Chapter 38: Coming Back To Raw

~Sam's POV~

After spending the day with Jeff, I felt so much better. We had dinner together with the guys and mom. It was great to be with them, but I missed working with everyone. I even whined about it during dinner and all the guys teased me. Even though I was the target of the jokes, I still had fun. It was Monday and I was sharing the hotel room with Jeff since Matt didn't want to share with either of us. We were getting ready to go to the arena since Vince had informed us that we had a lunch meeting. We decided to go for our best and be professional about it. It was to help us catch up on what has been happening on what we missed. We left the hotel room at about 11:20; roughly it took about 30 minutes to get there due to lunch hour traffic. "Jeff, do you have my folder?"

"Yeah, I picked it up with mine," Jeff said as he searched his bag. "Ah, here we go." And he handed it over to me. I grabbed it and looked into it. Jeff and I had received the scripts earlier that day and I didn't get a chance to read it. I took my chance to read it in the limo since we were stuck in traffic and I was bored. I wanted to be well prepared before going into Vince's office. I always did that before meeting with Vince. I didn't want to look like I was behind or anything. After reading it, I must have fallen asleep in Jeff's arms because Jeff was shaking me and saying, "We're here, baby." I rubbed my eyes, looked around and nodded, got my things and out of the limo. Right at the same time, Paul had come out of his limo and I smiled.

"Daddy," I said.

He looked over and smiled, "Babydoll. Jeff."

"Paul, how's it going?"

"Pretty good. It feels good to be back on the road again," Paul said.

"I knew it!!!" I squealed.

He looked at me funny, "What are you talking about?"

"On Friday night, you said that you didn't miss being on the road and I said that I'll make you say it sometime soon!" I said triumphantly.

He thought back to our conversation and knew immediately. "You're right, babydoll."

"I'm always right," I said as the three of us headed towards the entrance of the arena. I heard Paul and Jeff laughing behind me. As soon as we past security and went inside, the first person that I saw was Lisa and I squealed. "Lisa!" I dropped my things and ran towards her. She saw me running and ran towards me. We enveloped each other into a big hug. "I missed you so much!! I wish you were at my graduation!!"

"Me too, babe. So how'd it go?"

"It was great! You wouldn't believe what had happened that day," I said, as I was ready to tell her everything, including the incident with Matt.

"That has to wait until after the meeting, babydoll," Paul said as I whined.

"You guys have a meeting?"

"Yeah, why?"

"I have a lunch meeting with Vince too," Lisa said.

"We can talk on the way?" I said hopefully."

"Definitely," Lisa said as we grabbed each other's arms and headed towards Vince's office and I started telling her what had happened. I told her about Matt and about Jeff proposing to me. "Wait a minute, Jeff proposed to you?"

"Yeah, he did," I said as we smiled to each other happily.

"Then let me see the ring, girl."

"Of course" I said as I showed her the ring. We started talking about the guys and how beautiful the ring looks. Before we knew it, we had arrived to Vince's office. I knocked on the door and waited for a response; when we did, we went through the doors and gasped. Vince had everything prepared in his office.

"The first people to arrive. Great, come on in," Vince said as he gestured for us to sit down. I couldn't stop looking at the food. I was ready to grab something, but Paul slapped my hand away.

I whined and he said, "Not until Vince says so." I stuck my tongue out at him and sulked and whined. Paul kept his stern look, but I knew better. I waited until he sat down next to me and when he did, I cuddled up to him and whined some more. "Nope." I looked up at him and gave him my puppy dogface. I put his arm around me and whined again. He looked at me once and then looked away, shaking his head. I knew that it was his ultimate weakness and I continued to do it until he gave in. While he looked away everyone else had shown up.

I heard Mark's voice, "What's going on?"

"She's using her puppy dogface and whine to get some food," I heard Lisa say.

"Man, just give into it and ask Vince for God sakes," Mark said. I tried not to laugh, so instead I whined and cuddled up against him.

"Vince," Paul said.

"You know, Paul, everyone could have started eating lunch once they're here," Vince said simply. I squealed as Paul sat there in defeat. Everyone around me laughed at what just happened. I grabbed a plate and wanted to put everything on there, but I decided to take it easy and take some things. Everything looked so delicious.

"Uncle Vince, why does everything look so delicious?" I asked. I never realized up until now that he was more like my dad's brother, so I decided to start calling him 'Uncle Vince.' He always took care of me when others couldn't and lately, I've been going up to him for advice about something that made me afraid of talking to others. And he's been so helpful with that and he's encouraging me to tell everyone today at the meeting. "Only the best for my Superstars," Vince said simply as we smiled. Lisa asked me to finish telling the story. Then Vince and Stephanie wanted to know what had happened. So then I started from the top and told everyone what had happened, including Matt. "That's why Matt came early. He wouldn't say anything when he came back."

"Yeah, but please don't fire him or anything. I'm sure that we can work it out. it just needs some time to work on," I said as I looked at my plate.

"Of course, I wouldn't think of firing anyone just because of a small incident like that, not especially when you had asked for help. Have you spoken to Matt at all today?"

"No, I haven't," I said softly. Jeff put his arm around me as I started to sniffle.

"I can't believe that Matt would do something like that especially over a simple comment," Stephanie said.

"Yes, I agree. What I don't understand is why he's withdrawing himself. Did you know that because of Matt's attitude that he drove Miss Dumas to quit last Saturday?"

I looked up at Vince shocked. "What! Why? Amy and I just got a better start with our relationship recently.

"I know that. I t seems that Miss Dumas was trying to talk to him and she was defending your honor, but she had to quit. I asked her why and she said that it was because Matt had called her horrible names and threatened to kill her. I told her that I would fire Matt because of that since Miss Dumas didn't have any help, but she wouldn't have it. She just handed in her resignation letter and ended her contract."

"Jeff, it's all my fault," I said as I cried and slumped into his arms.

"No, it's not your fault. If it's anyone's, it's Matt's since he couldn't be adult enough to control his behavior," he said as he stroked my back.

"Jeff is right, babydoll. Matt wasn't acting like an adult, not you. You needed help in a situation because you couldn't handle it, but Matt could," Paul said to reassure me.

"But it's all my fault that made him that way," she said as she started to wail.
~Matt's POV~

I got to the meeting a little bit before 12 and heard the last part of the conversation, where Vince mentioned that Amy had to quit last Saturday. I blamed myself as soon as I heard Samantha blame herself. I knew that I had to do something; I knocked on the door and went in once permitted and gestured for me to come in. I immediately looked at Samantha and said, "Samantha, I'm so sorry for everything I've caused. You didn't deserve that especially not on my ego."

She stayed in Jeff's arms, not saying anything. Jeff glared at me and said, "And you apologize now? After all that you've done for her. how could you! You hurt the one woman that I love more than anything in this world and for what. your ego? God, it makes me wonder why you're my brother. I looked up to you, man. Remember all the times we had when we were training her? Do you even remember helping her when she took a bad bump and you wouldn't let her give up? And now you hurt someone that you trained because you wanted to be a 'man'?"

"I'm so sorry, Jeff," I said. I knew that he was right and I didn't deny it. "You're right about everything. I ruined everything for Amy. for you. for her. What do you want me to do? Tell me what to do," I asked as I got down on my knees and begged. For the first time, since I was a little boy, I cried.
~Sam's POV~

I saw and heard what Matt had said and did. I got out of Jeff's hug and walked over to where Matt was on his knees. I went down on my knees and cupped his face and made him look at me. I said, "Matt, I just want you to know that what you did hurt me so much. Not you pinning me against the car, but what you said. I looked up to you too, I loved you like I love Adam and I still want to. Right now, I can't because you hurt me so much. Just don't quit because of what happened. I'm sure in time we'll get over this hump, but right now, you need to earn your trust and your love from me, ok?"

Matt nodded his head and softly said, "Yeah."

"Good," I said. After giving him a brief hug, I got up and went straight into Jeff's arms.

"I know that everything is emotional right now, so what I'm going to do is give you a few minutes to settle down and we can start the meeting." We all nodded. After a few minutes of settling down and everyone found their place, Vince said, "All right, there are a couple of reasons as of why the men and Lisa are here. And the men are the ones that are not involved with the Team Extreme/Undertaker angel. Now, that Angel had won the match against Lita/Chyna, all of you will go on for the next couple of weeks to a month of having matches won. Now, I would like to start a feud with Ivory and Angel for the women's title."

"Me? For the women's tile? Why?"

"Well, it was supposed to be for Lita but since she left, we have no choice but to go with you, ok?"

"I guess."

"Good, now 'Taker will start a feud with Hunter for the Championship Title and the Hardy Boyz will go against Edge and Christian for the Tag Team Gold. The feud will last about 2 months after that at the PPV, in which the Hardy Boyz win the Tag Team Gold, Mark will win the Championship Title and Angel will win the women's title, making you all an unforgettable team and one of the most undefeatable team as well for about a year."

"You want me to keep that belt for a year?" I interjected.

"Yes," he said. "Samantha, please stop interrupting."

"Sorry," I said as I burrowed into the couch."

"Anyways, as I was saying. many of the Superstars will come and want to try to strip your belts away from you. Superstars like Owen, Bret and Hunter for the WWE championship, Edge and Christian and the New Age Outlaws for the Tag Team. Ivory and Chyna for the women's belt. Now, remember that there will be other Superstars that will be challenging you for the titles. You go out and win the titles and continue to win. Eventually, Hunter will join when he gets the Intercontinental title. Any questions so far?"

I raised my hand and Vince nodded, "I was just wondering how this is going to work out because Jeff and I recently discussed that we want to get married next year and have some time off for our honeymoon. I was just wondering how that's going to work around the storyline."

"I had figured that you would want to do that, so what I'm going to do is." a knock on the door. "Come in." And it was someone who I have never expected had walked in. "Miss Anderson, you have come at the right time."

"I did? I thought I was late."

"No, you're not."

"Have you eaten lunch yet?"

"No, I'm actually hungry."

"Have a seat and take some food, please," Vince gestured as Shane showed her to her seat and she collected her food and started eating. After she had finished eating, Vince had started talking. "Now that Miss Anderson is here, she is going to be the perfect person to take your place when you and Jeff get married and for your honeymoon."

"How is that going to happen, especially since Matt and Jeff will have the tag teams as well?"
~Vince's POV~

"Now this is going to happen. we decided to develop a love story among two certain members of the Team Extreme," I said eyeing Samantha and Jeff.

Samantha had caught on and said, "You don't mean Jeff and me, do you?"

"Yes, I most certainly do," I said.

She squealed, "I can't wait!!" Then she kissed Jeff right smack on his lips as he just sat there in shock. Everyone laughed at the excitement that Samantha had shown.

"Why?" he said.

"Why not?" she asked.
~Jeff's POV~

"I don't want people to know about us, not yet anyway," I said as I looked at her.

"I do," she responded.

"Why?"

"Because I want people to see how happy we are. Don't you want to share that with people? Don't you want to give hope to people and let them know that they can find true love, just like we did?" she asked as her eyes were glowing with love and tears.

"Of course I do, baby. I'm just afraid of what people will think."

"Isn't that supposed to be my line, Mr. Fearless?" she asked as she smiled.

I smiled back, knowing that she was right. I looked at Vince and said, "Let's got for it."

"Great. This is what we can do. We show promos of you two kissing and everything, making the fans think that you two have developed something during the unification team was building. Then tonight you are going to show them that you are in love. Maybe around like Valentine's Day, you'll propose. Depending on when you are going to have you wedding day." he looked at us questioningly.

She looked up at me and nodded. "We decided to get married on her birthday, April 10th," I said as we smiled to each other and heard everyone say 'aww.'

"Then that's perfect. Valentines' day is the day that you'll propose to Angel. Is that clear?" he asked everyone. We heard everyone say yes and Vince asked us again, "Is that clear?"

"Yes," she said for both of us.

"Good now what miss Anderson is going to be doing is coming in and defending your honor as the women's champ. As for the Tag Teams, we will work on that one. Before we bring up any questions or comments, Samantha has something to say of all of you."
~Sam's POV~

When I heard Vince say the last part, it took me out of my thoughts. "Oh, yeah. Umm, I really don't know where to start. I already told Uncle Vince about this and needed to have some courage to talk to all of you about this, especially Paul, Adam and Jeff. During the time that I've been staying at Paul's house, and every night that we shared a room together because I've been having nightmares."

"What kind of nightmares?" Paul asked.

"Just wait until I explain, daddy," I said softly as he nodded. "The nightmares are always the same, but it ends up where Paul, Adam and Jeff are dead." I turned to Paul, "In case you haven't noticed, I always wake up in your bed with you holding me."

"Yeah, I noticed. But I thought it was because you wanted to."

I shook my head, "It wasn't. It's because the nightmares feel so real and I had to see if you were actually dead or not. When I sleep next to you and see Adam and Jeff, it doesn't go away. I'm afraid that something will happen to all of you, I'm afraid of losing you, especially you," I said as I turned around to look at Jeff.

"How come you never told us?" Jeff asked as he sighed heavily.

"I was afraid that it'll come true, so I kept it to myself. It didn't happen during graduation week, but I'm afraid that it'll happen again."
~Paul's POV~

Her breathing had become uneven and tears were streaming down her face. I held onto her as she faced Jeff. "Look, Adam, Jeff, and I can't promise you that we'll be here forever because we don't know when we'll die, but I do promise with everything that I am and everything that I have and for as long as I live, that you will see me and be able to hug me, ok?" she nodded wordlessly since she was choked.

"Me too," Adam said.

"Same here, but with kisses," Jeff said and that made her smile.

She went into Jeff's arms and playfully hit his chest. "I'm so sorry for crying over something silly as that."

"You don't have to apologize. You were afraid for us. There's nothing wrong with that," Adam said. "But would you feel better if we asked Vince to tighten up the security?"

"A little," she said.

"Mr. McMahon?" Adam asked.

"It's done and I'll do more than just tighten the security. I promise you that with my power that you will feel safe, ok?"

"Okay," she said softly.

"Good, now is there anything else that needs to be discussed?" Vince asked.

"Yeah, there's something that I need to talk to you about," I said, "but it would be easier if I talked to you in private."

"Of course. We'll be right outside, ok?" Vince asked us.

"Ok."

"Enjoy the food and each other's company. I'm sure that you will," he said as we left.
~Jeff's POV~

I held onto her even after Paul and Vince went outside to talk privately. I whispered in her ear, "I wish you have told me."

"Me too, but I was afraid that something will happen to all of you. You guys are the most important people in my life. I don't know what would happen if any of you were gone," she said as she rubbed my chest with her hand.

"You know what?"

"What?"

"You're my hero."

"Why am I your hero?"

"Because you went through so much more than I did and yet you're still strong. It's like you're afraid but at the same time you seem fearless. That motivates me to do the same thing especially when I'm out there wrestling. The fans give me an extra thrill as well, but they will now know who my main motivator is," I said as I leaned in and kissed her lips softly.

"I love you. so much," she said.

"I love you, too," I responded as I kissed her again.

"Oohh, that's two times!!!" Chrissy said.

"Shut up, Chrissy 'cause that's all you're ever gonna see," I said as she gave me a raspberry. I stuck my tongue out at her and gave her an evil eye.

"You're so awful," she said as she sulked back. "Adam, can't you do something about your sister?"

"Nope, and don't wanna," Adam said as he ate his food.

"God, how can you eat all that stuff and still be skinny as you?"

"Chrissy, remember what they do?"

"Oh, yeah, that's right. they run around and wrestle, but still."

"Chrissy."

"What?"

"Don't question these guys. They know what they're doing. You'll understand more when you start working with us, ok?"

"Yeah, ok," she nodded her head once and everyone and I started talking about what's been happening with the business.