Legacy

Author: Victory Goddess

Chapter 4

When one wishes upon a star, does it often come true? Or is your wish only mixed up with all those others sent into the abysmal night sky, only to be lost and forgotten? Is the wish still a wish when not muttered a loud, but only thought to themselves? If Eve was to wish to be in another position, would it come true? Wishes were for fairy tails and reality was for Eve.

Twenty minutes she was told, twenty minutes before her first match and twenty minutes before her debut, twenty minutes plus her match before her life is put more in others hands then ever before, and for possibly the first time ever in her life, she greatly hated it. Always content to just follow whatever plans her father had given her after her mothers accident, she rarely thought to ask herself what she really wanted, or to wonder if it even mattered what she wanted.

Sitting on a tech box in the hallway dressed for her match, Eve found a certain peace and for the first time, started to think seriously about what she wanted, not about what was expected of her. Was there a difference? Or had she been following orders for so long that everything just started to melt together?

"Deep in thought?" Hunter asked, walking up to her.

"Disturbed thoughts now." She replied, looking up at him. "Broken and soon to be forgotten. What do you want?"

"Do I need a reason to approach you?" He asked back, watching her intently.

Eve just shrugged. "Everyone always seems to."

"I was just walking around, saw you and thought I'd see if you're still on your mountain kick." He told her.

Eve's eyes started to blaze. "It's hardly a kick Hunter, it's a fact, but if that's all you think it is, then you can leave the way you came, but don't blame me when everyone starts to tire of you."

"That's not what I meant." He told her. "Can I re-phrase that?"

"Go ahead, I have nothing better to waste my time on but listen to you spout about how you're the greatest." She crossed her arms under her chest and sat up straight. "I'm listening."

He sighed and rolled his eyes. "You're an annoying and exasperating woman, you know that?"

"Don't get off subject." She replied, eyes direct and focused.

"I merely meant that I was wondering if you were off the subject of my impeding doom." He re-phrased.

Eve stood up, but looking hardly inferior in status as to her height disadvantage. "How can I be off a subject when it ties directly into everything that I'm thinking about? When it ties directly into all of the plans, all of the careful planning of the-"

A hand quickly clasped over her mouth and it was revealed that Shawn Michaels had come up behind her during her rant. "You're saying too much." He whispered in her ear.

"Hey!" Hunter exclaimed. "Get your hands off her."

"Or what?" Shawn replied. "You're going to beat me up? Try to injure my back again?"

"Don't tempt me." Hunter snarled.

"Hey hey hey, can't we all just get along?" Sean asked, coming from yet another direction, surprising Hunter with his presence and more or less annoying Shawn.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Hunter asked him, keeping one eye on Shawn.

Sean shrugged. "Hanging out. What are you doing?"

"I was having a conversation." He glared back at Shawn. "Until it was interrupted."

"Maybe you shouldn't be having conversations with Eve, she's too good for you." Shawn replied.

Eve who had been standing still finally tired of Shawn's hand over her mouth and elbowed back into his ribs, making him yelp in pain and let go of her.

"God, now all we need is my father and Kevin to show up and I'll have more then just an aching pain in my head, I'll have a full-fledged migraine on my hands." She threw up her hands in frustration.

"That's why you shouldn't be talking to her." Shawn told Hunter. "All you egotistical words are giving her a headache and if she has a headache she's no good to us."

"I thought he wasn't good enough for me?" Eve asked Shawn. "Or are you changing your story?"

"C'mon Eve," Shawn laughed, "I don't think there is anyone who's not good enough for you."

"For such a small man, you got a big mouth." Hunter told him. "Since it's obvious none of us want you around, why don't you go catch an airplane back to Texas and leave us to take care of business."

"And what business is that?" Shawn asked. "You're plans to reproduce with Eve?"

"Whoa, let's not get personal." Sean stated, backing up a step from the other three, of which Eve was in the middle.

"You shut your mouth." Hunter warned him. "You're damn lucky Eve is in my way or you'd be bloody and beaten by now."

"I don't need Eve to protect me." Shawn replied. "You're just using her as an excuse so you won't get your own ass kicked."

"Guys…" Sean pleaded. "C'mon now, don't start anything."

"Give it up, Sean." Eve told him. "A display of masculinity is just what these two have in mind and if their minds are set on it, I doubt anything is going to keep them from it."

"Time to shut up Eve." Shawn told her.

"She doesn't have to listen to you." Hunter told him. "You're hardly in charge of her."

"No one is in charge of me." Eve stated, placing her hands on her hips.

"You're father put me in charge of you." Shawn stated. "So while being in charge of you, I've decided that I don't want Hunter haning around you."

"Like you'd be able to stop me." Hunter replied.

"Well, let's see." Shawn said, pushing Eve out of the way and sending her into the wall.

"Shit, Shawn." Eve swore, grabbing her back.

Shawn sent a punch at Hunter which was blocked and Hunter grabbed the front of his shirt, completely ready to beat the life out of him and would've if Eric Bischoff, GM of Raw hadn't shown up.

"Hey, guys, what's going on?" He asked, prying Hunter off Shawn and sending them back to their corners. "You wanna fight, take it to the ring, don't do it backstage."

Eve glared at Shawn before punching him herself, and knocking him to the ground. "Don't you dare lay your hands on me again, Michaels, or I'll do more then that."

Shawn looked up at her for a second in stunned silence before getting back to his feet. He grabbed her arm and started to lead her away. "You got a match." He said.

Hunter made a move to go after him but Eric stepped into his way to block his path. "She's in Shawn's charge."

Sean looked at Hunter once, locking eyes before running after the two he was form a faction with.