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Hi! Welcome back to the Fanfic where no one is afraid to say May nineteenth, why should I be afraid of May nineteenth? I like May nineteenth, I'm making my in-ring debut on May nineteenth, the Champions League final is two days before May nineteenth, oh, the Fanfic, right. Well last time Jason and John continued to have communication problems and John has left Jason stranded in Chicago, how will the teen get home? Let's find out.
Here We Go!
Brotherly Hate-Chapter Twenty OneJason and Mara sat alone in the parking lot of the arena; John was long gone so the two had no ride, no money and nowhere to stay for the night.
"Y'know" began Mara. "Maria from RAW lives in Chicago, she's a good friend of John's right? Maybe we can stay with her until we find a way to get home".
"No that won't work, I've never spoke to Maria and, nice as she is, it wouldn't feel right just coming round and asking to stay would it?"
"So what do we do now?"
"We could go to the hotel where everyone's staying, Stacy's got a room to herself cause Kristal's out on a date with Miz tonight".
"He's only been here a week, and he's talked Kristal into going out on a date with him?"
"Yup" replied Jason. "As I was saying, Stacy's got a room to herself so you could probably stay with her".
"And you?"
"Well… I'll find someone to room with for the night, don't worry about it".
"O.K. how will we get home though?"
"I dunno, we'll think about that tomorrow, although I'm not sure I want to go home right now considering how John is right now".
He sighed and stopped talking, he didn't want to think about what had happened, he had probably destroyed the relationship he had with John, he'd find out soon enough. A voice behind the two teens made them jump.
"Maybe I could help".
Jason spun round. "Shawn? Why are you still here?"
"I left my boots behind, I was on my way back to get 'em when your brother almost ran my ass down. I saw you weren't with him so I figured he was pissed at ya again".
"So what is this help you're offering?"
"Well you two need somewhere to stay for a week, I'm not making promises but I'll see if I can talk my wife into letting ya stay at our place for a week, it'll give your bro' a chance to calm down"
"You'd let the two of us stay with you?"
"Well, yeah, if Rebecca agrees".
"That's fair, thanks man".
"No problem kid, now as far as tonight goes Mara, think you could go for that room with Stacy?"
"I'm pretty sure she'd let me, yeah".
"Good, kid, you cool with rooming with me tonight?"
"If it's not too much trouble".
"It won't be kid so don't worry, although, I got an early morning flight back to San Antonio tomorrow so I'm gonna need to be outta there by six".
"O.K."
"Right, c'mon kids let's go".
When the trio got to the hotel Stacy was only too willing to let Mara stay with her, Jason and Shawn went to Shawn's room.
"Being HBK has its advantages" said Jason surveying the room, it was twice as large as any of the hotel rooms he had shared with John, and John had been champ for most of his stay in WWE.
"Two things ya need to learn in this business kid, save your money and always go for luxury suites at hotels".
"Is that the old HBK talking?"
"Yeah, he's bound to have some good points every now and then, anyway I need to be outta here by six and it's now midnight so get some sleep".
"Sir! Yes sir!"
Shawn smirked as Jason dropped on to one of the sofas in the room, he remembered a task he had to do and excused himself. When he was outside he pulled out his phone and dialled his home number.
"Hello?"
"Hi honey it's me" he started. "Everything good down there? Cameron behaving himself?"
"He's fine, do you want me to put him on so he can say goodnight?"
"In a minute I need to ask you something first".
"Go on".
"Well, would it be alright if a guy from work could stay with us for a while?"
There was a moment of silence before "… it's not Scott or Waltman is it?"
"No it's not, I told them they couldn't come round again until I could trust them not to wreck stuff".
"Is it Kevin?"
"Kev? Nah he's in Florida right now, actually it's that kid Jason Cena, is that alright?"
"The same Jason Cena who thought about whacking you with a chair?"
"Relax Rebecca, he's a nice kid once ya get to know him, he just has a slight ego problem".
"Yeah, but you know how I feel about 'slight ego problems', why do you want him to stay anyway?"
"Well I wouldn't normally ask but his brother just left him and his girlfriend stranded up in Chicago with no way of getting home".
"Why would his brother do that?"
"Long story short the kid cost him a title so he's kinda P-O right now".
"His brother put him out just for that?"
"I know, I was pretty sure he'd be angry but to do this to his own flesh and blood, damn!"
"Watch your language Michael!"
Shawn laughed. "It always feels weird when you call me that nowadays".
"Yeah well I don't care what you changed your name to or how legal it is, you're always going to be the Michael Hickenbottom I married".
"Yeah, anyway what about the kid? Can he stay or not?"
"Why can't he go stay with his parents?"
"His mother's dead and his father left him when he was young".
"Oh…"
"Yeah, it is rather sad to think about".
"If he stays here will his girlfriend be coming as well?"
"She probably will, but I wouldn't worry, she's actually better to get along with than he is".
"Well… how long would they be staying?"
"We got a show next Friday in San Antonio so he'll probably be here until then, once we're at the show I'll see if I can get him and his brother to patch things up so he can go home. If that doesn't work I'll ask one of the guys I trained to take him in for a while".
"Would they do that though?"
"He's quite close with Paul and Brian so I'm sure that one of them would take him in for a while".
"Well… alright, him and his girlfriend can stay until the next show, after that he'll have to find somewhere else".
"O.K. thanks Rebecca I really, REALLY appreciate this".
"Just as long as this Jason keeps himself from doing anything out of order when Cameron's around".
"Don't worry the kid and his girlfriend won't cause a bit of trouble, anyway, can you put Cameron on?"
Shawn talked to his son for almost an hour before realising what the time was, with a hasty "Goodnight" he returned to his room, Jason was asleep on the sofa, he was muttering something about his mother, Shawn sighed. "To go through what he did with his Mom at his age" he thought. "And then his brother goes and pulls this, poor kid, he deserves better" He called room service and asked for a wake-up call before going to sleep.
"Kid, kid, time to get up!"
For the third time since the he'd gotten up Shawn tried to wake Jason.
"C'mon kid we gotta leave in fifteen minutes, get up!"
"Wha… what time is it?"
"It's five forty-five".
"There's a five forty-five in the morning now?"
"Yeah, now get up!"
"Alright, alright". Jason got up and, complaining the whole time, managed to get dressed without falling asleep again, Shawn tossed him a coffee.
"Drink that before ya pass out again, and hurry cause we gotta flight to catch soon".
"We? Oh, I'm allowed to stay then?"
"Yeah, provided you don't do anything to annoy Rebecca while you're there".
"It's not like a deliberately piss people off is it?"
"No but it happens, now go get Mara, I'll meet ya in the lobby with the stuff".
Jason slumped off to get his girlfriend, he figured she probably wasn't even up yet but was surprised when she opened the door before he even knocked looking as fresh and energetic as ever.
"Morning Jason!" She said as she hugged him.
"Has Stacy been force-feeding you sugar or something?" He asked. "How are you able to get up so early?"
"When Christopher used to take me on tours with him we'd get up way earlier than this" she replied. "Did Shawn's wife say we could stay?"
"Yeah, we're leaving now, so let's go".
"O.K. bye Stacy" she called back to her roommate, Stacy muttered something that neither Jason nor Mara could understand before slumping back onto her pillow.
Jason slept all the way down to San Antonio on the plane, waking up just as it landed. Shawn had left his car parked at the airport, after a short journey they pulled up in front of a large house in the suburbs.
"Home sweet home" muttered Shawn to himself as they pulled up; on the way up the path he pulled Jason to one side.
"Remember what I said about behaving yourself".
"Don't worry, I'll keep it together".
"Make sure ya do".
Shawn led the way through the door; they had barely gone three steps when there was a cry of "Daddy!" and a young boy came running down the stares and jumped into Shawn's arms.
"Hiya big man, where ya good for Mom while I was away?"
"Yeah! I was good Dad, I was real, REAL good, wasn't I Mom?"
The boy was now talking to the woman who had followed him down the stairs, she smiled and kissed Shawn on the cheek, Jason felt a slight pang of envy of the boy, he had the luxury of two loving parents while all Jason had was John, and even that seemed a little sketchy at the moment, he quickly pushed those thoughts to the back of his mind as the boy noticed him and Mara for the first time.
"Who're they?"
"These are Daddy's friends, this is Jason and…"
"Is it the Jason that you told me you beat 'hands down' at Summerslam Dad?"
Shawn laughed nervously and looked from his son to Jason; fortunately the teen had seen the funny side and played along.
"Yup, I just couldn't hang with your dad, he was too much to handle".
The boy smiled before turning his attention to Mara.
"What's your name?"
"My name's Mara".
"Mara? That's a funny name".
"My parents are funny people".
"Yeah, they actually like your boyfriend" muttered Jason earning himself an elbow in the ribs.
"Anyway" said Shawn. "Jason, Mara, this is my son Cameron, and my lovely wife Rebecca".
"Hello" said Jason stepping forward holding out his hand, she smiled at him and shook it, then did the same to Mara.
"Right" said Shawn holding up his bag. "I'm gonna go put this in the laundry, do ya want me to do the same to yours kid?"
"Well these are the only clothes I got apart from what I'm wearing now so, if it's not too much trouble".
"It's not kid don't worry about it".
Shawn walked off with Cameron leaving Jason and Mara with Rebecca.
"Well, I'm going to make some food, you two like spaghetti?"
The two replied yes and Rebecca started to walk off, Mara followed.
"Shall I help you Rebecca?"
"If you'd like I don't mind".
Jason was left alone in the hallway. "I think I might as well make myself scarce for a while" he thought heading out into the back yard.
Jason kept a low profile for much of the day; he was doing his best not to do anything that would annoy Shawn or Rebecca. In an attempt to get on Rebecca's good side he offered to do the dishes on his own an amazed himself by doing it without breaking a single one, a new record for him. He spent the rest of the day outside in Shawn's rather large back yard; sometimes he was alone, sometimes with Mara, sometimes Cameron, who would bombard him with questions every time they spoke, and sometimes both. Cameron seemed to really like Mara and kept on calling her "Pretty" he seemed quite upset when Rebecca told him to leave the teens alone and go to bed. Jason and Mara weren't long in following and found the spare room set up for them, once the two had changed Mara got straight into bed but Jason sat at the bottom lost in thought.
"Something wrong?"
"I'm just thinking about John, and whether or not he's gonna want to talk to me on Friday".
"Jason, you know your brother loves you, he's just upset right now. Come Friday he'll have calmed down and the two of you will be back to your usual annoying selves again".
Jason laughed. "Yeah, you're probably right".
"Probably?"
"Oh fine, you are right".
"Good, now come to bed and let's get some sleep".
"O.K. oh, by the way, you have a flower in your hair" he said getting under the covers.
"Yeah Cameron gave it to me, he's so sweet".
"Awww, Mara Daniels has a five year old crushing on her, that's so cute".
"Yeah, pity for him I only have eyes for you right now".
"Heh, thanks".
"Although…" she pretended to consider something. "He's nicer than you, better looking than you, and treats me better than you do, hmm… maybe I'm with the wrong guy".
"Very funny, you're really amusing, a barrel of laughs".
"I got you out of your bad mood didn't I?" She asked snuggling up to him, he put his arm around her.
"Yeah… Y'know something? I was actually envious of that kid earlier".
"What? Why would you envy a five year old boy?"
"He has something I never had and I never will have".
"What's that?"
"Two parents who love him".
"…Jason…"
"I know, I know I'm being stupid but… sometimes I wonder what my life would be like if Mom never died and if 'he' never left us. In fact, I even wonder if Mom would have died at all if 'he' had of stayed".
"Jason, no one expected your mother to get sick the way she did, what happened had nothing to do with your father, it just happened".
"Yeah… I really miss her right now, she'd have this mess between me and John sorted out in a heartbeat".
"I know you miss her, but you're your own person now, you have to do these things al… well, not quite alone, I'm still here for you".
"Trust me, you'll never know how grateful I am to you".
"Don't worry, you'll be paying me back when you get the money".
Jason laughed again. "You always know how to make me laugh".
"Someone has to keep our spirits up, now shall we get some sleep?"
"Yeah" Jason replied giving her a quick kiss. "Yeah, let's get some sleep, night".
"Night".
Within a few minutes both teens were asleep in each others arms.
Two Days Later…Shawn answered the phone ringing in the hall. "Hello?"
"Michaels, it's me John".
"Oh you, yeah I figured you'd be calling me sooner or later"
"Have you heard from Jason at all? I haven't been able to contact him for three days!"
"Well considering how you treated him, I'm not surprised he hasn't spoken to you, I mean, you hit him in the face! Then you left him stranded in Chicago with no money!"
"I know, I was angry but I shouldn't have done it, do you know where he is?"
"Yeah, right now he's outside showing my son how to play soccer, do you wanna talk to him yet?"
"No".
"No? So you still haven't got over last week?"
"He cost me the title! Twice!"
"That's no reason to do what you did!" Shawn yelled into the phone, his anger was rising, he couldn't believe John was still trying to justify what he did!
"Look" came the voice over the phone. "Can you give him a message from me?"
"Yeah… what is it?"
"Tell him I'm sorry for what I did and that I'll see him on Friday".
"So you're basically forgiving him?"
"Yeah… no… I dunno, just tell him I'll speak to him Friday".
"Yeah alright" Shawn hung up the phone. "Hey kid…"
John Cena hung up the phone on his end of the line, the ball was in his court now, reunite with Jason or cut the kid loose so he could fully focus on his wrestling career, the latter choice was kinda brutal, but Jason would understand… eventually.
"Either way, I'm settling this issue on Friday!"
End of Chapter
Well there ya go! Will John cut Jason loose? Is this the end of the Cena family? Will I pass my exams? Find out next time!
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