Chapter VI: Broken Promise.
Team Extreme and their valet for the night, Valerie, approached the curtains. Valerie's heart was pounding in her chest. She was sure she was going to pass out in front of all those people and she wasn't sure if she could bear the humiliation. She knew she couldn't go back on her word but she wished she could. She glanced over at Jeff and saw that he was looking at her. She smiled and looked away nervously.
Jeff grinned and said, "Sorry, didn't mean to stare."
"Then why did you?" Valerie blurted, immediately wanting to hit herself for sounding so harsh.
Jeff didn't seem to mind as he said, "You're beautiful."
Valerie blushed as she looked at Jeff as if she had never seen him before, before she could say anything Lita and Matt walked to them.
"You two ready?" Lita asked.
"Yep," Jeff said.
"As ready as I'll ever be," Valerie said, throwing Jeff another confused glance.
"Great," Matt said as their music came on.
They got ready to go out and Valerie thought her heart was gonna jump right out of her chest as she walked out along with Jeff, Matt and Lita. Team Extreme did their thing as Valerie walked behind them, she didn't stare at the crowd in awe like she had thought she would, she actually looked kind of indifferent but that was far from how she felt.
They got into the ring and to Valerie's surprise some fans were actually chanting her name and she almost dropped to the floor when she saw signs in the crowd that said, 'Valerie made DDP famous' or 'Valerie, make me famous'.
Lita and Valerie dropped out of the ring as Matt and Jeff stood inside it waiting for their opponents. Booker-T's music came on and the booing started. Having never actually met Booker-T before, Valerie didn't know him at all but the fact that he was with the Alliance was enough for her. Booker-T went down to the ring and Valerie laughed when he did his spinaroonie in the middle of the ring.
"He actually thinks that's cool?" she murmured to Lita. Lita grinned and rolled her eyes.
Then out of nowhere the sound of breaking glass sounded through the arena and Valerie nearly jumped out of her skin. Stone Cold Steve Austin came to the ring looking pissed off as usual.He came to the ring but didn't go in, he went around the ring making Lita and Valerie flee to the other side. There was something about that man that scared the hell out of Valerie. Stone Cold did his turnbuckle thing and looked at Valerie and Lita while stepping off the last turnbuckle. When his eyes rested on Valerie, she felt like running and never looking back.
The bell sounded and the match was on its way. Jeff started out against Booker-T. Jeff turned out to be a lot stronger than he looked, something Valerie wasn't indifferent to. She smiled as Jeff threw Booker-T over his back and laid into him with punches to the face. Booker-T and Jeff started exchanging blows. Valerie cheered when Jeff punched Booker and yelped and swore at Booker-T when he hit Jeff. Lita smiled a little at the sight of Valerie watching the action. That girl had it bad.
Booker-T knocked Jeff down and tagged Steve Austin in. Jeff reached over to Matt but before he could reach him Steve Austin pulled him away from the corner, he taunted Matt who immediately made the mistake of stepping in so the referee's back was turned, Booker-T and Austin double teamed Jeff until the ref turned back around. After throwing Jeff around for a while Stone Cold threw him to the outside. Valerie went to Jeff's side without listening to Lita's warning not to and tried to help him. Valerie thought that Austin was still in the ring but when she looked up, he was right next to her.
He grabbed her by the hair before she could react and yanked her up to her feet. Valerie could feel the hair coming out of her head and as he mocked and insulted her, she braced herself for the inevitable blow but it never came. Matt attacked Austin from behind and threw him back into the ring. Valerie helped Jeff up and into the ring as close to Matt as possible, hoping that it would give Jeff the chance to tag Matt in. It worked, Jeff reached for Matt and this time Stone Cold couldn't stop him.
Matt was tagged in and he took Austin down, Matt was as tall as Austin was so all he lacked was the weight. This didn't seem to be much of a problem as Matt swiftly took Austin down and set him up for the twist of fate. Booker-T came in and clotheslined Matt away from Austin. The referee tried to get him back into his corner but Booker-T shoved him and Matt and Jeff won the match by DQ. Booker-T showed no signs of leaving, however, as he pounded on Matt as Austin was getting up, Jeff tried to help Matt but he was still hurt and he was beaten down as well.
Valerie had seen enough, she knew she had promised to stay out of it but it was a promise she was no longer able to keep. Before Lita could react, Valerie had grabbed a chair and jumped into the ring. Lita yelled at Valerie to get out of the ring but she didn't, she instead whacked Booker-T with the chair. As she continued to hit him, she had almost forgotten about Steve Austin. Almost. She turned around and walked straight into a Stone Cold Stunner. She lay on the mat as Austin stood over her with a smirk on his face, the crowd's boos falling on deaf ears. He bent down and would have picked her up if it hadn't been for the reinforcements arriving.