Chapter X – Meet the girls

Leaving the gym, Cleo felt like she had way too many things in her mind, when she bumped into someone, AGAIN That's it. I give up. She looked up to see none other than Dave Batista. She had fallen back, so he offered her a hand to pull her up that she gladly accepted.

"Hi! What are you doing around here?" he asked when she stood up.

"I just had my first train with Ric!" she said, pointing to the gym door behind her.

"Oh, yeah, H told me." she just nodded. "Are you liking it so far?"

"It's being..." she looked for a word to properly describe it. "...revealing."

He thought that answer was a little strange, but he didn't say anything about it. "Ok. I gotta go train myself, see you later." And he left towrds the gym. "Bye." Cleo said simply. Man, she thought, I wish I could have an ally like him in Evolution. If only he was... She suddenly stop walking and smacked herself in the forehead, causing for people around her to give her odd looks. She ignored them and started walking again. How dumb am I! Why didn't I think of him before? She thought to herself. I have to talk to Christy to come up with a plan. And she kept walking until she stopeed again. Unless he is alredy infected with the Hunter-Is-So-Great Virus...

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"Dave?" Christy asked, that night, when she helped Cleo get herself ready. Triple H had called her earlier to invite her to a dinner with the whole team. "Weren't you gonna try to talk to Ric Flair?"

Cleo nodded. "I did but- OUCH!" Chisty held her hands and the hair brush she was holding up. "It's not my fault your hair is all messy." And she started brushing violently again.

"Anyway, what I was saying was that I did talk to Ric, but he is way too devoted to H to help me." She started biting her nail, only to be violently smaked in the hand by Christy. Cleo looked at her oddly. She just ignored the look. "Yes, but how do you know Dave isn't?"

"I don't. I guess I'll have to find out tonight." She looked at Christy who now was, according to Cleo's opinion, trying to make a mountain of clothes on her bed. And she was being successful.

"What are you doing?" Cleo asked, slowly.

"Looking for the right... AHA!" the brunette was so scared with the yell that she even jumped in the chair she was sitting on. "I knew it had to be here!" Cleo stood and went to see what she had found. "What had?"

"The perfect dress!"

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"Isn't she coming?" Randy asked Hunter, notoriously angry.

"You know women, they always need the double of time." He looked at Stacy, who was alredy there with them in the lobby. "Stacy came late too."

"Five minutes late, not HALF AN HOUR late!"

"That is so unfair!" Jessie said. Jessie was Dave's 12 year old daughter. Sometimes, on their school holidays, she and her 10 year old sister Rory visited their father, because not only they loved wrestling and go to the pay-per-views, but also because they could spend some time with their dad. Dave was divorced, and they lived with his ex-wife. By now, the whole team of Evolution loved them, and they treated Hunter and Ric for Uncle, just like Cleo did with Chris. "Not all women are late!" she continued. "You men always come up with stereotypes for things you can't understand."

"Jessica! What do you know baut men?" her dad asked.

"She has a boyfriend..." Rory said smirking.

"What? Jessica!" Dave said.

She grabbed her sister's arm and twisted it. "You're gonna die, Gloria." She said between her teeth. "Don't call me that!"

"Oh, come on girls! No one here is killing anyone." Ric Flair ended the discussion. "And you don't need to go all mean old dad on them!" he said to Dave.

He raised his eyebrows. "Mean? Me?"

"Shut up, you all! She's here!" Hunter said, when she came out of the elevator.

"Wow!" Rory said. "She's even cuter live!" she turned to Dave "isn't she, dad?" "..." "Dad?" she looked at him and smiled. He was looking at Cleo with his mouth open. She was wearing a black dress that went to her feet, but it had a split that showed a her leg. Her hair was up, with just two long bangs that framed her face. She wore a pair of chandelier earrings and a matching necklace layed in her chest. After putting her all together, Christy had even released a few tears looking at her creation. That was Cleo's final confirmation that that girl was nuts.

"You know, if you don't close your mouth anytime soon, flies are gonna start coming in..." Rory said innocently.

Dave finally realized what she was talking about and closed his mouth, looking down at his daughter. "Ha ha, very funny."

"Hi guys!" Cleo said when she got to them.

"Wow, honey, you look lovely tonight!" Ric said. She blushed a little and smiled. "Thanks." Ric introduced her to Jessie and Rory. "Hi! Very nice to meet you!" Jessie said. "Yeah," Rory agreed, "we're your fans!" Cleo smiled happily. "Thanks, you're very nice."

"Well, if we're all ready, let's get going!" Hunter said, and he offered his arm to Jessie. Randy did the same with Stacy. Ric Flair offered his arm to Cleo, but Rory got there first. "Let's get going then!" she said smirking at her dad.

Cleo looked at him and blushed a little, when he offered her his arm. She even blushed more when she realized he was blushing too, but neither said anything. They got to the limo and Dave helped Cleo in. He couldn't help to notice that when she sat on the limo the split on her dress opened more and showed more of her leg.

The two young girls talked about Cleo the whole journey. Whispering, of course, so nobody would hear.

"What are you two girls whispering about?" Ric asked.

"None of your business." Jessie answered.

The two of them lived telling Dave he should get a girlfriend, and sometimes helping him a little. But now it seemed he wouldn't need any help... and they both aproved Cleo, because they loved her from SmackDown and Raw and she seamed very nice.

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The whole dinner went out very good, but Cleo wasn't able to talk to Dave about what she wanted to, cause Hunter was there all the time. Randy and Stacy talked with each other most of the time, and they seamed to be in a good mood, until one point. When they were eating desert, when Randy answered something she had said a little louder and more violently than needed, and she started yelling too, and he yelled some more, and she left, and he went after her, still yelling. Cleo was shocked, but no one else seamed to have noticed it.

After a while, she couldn't control herself anymore. "I'm sorry. I am the only one who just saw that?"

"What?" Hunter asked, seaming really confused. "Oh, you mean them? Oh, yeah, I forgot you were new."

"See, that happens every time they go out, with or without us." Dave told her. "We just don't even care anymore."

"If they're always arguing like that, why do they keep dating?" she asked.

"I have no idea." Dave simply answered.

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When they got back to the hotel, Jessie and Rory told everybody they were too tired and wanted to go to sleep. They also told Ric and Hunter that they were too tired too, but when Dave said he would take them to their rooms, they said that would be rude for him to leave Cleo alone so early. Ric got the idea and told Hunter to play along. "After all", he told him in a low voice, "it would be a way to make sure she would stay loyal to Evolution." H agreed and played along. So, Cleo and Dave were left alone.

"Sorry about that." He said. "I mean, they're always trying to hook me up with someone, I swear, someday they'll drive me crazy."

"I think it's cute and nice of them. And they are right... it is too early." She said smiling. For one thing, she wanted to talk to him about Triple H, and for another, she was really liking Dave's company, she had talked to him during the whole dinner.

She smiled too. "Well, do you want to go for a walk in the gardens, then?"

"That would be lovely." She answered.

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A/N:

Hey guys! By now I should be celebrating like crazy about reaching the two digit number of chapters, but the time isn't the best for celebrations.

I think it totally sank in today. Me and my friend Melissa cried our eyes out watching the tribute show to Eddie and Chris talking about him online, and talked a lot about everything that has happened too. It made me feel a little better to talk to her, cause of all of my wrestling lovers friends, she was the one who loved Eddie the most, along with me. But everyone else was very shaken by all this too. When I say all, I mean GO TO HELL VITOR!

As here in Portugal Raw and SmackDown air with a delay, we will still watch Eddie for a few more weeks and it will hurt.

Sorry for using my author notes to dump my feelings, that has been happening a lot lately.

Anyways, about the story, I have a big decision to make. I need everybody who reads to give me your opinion. The thing is, I was gonna follow the time line in what happened till Batista went to SmackDown, with a few modifications, but now I don't know if I wait till then to write about Eddie's death or anticipate it and write about it now. It is really hard for me to write about Eddie and I don't know what to do! Please help me.

Thanks so much to the ones who reviewed, here are the responses:

Reema: I hope you like this chapter. Were all hurten about what happened.

Broken.Baby.Gyrl: I totally know what you mean! It seams irreal, like a nightmare that we will wake up from anytime. Anyways, I hope you liked this one too and thanks for the review.

ShadowVixen:You're gonna be the newbie and you're gonna like it!Remembers you of anything? Lol. Thanks for the review.

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Yours and felling down,

Ari