Well, I lied. Last night instead of sleeping... I wrote out this chapter. I think I'm going fall asleep now. x_x Oh! And I know people are going to yell at me... but that girl Raven is stalking?? Guess what Sarah that is?? LMAO! I'm sorry... I had to add it. This will be the only time I mention it, I promise! :) Anyway. I don't one nuffin' Not even this muffin I'm eating (my mama brought it for me) Ummm. Vince owns everyone. I don't own the Simpsons, or the cool, nerdy scientist that I quote. Matt Groaning owns them. Mistress Martin I can blame for when Stephanie starts thinging about stuff so far. She made me think and think and think somemore (and that hurt) and so Test made his return in Steph's mumblings. I like Test so it's all right. I think that's it. Read, Respond, and Rock on! Also go read Mighty Pen's story *plug* It has ME! In it! LoL! :) And this entire chapter is Stephanie's view. OooOoo. Also all good E&C fans who saw the names of the first two chapters, should find it funny. That's all :)
^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^
I wake up and feel Rhyno's chin gently resting on my back. Mmm. A girl could get used to this. It's almost 8 o'clock now. I should get up and shower. The operative word being, should. He starts to move in his sleep. He holds on to me tighter. No complaints here. "G'Morning." He says gruffly. "Morning to you too, sunshine." The obviously not a morning person groans and puts his hands up to his face to rub his eyes. I take my chance and stand up. He puts his hand back down, only to find it empty. I stand on the side of the bed and laugh to myself as he frantically looks for me with his hands, still not opening his eyes. "Nah, nah! You can't get me!" I say and stick out my tongue to further prove my point. Uh oh wrong thing to say. He gets an evil grin and in seconds he's jumped up and grabbed me and fallen back on the bed, now tickling me. "Stop it! Stop! I'm going to pee on you! Stop!" I say in-between giggles. My cry falls on deaf ears. He's tickling my feet now. "I need to shower! Stop!"He stops for a second, still holding on to me, but now sitting on my stomach. He turns around to face me, then lowers his head and takes a sniff, "Yep, ya do." He says grinning like a 10-year old. "You don't exactly smell like roses, yourself!" I say standing up. "Man beasts aren't supposed too!" He grins triumphantly and falls back on the bed. I laugh and go into the bathroom.
As I step into the shower I reflect on last night. All right Steph you like him. There, you admitted it. Now what? You're the person that likes to take charge. And every time I take charge of a relationship, I lose them. 'Sides Rhyno is different. He's like Test. My first love. Really my first boyfriend. Except Test was weak in the heart when it came to me, and I, in my cruelest moments, used that against him. Rhyno, I highly doubt has any soft spots. Well besides his head from all the gores he's done. No weaknesses. And he's the perfect male specimen. Sure he's a tad on the short side, but that only works toward his cuteness. And besides he's pretty damn smart for the resident man-beast. Hanging out with Raven must have really helped him. And Rhyno is kind and gentle and loyal and so sweet. Sigh. Now I sound like a love-stuck teeny-bopper 14 year old.
By now I've done showering and critiquing my current state and I realize that because of my tickle fight with Rhyno, I've forgotten my clothes. So I wrap a towel around myself, hope that Hurricane Helms hasn't showed up early for the breakfast meeting we're having today and walk out the door. I hear a spoon drop and out of the corner of my eyes I see Rhyno, his eyes and big as saucers and his mouth wide open. I laugh silently to myself as I curse out loud because I still can't find my stupid shirt. "Eat your Rice Krispes, Rhyno dear." I say sweetly. "I would expect it's Wheaties." He deadpans. Then he continues, "And the shirt you're looking for is in the big red suitcase in the corner." His mouth is still hanging open. "Thanks." I say heartfully, still laughing inside my head. I finally find that annoying shirt and go back into the bathroom, leaving an astonished Rhyno to his Rice... er... Wheaties. I get dressed and walk out and sit down on the other side of Rhyno at the table. I find my bowl already filled up with cereal and we eat in silence. As Rhyno is putting his bowl away, someone knocks on the door. I'm about to get up, when over protective Rhyno is all ready looking out the peep hole to see who it is. He starts to laugh. He opens the door only to be pushed back by Raven as he walks in. "And what do we owe the pleasure of your company this morning?" I say all ready dreading the answer. He says nothing and shrugs nonchalantly. He sits down in the chair next to me and helps himself to the bowl and some cereal. By now Rhyno has closed the door and is sitting back in his chair. "You do know that *was* Shane Helms bowl when he gets here." I say getting a little annoyed. "Well, if Superman wants to eat... He can fly himself over to the cabinet and get a new bowl. Can he not?" Raven says finally talking. I swear between the two of them, Rhyno and Raven, the silence is enough to make one of those monk who take a vow of silence, go crazy. Rhyno laughs and I allow myself a little smile. "'Sides I'm not a 'superhero' and I need to eat and I ain't gettin' paid 'til the end of the month. And I'm hungry. So that's why I've decided to grace your presence, Princess" He says matter-of-factly and continue digging into his cereal. I stick my tongue out at him for calling me my most hated nickname. "Oh! Someone's being doing that a lot today!" Rhyno says laughing and almost falling off his chair. Raven gives his own version of the People's Eyebrow (if the Rock had his eyebrow pierced and his mind in the gutter like Raven's...) "So what have you two been doing this morning? Or shall I let that last comment speak for it's self?" Raven said grinning wildly. "Listen, bird brain" I start and Raven clutches his heart as if to say 'your words sting me' "It's none of your business WHAT I do in the morning. Speaking of 'doing'.... Where's little Miss Attached Like Another Limb this morning? You were finally able to use a crowbar and get her off?" Raven gags at the mention of Terri, "Whatever. She's outta my skin for awhile. Who knows maybe she's taking more pictures of a certain Mop again." "You mean herself?" I deadpan. Raven laughs so hard, he falls on the ground. "Nah she's probably taking pictures of herself for you again!" Rhyno says smiling knowingly. "Yuck! Trying to eat here!" I say clutching my ears. "You and me both. 'Sides you know I have a girl!" he says smiling. "Bull! You stalk her!" Rhyno says. It seems like the two of them have this conversation a lot. "So? It's not stalking *per se*. Would you like to see pictures??" He says, finally stopping shoveling food into his mouth to look for the pictures in the pockets of his leather jacket. "Here they are!" He says triumphantly grinning like a fool. "These are surveillance photos you freak!" Rhyno exclaims. "Here look Steph." I look and them and have to agree with Rhyno. "Do you keep tabs on this girl or what!? How'd ya meet her?" I inquire wondering about this girl that can make him smile like a fool. "Well, we haven't met...yet. Her name's Sarah and she lives in Jersey too." He said smiling even bigger and going into his little world. "You scare me so much, man." Rhyno says. And the conversation goes on from there. We take about everything from the weather ("I think it's going to snow." "Raven, we're in the South... And it's the middle of August!" "So?") to work and everything else in between ("I think we should bring Tajiri back to ECW." "I don't think that would work. He loves Regal. And now the Wilson girl too. Refresh my memory, but wasn't she and Alliance member!!!" "I think the 'was' is the secret word for today. Right Peewee.' 'Shut up Raven.' 'Hey! Man-beast boy... wasn't that the chick that screwed you outta the Hardcore title?' 'Shut up! And no it was the other one. The one with those long, long legs. Hey! You jerk!' 'Oh I guess I shouldn't mention that in front of 'Miss Tongue' over here. Ya know how you lost the title, because you were to busy looking at her LEGS!' ) After Raven exclaimed that he got hit in the arm from me and kicked in the legs from Rhyno. I stood up to go put my bowel away, and when I turned back Rhyno and Raven were on the ground. And Raven was screaming for mercy. Rhyno was doing his own version of the Ankle Lock except Rhyno was sitting on Raven's stomach and trying to pull the leg towards him. "Boys..." I said in my best motherly tone. At that point someone knocked on the door. Rhyno stood up and looked. 'Helms is here." He announced. Raven stood up, brushed himself off, and was moving his leg around as Helms walked in. They nodded to each other and as Raven left he started humming the song, "I believe I can Fly' "Goodbye Raven!" I yelled. Hurricane and I went over a new angle for him. We of course left the superhero thing alone. 'cuz the kid really does think he is one. And they say Perry Saturn's wacky. All during this Rhyno sat on his lawn chair and read a book. Hurricane and I ended our meeting and shook hands.
"Well, that went well." I said to Rhyno once he left. "Yeah, too bad the kids loopy. Must be this Carolina air." He said not looking up from his book. "Not like your any better." I said smiling. "Hey, I just like goring people. Nuthin' wrong with that.' He said putting his book down. "Oh! Simpsons!" he said looking down at his watch. I rolled my eyes at the 10-year old boy again. He just grinned bigger and said "Sorry, I'm late. There was trouble at the lab with the running and the exploding and the crying when the monkeys stole the glasses off my head!" I guess that's a Simpsons quote. "You frighten me." I say shaking my head. He's about to comment when his cell phone goes off. "This better be good. It's Simpsons time!" he whined as he looked for his phone. He found it in his gym bag. "Yel'ow? Uh huh...That's me...What!' His face as lost all coloring. I go over and sit next to him and hold his hand. He gives it a little squeeze. "Yeah...Uh huh...Uh huh.... Uh huh.... Now??... Uh huh.... I guess so... All right... I'll see you soon... Uh huh... Bye."He flips the phone closed. "What is it?" He's quiet. Too quiet. I move closer to him, still holding his hand. "That was the main hospital in Detroit. My sister.... was raped by her ex-boyfriend and left for dead. She won't make it through the night. They want me to go." He says not looking at me or anything, but focusing on the wall. "Go! Take as much time as you want!" I say automatically. Then I lean over and hug him. He breaks down and starts to cry. He crys on my shoulder and I feel his tears on my neck, and shoulders. This must be what he feels when I'm like this. Helpless. I start to massage his back. Rubbing little circles on his back and shoulders. I pet his head and hair and whisper in encouragements into his ear. He stops crying and starts kissing my neck. I push him back, lightly and look at him. I push the hair out of his face and kiss him. Ooo. Tingly electric shocks. We stay like that for a couple of minutes. Then he breaks away. "I have to go tell Raven, she was his ex-girlfriend." He stands up and then stops. He looks like a lost puppy. He leans down and kisses me once more quickly. Then he walks out the door. I sit in stunned silence feeling numb. I touch my lips and stay like that until I start to here cursing and stuff being thrown at the walls next door. Raven's room. He's taking this better then I thought. Soon there is silence.
Raven and Rhyno walk in and it seems like they're carrying each other. "Raven! You're bleeding' He shrugs as if it doesn't affect him. "Come here and let me clean you up!" I say taking his good hand and dragging him into the bathroom to my first aid kit. I clean and banged him up in silence. Raven sits on the closed toilet as I work and he's so stunned still he doesn't move. Shock does that to people.
When I'm done and we walk out of the bathroom, Rhyno has his stuff packed and is all ready. "Raven. Go with him. I'm giving you full leave of absent. Go" I say when it looks like he's going to say no. "I got Tazz to watch you when I'm gone. Besides Raven, he's the only other person I trust." Rhyno says looking like he's going to cry again. I walk over and give him a big kiss and hug and whisper my thanks. Even though Raven looks (and probably feels) like a walking zombie, he smiles when he sees all this going on. As the two of them walk out the door to go get Raven's stuff, Raven whispers, "Took you two idiots long enough to realize you're perfect for each other." I just hit him in the arm again and pushed him out the door. Exhausted all ready, I realize it's barely noon, and I just let two of my superstars leave with no deadline to come back. It's going to be a long day.
^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^^~~^
I wake up and feel Rhyno's chin gently resting on my back. Mmm. A girl could get used to this. It's almost 8 o'clock now. I should get up and shower. The operative word being, should. He starts to move in his sleep. He holds on to me tighter. No complaints here. "G'Morning." He says gruffly. "Morning to you too, sunshine." The obviously not a morning person groans and puts his hands up to his face to rub his eyes. I take my chance and stand up. He puts his hand back down, only to find it empty. I stand on the side of the bed and laugh to myself as he frantically looks for me with his hands, still not opening his eyes. "Nah, nah! You can't get me!" I say and stick out my tongue to further prove my point. Uh oh wrong thing to say. He gets an evil grin and in seconds he's jumped up and grabbed me and fallen back on the bed, now tickling me. "Stop it! Stop! I'm going to pee on you! Stop!" I say in-between giggles. My cry falls on deaf ears. He's tickling my feet now. "I need to shower! Stop!"He stops for a second, still holding on to me, but now sitting on my stomach. He turns around to face me, then lowers his head and takes a sniff, "Yep, ya do." He says grinning like a 10-year old. "You don't exactly smell like roses, yourself!" I say standing up. "Man beasts aren't supposed too!" He grins triumphantly and falls back on the bed. I laugh and go into the bathroom.
As I step into the shower I reflect on last night. All right Steph you like him. There, you admitted it. Now what? You're the person that likes to take charge. And every time I take charge of a relationship, I lose them. 'Sides Rhyno is different. He's like Test. My first love. Really my first boyfriend. Except Test was weak in the heart when it came to me, and I, in my cruelest moments, used that against him. Rhyno, I highly doubt has any soft spots. Well besides his head from all the gores he's done. No weaknesses. And he's the perfect male specimen. Sure he's a tad on the short side, but that only works toward his cuteness. And besides he's pretty damn smart for the resident man-beast. Hanging out with Raven must have really helped him. And Rhyno is kind and gentle and loyal and so sweet. Sigh. Now I sound like a love-stuck teeny-bopper 14 year old.
By now I've done showering and critiquing my current state and I realize that because of my tickle fight with Rhyno, I've forgotten my clothes. So I wrap a towel around myself, hope that Hurricane Helms hasn't showed up early for the breakfast meeting we're having today and walk out the door. I hear a spoon drop and out of the corner of my eyes I see Rhyno, his eyes and big as saucers and his mouth wide open. I laugh silently to myself as I curse out loud because I still can't find my stupid shirt. "Eat your Rice Krispes, Rhyno dear." I say sweetly. "I would expect it's Wheaties." He deadpans. Then he continues, "And the shirt you're looking for is in the big red suitcase in the corner." His mouth is still hanging open. "Thanks." I say heartfully, still laughing inside my head. I finally find that annoying shirt and go back into the bathroom, leaving an astonished Rhyno to his Rice... er... Wheaties. I get dressed and walk out and sit down on the other side of Rhyno at the table. I find my bowl already filled up with cereal and we eat in silence. As Rhyno is putting his bowl away, someone knocks on the door. I'm about to get up, when over protective Rhyno is all ready looking out the peep hole to see who it is. He starts to laugh. He opens the door only to be pushed back by Raven as he walks in. "And what do we owe the pleasure of your company this morning?" I say all ready dreading the answer. He says nothing and shrugs nonchalantly. He sits down in the chair next to me and helps himself to the bowl and some cereal. By now Rhyno has closed the door and is sitting back in his chair. "You do know that *was* Shane Helms bowl when he gets here." I say getting a little annoyed. "Well, if Superman wants to eat... He can fly himself over to the cabinet and get a new bowl. Can he not?" Raven says finally talking. I swear between the two of them, Rhyno and Raven, the silence is enough to make one of those monk who take a vow of silence, go crazy. Rhyno laughs and I allow myself a little smile. "'Sides I'm not a 'superhero' and I need to eat and I ain't gettin' paid 'til the end of the month. And I'm hungry. So that's why I've decided to grace your presence, Princess" He says matter-of-factly and continue digging into his cereal. I stick my tongue out at him for calling me my most hated nickname. "Oh! Someone's being doing that a lot today!" Rhyno says laughing and almost falling off his chair. Raven gives his own version of the People's Eyebrow (if the Rock had his eyebrow pierced and his mind in the gutter like Raven's...) "So what have you two been doing this morning? Or shall I let that last comment speak for it's self?" Raven said grinning wildly. "Listen, bird brain" I start and Raven clutches his heart as if to say 'your words sting me' "It's none of your business WHAT I do in the morning. Speaking of 'doing'.... Where's little Miss Attached Like Another Limb this morning? You were finally able to use a crowbar and get her off?" Raven gags at the mention of Terri, "Whatever. She's outta my skin for awhile. Who knows maybe she's taking more pictures of a certain Mop again." "You mean herself?" I deadpan. Raven laughs so hard, he falls on the ground. "Nah she's probably taking pictures of herself for you again!" Rhyno says smiling knowingly. "Yuck! Trying to eat here!" I say clutching my ears. "You and me both. 'Sides you know I have a girl!" he says smiling. "Bull! You stalk her!" Rhyno says. It seems like the two of them have this conversation a lot. "So? It's not stalking *per se*. Would you like to see pictures??" He says, finally stopping shoveling food into his mouth to look for the pictures in the pockets of his leather jacket. "Here they are!" He says triumphantly grinning like a fool. "These are surveillance photos you freak!" Rhyno exclaims. "Here look Steph." I look and them and have to agree with Rhyno. "Do you keep tabs on this girl or what!? How'd ya meet her?" I inquire wondering about this girl that can make him smile like a fool. "Well, we haven't met...yet. Her name's Sarah and she lives in Jersey too." He said smiling even bigger and going into his little world. "You scare me so much, man." Rhyno says. And the conversation goes on from there. We take about everything from the weather ("I think it's going to snow." "Raven, we're in the South... And it's the middle of August!" "So?") to work and everything else in between ("I think we should bring Tajiri back to ECW." "I don't think that would work. He loves Regal. And now the Wilson girl too. Refresh my memory, but wasn't she and Alliance member!!!" "I think the 'was' is the secret word for today. Right Peewee.' 'Shut up Raven.' 'Hey! Man-beast boy... wasn't that the chick that screwed you outta the Hardcore title?' 'Shut up! And no it was the other one. The one with those long, long legs. Hey! You jerk!' 'Oh I guess I shouldn't mention that in front of 'Miss Tongue' over here. Ya know how you lost the title, because you were to busy looking at her LEGS!' ) After Raven exclaimed that he got hit in the arm from me and kicked in the legs from Rhyno. I stood up to go put my bowel away, and when I turned back Rhyno and Raven were on the ground. And Raven was screaming for mercy. Rhyno was doing his own version of the Ankle Lock except Rhyno was sitting on Raven's stomach and trying to pull the leg towards him. "Boys..." I said in my best motherly tone. At that point someone knocked on the door. Rhyno stood up and looked. 'Helms is here." He announced. Raven stood up, brushed himself off, and was moving his leg around as Helms walked in. They nodded to each other and as Raven left he started humming the song, "I believe I can Fly' "Goodbye Raven!" I yelled. Hurricane and I went over a new angle for him. We of course left the superhero thing alone. 'cuz the kid really does think he is one. And they say Perry Saturn's wacky. All during this Rhyno sat on his lawn chair and read a book. Hurricane and I ended our meeting and shook hands.
"Well, that went well." I said to Rhyno once he left. "Yeah, too bad the kids loopy. Must be this Carolina air." He said not looking up from his book. "Not like your any better." I said smiling. "Hey, I just like goring people. Nuthin' wrong with that.' He said putting his book down. "Oh! Simpsons!" he said looking down at his watch. I rolled my eyes at the 10-year old boy again. He just grinned bigger and said "Sorry, I'm late. There was trouble at the lab with the running and the exploding and the crying when the monkeys stole the glasses off my head!" I guess that's a Simpsons quote. "You frighten me." I say shaking my head. He's about to comment when his cell phone goes off. "This better be good. It's Simpsons time!" he whined as he looked for his phone. He found it in his gym bag. "Yel'ow? Uh huh...That's me...What!' His face as lost all coloring. I go over and sit next to him and hold his hand. He gives it a little squeeze. "Yeah...Uh huh...Uh huh.... Uh huh.... Now??... Uh huh.... I guess so... All right... I'll see you soon... Uh huh... Bye."He flips the phone closed. "What is it?" He's quiet. Too quiet. I move closer to him, still holding his hand. "That was the main hospital in Detroit. My sister.... was raped by her ex-boyfriend and left for dead. She won't make it through the night. They want me to go." He says not looking at me or anything, but focusing on the wall. "Go! Take as much time as you want!" I say automatically. Then I lean over and hug him. He breaks down and starts to cry. He crys on my shoulder and I feel his tears on my neck, and shoulders. This must be what he feels when I'm like this. Helpless. I start to massage his back. Rubbing little circles on his back and shoulders. I pet his head and hair and whisper in encouragements into his ear. He stops crying and starts kissing my neck. I push him back, lightly and look at him. I push the hair out of his face and kiss him. Ooo. Tingly electric shocks. We stay like that for a couple of minutes. Then he breaks away. "I have to go tell Raven, she was his ex-girlfriend." He stands up and then stops. He looks like a lost puppy. He leans down and kisses me once more quickly. Then he walks out the door. I sit in stunned silence feeling numb. I touch my lips and stay like that until I start to here cursing and stuff being thrown at the walls next door. Raven's room. He's taking this better then I thought. Soon there is silence.
Raven and Rhyno walk in and it seems like they're carrying each other. "Raven! You're bleeding' He shrugs as if it doesn't affect him. "Come here and let me clean you up!" I say taking his good hand and dragging him into the bathroom to my first aid kit. I clean and banged him up in silence. Raven sits on the closed toilet as I work and he's so stunned still he doesn't move. Shock does that to people.
When I'm done and we walk out of the bathroom, Rhyno has his stuff packed and is all ready. "Raven. Go with him. I'm giving you full leave of absent. Go" I say when it looks like he's going to say no. "I got Tazz to watch you when I'm gone. Besides Raven, he's the only other person I trust." Rhyno says looking like he's going to cry again. I walk over and give him a big kiss and hug and whisper my thanks. Even though Raven looks (and probably feels) like a walking zombie, he smiles when he sees all this going on. As the two of them walk out the door to go get Raven's stuff, Raven whispers, "Took you two idiots long enough to realize you're perfect for each other." I just hit him in the arm again and pushed him out the door. Exhausted all ready, I realize it's barely noon, and I just let two of my superstars leave with no deadline to come back. It's going to be a long day.
