Hey again:) thanks for all the lovely reviews, think i got 9 last chapter! :) hoping for maybe 10 this one lol! Introducing a new character this chap to bring some back story into the character of Blair. I hope you enjoy, leave me your thoughts, comments on it or whatever. And as always PLEASE keep all those lovely reviews coming. Hope you enjoy :)

Sunday came quickly, and since it was the night of the big Backlash pay per view everyone was feeling a mix of nerves and excitement. Tonight Randy was set to win the title, but Ted and Cody would also be part of the match. So while everyone was excited for Randy's new title run, Cody was nervous as hell that she would be backstage without any of them during the match.

Blair ran her hands over his naked shoulders, "Relax, I'll be ok by myself. It's only a half hour, how much trouble can I get into?"

He sighed, "I guess you're right. But are you sure you don't want me to find someone to stay with you, you know just in case?"

A smile eased over her lips, "No I promise I'll be fine. What did I tell you,Cody? You need to stop worrying about me so much, I took care of myself before I met you, and I can still take care of myself now."

The young man's thumb tilted her jaw upward, "I know you can, but I want to take care of you."

She looked up at him affectionately, relishing the feeling of his warm breath hitting her face. His nose was inches from hers and he was staring into her eyes as if she could understand him through his glance instead of having to use any words.

Cody inched closer, his lips almost touching hers as she closed her eyes. She was expecting his mouth to find hers, but instead she was startled by the sound of Randy's voice, "Cody come on we're next." The Missouri native froze when he saw the scene before him, "Opps, I'm not interrupting anything am I?"

Not bothering to justify Randy's stupid question with an answer Cody just returned his focus to Blair, "I'll be back soon ok?"

She nodded as he hurried out of the locker room and waited a mount before pushing her fingers to her lips, was he really about to just kiss her? She knew that he was doing more then just tolerating her lately, but she had chalked it up to friendly feelings and nothing more. But maybe she was wrong, maybe there was more then friendly feelings between them?

Then again maybe she was imagining the whole thing, her hormones had been all over the place. Maybe she had just mistaken his over-protective ways for something more... maybe he was never going to kiss her in the first place.

But one thing was for certain, she needed to find out, and soon. Because not knowing what they really were and how she was supposed to act and react around from now on would surely drive her crazy.


As promised the boys were gone about a half hour, and once they had all taken their respective showers and packed up they all headed out of the locker room together.

Cody and Blair were walking side by side, his hand resting on her lower back to guide her as they made their way into the hallway. She couldn't wait to be alone with him, because she needed to know that if the spark that she was feeling was igniting on his end too. And tonight would be the perfect opportunity to do that since Ted was catching a late flight home and it would only be her and Cody in the hotel room.

Changing her field of vision she looked up to smile at him, but before anything else could be thought or said someone rushed past them, roughly banging into Blair's shoulder in the process.

The Marietta native let go of his fiancée and ran viciously towards the unidentified man, spinning him around to face his rage. "What the hell was that ass hole, you just practically knocked over a pregnant woman?"

All the colour drained from Blair's face when she locked eyes with the blonde man who had just run into her, "Jacob?" She whispered, the disbelief ringing through her voice as her hand moved to cover her mouth, "Jacob Hager?"

He simply smirked in her direction, "Blair.."

Cody looked back and forth between them frantically, the bewilderment clear on his face, "You two know each other..."

The blonde girl did her best to nod in her almost paralysed state of shock as she swallowed the large lump that had formed in her throat. This couldn't be real...

"How in the name of god do you know Jack Swagger?" Cody asked, feeling as confused as he had ever felt in his life. And for a split second he thought he knew what it felt like to be as out of the loop as Ted.

Her expression became even more puzzled, "Jack Swagger?"

It was Cody's turn to nod at her, "Yeah that's his ring name, Jack Swagger...former, ECW champion." He hung intently on the word former with the utmost importance, before shooting the other man a dirty look.

But Blair didn't respond to Cody's jab at the other man. She just kept looking at Jack like she had seen a ghost, and in her own way she sort of had."You're a professional wrestler now?"

His face turned smug, "Yup, and a damn good one at that."

Cody moved closer to him, "Enough chit chat, what the fuck is you're problem Swagger, do you enjoy knocking down pregnant girls? More specifically my pregnant fiancée..."

The last statement caused Jack's brow to raise, "You guys are engaged?"

It was then that Cody got closer to him, if it was indeed possible, "Yeah what's it to you Swagger?"

The All-American rose his hands up defensively, wanting to avoid any and all confrontation...for now. "Nothing. It's just that the Blair Donovan that I knew didn't seem like the marrying kind."

Turning his attention to Blair for a moment Cody gave Jack the perfect opportunity to slink away quietly. And then when he finally did realise that the ecw superstar was gone he looked back to Blair again, "You really know that jerk?"

She bit down her bottom lip,before nodding at him once more, "Yeah, and if you don't mind I'd rather not talk about it. Can we just go back to the hotel now? I suddenly feel sick."

He put his arm back around her, "Sure, whatever you want."


Blair was silent all the way back to hotel, she didn't say one single word the whole time...to anybody. She just leaned against the window and watched the road whip by beneath her, wrapped up in her own thoughts. Cody of course was beside himself trying to think of something, anything, to bring life back into her face.

But no matter how much he tried she barely acknowledged him, she would try and smile his way but he could see that was having trouble even forcing it for him. Seeing Jack had stirred up something in the blonde, and the Marietta native was determined to find out just what that was.

The car ride itself was a relatively short one, and as soon as Blair had gotten to the hotel she bolted for the bathroom, locking herself inside of it. Seeing the familiar face was eating away at her, and she had absolutely no intention of talking to Cody about it. She wanted to forget the blonde man, and she was doing a good job of pretending he didn't exist until he ran into her. It was all like some cruel twist of fate, and Blair didn't know what she had done to deserve any of it.

Her shaking had ran back through her hair as she slunk down to the floor, sighing when she heard what she knew was Cody's fist knocking on the wooden door behind her. "Please, come out," He said softly, "Please."

"I don't feel well Cody, I'm just going to have a nice bubble bath and relax. You should go out and celebrate the title win with Randy and everyone else. I'll be perfectly fine here, I'd prefer to be alone actually."

The young man groaned, "You know I'm not going to do that Blair, now come back out, please? "

"No."

He sighed, "Fine then let me in."

"No."

She didn't want to fight with him, she was actually grateful that he seemed to care so much and she definitely didn't want to go back to the way things were in Marietta. Blair didn't want to be the thorn in his side, she didn't want to cause him any kind of grief at all, but Jake Hager, or Jack Swagger as Cody had called him, was a subject that she didn't want to have to discuss.

"Come on Blair, you were fine until that dick ran into you, please just open up and tell me what's going on here." Cody begged, leaning against the door as he spoke through it to her.

Grabbing the doorknob for support Blair picked herself up off the floor, "I let you in on one condition."

Cody smiled although she couldn't see it as he let out a heavy breath of relief, "Anything...Just name it."

"We're not allowed to talk about what happened back there, or mention the name Jake Hager, or Jack Swagger or whatever the hell he's calling himself these days."

He wasn't to happy to hear that that was the condition, but at least she was going to let him in. As much as he wanted to know what the story was there, he was willing to drop it for her sake. "Ok, no Jake, I promise."

Reluctantly Blair opened the door, and once he could see her face Cody moved closer, wrapping his arms around her. "Whatever is wrong, I'm sorry you're feeling this way."

She snuggled into his neck, thankful to have his shoulder to lean on...but she couldn't help but feel like he wouldn't be as calm and caring if he knew how exactly how she knew Jack Swagger. Maybe he had no right to pry into her past or judge any of it, but she knew that the fact that Jake was now his co-worker would makes things completely different.

Blair just hoped that the dumb oaf had the common courtesy to keep everything to himself. Yet deep down she wasn't sure she'd be so lucky.

After a short while she pulled back from the embrace to look at him, "I think I'm going to go lay down."

"Ok," He replied faintly, taking her hand in his and leading her over to the bed which she slowly crawled into with his help.

Immediately she pulled the blankets up to meet her face in a failed attempt to block Cody out. But he just sat there on the edge of the bed, staring at her. She knew that he knew she wasn't ok, and that he wanted to help somehow. He looked almost pitiful, seemingly begging for her to tell him what it was that she needed from him.

But he couldn't give her what she wanted, and that was for Jake to go back to being a horrible long lost memory instead of a new-found reality.