Legacy

Author: Victory Goddess

Chapter 10

"Cold?" Hunter asked, walking up behind Eve who stood out on the balcony of the hotel room the two shared, and wrapped his arms around the shaking Eve's waist.

There was only a few hours until Raw that night, Eve had been back from Florida for a few days, so why did she still have a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach? It was as if she could feel the presence of her father around her, just waiting for the opportune moment…

"No." She shook her head. "Bad premonitions." She leaned back against him, letting herself depend on his strength for a moment. In the last two days she had let herself become closer to him, and she could tell it was easily disturbing Shawn and Sean for she was ruining all their plans.

"Of what?" Hunter asked.

"Of my father." She replied honestly. "I don't trust him, I know he's just sitting back plotting." As if to accentuate her words thunder broke the sky.

"Come inside." He told her and letting go of her waist took her hand to lead her in.

Eve let herself be led as thoughts ran through her head. She couldn't make sense of anything she was feeling at the moment, but all she knew was that she didn't want to be far from Hunter tonight, she had a feeling that something was going to go down and when it happened she wanted Hunter by her side to protect her. "Don't leave me." She murmured.

"Leave you?" He repeated and turned her into his arms. "Why would I leave you?"

"I don't know." She shook her head. "But don't, please."

Worry hit Triple H's eyes quickly. "What's wrong?" He asked seriously.

"I don't know." She said again. "I really don't, I just, I can't explain it. I have a really bad feeling about tonight." Could he possibly understand that she was afraid for her life right now? It surprised her that she wanted him to lean on, to have by her side, she'd always been so solitary that this in itself was new to her. She only felt it too bad that it had to be dampened by the feeling of dread in her gut.

Hunter kissed her lightly on the lips. "I won't leave you, tonight or any other time. You need me, I'll be there."

"Thank you." She replied quietly.

The arena seemed quieter then it had been before and faces seemed more ashen. It was her imagination, Eve tried to tell herself, you expect the worse, so you'll see the worse. As she walked with Triple H down one of the backstage hallways she couldn't help the feeling of-

"Hey yo, Chico." Scott Hall stepped into their path, a wide grin on his face.

Triple H instinctively put himself partly between Eve and Scott. "Scott." He greeted him with a voice lacking in emotion of any kind.

Scott locked eyes with his daughter and Eve thought that she could actually feel the comparisons he was making in his head between herself and her mother and she didn't like it, the look, the eyes he was looking at her with told the whole story, told her that it was no accident what had happened to her mother and tonight if it went his way, there would be another non-accident.

Scott looked back at Hunter and smiled again. "Long time no see, got enough time to catch up before the show?"

"What are you doing here?" Hunter asked him, feeling Eve's grip tighten on his hand, he glanced down at her. She was completely composed, starring at her father with an expression that was a complete blank which worried him.

Scott shrugged and laughed a little. "I got myself visitation rights, after all, I do have a lot of buddies here, don't I?"

"Probably fewer then you think." Hunter replied and walked past him with Eve beside him.

Scott only caught up to walk with them, Eve in-between the two males. She didn't like having him right beside her, she didn't like the way he had looked at her and she didn't like having him acting natural. "What do you want?" She asked him.

"Want?" He shrugged. "I don't want anything, I'm bored down in Florida by myself, thought I'm come check on my little pet project."

"Then go check on it, I told you I'm having no part in it anymore." Eve told him.

"Eve, look." Scott grabbed her arm to keep her from going any farther and turned her to look at him. Hunter stood just behind her, watching Scott intently. "You can't back out now, we need you, you're essential, it won't work without you."

"What exactly won't work, father?" Eve asked, feeling anger begin to rise in her stomach. This man had no right to demand anything of her, much less her voluntary participation in her own planned demise.

"Just leave her alone." Hunter warned him gruffly, cutting off anything Scott was going to say.

"I'm talking to my daughter." Scott informed him. "Not you, you're not family."

"I'm closer to being family to her then you are." Hunter replied, wanting to make this man pay for all the pain he'd ever dealt to Eve.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Scott asked him. "You should just drop dead Hunter, you're probably the one behind this new rebellion of Eve's, you're not needed, you're nothing more then a bad influence, turning her against her own father."

The words drop dead ran through Eve's mind after hearing her father say them and the realisation of having pulled Hunter into all of this hit her. She had put this man in danger from her father because he stood up for her, she had no doubt that Scott would try to get rid of Hunter to get to Eve, only to get rid of her as well.

"Hunter had nothing to do with it." Eve stated. "He's just standing up for me and my rights. You have a problem with my decision, come to me, don't use Hunter as an excuse for what I do."

"You joined this group in an act to follow it through to the end and-"

"Where's Kevin?" Eve cut him off. "I want to talk to Kevin, if I talk to Kevin, I'll help, I'll re-join and follow this thing through."

"You can't talk to Kevin." Scott told her. "He's out of country right now."

"Then how have you been talking to him?" Eve asked him.

"Questions, questions, questions Eve, I thought all you had were answers anymore." Scott replied, avoiding the question.

"I have answers, father, I have the answer to this question as well." Eve narrowed her eyes. "And I have a match tonight to get ready for and I'm quite tired of hearing your voice." She turned on her heel and stalked off.

Hunter smiled at Scott before following after her.

Shawn came up behind Scott. "Tonight?" He asked, earning no more then a nod from Scott.

She had been in the ring for half of a minute so far, where was her opponents music? Where was her opponent? It was then that she saw the figure in the crowd, her father, he was a few rows back from the front, but he was watching her, his eyes laughing, his mouth turned up in a wicked grin.

The pain through her head came suddenly and before she realised what had happened she was on her knees, holding her head, feeling blood seep through her fingers. She saw Hunter run from the back and slide into the ring, a metal pipe fell to the ground beside her as she heard Shawn's voice as he pleaded with Hunter not to hurt him, but there was a ringing, a high pitched ring in her ears and everything seemed so far away now, all but the vision of her fathers grinning face.

The End

Look for the next story in the "Legacy" series coming soon, titled "All I Ever Wanted".