Chapter 6

Samaire and Austin watched Traci and Punk make their way to the ring. Samaire was about ready to go when she heard head booker for ROH Gabe Sapolsky call her name.

"Samaire wait, change of plans. There's going to be a run-in at the end of the match. Tell Traci she's going to win tonight – now go" he said quickly.

"What………" Samaire started to reply but was pulled through the curtain by Austin.

The crowd went nuts at the sight of Samaire, which resulted in all her pre-match nerves disappearing. When the bell rang Samaire and Traci got nose to nose in the centre of the ring.

"Gabe said change of plans – run in interference and you win" Samaire said quietly.

"God, now?" Traci replied before shoving Samaire. The crowd booed.

"Yep" Samaire replied before slapping Traci across the face to a large cheer from the vocal crowd.

The match was highly competitive with the advantage constantly changing. Towards the end of the match Samaire caught Traci with a powerful DDT. She pulled her to one of the corners and pointed to the turnbuckle. The crowd went nuts – they knew what was coming. Punk jumped up on the edge of the ring and tried to hit Samaire but was pulled down by Austin. As they went at it outside, Samaire climbed up on the turnbuckle. As she prepared to hit Traci with the shooting star press, someone from behind pushed her off the turnbuckle and into the ring. The crowd booed. With the referee distracted on the outside, Samaire pulled herself up to look at her attacker. As she looked up Samaire gasped and fell back again in shock. She could not believe it could be true. However she was pulled up by the attacker and kicked in the stomach. Samaire doubled over in pain. As she made her way back up to her feet, she turned around and was met with a powerful chick kick to the head. Samaire looked at the face of Trish before blacking out.

The hospital

Trish sat nervously in the hospital waiting room. She hated this place – it brought back horrible memories of little under a month ago.

'The day I lost everything' she thought to herself sadly.

'Only now it's Samaire who faces loosing everything'.

She looked across the room and instantly wished she hadn't. Trish looked up into three pairs of eyes that were intensely focused on her. Trish dropped her eyes to the floor in front of her as a single tear rolled down her cheek.

'They have every reason in the world to hate me' she thought to herself.

Traci glared at Trish as she wiped a tear away.

"Why the hell is she still here" Traci whispered to Austin.

Austin just shrugged his shoulders as he watched Trish pick at her nails. AJ overheard Traci and found himself getting annoyed.

"Maybe she feels guilty, maybe it was an accident, maybe she wants to make things right? Give her a break will you" he angrily whispered to Traci.

Traci looked at him stunned before lowering her head. AJ looked at her guiltily. He didn't mean to snap at Traci but he had seen enough of Samaire and Trish's relationship over the last month to make him believe that no matter what was said, they really did care about each other deeply.

As AJ paced around the room he saw a familiar figure exit from the elevator door down the far end of the corridor.

"Hey guys I'm going to get a coffee, want one?" he asked quickly, watching the figure beckon him over.

Traci and Austin shook there heads. AJ headed off to the elevator.

"How is she?" asked Jerry Jarrett as AJ approached him.

"She's still unconscious at the moment, but the doctors believe it's only a concussion. She should be ok once she wakes up" AJ replied.

"You really care about her don't you" Jerry said with a smile as he studied AJ's worried face.

AJ changed the topic.

"What did you think of the match?" he asked.

"Well I was definitely impressed with Samaire and Traci – they work well together. But Trish seems a bit of a risk. Can't have her sending all my diva's to the hospital now can I" he replied, watching Austin comfort Trish in the waiting room.

"That won't happen again. You need Trish in TNA, her and Samaire work really well together and Samaire needs her. They'll both be valuable to the women's division" AJ rambled nervously.

"My my, it seems AJ is falling in love" Jerry laughed.

"What? I'm not in love – I think you need them both" AJ replied, turning a pale red.

Jerry laughed. "AJ you're rambling again. Before you go off and try to sign Trish aren't you forgetting she's under contract with the WWE?"

"Nope, not anymore. Vince fired her because she wanted to change from Raw to Smackdown to avoid seeing Corey. Apparently with Stephanie returning from her honeymoon Corey was only going to be in charge of Raw and Stephanie would run Smackdown"

"How do you know all this?" Jerry asked curiously.

"I called Trish in hoping to get her to sort her issues out with Samaire. I got her to come to Ring of Honor today hoping they could talk, but as you see it didn't quite work out that way did it"

"I'll think about what you've said" Jerry said, as he and AJ made their way back to the waiting room.

As AJ walked back to his seat a doctor approached him.

"AJ?" he asked.

"Yeah that's me, what's wrong?"

The doctor smiled.

"Nothing's wrong, Samaire is awake and asking to see you"

Samaire's hospital room

"Hey Sam, how are you feeling" AJ asked as he approached the bed.

"Hey, not so bad actually, just a bit of a headache" she replied, smiling up at AJ.

She reached out and grabbed his hand.

"Thank you" she said as he wrapped his hands around hers.

"For what?" he replied, studying her face. Even in a hospital bed she looked beautiful to him.

"For being here for me when I need you, for getting me a job and for always looking after me when you don't have to" Samaire replied.

"Well then you will thank me more after this" he said "I got you an even better job"

"What? Where?" she replied, slowly sitting up.

Jerry appeared at the door.

"Welcome to TNA Samaire Davis" he said.