Authors Note: What can I say besides, I am so sorry! I am sorry it took me so long
to update. Two months! I apologize for leaving you hanging like that, I was just having such a hard time with this. I know exactly where the story is going to go, but ugh, how to get there? And I needed a break from this story, the last couple of chapters were difficult.
AND, life is hectic, between work and school, and bills, and family, and blah, blah, blah.
I'm sure you all know about that stuff. Well anyway, please forgive me :(
AND PLEASE REVIEW!!!!
Disclaimer: Yeah right, if I owned any rights to the WWE or any Superstars, or made any money off of this. I wouldn't have the work, bills, and blah, blah, blah, that I mentioned above.
Lexa sighed as she folded her jeans and placed them into the suitcase.
It was going to be so strange, being back at work without Matt. They had always
packed together, making plans and joking as they went. It had been six weeks since
Matt had died. The first few days there had been so many people in and out of the house,
that it had been a distraction. But the past couple of weeks the house had been so quiet.
Of course Jeff was there, he spent every night in the room next to hers. She knew it was partly because of her, but she also knew that he just couldn't stand to be alone in his house anymore.
The first night after Paige had left Lexa had tried to sleep alone, but everytime she started to
doze off, her hand would slide over and she would feel the emptiness beside her. So after a
couple of hours she had quietly gotten up and walked towards Jeff's room. She stood in the doorway for a moment, Jeff had still been wide awake staring at the ceiling. Seeing her standing there, Jeff patted the other side of the bed. She had fallen asleep almost as soon as her head
hit the pillow, and Jeff had fallen asleep moments later. Some nights she was able to sleep in
her bed alone, other nights she would get up and wonder around the house. Jeff would often find
her in the morning curled up on the couch or in the reclining chair.
Lexa closed her suitcase as she finished packing, then placed it on the floor. She really wasn't
sure what Vince had in mind to do as far as her pregnancy went, but he had assured her that her job was secure. Obviously she wouldn't be able to do much in the ring, though she had decided that she would not make her pregnancy public until about her fifth month when she won't be
able to hide it any longer. She didn't want to deal with all the publicity and sympathy that was inevitable when the public found out that she was pregnant with Matt's baby, not just yet
anyway. But you also couldn't have a pregnant Women's Champ so obviously Vince had to
have some ideas on what to do. For safety reasons the other wrestlers would have to know, but she was fine with that. As Lexa took a quick look around to make sure she hadn't forgotten anything, she heard raised voices downstairs and then the front door slam. Lexa hurried over to the window and looked down seeing Christine's car peel out of the driveway.
Christine had been supposed to drive them to the airport. Lexa grabbed her bags and trotted
down the stairs to see a visibly angry Jeff sitting at the bar in the kitchen.
Lexa sat down her bags and walked over to him, placing her hand on his shoulder.
"Hey, you ok?" She asked.
"Fine." He said "More like relieved actually. Christine and I are over."
But Lexa could see that he was really agitated. "What happened?"
"It doesn't matter Lex. You ready to go?"
"Yeah." She said to him with a smile, but inside she was fuming.
How could that bitch break up with him now, after all he had been through.
Granted Lexa didn't like the girl, but still Jeff was going through way too much right now.
Just wait until I see that girl Lexa thought as Jeff pulled out of the drive.
Jeff sat quietly looking out the window from his seat on the plane, as Lexa sat next to him with her eyes closed listening to her iPod.
Her fingers were tapping out the beat of whatever it was.
He looked down to see what she was listening to and smirked, it was Freak on a Leash by Korn. Then he turned back to the window, he was still angry with what had went down with Christine.
He wasn't upset that they had broken up, really he didn't care. He knew from the beginning that they weren't very compatible, in fact she wasn't even really his type.
He had never wanted to strike a woman before, that is until this morning and it had taken all his self control not too. He clenched his fists as he thought about what had transpired.
Christine had arrived as planned to drive Jeff and Lexa to the airport, in fact a few days earlier she had volunteered to drive them. Which had surprised Jeff, she usually didn't volunteer to do things like that. But ever since Jeff had been staying with Lexa, Christine had been around a lot more. As usual Christine was dressed to the nines that morning.
She was a petite blonde who wore her hair in a stylish bob. She had bright blue eyes,
which Jeff had learned early on were the result of contact lenses. She was dressed in a
short denim Calvin Klein skirt and a pink strappy BCBG top. Her pink sandals were Italian and she had a pink and white Coach bag. She had kissed him, then plopped down on a bar stool.
"Lex is upstairs finishing up, I've just got a couple more things to gather then I'll go and load the car." He had said, leaving her there as her phone rang.
Jeff had run upstairs and thrown a few more things into his bag. A few minutes later he
brought his bags downstairs. He needed to get the car keys from Christine. She wasn't at the
bar where he left her, then he heard her voice coming from down the hall. The door was partially closed but he could hear what she was saying before he had even reached it.
"No, now he is staying over here every night."
It was obvious that she was talking on her cell phone. He stopped for a moment listening.
"No, he won't let me stay here with him, it would be to awkward for Lex." She said in
a mocking tone. He could see her pacing and gesturing with her hands through the slight opening in the door.
" Oh she is a conniving bitch, let me tell you. As soon as I get a ring on my finger she is out
of his life forever. Because she thinks now that their precious Matt is gone, that she is gonna take Jeff, I don't think so. Oh, and this baby thing is just too much. It is just too convenient.
Her boyfriend, who was loaded by the way. Riiiiight, to bad I couldn't snag his ass before he died." She said laughing. "Anyway" She continued "Her boyfriend dies, and conveniently
she turns up pregnant with his baby. I mean come on, he was a freakin' hick from Cameron,
it's probably not even his. He had to have been dumb, he drove into an 18 wheeler. Seriously, she was probably fucking the whole roster, and he was to dumb to notice." She said laughing again. "I gotta go, it's time for me to go play miss fabulous girlfriend, I'll talk to you later."
She had pulled open the door only to find Jeff glaring at her from the other side, his eyes showing nothing but white hot anger and hatred, his jaw clenched and his hands were
balled into fists at his side.
"Jeffy, sweetie. What are you doing?" She said with a nervous laugh.
"Get..out..of..this..house." He said slowly, the anger boiling up inside him.
"What do you mean sweetie?" She said nervously her eyes shifting from side to side.
"You know what the hell I mean. I never want to see your face again, you black hearted bitch." He said through gritted teeth. "You have ten seconds to get out of this house, because so help
me god I won't be able to stop myself from what I may do to you if I have to look at you for
one more second beyond that."
She backed away quickly and dashed to the front door, but before she closed it she turned
back and yelled.
"You are a pathetic freak, you both are. You deserve each other!" And then she had
slammed the door.
Jeff shook his head remembering as he continued to look out the window.
Melina squealed and ran over almost toppling Lexa when she walked into the women's locker room. "Lexa baby! I missed you so much!" She said hugging Lexa.
"Hey Lexa." Maria said, giving Lexa a bit of a more subdued hug.
"Hey guys, it's good to be back." Lexa said looking around with a sigh as she sat her bag down.
She normally would have shared a locker room with Matt and Jeff, but she decided to just share the women's locker room. She thought it might be less of a reminder of Matt's absence if she
and Jeff were distracted by their coworkers.
After chatting with the girls for a few minutes she made her way to catering. She was met with many hugs and sympathetic glances along the way. When she walked into catering she breathed
a sigh of relief when she saw Jeff give her a slight nod and smile from across the room. She grabbed a juice and sat next to him.
"Your not gonna eat anything?" Jeff asked.
"I saw the mountain of food in front of you and figured I'd pick at yours." Lexa said with a
grin as she stole a broccoli spear off his plate.
Jeff smiled, he was glad to see her beginning to act like her old self again. He was relieved to
be back to work, it was a great distraction. He was even beginning to feel better, he had been apprehensive about coming back, but he knew now that it was the right thing to do.
Lexa and Jeff talked while they ate. Soon they were joined by Victoria, who greeted them both with a hug. And then by Carlito. They all sat and chatted until Melina came over getting their attention. "Jeff, Lexa, Vince asked to see us in his office."
"Alright, I'll see you later guys." Lexa said getting up.
Jeff followed suit. Lexa and Jeff were joined in Mr McMahon's office by Melina and Johnny.
Vince greeted all of them, welcoming Lexa and Jeff back.
"Now, to get down to business. We are going to restart the old feud between you two."
Vince said motioning between Lexa and Melina.
"And obviously because of Lexa's condition, Melina you will be taking the title.
I know the two of you are friends, that is part of the reason why I chose you Melina, in order
to respect Lexa's wishes about limiting who knows. "
Melina and Johnny both looked questioningly at Lexa.
Vince caught this. "You haven't told her yet?" He said. "We discussed that anyone who would
be working closely with you would have to know, so.."
"Absolutely, I was actually going to tell her. I just didn't have the chance yet. And I didn't
know we'd be working a storyline together." Lexa answered.
Melina looked at Lexa concerned. "Lexa are you ok?"
"Fine actually." Lexa said with a smile. "I'm pregnant."
"Oh my goodness!" Melina said hugging Lexa. Then she turned serious "But Matt...I mean
did he know?"
"I only found out a day before he died, but I made sure he knew." Lexa said.
There was silence in the room for a few moments, when finally Vince cleared his throat.
"Well, um, obviously Melina great care needs to be taken when you and Lexa are working the storyline. You will have a couple of confrontations, which will result in one match at Survivor Series in a couple of weeks. Contact will be very limited and like I said you must all be very careful. Lexa after you lose the title, we want to keep you visible for as long as possible, until
you start to show. So you are gonna have an injury and are going to be commentating
alongside JR and Jerry and valeting Jeff. Oh, and here are the revised scripts for tonight."
He said as he handed the scripts to the four.
Lexa and Jeff headed back towards the women's locker room, he stopped outside the door and turned towards her. "Lex, you are gonna be careful, right?"
Lexa looked up at him and smiled. "Jeff, I want this baby more than anything. I'm not gonna
do anything to jeopardize it."
He just looked down at her.
"I promise." She said smiling at him, then reaching up she wrapped him in a hug.
After a minute she released him. "What would I do with out you?" She said tugging on a blue lock of his hair.
He shook his head and smiled. "You'd be awfully bored.." He said as she turned and headed
into the locker room.
"I'll see ya in a bit." She said as the door closed.
Meilna and Nitro headed out to the ring first.
When Jeff's music hit, the crowd got on their feet. Jeff emerged wearing a Matt Hardy Indestructible t-shirt. Lexa walked out beside him wearing a Hardy's extreme tank top
with a short black and red pleated skirt, black boots and black fishnet fingerless gloves, her
Women's Championship slung over one shoulder. Jeff did his little dance while Lexa threw the metal sign pumping her hand to the music. There were Matt Hardy signs everywhere, and Lexa and Jeff would stop and point to the people holding the signs, acknowledging them.
The match got started with Jeff and Johnny locking up. Nitro quickly got a head lock on Jeff, which Jeff powered out of by giving Nitro a few hard elbows to the abdomen. Jeff then bounced off the ropes leaping into Nitro with a flying clothesline, and then hit Nitro with a leg drop to the midsection. Pulling Nitro up Jeff set him up for the Twist of Fate, but Nitro pushed Jeff away
and into the turnbuckle. Nitro then pulled Jeff out of the corner and whipped him into the opposite turnbuckle and hit him with a splash. Nitro dominated for a few minutes, then Jeff was tossed lightly through the ropes and landed stumbling on his feet outside the ring. Melina started to make her way up behind him on the outside, but Lexa came running over and Melina quickly backed away. As Jeff started to climb back into the ring Nitro grabbed him trying to pull him over the top rope. Jeff stopped him quickly with an elbow to the face. This gave Jeff enough
time to leap over the top rope and onto Nitro. Straddling him Jeff began to throw him some punches, before the ref stopped him, Pulling Nitro up Jeff hit him with the Twist of Fate. As Jeff climbed up to the
top rope to get ready to perform the Swanton Bomb Melina climbed up onto the apron to try
and pull him down. But before Melina could interfere Lexa grabbed her by the ankles and
pulled her down, causing Melina to hit her face on the matt before falling to the floor, where
Lexa threw her a couple of punches for good measure. While this was going on, Jeff had hit the Swanton Bomb
and was getting the three count. Lexa climbed back into the ring and raised Jeff's hand as he
was announced the winner. The crowd went crazy when Lexa and Jeff both did the V1 sign,
and signaled to their hearts.
Once Lexa and Jeff made it back trough the curtain Lexa headed quickly over to where Johnny had Melina's head tilted up and was inspecting her bloody lip.
"Mel are you ok? I am so sorry. I didn't mean for you to hit that hard." Lexa said, Jeff also looking with concern at Melina.
"I'm fine." Melina said with a half smile. "I just bit my damn lip that's all. It was my own fault."
After Lexa was sure Melina was fine, she headed back to the locker room and changed.
Once she was dressed in a pair of jeans and a hot pink baby T with a black skull and cross bones on it, she headed out to meet back up with Jeff. As she approached him her cell phone started playing Time To Rock 'n Roll. With a smile to Lexa answered it.
"Hi Trish."
Jeff stood there only hearing Lexa's half of the conversation, but getting the jist of it.
"See I told you we'd be careful."
"Trisha I am a professional, and I know what I'm doing. Come on I'm not even gonna be
taking any real bumps."
"Of course I'm sure, and I'm only gonna be working with Melina."
"She hasn't bothered me in two years why would Mickie start again now."
"You know if I recall, you worked in your first couple of months also. And they had the
same restrictions for you. Did you think I forgot about that or something?" Lexa asked
laughing.
"And how is that different? Oh, yeeeaah. That is not different. You're nuts."
"I promise, yes I promise. Yes." Lexa nodded at Victoria who had just walked up.
"Yes, ok. I know I'll be careful. No you really don't have to...fine. If it will make you feel
better. I miss you too. Give her a hug for me."
"Ok here he is, yes again I promise."
Pulling the phone from her ear, she held it out to Jeff.
"She wants to talk to you. Good luck, she's being nuts."
Jeff shook his head and took the phone from Lexa.
"Hey" Looking at Lexa, he said "She heard that." Then he turned and leaned against the wall.
Lexa just heard the start of their conversation. "Yeah, I know. Well yeah she's stubborn."
Then she turned to Victoria, who looked at her questioningly. "Was that your mom?"
"No just some Greek goddess who thinks she's my mom." Lexa answered shaking her head.
"Oohh." Victoria said with a laugh.
Maria then walked up soon followed by Melina.
"Hey Lexa, we are gonna hit this little club downtown. You should come too." Maria suggested.
"No." Lexa said shaking her head. "I don't think so."
"You can't hide from the world forever." Victoria said trying to tread lightly.
"I'm not gonna hide from the world. But I just got back and I just wanna relax. I'm not ready
for all that." Lexa said.
"Just stop by Lexa." Maria added.
"No. Like I said, I'm going back to the hotel. But thanks anyway." Lexa answered politely, but her voice taking on her stubborn tone.
"Guys give her a break, it is her first night back. She's not going." Melina said, as Lexa gave
her a grateful look.
"Ok, maybe next time." Maria added, then she turned to Jeff who was just hanging up the
phone. "How 'bout you?"
"Not a chance." Jeff said giving Maria a small smile.
After settling that, Lexa and Jeff bid everyone goodbye and headed back to the hotel.
Later that night after they grabbed a bite to eat, Lexa was laying on her bed and Jeff was laying
on his. They were watching reruns of King of the Hill. Lexa rolled on her side to face Jeff's bed.
"How's it feel to be back?" She asked.
Jeff turned to face her. "Strange. Yesterday when I was getting packed I almost broke down,
I didn't know if I could do it. If it weren't for his drive, we never would have made it to the WWE. I didn't know if I could be here without him. Even when I was in TNA, Matt was just a phone call away, always backing me up. I just didn't know if I had it in me. But then I realized just how pissed he'd be if I quit now. That pushed me, that is what got me into that ring tonight.
Once I was out there though, it just clicked on, it felt right. It felt good, strange without him,
but good to be out there. And he was there with us." Jeff said.
"I know, he always will be. It was good to be back. Goodnight Jeff." Lexa said rolling back
over to lay on her back and get settled under the covers.
"Sweet dreams, Lex." Jeff said switching off the light.
