All I Ever Wanted
Chapter 2
He's back. That thought went through Eve's head over and over again, he's back. Two simple words that could hold her future in peril, two simple words that meant so much more. Eve shivered as she leaned back on her bed, half-listening to the muffled sounds coming from the living room downstairs where Triple H and Kevin Nash still sat talking. She couldn't bear to be around Kevin right then, she couldn't even bear to be around Hunter and he meant everything to her, she had to be by herself, like she had always been, she had to think this through. There couldn't be any mistakes this time, there couldn't be even that small window of opportunity for her father this time, there was too much at stake, too much to lose. As Eve laid an unsteady hand on her stomach she made a quiet promise to the child inside of her that Scott wouldn't get to the child, that it would be safe and that they'd make sure of it.
She got to her feet and looked around the bedroom that she shared with her fiancé, at everything that was inside that room. None of it looked familiar to her, nothing looked like it belonged. A light pounding started in her head as she headed for the door. Eve leaned on the doorframe for a second, laying her head in her hand. She couldn't remember anything, where was all her memory? A slight feeling of panic started in her stomach which she tried to suppress, she needed a clear mind, but for what?
Eve kept a hand on the wall as she walked down the hallway, heading for the stairs at the end. She heard the voices downstairs, heard a laugh that sounded slightly familiar to her, but who did it belong to? She took the stairs slowly, aware that the pounding in her head was getting louder, why did the pounding even feel familiar? At the bottom she glanced into the room to her right where the two men sat before glancing to her left. Eve's heart stopped for a minute before she let out a shriek of terror.
Hunter jumped to his feet the moment he heard her scream, he had listened to her feet hit the stairs as she walked downstairs slowly, that alone had worried him. Kevin wasn't far behind as Hunter rushed to Eve's side, where she stood frozen, eyes wide and skin pale. "What is it, love?" He asked quietly as she looked right at him. "What's wrong?" He reached out a hand to touch her but she backed away from him.
Eve looked from one man to the other before resting her eyes on Hunter again. "I know you." She murmured.
"Yes." Hunter replied.
She looked at Kevin. "And you, but I don't trust you."
Kevin nodded, hurt joined worry in his eyes. "No, you don't."
Eve looked again at Hunter and her eyes seemed to clear a little as recognition hit her. "Hunter." She said quietly before going to him and wrapping herself in his embrace, tears coming in her eyes. "I saw him but I didn't, he was here but he wasn't."
"You saw him?" Hunter asked.
"But I didn't." She took a deep breath and raised a hand to her temple. "I need to sit."
"Yeah." Hunter agreed, taking her hand and leading her to the couch, sitting down beside her as Kevin again sat across from them like earlier. "What happened?"
"I don't know." Eve told him, looking into his eyes. "I was upstairs thinking about Scott, but then I couldn't recognise anything in the room, I didn't remember it, I couldn't even remember where I was. I started downstairs and I heard you guys and your voice sounded hardly familiar. There was this pounding in my head and it was getting louder as I went and I still couldn't remember anything, all I knew was that I had to be careful of someone. When I reached the ground I looked in the dining room and I saw my father standing there grinning, but he wasn't there, I could see through him." She took another deep breath. "Then you guys came and I couldn't recognise you at all, it's scary, I couldn't remember anything but the fear that I associate with my father."
"Are you alright now?" Hunter asked her, taking her hands in his.
Eve nodded. "I think so, but it was all so weird, one moment I was there, then the next I wasn't."
"If it happens again, that time that you're out of it could be a direct target for Scott." Kevin piped up.
Eve turned her eyes to him. "I know." She said quietly. "But he can't find out that this happened even once."
"No one here is going to tell him." Hunter told her quietly, bringing her gaze back to him. "And we're not going to let that happen again."