****Okay, here's another couple, just because I got bored and all this spewed out of my head. It could be crap, but what the hell! Thanks for all the excellent reviews so far, they've kept me going when my head has been totally empty. Which is all the time lately!****

Chapter twenty

Kevin finally emerged from the shower and made his way downstairs, where he was met by Page, who held a beer out to him and grinned. "Took your time. Difficult to get Lenny out of your head, huh?"

Kevin gave him a killing glare and snatched the beer off him, drinking down half the bottle before he spoke. "The only thing I had a problem with was getting the damn paint off my body."

"Mmm-hmm."

"Page, don't start on me, I'm not in the mood," Kevin growled, looking at the other man's mischievous expression.

"Me ?Start? Why, I don't know what you mean, Nash. Why would I start on you?" Page asked, grinning again and raising his eyebrows.

Kevin stared at him silently, knowing from previous experience that he wasn't going to win an argument against this man, so he changed tack. "Where's Lenny?"

"Now why would you want to know that?" Page asked him, cocking his head to one side as he took a sip from his own beer.

"Because I need to talk to her."

"Talk at her, more like. And you know I'm not going to tell you where she is, not if it means you're going to go find her and tell her off. As far as I can see, she hasn't done anything to warrant having your ugly old ass come down on her," the older man said, still smiling amiably.

"Hasn't done anything? You did see me before I showered right? You did see the ridiculous get-up she painted on me? The make-up?" Kevin asked, his tone disbelieving.

Page nodded and chuckled. "Ah, yes. I think everybody saw that. But Lenny didn't do it."

"She damn well did!"

"Okay, I admit she did some of it, but she didn't start it and she certainly wasn't the one who drugged you."

"Drugged...? I was drugged?"

Page shook his head and sighed. "Didn't you wonder how you came to be tied up in the first place? They gave you sleeping tablets, probably in your beer."

"They?"

Page nodded. "They," he confirmed, not bothering to elaborate.

Kevin waited impatiently for him to continue and, when he didn't, he frowned. "What am I supposed to do, find out for myself?"

"It doesn't take a genius to work it out, not really. All you have to do is get past that wall of anger you've got directed at Lenny. Think about who was in your room when you woke up, think about who Lenny was talking to out in the garden...and think about who would have the nerve to do something like this in the first place," Page said, rolling his eyes and chuckling again as comprehension dawned on Kevin's face.

"The Hardy's!" he said, a deadly look entering his eyes.

Page nodded. "Indeed .And others. If you want a little word with them, then Mark and I made sure they'd stay put for a while. They're in the Gym."

Kevin nodded and turned to go and find them, then he stopped and turned back. "You do know where Lenny is, don't you?"

Page nodded and lifted his bottle of beer in a salute. "Yep .And you're not getting near her until you have better control of your temper."

"If I wanted to get near her you couldn't stop me."

"I think you know better than that, Kevin," Page said with a cocky grin, walking away without another word and leaving Kevin to go find the real culprits.

He walked towards the back of the house where the gym was located and gave a grim smile when he heard Mark telling someone to shut the hell up. Obviously they were being kept in the room by force, but he didn't expect to find them tied to different machines. Not only Jeff and Matt, but also Adam. Shannon Moore was standing nervously to one side, not having been tied up in any way, but unable to get past Mark to escape.

Mark looked at Kevin as he walked into the room and smiled. "I think you and these boys have some talking to do, hmm?"

"Oh, yeah...although, I'm not sure talking is quite the right word," Kevin said, glaring at the younger men and giving them a wolfish grin that made Jeff's eyes become huge.

"It was just a joke," he whined.

"We didn't mean any harm by it," Matt added.

"They made me do it," Adam said sullenly, looking vaguely ridiculous tied to an exercise bike, his tall frame cramped up by the position he was in.

Kevin raised an eyebrow. "They made you do it? You're bigger than them, Copeland, so stop making feeble excuses. As for you two," he said, turning his attention back to the brothers and grinning again. "I think you've got some payback coming to you."

"Oh they sure do," Mark agreed, moving to stand next to Kevin. "And not just for today either. There are years of payback coming."

Jeff stared up at the two enormous men with horror in his eyes. "What are you going to do to us?"

"Ya know, I can't quite decide. I have hundreds of things running through my head, each one more painful than the last," Mark said, smiling as he looked at Kevin.

"You can't hurt us! We didn't ever hurt anyone, not really, we just..." Matt began, trying to protect himself.

"You just humiliated people," Kevin finished for him, his smile disappearing. "And you know? I think I know just what to do about it." He turned to Mark and they spoke in hushed tones, chuckling now and then.

"I'll go get Amy and Steph, I'm sure they'd be only too glad to help out," Mark said, giving the boys a pitying smile before he left.

Kevin turned back to the others and folded his arms over his chest. "Oh, you're gonna love this, boys."

"What are you going to do?" Jeff asked again, looking extremely worried now. Kevin had been known to play some jokes of his own in the past, and none of them had been too kind to the recipient.

"You'll find out soon enough, rainbow boy," Kevin said, laughing nastily.

Before too long, Mark returned with Amy and Stephanie in tow, the two women staring at the bound men in astonishment. "Oh my goodness," Amy said, trying to give her husband a stern look and failing when he gave her a devastatingly sexy grin. "You're incorrigible," she told him, letting him pull her into a hug.

"Hey, we have things to do here," Kevin reminded him. "No making out until we've finished, okay?"

"Yeah, okay," Mark said reluctantly, dropping a small kiss on Amy's lips before giving Kevin a pissed off glare. "Like you wouldn't be making out if a certain someone was in the room right now."

"I would not!"

"Yeah right," Mark snorted.

Kevin opened his mouth to argue and then snapped it shut again. No use denying it, he had been caught with Lenny one time too many for it to sound genuine anymore. He cleared his throat and turned to Amy. "How would you like to put your make-up to good use again?"

"Okay," she said slowly, frowning. "What for?"

When Kevin was done telling her she was unable to stop laughing, especially since the others had heard and were staring at Kevin with varying different degrees of worry on their faces.

"I think you should let Shannon go," Stephanie said, nodding towards the elfin faced blond wrestler who was moving nervously from foot to foot. "From what I heard he didn't actually participate in it."Kevin looked at the smaller man and shrugged. "I guess you're right. I tell you what, he won't have to go through what we're gonna do to these other three, but I think they may need his help in a little while, so he can stay right here for now."

"Okay," Stephanie agreed. "So, what can I do to help?"

"Steph!" Jeff wailed accusingly.

"Ah shut up! You know you deserve this!" she told him, smiling to soften the words a little.

Half an hour later Jeff, Matt and Adam were pulled out through the small group of guests, belts tied around their necks and then joined to one long rope so they couldn't get away. Even their hands had been bound behind their backs, so there was no way they could get out of it. They went red as people started laughing and more than one of their friends started catcalling.

"Hey Jeff, I never knew you were so beautiful!"

"Oooh, look at those long legs!"

"You know, sweet Matt," Page drawled, walking around the group of men and rubbing his chin, "if I wasn't straight, I might find you a very tempting morsel."

Kevin looked incredibly smug as he looked down at his three creations, his head cocking to one side as he studied them. All three had full make-up on and their hair was done like his had been. But instead of a painted bikini, they each wore a real one that Amy had kindly donated. Of course, she was a little smaller than them, so the material barely hid anything at all and they couldn't move their hands to cover themselves up.

"You're going to pay for this Nash!" Adam growled, glaring at him through his long eyelashes.

"No threats now, Copeland," Mark said, jerking on the rope and grinning. "You wouldn't want this to get any worse, would you?"

"How could it possibly get worse?" he asked, then groaned when Mark's grin grew wider.

"You should never ask things like that, sweetheart," Mark said, chuckling at the younger man's outraged expression at the endearment. "Kev, why don't you go and get the car?"

"Car?" Jeff asked, watching as Kevin rushed away. "You can't take us anywhere looking like this!"

"Can't I?" Mark asked him, arching one eyebrow. "Are you telling me what to do, boy?"

"No !No, I...er.....no," Jeff said quietly, looking at his brother and then dropping his eyes. He knew this was going to be bad.

"Mark, don't be mean," Amy said, linking her arm through his and looking up at him with warm eyes. "He's a lot smaller than you."

"So are you, Scarlet, but it never stopped you from arguing with me," Mark pointed out, smiling down at her affectionately.

"True," she agreed, giving him a cheeky grin. "But I know how to handle you, they don't."

"You think you know how to handle me? How about I put you over my knee and teach you different?" he asked her, raising his eyebrows. Amy beckoned him down to her level and whispered something in his ear, making a flush of colour sweep across his cheekbones. "Oh .Okay, you know how to handle me," Mark said, clearing his throat.

"Told you so," she said, dimples appearing as she smiled again.

"Hmm .That's only because I'm a gullible fool where you're concerned, honey. And you're gonna follow up on that little promise later on," he told her, chuckling when she blushed and pressed closer to his side. "Did I tell you I love you?"

"Yeah, all the time. But you can do it again," she said, wishing they were alone. "I love you too, you know?"

Mark smiled. "Oh sweetheart, I have no doubt about that. Especially after that little thing you started doing with your..."

"Hey, hey! Innocent ears here!" Jeff complained, staring at the two newlyweds with faint disgust etched on his features.

"Innocent my ass!" Mark said, glaring at Jeff.

"Your ass isn't innocent," Kevin said as he rejoined them.

"Leave my ass out of this!"

"I don't know, it's a really nice ass," Amy said, pinching the firm backside and then squealing when Mark squeezed her in return.

Kevin laughed. "Okay, enough of this, let's get back on track shall we? I put my truck out front."

"Good, then let's go shall we, ladies?" Mark said, looking at the three men as he spoke. Neither he nor Kevin gave them time to argue, pulling them along to the truck and shoving them roughly inside, Shannon being ushered in after them. Kevin hesitated once they shut the doors.

"Are you ready?" Mark asked him.

"Not yet. I'll be back in a second," he said, throwing the keys to Mark and walking purposefully through the crowd to where Page was standing. "Where is she?"

Page looked at him contemplatively. "I'll tell you if you tell me what you're going to do to her."

"I'm just going to take her along with us, let her see what we do to those three after what they pulled," Kevin said, and Page could see no dishonesty in his eyes. He sighed and nodded.

"She's in the house, watching TV. But Kev, you treat her right, okay?"

Kevin nodded before strolling into the house and straight to the living room, opening the door quietly and watching her as she sat chewing her lip, not aware of his presence. He cleared his throat and watched with amusement as she jumped and then went bright red, her eyes darting to the door behind him. "You won't get past me," he murmured, watching her move to the edge of her seat as he moved further into the room. "Come with me."

"What ?No!" she said, standing up and backing away from him as he stalked towards her.

"You don't actually have any choice," he said, shaking his head as he grabbed her arm and dragged her out of the house. "You'd think you'd learn that you can't fight me," he said, as she struggled in his grip. "But you just carry on, you're only wasting your own energy."

A few seconds later and Lenny found herself sandwiched between Mark and Kevin, staring at the men in the back in astonishment. When she realised that Kevin had done this and was obviously going to do more, she felt panic claw at her stomach. What was he going to do to her?

Mark leaned out of the window and gave Amy a kiss. "We won't be long."

"Okay," she said, smiling at Kevin and then watching as they drove away, feeling vaguely sorry for the four men in the back-seat. Still, they had brought it all on themselves.

"They've gone then?" Page asked her, walking up next to her.

Amy looked up at him and smiled. "Yes .Somehow I don't think they'll be playing any more practical jokes."

"I wouldn't count on it," Page said, chuckling as he walked her back to the party.

****Okay, one more to go and then I have to rethink what I'm writing! This story is growing bigger and bigger with no end in sight....I'll have to concentrate on bringing it all together, and I think I know just the way to do it!****