Author's Note: Thanks to everyone who reviewed/favourited/alerted the previous chapter, keep it up :)
Here's chapter 10, enjoy!
10th October 2011: Raw Supershow, Wichita Kansas
Maryse Ouellet played absentmindedly with her food, tossing her fork down on the white tabletop when she wasn't interested in eating her green salad with a side of boiled chicken, anymore. Ever since that night when she'd told Mike about Sasha's sinister past, guilt had been plaguing her; but something else had been troubling the French Canadian, something, that no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't come up with a reason for. Why had she told Mike?
They'd been separated for over three months now and Maryse realised that she'd talked to him more in the past week than she had since their shock break-up. And every time she did talk to him it was about Sasha. Why? The only answer she could think of was 'because I'm jealous'. Maryse was confused at this answer though, she was the 'Sexiest of Sexy', and she didn't get jealous, people were jealous of her, not the other way around. But seeing Mike going after one of her friends stirred up something dark inside of the blonde. She thought that when she crushed Mike's heart he'd be so depressed he could never love again, was she really that naive? She'd seen Mike reject the advances of Kelly and Melina when they offered to make him forget all about his ex girlfriend, and up until he met Sasha, Maryse really did think that he would never find another girl who could compare to her.
Maybe she wasn't as over him as she originally thought. Sure, she'd had passionate hook ups with Cody Rhodes a few times since they'd split, she hadn't really thought about Mike until he appeared in her life once again and thinking about him brought back all the memories of their relationship to the surface. She remembered how he used to stroke her platinum hair as she drifted off to sleep, and when she woke he'd be looking at her with those crystal blue eyes. And how one time in Miami, he got her up at midnight to go for a walk on the beach just so they could be alone.
The sound of the metal chair legs being scraped against the concrete floor of catering pulled Maryse from her thoughts. A worried looking Sasha was seated opposite her, "Ryse, have you seen Zack?" she asked, almost desperately, "I seriously need to find him."
"Why? What's up?"
"I think we're in trouble..." Sasha said quietly, afraid of anyone else hearing, "about last week how I didn't really stick to the script for the match. Hunter wants to see us. Immediately," her chocolate eyes were wide with fear. Was her career with the WWE going to come to an end before it even had the chance to start?
"Sorry, can't help you there," Maryse apologised. She remembered watching the mixed 6 person tag team match from last week, Sasha had broken away from the plan by seducing Zack, but Hunter wouldn't fire her for it, Maryse hoped.
"Oh okay," Sasha replied sadly, "ahh what am I gunna do?" she groaned, "I'm so stupid!" she raked her fingers through her chestnut hair, letting it fall over her eyes.
"Step one, breathe," Maryse laughed, trying to lighten the mood, "I'm sure it won't be that bad. Just go to Hunters office, maybe Zack's already there." she offered helpfully.
"Well, wish me luck," Sasha said, crossing her manicured fingers before leaving Maryse to her thoughts once again. Walking down the corridor of the INTRUST Bank arena towards the C.O.O's office felt like a marathon instead of a couple hundred metres. Sasha paused outside the black door, afraid to enter the room. Finally, after building up the courage, she knocked on the hard wood and waited until Hunter's intimidating voice directed her to come in.
Once inside, she was relieved to see the familiar spiked hair of Zack. She sat on the spare red cushioned chair and waited to hear the outcome of her fate. "I'm sure both of you know why you're here," Hunter started, Sasha and Zack nodded, not saying a word, "Sasha, I don't know what made you think to do what you did last week. I'm well aware that you know to stick to scripts and storylines." She swallowed silently, this was it. Today would be her last day as a professional wrestler with the WWE. "Though..." Hunter continued thoughtfully, "seeing the chemistry that you two displayed, you've given me an idea for a future storyline."
Sasha breathed a sigh of relief; she wasn't going to be future endeavoured after all. "Sasha, Zack, you two will be involved in a romantic storyline starting sometime this month," he explained his idea, "though of course you'll still have to be punished in some way. Sasha, your match against Kelly Kelly is cancelled; she'll be facing Brie Bella instead and Zack you're tag match is now a standard one, with Alex going up against Barrett you will be in his corner instead. I've let them all know about the changes," Hunter smoothed out his pinstripe suit before dismissing the relieved Italian American and Long Island native.
Zack wrapped Sasha up in a tight, excited hug as soon as the exited the C.O.O's makeshift office, "Sick," he cheered, "you're gunna be my on-screen Broski...uh Broskette!"
"Yeah it'll be awesome," Sasha agreed, "we'll be the Sammi and Ronnie of WWE, only without all the crazy fighting," she cleared up, placing a hand on his muscled torso.
"It'll be even more awesome when I get to kiss you," he bent his head down and whispered sultrily in her ear.
"Oh you can kiss me anytime you want," she flirted, moving her hand under his tee and tracing his abs with her finger "I wouldn't mind."
Zack melted at her soft touch, hoping she realised that he was being serious about kissing her. Sasha was hard to read, she teased him in ways that made him want to bed her there and then, but he didn't know if she meant any of the things she said to him. Zack himself, meant every seductive word he whispered in her ear.
The noise of someone clearing their throat caused the duo to split apart. An amused Alex Riley stood there, having witnessed the exchange which had happened between Sasha and Zack, "would you two just hook up and get it over with already?" he laughed, dressed in his ring gear, "Zack we're up."
Zack tore himself away from Sasha and reluctantly followed Alex towards the gorilla position, "See ya later future girlfriend," he shouted down the corridor, causing Sasha to silently laugh to herself.
As she was making her way back to catering she ran into a sweaty Mike Mizanin who had just won his #1 Contender match against Kofi Kingston for a shot at the US champ Evan Bourne, "oh, uh sorry," he mumbled as he brushed hurriedly past her, glancing briefly at her before averting his eyes from the Italian American beauty.
Sasha was confused; the Mike Mizanin who had random gifts for her every time they saw each other was replaced by a Miz look-a-like who had acted like the nervous high school nerd running into the head cheerleader. Suddenly a jolt of realisation hit Sasha, did he know something? It's impossible, she told herself, knowing that neither Zack, Maryse nor Katharyn would tell anyone. But still, the shifty way Mike had acted planted the seed of doubt in her mind.
Rushing back to catering, she scanned the room for her French Canadian friend. The feelings of paranoia were beginning to creep back; she pushed them to the back of her mind as she spotted the blonde head of Maryse chatting with one of the Bella twins. "Ryse," she half shouted, motioning for her friend to come over to her.
Maryse excused herself from Nikki as she saw Sasha wanted to talk to her, "Yeah? How'd the meeting go?" she asked, wanting to know Sasha's fate with the WWE.
"Oh that, it's all good," she brushed off, "but uh... you didn't tell Mike anything did you?"
Maryse froze. Shit! Sasha knew what she had told him back in Phoenix. "I...uh..." Maryse stumbled over her words.
"It's just that he completely ignored me when we ran into each other," Sasha continued, unaware of Maryse's stuttering, "he never ignores me. I just got a weird feeling that he knows something..." she trailed off.
"Actually, now that you mention it..." Maryse thought fast, thinking up a plausible excuse to take the heat away from herself, "I did see Katharyn talking quietly with him before the show started," she half lied. She did see Katharyn and Mike talking, but she knew it was about planning John's birthday party.
"Thanks," Sasha said angrily, bitterness colouring her tone. She was shocked to say the least. Her first impression of Katharyn was that she was sweet and innocent. When Sasha had told both her and Maryse her secret, she had actually comforted her. Obviously looks can be deceiving, Sasha thought to herself, and I've found that out the hard way.
Author's Note: So... everyone who's been wanting Sasha and Zack to get together, it's happened! Sort of :D
And Maryse, what have you got yourself into..?
