Legacy

Author: Victory Goddess

Chapter 9

"There is no way you are going down there alone, woman!" Hunter told Eve forcibly. The two were standing in Eve's hotel room after the house show, Hunter was angry at Eve for what she planned to do and Eve was angry at Hunter for trying to stop her.

What right did he have to try to stop her? As soon as her mind had come to a conclusion about her fathers real master plan, she had decided to head down to Florida, she was going to go see her father and he better have some damn good excuse for what this is all shaping up to be. Hunter had no right whatsoever to try to stop her from going, didn't he understand? She needed to go, she needed answers, no matter what they were, and this was the only way to get them.

"Screw off Hunter, my plane leaves tomorrow morning and I plan to be on it alone." Eve replied, an angry glint in her eyes.

"He's obviously gone in the head Eve, think about what you're doing." He told her.

"I do think, I think too much, I think why, I think how, I think who, I think did he mean to. I need the answers and he's the only one who has them." She shook her head. "Shawn and Sean don't know enough and I already know what they know now."

"But he could just take you out then and there." He reasoned.

"So what? He kills me off, big deal. It's hardly the biggest scandal of the year Hunter. No one would even notice, I have no family besides him, everyone else is either dead or don't know I exist. I get killed, at least I'll finally be at rest, and no one would even care." She stated.

"No one would care?" He repeated. "Holy shit, I would care, I'd care a whole damn lot."

"After I'm dead you won't." She replied.

Hunter shook his head. "You're not even listening to me, are you? You haven't listened to me since you got here."

"Fine, I'm listening now, what?" Eve asked, crossing her arms over her chest in an outward sign of annoyance.

"Eve, I care about you greatly, can you get that through your head?" He asked. "I've come to realise that over the last day or so, why can't you?"

Eve rolled her eyes. She wouldn't give in, she couldn't let herself feel anything for him. "Get over it." She told him.

"What is your problem?" He asked, angrily grabbing her arm as she tried to turn away. "You're there complaining that no one will care when you die, I'm telling you right now that I care and all you can do is roll your eyes."

"I never asked for you to care." She replied.

"That doesn't matter." He loosened his grip on her arm. "You don't have to ask, you don't have to ask anything, I'll give you any answers you want from me. Forget your piece of shit father, you've already wasted too much on him."

"I'm still going tomorrow." Eve told him quietly.

Eve never did wake up all at once, she never saw any sense in it. Her mind woke first then went on from there. She yawned and try to shift but found she was given a very limited space, pinned down basically. Her mind started working fast before remembering that she had spent the night with Hunter. She wanted to laugh, for the first time in a very long time she felt some form of contentment after having slept the night in his arms. She nuzzled into his chest and contented herself with listening to his heart beat. She still intended to go to Florida to see her father, but now she was more determined to make it back alive. Eve felt him kiss the top of her head before she opened her eyes to meet his.

"Sleep well?" He asked, voice still husky from sleep.

Eve stretched her legs and yawned. "Well enough." She replied and glanced at the clock. "I have to go in an hour." She stated.

"Eve, I-" She heard the disapproval in his voice and interrupted him.

Raising to lean on her elbow and look down at him, holding the sheet in place with her other hand, she narrowed her eyes at him. "Don't, I'm going. I know you don't want me to, and believe me, I've thought about this over and over again."

"Same as you do everything." He supplied.

"Exactly." She nodded. "I have to."

He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her down to lay on top of him before kissing her thoroughly. "Just promise me that you'll think through every single thing you say or do around him."

"Do I ever do anything but?" She replied sassily and kissed him quickly before rising and slipping her robe on. "I need to go take a shower." She told him.

"I'm all for that idea." He agreed. "But for the sake of conserving water…" He got up to follow her.

Eve felt sick in the stomach as she rode along in the taxi bound for her fathers house. She'd already been home to drop off her bags, but she hadn't felt like driving, looking back on it she decided that was hardly a good idea. At least if she had been driving she would have had something else to concentrate on rather then what lay before her. Eve had to admit that she didn't know what to expect from him, whether to expect him to be the same or to act weird. She had already realised that she'd probably scrutinize everything he said and did, or pick out little things she wouldn't have paid attention to otherwise.

She didn't trust him, not even a little bit and that scared her. No matter what she had always speculated that he had done, there was always some semblance of trust, now there was nothing and she thought that for once she'd be able to see him for what he truly was, instead of looking at him as a father who cared for his daughter. No one had cared about her since her mother had been killed, well, not until now anyway. A smile lit her lips as she thought of Triple H, Hunter, she couldn't get it through her head to call him Paul and she had already resigned herself to probably always calling him Hunter.

What did she feel for him? Was it a basic attraction or a need to be recognised and cared for by someone? She sighed, she had promised him she'd be back right before she had left, he had made her. She had finally accepted that she felt a genuine affection for the man, somehow he had slipped past her guards but she hadn't felt the anger about that that she had thought she would, she didn't mind having him around. Her head was really getting screwed with, she thought, she just wanted to get this all over with, but unfortunately, that started with confronting her father.

The car pulled to a stop outside the Hall residence. Eve paid the driver slowly before stepping out and telling him to wait for her. She looked at the house, it was large, done up to Scott's taste. One last sigh and she walked to the door and rang the bell without pausing for a chance to reconsider. The surprise was evident on Scott's face as he opened the door.

"Eve?" He asked. "What are you doing here?"

"Can I come in?" She replied, looking a lot more steady then she felt inside.

"Yeah sure." He moved back from the door to let his daughter enter. The way she walked, the way she talked, her physical appearance was just like her mothers. He shut the door behind her. "Hungry?" He asked, looking towards the kitchen.

Eve shook her head and her eyes narrowed fractionally. He was nervous, she spotted, had he always been nervous whenever she had been there? "I'm not here on a social call, father, I'm here for answers."

Scott scratched his head and stood watching his daughter. "Shawn told me that Hunter's been hounding you, have you fixed that problem yet?"

"That's not what I'm here to talk to you about." Eve told him. "But yes, the problem has been resolved and you should know that I'm backing out of your plan, I'm not hurting Hunter in any way."

"What?" Scott's eyes went hysterical. "You're backing out? You can't, not now, not after everything that's been accomplished. Hunter is nothing but a roadblock, he'll be easy to take out."

"Hunter cares about me, he's the only one and I'm not doing anything to hurt him." Eve clenched her teeth, would he say he cared?

Scott sighed and hung his head before looking back up at her. "You're just like you mother, did you know that?"

The look he was sending her had her stomach clench. "But I'm not her, I think, I know."

"She used to think too, Eve, it got her in trouble." He shook his head sadly. "She had too many questions."

"I don't have questions anymore, father." She said, walking to the door, keeping one eye on him. She turned her head back to him as she opened the door. "I have all the answers I need now." The door shut quietly behind her.