4

Hunter Hearst Helmsley was buried on a cold, wintery February morning.

Morgan stood at the side of the grave, the cold wind freezing the tears that slowly fell from her eyes.

The employees of the ECW surrounded her.

Lita was at her side.

Morgan knelt and picked up a handful of the cold hard dirt, she let it slip slowly through her fingers over Hunter's coffin as she whispered "Game Over"

A lone figure stood some distance away. Test watched in silence as Morgan threw a handful of dirt on Hunter's coffin and fell sobbing into Matt Hardy's arms. She still didn't need him...

Hunter's loss was felt deeply throughout the wrestling world. No one could believe the cerebral assassin was gone.

Morgan went through her days like a robot. Hunter had left her the ECW and everything else he owned. He had truly loved her. She was glad she had told him she loved him that morning, she had loved him, as much as she could love any man after Test.

Morgan was tired. Tired of the fighting and revenge... She decided to do the one thing she could and the one thing that Hunter would have wanted. To make ECW the best in the business.

Lita watched, as Morgan became more and more depressed... spending all of her time on the business. Lita and Morgan had remained friends even after all they had been through. She was worried about her.

Lita knew what Morgan needed even if Morgan didn't.

Lita sat down and wrote a letter to her friend.

Morgan found the letter on her table in the hotel...

Dear Morgan,

We have been through our ups and downs, my knee still hurts sometimes from that damn baseball slide you gave me! But hey we all understand business is business... I was so proud of you when you won the women's title. You had it all didn't you? Or did you? What price did you pay? It's a fine line between taking care of business and taking care of your personal life. Look, I heard this song the other day and I thought of you. It goes like this:

Aces ~ Suzy Bogus

Well my old friend said to me

I ain't being what I'm supposed to be

Well I don't know, it could be true

I know I wasn't always there for you

How many nights did you leave your husband alone in the hotel while you worked out?

Now you're ready to walk out, you're ready to run

Talk to me, can't you see

I would never want to do what it seems I've done

You pushed him away even if you didn't realize it.

You can't deal me the aces and think

I wouldn't play

I know they encouraged you to do it, but did it really take that much convincing?

Don't let this be the reason you would walk away

The things you think that I should do

I've never understood that part of you

I know I've tried to be a friend

But you feel undermined and hurt again

I know he felt you didn't support him enough, but don't they always think that?

Now don't let it convince you, don't take it to heart

Compromise and realize you can never really run everything you start

You can't deal me the aces and think I wouldn't play

Don't let this be the reason you would walk away

And I guess I said I couldn't see

How things could turn out like they've come to be

I understand how you felt about Hunter, but was it really everything it should have been?

And if I lied, if I knew

I was only trying to think of you

Now you're ready to walk out, you're ready to run

Talk to me, can't you see

Morgan, stop for a minute and look into your heart. Really look, who do you see there?

I would never want to do what it seems I've done

You can't deal me the aces and think

I wouldn't play

Don't let this be the reason you would walk away

They gave you the cards and then couldn't handle it when you played them and won. I understand that. But Morgan I know what's in your heart. I can see it in your eyes... You need him.

Love,

Lita

Morgan broke down and cried, the first time she had cried since Hunter's funeral.