"Hi Kay, what can I do for you?" He asked letting me in his room.
"I know that you are busy, so I am going to make this quick. I am sorry about what happened the other day. I know that what I did was wrong. But, I mean, I was under a lot of stress and,"
"The spirit of the show got into you. I know how it is. When you step into that ring you are a different person. The emotion took over."
"So there are no hard feelings?" I aksed.
"Now how could there be harsh feelings between you and I?" He walked over to me and sat me down on the couch in the room. "I know that what you do in the ring has no reflection on what is going on in the ring, normally," he said.
"I still feel like I should apologize. It was wrong to attack you like that, even if it was in the ring and in the spirit of the show."
"You did, so what are you worrying about?"
"Nothing I guess. Can I ask you for a favor?"
"Depends on what it is and if I can do it."
"Can you try and make sure that Steve and Dwayne don't go near Jeff? I don't know if they are going to try anything, but, I just want to make sure that nothing like yesterday happens again."
"I'll see what I can do. I'm glad to see that you are happier."
"The first person, besides the Hardys, that seems to feel that way."
"I'm always behind you Kayla."
I gave Vince a hug and left the room. When I went back to the hotel room Jeff was just waking up.
"Hey sleepy head."
"What time is it?" he asked with his head still buried in the pillow.
"The sun is out, that's all that you need to know." I jumped on the bed and laid next to him.
"Come here," Jeff said. He pulled me under the blankets.
"What are you doing? You have to get up we gotta leave."
"I want to stay under here with you," he said tickling me.
After a few minutes of wrestling around under the blankets Jeff got up and took a shower and we went to go find Matt, Jay and Adam.
"Nice to see you Jeff," Matt said jokingly.
"Funny brother, very funny."
"I know," Matt said rustling Jeff's hair.
I ran ahead and caught up to Chris while Jay, Adam, and Matt all teased Jeff.
"Hi Chris,"
"Hi Kayla. It's been a crazy week hasn't it?"
"It has, it really has."
"You seem to be happier with Jeff though."
"I am. It's funny because I never thought that anything like this could happen."
"Strange things do happen sometimes."
We talked on the ride over to the airport. All the crazy schedules we had, it made it hard for us to spend time together sometimes.
"Do you think that I can get a mimute alone with her?" I heard Dwayne say.
Chris looked at me and I nodded. I knew that Chris was going to look out for me and tell Dwayne to leave if I didn't want to talk to him.
"I'll see you at the arena tonight," Chris said walking away.
"I was going to find you after we got to L.A." I said to him. He didn't say a word and just sat down.
"I know that you were going in find me so we could talk. But I can't wait to say what I have to say. I love you Kayla. I never wanted to let you go. I mean you left me. I miss you so much, I have trouble sleeping at night because you're not next to me."
"Dwayne, will you please stop telling me this. I told you that you and I are over as of right now."
"Just listen to what I have to say before you say anything else. I am asking, begging you to give me a second chance. Jeff doesn't love you, he could never love you the way that I can."
"You stop right there. If this is going to turn into a session of ranking on Jeff I don't want to hear it. For that, you have Steve. I have told you over and over. If you really want me back you wil let me spread my wings and fly. Let me try this realtionship with Jeff before you go off and go crazy."
"I can't"
"This is why I ended things in the first place. You are too controlling over me sometimes. And right now we aren't even dating."
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm here for one reason. I wanted to ask you this in the restaurant when we went out to eat, but I figured why not know when I have the nerve," he reached into his pocket. I gave him a confused look. He got down on one knee. "Kayla Williams, you are, were, and will always be my everything. I can't function without you by my side," he said. I started tearing.
"Dwayne please get up."
"No, just hear me out. I love you, now and always. I am asking you here and now will you marry me?"
At that time the last person that I wanted to walk by did. I was to confused and shocked to notice that Amy(Lita) had walked by and seen what Rocky was doing.
"I don't know what I can say," I said shakily.
"Say the only word that I wanna hear. Please say yes."
"No, no I-I can't," I said. I pulled Rocky up onto the seat next to me. "You don't want me like this. You know that you don't. If I married you now, in the back of your mind you would be saying, 'what if she had stayed with Jeff',"
"I am doing this because I love you,"
"And you can't stand to see me with Jeff. One of your best friends with the woman you say you love," I looked at his eyes as they were starting to tear. "I don't know what you were thinking, but this isn't right," I said. "I think you should leave. And I think that we shouldn't see each other at all until you get the fact that I am with Jeff, and very happy,"
"That's it?" I nodded and didn't say a word. "I get no say in this?" I didn't look at him. "I'm sorry but I can't except that. Look at me Kay," he waited and I didn't turn around. "Kay look at me." he waited again and I didn't look at him. I wanted him to leave. "Dammit Kayla look at me."
"What?!" I yelled. "What more do you want from me? Do you think it's fair that I have to see your heart break over and over again every time you try to get me to tell you that I love you and want you back when I don't? Do you think it's fair that I have to go through the same pain that I went through that night I walked out on you?"
"You still feel that pain?" I nooded. He looked at me and out of nowhere grabbed me and kissed me.
As I was trying to push him off Jeff ran up with Lita and jumped on Dwayne. Before I knew what was happening Jeff had given Dwayne a bloddy nose by throwing him into an empty seat in front of us.
Jeff backed away and moved towards me. "What do you think you were doing Dwayne?" Jeff asked a little winded from his little brawl.
"I was talking to Kayla."
"With your tongue down her throat?"
"Excuse me I want to know what both of you are doing," I said looking at the two of them.
"Amy told me that he was proposing to you, so I came over to talk to the two of you and I saw him with his tongue down your throat."
I looked over and saw Amy standing there smiling.
"You told him? Who the hell gave you the right to tell him anything?"
"I didn't want to see him get hurt."
"THat is a load of bull and you know it." I said to her. "All you care about is your scrubby self, and maybe Dean, with his ugly self with the froggy vioce."
"You lay off Dean, he's a great guy."
"Too bad he fell for you. Tell me again, why did you leave Matt?" I asked sarcastically. "Oh no-no wait. He was the one that dropped you, that's right now I remember. And I was the one who took your spot in Team Xtreme."
I was too caught up with Amy to notice that Jeff and Dwayne were throwing remarks back and forth at each other.
"Do you remember that match Amy? I remember it very vividy. Would you like to come over and relive the worst part of your career?" With that comment she jumped at me. I moved out of the way and she bounced into the arm rest of my chair. She got up quickly and leaped at me again. Once again it was an all out brawl between Amy and I. At the moment that we were fighting I knew that what Dean had warned me about was true. The girl was pulling any dirty move that she knew of on me, and I was doing exactly the same. It took a few minutes before anyone was able to break us apart. Even as Jeff and Dwayne held me back, I still tried to get out of their grips and get a few more shots at her.
"Kay calm down," Jeff said to me. I struggled with him to let me free. "Matt can you help me over here?" Matt walked over and helped him drag me to a seat on the back of the bus.
"Calm down," Jeff yelled throwing me down in the seat. "If you want her get her in the ring," he looked at me and walked away leaving me to calm down.
"Maybe you should take your own advice," Matt said to him.
"What are you talking about?"
"You and Dwayne. You have a problem that obviously can't be settled with words. So why not fight it out in the ring then maybe you can sit down and talk about it like people," Matt said getting a little frustrated.
"I'm willing to talk, but I guess he's not," Jeff replied.
"Oh please Jeff, you are no more willing to talk to him then he is to talk to you," Matt said getting a little loud. "I am so sick of the fighting between the two of you and Steve. I don't want to be caught in the middle any more. I know you didn't when I had the whole thing with Vince, but I was aware of that, and you were willing to fight with me," Matt said finding a seat and sitting down.
"What are you trying to say?"
"I am saying that this is one battle that I don't want to be involved in, and that before you go off making trouble you should find out how Kay feels about this. Have you ever thought about the fact that it must kill her inside to see the three men she cares about the most fight, constantly?"
"Man, I never thought about that. I should go talk to her," he said. But when he got to my seat I wasn't there. I didn't care if all we had was a little "porter party" on the bus. A wave of nausea came over me and I had to go and throw up. I had never felt that sick in my life.
"Mark, have you seen Kayla?"
"I just saw her go to the bathroom, I think Joanie went with her," he answered.
"I really screwed up this time. Did she look like she was upset?"
"Actually with what just happened, she didn't. I think she looked more sick then anything."
Jeff got a little worried and went to the bathroom. "Kay, Kay," he said softly through the door. "Can I come in?"
Joanie walked out. "She's really sick, I don't know if she wants you in with her, but I think you should go talk to her."
"Could it be all the stress that she's been under because of us?"
"Maybe, I don't know," she smiled at him. "Just go in and sit with her. She was hurt by what happened before, she had to run to the bathroom and throw-up."
"Thanks Joanie, you truely are a wonder," Jeff gave her a quick hug and walked in the bathroom. He stayed with me until I started to feel better. He was apologizing over and over, but I don't remember what he said. I don't think that it truely mattered to him, as long as he knew that I knew that he was sorry.
I decided to not wrestle that night. I wasn't scheduled for a match and figured that I wouldn't get into any backstage action. If only I had made that plan before Amy and I decided to start brawling on the plane.
I rode by myself to Sunday Nigh Heat, something that was very rare, but I wanted to be alone to think and try to sort all these things out. When I got out of the car I turned on my discman. It was a habit that I had picked up, listening to all types of bands. Mostly calssic rock and Pearl Jam, a new obsession of mine. It would get me hyped up for that nights show. I didn't hear footsteps behind me. I was walking into the building and the next thing that I knew I was on the ground with sharp blows to my back and a few to my head. I thought that what Dean said had some truth to it, but I had no clue that he would be so right about what he said. Amy was looking for nothing more then to see me in a casket. I never thought that hatred could go this far, but it did and I was game. She yelled something and walked away, leaving me alone dying in pain.
It figures that the day that I had to go and come early to the arena would be the day that I would get jumped, when no one was around.
A little while later, I don't know how much later, I heard voices. Everything was very fuzzy to me, I could hardly hear anything around me.
When I woke up I was in the medical room.
"Wha-what happened?" I asked trying to sit up.
"Shh-shh, it's o.k. We're waiting on an ambulance to take you to a hospital."Jeff said.
"Why?"
"We found you on your stomach unconscience. What happened?"
"I-I'm not sure," I coughed and yelped in pain. "I was walking and someone hit me," I said. "I th-" I took a shallow breath. I was finding it really hard to breathe. "I think that it was Amy," I said.
"Well you just stay still. The back of your head is cut open pretty badly."
"Wha-what time is it?"
"The show is about five minutes away from ending. They have been giving updates on your condition. They didn't want to move you until you were awake."
"Where is everyone else?"
"They've been stopping by the entire show," Jeff said. "I'm just glad that you are awake."
"I'm fine, really I am." I tried sitting up.
"Don't move, you could be severly hurt."
"I can do this," I put out my hand and felt for Jeff's. "Get me to a mirror I want to see what my back looks like," I said to him.
"I don't think that walking is a good idea," he warned.
"Just get me to a mirror," I said as loud as I could. He stood me up and took me into a nearby dressing room.
"He-Help me lift up my shirt," I said to him. My back hurt so bad that I could hardly breathe. I know that standing wasn't a good idea, but I wanted to see the damage that was done.
"Are you sure you want to see?" he asked. I nodded my head. "O.K. here we go. He lifted up my shirt and positioned me so I could see my back.
My entire back, especially my lower back, was swollen. There were cuts and gashes along it also. No wonder it hurt so badly.
I nearly collapsed at the sight.
"Let's get you back to that bed," Jeff said almost carrying me to the first aid room.
"Do you think that I can wrestle again?" I asked.
"Of course you will. Don't think that you won't be able to step foot in that ring again for one second."
"Jeff it hurts," I said.
"I know sweetie," he took my hand. "It'll all be over real soon."
"I feel funny," I said to him. Everything faded out slowly and I felt like I was in a dream state. Every once and a while I would hear something and try to open my eyes.
"We have to hurry her pulse is getting weaker," I heard a faint voice say.
"Kay you can't leave me o.k. Just hold on we'll be there really soon," his voice was distant, but I knew that it was Jeff.
"I won't give up," I thought in my head. I was hoping that maybe the words were coming out of my mouth and he would know that I would not leave him, not now, and not like this.
When I was able to open my eyes and keep them open I was in a hospital bed surrounded by faces.
"Where I am?" I asked very confused.
"O.k. everyone out, I need to talk to the patient," a doctor said walking in.
"I'm not leaving, I want to know everything that is going on." Jeff said to the doctor.
"I am afraid that I must insist on having two minutes alone with the patient."
"I'll be fine," I managed to say and force a very weak smile.
"I'm right outside," Jeff said kissing my forehead.
"Ms. Williams right?"
"Yes,"
"I am Dr.Russell," she said.
"Nice to meet you, can you tell me what happened."
"I'm not quite sure how you managed to get this badly injured, but you have massive swelling around your lower back and a pretty bad gash on the back of your head. There was quite a bit of blood lost, which was why you were slipping in and out of conscienceness."
"Am I going to be able to wrestle again?"
"If all goes well with your recovery then yes, you will be able to wrestle. However I really wanted to talk to you about your blood results."
"You did a blood test?"
"Yes, just a small step to make sure that there would be no problems when we went into surgery and fixed your spine and sewed up your cuts. We also needed to restore a little bit of blood so we needed your blood type.."
"Why did I go in for surgery?"
"You shattered two discs above the swelling. I need to ask you why you would wrestle in your condition?"
"I was perfectly healthy when I was walking into the arena."
"Then I am guessing that you don't know," she said.
"Know what?"
"You are pregnant," she said softly.
"What? It it can't be."
"Don't get all excited. You may still find it hard to breath from the pain. You need to save all of your energy."
"Did you tell anyone?"
"No, I think it's your job to tell the father. Do you know who the father is?"
"How far along am I?"
"Usually you don't know that you are pregnant until a few weeks after fertilization, so I would say that you are probably almost a month. But, this is a very raw estimate."
"Yes, yes I do know who the father is. Thank you for telling me doctor. When do you think I will be able to be back in action?"
"If everything goes well, the therapy should only be about a month and the sweeling should be maybe another month. I say that at max, two months tops."
"That's not that bad," I said. Tears were running down my eyes. At the peak of my career I had to be careless and have this happen.
"Is everything o.k.?"
"I-I'll be fine. Can you bring Jeff in, he's really the only one I want to talk to. And if Stephanie comes by, please, please let her in."
"If you want me too."
"Thank you very much," I said closing my eyes to gain composure.
"How's my baby doing?" Jeff asked walking in.
"I've had better days," I said with a small giggle.
"Looks like it hurts pretty bad."
"Morphine is working pretty good," I said.
"I can tell. All the guys are bummed that they can't come in and see you."
"I'm not much in the mood for visits. Have you seen Amy since any of this happened?"
"No I went looking for her and got word that she left earlier to go back home for a 'vacation'"
"How convient. She had this planned."
"Can't prove it if she's not around." Jeff said angrily.
"She'll get her's when the time is right." I said. I closed my eyes.
"I know you're tired, I'll leave but I'll be back tomorrow." Jeff told me.
"No, I want you to stay, even if it's for five more minutes," I said lifting my hand to take his. "Do Vince and Stephanie know what happened?" I asked.
"Vince knows, he's trying to get a hold of Stephanie and find Amy. There is going to be hell to pay when she turns up," Jeff said.
"Do they know where Steph is?"
"She went to a show for a guest apperance I think. But, I am more then sure that she is on the first flight here when she hears what has happened."
"All that I care about is that I will be able to step in the ring and wrestle," I looked up at him. "Promise me something,"
"Anything baby, anything," Jeff said smiling.
"Promise me that you will not go after Amy while I am gone," I said to him.
"What?!"
"I'm serious, I don't want you getting into trouble for fighting with her."
"Please tell me that you are joking."
"I'm not joking. I'm still alive, and I can still wrestle. If I choose, when I get out of here then I will deal with her in my own way. Just tell me that you will do everything possible to stop people from going after her."
"If you want me to, then I promise," Jeff said reluctantly. "But I can't stop Vince from whatever he wants to do,"
"He's one guy you leave alone. When I come back I want you there that's all," I said to him.
"I'll be here, promise Kay, I promise you,"
"Kay," I heard someone call and there was a knock on the door. "It's Vince. I know you're tired and I figured that you would want to know where Steph was. I talked to her earlier and I want you to know that she is flying in right now."
"Thanks Vince."
"How you feeling?" Vince asked walking in the room.
"Drugs are wonderful." was what I said. "I'll be back in the game before you know it."
"I hope that you will, you are one of my biggest stars. How could you let this happen to you sweetie?" Vince asked very concerned. He was now switching into his fatherly mode. He had a habit of doing that.
"I'm really not sure. All I know is that Amy has taken this way too far. But, please leave her to me." I said.
"No, I'm not leaving her to anyone. I am sending out her pink slip as soon as I get back to my office."
"No." I said quickly.
"Why not?" Vince asked surprised. "She almost killed one of my superstars and my little girl."
"I think that I should be leaving." Jeff said. "I don't want to intrude in on any family moments."
"No, stay please." Vince said sitting Jeff back down. "I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable but she means a lot to me."
"She means a lot to me too." Jeff said.
"Listen," I said slowly. "I know that you want to get rid of her. That is what I want more then anything in the world, but I don't want her to go out like that. I know that what she did was wrong beyond all belief, but I want to be the one to put her out of action."
"You mean a pink slip match?" Vince asked.
"Maybe not that severe but yes that is what I mean. I don't want to cost her her job, but to make her have to start all over again is more then enough revenge for me."
"How do you plan on making her do that?" Jeff asked.
"Six months off, no publicity allowed or she becomes defected to WCW." I said.
"That is if WCW takes her." Jeff said smiling.
"That is good, that's really really good," Vince said. "I like the angel that can be used."
"So will you let me do it?" I asked. It wasn't exactly the smartest idea with me being pregnant and all, but it was the only way I knew how to settle all of this.
"It's done. The pay per view that you return we will have the match." Vince said. That's it then, I thought. I was telling no one that I was pregnant.
I smiled and mouthed thank you.
"We'll be leaving now." Jeff said. "Get some rest baby, I'll come by tomorrow."
"Good night sweetie,"Vince said kissing my forehead and leaving.
I closed my eyes and fell into an uneasy sleep.