By the time Sunday rolled around, I was dying to get back into the ring. I wanted to see Jeff again, and I wanted to kick someone's ass in the ring. I was really dying to get back. Matt noticed, I was so damn ancy that Sunday.
Matt and I hung around in Jeff's backyard for most of the afternoon. Matthew was out with us and we just talked. I asked about him and Amy again. I don't know why, I really don't. I just wanted to know what the hell happened and why they needed, and to know they would never hook up again.
"I wouldn't, even if she begged." Matt said. "I've moved on, and I could never forgive her for what she did." He was picking at his hand. "I mean, I still think she's pretty and everything, but I just couldn't go back."
"I see." I said.
"She really is a locker, I mean, wow. But, what she did really hurt me, and probably made me look at women differently. She really changed my views on women and relationships. I can say she was the best and worst thing that happened to me. Best, in she showed me love, and I never knew what that was until I met her. I never thought I could fall in love. And, worst because she showed me the bad sides of love and made it so much harder for me to fall in love again."
"Like I said, she's a real ass for doing that to you. If I was with you, I could never do that to you, ever. That's wrong."
"Well, you're not with me." He said. He sounded so disappointed when he said it. "But, you're with Jeff and I've never seen him so happy."
"You'll find her." I told him. I put my arm around him and rested my head on his shoulder. "You will. She's out there, and like you said, you'll know when you find her."
"It's the heartache and all that, that comes before finding the One I hate."
"When you find her, it'll all be worth it."
"Is Jeff your One?" He asked.
"No." I didn't expect him to ask it. "Well, I don't know to tell you the truth. I've got a horrible vision of love, like you, and I'm not quick to trust my heart with anyone. I dunno what I feel for Jeff."
Matt didn't say anything. He just looked at Matt playing on the grass. Still trying to crawl, but he just flopped around. Matt got up and laid next to him. I stood there, watching, ready to cry. Cry from seeing the beautiful sight of father and son, about how that father was eating away at my heart, and how I didn't tell Jeff I loved him twice over the phone, and how I didn't tell Matt I thought Jeff was the One.
Now I really wanted Monday to come around. The four days with Matt were taking their toll. I set myself up with the Amy thing. I didn't want to hear about it, but I had to know. I had to ask him about it. He said they would never again, which made me feel better. Also, hearing what she did to him made me so angry.
"I'm looking forward to Unforgiven." Matt said. I was now sitting on a chair outside.
"Me too." I replied. "Get back the belt that belongs to me."
"That's true." He sat got up and walked over to me. "There is no one better for the Women's Championship then you."
"And, there's no better Tag Team Champs then you two." I said.
He smiled. "Well, duh!" I laughed a little. "I think Team Xtreme should take over the WWF."
"You have high goals for Team Xtreme don't you?"
"Uh-huh."
"Well, stick with the cover stories. After Unforgiven, they'll be begging for them."
"Yup, the six man tag match is a huge success and we become the WWF Tag Team and Women's Champion."
"Destiny, WWF Women's Champion. Boy, does that sound nice."
"How's this. The WWF Tag Team Champions, Matt and Jeff the Hardy Boyz!" He said it like a ring announcer too.
"You still should be the Tag champs." I said.
"You should be the Women's Champ!"
I shoved Matt lightly, and went to pick up Matthew. The sun was setting in Cameron, and it was getting closer to RAW. Which, really was in Denver. I kept telling Matt how happy I was to finally be able to get in the ring again. I think he wanted to tape my mouth shut.
I waited for Jeff to call that night, but he never did. I wasn't angry or anything. He probably got held up with Vince or something. Anyway, getting to sleep that night was rough. I was thinking about a lot of things. What was going to happened to me tomorrow and Matt. I had shown a lot of affection to him these past four days.
Matt woke me up pretty early Monday morning. He told me to get in the shower and that we were going to leave when I got out. As I showered, Matt came in the bathroom.
"Don't mind me, I'm just getting our things." He said.
I poked my head out of the curtain and splashed him with water. "What are we going to eat?"
"I was thinking we could grab something at the airport."
"All right." I closed the curtain.
Matt's hand came in the shower. He was feeling around for his shampoo. The guy can't travel without his shampoo. He grabbed a hold of my upper thigh. I Jumped a little.
"I'm so sorry." He said. I handed him what he needed. "Sorry." He left.
Honestly, I wasn't at all offended or anything. I finished up, and Matt and I left. I needed Jeff to do my hair dye. It was still normal. Matt didn't say anything to me for a little.
"Matt, chill out." I said. "You didn't mean anything by it, and it didn't offend me. Trust me, if you offended me, you'd know it."
"You sure?"
"Yes." I answered.
"All right." He sighed. "Back to the daily grind."
"I know, but I can't wait. Two weeks until Unforgiven." I said.
"Two weeks until the WWF crowns new Tag Team champs and the Women's Champ." Matt replied. He looked at me and smiled. "You know, you look really good without all that hair dye. You really do."
"Thanks, Matt." I said with a smile.
"Serious. You got some nice red highlights. It looks really good. Maybe you should think about leaving it like that for a while. You know, when you came out with Stephanie looking the way you did, you looked hot. Everyone backstage was saying how good you looked."
"Jeff said the same thing." I said.
"Well, I would think he would."
"But, like I told him, don't get used to it."
"I could." He said. "No one can pull that off like you. I don't think anyone could wear anything like you do. You could make rags look good. You've got the body for anything."
"I never thought so." I said. Big mistake. Don't ever put yourself down in front of Matt Hardy.
"Are you kidding? Damn, Destiny, you've got the body for anything! I've never seen a women like you, ever in my life. You have the perfect everything. The perfect face, the perfect body." He said.
"I thought that was Amy."
"Amy was hot all right, but no one compares to you, Destiny." He replied. "No one. Like I said, Jeff's an extremely lucky man."
"You're very sweet, you know that. These past four days all you've done was tell me how great I am. No one's quite like you, Hardy."
"Me, nah." He said.
"What? Hardy, you're amazing! You are so sweet, I mean so sweet. You're a locker too, ya know. I mean, look at yourself. You're sexy. And, like I've said before, Amy lost something so incredible." I looked at him. "When I was training to become a wrestler, I wasn't into it. I was only doing it for my acting. Then, I saw a match with you and Jeff and I was hooked. I knew I wanted to be like you guys. I was so amazed at what you could do. Jeff was putting his body on the line, doing insane moves. You, well you were the brains behind it. You were the one who was putting everyone away."
"I am merely one half of the Hardy Boyz. It's nothing."
"It is something, Matt, it's a lot of something. I mean, have you ever seen the way people react to you? Everyone wants to be you. They want a chance to be a Hardy for one night."
"Or be with one." He smiled.
"Oh, Matt." I laughed a little.
Matt and I had some to spare before our flight. So, we grabbed something to eat. We started talking about Unforgiven. He was giving me his ideas about the match. He was set on making mine and Amy's part of the match the talk of the whole tag thing.
"Break it out." He said. "The ladders, the tables, it all."
"I should just tell Stephanie to make it an anything goes match with tag team rules."
"Do it." He said. "Do it, we really should. Jeff and I are deadly with weapons."
"Yeah, Jeff uses his ass on ladders and you just kick everyone's ass." I said with a smile.
"That'll give you more of an excuse to really kill Amy."
"It would." I thought about it. "Remind me to talk to Stephanie tonight."
"You got it."
With the new idea of possibly having the match to be hardcore, we were shooting ideas out like there was no tomorrow. Matt was turning it into a TLC match with tags. Which, didn't bother me in the least. A hardcore match with tag rules. It was perfect. He said that his and Jeff's match would last for about ten minutes, and they'd win. Then, for a really "long amount of time", me and Amy were going to fight like hell.
It was getting more and more interesting as the flight went on. We had come up with a full match by the time we landed in Denver. We were able to go over it a few times even. We were really excited about it. When we got to the hotel, I ran to Stephanie and Paul's room to talk to them.
"Woah, woah, say that again?" She asked.
"Hardcore match with tag rules at Unforgiven. That six man match me and the Hardy's are in." I said.
"It could work."
"Matt and I got so many ideas we want to use."
"Do it, Steph hun, it'll be a great fight." Paul said.
"All right." She replied. "I'm down with it. Want to come to the ring tonight with me and say it?"
"Do you have to ask?" I laughed.
"I put you in a match against Chris Benoit."
"All right." I said. "Where's Jeff?"
"Out still." Paul answered.
"Damn, when's he going to be back?"
"We may not see him until RAW tonight." Paul said. "APA were looking for you."
"Oh, OK." I said. "Thanks again, Stephanie."
I found out where their room was. John answered the door.
"Hey." He said. "Come in."
"Hey John, hey Ron." I sat in a chair. "Looking for me?"
"Yeah, we were talking with Dwayne about this story line." Ron said. "You're going to look like you arrived at the arena with us. And, you're gonna be hanging with us. Dwayne's got a match against Kurt tonight. Now, you're going to be at ring side."
"Really? No one's against it?"
"Everyone's against it." John answered. "But, we're going to end up coming down there and that's going to piss off Dwayne. Paul's gonna end up running down to the ring and bingo, it starts."
"Oh, I get it." I said. "All right, that's cool."
I left their room and went back to Matt's. I told him about my match and about the whole thing with The Rock and The APA and how Triple H would be involved.
"Sounds good." He said.
"I know." I smiled. "We got our stipulation for Unforgiven."
"Great! Now we can work all of those ideas out!"
We ended up drawing some of the moves out and carrying them to RAW with us. When we got to the arena, in our locker room was a very tired and worn out Jeff Hardy. I ran over to him and hugged him.
"You look so beat." I told him.
"I am." He replied. "How are you?"
"Fine, fine." I kissed him.
"Took good care of her, just like you wanted." Matt said. He and Jeff hugged.
"Damn, those were the slowest four days of my life." Jeff said. He stood up. "We got a match against the Goddamn APA."
"Are you serious?" I asked.
"Yes, Vince's idea." Jeff answered. As I said that, John and Ron came in.
"Hear about the match?" Ron asked.
"Just did." Matt answered.
"Bullshit" John said. "Vince is a dead man."
"What can we do?" Jeff asked. "Just gotta go with it."
"We need to take Destiny from you." Ron said.
I went with Ron and John to the parking lot. All three of us were complaining about how screwed up this match was. Stephanie was in the parking lot and heard it, and said she was going to change it. She told the APA to just stick with me and that she said that Matt and Jeff were going to take on X-Pac and Justin Credible. The cameras were on and I walked with the APA into the arena.
"You're seeing Destiny arriving with the APA." J.R. said.
"The APA are her security guards after all." Paul replied. "And, what a choice."
"That choice isn't settling to well with Triple H or The Rock."
The camera crew didn't hang around that long. So, I told them I'd see them later, and went back to my locker room. I went in and Edge was suiting up for his match against Raven.
"Destiny, we have to get to the ring." Stephanie told me as she was walking out the door.
"All right then." I followed.
Stephanie's music hit and we walked to the ring together. I walked down faster than she did and slid into the ring. When I got in, I lowered the rope for her. She took a mic and waited for the crowd to die down.
"Next week, at Unforgiven, The Hardy Boyz and Destiny are in a six man tag match against the Dudley Boyz and Lita for the WWF Tag Team Championship and the Women's Championship." She said. "There is no doubt in my mind that they will come out on top. But, I have made a stipulation for this match. A no DQ match. Anything goes." Everyone went insane. "Destiny, are you all right with this?"
"Stephanie, I couldn't be happier. Now, I don't have to worry when I kick Lita's ass so badly. And, as for those damn Dudleyz, well I have something to say about that. Just wait until Matt and Jeff get their hands on you. Wait, I wouldn't worry so much about that, wait until I get my hands on you. Ya see, I've got a lot of things going on in my head, a lot of things that are pissing me off. I'd feel bad for anyone who has to face me Sunday at Unforgiven." One week and I'd be the champ again.
I tossed the mic down and we left. I was serious about that. I was very angry at a lot of things and I wasn't going to be very forgiving come Unforgiven. If Amy wasn't scared yet, she sure as hell should be.
I wasn't in a match for tonight. But, I was going to be with Rocky tonight. Dwayne's match was the main event. He had a shot at becoming the WWF Champion. I don't know why Vince gave him the shot, I mean, he hates us. Anyway, I was going to be there in hopes that he would win.
Matt and Jeff were talking about what they were going to do against X Factor. I came in and sat on Matt. I don't know how much energy Jeff had left. But, I knew he wasn't going to back down any time soon. He wasn't going to give up. He was throwing out his ideas, be Xtreme.
"You sure about that?" I asked.
"Of course." He answered. "Go big or not at all."
"But, Jeff, you're worn out, beat up, you shouldn't even be here now. You need a break." I said.
"What's a break?" He asked. "Look, I'll be fine."
I looked at Matt and Matt nodded. "All right, but I'm going to be watching, very nervously."
"I should be the one that's nervous. You're going out there with Dwayne tonight, D.J's got Kurt tonight." Jeff said.
"Everything's going to work out. APA are going to be there if Kurt tries anything, which we all know he will." I replied. "Sparks the story line more."
"I still don't know." Jeff said. "This is Kurt we're talking about here. No one knows what this guy can do."
I got off Matt and wrapped my arms around Jeff. "Go out there and be Xtreme. Leave the Kurt stuff to me." I said.
Matt and Jeff got up and walked out of the locker room. I did what I said I was going to do, watch nervously. I really was so nervous. I didn't want Jeff hurting himself even more. We had that match at Unforgiven to worry about. It was now a no DQ match.
You really couldn't tell how Jeff was feeling while he fought. He could hide it really well. You knew he wasn't his top, but he didn't back down or anything. He went out there and kicked ass. The Hardyz came out on top.
"Well, the Dudley Boyz should take notes on this match tonight." JR said. "Because, in six days, the Dudley Boyz will take on the Hardy Boyz for the WWF Tag Team Championship in an odd six man tag match made by Stephanie McMahon-Helmsly."
"That's Mrs. Helmsly, JR." Paul corrected. "Also at Unforgiven Christian will take on Billy Gunn for the Intercontinental Title. But, the six man tag match is the match many will be talking about."
"No DQ, a hardcore match with tag rules. The Dudleyz vs the Hardyz for the Tag Team Titles and Destiny vs Lita for the Women's Championship. If a Hardy pins a Dudley, the Tag Team Title match is over and the two ladies will have it out. If Destiny pins Lita, the Women's Championship match is over and the Tag Title match goes on." JR said. "Two different titles on the line in one match."
I helped Jeff backstage. Up next was Edge and Christian and Jericho vs Billy Gunn, and Too Cool. I wished the three of them good luck.
"There could be a preview of Unforgiven right here." Paul said once Edge and Christian's music started. "Christian and Billy Gunn will have a match at Unforgiven."
"Sources have told me that backstage the guys of Too Cool aren't doing to well against Edge and Christian." JR replied.
Anyway, the real action started around Dwayne's match. I was sitting in the shower part of the locker room with him. He was standing there and I was sitting on the floor. He was telling me about this match.
"I'm real worried." He said. "I can't lie to you about that. But, I'm only doing this for the sake of a good story line. If it wasn't for that, you know I would never let you out there. Paul's having a fit."
"He always has a fit." I said. "Look, I can take care of myself. I know how it's all going to go. We all know Kurt's going to try something, and if by any chance he doesn't, the APA are still going to come out. That's going to coast you your match because you're going to be looking at them. Then, Paul's gonna come down because he's angry at that. I know it all." I stood up. "Chill out."
He put his arm around me. "I'm sorry, I can't. I care too much."
I smiled. "How sweet."
He walked with me, arm around me, to the ring. His music hit and he walked out first, I was behind him. I clapped my hands as he walked down. He stopped, took my hand, and we walked hand in hand down the ramp. He lowered the rope for me.
Kurt's music started and I moved closer to him. I was so scared. He winked at me as he walked down the ramp. Rocky pushed me aside and met Kurt at the ramp. I stood in the ring, just watching. I knew I was supposed to move, but I couldn't. I was frozen, looking at them. Rocky told me to move, yelled at me to move a couple of times. But, I just couldn't move. Rocky didn't want to put Kurt in the ring with me in there, but time went by, and he had no choice but to throw him in.
Kurt rolled in, when he stood up, he looked right at me and kissed me. Rocky turned him around and punched him so hard. I still stood there. Rocky got him in a headlock and yelled at me to leave. Before I did, I spit on him and gave him a low blow. Then, I left.
I don't know why I couldn't get out of the ring, I just couldn't move. I stood there, near the steel steps, and didn't move. Rocky opened up on Kurt. Rocky's not known for being a stiff. He won't just lay into you like some superstars do. He just looks like he's really laying it on you. He can sell it really good. Anyway, he was really laying into Kurt. (For those of you who don't know what laying into someone means and what being a stiff is, it's basically really punching someone, really hitting them).
Kurt nailed Rocky with a low blow behind the refs back. While Rocky was down, Kurt made his way to me. He grabbed me by the hair and started pulled me up. I screamed as I tried to break free. But, this guy is huge, there's just no way. That's when the APA came running down. They beat on Kurt and took me aside. Rocky nailed Kurt, but then drew his attention to the APA, like he was supposed to. Kurt got him in the Olympic Slam, and won. But, he wasn't done. He tried to get at me, but the APA stopped him. Rocky got up and started beating on him. That's when Triple H came charging down the ramp. The four men beat on Kurt. When he rolled out of the ring, Triple H and Rocky turned on the APA and got them in either the Rock Bottom or the Pedigree.
I ran into the ring to check on the APA. Triple H and The Rock picked me up and started pulling me away. We exchanged words, and I went back, making sure they were OK. We did it perfectly. It was well acted, everything was just perfect. But, Kurt wasn't done. Triple H and Rocky left first, then I left with the APA. As I was walking up the ramp, Kurt had gotten to me from behind. He knocked me over and tried to, well I don't know what he tried to do to me. But, the APA stopped him and Bradshaw carried me off.
I was shaking in Bradshaw's arms. I think I scared John a little. He put me down on the bench in the locker room. I brought my knees into my chest.
"Dunno man, she's freaking out." John said.
"Thanks, guys." Paul came over to me. "We're going to make everything all right. I promise you." He looked at me. "Are you crying? Oh, Destiny, don't cry. I'm going to fix it. I've never let you down, I'm not about to start now."
I nodded and hugged him. I rocked me back and forth and nodded to everyone that I was all right. This whole Kurt thing was reaching a new high, a high that was going to end in something so horrible, so bad, that telling it is going to bring up those emotions. It was something so bad that I am still pay the dues for.