://Twist of Fates

://Co-Written by Darcie and Andrea

://Published 08-24-2002

://Warnings: R for Language, situations involving excessive alcohol abuse, gore, murder.

://Disclaimer: The subject of the following is pure fiction, and those mentioned either belongs to World Wrestling Entertainment and its associates, or myself and the other author of this short story of betrayal, murder and jealousy. Rated R for language and objectionable content.

://Chapter Sixteen: Belief at Last, and More Cheesy Lines

AJ awoke with a light rapping on the door, causing her to groan and bury her face into Jeff's chest. Dakota growled, causing the groggy Adam to smile. "Someone gonna get the door?" Jeff mumbled an inquiry, half asleep. Dakota rolled out of the bed, landing on the floor with a thud and 'oof'. Adam smiled again and pulled her up, then answered the door. The detectives, Watts and Paterson, stood there once more, looking very downcast.

"What can I do for you?" Adam asked, and motioned them inside. Returning to his place beside the once again slumbering Dakota, the detectives pulled chairs up. Jeff sat up slightly, wide-awake while AJ returned to sleeping. "Sorry to disturb you so early, but we have some. rather. unsettling news." Paterson began. Watts nodded.

"Ok?" Jeff said, trying to keep his eyes open. "Well, our forensics have found a blood stain on the ground, beside a pile of broken crates." Jeff hung his head, kissing AJ on the head gently. "That's were AJ and Jessica fell." Adam supplied. Paterson nodded and wrote the information down on his notepad. "Well. we typed all the blood stains, and one isn't a match with anyone that we found or any of you four."

"That means it can only be someone who escaped. This Jessica Deckem person you've spoken of." Watts said, shaking his head. Adam sighed, and reached towards the night table were the letter they had found the night before lay carelessly. Shifting away from Dakota, he handed the paper to Detective Watts. Dakota mumbled and opened blue gray depths, blinking at the two detectives. "Wha?" she muttered before Adam placed a hand over her mouth. She glared at him and then silenced, resting her head against his still bare chest.

Watts coughed slightly, looking over the letter while Paterson sighed and continued, having already viewed the message. "This is serious you know." Adam nodded, running his hand through Dakota's indigo streaked bronzed hair, while Jeff sighed again. "If you want, we could put you all in witness-" Paterson's words were cut off by a half scream, the source being a now fully awake AJ. Jeff squeezed her shoulders while AJ shook, her face pale.

"AJ? What's wrong?" Dakota inquired gently, glancing across Adam's chest. AJ just shook her head, mumbled words of 'oh shit, oh god, oh shit' repeated over and over again. Dakota stood up, pulling a robe around her shoulders before withdrawing from the blankets. "AJ, bathroom, now." Was all she said, slipping out of sight. Adam glanced curiously after her, then AJ who limped past.

Once in the bathroom, Dakota sat down on the tub's edge, motioning for AJ to take a seat beside her. "A. what's going on?" After a few moments, AJ gasped the word 'nightmare', almost inaudibly. "Wha?" Dakota asked, blinking in a confused daze.

"I.. I had a nightmare. its nothing." AJ stammered finally. Blue gray depths gazed at her in a 'tell me' way. "I. I had a nightmare about Jessi. You were dead. Jeff and Adam were dead. everyone was dead." Dakota groaned, almost falling into the tub in the process. AJ blinked at her, while Dakota leaned her head against the cool bathroom wall.

"You've been having them too huh?" AJ asked, smiling slightly as Dakota nodded. "Didn't you hear me scream last night? I think I may have woken up the entire hotel." Dakota groaned again and hit her head against the wall.

"Doesn't that hurt?" Adam popped his head into the bathroom, grinning as Dakota hissed and AJ muttered 'dumb ass' under her breath. "Out!" Dakota yelled, and pushed the door closed, locking it tightly. They could hear Adam laugh on the other side, and smiled slightly.

- 30. minutes. later -

AJ peeked her head out of the bathroom, glancing around warily. "Don't worry, they're gone." Jeff said from his perch on a bed. AJ smiled and walked out, falling onto the bed beside Jeff. "I wouldn't go in there." She said to Adam, who blinked and walked into the bathroom anyways. AJ smirked and hid under a pillow, Jeff poking her.

Dakota screamed as Adam walked in, and pulled a towel around her wet body. "Adam! You ass hole!" Adam just smirked and slipped his arms around her, leaning down to kiss her. "You suck dude." She said, then pushed him out the door, locking it behind him. Jeff laughed as Adam walked out, a sly grin on his face. AJ blinked from under her pillow.

"Damn man, you look like you just scored! How's she look?" Jeff asked, knowing AJ was listening yet pretended she couldn't hear. "She's one fine.." His sentence was cut off as a pillow was hurled through the air, aimed for his head. Jeff laughed and earned himself a smack in the back of the head.

"Kota! Get your butt out here!" AJ hollered, and continued to beat on Jeff with a pillow. Dakota tackled Adam from behind, both of them landing on the floor, Dakota on top. Jeff laughed, pinning AJ down and poking her. AJ and Adam yelled for help, Jeff pulled Dakota off Adam and then started poking her. Blinking at Adam, AJ suddenly hit a thought of inspiration, a cruel gleam shining in her hazel eyes.

"You're legs must be tired, 'cause you've been running through my mind all day." She said, and fell backwards onto the bed. Dakota burst out laughing as Adam turned and blinked, taking the advantage and slipping out from under him. Jeff fell to the floor.

"Can I borrow a quarter Kota?" Adam turned to blink at Jeff, not really knowing what to think. "What for?" Dakota asked, equally as confused as Adam. AJ propped her head in her hands, waiting for the answer.

"I want to call my mom and tell her I just met the girl of my dreams." Jeff replied with a smirk, while Adam groaned and Dakota and AJ laughed, falling off their respected beds with loud thuds. Jeff grinned, stood and bowed. "Jeff, you need more of a life than I do." Adam said, hiding his face under a pillow.