Matt held Adam's hand tightly as they walked towards Vince's office. The others were already standing outside of it and waiting for them. "You ready to do this?" Matt asked quietly.

Adam shook his head. "No, but I have to do it. I can't constantly be afraid at work."

"No, you shouldn't have to be constantly afraid anywhere you go. I'm hoping Vince will help turn Dave in down in Tampa so he can pay for what he did to your house."

"But they haven't found enough evidence to really point the finger at him specifically."

"I know, but I can dream, can't I?"

"Yes Matthew, you can dream a little dream," Ted said dramatically. "Dream like you've never dreamt before."

Randy sighed and looked at him. "Ted, we've talked about this. Just because we're gay doesn't mean you need to act THAT gay."

"Yeah," Morrison said. "I'm gay and even I don't do shit like that."

"You do run around in those fruity little coats though," Jay pointed out.

"MY COATS ARE NOT FRUITY!"

Vince's door opened and the boss himself poked his head out into the hallway. "Is there a problem out here?"

"Yes there is, but it's not about Morrison's coats," Mark said. He looked Vince straight in the eye. "We need to come in and talk about Batista."

Vince sighed. "Is this about Adam's house getting burned down?"

Matt raised his eyebrows. "Did the cops in Tampa call you?"

"Yes they did." Vince motioned for them to come in. "I have to say I was shocked by the accusations." He looked at Adam. "Why would he burn your house down?"

Adam gulped nervously and glanced at Matt. "I can't do this," he whispered.

Matt sighed and squeezed Adam's hand in a comforting matter. He knew this was going to be hard for the blonde man to say, but it had to be done. "Yes you can," he whispered back. "I'm right here. I'm not going to leave you for a second."

All eyes were on Adam now. Matt wished they would look away for a moment, but he didn't express that out loud. He was distracted by the determined look in Adam's eyes. "That's it baby," he said with a nod. He rubbed Adam's back gently. "I know this is hard, but you need to talk to Vince. He needs to know why Dave needs to be fired."

Adam nodded. "Okay." He took a deep breath and began talking. "Vince, were you aware that Dave and I were dating?"

"I think Hunter said something to me about that once," Vince said. "But I try to stay out of everyone's relationships unless it directly affects business."

"Well this has definitely affected business," Jeff muttered.

Vince frowned. "What do you mean by that?"

Adam gulped. "Dave turned mean not long after I started dating him. He kept me isolated from everyone so nobody knew what was happening and he made me say the bruises were from my matches. It got so bad I wanted to just kill myself…" His voice trailed off and he looked down at his feet.

Matt decided that he should speak up. "Jeff and I overheard Dave beating him in the locker room a couple of weeks ago. The relationship is over now, but Dave isn't letting go. He burned down Adam's house, he was stalking Adam by phone until we changed his number and we don't think he's done yet. That's why we want him out. We want him fired immediately and we're working on getting a restraining order against him."

"Oh, and I should mention that we're all prepared to walk out right now and leave the company if you don't get rid of the asshole," John spoke up. "I think we should make that detail perfectly clear before you make the right decision."

Now it was Vince's turn to get stared at. Matt took several deep breaths, hoping that their boss would do the right thing. He thought that there was a good shot at that happening since they were all threatening to leave, but still, Vince had a tendency to be notoriously stubborn…

All of his fears were put to rest as Vince nodded. "Okay," he said. "I know that none of you would be threatening a walk out if this wasn't one hundred percent true. I will release Dave from his contract, have security lead him out and have him banned from all future WWE events. Does that sound fair to you?"

Everyone looked at Adam, who nodded. Matt sighed as they all got up and he gave Adam a gentle kiss. "You feel better?" he asked.

Adam nodded nervously. "A little bit."

"I sense a but coming."

Jeff giggled. "I didn't know butts could come."

Mark rolled his eyes as Legacy and Phil joined Jeff's giggling. "You are all so immature."

Adam and Matt ignored all of that. "What's wrong baby?" Matt asked. "You can tell me."

"Well that was the easy part," Adam said. He looked around. "The hard part is going to be getting Dave out of the building."

XXXXXXXXXX

"LET GO OF ME YOU BASTARDS! YOU SONS OF FUCKING BITCHES, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET AWAY WITH THIS!"

Adam cowered behind Matt. It was about a half hour after the meeting with Vince had gotten over, and just like he had suspected, Dave was not taking the news to his release and his lifetime ban very well. "Matty…"

"It's okay," Matt said gently. He and Jeff were doing their best to shield Adam from Dave's view. "He's not going to hurt you. We won't let him."

Mark and Glenn walked up to Dave, who was literally being dragged out by security. "You brought this on yourself Batista," Mark growled. "You couldn't just leave Adam alone. No, you had to burn his house down and you had to keep terrorizing him."

Dave shook his head. "You can't prove I did a damn thing."

"We don't need proof," Matt snapped. "We know it was you. We're not stupid."

"Oh yeah? How about I ask Adam what he thinks?"

"You leave him the fuck alone!"

Adam closed his eyes and buried his face in Matt's back. His whole body was starting to shake. This was the closest he had been to Dave ever since the last locker room fight, and he didn't like it. He felt like his legs were going to collapse from under him and he was going to faint right then and there.

"Come on Adam!" Dave yelled. He was doing a pretty good job of fighting security. "Come face me like a man! Don't fucking hide behind your Hardy bitch!"

"Leave me alone!" Adam yelled back. He stayed behind Matt, but he mustered up enough courage to at least look Dave in the eyes. "What the fuck else do you want from me? You fucking already broke me and burned down my house! What the hell else do you want from me?"

Dave didn't exactly say what else he could possibly want. He managed to free himself from security's grasp and he bulldozed his way through Mark and Glenn and started coming towards Adam. Adam let out a scream and jumped backwards, nearly tripping over his own feet in the process. As Jeff barely caught him before he hit the ground, Matt decked Dave as hard as he possibly could, effectively grounding the larger man.

"Holy shit," Adam muttered as Mark, Glenn and the security guards grabbed the stunned Dave and dragged him away. He looked at Matt in shock. "How hard did you hit him?"

Matt shook his hand. "Hard enough to break my own damn knuckles," he said. He shook his hand off and sighed. "That felt good though."

"And it looked awesome," Jeff piped in. "I wish I would have done that."

"But then you would have bitched about hurting your hand for the rest of the night."

"No I wouldn't have!"

"Oh you know you would have."

Adam sighed and hugged Matt as the two brothers continued to argue. He was happy that Matt had given Dave a small dose of his own medicine, but he couldn't shake the feeling that Dave wasn't going to take this lying down. I hope you know this isn't over Matty. This isn't going to be over by a long shot.