Jeff's Grace, Dawn's Past

Disclaimer: I do not own the Hardy Boys, Matt or Jeff, they belong to themselves and the WWE, any OC's are mine and only I can torment them ^_^

AN - Warning for swearing, you've been warned about the language content.

*Chapter 12 *

Within a flash, Jeff snapped his visor closed and started his bike; he spun his back tire around and headed in the direction of the garage seemingly to take the round about way to the Keepers. He skidded to a stop in front of the garage and gave a sharp loud whistle, suddenly the garage door flew open and out came Shane on one of Jeff's dirt bikes and Shannon on a four wheeler headed straight at the three bikers.

John slipped on his helmet as Mikey and Gabriel started their bikes with a roar, they popped their front ends up and raced towards Jeff, Shane and Shannon. Matt grabbed the rifle and headed down the stairs as Casey jumped over the railing with her gun in hand. Matt got around the corner to meet up with her and watched as she landed and took off with out even flinching.

'Good god, is she nuts? The top of the railing is eight feet off the ground.'

Matt caught up with Casey as she stopped and watched John come barreling at her with his front tire raised, she brought the gun out arms length and took aim, but before she could get the shot off Matt grabbed her arm and yanked it down.

"No shooting! Casey what has gotten into you? Only if we need to!"

He whirled Casey around behind him as he grabbed the barrel of the rifle and swung it like a baseball bat as John rode by. The swing connected enough with him to send the bike off balance, falling on its side; the back tire sprayed dirt everywhere, sending up a huge plume of dust. With the five other racing around the track, tires skidding, the dust wasn't helping see them any better. Matt was storming over to John to restrain him as Casey looked around, listening for Dawn's bike, but the familiar ring of her bike didn't want to be heard just yet. The sun finally sunk deep below the trees, sending the Imagi-Nation into darkness.

'We can't catch what we can't see…dammit…think…oh yes, I just hope Jeff doesn't kill me for this later'

Casey ran back under the stairs of the deck and grabbed the first thing her hands could reach, which just happened to be a red jerry can full of gasoline. She grabbed it and made a run for Mount Imagi, running past Matt she screamed at him to cover her as she could hear the motorbikes and the four wheelers closing on near her.

Matt stood there holding a squirming John and growled at her. Finally he had enough of John's cursing and threats and pulled back his fist and knocked him square in the face, knocking him out and to the ground. He grabbed his dropped rifle and ran after Casey as she dodged the shrubs and small hills of dirt. Matt shouted after her as the bikes tore through the open space between them. We watched briefly as Jeff caught up to Mikey and tried to kick his bike off balance, but just then Mikey hit his brakes, letting Jeff zoom past him. Suddenly Jeff hit his brakes and skidded around to face Mikey, as he popped his front wheel up and tried to catch Mikey's bike underneath. And Mikey then tore off to catch up to Gabriel who had his hands full with the duo of Moore and Helms.

Once they passed Matt focused on Casey again, who was now pouring half the contents of the jerry can down into the volcano while grabbing near by wood and other burnable materials and throwing them in. She finally finished with that and then began to run around the hill, spiraling the hill with a trail of gasoline. All the while she kept watching for the bikes and listening for Dawn. She finally trailed the gas back over towards Matt who grabbed her arm and swung her around to face him as he started to yell at her.

"Are you fucking nuts?! You trying to get your self killed, we're lucky enough that these guys haven't pulled their guns yet and you're off playing with gas?!" Matt fumed at her.

"Back the fuck off Matt, you can't catch what you can't see dipshit! It's getting darker by the minute! And we need to be ready." Casey yelled back hotly.

She quickly padded her self down looking for a lighter, anything to start the damn flames. She heard the bikes coming and had enough of fooling around, she pulled out her gun and aimed it at the trail of gas on the ground, before Matt could protest, and she fired off a shot and ignited the flames.

The flames shot up winding their way around Mount Imagi and it began to shed a violent light on what was going on. Jeff and Mikey were now exchanging blows from their bikes, Gabriel had blown one of the four wheelers tires which Shannon was still running at top speed or trying to. Just as Shannon caught up with him again, Gabriel pulled his gun and shot out another tire, leaving Shane to chase him. Shannon tried to start the four wheeler again and then got off and started to kick it. He turned on his heels and then while dodging the random bikes, and punches he made his way over to Matt and Casey.

"That mutherfucker is nuts!" Shannon declared loudly.

Just as Shannon finished speaking a shot was heard, and Casey took off running towards it. She scanned for any signs of a man down, but saw none. Then she saw what had happened. Gabriel had shot Shane's bike, which he was bolting from, and then she saw the flames dance in an odd way, leading away from the spiral. They coiled towards the fallen bike until it reached it and then in a blink of an eye, the bike exploded sending it shooting ten feet in the air, and knocking Shane to the ground.

"Shane! Shane you son of a bitch you better be alive!" Matt screamed as he ran towards him, but Matt didn't see that Gabriel had stopped to watch the explosion. He caught sight of Matt running to help Shane and took aim. Casey's bloody curdling scream couldn't be heard as the two other bikes raced right past her, but they all heard the shot. Casey watched horrified as Matt sunk to his knees looking stunned, still trying to reach out to Shane, who was slowly stirring.

Casey started to move and fast, tears rolled down her cheeks as she took aim at Gabriel and started to fire as fast as she could. Gabriel sneered at her and started up his bike again and started over towards her. If it was luck or just good shooting, she'll never know, but one of her random bullets finally disabled his bike by blowing out his back tire.

Casey finally made it over to Shane which she pulled up and over towards Matt. She dropped Shane with a heavy thud as she hit the dirt with her knees to check on Matt.

'You stupid idiot, you weren't supposed to get shot, don't leave me Matt, don't you fucking dare!'

Casey finally found where Matt had been hit, just below his right shoulder. She quickly undid her belt and yanked it off and wrapped it around his arm and pulled it tight, so tight it made Matt scream out.

"Don't you fucking ever do that again to me Matthew! And don't be a baby about this, you and Shane get your asses over to some cover, I got to help Jeff now." Matt grunted and looked around trying to find Jeff who still was on his bike, tearing around after Mikey.

Gabriel seized the moment and ran over to John's bike; he turned it on, gave it a good roar, kicked the stand up and was off headed right in the direction of the two other riders. In the heat of the moment, everything slowed to an agonizing crawl for Matt and Casey. Both stood side by side looking around at the Imagi-Nation. It was tore up, bullets embedded into its soil, flames shot so high from the volcano they lit up the entire grounds; in short it was like a war zone.

Casey snapped back to reality quickly as she heard one of the bikes coming at them fast, she shoved Matt and Shane out of the way which sent them both tumbling off to the side near the garage. She quickly reloaded her cartridge in her gun and took aim to where the bike sound came from. She didn't even see Mikey coming, who zoomed past behind her, and with an outreached knife, slicing deeply into her arms and across her back. Her eyes flew open, but yet she made no sound as she dropped to her knees. She gritted her teeth and took aim at whom she thought was Mikey and the shots ran out.

Jeff could hear the bullets whizzing past him, and he prayed that they would miss. He had Mikey coming at him in front of him and Gabriel behind him. He suddenly got an idea and took a sharp right turn, sending his back tire skidding out from underneath of him, but unlucky for him Mikey got the same idea and did and sharp u turn to head back to the biggest jump. Jeff climbed the landing strip side of the jump, if he was right, they would come right over head and he could hopefully disable the bikes.

'I hope to God this works, we need to kill more time for her.'

Jeff knew in his heart of hearts, he would never be able to do what Dawn or Twilight did, week after week. This was for her, all of this was for her, and this was Jeff's way of helping her to end her nightmares. Jeff snapped back as he heard the first bike start loudly up the jump, he crouched down as the front tire cleared the jump. He watched the bike sail over top of him, and just as he was about to breath a sigh of relief, the bastard Mikey looked down and grinned at him.

Jeff couldn't react fast enough as both Mikey and his bike came crashing down on him hard. Mikey's back tire landed right on his chest knocking the wind out of him, and the rest of the bike landed on his which caused it to fall over on Jeff and effectively pin him. Jeff's head swam from the pain in his leg, his lungs burned for air as he tried to struggle out. He quickly put a stop to his struggle when he heard the hammer of a gun click back close to him. He finally regained his breath as he scanned around the area he could see, and what he saw he didn't like. Casey and Shannon were in a stare down with both Mikey and Gabriel, their guns drawn. Off behind them near his garage he could see Shane trying to hold up Matt. Jeff's eyes locked on him, he saw the blood stained shirt, the belt that was tightly would around his arm.

'Oh god MATT! No! NO! NOOOO! Fuckin bastards! This is personal now!'

"Well, well, well, Team Xtreme isn't so extreme now are they? I still have no idea why she followed you or your brother's careers, or even that little donkey Shannon Moore. Moore-ons…what the hell is that? Anyways time to say good night Jeff Hardy, I'll be sure to send Twilight after you shortly." Gabriel sneered.

Once in a blue moon, a man who's pushed to the edge, finds his inner strength that is so powerful he himself can't even fathom it. Jeff locked eyes with Gabriel and let low a growl, and just as he was about to unleash his own fury on him, a deafening roar could be heard shooting up the jump ramp. Jeff turned around as best as he could while still pinned under his bike, while Gabriel reached behind him for his other hand gun.

As if in a movie Jeff watched in slow motion as the front tire of the purple custom street bike cleared the edge of the ramp and the whole bike shot over top of them. The rider flipped the bike over top of her; she was basically hanging upside down with a three hundred pound machine on top of her in mid air. She slowly reached behind her and flashed two guns out, which she quickly took aim at Gabriel and fired a barrage of bullets. Gabriel took off running to his bike again as Dawn landed he bike side ways just on the other side of Jeff's fallen bike.

Dawn yanked the bottom of her helmet up to her forehead and gave Jeff a grin. She quickly hopped off the bike and yanked his bike off of his legs. She looked down and noticed his leg was bleeding badly.

"Tsk, you hardy boys sure don't know what you're doing outside of the ring eh?" she asked him in a huff as she yanked her belt off and wrapped it tightly around his upper thigh. Jeff quickly grabbed her hand and stared at her hard.

"You came back?" he questioned softly.

"Feh of course I did Skittles, who else would save your ass." Dawn spoke in a confused tone; she quickly stood as she saw Gabriel ready for round two.

"Skittles…Jeff…for what its worth…thanks…and I …ah...missed you." She spoke as she leaned down and ran the pads of her gloved thumbs over his cheeks. "Now stay put and stay low Mr. I'm so Extreme."

Jeff tried to say something, anything to stop her; they had already ripped through the five of them. Jeff got up into a crouch and hobbled off the jump ramp and fell in the dirt, he struggled to keep Dawn in his line of vision, but Shannon and Shane weren't making it easy as they made their way over to help him