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Burning Love

Adam couldn't sleep. How could he when he saw what Matt had done to Amy not that long ago. She had been beaten, badly; so badly in fact that he was afraid to even touch her for fear of hurting her more. Immediately after bringing the redhead into his room he locked and bolted the door, fearing the worst would happen if Matt came back to his room and realized Amy wasn't there.

So now here he sat, looking constantly between the locked door and the sleeping woman in his bed. She looked so sweet, so helpless, and Adam couldn't help but wonder why anyone would ever want to hurt her, especially someone who claimed to love her so much. He couldn't seem to understand why but he was suddenly shaken from his thoughts by Amy's screams.

"No! No please!" She screamed as she thrashed violently in the bed. "No please...don't...stop! Stop! No!" Adam quickly rushed over to the bed and tightly pulled Amy's body close to his.

"Amy, shhh..." Adam soothed. "Amy honey wake up it's just a nightmare. Wake up; everything's going to be okay."

"No...no..."Amy's body slowly stopped thrashing and she sank into Adam's embrace crying. "Adam it was horrible, Matt tried to...he tried..."

"Shhh...Amy it's going to be okay." Adam whispered while gently running a hand through her long red hair. "I won't let him hurt you, I promise."

Adam woke up the next morning and looked down at Amy. He must have fallen asleep sometime after he was trying to soothe Amy after she had a nightmare. He was sitting strait up, his back against the backboard of the bed, with the red head lying next to him, her head in his lap. He had always imagined what waking up with Amy in bed would be like and he had to admit that in all of his fantasies he never pictured his back and neck hurting so much.

Slowly, Amy started to stir and she looked up at Adam with a gentle smile.

"Good morning," she whispered as she sat up, "you didn't sleep like that all night did you? I'm so sorry."

"Nothing to be sorry for," Adam said finally stretching. "I gladly give up my bed for a beautiful woman in need any time."

"Well thank you, I don't know where I would have gone if it weren't for you." Amy said looking down.

"Speaking of that," Adam stated, "where are you going to go when we leave the hotel?"

"You're assuming I even get out of the hotel before Matt finds me," Amy said with a bitter laugh. "But I'm not sure, I mean he has a key to my house and I'm kind of afraid to go there for fear that he'll just show up."

"Well, you know I've got a pretty big house down in Tampa. My dog and I wouldn't mind the company." Adam offered. "I don't think that Matt would think to look for you there."

"That sounds really nice, but I couldn't intrude." Amy said once again gazing at the floor.

"You wouldn't be intruding at all, I would like to know that you were safe and like I said, my dog and I could use the company. But if you're worried about Matt finding you before we get out of here, I can call Jay and have him check around and see if he's still in the building."

"That would be good," Amy said with a smile as Adam picked up the phone to call his best friend.

"Hey Jay...I need a favor." Adam said hoping the blonde man would help him. "Yeah, she's with me, came here last night...well I need you to scope out the hotel and tell me if Hardy is still here...yeah, she's gonna stay with me but we need to get her out of the hotel safely...you're the greatest man! Thanks, call me back."

"What does Jason know?" Amy asked cautiously.

"Well, everything I know," Adam sighed, "I needed some help and I knew Jason would help. He won't tell anyone, and if anything he's going to help protect you, like I am."

"Oh, ok," Amy said as Adam's phone rang.

"Hey man what did you find...really? That's great! And you're sure about this...great, I'll see you on the plane. Bye." Adam hung up his phone and smiled at Amy. "Matt's gone and no longer in the building...pretty sure he already got on his flight home. Sounds like he might have given up."

"No Adam, Matt will never give me up," Amy said sadly, "he's just planning his next move."

Within mere hours Adam and Amy were getting off the plane in the Tampa airport. Tiredly the two grabbed their luggage and headed to the parking lot and were soon en route to Adam's house. During the ride Amy had reclined her chair and took a nap until she was gently shaken awake by Adam when the reached his house. The two grabbed the luggage from the car and got to the front door where they could hear the phone ringing inside. Adam clumsily fumbled his keys and finally found the right one and pushed the door open only to miss the call. The machine suddenly came on as Adam's dog came to inspect the new visitor.

"Adam...Adam are you there?" Jay's voice said frantically on the machine. "Adam, if you're there, you need to turn on the news right now, there's something you've got to see." Curious Adam and Amy looked at each other as they quickly rushed to the living room to turn on the television.

"And in breaking news...the home of WWE Superstar Diva, Amy 'Lita' Dumas, caught fire today. Miss Dumas was luckily not home though unable to be located at the moment as she is on tour with the WWE. Fire and police officials believe the cause of this fire to be arson..."