Chapter 8

Twenty minutes before the show started, the commotion was still going around the locker-room after the thefts earlier that day.

The surveillance crews had swept through all the footage they had and began taking faces that were not familiar, and began a full investigation while the show continued to go on.

Meanwhile, Liz was still quite nervous about her match; she'd gone over a few things in her head as well as paced up and down the locker-room trying to think where her necklace had gone to.

As she got her knee and elbow pads on, she heard a knock at the door. She walked over and opened it, seeing John standing in the doorway.

"Gimme a second, I'm just getting ready" she said as she closed the door, laced up her boots and opened the door, walking out to see Cena, in his ring attire, sitting on the production boxes, rubbing his hand along the top of his head as though he was thinking about things that were on his mind.

Liz walked up to John and he jumped a bit "Damn, you scared me just a bit there"

Liz chuckled "Sorry. What's up?"

He stood up and faced Liz. "Vince wanted to talk to you"

Liz nodded, but looked a little worried, because the look on his face was of all seriousness "Yeah no problems. Now? Because my match is in a few minutes"

"Yeah now, he's quite anxious to have you in his office" he said as they began walking.

As they were walking, they talked amongst themselves, until they came to his office.
"I'll wait outside for you, he wanted you to specifically go in on your own" he said, holding the door open for Liz to go through.

Liz smiled at John and nodded at him as she entered through the open door. As she walked in, she was faced with a teenage boy standing ashened faced next to Vince and J.R

"You wanted to see me sir?" Liz said, looking in between Vince and the teenage boy.

"Yes Liz. I understand this is yours?" he said, handing her the necklace she had lost "This is Marcus Stirkick" he said, pointing to the teenager "and I think he's got something to say to you"

Marcus hung head and mumbled very quietly "Sorry"

"A little louder please Marcus" J.R said "Just before you do, Liz, this is the boy that stole your necklace, along with a few other things from the other superstars"

Liz looked at the table with all the items on it, wondering how he could hide all those things, which included a few rings, necklaces and even Johns spinner necklace.

"The police were called and all the items had been recorded as having being stolen, but Marcus came and confessed to us that he and an accomplice, who we haven't been able to find, stole them and the police said that it was ok to hand all the items back now. The only thing is, there is going to be a court hearing about this in a few weeks and you're required to attend" Vince said, looking in between Liz, Marcus and JR

Liz nodded her head and took her necklace from Vinces outstretched hand and put it on, knowing that she'd have no time to run back to the locker room to put her necklace away.

"Now for that apology Marcus, Liz has an important match coming up" JR said to Marcus.

"Sorry" he said a little louder.

Liz couldn't find her voice, so she, again, nodded. She turned around and headed to the door, when Vince once again spoke.

"Liz, you're match is in ten minutes"

She cleared her throat and all her thought made her voice come back "Yeah I know. Think it would be ok if I just give my necklace to John to look after?"

"Should be fine" he said, walking over to the door and opening it for her.

"Great, see you later Vince" she said, leaving the office to find John leaning on a wall to the side of the door

"Everything ok?" he asked

"Yeah, nothing wrong" Liz said. She took off her necklace and gave it to John "Can you look after this for me?"

"Yeah no problems" he said, taking the necklace and putting it in one of his pockets.

"Isn't this the necklace that went missing?" he asked

"Yeah, they caught the person, and all the stuff that was stolen is actually in Vinces office" she paused "Did you know you were missing one of your spinner necklaces?" she said curiously.

"Yeah, I knew it was missing, but it was one of the fake ones, not my real one so I wasn't fussed" he said

"Ahh…" Liz paused and there was a small silence between them, until they heard Lizs entrance theme

"Shall we go?" John said, moving from his resting place on the wall and beginning to walk to the entrance ramp.

"I think we should, I don't wanna get my ass kicked for not getting out there in time" she said with a little chuckle in her voice and the nerves setting in once again.

As she went through the curtain, she walked out to the roars of the crowd, even to a few of the signs out in the crowd, a few of them saying 'Wonder From Down Under' and a few saying 'Liz is the new generation of hotness' which surprised her considering she'd been there on just under a month.

She paused at the top of the ramp and took in the atmosphere and began to walk, turning around to find John coming down after her, letting her have her time in the spotlight.

As she went to jump into the ring, John grabbed her arm and smiled at her, letting her arm go as Liz grinned stupidly at John and walked into the ring and John walked to the other side of the ring on the outside.

While Liz was in the ring, Melina was heading to the ring, with Nitro running down to the ring, went to attack John, but he managed to capitalize, as Melina was getting into the ring via her trademark entrance, she was dropkicked to the floor by Liz, who'd launched herself into a baseball slide dropkick.

The match was intense, with Liz dominating the match and the occasional interference as well, also with the occasional brawl outside thanks to Nitro getting involved with a cheap shot on Cena. Close to the end of the match, Melina nailed Liz with a hard DDT, which incapacitated her for quite some time.

"Are you ok?" Melina whispered to Liz as she lay next to her in the ring, making it look as though they were exhausted, which they were.

"Not really, I can't move my neck" she said, inconspicuously whispering back

"Shit, I'm sorry" she said, beginning to get up

"It's ok; go for the pin and I'll kick out, then I'll pin you as we previously planned" Liz said, squirming around.

Melina nodded and started getting up very slowly.

In the meantime, John was hitting the mats outside "Come on Liz! Get up! You can do it!" she heard him say

Liz lifted her pointer finger up to John, which he knew was not a good sign as they had special hand signals for whenever there was anything wrong.

Suddenly, Liz saw Melina pin her

"1…2…" Liz kicked out and quickly rolled Melina up for a pin of her own, holding onto the top of her skirt while she pinned Melina.

"1…2….3!" the bell rung and Liz rolled out of the ring, and immediately fell onto the mats on the outside, clutching her neck.

John rushed over to her and picked her up off the mats and she put her free arm around his back, and whispered in his ear "My neck, I can't move it"

"Shhh I'll get you to the back and we'll get the EMTs to check it out" he whispered back to her, while her head was buried into his shoulder hiding the tears that were streaming from her eyes due to the intense pain she was feeling in her neck.

To Be Continued