Disclaimer: I do not own any of the WWE superstars in this story. It is purely a work of fiction, and the wrestlers used in the making of it own themselves.

A/N: Okay so this is afternoon not morning, but I am getting it out to you still, so please don't be too mad if you came on fan fiction this morning and didn't find it. I had a hangover to rid myself off and will have another one tonight I am sure, so I wanted to make sure when it cleared I wrote the chapter. Thank you all for the reviews. I have a loyal following and even one new person, so thanks Alex! And the rest of you as well. Welcome back Ariel to the cast in this chapter, as well as some pretty heavy feelings and back story being revealed on Hayley.

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"So did I teach you enough stuff that you wanted to know Hayley?" Brian asked me as we made our way back across the field in the park. We decided to put an end to what he was teaching me as the heat started blaring down on us, and people started showing up to do their own things.

"Yes you did, at least for today. Thank you so much Brian."

"Listen, about yesterday, I mean I didn't plan on kissing you and I really didn't plan on you kissing me back the way you did. I didn't think you would want to talk to me anymore after it either, but you called me."

"Kissing you was nice Brian, and yes I did have something that was going to happen with Zach, which was why I freaked out the way I did, but after looking at it, things with you and kissing you it wasn't complicated, with Zach it always was. Maybe it was you I was meant to be kissing."

I didn't really believe anything about what I was saying, but I didn't want Brian to think I had only kissed him to get back at Zach or to be a tramp, as Brock seemed to think I was. I also didn't want to think about Zach's words from the night before, or how much I had hurt him. I just wanted to think about a way to solve my problems and then get back home to Toronto where I belonged.

"Are you going to tell me what happened to your face Hayley? You didn't get those from anything we did in the ring last night right?"

"No, I didn't get them there." I said, but I was hell bent and determined not to get him involved in this, but I could tell from the kind of guy that Brian was, he wasn't going to give up that easily, he was going to dig and bother me until I told him the truth.

"Did Zach hurt you?"

I looked up at him finally, my eyes showing the shock coming off my face. Brian knew what his friend was like, he had told me before that Zach wouldn't hurt a woman, or even a fly for that matter, so why was he asking now if his friend had abused me?

"No he didn't hurt me Brian. Someone did hurt me, but it wasn't Zach. I hurt him if anything."

"So are you going to tell me what happened?"

"Some other time. Listen I don't mean to cut this short, but I have a meeting with Vince and Jim that I keep putting off because of my own personal shit. So maybe we can get together later?"

He didn't look to impress at me saying that I had to leave but he knew I was telling the truth and that I did make the effort to want to see him again. So with one final smile he looked deeply into my eyes.

"I liked that kiss Hayley, and even if you don't know what you want right now, you know it felt good for you too. There is something going on with you, something bad, and when you get the nerve to tell me I will be here for you in any way I can. Don't be afraid to tell me. I will see you later; we can have dinner or something before the flight. Go on to your meeting now."

Looking at him as he spoke, I closed my eyes and brought my lips to his again just to feel what I felt the night before and to also let him know that I was in agreement with everything he had said to me. Pulling away after a few seconds, I turned on my heel and headed to my rental car to get back to the hotel to see Vince. I had a lot of things to tell him.

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"Thank you for requesting this meeting Ms. Peterson. Now I know you haven't been here all that long but I do like to speak with all of the people on my payroll and apparently Jim tells me that you have a lot of ideas that you would like to share with me personally."

Now that I was sitting here in his hotel room, I didn't know if telling Vince that he spent way to much time on television was a good idea. I know that a lot of people agreed with me, as was apparent by some of the emails I had been forwarded from the fan mail department. But now sitting in front of him, his presence almost dominating over me, I almost wanted to wither away and die. But I knew for the sake of fans everywhere, and the job I was given to do, I couldn't not tell him.

"There are some ideas yes. I felt this would be better spoken to the man who I have the issues with."

"You have issues with me?"

"Not with you specifically, I mean it all has to do with your product and what you are trying to sell, and you do play a huge part in that, and its that part that has me bothered."

Jim hung his head in shame. I looked over and saw him do it and knew that me challenging the owner and runner of the company like this was possibly going to get me fired.

"Do you care to explain yourself here Hayley? I am not sure what you are trying to say here and I am pretty much at the point where if you don't I will not hesitate to kick you out of my office and my company."

"I will tell you. You are the owner of the WWE and with that alone comes a lot of power and prestige right? My issue with you at this point and for the sake of writing development for the show of Smack down, you put yourself on air too much. You have such an array of talent on that roster, which I have taken the time to look at, that you just do not use. You put so much time on yourself and not enough on your talent. Basically Vince, I think if you took five minutes and pulled your head out of your ass, you would make a ten times better product. If that gets me fired, at least you heard my view before I left."

I looked between Vince and Jim, who both looked like they were deer caught in someone's headlights. I didn't mean for this to sound as bad as I know now that it did, I just wanted to make sure they knew where I was coming from and what I thought would make a better product. I also knew what was coming next, so I was prepared. Or that's at least what I thought.

"Jim, you got yourself a feisty writer this time didn't you?"

As Jim looked over at me, I looked over to where Vince was seated and he smiled at me. Apparently even though I had just told him to get his head out of his ass, he was happy with me. Maybe this was some sort of game before he fired my ass, I had no idea, and I had to admit the thought irked me a little.

"She does tend to speak her mind. I had no idea how much though. I am sorry for this Vince."

"Don't be Jim. She's telling the truth and you know that Linda has been asking me to spend more time at home with her now, so maybe I should think about doing that and handing Stephanie her show back."

I was stunned, I really was. I had come to this meeting to tell him what I had told him and then work with whatever they wanted me to do from there, and now here was the owner of the WWE agreeing with something I had said. This had to be another world I was living in.

"I like this girl so much, that in actual fact I want to hear what else she has to say. I also want to know what happened to your face. According to Jim you are just a writer and a very young one at that, so do you want to tell me who did that to you?"

Now was the time I had been expecting to come since the minute I stepped through the hotel doors. They wanted to know if someone close to the company had done this or if I was some young girl out looking for a good time and gotten attacked. I know what Brock had told me about keeping my mouth shut, but I wasn't sure I could do it any longer.

"Just a family issue sir."

"Family issue?" Vince and Jim asked raising their eyebrows.

"Yes."

"Elaborate please. If you need some assistance I can assure you I am here to give it."

"My father beats my mother and I when we don't do what he asks of us that's all, and the look of my face stems from that. I don't really want to get into it anymore then that, if you don't mind."

" I can totally understand why, can't you Jim?"

"Yes I agree. Well any other idea's on what to do with our current stories Hayley?"

"Yes Vince, I brought this up with Jim but what you are doing with Brock Lesnar." "Yes?"

"I think you should keep doing it. Giving him creative control over what he does was a brilliant idea and I think you need to milk it for all its worth. Him being that much of an asshole is going to do amazingly for business."

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"Hayley, we need to have a talk right now."

I turned around and saw Jim coming down the hall at me, and with one small movement he swept me to the side of him, wanting to talk alone.

"What can I do for you Jim?"

"You and me have discussed your family life on more then one occasion, and you told me that your father wasn't in the picture anymore, and now all a sudden back in there with Vince he had come back to get you and your mother. How would he know where you find you seeing as your mother doesn't even know?"

He had me. I know he had me, but I refused to give into it right away. I had to make sure that no one got involved with what Brock was doing with me, and especially not Jim, who didn't know how to fight and could get seriously hurt. Hell for that matter so could I.

"Ariel told him."

"Ariel, the friend that you had when you came to visit Zach at the hotel in Toronto? The one that I found with Brock Lesnar as we were leaving town?"

"One and the same. She told him where to find me and after taking care of my mother, he came to do the same to me that's all."

"This has nothing to do with your father does it? This is about Lesnar. He got pissed off at you based on what I told him about toning down the insanity didn't he?"

I didn't bother giving an answer, he had figured it out all on his own. He didn't need me for anything else, so with one more swift movement, I ran down the hallway and as far away from Jim's eyes as I could get.

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"Isn't this the friend that you said hated you?"

"We now have pooled our hate together and made it stronger."

"So what time does her flight get in?"

"20 minutes ago. Are you going to keep asking me questions or what?"

"You know I will. Thanks for inviting me to come along. I know Brock will want to see her."

"No problem, you did want to make a change didn't you?"

"You're right I did. Thanks for allowing me another chance. This time, I promise, no drinking, drugs or cars in our future."

"Just what I wanted to hear. Now there she is, go grab her bags and lets get the hell out of here. We have a lot of catching up to do."

"Hayley wait!"

"Yeah Randy?"

"I never thought I would say this, but I thought you were an ice princess and it seemed your friend agreed with me, but knowing how easily you listened to Brock and did what you were told, and then calling me and asking me to come along with you, it seems I was wrong."

"Yeah, I'm not as good natured as you all think I am. Now lets go get her and get out of here."

I hated myself for doing this, but Ariel knew the score, and she was going to play along as well. There was no way I was going to give Randy another shot, and no way Ariel was going to trust Brock again. Now that she was in town things were about to change, and the power was about to shift. It was just too bad that Randy and Brock had no idea where it would be going, and that I had to lie and be friends with them to get it. For one brief moment I let my thoughts go out to Zach and Brian, two of the best men in the world, and two of the people that were going to get hurt. There wasn't anything I could do to stop it. I had to get out of the WWE.

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A/N2: Now there is another chapter as promised, and I decided that Ariel will be back next chapter, I just made her arrive now. And of interest would have to be the fact that she allowed herself to get beaten down because her father used to do it, that was the background I was mentioning above. Next chapter real soon, as soon as I process some ideas and in the mean time get to the reviews already, you know I love them! And yes Randy and Brock are assholes. Ain't it great? LOL