TITLE: Changing Her Tune Prologue
AUTHOR: Juliet3:16
EMAIL: RATING: R
CONTENT: VIOLENCE, ADULT LANGUAGE
CATEGORY: ADULT, DRAMA, ANGST
SPOILERS: Through Matt turning on Lita in the tag match against Bischoff and Molly and getting her fired the RAW after Survivor Series 2003 with one crucial difference: Lita was thrown out of the building before Christian could get Lita her job back.
SUMMARY: A drunken mistake, could afford Lita her greatest opportunity for revenge on Matt Hardy.
DISCLAIMER: Vince McMahon owns most of the people in this story.
DISTRIBUTION: WWOMB. Anybody else, please ask.

NOTES: Takes place a couple of weeks after the prologue.

Changing Her Tune

Chapter One

'Sitting at Home'

Lita supposed she should be used to sitting at home with nothing to do. After all she sat at home with the exception of doing HEAT and only a couple of appearances on RAW where Eric Bischoff basically berated her for a year with nothing to do, until September when Austin hired her back onto RAW. Difference now, of course was that back then, she was recovering from a broken neck. Now she was completely able - bodied and now her job options were limited.

If Stephanie McMahon were still in charge of SMACKDOWN, she might have considered going there. Back when she had been fired by Bischoff the first time, the youngest McMahon had offered her a job there. Lita had turned her down, wanting to compete in a ring when she was finally cleared to wrestle. Now with Paul Heyman in charge and seemingly wanting nothing but scantily - clad, non wrestling women on his show, SMACKDOWN wasn't even remotely an option.

She supposed there was always TNA. When Jeff hardy came by to return Mason to her, as well as the few items she still had left at his brother's, he said he could put in a good word for her if she wanted a job with the rival company. Lita was mulling the possibility over. The problem was that although TNA didn't have endless parades of bikini contests and mudpool matches like SMACKDOWN had, there was also about as little true wrestling either. Though Jeff said she could be a pioneer there, she wasn't sure she really wanted to take on that role for another company.

Lita sighed. Thinking about wrestling led Lita to thinking about the sorry state of affairs on RAW. With Stone Cold gone, Eric had become a complete dictator on that show. He let Test and Steiner do whatever they wanted to poor Stacy, allowing no one any chance to help her, anybody that did only got destroyed by the two monsters. It was the only reason why Stacy refused to let Trish Stratus and Lita interfere for fear of her two friends getting hurt, especially Lita with her neck.

Eric was trying to make both Trish and Lilian Garcia quit. That much was obvious to Lita with how little she watched RAW. From humiliating bra and panties matches featuring both women to constant attacks on the two women from various people, including Lita's ex, it was all too plain what Bischoff's intentions were in regard to the two women he hated. It was also obvious to Lita that Chris Jericho was playing Trish for a fool, despite what her friend had said otherwise. Lita was convinced that Jericho knew exactly what was going to happen with the whole setup of Matt being on RAW and eventually turning on her that night. She knew that Jericho had convinced that he was innocent of it.

'If he was really innocent, then why hasn't he called to convince ME of it?' Lita thought bitterly. In the couple of weeks since her firing Jericho had not so much as sent an email to her proclaiming his innocence. Not that he would be able to access her email; in the last week or so, since she had it temporarily blocked out after Matt Hardy sent dozens of harassing emails hurling various terms in the 'slut' or 'whore' range. Still Jericho knew her number, wouldn't take much to call her.

One person who did call her was Christian. He left dozens of messages swearing up and down that he had no part in events that had led to Lita getting fired; Lita actually believed him. He wanted to use his Survivor Series favor from Bischoff to get her job back. Lita was a bit resistant to the idea.

First, there was no guarantee that Eric would grant Christian that particular favor, even if Bischoff had already said that the men he granted favors to could do whatever they wanted with them. Moreover, even if Eric did grant Christian his wish and gave Lita her job back, she would likely be at Eric's mercy as well. Without any obvious leverage, Eric would put her through the same kind of torture he was putting Lilian and Trish through, trying to make her quit as well. There was also the fact that it would give Matt Hardy another opportunity to attack her, probably in a physical manner.

Somebody that surprised her by calling to see if she was all right was Victoria. The woman who made Trish's life a living hell the previous year while Lita was out with her broken neck offered some interesting ideas for Matt's manhood. Though she wasn't entirely convinced either way of Trish's contention that the raven - haired former Women's Champion was psycho, the ideas of mutilation weren't unappealing to Lita at the moment.

Another person that surprised her was Triple H. After what he said to her a month earlier, about stripping for Evolution in the ring, she thought that he would have taken great pleasure in bragging about sleeping with her and capping off her humiliation in totality. Instead the Evolution leader had said not a word about that night. It made Lita wonder what Triple H was planning.

Lita's musings were broken up by the sound of her doorbell.

Sighing, Lita got up to answer it, looking at the peephole just incase it was somebody like Matt Hardy or . . .

Lita realized with a start that she wouldn't have to wait until a future RAW broadcast to figure out what Hunter had in mind to use their night together

He and Ric Flair were on her doorstep.

More soon!