Chapter 26: Bad News
Lauren jumped out of the elevator and started heading through the lobby to the limo. Only she accidentally ran into someone very big. "Oh excuse me! I wasn't–" her voice was then lost to her when she found she had run into the Game himself. Oh great! She started backing away slowly when he grabbed her arm roughly. Uh-oh. Not good.
"Well, well. Look at what I've got here. It's a little, lost Vixen. Where's your big, strong man Batista to save you, huh?" HHH mocked while squeezing her arm.
"HHH, let go!" Lauren said sternly as she tried to pry her arm out of his grasp.
"Or what? You'll send that poor excuse of a man, Batista, after me? I don't think so. Just to let you know, I can't wait for the match tonight between Flair and Batista. Especially with you at ringside," HHH said with a low, gruff voice as he stroked her cheek seductively. Only to have it slapped away by Lauren's free hand. "You little–" but he was soon met by another slap to his face. HHH grabbed her other arm even tighter and threw her to the floor. Before Lauren could even sit up straight, HHH bent down clamped his hand over her mouth. "Tonight, it won't just be me and Flair after Batista. We're going to bring another little, 'friend' to the ring. Have a good night," HHH laughed menacingly and shoved Lauren to the floor again as he walked out. Lauren sat up slowly, rubbing her face to get the stinging feeling out.
"Lauren!" she heard. She turned to see Batista running to her.
I can't tell him what happened. If I do, he'll make me stay behind and I won't be able to help him. Lauren stood up and waited for him to come to her. "Damn carpet! It ruined my whole game!" she pouted.
"I thought we were over the whole 'klutz' issue," he smirked.
"Oh please. I'm beyond all help on that one," she smiled and linked her arm with his. Batista noticed her wince a little as she did so.
"What happened?" he asked as he took her arm gently to examine it. He could see the red marks on her upper arm.
"Oh! That's uh...rug burn from when I tripped!" Lauren stated quickly. Batista looked at her quizzically to see marks on her other arm too, and the area around her mouth was red. Lauren noticed he was catching on and quickly tried to get him out to the limo. "Come on! We're going to be late!" She tried pulling on his arm towards the limo, when they both heard one driving away. It looked very familiar to...Evolution's limo.
Batista would recognize it anywhere, and started putting all the clues together. His eyes were burning through the glass doors, right to where they had just seen Evolution's limo. "That son of a–"
"Batista I just fell! It's no big deal!" Lauren tried explaining as she grabbed his arm before he ran after them.
"He's going to pay." he growled and looked back at Lauren, who was just bowing her head and rubbing her red arms. His gaze softened a little as he walked over to her. Lauren looked up, just in time to feel him wrap his arms around her, and stroke her hair. "I'll make sure he pays."
Lauren simply returned his hold and leaned against his chest. "Come on, we better get going." Lauren pulled out of his hold gently and linked arms with him again as they continued to their limo. "Oh, I almost forgot!" Lauren placed his sunglasses on his face with a smile of approval. "Much better." Batista simply smiled and kissed the back of her hand as they got into the limo.
The limo ride was basically silent, even though Batista wanted to know what that bastard had said and done to her. But he knew Lauren would deny it being HHH and just continue to use her story of falling onto the carpet. After all, she never did actually admit it was HHH when he had told her he would make him pay. He looked down at her as she laid against his chest and wrapped his arms securely around her, and kissed the top of her head.
In no time at all, they arrived at the arena. They both walked in, hand-in-hand, straight to their locker room. No sooner did they turn on the monitor, did they see HHH beating the hell out of Rosey with a sledgehammer. Batista didn't seem all that affected, but Lauren was scared out of her mind. A sledgehammer! That's what he meant earlier! I've gotta warn Batista! But as soon as she turned around, she found that he had gone off somewhere on his own. He had probably said where he was going, but she didn't hear him. "I have to find him!" she gasped and ran through the hallways looking for him. His match was any minute and she refused to let him be hurt by HHH if she could help it. She stopped running when she heard a familiar pair of voices.
"You've got nothing to worry about Ric. With this sledgehammer, the three amigos are going to go out there and take care of Batista, and his little slut," HHH laughed. Ric just 'wooo'd and thanked HHH for coming up with such a brilliant plan.
I don't think so Lauren thought with determination, and went to the only person that could stop this. She ran to the door with the name 'Eric Bischoff' on it. Lauren knocked on it quickly, to have it opened by Coach. "Coach, I need to speak with Mr. Bischoff!" she cried out.
"Well, I'm not sure he wants to speak with you. But I on the other hand..." Coach stated with a smirk on his face.
Lauren simply pushed him aside and walked into Bischoff's office. "Mr. Bischoff, I need to speak with you about something very important," Lauren stated.
"Well, I'm afraid it's going to have to wait Vixen. You see–" Bischoff was cut off by the glare on Lauren's face.
"Bischoff, HHH is going to bring a sledgehammer to the ring during Batista's match with Flair!" she told him in an appalled tone. Bischoff looked as if he didn't understand the problem. She rolled her eyes and walked closer up to him with a sweeter look on her face. "Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Wrestlemania 21's main event, HHH vs. Batista?" she asked. Bischoff nodded his head. "And they're also RAW's main event for Wrestlemania. So, if HHH were to beat the hell out of Batista tonight with a sledgehammer, he probably wouldn't make it to Wrestlemania 21. Therefore, Smackdown might probably end up with the main event at Wrestlemania instead of RAW." Bischoff's eyes widened in fear as he began to understand what she was saying.
"I've gotta stop him!" he cried as he and Coach ran to go find HHH and Flair to confront them about the sledgehammer.
Lauren let out a breath and wiped her brow. That was close. Now I know Batista will be safe. She quickly ran back to their locker room to find Batista dressed in his ring attire, jumping up and down getting pumped for the match. She couldn't help but stare at him, or his rock-hard chest anyways. I don't know what I'd do without him she smiled softly to herself and walked in.
Batista finally noticed her walk in and smiled. "Hey, I was wondering where you ran off to." Lauren didn't say a word as she continued to smile and simply wrapped her arms tightly around his waist. "Everything okay?" he asked curiously as he returned the hold.
It is now. "Yeah. Just excited about your match. You're going to be so great!" she cheered and kissed him quickly on the lips. "Now let's get out there and show them that the Animal is here, and he's been unleashed," she stated seductively and started leading him to the curtain. They waited for Batista's music to play when Lauren walked out in front of him to let him do his routine down the ramp. Before he was even down the ramp, Lauren was already up the steel stairs and holding the middle rope down for him. Batista slipped through, but asked her not to even enter the ring. Lauren nodded in understanding and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek for luck. Batista watched her with a smile as she jumped off the apron and stood in his corner. His smile faded as he looked back towards HHH and Flair. The Animal was coming out of his cage, and there would be hell to pay.
A/N: Hey everybody! Okay, this was MY fault. You guys might be mad at me once I say this. I kinda forgot to mention that you can only guess ONE superstar per review. So sorry A.J. Cena. That was MY fault, not yours. I really appreciate those very GOOD guesses. Everybody just keep that in mind when you're guessing. One more thing, if I see more then one person with the right review, I'll try to make everyone happy. I hope no one kills me because of this whole thing. But thank you for all the awesome reviews.
Disco Inferno1- You have a very good point about Lauren calling Batista "Dave". But I just figured since I never used his real name in this fic, so I thought it'd be kind of weird to start now. But thank you for bringing that to my attention. 'Til next time :)