Jessie smiled as Sylvain walked her to her hotel room. He kissed her cheek and wished her a good night before walking off. Jessie went into her room and heard the phone ringing. She rushed over and answered it "hello".
"Where have you been?" John's voice barked on the other end of the line. Jessie was taken aback for a second. She had never heard him speak like that before.
"I was out getting dinner" she replied meekly.
"Alone" John asked, the tone still in his voice.
"No" Jessie told him, getting pissed at his attitude "with a friend".
"Oh one of the girls" John assumed, even though he knew differently.
"No" Jessie said back "with a guy, guys and girls can be friends you know".
"Don't be a smartass" John said, annoyed with her tone.
"Don't give me a reason to be" Jessie replied back, not backing down. She knew why John was acting how he was and it pissed her off to no end. She wasn't about to relent to him.
"Who were you out with?" John asked her.
"Not that its any of your business" Jessie said to John "but it was Sylvain Grenier".
"It IS my business because you are my daughter" John practically screamed at her "and I don't like him, I don't think I like you seeing him".
"Well dad" Jessie said as sarcastically as possible "sadly I'm 18 now and there's not anything you can do about it" with that Jessie hung up, she wasn't about to get even more into it with John. She felt that he needed to realize that she was an adult now and could make her own decisions. Jessie sighed deeply and grabbed her sleep wear out of her bag before going to take a hot shower.
The next morning Jessie felt horrible. She had thought about her fight with John all night. It didn't help when she came out of the bathroom and he was at her door banging on it, demanding to be let in. He had stood there, pounding away before hotel security escorted him away and Jessie heard them tell John to go back to his room before he was arrested for disturbing the peace.
Jessie got up and changed her clothes and ran a brush through her hair before walking out of her room. She knew she had to talk to somebody. She walked down the hall way to where she knew Randy and Alexis were staying with the twins. They had arrived earlier than they needed to so the twins could get settled in to the routine before the big show on Monday. Jessie knocked on the door and waited for someone to answer. Randy opened it and Jessie smiled weakly at him. He saw that she was upset about something and let her in. "Can we talk?" she asked him.
"Yeah" Randy told her "you can ride with me to the arena, I'll be all alone otherwise" Randy made a fake puppy dog look and Jessie laughed a bit.
"Lexi's not going?" she asked him.
"Nope" he told her "twins are jet lagged from the late flight and all so they're going to stay here tonight". Jessie nodded and Randy grabbed his bag before the two walked out of the hotel and to Randy's rental.
Randy had been driving a few minutes before curiosity got the better of him and he asked what was up. Jessie sighed deeply before looking over at Randy. Randy spared a glance at her and was shocked to see tears making their way down her face "dad and I got into a fight" she told him in a pitiful voice.
"Oh honey" Randy said, taking one hand off the wheel and pulling Jessie to his side "what about?"
"I went out with Sylvain to dinner last night" Jessie spoke through her tears, making it a bit hard for Randy to understand her "and when I got back the phone was ringing and I answered it and it was dad. He was asking me where I was and all and I told him and he got all pissed and told me he didn't think it was a good idea to hang out with Sylvain cause he wasn't sure about him or some crap like that". Randy was shocked, he had never known John to fly off the handle like that.
"Honey" Randy tried to figure out what to tell her, first of all he needed to calm her down "so how was the dinner with Sylvain?" Randy didn't particularly like the guy since Randy thought he was a bit conceited but if Jessie liked him Randy would deal with it and be there for her should things turn bad. He watched as Jessie smiled brightly.
"It was good" she said "he's really nice, not to mention cute".
"Oh I know girlfriend" Randy replied in an effeminate voice, making Jessie laugh loudly "those dimples just make me melt".
"Randy you're a goof" she said, smacking his stomach.
"But you loooooove me" Randy said kissing her forehead.
"Yeah" Jessie said back as she hugged him as best she could.
"So what are you gonna do about John?" Randy asked her, he didn't want to but he knew she needed to do something about it".
"Well" Jessie told him "there's really nothing I can do he just needs to come around and realize he can't run my life, and if he doesn't then I'll put him in a hardcore handicap match against Glen and Show". Randy laughed loudly and told Jessie to never let him get on her bad side. Before either knew it they were at the arena. Randy and Jessie got out of the car and he kissed her forehead and told her to think about things and have a nice day before they went their separate ways, both having their own things to do.
Jessie walked into Stephanie's office and noticed, with a smile, that she wasn't the last to arrive like the day before. "You're early" Stephanie told her, smiling.
"Yeah" Jessie told her "I rode in with Randy".
"Oh" Stephanie gave her a weird look but didn't say anything "so you got any ideas for the show?" Jessie was a bit taken aback, she didn't expect Stephanie to ask her for ideas about the show. "I liked what you did yesterday with the show so I figured you could give me some things for this show".
"Well" Jessie told her "I think you should give John some big thing to do. Its right before the ppv so you could act like the odds are stacked against him. I say put him in a match with Show and Glen". Jessie knew she was being overly mean but she was pissed at John at the moment and didn't care.
"What about Randy?" Stephanie asked "I'm kind of at a standstill on what to do with him since were ending his program with Taker soon".
"Put him in a feud with Matt for right now" Jessie told her "then later on once Dave gets out of his storyline with Rey and all put him against Randy for the title".
"Wow" Stephanie looked impressed "I can tell you know what you're talking about".
"Well I've been watching a long time" Jessie said making Stephanie laugh. After that everyone showed up and the meeting started. Stephanie brought up Jessie's ideas and they hashed out the rest of the show. Once that was done Stephanie did up the scripts and gave them to Jessie to pass out. She took the pile and groaned inwardly when she realized that she'd have to give a script to John. She walked to his dressing room and debated on how she wanted to do this. Finally she decided on just putting the script on the floor in front of the door, knocking, and rushing away really quickly. When she was quite a few feet away from the door she heard her dad's voice.
"You're gonna have to talk to me sometime" Jessie turned around to face him but John had already went back inside the room. Jessie sighed deeply and fought off the tears she felt as she kept walking down the hall handing out scripts.
Jessie smiled as she got to catering. She saw Sylvain sitting at a table talking with Rene in French. She walked in and up to the table. Both guys looked up at her and smiled, Sylvain motioning for Jessie to sit down. She did so and handed him a script "I'm not on the show?" Rene asked her, pouting cutely.
"Afraid not" Jessie told him "they're saving ya for the live tapings, too much talent for no cameras to be around" everyone laughed at Jessie's joke and Sylvain joked that it was just that people thought Rene was too cocky to work without cameras around.
"So mon cher" Sylvain said when Rene left to go talk to some of his other friends "you seem down".
"A bit" Jessie told him honestly.
"Why?" Sylvain asked, wanting to make her feel better. He couldn't describe it but he felt an intense feeling for her and felt he would do anything for her.
"I got into a fight with my dad" Jessie felt herself opening up to him "I told him about us going out to dinner and he got all pissy and over protective".
"Well" Sylvain said, taking her hand in his "mon amie if you have been through something maybe John feels like he needs to protect you, you are after all his child".
"But that's just it" Jessie told him "what I went through was like a long time ago and I've put it behind me for the most part so he should too. Plus I'm 18 now so I can take care of myself".
"You'll always be daddy's little girl" Jessie smiled when Sylvain said that. She flashed back to her birthday party when she was 15 and sang a song to John that basically said those exact words. She sighed again, if she didn't fix things with John soon she'd go insane.
After the show Jessie was in a better mood, the show had went great and Stephanie had praised her heavily for the ideas that she had provided. Jessie looked up from her bag, down the hall and her smile vanished. John was walking with Trish and Kevin. He was limping heavily and anytime he looked at Trish Jessie could see a bruise covering the majority of his face. She felt her eyes well up with tears 'I did that' she thought to herself. She sunk to the floor in tears. She couldn't believe she had let her anger get the better of her and it had gotten John hurt. She was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't notice the figure come up beside her until they put a hand on her shoulder. "Jessie are you o?k" Jessie looked up and saw Kurt squatting beside her, a worried look on his face. She couldn't talk for her tears, she just leaned into him and cried on his chest. Kurt wrapped his arms around her and tried his best to comfort her.
"Kurt I hurt my daddy" she said in a voice that made Kurt's heart break. He knew how little girls were about their daddy's and knew that he had to tread very lightly.
"How'd you do that sweetheart?" he asked her as he rubbed her back in a comforting gesture.
"I was the one that told Stephanie to put him in that match against Show and Kane" Jessie told Kurt as she tried to stop crying "I let my anger get the better of me and now I saw him limping out of the arena and he had a bruise all over his face" Jessie started crying again and Kurt comforted her as best he could.
"Honey" Kurt told her "it wasn't anything you did. Glen and Show are two guys who always have to have the best match they can and they push themselves and their opponents to the limit and John always steps up to the plate when he has to. Their match was brutal, I saw it, but no one took liberties on anyone and it was all to the T. Let me tell ya John may be feeling the effects from the match for a few days but he'll be ok. Trust me he and I have had our wars and he always got better before me" Jessie chuckled and nodded her head. "Have you got a ride back to the hotel?"
"I dunno" Jessie told him "I rode here with Randy but I dunno if he's left yet or not".
"Well come with me. You can ride back with me and Steph" Kurt helped Jessie up and carried her bag for her as they went to meet Steph in her office so they could leave back to the hotel.