I was now fully prepared for my match. I thought that my conversation with Amy wouldn't end up that way, that we might actually be civil for a bit, but I guess it was my fault it wasn't. I thought I could get to a real reason why she didn't like me, but I couldn't. I wasn't satisfied with our conversation, but it was the best it could get. The only answer I think I would ever get.
Matt was standing outside the locker room when I got back. He was standing up, leaning against the wall looking down. His right leg was up and his foot resting on the wall. I walked over to him and stood beside him.
"I was waiting for one of you to come back," he said. "I saw the interview."
"Was that ok?" I asked.
"Yeah, I think, I don't know. I mean it's a good thing the two of you are willing to finally move on from all of this, I guess I just never expected Jeff to do what he had done."
"I understand that, blew me away," I said.
"Good luck," he told me.
"Thank you," I replied.
"Just promise me you'll be coming back in one piece now."
"Yes, Matt," I said with a smile. He put his hand on my head and brought me into his chest.
Jeff didn't come back, and we all knew he wouldn't. He'd be gone all night actually, until they need him if there's another promo. I was sitting down with Matthew when Michael Cole came back. He asked for Matt this time. So, he went. We had a small TV in our room so we could see what everyone else was seeing. After the commercial, Michael Cole was on with Matt, Matthew sat up and squealed, "daddy!"
"Yes, that's right, daddy," I replied with a smile.
"If you joined us before, you saw the interview I had with Jeff Hardy and Destiny Diaz, if you are just joining us now, this is what you missed," he said. The whole thing played. "Matt, I've been looking for you since then, and I finally found you, what are you thinking about all of that?"
"About the team?" Matt asked. "I think it's going to be great. My brother and Destiny were the best friends and teammates I had ever had, and it was sad when things didn't work out, but it proved good. Just like my brother and Destiny said, we showed everyone that we could survive outside the team, we showed everyone that Jeff and I could survive outside of a team. And, now it's time to bring the magic back."
"Do you think that this might ignite the long cooled flame that once was Jeff and Destiny?"
Matt looked down and nodded his head a bit. "I guess so, anything's possible, right? But, that's something that's up to them. If it does, that's great, and if it doesn't, I think that's ok too. We're at a very emotional spot right now, and I think romance is the last thing on our minds. Why push into something that's not certain, or may not happen at all? When it comes to anyone dating anyone, I think we're going to play it cool, see what happens, not expect anything."
"Sounds about right, Matt. Are you going to be at your brother's side tonight?"
"No, he's asked me not to, and I respect that. This is a huge night for Jeff, and he needs to go at this alone. But, if something were to go wrong, I'd be down there in a heart beat."
"Well, we would hope so. Thank you, Matt, and good luck."
Unforgiven was to set off in five minutes. Matt had returned from his interview and went over by me and Matthew. He sat beside me and put him in his lap. I smiled and leaned into him. He looked at me with a serious look on his face.
"Everything ok?" I asked.
"I guess," he answered. "Can I talk to you about something? I know you wanted to wait, but I want to say this."
"Ok," I answered.
"It's about what I said to you," he started. " I know you know what I mean. I do love you, Destiny, I do, but I know that you and I can never be. And, to me, that's fine. I am the father of our son, and that is more than I could ever ask for. You have given me a beautiful son, and I don' t know what life would be like if he wasn't here. I feel like I am in your debt for giving me him. I think I am looking at him and looking at you and thinking about how it should be. A man and woman have a child and they are supposed to stay together at all coasts for that child. I know you think that's crazy, but it's how I was brought up. You do what's right. I was reading an old journal entry, back when you and I were going to get married, I think that's what brought all of this on. I know we would have made it, but I know you would have been miserable the whole time because it's not me that you want, it's my brother. And, I am ok with that, because I can't take away someone's true love. Yes, you and Jeff are meant to be, Des. You really are because I know how he feels about you, I see the look in his eye when he looks at you, I could never compare to that. That look, those words he uses to describe you, that's true love, real honest to God, true love, and I would be a fool to try and take that away from you two."
"Matt-"
"Destiny, I am serious. You are like my sister...who had my child, but besides that fact, you are, you are family. And though I will always love you and will always be there for you, I can't be the person Jeff is to you. I can't give you what Jeff can and I can't love you like Jeff does. We are different planes, and that is perfectly fine. I would rather have you as my sister, as family, and be happy, than have you as something more and be miserable. And I know that I haven't been so easy to deal with lately, and I am sorry about that. I have just been doing a lot of thinking, and it's finally all clear to me. I never meant to once hurt you, and I am so sorry that I did.."
"Matt, my only concern was you hurting your relationship with your brother. You've worked so hard to get it like it is, as right now, it's looking good for all of us. I know that you get very emotionally when it comes to me, but I can fight my battles, and I chose not to, I chose my way to handle it, and I know it wasn't the right way. We were both wrong."
"It was just so hard for me to fathom that Jeff would do that to you, say something so harsh."
"But, he was right, how could he trust me again?" I said. "Though, I have no idea where that Jeff went, and why he went away."
"I am glad this one is back," Matt said. "But, I just want to make sure you and I are ok, and that there isn't any hard feelings and that we can move on from all of this."
"Yes, Matt, we are cool. Things now, strongly, are turning around and looking good. I just wish I knew what to say about what you feel."
"Really, Des, don't worry about that. I told you, I am fine, everything's fine. I wouldn't tell you if it wasn't, and I am being truthful."
"Ok, Matt, I believe you," I said. "I do."
"Good, because I'd hate for all of this to turn into one big confusion, especially now. This are looking good, very good, and I am just as happy as you are to have this Jeff Hardy here and not the previous one. And, I am just as confused as you are as to why he's come back and why the other one went away. But, that's for another day I suppose, right now, I want you to get into that mind set for your match and show everyone no mercy. Show them you belong."
Matt hugged me and took Matthew and left. I sat there looking into the TV. Get into that mind sent, that's what I hat to do. I felt so much better going into this match now, than I had the day before. This were really weird still, and I knew that, but they were a good weird. Jeff was, for some reason, opening up to everything and his evil twin had mysteriously disappeared. It seemed very out of left field, but he was opening back up to me.
I got up and left the room, I didn't want to speak to anyone, and everyone knew not to bother me. This was how I had to handle this, handle any match. I was told good luck but everyone, incase they didn't see me before the match. I sat on a folding table in a vacant hallway. I let my feet dangle over and rested my back on the wall. I looked up at the ceiling. I could not believe everything was going to be over. I know that I had said that Amy was not my career, that I had done so much more, and I have, but she was such a big part of it. It felt like my career had been so much a part of hers, that without it, I'd be missing a big chunk of my career. I know I am so much more than just the girl who fights with Lita, but for two years, I did that, and then I did everything else, but my fade with Amy was always first. I was now the Tag Team Champion, but it was very hard to believe I could be only the Tag Team Champion, and not going at it with Amy. I got very insecure about my career.
I know now that I didn't have anything to worry about, but I couldn't help it then. For two years, that's all I did, I was able to fit in other things, but I was known as Lita's biggest enemy, and she was known as mine. That's how it went. My career started that way, and it's hard to let go of something you've known your whole career. It wasn't like a year into it, we started up a fade, and then ended it. It would be easier to let go that way. I started my career in this fade, and now had to let it go. It's like having to start a whole knew one, just on a name people know, and that's what scared me. Would people accept me outside of this fade, could I be just Destiny, and not Destiny vs. Lita?
If I had went to anyone with this, they all would have said the same thing, "you have nothing to worry about", and, in reality I didn't, or I shouldn't, but I did. I couldn't talk to anyone because as much as I love them, and as much as they have been in these kind of situations before, I felt mine was a bit different. It left me between a rock and a hard place with no where to turn. I was stuck.
I think this is what Amy wanted, to get inside my head. She knew she had this match won on paper, but knew that I'd come out on top either way. If she could get inside my head some how and make me lose sight and focus on the match, she'd look like the better wrestler. I had to stay focused, stay in the game. This match was made for injury and pain, and one second missed would screw the whole thing up. If I took just one second of my time in that match to think about something else, I could very well seriously hurt myself, and everyone's worst fears would be realized. I had to become numb, I couldn't feel anything, because if I did, I would lose it all.
I heard the pyros and music to start the pay-per-view. There was little time left. I closed my eyes as I sat against the wall and began to meditate, as best I could anyway. I took deep breathes and concentrated on just breathing. I would have at least two hours before I would go on. That's a lot of down time, a lot of time to sit in hallways and think about what might happen. I needed to clear my head, and this was working. Though, I know I couldn't keep it up for two hours, but doing it for a few minutes put me in a better mind set.
There is never much to do before a match, especially one of high importance. You want to be to yourself so you can get in the right psyche. You want to be pumped and ready to go, all of that adrenaline is racing. Some people need to be around other people, being alone freaks them out. But, most of the people I know have to be alone, and I think, personally, it's best. A few minutes to the whole show just to yourself. But, the down side to that is, you're alone. There's no one to talk to, so you think, think about all of the things you shouldn't be thinking about. You go to be alone so you can psych yourself up, and being alone gets into your psyche. So, in other words, it's kind of a lose loose situation.
In my meditative state, I saw Jeff walking.
"I thought this would be vacant too," he said.
"It was," I replied. "But, not now. It's ok, I don't bite."
"No, I know. Old habits are hard to break," he said.
"Seems to be an on going theme for me," I said.
"I think you're doing just fine," he smiled at me. "Crazy day, huh?"
"Yeah, you could say that. I feel like I am talking to a whole new Jeff."
"Like I said, I am done being mean and being a dick, I hated that," he replied. "Why not start over?"
"I don't know, why not?" I repeated. I smiled at him. "But yes, very crazy, you pitch the idea of bring the team back, I happen to walk by Amy's locker room, Matt and I have this conversation-"
"You walked by Amy's room?" Jeff asked surprised.
"On accident, I swear," I answered. "She still blames me for her misery. I must say, how you handled kicking her out, dick man, very not nice."
"What do you mean?"
"She said that Adam told her, you guys kicked her out without saying a word."
"Woah, wait one second," Jeff said. "We told her when our last match would be, we said that we wanted to go in a different direction. She knew it was over."
"Are you telling me that she lied?"
"Maybe. I know the day you came in Adam did say something to her, because he told me she looked pissed. Vince didn't want us to say anything at all, he wanted his people to deal with it, but we couldn't do that. Matt did all the talking, most of it, but you could have figured that out. We couldn't end it that way."
"Then why would she tell me that?" I asked.
"Maybe to scare you, make you think twice about getting back together, I don't know," Jeff replied. "But we told her, she knew. She wants to get inside your head, she wants you to be scared about this possibility. Don't buy it, I am telling you. Do you still want to talk, me, you, and Matt after Unforgiven?"
"Even though you guys have been talking already, yes, I do," I answered. "It's not a bad thing, trust me. But, I think we all have to sit down with this."
"Agreed, just name the terms."
"Depends on how you and I end up in our matches."
"Ah, could be hospital bed meeting."
"Maybe," I said. "Maybe."
"Well, I am going to continue my walk of solitude, if I don't see you before the match, good luck."
"You too," I replied.
He walked off.
