A/N: So...here we are with another chapter. I'm glad you liked the last chapter with a drunk Thea because things are going to start getting more...entertaining from now on, at least I think so. I hope you like this one as much as the last.

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Thea groaned softly when someone dropped something in the dining hall. Her head was killing her. All she wanted to do was curl up in a ball and sleep for hours, but she knew that wasn't an option when she had training in a few hours. So she had to suck up the pain and move on with a grimace on her face.

Why did I have to drink so much last night? Thea asked herself. I thought I'd get cut off at two shots, but...Why did I listen to Maria?

She sighed and picked up her coffee mug, bringing it to her lips. The black liquid scorched its way down her throat and warmed her from within. She shook her head and set the mug back down.

And Glenn was there...Glenn saw me acting like a...stupid drunk...What's he going to think of me now?

That I'm a lush? That I'm easy?...I'll never be able to face him with last night hanging over my head...His opinion of me has probably grown from bad to worse.

And to make matters worse, I was hitting on him...I told him that I-

"There's our girl," Stephen said, sitting down next to her while Drew sat across from her. "Did you have a nice evening lass?"

Thea winced. "My head hurts."
"Well, that's what you get for drinking," Drew told her with a smirk. He put two pills on the table. "Take these."

Thea picked the pills up. "These aren't going to make me vomit again, are they? I've already done enough of that to last for the rest of my life."

"They're pain killers. To help with your nasty headache."

"Oh." She popped them in her mouth and took a sip of her coffee. "Why don't you two get hangovers?"

"Because we know when to put the bottle down lass," Stephen commented, picking at his eggs and bacon. "That's something that comes from experience."
"Yeah, well, I don't want to experience alcohol again. It makes people do really stupid things." Thea rested her forehead on her hand, looking down at her half eaten pancakes. "I did some really, really stupid things."

"Like what?"
"Well for one, I danced like I was a slut and almost fell out of my shirt," Thea told her two best friends. "For some random jerk at the club..." She scratched her chin. "He probably had a camera phone or something, but I don't exactly remember if he did..."

"Alcohol does a lot of loosening in a person," Stephen said. "And I'm sure the other lasses were just as risque in their dance too."
"Oh God, Matt was there! Please let him have been drunk because if he was sober and let that happen to me...I'll kill him. I really will." She glared at the chuckles coming from Drew's and Stephen's mouths. "What's so funny?"

"You are." Drew smirked. "Matt was so intoxicated, he was worshiping the porcelain goddess all night. And that was only after he was stumbling around the halls, pounding on peoples' doors looking for his room."

"Next time, I'm just going to go to a club with you two and drink Coke," Thea muttered, shaking her head. "Too many stupid things happened."

"Well you can't have done anything worse than dance like a hooker," Stephen assured her, patting her hand.

"Actually I did."

"Oh really? What did you do? Get married without inviting us to the wedding?" Drew's smirk widened. "Who is the lucky groom?"

"It was nothing like that, but it be much easier for me if it was." Thea stared down at her food. "I...I may have hit on Glenn."
"Wait! Glenn was there?" Drew looked at Stephen. "I thought he couldn't find you."
"Well, he did. And I hit on him."

"You must have been drunk off your rocker," Stephen stated.

Thea frowned. "I...I told him that I loved him."

"When you're drunk, you love everybody," Drew said, shaking his head. "But even the drunkest person should have better judgment than to profess love to Glenn. He can't return it..."

"Okay. You guys are just biased because he's built up a wall around himself," Thea told them, her temper flaring briefly. "Have you thought that maybe he's mean because he doesn't want to be hurt again? His ex-wife was important to him and then she broke his heart by finding someone else to love when Glenn was on the road. He couldn't be with her all the time and so she found someone else who could...That's bound to hurt someone and so he's built up a wall around himself to make sure no one else hurts him."

Drew shared a look with Stephen. "You've done a lot of thinking about this, haven't you?"

"I'm good at seeing people for who they are inside. That's how I knew you two were great guys and would never hurt me on purpose."

"But Glenn-?" Stephen shook his head. "Thea, if you keep talking about him like that, people are going to think that you're in love with him. For real."

"So? People are allowed to have their own opinions. It's a free country."
"Lass, I want you to be completely honest with me," Stephen told her, turning in his seat to face her. "Are you falling in love with Glenn Jacobs?"

Thea opened her mouth, but before she could get a word out, Maria was there with a guilty look on her face. In her hands was a newspaper.

"Thea, I am so sorry that I let you get drunk with us," Maria apologized quickly. "If I knew what would happen, I wouldn't have let you have so many shots. I am really, really sorry."

Thea winced at the loudness of Maria's voice. "It's okay...We all are allowed moments of stupidity."
"And I'm sorry that I couldn't stop this from happening," Maria apologized again.

"What couldn't you stop from happening?"

Maria showed her the front page of the newspaper. On it, there was the small group of Divas who had been partying with Thea. Right in the middle was Thea, looking a like a cheap whore as she danced with some guy she didn't remember dancing with. The headline was 'WWE Divas Drinking Games Go Too Far' and Thea paled as she tore the newspaper from Maria's hand, scanning the article for the comments.

"Oh God!" She tossed the newspaper down. "I'm as bad as Chris...Maybe even worse..."

Maria winced. "Sorry Thea..."

Thea pushed her pancakes aside, no longer having the stomach to eat. She sighed and resting her head on the table, closing her eyes against the world. How could I let my image go from positive to this so quickly? I'm surprised the McMahon's aren't on my case yet...

"Thea, I'm going to have a press conference," Maria told her. "I'm going to try to sort this out before things get too out of hand. I'll tell them the truth about the other Divas and I pressuring you into doing shots with us...The world will understand that we all make mistakes and that we will make up for them...somehow."

"Would it be all right with you all if I just curl up under the table and die?" Thea asked, her voice barely audible against the white tablecloth.

"No." Stephen wrapped an arm around her. "Lass, you made a mistake. Like you said, everyone is allowed to make mistakes and that's because we're only human. You just need to learn to look at your mistake and move on from it. People will understand. They were teenagers at one point too. They know what pressure is like...It's nothing to die for."

Thea groaned. "I need a shower. A really, really cold shower. But I guess something good has
happened..."

"What's that?" Drew asked.

"My headache is gone."

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Glenn had knocked on Thea's hotel room door, but she hadn't answered. He knew better than to believe that she was still asleep. So he went to the only other place where she frequented: the gym. She was punching a bag without any hand protection. Even from where he stood, he could see the angry red that her knuckles were turning.

"Thea, knock it off," Glenn ordered, watching her.

She stopped hitting the bag, sagging against it with one arm around it. Not a word came out of her mouth. She didn't move. It was like she was waiting for something.

"What do you think you're doing?" he demanded. "You know better than to hit the bag without some kind of barrier between it and your hands."

"Well maybe I forgot..." Thea whispered. "Maybe I wanted a little pain to sober me up."

"That's not what you need."
Thea threw him a glare but didn't meet his eyes. "You have no clue what I need..."

"You don't need anymore alcohol," Glenn told her and he saw the hurt cloud over her eyes. "You've seen what it does. You've experienced it first hand. Now you know why it's not an encouraged pastime. That will sober you up."

"Go ahead...scream at me," Thea muttered, walking away from her punching bag.

"Why would I scream at you?"
"I don't know...Maybe because I've let you down. Because I publicly embarrassed WWE by getting drunk. For making you hunt me down and come to my rescue...There are a number of reasons why you should scream at me."

Glenn shook his head and walked over. "I'm not going to scream at you for acting like a teenager. Yes, you let me down by drinking one too many drinks. Yes, you publicly embarrassed WWE, but so did the other Divas. And if you think making me hunt you down was so bad for me...you obviously don't know that I do nothing after a show is over. Coming to your rescue...any friend would do that for you if they were sober."

Thea frowned at him. "So you're not going to scream at me?"

"No."

A sigh escaped her mouth. "That just makes it worse...Things are so much easier when someone screams at me..."

"You wouldn't listen or learn if I started screaming at you."

"But after everything I've done... After I threw myself at you..." Her eyes darted away from his quickly. "After the fool I made of myself by acting so ridiculous around you...the dancing, the really bad flirting...and the...what I told you...How can you act like it was nothing?"

Glenn watched her sit against the wall. She had no clue that he had spent the night, staring up at the ceiling. Her words had played over and over again in his head. Something about how she had said them and the look in her eyes, had hinted that maybe there was something true to the words. That maybe she did love him when no one else would. That maybe she didn't care if he was a monster...

"I..."

"Glenn, I have no clue what's going on anymore," Thea admitted quietly, resting her head back against the wall. "My body's sending me mixed signals and I'm thinking strange things...I can't concentrate like I used to...Everything's changed...

"I came into this sport with a clear head, knowing exactly what I wanted. I wanted to get a championship title and have people look up to me...I wanted to make friends and watch them succeed and move on from their failures...But now...I don't know what I want. Maybe I just want some answers about what's going on with me..."

Glenn sat down next to her. "You might be falling in love...Haven't you been in love before?"

"With my ex?" Thea shrugged. "I thought I was in love with him, but it didn't feel like this. I knew what was going on in that relationship, but now...Glenn, I don't know what's going on..."

"Love is confusing. Love is the best thing to experience. And love hurts."

He could feel Thea's eyes on him again. He didn't know why he was telling her any of this, but after so many months of holding back all the feelings, it was liberating to get some of the pressure off his shoulders.

"Your ex-wife-?"

"She knew what she was getting into when she married me. She knew that I would be on the road more than I would be home and still she agreed to marry me. I loved her with all that I had, even if it wasn't much...I thought she loved me...She had me so convinced with every smile, every touch, every word she said..." He sighed. "But one day, I decided to come home as a surprise for her. I bought her flowers and sneaked inside my own house. I found them in my bed. You would have thought that I'd done something wrong because she started screaming at me, ordering me out of the room...out of our house."

Thea's voice was hesitant. "What did you do?"

"I left. I didn't come back until the sun was going down. He was gone. And my wife...she showed no guilt at being caught in the act and told me to get my things and leave...I gathered my things and I drove away, not coming back until she served me the divorce papers..." He offered his rookie a wry smile. "She told me then that she hadn't meant to hurt me and that it was my fault that she had been unfaithful in our relationship...she said that if I had been around more, if I had taken better care of her, that she wouldn't have gone astray...Then she took away everything and left me with a gaping hole in my heart..."

"Glenn...I'm sorry," Thea whispered.

"It wasn't your fault...It was mine. I should have-"

"No. You didn't do anything wrong," Thea told him, putting a hand on his arm. "Your wife knew what she was getting into when she married a professional wrestler. She could have said no to a relationship, but she didn't. And it was her idea to bring someone else into the mix. She was the one to betray the sacred vows of marriage...She did that. You didn't."

"But-"

"No Glenn. You entered into that marriage with a heart ready to express all the love in the world. You gave her all the love that you could and she took it all and handed it back to you like it didn't mean a thing..." Thea's eyes darkened and she looked away. "She doesn't realize how precious love from you really is...if she did...things would be different..."

She lapsed into silence, brooding over things that Glenn wasn't privy to. He looked out at the cold gym equipment, wondering how the girl could defend him so easily. How she could easily assume that he hadn't had any fault in his broken relationship with his ex-wife. He knew he didn't do anything wrong, that he had tried to keep the marriage going for as long as he could before he caught his wife cheating on him. But how could the girl? She hadn't known him for more than a few months and he never told her anything before now.

"Do you really think that?" he asked.

"Think what?"
"That love from me is precious?"

Thea hesitated. "I...I think you're a man who is careful about who he loves...It takes a special kind of person to earn any real love from you. Maybe your wife had it for awhile, but you're the man who doesn't give love freely. People like me, we have to earn our ways into your heart and in that journey, we have a lot of soul searching to do in ourselves..." She patted his arm. "Don't worry. One day...you'll find someone who will love you for everything that you are...and I'll be happy for you...Who knows? You might get a bouncing baby boy out of it...That will be one lucky girl..."

Glenn watched her as she said those words. She was feigning happiness for him, he could see that.

"I love you..." She had said those words not long ago. He was starting to wonder if the alcohol had really placed the words in her head or if it had simply brought out her real feelings for him. And if she really meant what she said...why hadn't she told him?

"Should we get to training or should we scrap the idea and go our separate ways?" Thea asked, glancing up at a digital clock on the wall. "It's a little past lunch time..."

Glenn glanced at the clock. She was right, but he didn't feel like training. And he hadn't eaten breakfast, so he was growing hungry.

"Do you want to get some lunch?" he asked, getting to his feet.

"Like a date?" Thea cocked her head to one side.

"Like two friends having lunch," Glenn corrected, offering her a hand up.

A small smile appeared on her lips as she took his hand and he pulled her to her feet. "That would be nice..."

A smile appeared on Glenn's face and he led the way out of the gym. Fellow wrestlers muttered greetings in passing as they moved about inside the hotel. Glenn led the way out of the hotel and they were instantly surrounded by flashing cameras. Thea squeaked and looked away from the cameras, her face becoming red as Glenn talked to the valet.

"Thea! Are you suffering from a hangover?"

"Are you an alcoholic?"

"Thea! Thea!"

Glenn wrapped an arm around Thea's shoulders and escorted her to the passenger's side of his car when the valet drove it up to the front of the hotel. The cameras followed.

"Get in," he ordered quietly.

Thea mouthed 'sorry' to him and climbed in, bowing her head in shame. Glenn close the door with a snap and turned to look at the all the cameramen as they tried to snap as many photos as they could and shoot the best images with their video cameras.

"All of you leave her alone," he ordered. "She made a mistake. We've all done it. Now back off or I'll make you regret it." As if to prove his point, he grabbed the nearest camera and smashed it on the ground. "Back. Off."

With that, he walked over to the driver's side and climbed in. The cameras still flashed around them. He revved the car and sped off, leaving the paparazzi behind them. Thea turned and looked back at them as they vanished from view.

"Thanks," she whispered.

"Not a problem."
"You're going to have to do something about the camera you smashed." Thea pointed out, settling back in her seat. "They could charge you with destruction of property or something..."

"Well, I guess that means you're old news then, doesn't it?" Glenn smirked at her.

Thea leaned over and planted a kiss on his cheek, a smile on her face once more. "Thanks Glenn."

Glenn looked over at her, but she looked away. His smirk turned into a smile and he looked back out at the road, trying to think of where they could go for lunch in the city.

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A/N: Still interesting? I hope you think so and will review me! Updates will probably follow soon, so stay tuned!