who Mark was, Mark and Scott – well Mark had been the love of Scott's life. Things were all so tangled he thought, all it took was one thread to pull and it would all unravel, he only hoped that Dave wasn't that one thread because it was Lilly's life that would be unravelling.
"Scott?"
"Raven"
Kevin murmured
"It seems that Lilly, Dave and Scott had well……a thing"
"They were together for over five years"
Chris supplied before turning to look at his own shocked lovers
"Ready for some history lessons?"
"Five years…..but…"
Shaking his head a bitter chuckle fell from his lips as he glared at Mark
"You might want to sit Deadman, cause you look like your gonna fall over"
Sitting he was shocked five years, Raven had been in a relationship for five years, one he didn't know about.
"You didn't want to know – that girl…no that woman picked Scott up every time you left. She pulled him back together and loved him, cared for him until you came back and did it all over again."
Holding his hand up he know it wasn't Marks fault – he blamed Raven and he blamed Dave and he even blamed Lilly a little but she had been so young, so in love
"Lilly is Sean's little sister…"
"Sean?"
"O'Hare"
Chris supplied as he sat on the edge of the sofa, just out of reach of his own lovers –
"Sean and Dave had been dating since she was about ten – so he was always around her. It wasn't the best of relationships at first but her and Dave became close. Things happen like in all relationships and Sean and Dave broke up…Lilly had been eighteen then. She had travelled with Sean for about four years so everyone knew her – you couldn't not know Lilly-Joe"
Remembering the teenager he had first met Chris smiled, she had been screaming at Luger, how she hated him. He had missed a spot in his match with Pillman, causing Brian a bad concussion and cracking a few of his ribs. Chris couldn't believe the five-foot nothing 16 year old had the man in a corner yelling at him while other just walked by or nodded to what she was saying.
"She was just this little kid, chubby and short but she had fire. Hell even Eric knew not to piss her off to bad, it's the red hair"
He muttered more to himself than the other in the room.
"Anyway she was there, little sister to many, conscious to all and no one really thought much of it when she started hanging out with Scott – even Sean brushed it off she was sixteen, no one dared to even look at her in any way other than as a kid sister or mascot"
Chuckling to himself he looked back at Mark
"96 came around and things changed. She came on road like normal only that chubby 16 year old was gone – at first I didn't even recognise her, no one did. Talk about creating trouble, but she was still the same LJ. That summer she and Raven started, the way she tells it Dave came in the year after – poor kid her and Sean didn't talk for the longest time when he found out."
Slipping off the edge of the sofa Chris slumped down, his elbows on his knees as his hair fell like a curtain around is face, dark eye looked up at Mark as he spoke, his voice cold
"She was just a kid, nothing we said could make it stop. Benny had been around long enough to know, Scott was drowning in Raven and he was clutching onto the only bright spark he had – Lilly. Lilly was clutching right back, but she was a kid, barely eighteen and she was holding Scott together. For three years she was the superglue that kept Scott, Scott and Dave was the light she saw at the end of the tunnel. Finally Sean came around, thanks to Dave, I don't know what happened but one minute Sean and Lilly weren't speaking and the next they were as tight as ever. The worse happened the night Scott left WCW and went to ECW, Dave was at OVW and Sean was headed over to Japan."
Shivering as he remembered the hell that happened after the three men left. Lilly, the bright, sweet girl who was fearless and a true redheaded spitfire had been broken, swiping at the tears that fell from his now clamp together lids Chris refused to look at anyone.
"Scott was gone, Dave was losing himself and Sean, Sean was so focused on his career he didn't see anything. But none of us did – even now I can't even think of a moment I suspected, a second I thought she was anything but loved"
"Chris…."
Waving the unsaid question away he got up, energy bouncing across his skin making it itch as he paced – he had to tell them. He had too.
"I don't know everything – Only three people do and none of them are talking. All I know is Raven had come back from seeing you…"
Motioning over to Mark he turned left, counting out his stps until he was able to speak again
"Scott was never Scott after he saw you, she knew – Eddie and Vickie had tried to convince her to leave him, I know Stevie did as well. What I can piece together was the three of them had argues before he left. Dave wanted him to stop seeing you, but Lilly understood. She knew how much he craved you, craved that's the word she used…"
Shaking off Kevin's hand he moved past the slumped undertaker once more his voice filling the room
"They argued and things went to far, the next thing I know an ambulance was called – Scott was no more, Dave had disappeared and Lilly, Lilly was in hospital with broken bones, fractured ribs and a bruised an bloody body. The only reason everyone doesn't know is because that what she wanted, only Benny and I saw her, Sean was gone, Dave and Raven gone and she refused to tell the cops anything."
"What!"
Looking over his shoulder at Scott he nodded, scrubbing a hand through his hair
"Yea – the next time anyone saw Dave he went through a treatment program, he had been addicted to something too many of our colleagues got addicted too. Lilly had even tried to reform there relationship but…. I don't know all I know a few weeks later Chris and I got a midnight phone call. It was Lilly…"
Tortured eyes gazed at his own reflection in the window, his voice broken an stilted as he muttered
"We almost lost her – if Chuck hadn't been at Sean's we would have lost her…I don't understand why he's sent her back…Why would he want her back with him, around him, why does she still want him…"
Jericho asked more for himself than anyone else, a frown curling his brows down as he chewed on his lip. He didn't understand why she would want to be anywhere near him ever again but here she was – after all the shit he had done to her…..
"Because she loves him and no matter what your head tells you your heart loves who it wants to love"
Kevin murmured, as he curled his hand around Scott's – they ad gone there own hell together and Kevin knew just what Chris was saying but he understood that love was love an nothing could stop you from wanting to help the person you loved. Nothing, no one.