Author Notes: Going to keep this short and sweet as it two am. and I have to be up at six. If there are mistakes sorry but I really can't find them and want to get this posted tonight. And my reader/checker is asleep because of it being so late. Hope you all enjoy this chapter and let me know what you think. Thanks for the review and for reading. I will get back to the other stories I am hoping later in the week or at least by the weekendbut this one is taking over. Next Chapter will be about Mark and hopefully Jesse too all in one but not sure.

Thank you, Cat Lea Takersdarkone

Five

" Mark follows his truck out on to Mannheim Road going back past the Allstate Arena as the WWE trucks are pulling out. He is handling her baby bird without any trouble at all being it handles just like his. Stevie has her eyes closed and is leaning back in her seat not saying anything. He takes his hand off the shifter and reaches out softly touching the side of her face. She tries to smile and opens her eyes for a second till the lights cause her to flinch causing her to close them again. Mark doesn't miss this and frowns some a worried look on his face. He sees that Glen is making sure that he is with him and nods slightly. He also notices that Jesse moves over closer and glances back with what looks like I a little bit of a frown. Mark smiles but then glances once more at Stevie. Stevie can feel him watching her and doesn't want him worrying so she goes to sit up but the pounding in her head makes her let out a little moan and lean back down. She feels Mark reach up again and touch her cheek. "

I am fine Mark please don't worry.

Really little girl cause you don't look to fine from where I am sitting. And if I knew my way around this damn town I would be taking your ass to the nearest emergency room and not be following Glen to your house.

Well then lucky for me you don't and would get lost trying to find it. Really I will be fine just need some thing for a head ache.

Yeah then you are lucky. But if you don't want me hunting for it then little one talk to me so I know you're awake. And we will get you some thing for it as soon as we get you settled. But nothing that going to knock you out cause you're going to have to be woke up every few hours.

All right Tex and I know your right. I guess that I can talk so you know I am a wake. But I sooner listen to you talk.

Yeah and why is that darling?

Cause I love your Texas drawl. And right now it hurt to even try and think.

" Stevie blushes and Mark laughs some reaching down to hook his fingers over her and bringing her hand to the shifter under his so he can shift and hold her hand too. She lets him and smiles softly as she peeks at him but then closes her eyes once more because of the lights hurting her eyes. "

You know little girl that you have a concussion most likely?

Yes Mark I know that most likely I do. It not the first one I have had there big guy but I will live and life will continue on. So please don't worry about me.

Life might continue on but I think till we get you home and in bed safely I will worry some. And you know it still would have been better for you to go and get checked out just to be safe?

Well then I will have to see what I can do to distract you about that. I gather you're follow Glen and Jesse so I don't have to give directions home?

We are, I a little worried Stevie that you wouldn't be able to so yeah we are following Glen and Jesse to your home.

Good cause truth is Mark right now I don't think I could give you them. At least I don't think I could tell you well enough to get you to my and Jesse place. So thank you for thinking ahead and for every thing you have done for me and Jesse tonight.

That all right little darling I have had my share of concussions and couldn't tell my way out of the ring if not for help. And with the other I just wish I could have blocked him from hitting you at all.

So you have had some concussions has Glen too?

Yep. It kind of comes with the business we are in. If you are worth a damn and do your job with the love and passion for it then yes the concussions come with the job.

How come Mark I mean what caused you to walk away with a concussion?

" Mark smiles at her and laughs a little. "

Most times darling getting hit in the head with something the wrong way, like a chair or ladder or sledgehammer. Or being dropped on your head can cause it too which happens some times too.

" Stevie opens her eyes having to see if Mark is pulling her leg and when he looks over at her she knows he is telling the truth. "

All right now I know I am going to have to check out what this professional wrestling is all about. Though you Tex will always be Mark Callaway to me, that very sweet guy and protector, so hope that all right with you? Don't think I could think of you as a deadman or Phenom. And definitely not the Undertaker at least I don't think so. And Glen will have to put up with being just Glen.

Yeah little girl that would be fine with me, hell more fine for many reason I couldn't even go into. And I am sure it will be with Glen too.

Good.

So Mark how protective of you is that Southern Gentleman who is slowly stealing Jesse heart.

Very protective Stevie, but some thing tells me you are just as protective of that little girl who he has become very interested in.

Yeah I am Mark I am very protective. I have known her something like 20 years of my life. We have been through a lot of shit together. This includes every thing Mark, from school, deaths, loses, marriages, miscarriages, divorces and personal and business triumphs and failures and a lot more.

Sounds like it been one hell of a ride then. So then do I guess she is grilling Glen on what kind of guy I am?

Most likely she was straight up and is trading information on you for info on me. Because I seen the look in that big guys eyes when Ron and Bryan went after you he just as much your protector as I believe you are of him. I seen the look of worry and pissed when they attacked you. And I know her and how she is about me, seems to think I need protecting so the world doesn't make me close myself off completely from it. So she would have just asked him to trade information straight up.

I see she straight forward? And would you let the world close you off?

Yep she is very straight forward, but then she got a General for a Father who if you told him straight up what you did or how bad you did it the punishment was less. And with 7 brother and sisters it was easier because one of them would rat you out in a heart beat.

Wow a General and 8 kids?

" Stevie smiles and nods. Mark is aware that she doesn't answer his other question but lets it go hoping Glen really is getting information on her. He senses she not going to be as open about her own life. "

Yep and the General also has a wife two dog, three birds and a very old fat cat that I gave him for a present when I saved her for the humane society. He pretends to hate her but loves her and even let her sleep with them every night.

Wow. All right if they can be straight forward and trade info about us how about you and me doing the same on them and on us.

I will tell you what you want to know about Jesse as long as you tell me what I want to know about Glen. And when it comes to you and me I would like to know all about you too. But I will be straight up with you that most likely you will get more information from what Jesse will tell Glen then what I will tell you.

Why won't you tell me about you Stevie?

I did not say I would not tell you about me Mark but there are things I am not as open about that Jesse will be because she thinks by the world knowing maybe I won't get hurt. But I put things away after and move on so there are things I just don't think matters enough to talk about. But if you ask some thing I will be honest with you because one of the things that matters most to me in this world is honesty. I grew up with too much shit and dishonesty that made me grow up wanting to be as honest as I can. Gets me in trouble but it me so I can't change that.

All right that sounds fair. And honesty is important to me too.

Good. Oh and did your friend with the black hair and lip ring tell you and Glen what was at 26th and California?

" Mark looks over and looks at Stevie who opens her eyes looking back even though it killing her. He sees that she is being honest with him in what she was saying and that she is looking to see if he will be honest with her. She looks wanting to see his eyes when he answers her? "

You mean CM Punk, and he told us it was the Cook County Jail?

Good I though he might have known when he sat up and then looked over at me and then Glen. Though I will admit I didn't think you had noticed.

Well on that guess you had me fooled I didn't think you had noticed him either. And Punk is from the Chicago area too a town called Lockport. But now he is living downtown in a friends Condo. It just off the lake front, a friend and fellow wrestler Scott Colton bought it for a steal about a year back.

" Stevie flinches and closes her eyes quickly against what looks to be tears. Mark watches her for a second. She takes a deep breath and opens her eye back up and looks at him. "

I notice a lot Mark just don't always think it worth reacting too. But then I think we might just share that trait.

Maybe we do Stevie. So where you really born there in the jail or was it something else at the time?

No it was the jail my father who was a cop had my mother arrested because her and a friend went out taking his car without my father permission. He didn't like his passions touches without permission. So for almost a week till he paid her bail she sat in the jail. She had me the night he had her put in. So she was in a cell and I in the hospital wing a few floors up. I was a prisoner of the jail in a sense for my first week of my life. That how she got away with naming me Stevie Nick by the time he seen me I was a week old and the birth certificate done.

" Mark looks at her his eyes showing he was a little shocked. She watches his face for a second then looks down at the hand that is under his still waiting for him to pull his away from her. He doesn't which causes her to look up a little shocked he looks at her and smiles knowing what she expected and then tightens his hold on her hand. "

So what do you want to know about Glen? And then I want to know some things about Jesse. But darling still want to know some things about you too and from your own lips not what Jesse tells Glen. And I will answer what every questions you have about me.

All right Mark that sounds fair.

Have you known Glen long?

Yeah about twenty years. Though we are a little older then you and Jesse I say. So I met him when we where in our twenties. He is a few years younger then me and we met when he joined the WWE.He worked for a short time alone and then they moved him to be my brother. And I a lot of ways he really is that to me. I am the same to him. We are closer to each other then we are to our own families. We help each other solve problem or just relax what ever the one of us need. So what else can I tell you about Glen, Stevie?

I guess want to know if there is anything that could hurt Jesse. I mean I already know he is a big sweetie with a good heart. And I am guessing hitting a woman is not in his ways either because of your caring for him. And the way he was looking at Ron and Johnny when you two stepped in.

No Glen would not hit a woman other then maybe a spanking but nothing to really hurt her. He doesn't like jerks that do that any more then I do. Glen is a good guy with a heart of gold that has been not having too good a time lately. His divorce was just finalized about six months ago and truth is your friend is the first woman to turn his head since he met his ex. His ex-wife of about eight years took for granted him and every thing she meant to him. Took his goodness and then when she couldn't take him for any more then she got let him go. Said she couldn't take him being on the road so much that she wanted some one home at night. She took him for what she could and then told him she never really loved him and that why they never had a child together. She even let him know that she was pregnant about a year after they married but got rid of it. He thought she couldn't have any more kids because that what she told him right after they got married. He was her second marriage and he has two step daughters that he thinks the world of. The bitch is fighting him even seeing now. He raised them both since they where both little things and they consider him Daddy. That why Glen moved out of Tennessee, down to Texas. He and I got a place together after my divorce. This way he could put some distance between him and the hurt.

That sucks she would do that too him it not right. He seems like such a sweet and kind person.

No it not but it who she was and always will be. She wanted his money and got what she wanted and now is getting married again already. And he is a really nice person who would give his shirt off his back even to this day to any one in need.

What a bitch.

Yes she is one. But then she knew who he was and what he was worth and went after him with everything in her to catch him. She had him and most of the guys fooled.

" Stevie looks at Mark and nods then looks at him deeply. "

Most but not you Mark? So did this bitch even work for a living or just live off Glen completely.

She never worked a day in her life in less it was on her back. Glen goes out there for nights a week most weeks and works his ass off to support them. But it wasn't enough any more. And you're right she never had me fooled but wasn't much I could do but be there when it fell apart.

Does he feel every woman is after what he got or what he can give her?

No but he is a little gun shy too with good reason. But he more a happy goes lucky type of guy that figures she just wasn't meant to be his soul mate. He still looking or should say looking again now.

Well anyone with a good heart would love to have him. Though for their sakes I hope if they start something that it slow.

" They both watch as Mark truck swerves a little when Glen leans over and kisses Jesse who kisses him back. Mark shakes his head and mutters softly. Stevie can't help but laugh a little softly even if it is killing her head. "

Keep your minds on the road Glen because if you scratch my truck again I am going to kill you.

Some thing tells me that the word slowly is not in their vocabulary. And the only thing that is going slow in that truck is the truck.

" Mark laughs and is watching the road and turns following Glen but thinking a little bit. He then asks her something he doesn't know if even he believes in. "

Don't believe in love at first sight Stevie?

Hell Mark I don't even know if I believe in love. Some times I think maybe it safer to just skip it and keep just doing what you can in life to try and make yourself happy and to be a good person.

" This shocks him a little and he turns and looks down at her. She has her head back again and her eyes closed flinching a little with each bump in the road. He tightens his hand on hers. A little lost as how to answer her on that one and decides maybe it best if he doesn't cause he not sure of anything either when it comes to love. "