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Lexa's hands were shaking as she dialed her cell phone. After leaving a couple of
messages to call her, she threw it down in frustration. She couldn't seem to get a hold
of anyone, not even Matt and Jeff's dad. She looked over at Jeff who was staring straight
ahead, his knuckles turning white as he fiercely gripped the steering wheel. Thank god, he has
a lead foot like me. Lexa thought as the speedometer continued to rise.
She looked out the window at the trees that flew by, and tears started to form in her eyes.
She had a horrible sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach. 'Please god let him be alright.' she silently prayed. She just couldn't help but think the worst. Matt would never let the hospital
call them and worry them if he was ok. He was so stubborn when it came to things like that.
He would have insisted on speaking to them himself, if it was in anyway humanly possible.
Lexa turned back towards Jeff as he also looked over at her, and she could see the worry in his eyes as well. Then he turned his attention back to the road, as he made the turn into the hospital, tires squealing. He whipped the car into the first spot he found, not caring of it was parked illegally. Then they both sprinted into the hospital. Jeff reached the desk just a step ahead of Lexa.
"Matt Hardy, we got a call that he was brought in." Jeff said as he practically plowed into the desk.
"Ok let me look." The kind looking nurse said over her bifocals, as she started typing.
"Yes Mr. Hardy was brought in, but he must still be being worked on. I will send word to the doctor that you are here. Please follow me to a waiting room back here." She said as she led
them down a hallway that they presumed was closer to where they had taken Matt.
Jeff paced the floor as Lexa sat in a chair knees pulled up to her chest staring straight ahead.
Every second that ticked by on the clock felt like an eternity. Finally Jeff spoke up,
"He's fine, he has to be. They would have informed us right away if something were really
wrong." He said, looking to Lexa for confirmation.
Lexa just nodded still looking straight ahead, her mind clouding with scenarios she was
trying to block out.
Then she looked back up at Jeff who had stopped in front of her and was staring down at her.
"He'll be fine." She said nodding "He's indestructible right?" She said trying to force out a small
smile.
"Right" Jeff said before he continued to pace.
As he passed by Lexa grabbed his hand. "Jeff" she said looking up at him.
He caught the hint and sat down next to her still holding her hand.
After what seemed like hours, but in reality was only about 25 minutes, a doctor came in.
The doctor held out his hand to Jeff. "Mr Hardy, I'm Dr. Cullen." Eyeing Lexa he turned back to Jeff. "Would you like to speak in private?"
Jeff looked at him like he was crazy. "No she's family. Please, we just need to know how Matt is."
"And can we see him?" Lexa cut in.
"You must be Lexa, then." The doctor said. "He has asked for you both."
Lexa and Jeff both look up expectantly.
But the doctor held up his hands. "Before you see him I need you both to have a seat."
Jeff and Lexa looked at each other, the knot in Lexa's stomach getting worse.
"Mr. Hardy was involved in a head on collision with an 18 wheeler."
Lexa still holding onto Jeff's hand gasped, Jeff continued to stare at the doctor waiting for him to continue. "The rig crossed into Mr. Hardy's lane. If he hadn't been in such great physical shape
he wouldn't have made it to the hospital."
Jeff mentally prepared himself. What ever it was, physical therapy, paralysis, he knew with Matt's drive he could overcome it.
Lexa cut in. "Dr. Cullen please, is he ok?"
The doctor looked from Jeff to Lexa with sympathy. "We've done everything we can, there is just
to much internal damage. There is nothing more we can do."
Jeff jumped up out of his chair in an instant. "What do you mean, nothing you can do!" He screamed. "You go in there, you operate! You fix it!"
The doctor looked at the bigger man, fear mixed with sympathy.
Lexa just looked from the doctor to Jeff. This had to be a mistake, this couldn't be happening.
Not to Matt. She started trembling. Not Matt, not to the man who was one of the most wonderful passionate people she had ever known and loved. This couldn't be. It just ... couldn't. Lexa sat in her chair her heart pounding, her body trembling as the doctor once again addressed them, trying to calm Jeff down.
"I'm very sorry. We did try, but there is just to much internal bleeding. All we could do was buy
him a little time. We also gave him morphine to make him comfortable." The doctor sighed, this was so difficult. "He doesn't have much time left and he's asking for both of you. I know this is hard, but for his sake you have to hold yourselves together for a little longer. Please follow me."
And with that the doctor turned leading a pale Jeff and Lexa down the hall. He stopped in front of a door and looked at them with sympathy before motioning for them to go in.
They walked in quietly, almost fearfully Jeff going in first, with Lexa right behind him.
Matt looked up at them. He was pale but other than that he looked rather peaceful.
For a moment the beeping of the heart monitor was the only sound in the room.
"You guys gonna stand there all day or what?" Matt said hoarsely though trying to sound cheerful.
Lexa walked over to the bed and leaned down kissing him gently and took his hand.
Jeff walked over to the other side of the bed and stood not knowing what to say.
Matt looked up at him. "You guys don't have to be so quiet. I already know. The doctors here aren't as discreet as they like to think."
"No, you can fight." Jeff said his voice cracking.
Matt placed his hand on Jeff's arm. "I know I can't fight this. Believe me, if I could I would.
I didn't think it would be like this. I thought we'd grow to old men sitting on our front porches
together." He then turned to Lexa and cupped her cheek as tears streamed down her eyes. " I wanted to grown old with you. I love you so much."
" I love you." Lexa said trying not to completely break down. She leaned down and lay her
head on his shoulder and wrapped an arm around him. As Jeff sat on the other side of the bed holding Matt's hand, tears flowing down his cheeks.
" I don' t know how I'm gonna do this without you." Lexa said, crying lightly into his shoulder.
"Baby, you'll be fine." Matt said stroking her hair.
Lexa sat up and looked at him. "You don't understand. I just found out yesterday morning.
I'm sorry, I was waiting to tell you tomorrow, on your birthday. I'm pregnant." She said her
voice trembling.
Jeff looked up at her, his eyes growing wide.
Matt slowly cracked a smile, tears coming to his eyes. "You're gonna have my baby?"
"Yes." She said quietly, wiping her tear stained face.
"When."
"I'm don't know yet, I'm guessing I'm about a month along. I had no idea, but I went in for my
physical for the WWE and I guess that came back with my bloodwork. They called yesterday morning."
"So there's gonna be a little piece of me and you running around, huh?"
Lexa nodded forcing a small smile for him. She had been so happy when she found out, and she had known Matt would be ecstatic.
Matt then looked seriously at her. "So then you have to take care of yourself, for me and for my baby." To which Lexa nodded, before he continued. "You know I love you so much, you have made me so happy. Thank you for loving me and letting me love you. Take care of my brother for me. If soulmates can be best friends, then you guys are it. " Matt said patting both their hands.
Matt then looked over at Jeff. Lexa backed away, sitting in a chair near the bed, as to give the brothers a moment. They spoke quietly to one another, tears running down each of their faces.
Lexa heard then mention their father, before they embraced. Then Lexa heard Matt tell Jeff.
" Take care of yourself bro, and please look after Lexa and my baby." She could hear Matt's voice getting weaker. As she looked over at him she could see his breathing become more shallow, and the panic on Jeff's face. Lexa jumped up and rushed over to Matt's side. Clasping
his hand that had grown even colder.
Matt's eyes closed slowly, they fluttered open again. As he held onto Jeff and Lexa's hands
he softly said. " I love you." Then his eyes drifted shut, his breathing slowly became softer.
"No" Lexa quietly cried.
The beeping of the heart monitor slowed until there was silence. The nurse slipped in and quietly turned it off. Lexa and Jeff sat on either side of the bed each clasping Matt's hand and crying softly into the mattress. She wasn't sure how long she sat there until she felt Jeff put his arms around her and pull her up. They walked out into the hallway, where they hugged each other and cried again.
They pulled away when Jeff's cell phone started to ring. He looked down at it and
then closed his eyes and took a deep breath before turning and walking away to answer it.
"Hi Shan..." Lexa heard before Jeff turned the corner. Lexa looked down at her own cell phone,
she knew she had to call Shane back since it was obvious that he had tried to return her call.
She hit his number and waited. Lane answered. "Hey Lexa, what's going on?" Lane said cheerfully. "Umm, is Shane there. I need to talk to him."
"Uh, yeah hold on." Lane said sounding concerned, she could tell by Lexa's voice that
something was wrong.
"Hey Lexa what's going on." Shane's voice came on the other end.
Lexa sighed, then slowly started to explain everything.
Lexa was sitting on a bench her head in her hands, she looked up to see Jeff approaching.
His eyes were red from fresh tears as were her's.
He sat down next to her looking defeated.
"I talked to Shane, Trish, and my mom." Lexa said.
"I got a few." Jeff said.
"I'm going to drop you off at home. Shannon will be there, so you don't have to sit there by yourself. I need to go see my dad, he should be home by now. Shannon said he'd go with me but I wanna do it by myself."
Lexa nodded "Shane is coming over too."
Jeff stood up, Lexa followed suit. Then he turned around to face her, seeing fresh tears in her eyes. He wiped them away, then pulled her to him."We can do this." He said. "For Matt, we have to." Then they turned and headed out through the double doors.
The next several days went by in a blur. It was like a nightmare Lexa couldn't wake up from.
Matt's birthday came and went, everyone to caught up in their own grief to mention it.
But she held true to her word to Matt and was there for Jeff. And she honestly didn't know what she would have done without him there. Everyone was in and out of the house. The first night Jeff
and Shannon both stayed over since neither wanted to return to an empty house. Lexa couldn't bear to sleep in she and Matt's bed all alone, so she made her way to the large sectional sofa in the living room. Jeff ending up sleeping on the opposite end and Shannon in the reclining chair. When Paige arrived the next day, she slept with Lexa even though there were two other spare rooms. Shannon went home and slept. Jeff however slept just down the hall.
It was Lexa who had made the difficult call to Vince McMahon. Jeff had enough on his plate with he and his father making the arrangements. Vince had been shocked and expressed his sympathy. He had already known about Lexa's pregnancy since he also received the results of her physical. Lexa had decided to only tell she and Matt's immediate family. After the funeral she would tell their close friends. She wasn't sure yet when she would be ready for the world to know.
The day of the funeral Lexa woke long before sunrise, she got up knowing she wouldn't be able to sleep. Paige was still fast asleep as Lexa softly tiptoed downstairs. She walked over to a hook by the back door, and gently ran her fingers over the soft fabric of Matt's hoodie. She pulled it off the hook and brought it to her nose, smelling the scent of him still clinging to it as tears came to her eyes. She slipped it on and opened the back door. As she stepped out she felt the slight chill in the air, fall was almost fully here. It was still dark out but she could see faint streaks of light coming from the east through the trees. She walked over to a wooden Adirondack chair and sat down curling her feet up under her not knowing someone was watching her and closed her eyes remembering.
Lexa laughed as she chased Matt on the four wheeler. They had decided to take them out, just the two of them. They had driven deep into the woods. Suddenly Lexa pulled ahead of Matt and blocked his path, causing him to stop. He cocked his eyebrow and crossed his arms as she turned off her four wheeler and got off, walking over to his. He scooted back as slid on in front of him, and put her hands back onto his thighs.
"I thought I'd hitch a ride" She said leaning back as he restarted it.
After a few minutes of riding like that, Lexa carefully swung her leg over and turned around to face Matt with her back to the handlebars, as he continued down the path through the woods.
"Yes my little dare devil?" He said to her smiling.
"Just though this would be more fun." She responded.
"I see." He said as they continued along their way.
He grunted with surprise as she started to kiss his neck, then moved on to his collarbone.
Then started unbuttoning his shirt with a mischievous gleam in her eye, and continued to kiss his neck and chest. When she started massaging his thigh, and moved up to kissing his jaw line.
He exclaimed "This is just a little too dangerous and a lot too tempting" as he stopped the four wheeler suddenly and pushed her back into the handlebars kissing her forcefully.
Lexa leaned forward and pushed his shirt from him, then suddenly Matt slid off the seat pulling Lexa with him onto the ground. She landed on top of him then suddenly he rolled over and he ended up on top of her, as they both began to laugh. Matt leaned up on his elbow looking down at her and plucked a blade of grass from her hair. Then gently kissed her before propping his head in his elbow. "You know we have barely spent a night apart since we have been together."
"Uh huh" Lexa nodded in agreement.
"When we aren't on the road you are pretty much here, and if you aren't here it's a safe bet that
I am in Wilmington."
"Baby what are you getting at?" Lexa questioned reaching up and brushing Matt's hair from his face.
"I think we should live together." He said quietly.
"Here?" She asked.
"I'd like it to be here, but I'd live anywhere as long as it's with you."
Surprisingly Lexa had no apprehension. "I'd love to live here with you. I love it here, and I love you." She said smiling.
Matt swiftly bent down and kissed her, then jumped up pulling her up too.
"Where are we going?" Lexa asked laughing at Matt's excited state.
"To tell Jeff." Matt said grinning from ear to ear.
Lexa opened her eyes and smiled and wiped a tear from her cheek. That was when she saw someone from the corner of her eye. Jeff walked out of the dark spot he was sitting in.
"I didn't hear you come out here." Lexa said.
"Nah, I've been out here for a while. You looked like you needed to think, so I didn't want to
bother you." Jeff said sitting down in the chair next to her.
"Couldn't sleep either?" She asked
"No" Jeff said staring at the sky that was beginning to streak with pink and purple. "This is gonna be a hard day."
Lexa looked at him and touched his hand. Sighing she said "Yeah, but we'll get through it. Like you said, we have to."
Jeff squeezed her hand in response.
Authors Note Continued: First off Sweet Vengance, you really don't want to stalk me,
my life is very hectic and it would be very tiring. Besides I live on very little sleep, you would be utterly exhausted. Seriously though, Matt Hardy is one of my favorite
wrestlers of all time. He is an amazing person in and out of the ring.
I was seriously second guessing writing this, just well because who wants to write a
story where one of your favorite wrestlers dies. But this story has been in my head for a long time and I just have to do it. I have a passion for drama, and am hoping this story will turn out well. And I hope you will all still want to come along for the ride.
