TITLE: Yesterday's Secrets Chapter One?

AUTHOR: Juliet3:16

EMAIL: PG - 13, for now.

CONTENT: VIOLENCE, ADULT LANGUAGE

CATEGORY: ADULT, DRAMA, ANGST

SPOILERS: 1999, with some AU stuff here, most notably Kemper, as well as some big AU stuff for the last half of that year (and a minor one for 2001 ducks), through WM XX with some changes to the time line.

SUMMARY AU: Owen Hart finds out some shocking information about his brother Bret's death. But are the secrets more harmful than the more devastating truth behind them?
DISCLAIMER: Everybody is either owned by the Jarretts, Vince or themselves.

DISTRIBUTION: WWOMB, anybody else, please ask.

NOTE: Yes, I will get into all about how Owen's alive and Bret's dead, I promise. Just not in this part. And this is part of where the AU for 2001 comes into play ducks again

Yesterday's Secrets

Chapter One

Remembering at home.

After visiting the graves of his parents and brother, Owen drove towards his parents' home, which was about to be sold. A Federation crew was going to film and interview him briefly in the Dungeon, where his father had not only trained him and his brothers, but also several others who had made their marks on wrestling, including Chris Jericho and the late Chris Benoit. After the crew got done with what they wanted of him, he was hoping to spend a few minutes alone, to say good - bye to the house he grew up in, before heading home to spend some time with his family before heading back to Albany for SMACKDOWN that Thursday.

As he pulled into the house he grew up in, a thousand memories flooded into him. Memories of laughter and playing; of tough times and closeness; of torment and tears in the Dungeon. Of a once close family. A family that was fractured through a variety of different circumstances over the years.

Owen knew he would have given anything to have the whole family together again.

Owen met up with his brother, Bruce, and subsequently met up with the WWF crew filming in the Dungeon. He answered the questions given to him as much as he could and wanted to. As the crew began to wrap up the interview and filming, Owen found himself pulled into a melancholy reminiscence of his times there.

"Owen?" Bruce called from upstairs, breaking Owen from his reverie

"Yeah?" he called up.

"I need you to come up here."

"Give me about five more minutes okay?" Owen asked, thinking that it was most likely Realtors who were showing the home to prospective buyers.

"I really think you need to come up here," Bruce replied and Owen noticed for the first time that his voice was strained.

"It's okay, we're just about done here," Todd Grisham told Owen, "all that's left is just a few moments of video footage of the Dungeon."

With a nod, Owen headed upstairs to where the family room had been. When he got there he saw Bruce with an angry and hard expression on his face. he turned and felt his own face harden into the same stony visage. He could not believe the audacity of what he saw.

There, standing in his childhood living room, was Shawn Michaels.

Sorry for the cliffy. More to come soon. Thanks for reading.