Short chapter, kind of a fill in. Hope you enjoy ;)

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John was still amazed at how it easy it has been for him to blatantly lie and convince Eve's doctor that he was her loving husband.

He didn't even have to put too much effort into it; he just walked into the hospital, said that he was looking for his wife that just had an accident and when the Doctor went to talk to him he just acted worried but relieved at the same time that Eve was alright, even if she was temporarily sans memory.

That first meeting with the medical personnel went smoothly, they told him everything there was to know about her condition and he was even allowed to see her.

Now, all that has been the previous day but he remembered as if was happening right in that moment how he had walked into her room feeling almost positive that she was going to get her memory back as soon as she saw him and yeah, he had to admit that he has been a bit afraid that his charade would crumble before it even begun and that he would be exposed as a fraud.

But instead of recognizing him, Eve just stared at him with a mix of curiosity and disdain and then announced that she was tired and that she wanted to sleep.

Shaking his head and thinking that the blow to the head didn't improve her ways much, John reluctantly went to her, kissed her forehead to show the Doctor that he was 'madly in love' with that woman no matter what and then he promised that he was going to bring her a few things to help her remember.

The doctor told him that bringing things and talking to her would help because if she continued to be stable, they were going to release her out of the hospital after the first twenty-four hours of observation culminated.

After telling him that, a nurse gave him the things Eve had with her at the moment of the accident, which was a handbag with her phone, a wallet, some make-up, a small bottle of perfume and a hotel card key.

Now, after leaving the hospital, John went home and during the whole night he just sat with his dog at the porch, wondering if maybe he was stepping over the line with this. Surely Eve had friends and family that would want to know about her whereabouts; or better yet, what about her job?

How could he explain her absence? She has shows to work, duties to fulfill and hell, wasn't she the assistance or something to Booker T? There was no way that the fact that she wasn't showing up to work could go unnoticed.

Ah, and that was just professionally speaking, but on a personal level, she could even have a boyfriend that could find odd her sudden disappearance.

That she was acting as a complete fake bitch at work didn't mean that she couldn't have some stupid fool at home waiting for her… right?

Thinking about that and running his hand lazily over his dog's head, John has heard the pretty Diva's phone ringing and thinking that it could be someone of interest, he quickly took the phone to check it.

It hadn't been a call, just a text message and because the phone wasn't blocked, he got in and read it. Much to his surprise, what he read was this:

'Congratulations, because of your obvious lack of commitment to the WWE and its many activities, you are now indefinitely suspended without pay. Att, Raw's General Manager, A.J.'

"What the…?" Chuckling at the impersonality of that message, John has sat aghast, reading the words over and over again until their meaning started to sink in.

Eve had just been basically suspended over a text message… thing that meant that if he decided to pull through with the whole thing, then he wouldn't have to worry about covering what he was doing at work…

But no, it was just wrong and he couldn't… she still had family…

Before he could convince himself to do the right thing, the WWE wrestler turned off the phone, put it in his pocket and kept thinking…

That has been the night before, and now first thing in the morning of a new day he was back at the hospital with a fresh change of clothes he picked from her hotel room, a small bunch of photos of the two of them together, a few ones with her posing for the camera and that was it.

He was going to go on with the farce to the very end and he was going to do it right.

Sure, when it came to the photos, he had searched and meticulously chosen the ones he had all over the internet and revealed them in a local Walgreens in just one hour; and since his first meeting let him know that the Doctor was not a wrestling fan, he was sure that they would work.

Smiling and thinking that he has definitely lost his mind for keeping up with the madness of making her believe they were married, John walked across the nurses' station and made it to the room he knew Eve to be in.

"Good morning." He said cheerfully as he set the things he brought over a chair. "How is my lovely wife feeling today?"

Eve was already awake, sitting crossed legged on her bed and staring blankly out the window; but as soon as she heard his voice she pursed her lips and tilted her head towards him.

The previous day she was been looking way too pale and kind of drowsy, but now she seemed more alert… more like herself. Yeah, it was a bit weird to see her face clean of any make-up but in all honestly it wasn't a bad look on her as it made her look more approachable.

Not replying to him, the good girl turned a hoeski turned her head back to the window and shrugged.

"Okay, I guess you woke up kind of moody. That's fine, I mean after all you hate hospitals. But you don't have to worry anymore because this same after noon I'll get to have you back home."

At those words, Eve turned back to him and wrinkling her nose she arched an eyebrow. "I don't know you so I won't be going anywhere with you."

Faking a double take, John took the photos and walked to her. "Eve, baby… of course you know me; you are my wife. Here, take a look at these."

Handing her the photos, John watched as Eve started to pass them; studying them one by one. Sure, they were not many and most of them were taken by fans in autograph signings and other events before she turned a complete bitch; but the important thing was that the great majority had them standing close to one another and smiling.

He has been lucky to find more than ten of them outside the ring and yup, he even printed the one where they kissed on that fateful night so long ago. Under the circumstances, that last photo was the best one he could find of them and he was glad he brought it because Eve took an interest in that particular photo.

"Why don't I have a ring? If we are married then where's my wedding ring?"

Not missing a beat, John pushed the inside of his cheek with his tongue and snorted. "You really don't remember?"

Shaking her head while still holding the photos in her hand, Eve scanned his face over.

"Well it's getting fixed. Last week we went fishing and you got bored easily. You always do but you still come with me every time because it's a good excuse to get in a boat in the open sea and get a good tan. Anyway, after a while you convinced me to go swimming with you and you forgot to take the ring off and a diamond fell off…"

God… the lies that sprouted out of his mouth were unbelievable! He never knew he had such a talent for lying.

"And how could I forget to take off a diamond ring just to go swimming." She asked petulantly, tilting her face up and looking at him straight in the eye.

At that question he scratched behind his ear and shrugged. "Well… it was a thing of the moment and we just didn't have time to remember such trivial details… we were busy with other matters… if you know what I mean."

Rolling her eyes and shaking her head, Eve grunted in a way that was very close to disgust. "And where are our wedding pictures?"

Jesus, why couldn't the woman just trust his word?

Sighing loudly, John sat next to her and cleared his throat. "We married in Vegas so there was not much of a wedding. But here's a picture of you in our honeymoon." He said, taking the pictures and showing her one where she was smiling a big smile that reached all the way to her eyes while sitting on a beach.

He had printed that photo because he thought that she looked particularly pretty… not in a way that she was in a little bikini that left little to the imagination, but in a way that she looked happy and just comfortable with herself.

As of late, it was rare for him to see her smiling like that and he didn't know, he just liked the photo and printed it with the rest.

Eve looked at the photo long and paused and after a while she just looked up to him and blinked very slowly. "I don't remember any of this… or you."

Smiling a fake smile, the tall man lifted a hand and ran his fingers through her silky long hair. She let him do it, looking at him with all the intensity of her emerald green eyes. That's how he knew he got her, because the 'new' Eve, the one that hated his guts, would have pushed his hand away while telling him not to touch her.

That was how bad they had it regarding one another; he didn't like her and she couldn't stand him after that episode in the ring where he humiliated her in front of an unforgiving crowd.

True, that wasn't one of his most proudest moments, but in his mind she deserved all that and then more.

"It's okay, the doctors say that you will get your memory back at any given moment and chances of that happening will be higher once you are home, surrounded by the things you know and love."

Ah, that she was going to remember things was a fact, but John just hoped that he could have a few days… just enough for the woman to get the things in his house in order. Just the usual, laundry, dishes, Phantom's mess and of course, sort out his bills.

There was no doubt that she would probably try to kill him once she remembered everything but that was okay by him. After all the only advantage he had planned to get out of her was in a domestic way.

Lowering her eyes from his, Eve sighed and smiled weakly. "Well, then I hope that happens soon."

"Yeah, me too baby, me too…"

TBC