A/N: I'm proud of myself that I turned a small chapter into a large chapter.

Rumor time, I heard that WWE is going to tie AJ's "disappearance" to Punk walking out, I don't know how or even if it's that true, just something I heard. I think that would be the best move for AJ and a way to bring Punk back since there have been reports of Punk and Triple-H talking about him coming back after AJ comes back. People were saying that WWE has been giving AJ the "CM Punk treatment" where they give her the longest title reign and then destroy her in a matter of seconds, that's true. If they don't turn Paige heel and AJ face and a lot more interesting and then get her and Punk on camera together then you reverse that and AJ is the best Diva currently on the roster again. Seriously, someone needs to write Vince or Stephanie and be like. "The McMahons vs. Braniel vs. Nena vs. AJPunk for the title of best power couple" and the idea would be instantly stolen, but hey we get an amazing match and a great storyline that would distract everyone from Paige.

I hope Tamina beats Paige's ass even though I know that's not going to happen, at least I hope she gives her the worst beating of her life until AJ comes back to destroy her physically and emotionally.

Hope you enjoy this chapter!

September 24, 2015

Goodbye
Should be saying that to you by now, shouldn't I?
Laying down a law that I live by
Well, maybe next time

I've got a thick tongue
Brimming with the words that go unsung
I simmer then I burn for a someone
The wrong one

A few hours later, after AJ and the baby have both slept for a few hours, AJ gets to see the baby again. Nikki and Paige are in the nursery holding the still unnamed baby. AJ is let in and takes the baby from Paige.

"She looks like you," Nikki says, the baby not letting go of her finger.

"She looks like him," AJ says, crying again. "Ugh, am I going to cry every time I hold her?"

"No," Paige says.

"What's her name?" Nikki asks.

What will this baby girls name be? AJ hasn't thought much about names, she's mostly been worried about how she's going to take care of her without crying every time she sees her, hoping she won't become depressed. She has to have a name, obviously, but what's the perfect name for a baby girl as special as her?

"Harley," she says, looking down at the baby girl in her arms. Harley, that's a perfect name.

"Harley," Nikki says and laughs. "Perfect name,"

"Definitely perfect," Paige says, laughing as well. "Does Punk even know?"

"No," AJ says and looks back at her two friends. "And he won't,"

"What if you go back to WWE?" Nikki asks.

AJ sighs. Will she even go back? She doesn't really think now is the best time. Especially with Harley just a few hours old. She's too young to travel with, even though anyone backstage would love to watch her during AJ's matches. If she goes back, there will be questions as to the reason why she left, she doesn't want to have to lie then in a few years begin traveling with a child. What if Punk finds out? She can't let him know that she had his baby when she was gone, she could always say that after she left she slept with another Superstar and it's theirs. But Harley looks too much like Punk for that to pass.

"I could have my sister, Erica, watch her while I'm traveling until Harley is old enough to travel." AJ suggests, but does she want to leave Harley that long? She could miss so many things in her life. Her first words, when she starts crawling, when she starts walking. "But I'd miss her too much, I miss WWE also."

"You have to choose between family and your career." Nikki says, frowning slightly. "Michelle had to, she chose family."

"You have a few years left, maybe more, what do you want more?" Paige asks.

"I wish that I was more careful." AJ says, looking back at Harley. "I don't want this, I don't want her." She hands her to Nikki and leaves the nursery, going back to her hospital room. Paige follows her as Nikki puts Harley back in her crib.

"What do you mean you don't want her?" Paige asks, going into her hospital room where AJ is already back in bed.

"I just wish I never had her." She says, about to cry again. "I should have had the abortion."

"What do you mean you should have had the abortion?" Paige asks, confused as Nikki walks in. She turns around to face Nikki. "What abortion?"

And I tell myself to let the story end
That my heart will rest in someone else's hand
But my 'Why not me?' philosophy began
And I said

Ooh, how am I gonna get over you?
I'll be alright
Just not tonight
But someday

December 29, 2014

AJ sat in her car outside the abortion clinic in Tampa, Florida, thinking about her decision. Does she want to go through with this? Kill the baby that her and Punk created out of, what she thought, love? Was it even love? No, definitely not.

"What do I do?" She whispered to herself as she put a hand on her growing swollen stomach.

AJ pulled out her phone and called Nikki. She picked up on the second ring.

"AJ, what is it?" She asked, surprised that AJ called her since she hasn't made contact with anyone from WWE since she left. Nikki could hear AJ crying on the phone.

"Um... I'm pregnant," she said in between sobs.

"You're pregnant?!" Nikki almost yelled through the phone.

"Yes," she said, still crying. "I'm sitting outside an abortion clinic and... Nicole, I don't know what to do!"

"Calm down, which one?" She asked and AJ could hear her grabbing her keys and jacket.

"Tampa Health Center 8068 North 56th Street." AJ said and heard Nikki writing down the address.

"I'll be there in ten minutes." She said, hanging up and running out the door to her car. WWE was on holiday break so she was at her apartment in Tampa, which happened to be near Natalya's house. Nikki went there first and told her what happened since she isn't the best with talks like this. Natalya was out the door with her and knew exactly where the clinic was, since she drove past there every now and then, so she drove them there and they saw AJ in her car still crying.

Natalya opened the passengers side door and climbed in while Nikki got in the back.

"You told Natalya?" AJ asked Nikki.

"I am not the best with this thing!" Nikki said.

"April, who's the dad?" Natalya asked.

"Punk," she said, continuing to cry.

"What do you want to do?" She asked.

"I don't know,"

Nikki and Natalya looked at each other then back at AJ. "You have a year off, you could have the baby." Nikki suggests.

AJ considered it, could she do this on her own? No, but she has the support from her co-workers. She can't do this with or without Punk, she knows that much, but she can do it with help from her best friends.

AJ sighed, finally making her decision. What's best for her and the baby. "I changed my mind, I want to keep it."

September 24, 2015

Oh, I wish you'd want me to stay
I'll be alright
Just not tonight
But someday

Maybe
It's a vicious little word that can slay me
Keep me where I'm hurting, you make me
Hang from your hands

But no more
I won't beg to buy a shot at your back door
If I'm aching at the thought of you, what for?
That's not me anymore

"And you never told me?" Paige asks, shocked that AJ even considered getting rid of her.

"We didn't tell anyone," Nikki says. "Natalya and I are the only ones that knew."

"And now, what, you want to give her up?" Paige asks, turning back to AJ.

"No, I can't," she says. "Even if I wanted to, I'd need Punk's signature to sign away his rights. And people would find out."

"Then keep her," Nikki says, walking over to her. "Keep her and come back to WWE."

AJ looks up, her eyes bloodshot and puffy from crying. She wants to come back, bur having a baby would make it so much more difficult. Stephanie and Triple-H know that she had the baby, Nikki called them and told them.

Speaking of Stephanie and Triple-H, Stephanie lied to get out of the match, saying she was pregnant when she wasn't and she was just hoping to get pregnant before anyone found out. Triple-H didn't know about the plan, so when he found out, he divorced her and became just a wrestler again. Neither of them told anyone about the pregnancy, not even Vince.

The only other people besides Stephanie, Triple-H, Nikki and Paige were Natalya and Tyson, who found out when Natalya and Nikki came back to their home after talking AJ out of having an abortion. All of them swore never to tell anyone.

Just then, Natalya and Tyson come in with flowers and balloons.

"Hey," she says, seeing AJ crying. "Why are you crying?"

"I want to see Harley," she says then looks at Nikki who goes to get a nurse.

"Her? It's a girl?" Natalya asks and AJ nods her head. "Congratulations," she looks to Tyson. "Could you go get us some coffee?"

He leaves the room and minutes later, Nikki comes back with a nurse wheeling in Harley in her crib.

AJ picks her up and hands her to Natalya.

"She looks like you," she says. "Who would've thought you would have a baby before me?"

AJ chuckles. "Yeah, I guess so," she says. "Finally something good in my life,"

"She has his eyes," Natalya says, handing her back to AJ.

"I know," she says as the baby starts to cry. "What am I supposed to do?"

"Feed her, let her sleep," Paige says. "You're supposed to have motherly instincts."

November 9, 2015

And I'm not the girl that I intend to be
But I dare you, darlin', just you wait and see
But this time not for you, but just for me
I said

Ooh, how am I gonna get over you?
I'll be alright
Just not tonight
But someday

Oh, I wish you'd want me to stay
I'll be alright
Just not tonight
But someday

AJ sits in her private locker-room, alone, waiting to be called to go to the gorilla area. No one knows she's supposed to come back except Stephanie. She misses Harley, but knows that she's safe with her sister.

AJ decided to come back because she loves this business, not because she wants revenge on an ex that she couldn't trust or a friend who backstabbed her because she feels that she just wants to have a great feud with a great Diva. Punk is just there, somewhere in the middle. The only thing she knows she has to deal with considering Punk tonight is her return in the opening segment, interrupting his segment with "The Bryan's", as they call themselves now, then a backstage segment and mixed tag team match with them against The Bryan's. Of course, that could change, knowing how easily Stephanie could change her mind and quickly get approval from her father.

AJ looks at the clock on her phone and sees it's 8:00, by now Brie and Daniel must be in the ring, so AJ turns on the TV just as they start talking. AJ rolls her eyes more than once she hears Punk's music blaring through the TV and throughout the backstage area and the fans cheering.

Punk walks down the ramp as he begins to speak. "Daniel, you may have beaten me at Hell in a Cell, but I will get the WWE Championship back at Survivor Series, don't even act like you could beat my reign from three years ago. You're not the best and neither is your little wife who thinks she's better than her own twin."

And that's the signal, AJ runs out of her locker-room, and quickly walks down the halls, putting her hoodie up until she gets to the mostly empty gorilla area.

"Who is better than me? Definitely not my sister," Brie says. "Not Summer Rae, not Natalya... Not even AJ Lee."

Punk is about to speak the next line in his script as he bends down so he's eye level with the Divas and Women's Champion, until some familiar music blares through the speakers and the only noise heard is the fans cheering.

AJ quickly takes off her hoodie, throwing it somewhere and walking through the curtains, out onto the stage where most of the fans are on their feet, cheering for the Diva they've missed for nearly a year.

"It feels good to be back," she says to herself, holding the mic in both of her hands as she walks down the ramp, running a hand nervously through her hair. She's looking at the ground until she gets to the ring, standing in front of it, she looks up seeing all of them shocked to see the Best Diva in the World standing there, since she wasn't scheduled return until January. She looks to Punk and gives him a nervous smile, one he returns.

AJ walks up the stairs and into the ring. "I bet you all thought you saw the last of me." She says, looking between Daniel, Punk and Brie. "But maybe not, you know me, you know I don't give up."

AJ looks to Punk who is next to her, he waves at her and she rolls her eyes. "Nice to see you again, Punk," She says and he winks at her.

Brie clears her throat, interrupting the Bests in the World. "Sorry to interrupt this weird little moment, but what are you doing here?"

"I'm here because I'm going to bring those titles home." AJ says. "See, you were handed them for marrying a goat that Vince seems to think earns him money, I almost did that, worst mistake I would have ever made." She looks back at Punk then back at Brie. "Okay, second worst mistake. Anyway, you walk around here thinking you're the best ever, when that's impossible, because I am." The crowd cheers, feeling not one, but two pipebombs coming on. Before AJ and Punk have a chance, Stephanie comes out.

"Oh look, the one I've missed most, the boss who faked a pregnancy." AJ says, the crowd cheers at that.

"Oh AJ, what a pleasant surprise," Stephanie says, rolling her eyes. "Tonight I'm going to make a big main event. Tonight the team of the returning AJ Lee..." And CM Punk as everyone assumed. "... And Daniel Bryan will face the team of Brie Bella and CM Punk." She turns on her heels and walks backstage as the fans go crazy and the four wrestlers in the ring look at each other in shock as RAW goes to commercial.

Say it's coming soon
Someday without you
All I can do
Is get me past the ghost of you

Wave goodbye to me
I won't say I'm sorry
I'll be alright
Once I find the other side of someday

Once they got backstage, they found Stephanie in the gorilla area. They start asking questions simultaneously and animatedly.

"Hush!" Stephanie says, loudly over the four voices and their movements. "I made this match because I think that in the future, Brie and Punk, would be a good storyline for the future, maybe your own little feud. AJ and Daniel, you two are familiar with each other, Daniel you even came up with AJ's Black Widow. With your talent, this could be an amazing match." She turns on her heels to walk away, but turns back. "Daniel, AJ, you also have a backstage segment to film in ten minutes on the other side of the arena, you both better run or you'll be late."

"What?!" They ask in unison and look at each other then back at their, now walking away, boss.

"We haven't worked together as a team in three years!" Daniel yells down the hall.

"Not my problem!" She yells back, not turning around.

AJ turns to Daniel. "I'll race you," she says.

"AJ, we're not children," he says.

"We have nine minutes and we did this all the time when we were running late for everything." AJ says. He chuckles and they run down the hall.

"Our better halves are children." Brie says to Punk.

"AJ and I aren't together and we never will be again."

AJ and Daniel made it with five minutes to spare. After both caught their breath, the camera crew was still setting up. Daniel noticed a small scar on the side of her stomach.

"Where did this scar come from?" He says as his finger runs up the small scar.

"Nothing," she says, hoping he'll just drop it.

"It doesn't really look like a scar... it looks almost like a..." He trails off, thinking for a minute. "A stretch mark?"

AJ pulls him off to the side, knowing he already put the pieces to the puzzle together. How is she supposed to explain this to her enemy's husband? He'll just tell her.

"Don't tell Brie, please," she pleads with him.

"You had a baby?" He asks, his voice just above a whisper.

"Don't tell anyone," she says. "Please, we were friends once. No one else can know."

Daniel sighs. "Who else knows?" He asks.

"Paige, Natalya, Tyson, Stephanie, Triple-H and Nikki." AJ says. She shouldn't be telling him this, she could have come up with a clever way to intercept it, but she didn't. She had to tell someone, but she didn't mean to say it to her enemy's husband.

"Nikki knew?" Daniel asks, shocked.

"She was the first after Triple-H and Stephanie."

"Who's the father?"

AJ sighs, this is the question she's been dreading. "Who's the father?". If only she was proud to say who it is, that she loved the man who gave her Harley, but she doesn't. Maybe, deep down it's possible, but once upon a time they were in love and that's when Harley was conceived, but that time is long gone. When she found out how many weeks she had been, she assumed Harley was conceived soon after she thought Brie was pregnant.

"Punk," she says quietly, hoping no one hears any of this conversation for fear of it going to social media and trending worldwide within minutes.

"Punk?" He asks, still shocked. "I don't know why I'm shocked."

"Everyone was shocked," she says, running a hand through her hair.

"What's it's name?" He asks.

AJ smiles. "Harley, Harley Nicole Mendez," she says proudly. The daughter that she's raising and that she had on her own. She will be the single mother who can make it alone, but she has so many people who want to help her and a stable job, she's lucky.

"Harley, perfect name for yours and Punk's child." Daniel says, chuckling. "Can I see a picture of her?"

AJ nods her head and pulls out her phone, scrolling through her pictures until she finds one of Harley she took before she left the day before.

"She looks exactly like you, with a little bit of Punk." He says, handing the phone back. "He doesn't know, does he?"

"No, and you can't tell him, please." AJ says.

"I won't tell a soul," he says and she smiles again and hugs him.

Stephanie walks by and tells them to start the segment. The cameras roll as Daniel is standing in the middle of the hall, obviously deep in thought, his WWE Championship around his waist as AJ walks into camera view.

"Calm down, goat face," she says, putting a hand on her hip and rolling her eyes. "Stop worrying we won't beat your wife and my ex."

"We have to throw it," he says.

AJ looks at him like he's insane. "Are you crazy? We can't throw it, I'm not, you can but I'm fighting back." She says, crossing her arms over her chest. "I've waited almost a year to get my hands on Brie, I'm not giving up that opportunity."

"I'm not helping you beat Brie." He says.

"Well duh, no shiz Sherlock," She says, rolling her eyes again. Her facial expressions soon turn serious as looks him in the eyes, the look in her eyes dangerous. "But just a warning, I know people, Bryan, people that could snap you like a twig. So, if you try to screw me, I'll be coming for you." He gulps audibly as she walks away.

"That was perfect," Stephanie says and the camera crew quickly leaves the area ad AJ begins to walk back to her locker-room to prepare for the match.

"Hey!" Daniel yells after her in the empty hallway. "You never told me her birthday!"

AJ smirks and turns on her heel as Daniel catches up to her. "September 24th, 2015," she says and watches him chuckle.

"How ironic," he says.

"I know, that's what I said." She says and walks back to her locker-room.

Harley Nicole Mendez, born September 24, 2015, at 8.79 lbs. Her mother is listed as April Jeannette Mendez and her father, no one, yet.

Ooh, how am I gonna get over you?
I'll be alright
Just not tonight
But someday

Oh, I wish you'd want me to stay
I'll be alright
Just not tonight
But someday

A/N: The song used was "Gonna Get Over You" - Sara Bareilles.

Can AJ trust Daniel?

Will Daniel tell Brie? Will he tell Punk?

Who will win the match?

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