A/N: Heya people, here's the thing, due to my unbelievable stupidity I missed RAW this week and I've only got the last hour on tape. So this chapter is going on what I read on so if anything is a bit different or out of order then I sincerely apologise but I'm just gonna do my best ok. Anyway I'd like to say a big thanks to punk monkey, I-just-wanna-live, CenazMine, MissPhilippinesSuperStar and Jen105 for reviewing chapter 2, much loved. Anyway on with chapter 3 and keep the reviews comin' it makes me happy.
"DAMN!" Lexi sighed as she bent down to pick up the papers she had been holding in her hands. As she reached for some more of the papers another pair of hands came into her line of vision, looking up she was greeted with the smiling face of Shelton Benjamin. Pulling herself upright she reached out for the papers but frowned when Shelton took a step backwards and began to flick through them. Raising an eyebrow at her, Shelton looked from the papers to Lexi and back to the papers. Sighing impatiently, Lexi crossed her arms and began tapping her red converse clad foot waiting for Shelton to hand the papers.
"You gonna tell me why you have these?" Shelton asked. Rolling her eyes she went to grab the papers he held but frowned when he held them above his head out of her reach. Growling in frustration Lexi looked down the hallway to see a very amused Christy Hemme, Eugene and Matt Hardy watching the scene, raising her middle finger to them Lexi turned back to Shelton who was attempting to control his laughter.
"I was just doing a bit of light reading," Lexi said, throwing out the first excuse she could think of. Shelton looked at her before looking up at the papers he held and then stared back at her with a look on his face which clearly said you-expect-me-to-believe- that.
"Come on Lexi, I'm not stupid, if you wanted to do some light reading you would read a magazine not…" he stopped to chuckle slightly, "...you would not read yours and John Cenas contracts so what gives?" Glaring at him, Lexi quickly poked Shelton under the arm that was holding the contracts; automatically bringing the arm down due to the tickling sensation, Lexi jumped up and grabbed the contracts before tucking them safely under her arm.
"Look this is just between me and you ok? No one else knows about it not even Cena ok it's best to keep it quiet otherwise Bischoff will make sure I'm hurt because I'm not supposed to have these so…."
"Hold up, hold up," Shelton interrupted, "If you not supposed to have them, then why do you have them?"
"I have my ways." She replied.
"You mean you stole them." He stated.
"No I simply borrowed them without permission, there's a difference." She grinned mischievously. "Like I was saying, I'm taking these to be copied so I can keep hold of them and before you say anything, yes I know I have my own copy as does Cena but the copies we were given were done by Bischoff himself and I trust Bischoff about as far as I can throw him. I'm making my own copies so that if Eric tries anything and tells me to look at my contract then I can look at my copy and know I'm looking at the copy of the original, same goes for Cena. You see, Eric has it in big time for Cena and I'm not exactly number one on his Christmas card list, I just wanna make sure that everything he does to me and Cena is well within the limits of our contracts." Lexi looked at Shelton with a smug grin on her face.
"You, my dear, are a genius. I would never have thought of that and I can't think of anyone else who would have," smiling in approval, he continued, " Well I gotta go, I've got a match against Chris Masters tonight and you need to get those copies and get the originals back to where ever the hell you got them from. See ya."
"Well at least someone's getting a match tonight, have fun, see ye later." Lexi smiled and continued on her way down the now empty corridor, slipping into an empty office she quickly copied the contracts before returning the originals back to Bischoff's office and returning to the safety of the divas locker room.
Later that night, Lexi smiled as she watched an ecstatic Eugene celebrated in the middle of the ring with Hulk Hogan, her smile quickly turned into a gasp of surprise as two hands covered her eyes.
"Guess who?" a familiar voice said, "I'll give you a clue, he's the hottest, sexiest, most talented superstar in the WWE and he holds a title belt." Smiling to herself, Lexi decided to have a little fun of her own.
"Well with that description it could only be one person, but what are you doing here shouldn't you be on SMACKDOWN. I never had you down as the type of person who would just up and leave Mr. Batista." She felt the hands pulled away from her face she turned to see the shocked look on John Cena's face, unable to control herself she burst out laughing leaning against him for support. When her hysterics had died down she straightened herself up and smiled at Cena who had yet to utter any words.
"Bloody hell the look on you face was absolutely priceless you know, and you can say something if you want to." Lexi said as Cena closed his mouth and took a deep breath and slowly let it out.
"Did you really think it was Batista?" he asked in a small voice. Smiling softly Lexi placed a light kiss on his cheek.
"No not really I was just playin' with you it was too tempting not to say it," chuckling softly Lexi looked at Cena who had a slight smile on his face, "Not to sound horrible or anythin' but was there somethin' you wanted?"
"Um yeah actually I was on my way to catering an' I was wonderin' if you wanted to join me?" Cena asked and Lexi was certain she could she the faintest traces of a blush on his face.
"Wait a minute, you're not meant to be here." Lexi said.
"Shawty I'm the WWE champion, I am definitely meant to be here. It's just that the doctors said I shouldn't be here. So we gonna eat or not?" Cena asked, quickly changing the subject. Lexi narrowed her eyes in mock-annoyance.
"It's a good thing that my stomach is about to join the conversation otherwise I would be locking you in the boot of a cab and sending you far away from here," she then smiled and carried on, "But as it happens I'm starvin' so lets eat," The two then proceeded to catering, talking and joking all the way. When they arrived, Lexi heard her name mentioned on the monitor, turning and moving closer she sighed in frustration as she heard Bischoff calling her out on the Highlight Reel.
"Oh crap, I'm hungry and I want food and now stupid bloody Eric wants me to go out to the stupid bloody Highlight Reel so he can stupid bloody yell at me." Lexi frowned in annoyance.
"You want me to come with you?" Cena asked. Sighing Lexi turned to leave.
"Nah I'm ok just make sure you watch what goes on out there ok, I don't wanna end up with stitches in my head too." With that Lexi turned and headed out to the ring.
For the second time in her career, Linkin Parks Faint blasted through the arena. Lexi bounced out to the top of the ramp, as the crowd gave her a standing ovation, raising her hands to signal for more noise, she strolled down the ramp, slapping a few of the fans hands. Sliding into the ring, she ran to the corner and climbed to the second turnbuckle and once again signalled for more noise. Jumping down she took a microphone off Lillian and faced the two men in front of her. Raising her mic to speak, the diva stopped as a Lexi chant was started up. Smiling and waving to the fans, Lexi raised her mic and spoke to Bischoff.
"Hey Bitchoff, I heard you wanted to see me. Soooooooooooooooooooo what's up?" Lexi grinned at the irritated General Manager.
"What's up? What's up?" Eric asked in a disbelieving voice, " The thing is Lexine, last week you interfered in matters that did not concern you. You stuck your nose where it didn't belong and I wan…."
"Woooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah wait a minute Eric," Lexi interrupted, "Matter that didn't concern me huh? Those matters concerned me because Vince McMahon told me to do something about it. I went to him, said he had do stop what you and your little lap dog were doin' so he told me that he was gonna let me decide how to stop it. So I decided and stopped it." Lexi finished with a satisfied smile.
"Well if you hadn't noticed Miss Andrews, Vince is not here tonight so you really have no one to confirm your story. As I was saying earlier, I want you to publicly apologise to me, Chris Jericho, Carlito and to these fans for ruining last weeks main event." Eric smiled evilly as Lexi raised her middle finger to him.
"Well you want an apology then you're gonna get one, I'm sorry," the crowd sat in stunned silence as did everyone backstage but Lexi continued, "I'm sorry that all you people have to put up with this asshole of a General Manager each and every week. I'm also sorry that you have to see your favourite superstars held back, degraded and un-allowed to wrestle. But what I'm not sorry for is doing what I decided to do last week and I'm not sorry for helping John Cena and I'm definitely not sorry that I punched you last week Jerky. How's that for an apology?" Lexi grinned then staggered backwards as Eric's hand came swiftly across her face, the slap echoing through the arena.
"You think you're so funny Lexine, well let's see how funny you are in your first wrestling match on RAW. You've got the time it takes to clear this ring to prepare as your first match will be against none other than Chris Jericho." Laughing loudly Eric and Jericho stepped back to discuss a game plan for the match. Lexi stood very still, mentally re-reading her original contract knowing that Eric was well within his rights to put her in this match.
When the ring was clear, Jericho stepped forward at the same time as Lexi, Eric signalled for the bell as she realised that he was the referee. Focusing her attention back to Jericho she grabbed his hand as he went to slap her and pushed him back.
Without hesitating, Lexi performed a perfect drop kick on Jericho before doing a standing moonsault on him and going for the cover. Instead of hearing a three count she felt herself being lifted up and flung across the ring, looking up Lexi saw Eric Bischoff telling Jericho to get on with it. Lexi stood and attempted to clothesline Jericho but he countered it with an Irish Whip, as she bounced of the ropes she felt someone grab her foot and she slammed face first into the mat. Feeling herself pulled out of the ring she was once again slammed to the mat when someone began to punch and kick her. She tried to cover up and was almost thankful when she was rolled back into the ring. That feeling quickly disappeared when she found herself in the Walls of Jericho, yelling in pain Lexi felt Eric slapping her across the back of her head.
Gritting her teeth Lexi looked up and spat at him, right in the eye. Slapping her once again Eric decided to end the match and signalled for the bell, cursing loudly Lexi began to yell.
"I didn't tap you bastard! I didn't tap you arsehole! You are gonna pay for this!" Lexi began to growl in pain as Jericho refused to break the hold. She was just about to tap when Jericho let go, crawling to the corner she propped herself up on the first turnbuckle and saw John Cena beating the hell out of Carlito. She looked on in satisfaction as he F-U'd Carlito, dedicated to Jericho, Cena kicked Carlito out of the ring and stared at Jericho as if daring him to come into the ring. When the three had gone Cena turned to Lexi and immediately began helping her up.
"Come on take it slowly now that's it, just put your weight on me ok." Cena said, taking great care not to hurt her already injured back. Helping her walk across the ring, Cena helped her through the ropes before lifting her off the apron and down to the floor. Walking was exceedingly painful for Lexi and they made slow progress, in the end Cena picked her up and carried her to the trainers' office and set her down gently on the bed. Neither uttered a word as she was examined, the trainer left the room after giving her strict instructions to take a hot bath and some painkillers. The two sat in silence, both getting a feeling of déjà vu from the previous week.
"I didn't tap you know." Cena nearly fell off his chair in surprise when Lexi suddenly spoke, looking up he met her eyes to see they were filled with sadness. Sighing, Cena dragged his chair over to the bad where she was seated and sat in front of her. Taking her hands in his Cena squeezed them.
"I know you didn't sweetie, you were nowhere near tapping and I know that you would never quit. Don't beat yourself up about it ok, Eric has it in for the both of us and I know that he's gonna make a big deal out of tonight's match so don't worry about it ok." Cena smiled when he saw the light grin on Lexis face and then frowned again as he remembered his match for next week against Jericho and Carlito. "Those two are gonna pay for hurting Lexi, how they could bring themselves to lay their hands on a woman I have no idea." Cena thought.
Looking at the screen Cena once again smiled as he saw it was time for the world premiere of Right Now. Sitting on the bed so that he could see the screen properly he wrapped hi arm around Lexi as she laid her head on his shoulder, both content in each other's company. When the song had finished, Lexi nodded her head in approval and smiled up at Cena.
"Hey listen, I was thinkin' that coz' we didn't get chance to eat before how bout we go out for some food after the show, or if your back isn't up to it the we could go back to the hotel and order room service or somethin'?" Inwardly Cena prayed she would say yes and waited for her answer.
"Sure, I'd love to and I'll be ok to go out just as long I don't strain me back to much." Lexi answered with a shy smile. Cena smiled back and stood up.
"Ok then, well I've got to go do some stuff but I'll swing by the divas locker room after the show to pick you up." He smiled at her and then left, leaving Lexi to her thoughts. Deciding she would take a shower in the locker room, Lexi got up and slowly began to make her way to the divas locker room. On her way there she saw someone she had been dying to talk to since she arrived on RAW, walking as quickly as she could without hurting herself she caught up to the superstar.
"Excuse me, Mr Hogan?" Hulk turned and smiled at the young diva.
"Please call me Hulk lil lady, what can I do for you?" Hulk smiled at the diva who was in obvious pain.
"I know this probably sounds stupid but I was wondering if I could have your autograph?" Lexi smiled sheepishly and then genuinely as the megastar signed the paper she was holding. Thanking him she turned to go but found Hulks hand on her arm.
"Hey listen, my son thinks you're amazing and he has a huge crush on you, so would you be able to give me an autograph for him and one for me as well?" Nodding in surprise, Lexi signed two pieces of paper and handed them to Hulk. Smiling she turned and went to the divas locker room where she was interrogated by Christy who had somehow discovered that she was going out for food with John Cena and began turning it into a wedding.
After convincing Christy it was just two friends going out for something to eat, Lexi showered and changed into something more comfortable and less sweaty. She decided on faded flared jeans with black flamed converse and a black t-shirt with a fire in the middle of it. She did her hair in two plaits and grabbed her denim jacket before sitting down to watch Hogan and HBK face to face. When the show had finished a knock was heard at the door, Christy volunteered to open it whilst running towards the door. She pulled it open to reveal a smiling John Cena, who had changed into black cargo pants, white trainers and a white The Champ Is Here t-shirt, he held a black jacket and topped it off with a Chain Gang cap to hide the plaster covering the stitches.
"Hey is Lexi ready to go?" Christy turned and walked towards the bathroom whilst mouthing Oh My God to Lexi. Shaking her head Lexi grabbed her purse and walked out of the locker room. Smiling up at Cena they began to walk slowly down the corridor, as they stepped out into the cool night air, Cena wrapped his arm around Lexis shoulders as she put hers around his back. They then began walking without a care in the world, just enjoying each other's company.