Title: Finding Her Way Back-Prologue. Author: Carly. Rating: PG. Disclaimer: I only own any original characters later in the story. Everyone else owns themselves. Summary: After a life filled with love and loss, Amy vows never to get close to anyone again. She keeps that promise.until she meets Matt Hardy who only wants to be her friend and help her. But by constantly pushing him away, is she also risking the chance to miss out on true love?

After the death of her husband, Andy, and their four-year-old daughter, Amelia, Amy Dumas is left devastated and unable to love again. An unnecessary tragedy which leaves her alone. To Amy, they were all she had left. They were her world, her life, everything she lived for. She feels everyone she has ever loved has left her and she promises never to open her heart up to anyone again.

With the never-ending pain of loss and grief, Amy is left to pick up the pieces once again, which is a situation all too familiar. She has suffered her entire life with people dying or leaving her, everyone that she has loved. The final blow came when Andy and Ash were killed in a car crash one horrible November morning. Nothing seems worth living for anymore and she abuses herself in so many ways, the few friends she has left that she hasn't yet pushed away, think she is on the road heading for self- destruction.

When she offered a contract with the WWE, she meets Matt Hardy, someone who knows the feeling of loss only too well. They slowly become friends but Amy continues to abuse herself and she isn't strong enough yet to open up to Matt. Understanding all of the loss in her past, he wants nothing more than to become her friend, to help and to heal her, show her life and love again. With everyone else around her giving up on Amy, Matt is determined to help her. However, she is terrified he will get too close and pushes him away, continuing on in her destructible ways, slowly and painfully killing herself. Although she realises she is in desperate need of help, Amy thinks that by allowing him in her heart, she will only end up losing him, just like she has everyone else. And she just can't take that chance, knowing that if it did, she wouldn't be able to recover. But there is no way he is leaving her.

As time goes on, his determination to heal her wounds grows and their lives become entangled together so much, they have become friends for life, no matter what happened. And at the end of it all, Matt may be able to offer Amy more than friendship, the possibility of true love but she has to be willing to trust him and allow him in.

A story of one woman's pain of a lifetime of loss, the extraordinary strength to carry on, profound friendships, and the healing power of love as she makes the journey to find her way back home.