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Chapter Three

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"Vince, I promise you, you will not regret watching this tape." Randy told the older man. He had called Vince about a meeting that night after leaving Ember's house, and the two had set it up for three days later.

The time had passed slowly for the meeting to come, with Ember working her dead-end job at a local day-care during the day, and wrestling at night. Randy, of course, had to wrestle on Raw the next night and at various house shows since then.

Vince nodded at the younger man, a signal for him to go ahead and pop the tape in the VCR. It was already fast-forwarded to Ember and Freya's match, and Vince sat silently as he watched it. It ended about twenty five or thirty minutes later.

"Well, Randy, you were correct. Those women are amazing talents. Now, what did you say their names were? I would like to contact them for developmental deals."

"Ember Haddock and Freya Nacht." Randy told him.

"Thank you for informing me of new talent." Vince said, shaking the young man's hand. Randy smiled and got up, walking out of the room. Ember would be waiting for him in his dressing room. He had flown her in earlier that day, making sure she didn't yet know that he was meeting with Vince about signing her.

Surely enough, when Randy opened his dressing room door, Ember was sitting Indian-style on one of the benches, a magazine open on her lap.

"Guess what?" Randy said, sitting down next to the small girl.

"Hmm?" She asked, looking up at him.

"I just had a little talk with Vince." Randy smiled. Ember returned the smile widely, hopefully. Her eyes were shining with curiosity and excitement.

"We watched the video of you and Freya's Championship match, and…" He trailed off, keeping her in suspense.

"And…?" She repeated, reaching forward and taking his hands in her small ones. He chuckled, rubbing the backs of her hands with his thumbs.

"He wants to see you two as soon as possible so that you can sign your developmental contract deals."

Ember's eyes opened widely. Suddenly, a shriek erupted from the short girl and she jumped off of the bench.

"Randy! A developmental deal! I'm getting signed!" She yelled happily as he stood up. When he stood at full height, she threw her arms around his neck, hugging him tightly.

"Thank you so much!" She said, softer this time, as Randy hugged her back. After a moment, he felt a wet spot on his neck and broke the hug. He found Ember to have a few loose tears streaming down her cheeks.

"I'm sorry," She said, wiping her tears away. "I'm just so happy! I thought this day would never come."

Randy smiled and reached up, brushing her remaining tears away with his thumb. "There's no need to thank me. It was your talent that got you in. I just showed Vince the tape."

"You are my knight in shining armor," Ember said, standing on her tiptoes to kiss Randy's cheek.

Randy smiled as she returned to her normal height. "Believe me…you're worth it." He smiled, before wrapping his arms around her waist. He then proceeded to dip down and capture her lips with his, the two sharing their first kiss.

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Trish narrowed her brown eyes as she spied into Randy's dressing room. It figures that she would've gotten there just in time to see Randy kissing that…that dirty whore. Rudely, she pushed the door the rest of the way open, making sure it banged into the wall.

Randy and Ember broke their kiss abruptly, both startled by the loud sound. Sporting a wide, fake smile, Trish walked into the room. She was dressed in pants that were way too tight, and a cropped off, button up top, with only two buttons buttoned to hide her breasts from the rest of the roster.

"Hi, Randy!" She said cheerily.

"Oh…hey, Trish." Randy said with absolutely no enthusiasm.

"I just thought I'd come say hello. Oh…who's your…friend?" Trish asked, looking Ember up and down, even though she knew good and damn well who she was.

"This is Ember Haddock." Randy introduced her.

"Hello," Ember said politely, holding her hand out. Trish looked at it as if it was infected with some deadly disease, but reluctantly grabbed it, shaking it quickly.

"It's a pleasure." She said snottily, her nostrils flaring.

"Anyways, Trish, we need to be going." Randy said, taking Ember's hand in his as they pushed past the blonde. "Ember needs to talk to Vince about her contract."

"Wait…what…contract?" Trish asked.

"Yeah…he's signing Ember to a developmental deal." Randy said, before he and Ember walked out of the room. Trish looked after them, nodding and grinning manically.

"Perfect." She muttered under her breath.

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"I swear," Trish told Nora as she reentered the woman's locker room. "Vince is signing that bitch to a contract. But this way…it may be easier for Tomko to get his job done." She smirked.

"She'll probably be asking to train with us, though." Nora rolled her eyes.

"Either with us, or with the talentless…like Amy." Trish said, just loud enough for Amy Dumas to hear.

"Fuck you, Trish. Who's the one with the belt?" Amy grinned, referring to the Woman's Title, which was at the moment hanging over her arm as she prepared to go out for her match. "That's right, me. Because I'm more talented than you. All you can do is walk out, act hurt, and flaunt your fake ass tits."

Amy laughed as she walked out of the locker room.

"Whatever," Trish dramatically rolled her eyes, looking back at Nora. "Anyways. I could possibly help Tomko out with the plan, if they put her in a match with me." She smirked.

"Or me." Nora added.

The two women proceeded to laugh, talking about their masterminded plan.

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"Are you serious?" Freya asked, shock apparent on her face. She had arrived at the arena with Chris about two hours after Randy and Ember had.

"Dead damned serious. Go talk to Vince. I already signed my contract, and he's ready for you to sign yours." Freya grinned happily and she and Chris went in the direction of Vince's office.

"This is a dream come true." She told Randy with a smile.

"I'm happy that you're so happy," Randy said, kissing Ember once more. She smiled against his lips before kissing him back.

"Randy…I do have one question though," Ember said after they broke the kiss. He raised his eyebrows, waiting for the question. "Us," She said, pointing from him to her. "You know that I'm attracted – very strongly attracted – to you, and I'm hoping you're as attracted to me as I am to you…anyways, I guess my question is if we're going to be "exclusive" or not. You know, a couple." She stammered out, looking down at the ground.

"Well, I was hoping so." Randy said sweetly, before leaning forward and placing a kiss on her forehead.

Ember smiled, looking up at him. "That makes my day even better."

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