Author's Note: Tolja, fic-happy. Here's the update for this. And yup, the
next chapter is last. As much as I hate to end this. Not only not reaching
my origional goal on reviews (I came so close!!), but the fact I have no
idea what to do next.
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Title: Undisputed chapter 16
Author: Hearts Desire
Chapter Rating: PG-13 for language, slash, adult themes
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Jeff looked over at the clock on his VCR and grabbed his keys from the table, getting in his car and driving off to Matt's house. Matt would be pissed if he had shown up early, and he'd be even madder if he had come late, so Jeff timed it to get to the house just before seven.
When he got to the house, he parked the car, but kept his hands on the steering wheel and wighed. He just hoped that Shannon would want to come home with him now. Maybe Matt was right, maybe he had been the ones causing the problems. No, it was Matt. It had to be. There was just too much evidence.
Jeff climbed out of the car and stood in front of the door for a second, contemplating all of the possible scenerios. Finally, he took a deep breath and knocked. Matt pulled it open a minute later. He smiled when he noticed it was Jeff. He opened the door wider and ushered Jeff in. That smile was just scary.
"Come on in, Jeff. But be quiet, Shann's still sleeping."
Jeff cautiously entered the house. He didn't know exactly what he was so scared about, but he couldn't help himself. He glanced around the front rooms.
"Where's Shann?"
"I tol' ya. He's sleepin'. In my bed. You can go wake him up or whatever. I was about to." Matt said, taking three glaces from the cupboard. "Whaddya want?" he asked, lifting a glass.
"Um, just water is fine. Or whatever. Ya know." Jeff said, shifting his weight to his other foot and still looking around the living room.
He had never been a hunter, but Matt had a bunch of pictures on his walls of these brilliant ten-points bucks that some guys had shot. There was even a goofy one of Matt and Shane in posting boards with their heads replacing the animal heads. Jeff remembered that day. It was right after Shane had been called up to WWE.
"Aren't ya gonna go wake up Shann?" Matt asked, jolting Jeff from his thoughts.
"Um, not yet. Actually, I just wanted to talk to you. Y'know, by ourselves first."
"Sure thing." Matt replied, handing Jeff a glass and taking a seat in the living room, "Have a seat. I ain't gonna bite ya or nothing."
Jeff laughed slightly at Matt's joke, cautiously sitting at the other end of the couch.
"You sore or somethin?" Matt asked.
"Um, yeah. You know how it is, painting my studio." Jeff replied, turning the glass in his hands.
"Yeah. I was thinking about redoing my ceiling. The paints starting to chip off and I'm not home enough to take care of it."
"Yeah." Jeff nodded.
_Okay, enough light conversation_ he thought to himself.
"Um," Jeff coughed, "So, um, Shannon called you?"
"Yeah. I knew that those classes were too soon. They should have waited like a couple more weeks or something. I've never been to any classes like that but I was talking to Eddie and he said that they gave him at least a month."
"Yeah, but Eddie was in there for drinking. Maybe they just wanted to make sure that Shannon wouldn't go right back in to .... the drugs, y'know."
"Yeah. But still, it's a bit overwhelming."
Jeff just nodded again, still turning the glass in his hands and making the water swirl every once in a while.
"So, what'd ya want to talk about?" Matt asked, taking a drink of his dark coloured drink.
"Um, yeah. What'd Shannon act like when you guys got back here? You did come right back here, right?"
Matt gave his brother a strange, contemplating look. Jeff didn't notice the change in Matt's eyes, but they darkened. He didn't want to give away anything and he didn't want Jeff to catch on. At least not until he had him under control.
"What kind of question is that?" Matt finally asked.
"Y'know. I was just wondering if Shannon was acting strange or anything. The doctor said to report any strange behaviour around people he's into normally around any more. He wasn't like, shaking or nothing?"
"No. He was just tired. Went to bed almost right away. He looked completely worn out. Is he okay?"
"Yeah. The doctor said he'd be tired for a little while before he got back in to his regular schedual again. I'm sure you can guess how that is."
Matt nodded slowly, taking another drink.
"Are you hot, Jeff? You're kinda sweating there?"
Jeff shrugged, he didn't feel any different. "No, I'm fine."
"Maybe you should take a drink or something. It'll cool ya down a bit."
Jeff just nodded, setting his glass on the coffee table.
"I'm worried about Shannon being here with you, Matt. I want to take him back home with me." he said.
He tried to sound as calm and serious as possible, but it was hard to control his voice since it was shaking so bad. He only hoped he sounded convincing and not scared.
"Why would you be worried about him being here?" Matt asked, his eyes darkening a bit more as he leaned closer to the table and his brother.
"I don't mean to offend you or anything. It's just that Shannon's been with me since before he even went in to the hospital. I think it'd be better if he was around someone he's used to being around right now."
"And look what good it's done him lately." Matt argued, "Before he started staying with you, he wasn't so scared. Look at him now, Jeff, he's comepletely terified of being around other people. That's why he called me."
"That's NOT my fault." Jeff growled.
"What are you saying, jeff? That he just wanted to be this way? I don't think so. I think it'd be better if he stayed with someone besides you right now. Jay's offered to take him in or he could stay here. He's already made himself home."
"No, he's made himself home at MY house. Not yours and NOT Jay's. He's not going to stay with people he's hardly been around lately. It was hard enough to convince him to stay with me."
"Jeff, calm down. Just take some deep breaths, a drink of water or something. You don't want to wake up Shannon and have him catch us arguing. especially not about him." Matt said quietly.
Jeff sighed and took a deep breath, picking his water back up. But he set it down again. Matt growled lightly to himself, but not so Jeff could hear. There was no way that Matt's plan could go throuh if Jeff didn't drink that water, but there was no way that Matt could force him too.
"Jeff, I think-"
Matt was cut off by the front door bursting open. He gasped and stood up quickly as Adam and Jay came in to teh room. Both blondes were slightly out of breath and Matt could tell that they had hurried to get there. That meant something was up. Somebody knew something and Jay probably squealed.
Adam reached over and pulled Jeff to his feet and over to him. There was a deep scowl on Adam's face, nervousness on Jay's. Matt sighed but didn't dare to take another step toward the group. It was clear that they had figured everything out.
"What's going on here?" Matt asked, still trying to play the innocent. If Jay had believed him once, there was a chance he would again.
"You know what's going on here, Matt." Adam growled, knocking the glass off of the table and causing the water to spill over the carpet. It sizzled as it his the fabric and foamed slightly before disappearing.
Jeff's inhaled slowly before looking up at his brother. Matt had a stone look on his face. Jeff couldn't believe this. So he was right, Matt HAD put Shannon on those drugs. Matt had caused this whole thing. At first he thought it was just an almost complete thought, but now Matt ahd proved it and had tried it on him. His own brother.
Adam nodded towards the bedroom door and Jay started to head over there, but matt was faster and jumped in front of it, blocking the way. Matt shook his head.
"You're not getting to him. Not now. Not when I have him so close. I'm not letting him go again." Matt replied, still shaking his head slowly.
"Matt, what are you talking about?" Jay asked slowly, "Just move out of the way, you don't have to make this harder than it already is."
"No. You can't have him. I'm not giving him back to Jeff. He doesn't deserve him. Shannon's mine." Matt said angrily.
The three natural blondes looked at each other cautiously before looking back at Matt.
"Don't look at me like that. I don't like it when everyone is watching me!" matt said, his voice rising in anger.
"Matt, calm down. It's okay."
"No! It's not okay. I gave Shannon up once and I'm NOT doing it again. If I can't have him no one can have him. Especially not Jeff. I won't give him up to my own brother."
Jeff let his breath out slowly. "You did this because of me? You're jealous that Shannon spends so much time with me? You want him so badly that you're willing to nearly kill him to get him?"
"I'm NOT jealous!" Matt yelled, nearly slamming back against the door, but not so he wouldn't wake Shannon.
He had had his cool the whole time. He had almost gotten what he wanted; it was right within grasp but they had come and ruin it. He could feel himself slowing. His control was slipping. He was losing grasp on the little he had. They had ganged up on him and now he was going to lose everything he had worked so hard on.
"I'm not jealous." He repeated.
"Okay, Matt. You're not jealous. But why did you do this? Why would you deliberately hurt Shannon?" Jeff asked quietly. Matt was clearly unstable.
"You always got everything you wanted." Matt said quietly, sliding down the door to sit, "Everything. When you wanted to play basketball, you got to do it. When you wanted to play football, baseball, and hockey, you got to do it. When you wanted to act, dye your hair, change family vacations, build that tree house in the back, you got to do it. but when there was one thing in this world that I wanted, you go that, too."
"Shannon?" Jeff asked, his breath hitching in his throat, "You wanted Shannon adn you thought that I had him? So you nearly killed him because you wanted him to yourself?"
"You were going to take him from me forever."
"So if you couldn't have him, no one could. Especially not me."
"I wasn't going to give him up to you again. You got him all to yourself and I want him."
Jeff felt the hot tears behind his eyes as he turned from his brother and looked at Adam and Jay. He was glad they were here. Who knows what would have happened if they hadn't showed up. He couldn't believe that his brother would go this far. especially when he and Shannon weren't even together, Matt only thought so.
"Matt," Adam said slowly, "I'm going to go out and get in my car. I'm going to go and get the police and we'll sort this all out."
"No!" Matt growled, angrily reaching behind him and pulling a gun from his back pocket. He levelled it with Adam's head, slowly climbing to his feet while using the door for support, "You guys aren't going ANYWHERE!"
Adam slowly turned back to Matt, "Alright, we aren't going anywhere. Just come over here. Away from the door. Don't wake Shannon."
Jeff tensed at the cold laugh Matt gave out.
"Oh, Shannon won't wake up. Not yet. Not for ... a while."
The way that Matt had said that. So childlike and happy. The smile that played across his face. The way his eyes lit up was too much for Jeff to withstand.
"What'd you do, Matt? What'd you do to Shannon?"
Matt hummed slightly, swaying against the door, but keeping the gun level with Adam. He laughed lightly.
"Matt, what did you do to Shannon?" Jeff asked in a more serious tone.
"He's pretty when he's scared." Matt smiled. The distant look in his eyes made Jeff wonder even what Matt was talking about. If anything he had been saying was true.
"What'd you do?" Jeff nearly yelled.
Matt laughed, pulling the gun back to himself and sliding down the wall and falling flat on his ass. He ran the gun down his face until it settled in his lap. He snapped back to seriousness when jay made a move towardfs the door and leveled the gun with the blonde. Jay stopped right in his tracks.
"Don't leave!" Matt smirked.
"I'm not leaving." Jay replied, standing close to Adam as Jeff stepped slowly back to them.
The four men stood for a couple of long seconds. Matt was still smiling madly, turning the gun from side to side in his hand, but still pointing it straight at the group. The only other sound, besides Matt's light laughing was the shallow breathing of each man. Until the sound of sirens pulling in to the driveway was heard.
Matt jerked up, completely stone seriousness taking him over again. The door was burst in a second later as a team of police flodded the room. Matt pulled himself up to his feet and glanced around nervously, the gun still at Jay.
"Son, put the gun down slowly." an officer said.
Matt looked around at the officers. There were at least four guns pointing straight at him. He was out numbered. He had already lost. He slowly lowered the gun and let it fall to the floor. There were no bullets in it anyways, only blanks. A pair of officers slowly made their way over to him, slapping the handcuffs on him and leading him from teh house.
Title: Undisputed chapter 16
Author: Hearts Desire
Chapter Rating: PG-13 for language, slash, adult themes
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Jeff looked over at the clock on his VCR and grabbed his keys from the table, getting in his car and driving off to Matt's house. Matt would be pissed if he had shown up early, and he'd be even madder if he had come late, so Jeff timed it to get to the house just before seven.
When he got to the house, he parked the car, but kept his hands on the steering wheel and wighed. He just hoped that Shannon would want to come home with him now. Maybe Matt was right, maybe he had been the ones causing the problems. No, it was Matt. It had to be. There was just too much evidence.
Jeff climbed out of the car and stood in front of the door for a second, contemplating all of the possible scenerios. Finally, he took a deep breath and knocked. Matt pulled it open a minute later. He smiled when he noticed it was Jeff. He opened the door wider and ushered Jeff in. That smile was just scary.
"Come on in, Jeff. But be quiet, Shann's still sleeping."
Jeff cautiously entered the house. He didn't know exactly what he was so scared about, but he couldn't help himself. He glanced around the front rooms.
"Where's Shann?"
"I tol' ya. He's sleepin'. In my bed. You can go wake him up or whatever. I was about to." Matt said, taking three glaces from the cupboard. "Whaddya want?" he asked, lifting a glass.
"Um, just water is fine. Or whatever. Ya know." Jeff said, shifting his weight to his other foot and still looking around the living room.
He had never been a hunter, but Matt had a bunch of pictures on his walls of these brilliant ten-points bucks that some guys had shot. There was even a goofy one of Matt and Shane in posting boards with their heads replacing the animal heads. Jeff remembered that day. It was right after Shane had been called up to WWE.
"Aren't ya gonna go wake up Shann?" Matt asked, jolting Jeff from his thoughts.
"Um, not yet. Actually, I just wanted to talk to you. Y'know, by ourselves first."
"Sure thing." Matt replied, handing Jeff a glass and taking a seat in the living room, "Have a seat. I ain't gonna bite ya or nothing."
Jeff laughed slightly at Matt's joke, cautiously sitting at the other end of the couch.
"You sore or somethin?" Matt asked.
"Um, yeah. You know how it is, painting my studio." Jeff replied, turning the glass in his hands.
"Yeah. I was thinking about redoing my ceiling. The paints starting to chip off and I'm not home enough to take care of it."
"Yeah." Jeff nodded.
_Okay, enough light conversation_ he thought to himself.
"Um," Jeff coughed, "So, um, Shannon called you?"
"Yeah. I knew that those classes were too soon. They should have waited like a couple more weeks or something. I've never been to any classes like that but I was talking to Eddie and he said that they gave him at least a month."
"Yeah, but Eddie was in there for drinking. Maybe they just wanted to make sure that Shannon wouldn't go right back in to .... the drugs, y'know."
"Yeah. But still, it's a bit overwhelming."
Jeff just nodded again, still turning the glass in his hands and making the water swirl every once in a while.
"So, what'd ya want to talk about?" Matt asked, taking a drink of his dark coloured drink.
"Um, yeah. What'd Shannon act like when you guys got back here? You did come right back here, right?"
Matt gave his brother a strange, contemplating look. Jeff didn't notice the change in Matt's eyes, but they darkened. He didn't want to give away anything and he didn't want Jeff to catch on. At least not until he had him under control.
"What kind of question is that?" Matt finally asked.
"Y'know. I was just wondering if Shannon was acting strange or anything. The doctor said to report any strange behaviour around people he's into normally around any more. He wasn't like, shaking or nothing?"
"No. He was just tired. Went to bed almost right away. He looked completely worn out. Is he okay?"
"Yeah. The doctor said he'd be tired for a little while before he got back in to his regular schedual again. I'm sure you can guess how that is."
Matt nodded slowly, taking another drink.
"Are you hot, Jeff? You're kinda sweating there?"
Jeff shrugged, he didn't feel any different. "No, I'm fine."
"Maybe you should take a drink or something. It'll cool ya down a bit."
Jeff just nodded, setting his glass on the coffee table.
"I'm worried about Shannon being here with you, Matt. I want to take him back home with me." he said.
He tried to sound as calm and serious as possible, but it was hard to control his voice since it was shaking so bad. He only hoped he sounded convincing and not scared.
"Why would you be worried about him being here?" Matt asked, his eyes darkening a bit more as he leaned closer to the table and his brother.
"I don't mean to offend you or anything. It's just that Shannon's been with me since before he even went in to the hospital. I think it'd be better if he was around someone he's used to being around right now."
"And look what good it's done him lately." Matt argued, "Before he started staying with you, he wasn't so scared. Look at him now, Jeff, he's comepletely terified of being around other people. That's why he called me."
"That's NOT my fault." Jeff growled.
"What are you saying, jeff? That he just wanted to be this way? I don't think so. I think it'd be better if he stayed with someone besides you right now. Jay's offered to take him in or he could stay here. He's already made himself home."
"No, he's made himself home at MY house. Not yours and NOT Jay's. He's not going to stay with people he's hardly been around lately. It was hard enough to convince him to stay with me."
"Jeff, calm down. Just take some deep breaths, a drink of water or something. You don't want to wake up Shannon and have him catch us arguing. especially not about him." Matt said quietly.
Jeff sighed and took a deep breath, picking his water back up. But he set it down again. Matt growled lightly to himself, but not so Jeff could hear. There was no way that Matt's plan could go throuh if Jeff didn't drink that water, but there was no way that Matt could force him too.
"Jeff, I think-"
Matt was cut off by the front door bursting open. He gasped and stood up quickly as Adam and Jay came in to teh room. Both blondes were slightly out of breath and Matt could tell that they had hurried to get there. That meant something was up. Somebody knew something and Jay probably squealed.
Adam reached over and pulled Jeff to his feet and over to him. There was a deep scowl on Adam's face, nervousness on Jay's. Matt sighed but didn't dare to take another step toward the group. It was clear that they had figured everything out.
"What's going on here?" Matt asked, still trying to play the innocent. If Jay had believed him once, there was a chance he would again.
"You know what's going on here, Matt." Adam growled, knocking the glass off of the table and causing the water to spill over the carpet. It sizzled as it his the fabric and foamed slightly before disappearing.
Jeff's inhaled slowly before looking up at his brother. Matt had a stone look on his face. Jeff couldn't believe this. So he was right, Matt HAD put Shannon on those drugs. Matt had caused this whole thing. At first he thought it was just an almost complete thought, but now Matt ahd proved it and had tried it on him. His own brother.
Adam nodded towards the bedroom door and Jay started to head over there, but matt was faster and jumped in front of it, blocking the way. Matt shook his head.
"You're not getting to him. Not now. Not when I have him so close. I'm not letting him go again." Matt replied, still shaking his head slowly.
"Matt, what are you talking about?" Jay asked slowly, "Just move out of the way, you don't have to make this harder than it already is."
"No. You can't have him. I'm not giving him back to Jeff. He doesn't deserve him. Shannon's mine." Matt said angrily.
The three natural blondes looked at each other cautiously before looking back at Matt.
"Don't look at me like that. I don't like it when everyone is watching me!" matt said, his voice rising in anger.
"Matt, calm down. It's okay."
"No! It's not okay. I gave Shannon up once and I'm NOT doing it again. If I can't have him no one can have him. Especially not Jeff. I won't give him up to my own brother."
Jeff let his breath out slowly. "You did this because of me? You're jealous that Shannon spends so much time with me? You want him so badly that you're willing to nearly kill him to get him?"
"I'm NOT jealous!" Matt yelled, nearly slamming back against the door, but not so he wouldn't wake Shannon.
He had had his cool the whole time. He had almost gotten what he wanted; it was right within grasp but they had come and ruin it. He could feel himself slowing. His control was slipping. He was losing grasp on the little he had. They had ganged up on him and now he was going to lose everything he had worked so hard on.
"I'm not jealous." He repeated.
"Okay, Matt. You're not jealous. But why did you do this? Why would you deliberately hurt Shannon?" Jeff asked quietly. Matt was clearly unstable.
"You always got everything you wanted." Matt said quietly, sliding down the door to sit, "Everything. When you wanted to play basketball, you got to do it. When you wanted to play football, baseball, and hockey, you got to do it. When you wanted to act, dye your hair, change family vacations, build that tree house in the back, you got to do it. but when there was one thing in this world that I wanted, you go that, too."
"Shannon?" Jeff asked, his breath hitching in his throat, "You wanted Shannon adn you thought that I had him? So you nearly killed him because you wanted him to yourself?"
"You were going to take him from me forever."
"So if you couldn't have him, no one could. Especially not me."
"I wasn't going to give him up to you again. You got him all to yourself and I want him."
Jeff felt the hot tears behind his eyes as he turned from his brother and looked at Adam and Jay. He was glad they were here. Who knows what would have happened if they hadn't showed up. He couldn't believe that his brother would go this far. especially when he and Shannon weren't even together, Matt only thought so.
"Matt," Adam said slowly, "I'm going to go out and get in my car. I'm going to go and get the police and we'll sort this all out."
"No!" Matt growled, angrily reaching behind him and pulling a gun from his back pocket. He levelled it with Adam's head, slowly climbing to his feet while using the door for support, "You guys aren't going ANYWHERE!"
Adam slowly turned back to Matt, "Alright, we aren't going anywhere. Just come over here. Away from the door. Don't wake Shannon."
Jeff tensed at the cold laugh Matt gave out.
"Oh, Shannon won't wake up. Not yet. Not for ... a while."
The way that Matt had said that. So childlike and happy. The smile that played across his face. The way his eyes lit up was too much for Jeff to withstand.
"What'd you do, Matt? What'd you do to Shannon?"
Matt hummed slightly, swaying against the door, but keeping the gun level with Adam. He laughed lightly.
"Matt, what did you do to Shannon?" Jeff asked in a more serious tone.
"He's pretty when he's scared." Matt smiled. The distant look in his eyes made Jeff wonder even what Matt was talking about. If anything he had been saying was true.
"What'd you do?" Jeff nearly yelled.
Matt laughed, pulling the gun back to himself and sliding down the wall and falling flat on his ass. He ran the gun down his face until it settled in his lap. He snapped back to seriousness when jay made a move towardfs the door and leveled the gun with the blonde. Jay stopped right in his tracks.
"Don't leave!" Matt smirked.
"I'm not leaving." Jay replied, standing close to Adam as Jeff stepped slowly back to them.
The four men stood for a couple of long seconds. Matt was still smiling madly, turning the gun from side to side in his hand, but still pointing it straight at the group. The only other sound, besides Matt's light laughing was the shallow breathing of each man. Until the sound of sirens pulling in to the driveway was heard.
Matt jerked up, completely stone seriousness taking him over again. The door was burst in a second later as a team of police flodded the room. Matt pulled himself up to his feet and glanced around nervously, the gun still at Jay.
"Son, put the gun down slowly." an officer said.
Matt looked around at the officers. There were at least four guns pointing straight at him. He was out numbered. He had already lost. He slowly lowered the gun and let it fall to the floor. There were no bullets in it anyways, only blanks. A pair of officers slowly made their way over to him, slapping the handcuffs on him and leading him from teh house.