Summary: An unlikely love arises
between Lita and The Rock.
Lita looked out the hospital window
with a bored look on her face, she had one more day until she could be
released out of the hospital, why was she in the hospital you ask?
Big Show had attacked her with a
metal chair to the head, giving her a mild concussion, but it was enough
of a concussion to make the doctors want her to stay over night… Lita hated
hospitals, particularly the smell of hospitals... they reeked of death
and pain, and Lita hated the way hospitals got to her, how they got underneath
her skin.
Lita let out another sigh and turned
on her side, she would usually have Jeff or Matt to talk to but they were
doing a show of Smackdown in Memphis, and unfortunately she had to be in
this horrible hospital; This was going to be one of the longest days in
her life especially since Jeff wasn't here to keep her entertained or since
Matt wasn't her to pamper her. Let's just say that Lita really didn't
have a long attention span, hell if you didn't believe that you could just
ask Matt Hardy.
"Lita, you have a visitor, handsome
young man if I say so."
Lita looked up at the nurse, um Karen
Lita remembered was her name, Karen had long red hair that fell a little
past the middle of her back and she had eccentric green eyes and by the
huge grin on Karen's face Lita knew that the visitor had to be a cutie,
well actually Karen liked all guys… she was definitely boy crazy, there
was no doubt in that.
"How cute?"
Karen grin grew bigger at Lita's
question. "Girl, the man is hot! You lucky bitch."
Lita laughed at Karen's comment,
obviously Lita knew that Karen was joking… Karen was always joking, there
was never a moment where Karen was serious. "Um send him in."
Lita propped herself up on the hospital
bed, wanting to make herself look at least a little better then she was
feeling. The truth was that her head hurt like hell but since she wasn't
one to whine about her pain, she kept her mouth shut and her eyes glued
to the door awaiting her mysterious visitor. She didn't really know who
would come visit her because Matt and Jeff were in Memphis and since Karen
said that the visitor was young and not to mention CUTE Lita knew
that the visitor couldn't be Big Show. Lita felt the anticipation of waiting
to find out who her visitor was enter her body more and more by the second,
Lita's mind raced to find out who would actually pay the time to visit
her… at first she thought it might be Jericho but she remembered he had
came by earlier and bothered the hell out of her, even when she told him
she was fine he insisted that he stay just a tad bit longer, he had just
recently left so that is why Lita knew it wasn't Jericho… but if not Jericho,
Matt or Jeff… then who?
Lita sure knew that it wasn't Christian
and Edge since those two didn't even qualify as friends anymore, they were
too busy worshipping the ground Kurt Angle walked on so obviously it wasn't
them and Lita just prayed that it wasn't Malenko pestering her for another
date again, wow that act never got old.
"Lita…"
Lita let her eyes meet up with the
eyes of her visitor… The Rock.
What the hell was he doing here?
At first Lita had been shocked that a person such as The Rock who has never
cared whether she got hurt or not was visiting her at the hospital but
then after the shock left Lita's body fear entered it… what if The Rock
had come here to finish what Big Show started? Sure The Rock wasn't really
known for brutal attacks on women but after what Big Show had done to her
she didn't exactly put it past The Rock… and that scared her more then
anything.
"Uh, hi Rock, what are you doing
here?" Lita pushed herself up a little bit more up on the bed trying not
to
take her eyes off of The Rock, let's
just say that Lita learned firsthand that once you took your eyes off your
opponent, that was the minute you turned into the target…
"The Rock came to see how you were
doing."
Lita cracked a little smile, did
he ever talk in the first person sense? Probably not, Lita thought to herself
and if he did then she never heard him speak to anybody in that way. Lita
would be lying if she said that The Rock didn't scare her, he was a very
intimidating guy… he was tall, well built and only deep in her own thoughts
would Lita admit that he was cute. Lita felt her cheeks blush with the
slight color of red, more of a rose color as the thought of her thinking
that The Rock was cute, that was probably the most craziest thought that
could have entered Lita's mind, not once had she ever thought that The
Rock had the potential to be cute… maybe this was her concussion speaking.
Yes that was it… it was her concussion! Blame it on the damn concussion..
yep Lita was definitely not going insane… it was the concussion. "I'm okay,
but you really didn't have to come by."
The Rock brought his hand up indicating
that he was about to speak, and usually when The Rock talked you were silent…
everyone knew that and even as stubborn and headstrong as Lita was, she
did as the The Rock told her. "The Rock wouldn't be here if he didn't want
to, The Rock doesn't do stuff he doesn't want to do you hear?"
Lita shrinked back at the tone in
The Rock's voice, the way he was speaking to her made her doubt his true
motives to being here; When The Rock was mad it was usually for good reason,
but she couldn't understand or even know what she had done to make The
Rock upset.
"The Rock isn't upset."
Lita stared at The Rock oddly; It
was as if he had read her mind, despite the fact that freaked her out,
it sort of put her mind at ease knowing that he wasn't upset. "Okay, so
do you want to sit down?"
The Rock nodded and grabbed a chair
and sat down next to Lita, his face still had the usual look of no emotion
on it but then a small smile spread across his lips as he saw the uncomfortable
but yet shy look on Lita's face… she was beautiful. The Rock shook his
head… no The Rock does not think that the redhead is cute, no The Rock
does
not. "How do you feel? Big Show
will get his at Monday Night Raw."
Lita stared at The Rock oddly once
again, what was he talking about? "What are you talking about?"
The Rock narrowed his eyes at Lita,
he for one knew that she wasn't a stupid woman, Lita was a very smart woman
and one of the strongest women in the WWF, unlike some … hell most of the
wrestlers in the women division Lita was a strong fighter with excellent
fighting skills meanwhile the rest of the women wrestlers were just eye
candy. The Rock hated women like that, he hated how the fans reacted towards
Trish and Terri, he hated how the fans loved them, and then JR and Michael
Cole had the nerve to ask him why he didn't have any respect
for the women wrestlers in this
federation? Hell, he thought everyone knew the answer to that, the reason
he didn't respect the women in the WWF was because they hardly had respect
for themselves unlike Lita, now she was a woman who never once underestimated
herself and she never thought she was anything more then she was and for
that The Rock respected her. "On Monday Night Raw The Rock will challenge
Big Show to a hardcore
match."
Lita opened her mouth to protest
to what The Rock told her what he was going to do on Monday but he put
his hand up indicating that he wasn't done talking.
"And there is nothing that you can
do redhead to stop The Rock, you understand?"
Lita nodded slowly but the fact that
The Rock took the time out of his busy schedule just to come all the way
down to the hospital just to tell her something he could have shown her
on Monday Night Raw didn't seem completely right, there had to be something
more behind his motives. "Why are you really here?"
The Rock stared at the injured young
woman in front of him, his eyes suddenly getting a look of shock in them,
he hadn't expected that question to come out of Lita's mouth… he had thought
she would just be grateful that he was putting his belt on the line to
fight the man that had brutally attacked her, but as a lot of things that
happened in the WWF, things took an unexpected turn. "I-Well-Shit."
Lita smiled big, totally forgetting
where she was, just to see that she or something she had asked had made
the WWF champion and also the people's champion speechless… oh man this
was such a Kodak moment! Where is that damn camera? Lita thought to herself
with a huge grin on her face, she knew how she must look, but this situation
was just too funny. "Did I make you speechless Rock?"
The Rock stared into the eyes of
Lita, and for a split second he thought he had lost the ability to speak,
what was it about Lita that made him feel uneasy? Well except that she
was one beautiful woman and she had the ring skills to back them up? Hmmm
what else could there be? Um nothing would be the answer. But The Rock
didn't fall in love, that was just impossible, when you fell in love you
were opening your heart up to pain, the pain of losing the person you loved…
willingly or not, so you would understand the emotions going through his
body… plus he couldn't love someone he hardly knew. "No you did not make
The Rock speechless. The Rock came here to see
how you were doing and now that
I know, The Rock will be leaving."
Lita let out a sigh, why did he have
to be so exhausting? Why couldn't he just talk like a normal guy? The Rock
this, The Rock that… it was just so damn annoying. "Well as you see I'm
fine so you can just leave, I don't need all of you people coming to visit
me to pay your sympathies or be my baby sitter! I'm a grown woman and I
don't need you to challenge Big Show, because for your own damn information
I can kick his 500 lb ass and your ass too, so there."
The Rock who was already by the door
and ready to leave turned around to stare at Lita, damn she was pissed…
women could be temperamental. "Well now hold on there, The Rock didn't
mean to make you all upset."
Lita turned away from The Rock, she
closed her eyes when she heard his footsteps come closer to her, she wished
he would just go away, why in the hell had she lost her temper like that?
Maybe because you
didn't want him to go, Lita's inner
voice reminded her.
"Hey there, you want me to stay?
The Rock will stay if you want him to, he doesn't have anywhere to go."
Lita turned around and stared at
The Rock and she smiled at him weakly."Sorry, it's these damn pain killers,
they make me temperamental."
"You temperamental? Never."
Lita smiled, she watched The Rock
sit back down in the chair and for some odd reason she felt more safe then
she has ever felt for a long time. There was just something about The Rock
that made her feel at home, and either or not she wanted to be close to
The Rock and vice-versa she had the faint idea that they weren't controlling
things anymore… and as scary as that was, she was sort of looking forward
to what the future held for her and The Rock.
[ Monday Night War- The Rock vs.
Big Show Hardcore Match ]
The Rock sat in his locker room awaiting
the sign for him to go into the ring, The Rock started pacing back and
forth, he was anxious to get out there, and kick the crap out of Big Show.
Over the past few days he had grown close to Lita and the closer he grew
to her the more he wanted to kill Big Show. The Rock stopped his pacing,
he
looked around the locker room and
smiled when he saw that Lita had left some of her stuff in his locker room
from when she had visited him earlier, god what was going on with him and
Lita lately? He had stayed in that hospital room with her until she had
fallen asleep and then he had watched her sleep, and for some reason he
couldn't take his eyes away from her, as if something terrible would happen
to her if he closed his eyes for a second or left her side. The Rock had
all sort of emotions going on in his body and as much as he didn't like
the newfound emotions, he didn't want them to go away; Lita had done something
to him, she had opened up a part of him that had been closed off for so
long that he didn't know it was there anymore but then the minute he had
seen that big nasty bastard hit Lita in the back of the head with the metal
chair his world had been turned upside down. He shouldn't have cared as
much as he did, that was the deal with wrestling… you got hurt, so what?
He had seen Trish, Terri or even precious Stephanie McMahon get hurt and
it didn't bother him the least bit but god when Lita had fallen to the
ground from her ambush attack from Big Show, it had disturbed The Rock.
The Rock hated feeling disturbed or disgusted by what some of the wrestlers
did in this federation, there had been a lot of things Vince and the rest
of the godly people in this damn federation looked past but what Big Show
did was uncalled for, she wasn't doing anything to him except protecting
the two people who had saved her from the hands of other predators in the
WWF. The Rock had morals, sure he had looked past Triple H's or Stone Cold's
brutal attacks on other people such as Chyna and Kane but that didn't mean
he had liked what happened, but as much as he could have looked past some
of the actions of the WWF superstars what had happened to Lita was too
far.
What right did Big Show have to attack
Lita? And from the behind like he did? He could have caused brain damage
and maybe more, Lita had only been out there to help Matt and Jeff back
to their locker room and as she was helping them up that bastard Big Show
jumped inside the ring and hit Lita over the head with that chair. But
even then The Rock could look past it but why didn't Big Show just stop
there? Why continue to attack her with that chair? Why kick her in the
gut? Why grab that sledgehammer? God knows what could have happened if
Kane had never jumped in the ring to save Lita. The Rock, at first had
been shocked that Kane was the one that saved her but then once he thought
about it Kane was probably the only one who actually gave a damn what happened
to innocent people. Kane was a sweet guy underneath that red and black
mask that he wore to cover those scars,
and the fact that he had ran out
there to save Lita was only proving what the other wrestlers knew.
Lita had been ushered to the hospital
at once with Jeff and Matt at her side and even as The Rock watched in
the background as they ushered her away on the gurney, he knew he had already
gotten too close to Lita, but he couldn't stop there… he needed to get
a little revenge for Lita… he didn't know why he cared so much but he did,
and once he started caring, he couldn't stop.
"Hey you ready mister Rock?"
The Rock spun around immediately,
tearing himself away from his thoughts expecting to see Kevin Kelley or
something but he smiled when he saw Lita standing in the door way to his
locker room.
"The Rock is happy to see you."
Lita smiled and walked over to The
Rock."You're on Rock, good luck."
The Rock smiled and headed out to
the arena as his music played for him, he turned around and stared at Lita
cautiously. "Please don't come out to the ring okay Lita? I don't want
to see you hurt."
Lita stared at The Rock in shock,
he had never spoke normal to her, she went to open her mouth to say something
but he was already out of her sight and heading to the ring. Lita ran over
to television set and turned it on, she stared at the set intensely as
she watched The Rock fly into the ring, Lita touched the screen as Big
Show started pounded into The Rock. Lita felt her heart start to pound
faster then it has ever before, what was taking Rocky so long to get up?
Lita made a face… when did she start calling him Rocky? When did she start
caring? When did he start caring?
God things were so confusing. Lita watched Big Show grab the sledgehammer,
he aimed it at The Rock's chest and Lita took off running towards the arena…
let her get to him in time.
Lita ran into the arena and slipped
into the ring and delivered a spinning kick to Big Show's face taking him
by surprise; Lita delivered a head butt to Big Show and then kicked him
in the side and then kicked Big Show in the face sending him into the corner
of the ring. Lita ran over to The Rock, she dropped on her knees kneeling
beside him, she pushed him slightly trying to pull him out of the dizzy
spell Big Show put him in.
"Rock, oh come on, wake up!" Lita's
voice was in a frantic state, one reason was because she was afraid for
The Rock's safety and second was because she wanted to get out of the ring
before Big Show got back up; She knew he had to be pretty upset at her
actions."Please, Rocky? Please come back to me." Lita pushed him a little
and smiled big when she saw The Rock flutter his eyes open.
"L-Lita?"
Lita smiled and pulled up The Rock
with her, she went to pull him out of the ring but stopped immediately
when he grabbed her by the arm.
"What the hell do you think you're
doing out here?"
Lita stared at The Rock with an odd
look on her face. "I-I was trying to help you."
The Rock threw his hands up in the
air making his annoyance at Lita's presence apparent."Help me? I told you
to stay out of the ring! Don't you ever listen to a word I say?"
Lita glared at The Rock."You're not
my father, you asshole. I am a grown woman and I can make my own decisions."
"Well if you usually make dumb decisions
like this then go backstage and think about what you've done."
The crowd roared in laughter and
cheering at The Rock's last statement.
"Well you know what maybe I should!
I never thought I could love someone like you!"
"Well vice-versa!"
Lita felt tears well up in her eyes
at The Rock's last statement, she opened her mouth to say something but
instead of words coming out her mouth, she let out a strangled scream as
she felt something sharp and extremely heavy come in contact with her knee,
she heard something snap and she tried to reach out to The Rock but she
felt herself fall out of the ring and the last thing she saw was her head
coming in contact with the black metal steps and then everything went black.
"Lita!"The Rock screamed as he saw
her head come in contact with the steps and then he watched her eyes close
and blood flow from a huge cut on her head; He whipped around to find himself
face to face with Big Show, he went to hit him but he felt someone grab
his leg and trip him.
"Hi!" Trish waved at Big Show and
grabbed The Rock and started slapping him as hard as she could, stunning
him with each slap."How slutty and disrespectful am I now huh Rock?"
The Rock looked up when he heard
The Hardy Boyz's music start up and then he grabbed Trish by the leg and
tripped her and then kicked her in the side. Trish tried to scramble up
but The Rock grabbed her from the behind and gave her a Rock Bottom paralyzing
her.
Jeff and Matt did a back flip into
the ring and then they both kicked Big Show in the face making him drop
the sledgehammer, the same sledgehammer that he had crushed Lita's knee
with. While Matt and Jeff were busy with Big Show, The Rock crawled over
to Lita and gathered her in his arms.
"Hold on Lita, just please hold on."
The Rock pushed himself up and ran out of the arena despite the
booing he was getting from the crowd,
he knew he was mostly to blame for what happened to Lita, but all he knew,
all he could think about, was taking Lita to the hospital. "God let her
be okay…" The Rock whispered to himself.
[ The Hospital ]
Well maybe I should! I never thought
I could love someone like you!
Well vice-versa!
As The Rock sat in the waiting room,
awaiting to hear the news on Lita, the events, those horrible events that
had happened at Raw replayed in his mind. Parts of the fight, that stupid
fight came back to him and as he closed his eyes he saw the tears that
had escaped Lita's eyes and rolled down her face before she had been attacked….
She had cried. He had made her cry.
Jesus, how in the world… no why in the world had he been so cruel? Why
couldn't he just be grateful that she cared enough to risk her life for
his? But no, he was so angry, and those words, they had hurt him… not more
then his own words hurt Lita.
He had hurt Lita… Could that be possible?
The one person he had grown so close to in this past few days… the one
person he had been willing to give up his life for… could he have hurt
her? No, he wouldn't believe that, he couldn't. But god damn it was true,
if he had just left that ring with her, if he had just dropped the dumb
conversation, that argument, he could have led her to safety instead he
kept her in danger.
This was impossible, now of all times
he had realized he loved Lita… he realizes he loves her and she probably
hates him… why wouldn't she hate him? He had hurt her, but more important
he lied to her. God he loved her so much… there was no way in hell he could
have lived these past few days without her in his life… she had opened
up some sort part of him he didn't knew he had but right when he was ready
to give that to her, this had to happen.
You don't deserve her Rocky, why
would you ever think you deserved someone as beautiful as Lita? Someone
who was ready to put her body and soul on the line for you and then you
lash out at? Didn't you see this coming? You knew didn't you? We knew!
We knew if we even dared to open ourselves to love that something like
this would happen… but oh no… you thought that this time would be different!
You swore that she would love you no matter what, that love did conquer
all… well your love made her cry, your love made her get injured and your
precious little love is what got her in this hospital…. Damn you suck at
love.
I-I didn't mean to I swear!
Does it matter what you meant
to do? You did it! You killed her, well almost killed her, we don't know
if she is going to live through this one and it's all YOUR fault. How could
you have been so careless? You promised yourself you would take care of
her! You said you wouldn't let Big Show hurt her…. or even touch her… you
promised us Rocky…. You lied… you broke your promise. How big of a man
are you now? How tough are you mister WWF champion? So you have that damn
WWF championship belt, but do you even know how to live? This past week
you experienced staying up late and watching horror movies, you experienced
long night phone calls… you experienced love… but that's gone isn't it?
You had to scream at her didn't you? You had to be YOU. You are
always so evil, and cold and you never let anyone in and once the right
girl comes along, you pushed her away with your damn evil ways… you fool!
Why won't you ever accept things the way they are? She loved you! She knew
that isn't what you wanted but she did it anyways! She knew that might
be that chance that you didn't love her back but she didn't care, she kept
on loving you… you don't deserve a love like that! But she was willing
to give it to you anyways, it was what you wanted and you threw it away!
I do love Lita!
Then why run? Why throw everything
she helped you come to terms with? Why? You were scared? She was too! Let's
remember Essa made her love and he beat her, he threw her to the ground,
he destroyed her, just like you did tonight… you're no different then that
asshole.
"She's awake."
The Rock looked up and nodded at
the nurse and walked to where he already knew Lita was. He sighed and pushed
the door open.
"Lita…"
Lita looked up from the hospital
bed to see The Rock, she felt the tears escape her eyes once more. "Leave."
The Rock walked closer to her, slowly,
trying not to scare her. "Please, I'm sorry, I love you."
Lita laughed and threw her pillow
at The Rock, he caught it and tried to reason with Lita. "Go away, I never
want to see you again!"
The Rock walked over to her and tried
to grab her hands but she kept
pushing him away. "I'm sorry, I
never meant what I said. I was just afraid…"
Lita sighed and looked up and saw
Jeff and Matt in the background lingering, in case they were needed. "I'm
afraid too… of you! Go away! I don't want to love you anymore, you got
what you wanted! I'll leave you alone like you asked last week! I'll stop
trying to reach out to you!"
The Rock felt his heart breaking,
he remembered when he had asked her to leave him alone, to just go, god
that felt so long ago. "I was wrong in saying that too! I never meant it!"
Lita closed her eyes. "You just say
all these things you never mean to say don't you? Then why don't you just
shut your god damn mouth up? Because obviously, every word that leaves
your mouth is a lie! Leave!"
Jeff and Matt walked over to The
Rock and pushed him out of the hospital room without saying a word to him
and then they walked over to Lita. Matt sighed and put his arms around
Lita's body and rocked her crying body back and forth as Jeff stared helplessly
at the door, hoping that kicking The Rock out was what really needed to
be done…
The Rock stood out of the hospital
room and then walked back to his hotel room…
