Title: ATM Have a Cool Christmas Caper in the Caribbean
Author: Kaykyaka
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters used within this fictional story. No copyright infringement is intended and no money is being made by this work of fiction.
Ratings: K+
Characters: Lita, Trish Stratus (not married in this story), Melina, DX, Edge, Nitro, Carlito, Shelton Benjamin, Randy Orton.
Summary: Three different girls from three different places end up celebrating Christmas early in the Caribbean with their favorite WWE Superstars and three very special women. ATM is on the case again!
Four – Double Take
Miami International Airport:
Randy Orton looked up at the plume of smoke rising up against the beautiful Florida sky and scowled; to him it was just another case of DX ruining something beautiful, like his hand or his plans with Melina which he wasn't about to let go up in smoke. He was pretty sure if Lita hadn't intervened his hand would be healed right now, instead he swore if he looked hard enough he could see straight through it. Who did Shawn Michaels think he was anyway, always got to be the knight in shining armor he makes me sick Randy thought angrily.
"Randy can I have your autograph?" asked a seven year old girl in the waiting area holding a picture of him from 2004. He closed in on the little girl and smiled darkly.
"And which hand would you like me to sign it with?" he said holding up his hand. The little's girl's eyes widened to the size of jawbreakers at the discolored and swollen bruise circumventing the middle of Randy's hand. She dropped the photo along with several tear drops and her WWE Diva doll and ran quickly back to her parents. Randy leaned back in his seat watching as the little girl explained to her parents what happened thinking that in a moment her parents were gonna come over and chew him out for being so mean to their baby girl. They must have been intimidated by him because they promptly moved to another part of the waiting area instead, not realizing that she had left her Lita doll behind. They'll probably write a letter of complaint instead, wussies he thought indignantly, what Randy didn't know was that it wasn't him they were running away from it was the man standing next to him. Randy cranked his neck up to look at the man on his right; he had short dark hair and was very attractive so he liked him right away: it was like looking in the mirror.
"Look Sir I can't be signing no autographs right now, my hand's all messed up," Randy said deciding that an autograph was the only thing anybody every wanted from him.
"Actually I don't want your autograph," the man said and looked over to the fleeing family Randy thought he had frightened off, "I couldn't help but notice what happened between you and that little girl over just a minute ago," the man said.
"You know girls, scared of anything that doesn't have a bow tied around it," Randy said.
"Yes I know girls, three in particular actually," the man said sitting next to Randy, "one can heal people, the other can see truth before it even happens and the other . . . well," he said zooming in on the Lita doll next to Randy, "one wrong move and you're a dead man,"
If Randy were a dog his ears would be pricking up right about now, "Are these girls Amy, Trish and Melina Perez by any chance?" he asked the man who smiled in return.
"I see you've already made their acquaintance," he said looking at Randy's hand.
"Well this wasn't really their fault it was-"
"Shawn Michaels yes I know, I tried to work with him once but Anointed Amy has a special connection with him that not even the boldest demon would mess with," the man said.
"Do you know Hunter as well?" Randy asked trying to figure out who this man was.
"Sure but he's no fun anymore not since he went and had a baby, a baby girl no less," the man answered then he drew closer to Randy and spoke very quietly, "you know he has no idea how powerful that little creature is," he said raising his eyebrow and Randy waved him off thinking he was talking about Aurora Rose's wealth.
"I think he does," Randy said, "that's why he's the most powerful man in the wrestling industry,"
"I'm not talking about her financial wealth Randy but that really doesn't concern you right now anyway, I need you to work with me on taking those three out, permanently," the man said seriously but Randy just laughed at him.
"Okay man whatever," he said and walked away.
"So you think your career is a joke?" the man said and Randy scrunched up his face.
"No Sir it's you I'm laughing at not myself," Randy said cockily.
"Do you think what Shawn did to you isn't going to have consequences?" the man said and Orton got a little less arrogant.
"What do you mean?" he asked nervously.
"It's obviously escaped you how close Shawn Michaels has gotten to the Anointed one recently, he wouldn't have a problem getting you kicked out of the WWE for good or worse – relegated to the mid-card if it suited him. That's not what you had in mind for 2007 was it Randy?" the man said to him very persuasively and Randy went blank taking everything in.
"And you can make sure that won't happen?" Randy asked the man.
"I can guarantee it won't happen, if you help me dispatch of the angelic trio known as ATM," the man answered putting his hand on Randy Orton's shoulder. Randy rubbed his face where little beads of sweat were forming.
"Okay what do I have to do?" he said and the man picked up the Lita doll and sniffed its hair.
"Hey that's not yours," a little girl said waving her Melina doll in the man's face.
"Thanks darling," the man said snatching the doll from the girl's hand.
"Hey that's not even out yet – Daddy!" the little girl screamed and ran to get her Father. The man danced the doll in front of Randy's face.
"Just one more to go," he said, "Come on let's get out of here," he said and he and Randy vanished from the waiting room on a quest for one more doll before the black magic began.
Over by the other side of the waiting room Shawn Michaels narrowed his eyes at Randy and the man who had just ran off with two dolls.
"Something's not right here I better call Lita," just as he said that his cell-phone rang.
"Are you on the plane yet?" Hunter asked from behind the pillar near where Shawn was standing.
HBK rolled his eyes, "Hunter get off the phone I have to make a call,"
"Who you calling?" Hunter asked and Shawn looked around certain that Hunter was nearby.
"Where are you?" he asked looking around.
"Nevermind where I am you should be on a plane going home to your wife and kids!" Hunter shouted and Shawn knew he was definitely close.
"How do you know I'm not on the plane right now?" he asked endeavoring to trap him.
"Are you?" Hunter asked.
"Am I?" Shawn said back.
"Oh my drink's here," Hunter said taking a glass of orange juice from off the top of a catering trolley; "sorry Shawn gotta go!" he said and hung up the phone. Shawn looked at the phone like it was an alien device; since when can't you drink and talk at the same-time he thought and shook his head dialing Lita's number.
"Hi Lita it's Shawn-"
"AH-HA!!" Hunter cried jumping out from behind the pillar and taking a Sweet Chin Music straight to the face.
"Hunter!" Shawn cried out, "Lita I gotta call you back," he said and hung up on her to attend to his unconscious friend.
At Carlito's:
"Who was that?" Edge asked Lita washing up plates in the kitchen.
"It was Shawn but he hung up before saying anything, how weird is that?" Lita said and Edge smashed a plate on the floor causing Trish and Carlito to run in.
"You gave him your cell-phone number?" he asked enraged.
"Yeah," Lita said like it was no big deal, "We exchanged numbers, I've got HBK's home phone number isn't that cool?" she said enthusiastically.
"No that's not cool!" Carlito said.
"Why isn't it cool?" Trish asked Carlito.
"I'll tell you why it's not cool because you're my girlfriend not his," Edge said.
"I'm aware of that," Lita replied.
"Yeah but are you cool with that?" Carlito asked interjecting himself into the conversation again.
"Why wouldn't she be cool with that?" Trish asked Carlito.
"Because she's engaged to Edge, she shouldn't be getting calls from no-one but him," Carlito responded.
"What?" Trish said incredulously.
"You heard me," Carlito said.
"Yeah but I ain't feeling you," Trish replied, "Edge is just worried that Lita's gonna take of with Shawn in a private helicopter – oh wait she did that already, and look she's back here washing dishes with her fiancé – burn her alive!" Trish said mockingly.
"Look Edge has every right to be jealous of Shawn Michaels, he's richer, wiser and more powerful than he is," Carlito started but was cut off by Trish's warring look.
"He's not the Wizard of Oz you know," she said.
"I am not jealous of Shawn Michaels," Edge said confidently and put a soapy hand on Lita's, "I'm just a bit sore over the way everything turned out today. He rescued you and took you away from all the anger and hostility while I stayed and tried to pull my thumb out of my butt,"
Lita snickered and Edge calmed down at the sight of her smile, "I haven't seen that smile since I proposed," he said.
"Well why don't we try it again?" Trish said taking the lovebirds by the arm to the outside where they had all eaten earlier in the day. Trish and Carlito whipped around to stand opposite Edge and Lita on the other side of the table and raised their glasses. Edge looked at Lita and felt like proposing to Trish for making Lita smile like that, he would never have thought of doing something so romantic on his own.
"Guys this morning while I was praying that I would make this delayed breakfast, Hunter brought some things to my attention about my life. Namely that I had everything I've ever wanted since I was a kid, including a great job, a lot of great friends and a very special girlfriend," he said looking down at Lita who was looking back up at him totally enraptured by his words, "Hunter asked me if I didn't want more and I realized that yes I do want more, so when I came back here with all my limbs attached I asked Lita to marry me,"
Carlito and Trish held their breath waiting for Edge to finish his shocking announcement.
"And she said yes!" he said his face once again turning into an ecstatic portrait.
"Congratulations!" Trish and Carlito shouted out at the same-time and came round to hug Edge and Lita.
"That's how it should have gone the first time and I'm sorry it didn't," Edge said to Lita stroking her hair away from her face so he could see her eyes sparkle in the moonlight, "I love you Lita and I don't care who you spend your time with as long as you spend most of it with me,"
"That's great Edge because I'm gonna be spending much more time with HBK," Lita replied.
"What!" Edge said raking his hair back hysterically.
"Just kidding!" Lita said and Trish frowned at her, "It will only be every now and again, two days a week tops, maybe three - four at the most,"
Trish shook her head as Edge looked at Lita like she was lying and decided to dig her friend out of an early grave, "She'll be hanging out with Shawn and Hunter a lot so you better get used to it. If you can't handle that then maybe the isle ain't the best place for you to be walking right now Edge,"
Edge smiled suddenly, "No it is, if it wasn't for Hunter this may not have happened and Shawn-"
"Is a very happily married man I can assure you," Lita said with certainty thinking about her time at Shawn's house, "you've got nothing to worry about,"
"Okay babe, I love you," Edge said smiling as Lita drew him into a kiss.
"I love you too," she said.
"I can't believe we're getting married!" Edge said excited at the thought, "Come on let's call Mom!" he said pulling Lita back into the house.
"Won't she be asleep?" Lita asked.
"No we've still got ten more minutes before CSI: Miami finishes," he answered and they whipped up the stairs to the spare bedroom.
Carlito frowned, "Why couldn't they just use the phone down here?" he said and then thought a little longer, "Oh," he said smiling amorously then the smile disappeared, "Wait not in my house! That's not cool!" he turned around to let Trish know his concerns about having Edge and Lita sleep over but she was no longer standing next to him so he ran inside to look for her not wanting to let his new housemate out of his sight for one minute.
Back at Miami International Airport:
Shawn handed Hunter some more ice wrapped up in a bunch of napkins for his sore jaw and sat down next to him. He looked up at the time of the next plane to San Antonio and grunted at the idea of getting in after one in the morning.
"You okay big guy?" he said slapping Hunter on the leg.
"You kicked me in the face, how do you think I am?" Hunter replied annoyed.
"It was a reflex from years of training I didn't know it was you!" Shawn said in his own defense, "Why were you even behind there?"
"I wanted to make sure you got on your plane alright?" Hunter replied and Shawn frowned knowing it was a half-truth which to him might as well have been a total lie.
"You missed your flight to Greenwich to make sure I got on the plane?" he said sarcastically.
"Yeah to make sure you got home to your wife and kids at a reasonable time well now that idea's gone to Hell," Hunter complained.
"You keep saying my wife and kids like I don't know I'm married, what's the deal Hunter?" Shawn asked confused.
"I just wanted to make sure you remembered you were married that's all," Hunter said and Shawn narrowed his gaze.
"I don't know what you mean," he said.
"Look you get in a helicopter with a gorgeous red-head and when she comes back she wearing this gorgeous necklace that you originally chose for your wife," Hunter said and Shawn could see he was getting worked up.
"Hunter I didn't fool around with Lita," he said, "and the necklace was a gift from the whole family – that's right I said it 'family.' That imagination of yours caused you to do some pretty stupid stuff today. Helicopters, strippers, a marriage proposal – and now we're banned from the pre-Christmas party!"
"Yeah but we're still going," Hunter said casually.
"I know but a lot of stuff went down that didn't have to go down if you had just kept your mind out of the gutter," Shawn complained still shocked at how eventful one breakfast at Carlito's had been.
"Hey wait-a-second Shawnie that marriage proposal is the best thing that could have ever happened to Lita," Hunter said adamantly, "That girl needs some stability in her life and Edge is just the man for the job,"
"Job?" Shawn said critically, "Is that what she is to you a job?"
"Well what is she to you, a Nobel peace prize?" Hunter retaliated and Shawn smiled at the idea, "Look at you see Shawn this is why I had to stay and make sure you got your little narrow ass on that plane!"
"What?" Shawn asked innocently.
"Everytime I talk about Lita you smile," Hunter said.
"So?" Shawn answered back.
"Well you used to run and hide everytime you saw her, what's changed?" Hunter asked and Shawn didn't say anything for awhile and thought about Hunter's question.
"I don't know Hunter, there's something going on between me and Lita-"
"I knew it!" Hunter said leaping up out of his seat.
"But it's not sexual!" Shawn finished and Hunter sat back down deflated.
"Oh," he said flatly and Shawn looked at him confused.
"What you want it to be sexual?" he asked.
"No it's just confusing when I'm not excited about two people having sex," Hunter replied and Shawn rolled his eyes, "I'll be okay, please continue," Hunter said.
"This is a new thing for me Hunter you know, having a friend who isn't Becky. A woman who I respect but I don't want to marry, a woman who I find attractive but I don't want to sleep with," Shawn explained and Hunter nodded stroking his beard.
"It's the Anointing," he said.
"You think?" Shawn asked.
"Sure face it, you didn't give a shit about Lita until she saved your life," Hunter said stretching.
"Our lives," Shawn corrected him.
"Yeah whatever," he said looking up at the plane times.
"Any way that's not true, remember that whole thing with Kane back in '04?" Shawn said and Hunter nodded in recollection.
"Remember? You wouldn't stop talking about it "I beat Kane, I beat Kane!"" Hunter mimicked.
"Well it was my first match back after you almost butchered me in that Hell In A Cell match, I had every reason to be excited," Shawn said and the two men rose to their feet as Shawn's plane was ready for boarding.
"Yeah and it had nothing to do with the gorgeous red-head playing cheerleader outside the ring," Hunter replied walking with Shawn over to the ticket lady, "Face it Shawn, you've been into Lita from the very beginning, I remember the first time you saw her . . . " Hunter said and began to reminiscence:
Monday Night RAW 2000
Hunter was about to go out for his match but he couldn't find his leather and jean jacket.
"Where is it I've got a match right now!!" he said angrily and he turned round at looked at the door where a gorgeous red-head was standing wearing his jean and leather jacket.
"Who are you?" he asked mesmerized.
"My name is Lita," the red-head said, "I wanted something warm to wear because I was so cold,"
"Can I have my jacket back Lita?" Hunter asked reaching out for his jacket.
"Sure," Lita said and the jacket dropped to the floor revealing a naked woman beneath it and water burst out of Hunter's mouth.
"And that's where the whole water-squirting thing came from," Hunter said to Shawn who was looking at him perplexed.
"Hunter you were talking about the first time I met Lita," he said.
"Oh yeah . . ." Hunter remembered and reminisced again:
Monday Night RAW 2000:
"Shawn this is Lita, Lita this is Shawn," Hunter said introducing his best friend to the female member of Team Extreme.
"Nice to meet you," Lita said shaking Shawn's hand.
"Likewise," Shawn said smiling.
"Oh yeah but no one was naked in that," Hunter said giving his ticket to the ticket lady.
"Lita wasn't naked when you met her for the first time either," Shawn said handing over his ticket alright.
"Look you tell it your way and I'll tell it mine," Hunter said.
"Do you really have to come back with me?" Shawn said.
"Look a deal's a deal, I wanna make sure when that phone rings Lita isn't on the other end of it and you end up going back to Carlito's to see her," Hunter said.
"Hunter I really do have to talk to her I saw Randy hanging around with this guy and he looked kind of familiar," Shawn said boarding the plane.
"Of course you did, anything to talk to Lita," Hunter said ignoring Shawn's innocent pleas, "Look if I'm Edge and HBK is calling my girlfriend at midnight, I'm putting a bar on my girlfriend's phone, make that fiancé's phone,"
"But Hunter-"
"Hand it over," Hunter said holding his hand out.
"I'm not making this up!" Shawn pleaded.
"I hear whining but I don't see listening, hand it over," Hunter said and Shawn slammed the phone down in Hunter's hand.
"Fine but I'm gonna be hanging out with her and you better get used to it," Shawn said adamantly.
"Well you better get used to me hanging around when you're together," Hunter replied pocketing the phone.
"I haven't got used to it in ten years," Shawn replied.
"I love you too Shawnie, now sit down!" Hunter said planting Shawn into his seat.
Shawn really had a bad feeling about what he saw but all he could do was pray that ATM was on the case. What would a grown man be doing with dolls? he thought as the plane started its journey to Texas and hoped that it wasn't as weird as it seemed even though his gut told him it was.