Disclaimer: Ownership of the WWE superstars in this story is purely
fictional. I am using them to make the story that much better. I own Summer
Ryan Hardy and Amanda from my other story and that is it. Everyone else as
I said is perfectly fictional and they own themselves. It is for the
greater good. But hell, if any of the superstars would like me to own them,
well come on down!
A/N: Thank you to those of you that reviewed and my deepest apologies for not writing sooner then this, but I've been messing around with my writer's block. Now that I think it's passed I am back in the habit. So as always let me know what you think and I will keep going and going, with no end in sight.
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"Jeff where is she, she should have been here ten minutes ago! You need to keep your wife in check or you're both going to be out on your asses." Eric yelled, pacing back in forth through the gorilla position, scanning to see if there was any sight of Summer making her way to them.
Jeff had to admit that he wished he knew what was going on with Summer as well. She had walked in on something with Trish and Shane and it seemed like it had thrown her back to something she didn't feel like revisiting. Instead of being the one she turned too though, this time he had to watch on the sidelines and hope that she could deal with it and get on with what she needed to do. He hated to give her that, he wanted to talk to her, to make it all go away but he knew better. It was totally unlike her to miss her cues from the back though.
"She never does this Eric, so stop acting like it's the end of the world that she did it now. I'm sure she'll be here in time for the match. She's probably just going over some last minute things in her head and she needed the time alone."
"You better hope that's all it is because if it's more and she ruins what could possibly be a ground breaking show tonight I am going to make sure I go to Vince. Bringing the two of you back in was something I didn't go along with, but it was all for the ratings and the fans so it was done. I just don't want to have to say I told you so to the big guys upstairs."
"You'd like nothing more then to do that Eric because then it would make you look that much better. Like I said just give her some time, she'll be here. She wouldn't be Summer if she didn't keep you all on your toes. Just for once put a little trust in a sure thing. If she doesn't come soon I will go looking for her."
"Five minutes Jeff. If she's not here in five minutes I am pulling this whole damn angle and you're both going to be out a job. Do I make myself clear?"
"Crystal."
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"I can't believe this, it can't be real." Summer whispered to herself as she walked out amongst the production trucks. So much had happened out and around these trucks throughout all the cities they had been too, but now with one shot, all of the good somehow looked horribly bad.
"It is real, and for that I'm sorry Summer."
Turning around, she came face to face with Shane and she tried to keep her emotions in check. She wanted to hit him and pound him to his knees but at the same time she just wanted to be held by him. She couldn't explain what she was feeling, and why she was feeling it but it was there between them and it needed to be addressed.
"Why Trish huh? Why did you have to make a move on my best friend but not make a move on me?"
"Summer you don't have it right at all. You just don't get it at all."
"Then tell me Shane, because right now I'm so totally confused and it's going to make working with you that much harder. I don't know whether to hit you or kiss you and the fact that I'm even thinking of the latter is enough to make me sick."
"You want to kiss me?" he whispered, moving closer to her and reaching out slowly for her.
"I don't know Shane. There is something weird happening here. I'm with Jeff, we're working on our issues and we are finally going to give this marriage the chance it deserves to survive and now here I am, walking in on you with my best friend and I'm so angry and I guess jealous too."
"There is nothing for you to be jealous over."
"So you didn't have your pants around your feet in there with my best friend when I walked in? Is that what you're telling me Shane?"
"I'm not trying to say that you didn't see what you saw, I'm just trying to make myself clear."
"Make what clear?"
"Not one person since Hayley could touch me. Her death ruined me, and no one could break through it, not my sister, my family and definitely not my best friends. You did it Summer, you touched me and you made me think that it was actually alright to feel something again, without regret."
"It is alright to feel Shane, we are human, it's what we do."
"But I thought I was destined not too. I had completely come to terms with her death and the void that it left and that I didn't want it to be filled again. At least I thought I had, until you came to me and we started hanging out together and I saw that you had as much pain and worry as I did. We needed each other and I guess what I'm saying here Summer is that I love you. It will never be the love that I shared with Hayley and I don't think you would want it to be, but it's there and I've wanted nothing but to tell you this for weeks, I just didn't know how, and I didn't want to hurt anyone or hurt myself anymore."
"You l.l...love me?"
"Yes darlin, I love you more then I thought could ever be possible under all the duress we've been under and when you walked into that room and saw what you did my heart broke because you were never supposed to see that. I just needed to forget you. I saw you with Jeff and the effort you were making to make your marriage work and I gave up and gave in to Trish. She needed something, and I needed something and it was just there for us. It means nothing in the end but you mean something, and you in pain over this makes me sick inside."
"It reminded me of Matt and Amy you know."
"I do, and I never wanted to make you relive that."
"Shane I hate myself for this but seeing you like that awoke something in me and I don't know what it means but I can't go back to Jeff and pretend that things are perfect anymore."
"Then what do you want to do?"
Moving closer to him, she ran her face over his neck, taking in the scent of him slowly, wanting to remember this moment forever even if it turned out to be nothing. Scanning his neck with her lips, breathing deeply, she turned her face into his, and looking into his eyes she saw something there she hadn't seen before and she pressed her lips to his ever so softly, losing herself in the feeling.
As she scanned his neck Shane felt the cold shiver run down his spine. No one had ever done this to him before, not since Hayley and he wanted her so damn badly. He knew she belonged to his best friend but for one moment in time he wanted to have her, to know what it would feel like to be beneath her, letting her kiss him, have her way with him and his way with her. He genuinely loved this woman and he had to make sure that he kept her in his life.
When her lips touched his, there was a charge that was so soft, but so hungry and needy at the same time. Moving his face to match with hers he kissed her deeper, slowly letting his tongue enter her mouth, gently sucking on her lips, tasting all of her, from the scent on her body to the sweat that was starting to form on her face from the rush of the feelings that were happening between them.
Pushing herself away as the kiss got deeper Summer just stared at him, lost in a sea of feeling that she didn't quite understand. There was no way this could happen. She had a marriage, and a family and she needed to make sure that she worked on it. She couldn't be with Shane, no matter how right it felt. Jeff was her life, and Shane was just, he was just a memory.
"I can't do this, I've got to be out in the ring any minute and Shane this is just not right. I'm sorry, I love you but I'm sorry. I can't hurt anyone the way I've been hurt before, it's just not who I am."
Not waiting for his response she cast one last look at him and she ran, as fast as she could go on her legs. She knew she was needed in the gorilla position and there was no where else that she needed to be right now then there with Jeff. He would make all of this go away. He had too, otherwise there were going to be more issues on the horizon, bigger then they'd ever faced before.
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A/N: Thank you to those of you that reviewed and my deepest apologies for not writing sooner then this, but I've been messing around with my writer's block. Now that I think it's passed I am back in the habit. So as always let me know what you think and I will keep going and going, with no end in sight.
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"Jeff where is she, she should have been here ten minutes ago! You need to keep your wife in check or you're both going to be out on your asses." Eric yelled, pacing back in forth through the gorilla position, scanning to see if there was any sight of Summer making her way to them.
Jeff had to admit that he wished he knew what was going on with Summer as well. She had walked in on something with Trish and Shane and it seemed like it had thrown her back to something she didn't feel like revisiting. Instead of being the one she turned too though, this time he had to watch on the sidelines and hope that she could deal with it and get on with what she needed to do. He hated to give her that, he wanted to talk to her, to make it all go away but he knew better. It was totally unlike her to miss her cues from the back though.
"She never does this Eric, so stop acting like it's the end of the world that she did it now. I'm sure she'll be here in time for the match. She's probably just going over some last minute things in her head and she needed the time alone."
"You better hope that's all it is because if it's more and she ruins what could possibly be a ground breaking show tonight I am going to make sure I go to Vince. Bringing the two of you back in was something I didn't go along with, but it was all for the ratings and the fans so it was done. I just don't want to have to say I told you so to the big guys upstairs."
"You'd like nothing more then to do that Eric because then it would make you look that much better. Like I said just give her some time, she'll be here. She wouldn't be Summer if she didn't keep you all on your toes. Just for once put a little trust in a sure thing. If she doesn't come soon I will go looking for her."
"Five minutes Jeff. If she's not here in five minutes I am pulling this whole damn angle and you're both going to be out a job. Do I make myself clear?"
"Crystal."
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"I can't believe this, it can't be real." Summer whispered to herself as she walked out amongst the production trucks. So much had happened out and around these trucks throughout all the cities they had been too, but now with one shot, all of the good somehow looked horribly bad.
"It is real, and for that I'm sorry Summer."
Turning around, she came face to face with Shane and she tried to keep her emotions in check. She wanted to hit him and pound him to his knees but at the same time she just wanted to be held by him. She couldn't explain what she was feeling, and why she was feeling it but it was there between them and it needed to be addressed.
"Why Trish huh? Why did you have to make a move on my best friend but not make a move on me?"
"Summer you don't have it right at all. You just don't get it at all."
"Then tell me Shane, because right now I'm so totally confused and it's going to make working with you that much harder. I don't know whether to hit you or kiss you and the fact that I'm even thinking of the latter is enough to make me sick."
"You want to kiss me?" he whispered, moving closer to her and reaching out slowly for her.
"I don't know Shane. There is something weird happening here. I'm with Jeff, we're working on our issues and we are finally going to give this marriage the chance it deserves to survive and now here I am, walking in on you with my best friend and I'm so angry and I guess jealous too."
"There is nothing for you to be jealous over."
"So you didn't have your pants around your feet in there with my best friend when I walked in? Is that what you're telling me Shane?"
"I'm not trying to say that you didn't see what you saw, I'm just trying to make myself clear."
"Make what clear?"
"Not one person since Hayley could touch me. Her death ruined me, and no one could break through it, not my sister, my family and definitely not my best friends. You did it Summer, you touched me and you made me think that it was actually alright to feel something again, without regret."
"It is alright to feel Shane, we are human, it's what we do."
"But I thought I was destined not too. I had completely come to terms with her death and the void that it left and that I didn't want it to be filled again. At least I thought I had, until you came to me and we started hanging out together and I saw that you had as much pain and worry as I did. We needed each other and I guess what I'm saying here Summer is that I love you. It will never be the love that I shared with Hayley and I don't think you would want it to be, but it's there and I've wanted nothing but to tell you this for weeks, I just didn't know how, and I didn't want to hurt anyone or hurt myself anymore."
"You l.l...love me?"
"Yes darlin, I love you more then I thought could ever be possible under all the duress we've been under and when you walked into that room and saw what you did my heart broke because you were never supposed to see that. I just needed to forget you. I saw you with Jeff and the effort you were making to make your marriage work and I gave up and gave in to Trish. She needed something, and I needed something and it was just there for us. It means nothing in the end but you mean something, and you in pain over this makes me sick inside."
"It reminded me of Matt and Amy you know."
"I do, and I never wanted to make you relive that."
"Shane I hate myself for this but seeing you like that awoke something in me and I don't know what it means but I can't go back to Jeff and pretend that things are perfect anymore."
"Then what do you want to do?"
Moving closer to him, she ran her face over his neck, taking in the scent of him slowly, wanting to remember this moment forever even if it turned out to be nothing. Scanning his neck with her lips, breathing deeply, she turned her face into his, and looking into his eyes she saw something there she hadn't seen before and she pressed her lips to his ever so softly, losing herself in the feeling.
As she scanned his neck Shane felt the cold shiver run down his spine. No one had ever done this to him before, not since Hayley and he wanted her so damn badly. He knew she belonged to his best friend but for one moment in time he wanted to have her, to know what it would feel like to be beneath her, letting her kiss him, have her way with him and his way with her. He genuinely loved this woman and he had to make sure that he kept her in his life.
When her lips touched his, there was a charge that was so soft, but so hungry and needy at the same time. Moving his face to match with hers he kissed her deeper, slowly letting his tongue enter her mouth, gently sucking on her lips, tasting all of her, from the scent on her body to the sweat that was starting to form on her face from the rush of the feelings that were happening between them.
Pushing herself away as the kiss got deeper Summer just stared at him, lost in a sea of feeling that she didn't quite understand. There was no way this could happen. She had a marriage, and a family and she needed to make sure that she worked on it. She couldn't be with Shane, no matter how right it felt. Jeff was her life, and Shane was just, he was just a memory.
"I can't do this, I've got to be out in the ring any minute and Shane this is just not right. I'm sorry, I love you but I'm sorry. I can't hurt anyone the way I've been hurt before, it's just not who I am."
Not waiting for his response she cast one last look at him and she ran, as fast as she could go on her legs. She knew she was needed in the gorilla position and there was no where else that she needed to be right now then there with Jeff. He would make all of this go away. He had too, otherwise there were going to be more issues on the horizon, bigger then they'd ever faced before.
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