Author's Note: Okay, okay, I'm guilty again of not updating in a while, sorry guys! This chapter is basically a filler, sorry, but I'll try and put up a better one soon. Sorry about the preview for last chapter not being this one... Anyway, thanks to Jessy Antichrist, Normal Chick, Latisha C, AniLuLu, huntersgirl, MickDaCommish, Taka-Ichi-Sisters, The Zazu, and darkprincess02 for the reviews. Please keep them coming!

Everything you say to me

Takes me one step closer to the edge

And I'm about to break

I need a little room to breathe

'Cause I'm one step closer to the edge

And I'm about to break

I find the answers aren't so clear

Wish I could find a way to disappear

All these thoughts they make no sense

I find bliss in ignorance

Nothing seems to go away

Over and over again

-One Step Closer by Linkin Park

Inside of Me

Chapter 7

"I don't like this... I don't like this at all," Lita announced to her husband, Matt Hardy, as she continued packing her things up for the flight to the next city on their schedule. Matt looked down at the brochure he was fiddling with, not replying. His eyes moved back to Lita as he swung his legs off of the edge of the bed. "I mean, come on!" Lita threw her arms in the air. "She's twenty-one; she's not old enough to do these things on her own! And she's with Randy Orton! God... She'll probably end up doing something stupid, again!"

Matt licked his lips, exhaling softly. "Lita," he said in all seriousness, "You've gotta stop ripping down on Mina, sweetie..." His comment was ignored.

Lita stuffed a few shirts into the suitcase lying open on the bed with more force than necessary. "She screwed up with that Chad kid, and now she's going to screw up again," she muttered, her movements jerky. "Mina messes up wherever she goes. And now that she's legal for nearly everything? God only knows... Next time I see my daughter it will probably be when I'm picking her up from jail for a DUI."

"Lita," Matt stopped her, his voice firm. "You and I both know that Mina is not irresponsible. We raised her well. Randy Orton is nearly forty, Li, forty. Mina isn't that stupid." He closed his eyes for a moment, before Lita spoke, her voice filled with emotion.

"I know, Matt, I know... It's just that... What if... What if she does screw up? I don't want to see her hurt again. She's gone through enough. She needs someone to turn to, at the least, and Kane... He isn't her father, much less someone to turn to!" Lita exclaimed, her voice breaking, her hands resting on the sides of the suitcase.

Matt reached out, touching her arm gently and looking into her eyes. "We're never going to be the people she turns to, Lita," he said softly, knowing that her words did not just come from the situation with Kane.

"Why...Why didn't she ever tell me?" Lita asked with a dry sob. "She never told me what was bothering her and what was going on..." she closed her eyes, feeling shaky on her legs. "I had to punish her for fighting, but maybe if I would've known...if I would've pressed harder...she would've been okay."

"It's all right," Matt said, conviction lacking in his voice.

"No, it's not. If I would've told Mina about this she wouldn't be risking herself with Kane!" Lita shouted.

"That sounds familiar," Matt commented softly.

Lita turned and looked at him, a lead weight forming in her stomach. "Matt..." she whispered. How must it feel for him, first to see his girlfriend-at the time-tortured by Kane, and then, nearly twenty-two years later to see his daughter being deceived by the same man? Lita sat down next to him, holding his hand tightly. He laid her head on his shoulder.

"Hang in there, Lita... She's meant to do this; we couldn't have kept it from her forever and you know she would've gone out seeking him if it had gone down any other way."

"I hate not being able to help her..." Lita sighed.

"She has to learn these things on her own, Li... All we can do is pray that everything turns out okay."

Lita nodded numbly. All she could do was pray... Pray that Mina wasn't emotionally scarred after this, pray that Kane's deceits didn't go unnoticed...and pray that, in the end, her little girl would still be her little girl.