That Girl
A/N: There will be a rather big time jump… yes… you all will hate me because of this but honestly, most people's lives aren't amusing all the time… lol. Any way to set up this chapter a little I will give you a little more info.
It's set circa, wrestlemaina 2009, Shevaun is now in the WWE wrestling under the name Lady Jane (my own nickname… but it's my fucking story so I shall call her what I wish) but at the moment she is not wrestling because they are expecting baby number 2. They haven't gotten married yet (I would not deprive you guys of punk's wedding… that would be just plain evil. It will be coming up in a few chapters). Right now they are in a story line with Shevaun's older brother Shawn, who is the in the money in the bank match with Punk, and Maria. I have chosen to forgo the fact that Cabana was released from his contract and have him and Punk reform the Second City Saint (along with Vauny who serves as their manager). The matches obviously aren't going to be what really happened (except for Punk winning the MITB) but bear with me. SO that is your basic need to know things for this chapter to make a lick of sense to you.
I am going to feature matches and they're going to be written kinda in script form, I really don't know how to do it properly… it really is just going to be key points and dialog. (I've never written a wrestling match before) so if you guys have any suggestions I am open to them.
Also, I'm going to give you guys the chance to help me pick the name for Punk and Shevaun's second child (a boy) from a few names I have already come up with! So when you guys review just add the name you like best to your review and I'll use the one with the most votes!
Here are the names:
Jax Ace (my personal fav… cuz I read on Wiki that Punk's middle name is Jack and Jax is kinda close to Jack and I love Ace Steele…so yeah plus I'm fond of short names)
Damien Christian
Draven Lee (Nicknamed Dre)
Once again I hope you are not mad at me for skipping a fair bit of time and for the massive AN, but I thought it would make the flow of the story go better and there will be many more amusing moments. Thank you all for understanding and Enjoy.
Chapter Seven: When one things leads to another.
This was my life now, sitting backstage in a different city every weeks waiting to go out in front thousands of people. Today I sat with Lily between my legs braiding her hair as Rylie sat on her cell phone trying to get a hold of my brother Shannon in California for me. Lily looked up at me with those big blue eyes and smiled. "Mommy, are you ok?" My beautiful, articulate daughter's favorite question, Lily has become my little worrier. She asks that question about five hundred times a day. But she had a valid point; I was worried about this whole storyline with Shawn and Phil. They had a match tonight and I was going to be out there ring side.
"I'm fine sweetheart…" I said softly finishing up her last braid and wrapped the pony tail holder around the end before sending her over to her father. Phil was sitting on a chair in the corner of the room listening to his Ipod like he did before every match. I watched as Lily climbed up in his lap and nestled her head against his chest and started to suck her thumb. Phil glanced down at our three year old and gave her a half hearted smile.
"Get that out of your mouth." He said pushing her thumb out of her mouth. We had been desperately trying to break her of that habit as of late. "You're too old to be sucking your thumb." He said in that tone parents get when they tell their children to stop doing something that the kid knows they aren't supposed to do. Lily pouted at her father and then turned her head towards me for a moment.
"You know better Lily." I responded to her glare. Standing up, I walked over to Phil and Lily. I was four months along with our second child, which I hoped was going to be a boy, I had just started to get a little bump. We were excited, again this one wasn't planed per say but we had discussed it since we bought our first house last June in the suburbs of Chicago. I stood over Phil's shoulder for a second before reaching down and pulling one of the little ear buds out and he reached over and patted my belly.
"How you feeling?" He asked softly as Lily pulled his Ipod out of his other hand and started to mess with it. I shrugged, "That's not an answer…" I just rolled my eyes and gave him a quick peck on the cheek.
"Fine… I'll be fine, it's just some stupid match between you and Shawn and I just standing there being the good wife…" The whole story line had us married, when in fact we had only still been engaged. Phil smiled and picked up Lily and set her on the floor.
"Go with Auntie Ry… mommy and daddy have to get ready ok baby?" Phil told his little girl before wrapping his arms around her and giving her a kiss on the cheek. Rylie smiled from across the room as Lily ran towards her.
"I left a message for Shan, told him to call you or Phil to see if he wanted tickets to Wrestlemania. Good luck hun." I just smiled and waved goodbye to her and my baby. Rylie hated to watch the matches, seeing Scott wrestle always gave her the worst panic attacks. So most nights she took Lily back to the hotel and put her to bed for Phil and I. She is still so indispensable to us, both her and Scott are. They are like family and we couldn't get by without their help with Lily and once the baby's born they offered to take Lily for a few days so we can get acclimated to the new baby. I love them both so much.
Phil pulled me down into his lap and gave me a kiss. "You don't have to go along with this whole stupid storyline Shevaun," He has been trying to talk me out of doing this storyline for the last three months. See when I found out I was pregnant again I was in the line to get the Women's Championship from Maria at Wrestlemania. Which would have been great, Phil is set to win the Money in the Bank for the second year in a row. Phil, Scott and I were all on Smackdown. Scott brought up the idea to the writers about getting the Second City Saints back together, with me as their manger or as Scott called me their "girl Friday" who does some of the dirty work and what not. The writers loved it, they wrote in, knowing the fact Phil and I are a couple, that we were married. Around this time Shawn got traded from ECW to Smackdown and they had us feuding with him and Maria. It's no secret that Phil and Shawn hate each other with a fiery passion and the fact Shawn is my older brother.
So when I got knocked up, they happily worked that into the storyline with Shawn now he is trying to get me to turn against Phil and Scott. I don't like that part, I don't really like the whole story with me and Shawn being aired out in public like that, so Phil has been trying desperately to get me to take my maternity leave early. I don't want to though, because that's just what Shawn wants, me to run away from him again.
Tonight is different though, tonight I am going to the ring with Phil. So far all I've done is cut a few promos with Phil and Scott saying how I would never betray my husband and best friend… yadda yadda. Tonight though I have to come down to the ring with him and Maria is coming down with Shawn. (They too are engaged. I have no fucking idea what my idiot brother sees in that airhead) Phil is extremely worried about me getting hurt, but there really is little we can do.
"Babe, I'll be fine, I was ring side most of my pregnancy with Lils and I never got hurt." I told him trying desperately to reassure him of my safety. Phil smiled a little letting me know he was ok though not happy with the situation.
Then there was a knock on the door, "Guys, your match is next."
******** The Show *******
"Ladies and Gentleman, I'm Jim Ross with my partner Michael Cole and tonight we have a great main event. Two of Smackdown's brightest rising stars, CM Punk and Shawn McManus have a long standing grudge and we are privileged to see this grudge between these to men in action tonight."
"That's right JR, Punk who is married to McManus's younger sister… who is expecting their second child together… is the catalyst that set these too men over the edge. Three months ago, Punk came to the aid of his wife with fellow Second City Saint Colt Cabana in Lady Jane's match against Maria where Punk took a steel chair to Maria to save his wife from getting hit in the head with the Women's Championship."
"McManus was not happy with Punk taking that chair to his girlfriend. McManus did the same to his own sister, when she accompanied Colt Cabana to their match the next week. Now these two men are fighting for the honor of the women they love. Lets take a quick look back at this conflict in recent weeks."
*Cut to a shot video of the feud to this point*
"Now as you all know, Lady Jane was scheduled to challenge Maria for the women's title in two weeks at Wrestlemania but due to her recently finding out that she's expecting the doctors have ordered her not to compete. But tonight we will have a chance to see Punk and McManus in action in a no disqualifications match with both women at ringside. It should be one to watch……"
** CM PUNK with LADY JANE vs SHAWN MCMANUS with MARIA – NO DQ**
*Punk's music hits*
"Coming first to the ring, from Chicago, Illinois, weighing 222 pounds accompanied to the ring by Lady Jane. One half of the Second City Saints… CM PUNK!"
*Punk and Lady Jane come down to the ring hand in hand. Lady Jane looking very nervous. Punk helps Lady Jane into the ring then asks for a mic. The crowd is cheering loudly.*
"Thank You, I just want to say a little something to my cowered of a brother-in-law before our match tonight. You may think that you can turn my wife against me by backing her into corner and making her cry… but what kind of man… and I use that word 'man' rather loosely here… would send his girlfriend after his own sister to destroy her chances at winning the Women's Championship and not expect his sister's husband not to interfere?"
*Lady Jane takes the
mic from Punk*
"And Shawn, just because you have never liked the way my husband lives his life… straightedge… because you spend all your free time in a bar and you past history of drug abuse. You know that Punk is better than you, and you just can't handle that can you? You can't handle the fact your little sister is better than your girlfriend and I was… and once I have my baby… I will win the Women's Championship! And there is nothing you can do to stop me."
*Punk wraps his arms around Lady Jane and then speaks into the mic that she's still holding*
"Because I'm going to be right there with her making sure, that you don't pull any of your little… shenanigans… to try and rob my wife of that belt which she deserves."
*Shawn's music hits and he and Maria come out and stand on stage. Shawn has a mic in hand*
"Now, now baby sister…you and your hubby there need to take a look back at the match in question. Weren't you and your little lackey the ones that attacked my girl Punk? And not the other way around?"
*Shawn pauses and hands the mic to Maria.*
"Yeah, you attacked me first. All we did was even the playing field. Nothing personal…"
*Punk steps away from Lady Jane and walks up to the ropes with a rather pissed off look on his face.*
"Nothing personal… NOTHING PERSONAL… I would say this is very personal! You had Maria try to bash my wife's head in with the belt! You expect me to let her be maimed and not step in?"
*In rush two masked men from the crowed. One takes a chair and bashes it over Punk's head and the other grabs Lady Jane and holds he with one arm around her neck and the other around her waist. Lady Jane is screaming and Shawn rushes into the ring tossing the chair off of Punk.*
"RING THE BELL!"
*The bell rings and the ref counts… 1…2…3 and the bell rings again. The match is over and Punk starts to get up groggy from the chair shot. The other man releases Lady Jane and she rushes down to help her husband up. Punk is obviously very pissed off and tries to go after Shawn but Lady Jane stops him.*
*The tv fades to black… the show is over…*
Walking with Phil back stage I could tell he was upset, that was not how the match was supposed to go and that chair shot was real. Once we got backstage I took his head in my hands and looked him in the eyes. "Phil… Phil… calm down…" I said trying to get him to calm down, he was about ready to go tear my brother apart limb from limb.
"I am going to kill the son of a bitch…" He said trying to push past me but I got in the way and grabbed his shoulders this time. "Shevaun… please… let me kill him…" He said softly. I took a deep breath, for the both of us, and pulled him into a hug.
"What use are you to me in prison? I'm fine… the baby's fine. I'm not saying what he did was right. But please just take a breath and come sit down." I didn't know what to do, maybe Phil was right and this storyline was starting to get too dangerous for me and the baby but I couldn't very well sit back and watch him take everything. But in some way that was what is happing now. Shawn knows better than to hurt me while I'm pregnant, if I got hurt he has to know by now that Phil would kill him and I wouldn't be able to stop him. Well maybe not kill him but sure as hell beat the holy fuck out of him.
We walked in silence back to the dressing room, I really didn't want to make a scene but we already had. Before I even had a chance to sit down and try and work on calming Phil down there was a knock at the door. I looked over at Phil, "I'm going to get this you sit there and calm your ass down…" I said sounding very much like a mother.
I opened the door and there stood Mickie. "Is he ok hun?" I shrugged, we had become pretty good friends Mickie and I. We had met years ago when she worked in Ring of Honor and she had known Phil for years. She knew the whole drama with my brother and she didn't like the fact that we had a storyline with him and Maria either. Her thought is with all the writers they are paying at the WWE and this is the best storyline they could come up with for us, it was sad. Though we both had agreed that it was more because of ratings than anything else, the fans that case the internet would have known this story long ago because neither Phil nor I have ever really been tight lipped about our feelings for my elder brother. "Are you ok? You look pretty shook up." She added before giving me a hug.
"I'm fine, I was really scared though." I said stepping out of the room and closing the door behind me. "That guy grabbed me really tight around the waist," I said in a hushed tone, I wasn't about to have Phil hear that because if he did it would just send him off again. "And I think my brother planed that…"
"Wait you mean that wasn't supposed to happen… we all thought that was what was supposed to happen…" I shook my head. She looked at me wide eyed and I couldn't think of anything good to respond with. "Shevaun.. you have to tell someone… that is like so fucking wrong…"
"Listen Mickie, give me a call tomorrow and I'll talk to you more but really I have to deal with Phil because he's seconds away from going on a major fucking rampage." She just nodded and gave me another hug.
"Give Lily a kiss for me, bye sweetie…" I nodded and she started to walk away and I ducked back into the room before anyone else could come up to me and start asking questions. I was met by my future husband standing there already dressed with his bag slung over his shoulder.
"I just want to go baby.. see my little girl and go to bed. We have the next three days off. We can go home and do something fun with Lils… I don't know…" He shook his head and reached out for me. "Your stuff's in the bag… lets just go." I nodded and took a step over to him wrapping my arms around him.
"Ok…" I said softly. "Mickie said she hopes your ok…" I added just a few seconds later. He said nothing just reached in his pants pocket for the keys to the rental and then took my hand. We walked out to the car with out saying a word to each other or to any of our friends who were trying to talk to us. It was like we were on autopilot you know, when you've had a rough day at work and all you want is to get home and climb into bed. That was how we both felt.
The car ride wasn't any different. I laid my head on his shoulder as he drove and one of his hands rested on the thigh. When we got in our hotel room Lily was still up sitting on the end of the bed holding her carebear (grumpy bear) and was watching Finding Nemo. Rylie never let her watch the shows, she really couldn't understand at that age that daddy and mommy were only pretending. Rylie got up off the bed and walked over to us, giving each of us a hug and kiss before she said her goodbyes and went off to her and Scott's room three doors down from us.
The first thing Phil did was walk over to Lily and scoop her up in his arms. "What's my baby girl been doing.." He said with a smile on his face. She giggled and reached her little head up to plant a kiss on her daddy's cheek.
"Watching Nemo…" She said slightly sleep.
Phil chuckled a little and set her back down on the bed. "Really," He said softly as he sat down on the bed next to her and started to take off his shoes. I walked over to the two of them on the bed and sat behind them, my arms around his neck. "Can mommy and I watch it with you Princess.."
"It's almost over…" She said looking back at us, I could tell she was tired. She hadn't taken a nap and it was well past her normal bedtime. I leaned back and kicked off my shoes.
"Bedtime after it's over baby girl." I said lying back on the bed and Phil then moved to lay next to me. He rested his head on my belly, he used to do this all the time when I was pregnant with Lily. When we were tired and lying in bed watching TV, he would just lay there and feel the baby move in my belly. Sometimes he used to talk to it, which I always thought was kinda silly, but sweet in the same breath. I ran my hand through his hair and watched our little girl enjoy her movie.
She has seen that damn movie so many times she can do whole scenes from it which can be very amusing. She likes the little turtle, she likes turtles in general. All animals really, she says she wants a pet duck even since we took her to a petting zoo last summer. She's not going to get one, a kitten maybe… if I can convince Phil but he wants to get another puppy. Though I have stated many times no animals till after the baby is a few months old because there is no chance in hell that I'm going to be nine months pregnant and trying to potty train a puppy. We barely just got Lily potty trained… it was nightmare.
So Lily's movie was over and we put her to bed in one of the fold out little cots that you get in hotels, it's easier that having to get her own room. Half the time lately she ends up in bed with us, because here she can get away with it at home she knows better, so that pretty much means no sex for us. Joy.
With Lily crashing rather fast Phil and I lay in bed just talking softly. "I want a boy…" I said softly looking over at him, with his glasses on… I've told him he should ware them more often he looks very cute in them. He smiled at me.
"Me too…" He added as I rolled over and wrapped my arms around his chest. "We have a prefect little girl, not that I'm apposed to having another girl but every man wants a son." He said looking at me with a small grin on his face. When I was expecting Lily he wanted a boy so bad, but when we found out I was having a girl he came around to the idea of a daddy's girl pretty quickly but I think he's never gotten over not having his first born be a boy. I think it's some macho man thing but we did the little girl thing. I want a boy.
"What would you name him?" I asked wondering what name he would come up with. He really wanted to name Lily, Ruby Soho, after the Rancid song but I put a very quick stop to that. I love Rancid but naming our little girl after one of there songs… I wasn't feeling that.
"Jack… maybe Draven… I don' know." He mused softly. I chuckled softly when he suggested Jack. It's his middle name and I never thought he would want to name our son after him. "What?" he asked when he noticed I was laughing.
"Vain much?" I said playfully nudging him. "Jack… huh…" He looked at me with a little smirk.
"What… I would not go the whole junior route but it would be nice to have my son named after me in a little way.." I just nodded and remembered the name of a little boy I babysat in High School. Jax, it was close enough to Jack to appease him but different enough for me.
"Jax…" I said softly. Phil looked over at me and nodded. "Jax…. Maybe Ace? Jax Ace Brooks… not bad." I mused.
"Sounds like a hand in cards…" He laughed.
"Hey I like it plus, you Ace would love the fact you named your son after him." I knew I was right, though his name was really Chris, he would be touched to know that his friend named his first born son after him.
"It could grow on me… but I'm tired and we have to catch the flight back to Chicago at ten… we should really go to sleep." He kissed me and reached over to turn off the light.
"Just sleep on the name… ok. And if we have a girl I might just consider naming her Ruby Soho…" We both smiled as we kissed each other goodnight.
Jax… Draven… I don't really care as long as I get my little boy.
