The man stood in the doorway staring down Chris Jericho who stood before the members of the hotel room, ready to fight this stranger to protect them.
"Where is she?" He again asked in the direction of Edge and Christian.
"W-we don't know." One of them stammered from out of view under the bed.
"Cowards." Lance Storm felt embarrassed.
"She who?" Trish Stratus looked over at Chris Benoit.
He shrugged and faced the intruder, "Listen, if you've got a problem with us, you'll have to take me on, I've got some steam I've got to release."
"Oh really?" Jericho leered at his friendly adversary.
"Yes, really." He turned from Jericho to the man.
"Fine then." Jericho picked up Trish.
"Hey!"
"We'll just be out of your way." He walked right past them.
"Wait, what are you doing?" Trish's voice trailed off.
"Taking you someplace safe." Jericho replied as he walked towards the elevator at the end of the hall.
"Coward." Benoit frowned. "But at least now they're out of my way. He shoved the man out of their doorway and he staggered back, stumbling against the wall.
"This is pointless." He gulped and ran off.
"That was easy." Lance came next to Benoit.
"Yea, maybe too easy…" He looked back at him. "Come on, let's go find Chris."
"Right." He nodded and was about to close the door. "Hey cowards, if you ever feel like joining us, feel free."
"O-okay…" One of them stammered as the door closed.
"Don't you think we've gone far enough? You ditched our friends." Trish was saying to Chris in the lobby.
"Yea, but that guy was a psycho."
"So you're gonna let him beat up your friends?"
"They can handle themselves, you and the baby are easy pray and I'd never let another soul harm a hair on either of your bodies."
"Oh. So where are…." Trish was cut off again (man she needs to learn to speak up quicker) when a leaf fell in front of Jericho's face, falling daintily in the hotel lobby air.
Jericho growls, grabbing it and tossing it aside, "What are you doing here girl?"
"Hey!" Ashley growled from the dining ledge above and she walked down the stairs. "So what's the deal between that lady and her baby?"
"Excuse me?" Trish got out of Jericho's arms.
"I'll handle this honey, you should go." Jericho pushed her back and faced the teenager.
"Honey?" Ashley noticed the matching rings. "Oh I get it. Chris you fool."
"Who is she, what is all this about?" Trish asked but got no answer.
"He can't be with you, he said he'd marry me! You cheater Chris!"
"Chris, this girl is half your age, and you'd been engaged?"
"Ignore her Trish, it's just wishful thinking, the feeling is not reciprocated."
"Chris." Ashley growled quietly, her eyes shaking.
"Seems stalker-esc." Trish rubbed her chin. "So you're engaged to my Chris?"
"My Chris? My Chris!"
"Your Chris?" Trish was getting annoyed by this 'child'.
"I said go." Jericho growled quietly to his wife again before turning back to the nuisance at hand. "I told you to go home now Ashley, run along and play elsewhere."
"I'm so sick of everyone treating me like a child!" She jumped in front of Chris and began to pound him with her fists.
He grabbed them and smirked to himself, "You can't hurt me."
"All for this girl you married, where's your honor in truth, the promise from the past?"
"What's this now?" Trish cocked her eyebrow. "I don't know who you are, but my name is Trish Jericho."
"Trish." Ashley growled to herself, growing more enraged than before. "Sounds more like Trash to me!" That caused one of Trish's veins to start popping, they'd never even met before but they were already tempting a cat fight.
"Listen, your dad was my old boss, the company is no longer in existence, who made up these rules, and who said I was ever gonna marry you!" Jericho was about ready to explode.
"But you promised…" Jericho looked up as if caught off guard as the sad girl seemed about to cry. "Why can't you remember, the lunar eclipse?"
"A lunar eclipse?" Trish wondered. "I've never seen that, it must've been so beautiful, if it had been real…"
"I was young at the time, only a child…" Ashley looked a bit embarrassed now. "But a promise is still a promise, even if it is for an arranged marriage."
"A what?" Trish grew shocked, now that's something you don't hear in modern days.
"Uh hu… really?" If shock can cause a heart attack, Jericho looks as if he were about to do so. "Me, did I say that?" Ashley nods her head, her eyes filled with tears.
"It may not be romantic, but how could you forget such a thing!" Trish finally exploded, but rather than at Ashley, at her husband.
"What, whoa!" Yea, it shocked Jericho too.
"You can't remember something so important, hu I should've figured since you can't ever seem to remember any special occasion! Oh you are the worst, I give up!"
"Dah…" Jericho blinked stupidly. What just happened here….? Ashley sniffs and tries to regain her composure and wipe her tears. Jericho sighs as he looks at her, he stares off into space as he does seriously try to remember. But, can he, will he even want to…?
