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A/N: I like the reaction I got from that last chapter even though it was only one reaction! That's what I was going for, so Katy, I'm glad I could shock you just a little bit. I'm sorting the mess out right now with the love hexagon (as you put it) and it should all be revealed soon enough. But it will not be in the way that everyone thinks, so that's what I'm hoping makes you come back for more. So here's chapter twenty-two, enjoy it and as always read and review.

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"Jason planned this?"

"You heard me, and it shouldn't come as too much of a shock. He's been in love with you since the first day he saw you."

"Jason wouldn't do that, this had to be all you and now your trying to find someone to blame."

"Okay you want to believe that Angel? Then tell me this, what would I gain from trying to kill you? Even on television were didn't have any interaction except for once with your brother and I. I have no romantic interest in you or for the matter in trying to hurt Hardy. Why can't you see this for what it is? Jason liked you, you didn't even blink in his direction and he took offense and wanted to make Jeff pay."

"But Jeff didn't pay the price did he? I did and its something I have to live with for the rest of my life. Do you have any idea what's happened to me since then? Or for that matter the scars I still have from that accident?"

"Angel I'm sorry. I never meant for any of this to go this far. I should have come to you with all of this before the accident, I just didn't think he was all that serious about it. I mean girls have turned me down before and it sucked but I never wanted to hurt any of them."

"I get it Chris, I do, its just Jason of all people is what I didn't expect you to tell me. He never once hurt me or did anything that would make me think he was even the least bit interested in getting revenge on me or Jeff."

"He had a way to hide it because I always wanted to take him out to meet women. I even made up that lie about my wife's friend, so that he would have something to fall back on if and when the time came for you two to get together. I knew once you got with Hardy that you weren't even interested in what Jay had to offer and I told him that and to leave you alone. It apparently didn't sit well with him though because look how our lives have become."

"You swear that aside from knowing about this you had no involvement with the accident itself Chris? You didn't help him cut the brake line or do anything like that?"

"No, I would never do that to you or to Hardy. Well I wouldn't do it to anyone really. I just needed to tell you what was happening and so that you could deal with what you know and put it to rest in your head finally. You were a perfect driver with an otherwise perfect car, and I'm sorry this had to happen to you."

"Well you aren't half as sorry as Jay is going to be the next time I get my hands on him. But thank you for finally telling someone Chris. It wasn't easy for you to do, and it's not all that easy to sit here and listen too, but I can deal with a lot of the problems from that accident better now, knowing what I do know now."

Leaving the room so the detectives could go over more of the details of the accident with Chris, she reached for her cell phone as she made her way out of the station. There was only one person she could call at a time like this, no matter what her feelings for him. He was the only one that would truly understand and could help her deal with it.

"Are you busy right now? Are you at home?"

"Yeah I'm here, why?"

"I need you, can you handle that?"

"Yeah, where are you?"

"The police station."

"What the hell happened?"

"I'll tell you everything when I see you, you're the only one I can really tell about this. Can you stay there until I get there?"

"I'll be here, just be safe."

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"He did what? He planned the whole thing out?"

"Yeah, he planned the whole damn accident out, but it wasn't meant for me, at least according to Chris. It was all meant for you."

"Why the hell would he want to hurt me?"

"Because I fell in love with you that's why. You knew from day one that he was into me, and I think I knew it too, but I wasn't interested and I wanted to let him down nice. I was interested in you and when we did sort of get together, it was always him that walked in on us. I mean he saw us in a lot of positions that could warrant him losing his mind."

"You're sticking up for the guy that wanted to hurt you?"

"No, actually right about now I'm trying not to focus on wanting to kill him myself. All I am saying here is just that he was around us when we were just getting to know one another and he had so many chances to come tell me that it made him feel weird and that Chris's wife's best friend was just a lie. He never did that and that scares me. I mean I'm not with you now, but what's to stop him from hurting the next person I'm with ya know?"

"Did Lindsay ever have any unexplained accidents?"

"Not a one. It seems when he hurt me, which he never intended to do, I believe that much of it, well it scared him. He never made a move on me or on anyone around me after I ran away and left town."

"So what do you want to do about this now babe?"

"I honestly don't know what I want here Jeff. All I know is that I went from thinking your car was a sack of shit, to now knowing that it wasn't your car, and it was someone wanting to hurt you. If you had been in that car Jeff."

Jeff pulled her close to him and she rested her head in his shoulder blade. He could hear her trying not to cry, and he just rubbed his hands up and down her arms to let her know it was all right to just let it all out.

"But I wasn't in the car Angel, so you know I'm okay. I'm here with you now, and thank god nothing happened to you."

"Jeff.I loved you so much back then."

"I know you did, and I did too, even though I didn't want to admit it to myself or to you. I'm sorry I made you run away."

"You didn't make me run. I did that all on my own. I was so scared to face the reality that maybe I was always in love with you and that I wasn't being fair to Shane. I still don't think in a lot of ways, I'm being fair to Shane."

"Nothing about this situation we are in is fair Angel, but none of it is your fault either. We all make choices and we have to live with them. I did it, you did it when you left and started over and made something of yourself, and Shane did it in his own way too."

"What choices did you make?"

"Lying to your face the night you walked in the door and we were having our man talk downstairs. Angel it was all a lie. Nothing changed for me. Yes you hurt the hell out of me when you ran, but that's because I felt like shit because I was the reason that you needed to run. I missed you every moment you were gone, the time with Beth was wonderful but when you walked back into my life the night of the match and you were with Matt, I know there could never be a future with Beth and I again. Not when there was so much left unsaid."

"So what do you feel now?"

"I love you, I will always love you, but for your sake and for mine, I'm not going to make a move on that unless it's something that you want to do. You need to figure out a lot of things on your own right now and I'm just going to be here for you in the best way I know how. As a friend."

"Okay."

"What are you thinking about princess?"

Angel was about to tell him at that moment about her growing feelings for his brother, but seeing the look in his eyes, she just knew that she couldn't do it yet. It wouldn't be right and she didn't want to hurt anyone anymore.

"I'm just thinking about a course of action."

"Regarding?"

"I think I need to have a meeting with Vince, Jeff. I think it's time I made my return to action."

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A/N2: Well I'm planting more seeds as you can see, but I'm going to lose some of you with the next couple of chapters. I've succeeded thus far in making stories that only go about 25 chapters plus a big huge thank you, and I think I shall be sticking with it, but give me your thoughts on a second book based around Angel and then I will see what I really want to do with all of this.