Chapter 22
When Nicolette and Dave got back to first aid room, Jeff was waiting for them. He had cut in his foot, but he had cleaned it himself, other cuts he had let for Nicolette to take care of.
"Well, good that you helped me at least a little." Nicolette stated, when she saw the bandage on his foot.
"You were so busy with Shawn that I decided to do something myself." He grinned. "Did Amy go to hospital with him?"
"Yeah, she did." Nicolette answered. "But now you have to tell, what you two really did on the ring."
"Isn't that obvious? We helped Dave and Shawn." He said. "Ouch, be careful. That did hurt." He gasped when Nicolette cleaned a cut in his forehead and she was a bit rough.
"That was for smart mouthing to me." She smiled sweetly.
"You have really merciless woman here, Dave." Jeff watched Dave, who was grinning. "She is just like Ames."
"I know."
"Alright, Hardy. I'm still waiting an explanation." She looked at Jeff sternly.
"Okay. When Adam told me that he had seen Dawn Marie here, I got worried." He started. "We were quite sure that Ric was on ringside as well, and then Randy told that Matt had been sneaking around Amys lockerroom door. Amy came to talk to me before I had the change to go to her."
"You should have told me or at least Dave that Dawn is here." Nicolette stated.
" I know, but I was so flustered about it myself, so it didn't even come to my mind." Jeff said. " But anyway, we watched first that what Ric and Dawn were going to do. When they got to the ring, we ran like fire behind us and got there just in the right time."
"We all saw what happened in the ring." Nicolette said. "I want to know, why you did this?"
"Like I said, Dave and Shawn needed help." Jeff sighed. "It seemed like they were the under dogs from the very beginning. We couldn't let Hunter and Matt win."
"But I'm sure that Bischoff would have done something, if it would have come too rough in the ring." Nicolette stated.
Dave let out a small snort and Jeff seemed sarcastic.
"I didn't see Bischoff anywhere near when the match started, did you Nikki?"
"No, I didn't" She answered quietly.
"You know that he will not get his hands dirty, what it comes to Shawn. He hates his guts."
"But Dave is the champ..." Nicolette tried.
"I'm not exactly best friends with Bischoff either. Though he hates Shawn more than me." Dave said.
Nicolette just nodded, she knew that very well. Then Jeff continued.
"We didn't actually have so much time to plan what we would do. We just decided to watch first do Dave and Shawn need a help and when it seemed to be the case, we ran to the ring and beat the hell out of Matt, Hunter, Ric and Dawn Marie."
"You and Amy have never been good in planning." Nicolette muttered and Dave laughed a little when he heard it. Jeff catched only few words.
"What?"
"I just said that your plans usually suck." She grinned slightly.
"Why do you think so?" Just when Jeff had asked that, the door was thrown open and Lilian rushed in.
"Jeff Hardy, here you are! What the hell you two were doing?" She was furious, because she had been very worried, when she saw Amy and Jeff getting to the ring. And she couldn't find Jeff anywhere after the match.
"Alright, you are ready now." Nicolette smiled to Jeff and looked around the room. "Everything seems to be in place here, so I guess we can go to hospital to see Shawn and Amy." She watched to Dave, who smiled and took her arm.
"You are right, we should go."
"Hey guys..." Jeff tried to get them stay, he had seen expression in Lilians face and that look didn't know good for him.
"I'll call you when we have news about Shawns knee." Nicolette watched to Lilian. "Don't be too hard on him."
"I won't. I just have some things to say." She didn't look too happy.
"Good luck, Hardy." Dave grinned before he closed the door leaving Jeff to explain his actions to his girlfriend.
Dave and Nicolette drove to the hospital where Shawn had been taken and after checking on reception, they found the room where Shawn was. Amy was just talking with him, when they entered the room.
"Hey. How are you, Shawn?" Nicolette took a chair and sat next to his bed.
"I'm having a mild concussion." Shawn answered. " And my knee tendon is injured."
"Is it bad?" Nicolette sounded a bit worried.
"It doesn't need a surgery, but walking with crutches for three or four weeks."
"Well, that is good to hear. I thought that it would be worse." Nicolette said.
"I'm happy that you were wrong." Shawn grinned slightly.
"Me too." She laughed and then she looked to her sister. "Jeff told us why you were on the ring. That was stupid, but in the other hand I'm glad that you did it."
"I know it was a little stupid, but we just couldn't let them deal with all four by themselves." Amy said.
"That was more than little stupid." Dave stated dryly.
"I'm sorry. I can't say anything else." Amy said quietly.
"I know you are." Nicolette said. "And if you ask me, you did the right thing. But I wish you had told me."
"We had no time. We knew that you were patching Randy and didn't want to bother you."
"You wouldn't been bothering. I wouldn't have stopped you, if you think so." Nicolette answered.
"Wouldn't you?" Amy was amazed, she thought that her sister would had done everything to prevent them from going to the ring.
"Yeah, wouldn't you?" Dave raised his eyebrows for Nicolette's words.
"No, I would not." She said with authority.
Dave and Nicolette stayed in hospital twenty minutes still and when they were leaving, she looked to Amy.
"Are you coming back with us?"
"I don't know..."
"Ames, just go. I will be alright and I will get out of here tomorrow." Shawn said. "And you look really tired anyway."
"You are right, I am tired." She yawed. "But I want to stay with you."
"You can come here tomorrow and we can leave together. You should really have some sleep."
"Alright. I'm coming with you." Amy said and stood up. Then she bent to give a kiss to Shawn. "I'll see you tomorrow."
"Not, if I see you first." Shawn grinned.
"Ha-ha. You are so funny." Amy stated dryly.
"Let's go. Don't try to make passes on cute nurses, Shawn." Nicolette winked to him smiling.
He just smiled and waived his hand, when Dave, Amy and Nicolette left the room. They drove to the hotel and there Nicolette wanted to talk with her sister, so they agreed that she would spend the night in her and Shawns room. They talked for a moment and when Nicolette saw that Amy was very tired, she succested that they would go to bed. Amy got the feeling, that there was something special, Nicolette wanted to tell her, but when she didn't say anything, Amy didn't ask about it. She knew that her sister would tell it, when she felt that was right time.
On the next morning after the call to Shawn, Amy went to hospital to pick him up. He was waiting her already at reception and then they drove to airport, where Dave, Nicolette and others were waiting for them. Shawn flew with rest of the crew to next show town, though his match there was cancelled. When they arrived to the hotel, where they spent a night, Nicolette and Amy went to do some shopping and they found a wedding present for Randy and Samantha. Dave and Shawn had agreed with them, that they could do the present shopping, specially Dave didn't want to argue over it anymore, and he knew that if he would go with two redheads, arguing wouldn't be avoided.
When sisters got back to the hotel, Matt came to them in lobby, and they both tensed.
"Amy, Nic. Don't worry, I'm not going to do anything. I just want to say something."
"What?" Amy barked, she was still an alert.
"I just want you both know, that I'm alright with you both getting married." He said with sisters surprise. "You, Amy with Shawn and you, Nikki with Dave."
"Thanks." Nicolette said and her voice was full of surprise.
"And you can relax what it comes to me, I won't be bothering you anymore." With that he left the sisters to watch after him when he left the lobby.
"Do you believe him?" Nicolette turned to Amy.
"I'm not sure... Maybe."
Nicolette went with Amy to her and Shawn's room when she noticed that Shawn wasn't there. She had had a strange feeling after Dave had popped the question and although she said yes – and she loved him – she didn't know what to do. There was all that hustle what it came to weddings, she had seen it before and she wasn't really up to that. But she knew that it was all an excuse, she just wasn't sure if she wanted to marry a wrestler, who would be home maybe couple of days out of month. And she wasn't sure if she could handle the pressure of being mrs. Bautista. Though, one of the major reasons for this hesitation was that, what had happened with her ex boyfriend, Steven, who she was supposed to marry. But then Steven was two months in Europe in business trip and when he came back to States, his newly wed bride came with him and this bride wasn't Nicolette. That was really hard for her, but then Amy managed to lure her to work in RAW and she got fast over Steven. Only this Daves proposing brought it all back to her mind, and she had been thinking that a lot after her and Amys conversation about their last names.
"Amy, I don't know if I can do this." Nicolette looked at Amy with serious expression.
"You can't do what?" Amy asked and got worried, her sister looked so serious.
"I don't think that I can marry Dave." Nicolette said quietly.
Amy stared at her for a moment and barked then.
"What!" She had noticed that something had been bothering Nicolette, but she wasn't expecting this kind of comment from her.