Chapter 2

My debut started off fairly uneventful. As a way of introduction, I was shown talking with Matt and Jeff, with Jeff's arm firmly around me. This had the extra perk of making it seem as though Jeff and I were together. We were very shortly "interrupted" by one of the divas, Terri Runnels.

"Hey Matt. Jeff." She smiled warmly as she turned her gaze to me. "Hey, Cordelia! How are you doing tonight?" Again, almost pointing to Jeff and me "being together", showing that I know his friends already.

"I'm good. How are you, Terri?" I replied, returning her smile.

"I'm fine. Glad to see you here. Now I can have girl-time with someone I actually like." She giggled playfully. "But hey, I have to go. Come find me later, we'll catch up!" She said, moving away. "Jeff, Matt, good luck with your match tonight.

"Will do, darlin'. See you later." She walked off camera, and Jeff, Matt, and I went back to our conversation, and the camera-man called "Cut!"

I stayed leaning against Jeff as the camera-man walked away. "Well, that was the easy part."

"Yeah, next comes being kidnapped by Jay and Adam. But trust me, when you're out there, you don't even notice the camera." Matt replied.

"Yeah, with me out there, you won't even notice the crowd! All your attention with be focused on me." I turned to see Jay walking over to us, followed by Adam.

"Uh, sorry dude, but it's gunna be my good looks that'll have her distracted, not yours." Adam replied, giving Jay a playful push.

I rolled my eyes as the two went back and forth for another minute. "Yeah, we'll see who's distracted by who when we get out there."

"Speaking of, we're on next so we should get going." Jeff said.

Jeff and Matt we set to take on Edge and Christian (Adam and Jay, respectively) in a tag match. Our entrance was last, being the more energetic of the two. As I listened to the Vampiric entrance for Edge and Christian's stable, The Brood, I began to pump myself up in an attempt to not psych myself out.

You can do this. Just go out there like you always imagined you would. I bounced on my toes a bit as the Hardy Boyz entrance hit and Jeff took my hand and pulled me out on to the entrance ramp with him, Matt not far behind. We posed on the ramp for a moment, Jeff with an arm around me, banging his head to the music, Matt getting the crowd hyped up. Then Jeff let me go, and he and Matt continued down the ramp in their normal way. I followed them down, getting pumped up by the music myself, and I let myself go. I have to admit, it was exhilarating, and I totally forgot about the cameras in my face and the crowd. Jeff held the ropes for me so I could get in the ring without tripping over myself, and then he promptly jumped onto one of the turnbuckles doing a half twist in the air, and threw up the Hardy symbol. When he jumped down, he pulled me close to him again, my back to his front, and even I threw the symbol up.

Jeff kissed my cheek, and said, "Good job, Kitten. They love you already."

Edge and Christian entered the ring then, so I climbed my way out, shooting "nervous glances" at Gangrel, who hadn't taken his eyes off of me since the entrance. The referee signaled for the match to begin, and the bell rang. I stood on the outside of the ring, cheering on Matt and Jeff, looking genuinely concerned when either of them got put down. I didn't notice that Gangrel had slowly been making his way over to me until he was turning the corner of the side of the ring I was on.

As he stalked towards me, I backed up, my eyes wide in "fear". Jeff noticed what was going on when I climbed up onto the apron and into the ring. He immediately attacked Gangrel, but when he threw him out of the ring, Christian attacked from behind with a cheap shot, then hit his finisher on him. Edge had hit his finisher on Matt outside of the ring, so that basically left me on my own with all three of the members of the Brood enclosing me in the ring. The next thing I knew, Christian grabbed my wrist and pulled me into his arms, then the arena went dark.

"Let's go." Jay said gently, leading me to the edge of the ring, the running me out, ducking down, to the side exit of the ramp. And with that, I was in the custody of the Brood. Not that I really minded. It just meant I'd be spending more time with Jay. Thank the Gods!