Chapter 21
Nicolette and Dave flew straight to the next show town together, when Amy went to Shawns home, because they had few days off before the next show. Nicolette had to do some dress shopping, because Randy was going to marry his long time girlfriend Samantha in three weeks, and she had nothing to wear in their wedding. Nicolette and Dave had a minor argue about what they should buy them as a wedding present and finally they decided, that they would buy something together with Amy and Shawn.
They didn't talk anything about their own weddings, and Nicolette was still a bit overwhelmed about what had happened. Dave didn't want to rush her to anything and they let that subject to be, at least for that moment. But they had agreed that Nicolette would move to DC, when she just would have time to arrange the move.
Shawn and Amy in the otherhand talked about getting married, but they didn't make any permanent decisions yet. Amy met Shawns son Cameron and daugher Cheyenne, and both liked the sparky redhead from the first seeing. Also Amy liked them and she adored children anyway.
Amy and Shawn came to their hotel on that morning when the show was. When Nicolette went to see her sister and Shawn, Amy seemed a bit concerned.
"What's wrong?" Nicolette looked at her with a questioning expression.
"I'm not sure." Amy sighed. "I'm just a bit worried about this nights match. Matt said that they have something on their sleeves."
"That does sound a bit concerning. But I'm sure that Shawn and Dave can handle it, what ever it is." Nicolette sounded confident, but she was still a bit worried, she just didn't want to show it to her sister.
"I hope that you are right."
"So, did you meet Shawns kids?" Nicolette changed the subject.
"Yes, I did. They are great and Cheyenne is so cute." Amy smiled widely.
Nicolette spoke with Amy and Shawn for a moment still before she went back to her and Daves room.
Dave and Nicolette drove together to the arena, where show was on that night. Amy had the first match on that night, after that she went to first aid room. She had a small cut on her arm and while Nicolette was patching it, she stated.
"Nikki, you are worried about the main event also, aren't you?"
"Yes, I actually am." Nicolette sighed. "I don't trust Matt and I certainly don't trust Hunter. They are up to something."
"You are right. Randy told me that he had seen Matt sneaking around my lockerroom door, before I and Shawn came, but he didn't know exactly what Matt was doing there." Amy answered.
"That does sound suspicious." Nicolette answered.
After Amy had left the first aid room, she knocked to lockerroom door, which Jeff and Adam shared. She popped her head in and looked to Jeff.
"Can I talk to you for a moment?" She glanced to Adam. "In private?"
"Sure. Where?" Jeff wondered that what she had in mind.
"In my lockerroom."
"Yeah, wait a sec."
When Jeff and Amy had gone, Adam thought that those two were up to something. He grinned slightly, Hunter and Matt might learn quite a lesson on that night. He just hoped that it wasn't other way around. He thought that maybe he had done the right thing by telling Jeff that, when he had arrived to arena, he was sure that he had seen Dawn Marie.
A while before their match started, Dave came to see Nicolette and she gave him a tight hug.
"Be careful there, both you and Shawn." She said with a serious face.
"We will be, don't worry." Dave stroke her cheek gently. "I love you."
With that he left the room and Nicolette sighed looking after him. Before Daves and Shawns match started, Randy came to see Nicolette. He had taken quite a beating from Gene Snitsky and Nicolette had a lot patching in him. When she was doing that, Adam came to first aid room.
"Have you seen Amy or Jeff?"
"No, I haven't." Nicolette watched him questioningly.
"I can't find them anywhere. Dave and Shawn are going to ring in two minutes." Adam looked worried.
Nicolette, Adam and Randy watched in first aid room, when Dave and Shawn went to ring. When Matts entrance theme started, Nicolette couldn't believe her eyes.
"What the hell? What Dawn Marie is doing there with Matt?"
"Beats me." Adam answered. "Though I saw her before the show started. And told Jeff about it."
"Why didn't you tell me? Does Amy know about this?"
"I guess Jeff told her."
"But what about Dave and Shawn? They didn't know about this." Nicolette was a little worried.
"They do now." Randy said dryly.
"This match will end in bloody mess." Adam stated, when he saw Hunter and Ric Flair approached the ring.
"You are right. And not in Daves and Shawns favour." Randy said.
"We.. You have to do something." Nicolette was very nervous and scared for Shawn and Dave.
"I wonder... Maybe this is the reason you didn't find Amy and Jeff." Randy looked thoughfully at Adam.
"Might be. Maybe they have some plan..."
Dave and Shawn watched in a maze when Matt got to the ring with Dawn Marie. They had no idea, that she would be there. They hadn't heard that she would been resigned after she lost to Amy. They had anticipated that Ric would be in ring side and when Motorhead song hit the arena, Dave and Shawn saw that they were right. Match started with a speed after Dawn and Ric had got off the ring and Shawn started getting Matt against him. They were very equal, though Shawn glanced towards Dawn and Ric once in a while, as did Dave in their corner. Then Matt got the advantage and isolated Shawn on his and Hunters corner. Hunter was mugging Shawn when Ric took referees attention. Matt tagged Hunter in and he was beating Shawn until he managed to tag Dave. Then the situation changed for their favour again. They were wrestling for a while without intervenes from Ric or Dawn, but when Shawn was ready to do spinebuster to Matt, Dawn pushed him from ringside so, that he fell and failed on his attempt. Matt got the advantage then, but Dave was able to prevent his Twist of Fate attempt. Then Hunter got to ring and started beating Dave, when Matt was hitting Shawn. Dawn and Ric joined them. He went to help Hunter and she went on Matts aid.
In the first aid room Nicolette looked to Adam and Randy.
"This looks really bad." She sounded very worried.
"Yeah, it does. Shawn and Dave have really their hand full." Adam stated. "Come on, Shawn!" He yelled, when Hunter covered Shawn, but Dave came to his partners help before the referee had counted to three.
"Why the ref doesn't do anything about this?" Nicolette asked.
"This is no disqualification match." Adam stated. "Anything is allowed. I just wonder where Amy and Jeff are. I thought they would be clued to monitor..."
"Yeah, I wonder that too. Amy was a bit nervous before the match and..." Nicolette started, when he saw that Hunter got the sledgehammer from Ric. "Look out, Dave!"
Then she turned away from the monitor, because she couldn't watch what would happen next.
"Hey guys. You don't have to wonder anymore where Amy and Jeff are." Randy said smiling. "Nikki, look what is happening."
Both, Dave and Shawn were surprised, when Amy and Jeff appeared suddently to ringside. Amy pulled Dawns hair violently and hissed on the same time.
"I should have guessed, that we can't get rid of you so easily."
Dawn put a good fight against her, but Amy managed to get her out of the ring, while Jeff got in the ring. He stared his brother for a moment and when Matt did a fast attack towards him, he found himself flying out of the ring. He was up fast, though he had landed hard on floor, and got back in the ring again. Dave had used the distraction from Amy and Jeff for his advantage and managed to get the sledgehammer and threw it out of the ring. Shawn managed to do clothesline to Matt, and then he nodded slightly to Jeff, who had now advantage over his brother. Dave had his hands full with Ric and Hunter and Shawn went to help him. Shawn threw Hunter out of the ring and then he retreated to corner to take a breath. Suddently he felt a sickening pain in his left foot and realized what was the reason for it, when he turned and saw Hunter grinning evilly outside of the ring sledgehammer in his hand. Then he saw Amy hitting Hunter with a chair.
Amy had seen Hunter to take the hammer, but she wasn't fast enough and her warning scream died to her lips, when she saw Hunter hitting Shawn on the backside of the knee. She had just managed to push Dawn to steel steps and she was totally out. Amy didn't hesitate a second, when she grapped the chair and hit Hunter with it, then she ran fast to other side of the ring. Shawn took a tight grip of the ropes and tried to kick Matt, who was coming closer to him, that didn't succeed and he fell on his knees. Dave saw this and pushed Ric violently to Jeff, who threw him out of the ring and went after him. Then Dave grapped Matt, who was just beating Shawn. When Hunter had recovered from the hit, he got to ring just to realize, that Shawn managed somehow to kick him straight to the chin. After this Dave reacted fast and did a spine buster to Matt, covered him and got the three count.
When the referee and counted to three, Matt and Hunter got fast out of the ring and Hunter helped Ric up from the floor, where Jeff had been beating him. Dawn was still out of the action and Matt, who was a bit dizzy himself, lifted her up. Then they started a slow walk to backstage. When Jeff had seen that Dave got the count, he went to Amy and both of them went to help Shawn, who was laying on the mat inside the ring. Dave went to them worried expression in his face and bent down to Shawn, who was grimacing of pain.
"Did the hammer hit bad?"
"My knee hurts like hell. Help me up."
Shawn got up with the help of Dave and Jeff and they left the ring when Daves entrance music came from speakers and the audience was yelling.
When they got to backstage, Nicolette, Randy and Adam were waiting them behind the curtains. She looked at Jeff and Amy, who were both bit brused. Amy seemed alright but Jeff looked like he needed a bit care taking.
"What the hell you two were doing out there?"
"My thoughts exactly." Dave looked at them too not so happy expression in his face. "You could have been seriously injured."
"We figured that you need help, when Adam had told Jeff that Dawn Marie was here and then Ric was coming to ring side too." Amy said looking worried. "But shouldn't you help Shawn? He is injured. I'll go change clothes."
"Yeah, let's go to first aid." Nicolette turned back to her sister before she followed Adam and Dave, who helped Shawn. "You still have some explaining to do."
Nicolette looked Shawns knee and decided that he should go to hospital for x-ray, because she didn't want to take any changes, in case the knee was seriously injured. Shawn agreed to this and after Adam had got his clothes from his lockerroom, they helped him to dress up. Then Amy and Dave got back to first aid room and Dave and Adam helped Shawn to ambulance which was waiting him. Amy jumped to ambulance too and Nicolette looked at her.
"Amy..."
"I'm going with him." She said stubbornly. "Jeff can explain you why we did it."
"Alright." Nicolette sighed. "I guess we will come to hospital after I have patched Jeff."
Then the ambulance doors were closed. Nicolette and Dave watched after it, and then she turned to him.
"Is this all over now?"
"I hope so, honey. I hope so." Dave said quietly and put his arm to her shoulders, then they got back inside.