Hello all and Happy Sunday! I hope you guys are having a great weekend. I am considering I didn't have to work either days which rarely happens for me. Anywho, here is chapter 13! I hope you all enjoy it!
I do not own anyone affiliated with the WWE or any locations...I only own Anna.
Enjoy!
It's Thursday, late morning and Drew and Anna just arrived at the AT&T arena in San Antonio with a detour of an hour delayed flight, having to wait longer than usual for their bags because of the delay and another bombarding of screaming fans. Like usual, Anna stands to the side with her and Drew's luggage and watches him interact with his fans. Needless to say, she doesn't like how a majority of the girls are looking at him, knowing exactly where their train of thought is traveling off to. She bites her tongue because she knows how much Drew's fans mean to him, then again, she knows how much more she means to him.
"You alright, love? You've kinda been in your own world since we left the airport," Drew asks Anna when they get into the building, heading in the direction where Anna will be located for the next two and a half days.
"Uh?" Anna responds when Drew pulls her out of thoughts. She childishly let her mind wander back to when they were stopped by all of the fans.
"I said, are you alright? You've been somewhere else inside that gorgeous head of yours since we left the airport," Drew repeats, looking down at Anna with a confused look of concern. The only time she does this is when something is bothering her. Usually more than it should.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I was just thinking about something, but it's silly. Nothing to worry about," Anna replies, hoping he won't push, but in knowing him when it comes to her, he always pushes if it worries him.
"Even though you say that, you know I'm going to worry and it can't be that silly," Drew says, closing the door behind him when they make it to Anna's new temporary home. She turns around to face him and an embarrassed look can be seen across her face.
"You asked for it and I have no doubt you'll laugh at me," Anna says, trying to stall.
"Just spit it out already," Drew walks to the large leather couch that is situated in the corner of the room and settles down on it, pulling Anna with him and onto his lap so she is straddling him.
Anna sighs, playing with the buttons on Drew's shirt, "I was watching you with the fans, like I always do. Pretty much all of them that I can see respect you, but some of them…I didn't like the way they were looking at you. I'm not trying to sound mean, but you just seem to be oblivious to the way these girls look and react to you," she tells Drew. When he doesn't respond after a few seconds, she looks up at him and sees an amused look on his face, paired with a half smirk.
"I told you, you'd think it was stupid," Anna whines, slamming her fists on his chest, halfheartedly and he grabs her wrists, holding them to his chest, releasing a small laugh.
"You think I care about the way they look at me? I have more than half of the female roster chasing after me and I see the way they look at me; I just don't pay attention to it, so you think I'm going to pay attention to the way they look at me? I'm never going to see them again in my life. The only one I care about who looks at me a certain way is sitting in my lap," Drew says and bends his head down so he can make eye contact with Anna to which she does eventually look at him, "okay?"
"Okay," she huffs out relentlessly, "but I can't promise that I won't give them the death glare if I catch them staring at you like that. So I'm sure a lot of death glares will be given out. You're mine and even though I know I never have to worry about that, they will know you're taken," Anna declares, determined to let Drew know that she's not messing around, "I've waited too long for you."
Drew grabs Anna's face and kisses her hard, "you have no idea how much of a turn on it is when you become possessive over me; not to mention sexy as hell and that hickey I purposely left on you, that you felt you needed to cover. Why did you, by the way?" he growls, pinning her with his stare.
Before Anna can respond to his comment with a fierce kiss, a knock on the door breaks them from their heated stare-off. Anna growls, getting off of Drew's lap after placing a quick kiss to his lips, "because I am at work and you can still see it a little bit…no thanks to you," Anna jabs back and Drew smirks at his work as Anna goes to answer the door.
To her surprise, the fiery redhead Becky Lynch is on the other side of it, "Becky, how are you? Come on in," Anna greets the Raw Woman's Champion. "What brings you to me?" Anna asks, closing the door behind her.
Becky goes to respond, but snaps her mouth shut at the sight of Drew, looking more comfortable than any typical client would be in regular circumstances. A closed mouthed smirk mixed with a smile graces her face, "ahh, am I interrupting something?" Becky quizzes, her Irish accent making itself known through her teasing as she looks over at Anna, whose eyes are wide, looking like a child who got caught with their hand in the cookie jar and her eyes move down to see the partially hidden hickey on Anna's collarbone. Drew just grins like a cat that got the canary, watching the exchange going on between his girlfriend and Becky, realizing that Becky had noticed the hickey regardless of Anna's hard work to hide it.
"Uh, no. Why would you think that?" Anna asks, caught off guard by Becky's quick comment of the situation. Is she really that obvious?
"Ohh, probably because of how comfortable Drew looks. No normal client would be sitting like that if they were here for treatment. Not to mention you have a flustered look on your face and Drew is smirking like a lunatic. Wait…are you two together? Like together, together?" Becky asks, her demeanor changing at the realization.
Anna looks over at Drew to see if he wants people to know yet that they are a couple and he nods his head. After all Peyton and no doubt Billie Kay know which means that it has spread like wildfire with how envious Peyton has become and she knows that Nattie, Tyson nor Beth would say anything, "yeah, we are," she replies to Becky as she smiles over at Drew.
"I overheard Natalya and Beth talking about it, but I thought it was just a rumor, then again, I did also hear Royce whining about it…overreacting really. Little trollop will bitch about anything that doesn't go her way," Becky comments and Anna snorts at the apt nickname that was given to the Australian, "good for you though; I'm happy for you two.
"You guys are cute together and besides, Drew has been a lonely brood until you came along. It was like night and day," Becky says and Drew scoffs.
"Thanks a lot Beck's, I was never that bad and I have not been a brood. Lonely, yes, but I didn't brood," he retorts, getting up from his spot on the couch and walks up to Anna, "I'm gonna head out. Let you have your girl talk or whatever you call it and I'm going to go look for Ste; I know he's around here somewhere," Drew tells her, cupping her face in his hands and places a soft kiss on her lips that Anna melts into and grabs the back of his arms, "I really wish you wouldn't hide it; everyone needs to know you're mine. I'll see you in a little bit, alright? I love you," he whispers only loud enough for Anna to hear.
Anna smiles up at him through the small distance between their faces, "I'll think about it," she whispers back, "I love you, too," she mouths and Drew returns the smile, placing one more kiss on her before heading out the door. She looks over at Becky who has a smile on her face, but her mouth is being covered with her hand. "What?" Anna asks with a smile still plastered on her face, not giving a care in the world; she's finally found her Prince Charming.
"Nothing, you two are just so adorable. I'm happy for you. I know I don't know you, but I know Drew and I've never seen him this happy well…ever. So whatever it is you're doing, keep it up," Becky says, leaning on the desk to her left.
"Thank you and I will. We kind of found each other and the rest is history; he makes me extremely happy, too," Anna replies.
"I can see that. The smile he put on your face just moments ago has yet to disappear, right along with that hickey on your neck," Anna furiously blushes that it can be seen that well, "what did he whisper to you?" Becky pries, hoping that she'll get some sort of insight of this new budding romance.
"I'm not telling you!" Anna exclaims happily, the smile still not leaving her face, "there is a reason he whispered it to me and I thought I covered it up well enough that it wouldn't be noticeable unless you knew it was there," she cracks and starts to set up the area where the massage table is at.
"You're right, I'm sorry. I'm too nosey for my own good and it is well covered…just very dark that it wants to peek through," Becky replies, "but the reason I did come here to see you was for my left knee that I injured a while back and a kink I have in my right shoulder. I don't expect you to see me right now, but do you have anything open later?"
"I am actually wide open at the moment. You can come back in an hour after I get everything set up or you can come by later; whatever suites you best. I'm here for you, girl," Anna tells Becky, looking up at her from what she was doing.
Becky looks at the smart watch on her wrist, "it's just going on noon now. How about I drop by around 2pm?" She asks Anna and Anna nods her okay.
"I can do that. When you come back, don't worry about knocking; you can just walk right in," Anna says, adjusting the sheets on the table.
"Are you sure you want me to do that? I don't want to walk in on you and Drew doing something you don't want me to see," Becky teases with a grin, eyeing Anna's hickey again and Anna's face becomes flaming hot with embarrassment, "oh my god, I was just teasing you. Did I almost do that earlier?" Becky asks with shock, but at the same time amused.
"Oh lord…you seem genuine enough from what I can tell, otherwise I'm sure Drew wouldn't have left me with you. You actually stopped something from happening and I don't know if its a good thing or a bad thing, to be honest," Anna laughs, still embarrassed that Becky metaphorically hit the nail right on the head.
"I promise I won't say anything. I know you don't know me to trust me when I say that, but you do have my word. Besides, I don't blame you, when Colby and first I got together we couldn't take our hands off of each other…still can't," Becky grins, "but you get the point; I know what it's like to have that spark. I'm gonna go now and stop embarrassing you and I'll be back in a couple of hours," Becky says and leaves the room.
Anna leans back on the counter behind her, holding her hand to her chest, feeling her heart beating through it when Nattie walks through the door. She hasn't spoken to Nattie since before leaving Brooklyn. Bring on more embarrassment because if anyone knows how to pull information out of someone…it's her. Not to mention she has the eyes of a hawk. Here goes nothing, Anna thinks to herself.
"Hey girly…Drew told me you were in here. Are you alright? You look overwhelmed," Nattie says in observation, pulling Anna into a long needed hug, but pulls back immediately, holding Anna by the shoulders, zeroing in on her apparently popular hickey, "oh my god! Did Drew mark you?!" Nattie exclaims and Anna slaps her hand over Nattie's mouth.
"Shit Nat…really? Tell the entire floor why don't you," Anna grounds out with wide eyes.
"Sorry," she replies, actually feeling bad, "but, did he?" She asks in a normal tone this time, sounding excited.
"Yes…he did. Happy?" Anna retorts with a straight face that doesn't last long because it turns into a smile when her mind goes back to when he did it.
"I am actually. When? Did he do it?" Nat asks, sitting down on the couch, pulling Anna with her and looks at her intently, waiting for an answer.
"I'm not going to tell you every little thing we do, Nat, but because it is just a hickey, he gave it to me during round 2," Anna replies and bites her lip when Nattie catches on almost immediately.
Natalya's eyes widen and her jaw drops at the new information, "round 2?" She whispers comically and Anna laughs at her expression with a nod, "you guys actually did it?" Nattie exclaims quietly, "I thought you weren't ready for that yet."
"I didn't think I was either until I realized fooling around wasn't going to be enough anymore. I needed him Nat; I needed to feel him so bad. Even Drew was shocked to hear me say it, but my god does he know what he's doing," Anna tells Nat, "I can't get enough of him. Hell, we probably would have done it if Becky didn't knock on the door. You two literally missed each other by like a minute."
"You guys actually did it. I'm so proud of you. How many times? You did say round 2," Nattie asks with a comment.
"I don't even know," Anna laughs, "it's a miracle we even got out of the bed to eat something," she adds and Nattie's jaw drops in complete shock.
"Who are you and what did you do with my shy Anna from a week ago?!" Nattie exclaims excitedly.
"She got a piece of Drew McIntyre and now she can't get enough. I'm not gonna lie; I think I'm addicted to him," Anna confesses with a grin.
"Okay, so what about this hickey, Ms. Addict?" Nattie asks, motioning to the mark clear on her lower neck, "I'm sorry to say, but makeup is not going to cover that. He got you good," she says, pushing Anna's shirt collar thats hiding a small amount of it to the side.
"Honestly, I don't know. Drew doesn't want me to cover it; he wants everyone to know that I'm his and I want that too, it's just the only thing that is stopping me from doing so is work," Anna tells Nattie, waving her hand around to emphasize her job," I don't want to be unprofessional by sporting a huge hickey that one of their superstars gave me," she sighs.
"Baby girl, honestly…I wouldn't sweat it. I would wear it proudly if I were you. Let people…namely the whole fucking female roster, know that he is yours and you are his. Stake your claim and show them that he is no longer available," Nattie tells her and Anna is beginning to think she is right.
"You know what; I think I will," Anna says, going to the sink built into the counter and grabs a paper towel, wetting it with some water and looks into the mirror on the wall to help her see what she is doing, "and when I'm done here, we are going to catering because I am starving. I want to eat something before I have my appointment with Becky at 2pm."
"It's like you read my mind; I haven't eaten anything since 6am, so I'm in that being starving boat with you," Nattie replies and stands up, walking over to Anna to see her work of removing the makeup, "looks good…it looks like it hurts," Nattie laughs.
The girls leave the room, Anna locks the door behind them and they make their way to catering. "It does a little, but it's a welcomed pain," Anna replies with a grin.
Meanwhile, in the ring, Drew and Ste do a little sparring and warm ups to kill time. Vince, Stephanie, and Hunter like to have all of their superstars arrive the day before a show. They always figured so any traveling or jet lag doesn't interfere with their performance in the ring. SmackDown will record and air tomorrow night and Raw will on Monday night. But instead of in San Antonio, it will be in Austin. Raw's roster will head to Austin on either Saturday night or Sunday morning; whichever the superstars prefer, just as long as they make it there at the appropriate time.
"So, how are ye and Anna doing?" Stephen asked when he and Drew decided to take a small water break. They're going on 45 minutes of occupying the ring and they're lucky they even got 30 minutes with others wanting to do their warm ups.
The smile on Drew's face says it all, but he responds regardless, "we're doing fantastic; she's absolutely incredible, Ste. I still don't have a bloody clue as to why she chose me," he tells his ginger friend and takes a swig of water.
"Have ye met yerself mate? Yeah yer big and burly, but deep down yer a softie with a good heart who just wants someone to love and care for ye and to share yer life with. Granted ye met the lassie two weeks ago, I think ye found yer special someone. Ye can't shut up about the woman," Ste chuckles, genuinely happy for his friend. He has yet to meet Anna, but he's sure he'll love her.
"Shut it, Ste. You know I can't help it. I'm crazy about her; in love. If I'm being honest…I don't know what I'd do without her. Aside from work, she's my life," Drew tells his best friend and Ste looks at him in shock.
"Dang, I knew ye liked her and wanted to be with her, but I had no idea ye felt this deeply for her. I'm happy for ye, mate," he tells the Scotsman, still surprised by his admission.
"Thanks Ste, you don't know how much that means to me," Drew replies, leaning on the ropes.
"So when do I get to meet the girl that stole my best mates heart?" Ste asks teasingly, mimicking Drew's stance.
Drew steps through the ropes and hops off the apron to his bag that sits on the floor against the barricade, "how about now?" Drew says, pulling out his phone and pulling up his messages to Anna.
D: Hey babe, can you head to the main part of the arena. Ste wants to meet you…I might have told him how amazing you are. We're in the ring…xoxo
Less than a minute later, a text from Anna comes through.
A: On my way…be there in 5…xoxo
"She's on her way," Drew tells Ste, hopping back into the ring, sitting in one of the corners, resting against the bottom turnbuckle.
"That easily? Ye two got each other whipped," Ste says, sitting across from Drew towards the middle of the ring and Drew laughs.
"It's that easy because we understand and respect one another. And being on the same page with everything helps to. Not to mention that she feels the same way about me that I do for her," Drew responds, smiling at the revelation.
"Yeah, yer whipped. She's got you wrapped around her finger and she doesn't even know it," Ste claims with a laugh and shake of the head.
Drew shrugs his shoulders with a smile, "she does, but I wouldn't have it any other way," he says and moments later he sees Anna walking down the ramp and towards the ring. Drew slides out of the ring, meeting her at the other end of it, by the steel steps, "here she is…c'mere beautiful," Drew says and pulls Anna into his arms, placing a kiss to her lips.
When they pull apart, Anna looks behind Drew and sees who she believes is Stephen…Drew's best friend, leaning against ringside, "Anna, baby, I want you to meet Ste, my best mate; Ste, this is the best thing to ever happen to me…my girlfriend, Anna," Drew introduces them and Anna blushes furiously.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Ste; I've heard so much about you," Anna says, releasing her hold on Drew and shakes his hand.
"The pleasure is mine, love. All good things I hope. And he talks about ye constantly; I can't get him to shut up about yeh," Ste replies with a laugh, placing a kiss to the back of her hand before releasing it, "Drew wasn't exaggerating about yer looks; yer absolutely beautiful. He is one lucky lad," Ste finishes and Drew shakes his head, too happy to smack his friend across the head at his comments.
"That's very sweet of you, thank you and yes; he's said all good things. Drew has admitted to me though that you've had to bring him back to the now a couple of times because he couldn't stop thinking about me," Anna replies, looking over her shoulder at Drew who holds a fake look of betrayal on his face that is directed at her and a laugh falls from both Anna and Ste. Anna turns to face Drew, encasing him in her arms and she looks up at him with wide innocent eyes, "you're not mad at me, are you?" she asks him with a pout, batting her eyelashes at him.
Drew looks down at her and shakes his head, "that's not fair; you know I can't be mad at you, especially when you're looking at me like that," he replies, removing her arms from around his waist and hoists her up onto the apron of the ring, stepping in between her legs.
Anna wraps her arms around Drew's neck, pressing a kiss to his lips, "if it makes you boys feel any better, I talked Nattie's ear off about you all last week. At some points I thought she was going to drop kick me because I was annoying her so much," she chuckles, remembering one of the many times Nattie almost bursted a water bottle with her bare hands.
"Did you now?" Drew questions and looks down to Anna's collarbone, noticing that she no longer has his mark covered and quickly looks back up at her with a look of surprise that Anna acknowledges with a smile, but responds to his initial question.
"Don't act so surprised. You knew to some degree how I felt about you," Anna replies, rubbing her thumb on the back of his neck.
"Like I said…yeh two are both whipped," Ste inputs, shaking his head with a smirk as he observed the couple in front of him. Anna turns her head in his direction with a lifted eyebrow and Drew taking the opportunity, move's Anna's hair aside and presses a kiss to her temple.
"Pray tell how are we whipped?" Anna asks Ste with amusement in her tone, entertaining him.
"Ye two talk about each other…constantly. With the looks of it, ye would go out of the way to do anything for the other and what happened just right now," Ste replies, motioning a hand in their direction.
"That's called being in love, always wanting be in the company of your significant other, hating to be separated for even a short amount of time and having respect for one another," Anna rebuts good-naturedly and wraps her arms around Drew's midsection.
"Ignore him, babe; he's just jealous of us," Drew says loud enough for Ste to hear and Anna grins in Ste's direction with a chuckle, gauging his reaction as she lays her head on Drew's chest.
Ste rolls his eyes with a shake of the head, "far from it mate and you know it."
"How about later tonight after everything settles down, the three of us go out to a bar or club and try to find you a pretty lady?" Anna suggests and Ste's eyes widen with a shake of the head.
"I don't know about that, love," he objects and Drew looks over at his best friend with a challenging look.
"Come on, Ste. Why not? Any other time you would be down for it," Drew counters.
"You know why; I haven't had the best luck in that department as of late and every time we go out with the guys all the lassies had eyes for ye," Ste replies, somewhat embarrassed for that bit of information being revealed to Anna.
"Obviously that's not going to be a problem anymore and believe me, they will know I'm unavailable," Drew says, trying to change Ste's mind.
Ste goes to turn down the offer once again and Anna sees it before he can even open his mouth, "come on, Ste…please? I promise we'll find you someone," she begs, sticking out her lower lip.
Ste's fight starts to waiver and both Drew and Anna can see it, "alright…alright, fine. We'll go, but I'm choosing where we go," Ste relents and Anna squeals happily, clapping her hands.
"You won't regret it, I promise. But I have to head back to my room now; I have an appointment with Becky in 15 minutes," Anna says and hops off the apron when Drew moves back a little so she can do so, "I'll see you boys later, but you…" she turns her attention to Drew, "I better see sooner than later," she tells him in a tone only he understands and he grins down at her.
"Yes ma'am," he replies and leans down to give Anna a kiss goodbye that takes her breath away, "soon," he mouths and releases her, slapping her on the ass as she walks away.
She turns around and shoots him a disapproving look that is not meant to be disapproving and bites her lip, "watch it big boy," Anna reprimands and it pulls a shit eating grin from him. She turns to Ste, "it was nice to finally meet you. We'll find you someone," she says and places a friendly kiss to his cheek before walking up the ramp and out of sight.
"She is definitely a keeper mate. Yeh no doubt found yer match," Ste says, looking at Drew with amazement written all over his features.
"Why do you think I pursued her the way I did? I knew she was mine the moment I laid eyes on her; I just had to make it happen and believe me, she did make me work for it without even trying," Drew replies, still looking at the stage where she disappeared to moments ago.