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 again for swearing, oh and the violence...

*Chapter 13 *

Everything came down to this moment. Shane and Shannon had dragged a protesting Jeff down off to the side as Matt and Casey joined them off to the side of the two combatants. They stood tall on the "Troll Bridge", with Mikey, who had retrieved a shaken John, on one side and the other four on the other side. All stood silent as they watched Gabrielle and Dawn face one another down.

The flames from Mount Imagi still licked high into the sky as the heavens grew angry and clouds moved in quick and furious. No one noticed until the first few rain drops until they hit Shane square on the face. He blinked and then looked to his companions. Matt and Jeff holding their injuries with gritted teeth watching, Shannon staring in disbelief he was actually seeing this situation all over again, and Casey. She looked on them hard with a critical eye, her jaw clenched so tight it was starting to tick, her gun held tight in her hand as she pain no mind to the blood that ran down her back and her arms that dripped slowly off of her elbows. She was wound tight and ready to spring at the slightest invite from Dawn.

Dawn kept her eyes on Gabriel, watching him, and he was watching her with a bored interest. The rain started to come down in torrents but neither of them moved from their spots, until Dawn heard Gabriel starting to softly chuckle.

"Ah Dawn, just like old times, you remember, we met in the rain." He spoke with a hint of nostalgia. He blinked at her and placed his guns behind his back in their holsters. Dawn eased her stance just a bit and let her arms drop, but she never put her guns away.

"Can the bullshit Gabby, let's get this over with. I got places to go, people to see." She sneered at him, while flipping her long hair over her shoulder which clung to her jacket now. Her riding leathers now stuck to her like a second skin, the metal on her boots and the multitude of chains that hung from her waist gleamed every time the lightening flashed.

Gabriel gave a low chuckle. "Now Dawn, why would I want to fight you? I can't kill what I didn't create, I want Twilight. She I can kill, I did create her."

Dawn bared her teeth at him as she heard an audible gasp come from Casey's lips. She saw from the corner of her eye that Casey had taken a few steps forward before Matt had snatched her back and as quickly as she was brought back Jeff stood in her place watching.

"Fine Gabriel, you get this one request before you die, bring her out, release Twilight, but let me tell you something, she is most definitely one pissed off bitch at this moment. Don't come crying to me, that I didn't warn you." Dawn stood with her arms crossed across her chest with each of her guns resting on her shoulders.

"Oh before you try and touch me," Dawn sneered and then reached on one of her pockets of her jacket and pulled out a chain, and threw it at Gabriel where it landed in the muddied soil at his feet. "Just say the words mutherfucker, I never needed the chain." She sneered again.

The breath Casey had been holding was let out suddenly as if someone had struck her in the chest. She crouched down and held her hands against her chest and started to sob silently. Matt leaned down beside her and placed one of his hands on her shoulder just as Jeff came over.

"Casey, what does that mean?" Jeff questioned over the rain. Casey looked to both the Hardy brothers who kneeled in the mud before her. She swallowed hard and took a deep breath.

"It means, once he says the phrase, I can't bring her back out of it, she needed the collar to break the trance, not to start it." She spoke softly. Matt's eyes went wide, as Jeff bowed his head down, lips drawn in a frown. In an instant he stood up and started to walk as best as he could over towards the bridge.

Dawn could see from the corner of her eye Jeff was moving closer, while Matt was trying to get Casey to stand up. Her eyes locked on Gabriel as she watched him slightly turn his head and reach behind him and pull on of his guns and lock his aim on Jeff. Dawn looked lazily over at him and gave him a sharp glare.

"Tell yer bitch that if he wants to still be able to walk later he better stay put." Gabriel hissed at Dawn. Suddenly Dawn was in front of Gabriel's gun and locked eyes with him once again. She shouted against the rain and thunder while never taking her eyes off of Gabriel or his gun.

"Skittles! Get yer fucking scrawny ass back over to Moon Dog!"

'That fuckin idiot! He's playing with a loaded, ticking bomb and he's not listening!'

Jeff started to protest and then Dawn whirled around to stand with one gun pointed at Gabriel and one gun pointed at Jeff. She fired off a shot at his feet which sent him skittering back towards Matt and Casey.

"I said Move your ass Skittles!" Dawn hollered as she turned back to Gabriel and smirked. "Go on Keeper, bring Twilight out, she's clawing to get out and be all over your ass." Dawn took the few steps closer to Gabriel and stood toe to toe with him. The lightening flashed and all six of the spectators could see them, tense and ready. Both of them muddied from the thighs down, both wearing motocross pants. They watched as they both shed their jackets and threw them off the sides down into the now forming pool of water below the bridge. Dawn's hair stuck to her neck and shoulders drenched in the rain, Gabriel's arms shone in the brief lightening flashes. He was well muscled and covered in tattoos, and drenched as well. Dawn looked up and locked her eyes on him again as he leaned slightly down towards her ear.

"Twilight," he whispered, "Follow us to hell."

Before Gabriel could move Twilight slashed the barrel of one of her guns over his collar bone, effectively whipping him away from her. Gabriel stumbled back a few feet; he had seen the transformation up close, but not this close. Twilight grabbed her head while holding her guns and let out a fiery scream of rage. He saw her normal ice blue eyes turn into a deadly shade of dark blue, her mouth turned into a sadistic grin, her whole being took on a different stance and it was ready to kill.

Casey gasped as she saw Dawn transform into Twilight, she knew the rage that was hidden, it took Matt, Jeff and Shannon to hold her back from trying to run over to try and snap her back before it was too late. All they could do was hope to god that something good came out of this fight. Jeff watched with a marked frown as the rain poured down on him and the others, he watched as Twilight and Gabriel began to circle each other.

"ArchAngel," Twilight sneered vehemently, "You come after those who I keep watch over? You taunt them, and Dawn? Tsk, tsk, tsk. You think you would have learned by now not to touch what is mine."

Twilight moved so quickly that Jeff had a hard time watching her as she brought down the handles of her guns down on both of Gabriel's collarbones, sending him stumbling back a few for steps. As he stumbled Twilight stooped low and swung her leg, catching one of his ankles and sent him falling back into the mud with a sloppy thud.

Gabriel quickly crouched and stood up again, wiping the splattered mud from his face, he sneered and as quick as Twilight was, his fist sprang out and hit her square in the jaw, snapping her head off to the side for an instance. Twilight slowly brought her face back to Gabriel, while giving a quick glance at Jeff, who was inching closer, his stance was tense, his fists clenching and unclenching. The water drip off of his braids into the muddy soil, the rain made his shirt stick to his skin and the weight of the added water made his belted jeans ride just a little lower on his hips, if this was a different time and a different place Twilight would have been all over that.

'Fuck what a distraction; he's one fucking hot mess that's for damn sure.'

'Finally, are we in agreement about something? Cause it took you fucking long enough.'

'Who the fuck are you? As if I need another distraction.'

'You're such a dumbass Twilight, it's me Dawn. Are we in agreement about Jeff? Cause I'd really like to wrap with mess up with ArchAngel and make sure Jeff's ok, he got hurt pretty badly.'

Twilight pinned Gabriel down with a snarl as her eyes flared wide open. She had been so preoccupied with clawing her way out; she didn't pay attention to Dawn when she told her Jeff was being hurt. She leapt from the spot where she was standing and did a round house kick to Gabriel and knocking him back a few feet, he grinned and then came back at her with his fists flying. Both of them going blow for blow, the thunder boomed closer and closer to them, the rain came down in sheets. At the same time they knocked each other back with blows of their own, both landing in the crouch position and they locked their eyes on each other.

Casey tried to struggle out of the grip of the men, she knew what was next, that wasn't the real fight, that was them fooling around. She had enough, she bent down as far as she could and sprang up and back flipped over a stunned Shannon who was behind her, and then pulled her arms free from Matt and Shane, who in vain tried to grab a hold of her again. Casey dodged to the side and ran to over where Jeff was, her only thought was to make sure he stayed out of the way.

'Cause this is gonna get hella messy in about two seconds.'

Both Gabriel and Twilight slowly stood up and started to circle each other, no words passed their lips. Twilight's eyes burned with such an intense rage, the shackles and restraints where gone, he was no longer in control, flashes of memories faded in and out of her mind set, fueling the wild fire within her. Her aura bled out, like the flames of a wild fire, licking at Gabriel and even out to Jeff. Twilight remained in control while both men were assaulted by her memories of the kills, the fights, of her good times and bad times. Gabriel held his ground while Jeff buckled to his knees, holding his head in his hands, clenching his teeth.

Suddenly Twilight shot forward and sent her gloved fists right into Gabriel's solar plexus, knocking him on his back and knocking the air from his lungs. And in the blink of an eye she was on top of him sitting on his chest trying to crush his neck, letting her nails rip into his skin, gnashing her teeth at him every time he tried to breath or struggle. Suddenly Twilight flew backwards as Gabriel brought his legs up and wrapped them her neck and yanked her backwards. She landed on her knees sliding backwards in the mud, near the edge of the bridge. She glanced over her shoulder and saw the pool of water below them. She looked back to Gabriel, who was slowly getting to his feet and shot forward spearing him right off the other side of the bridge sending them both down into the muddy rain water, out of the view of the Carolina crew.

Casey ran into front of Jeff, she quickly checked him over before walking over to the pool of water. It was dark out, lightening flashing in the distance but the rain wouldn't let up. She squinted her eyes and looked hard for any signs of either of the fighters. Matt and the others came up to stand beside Jeff who was still being affected by Twilights aura, he could hardly breath, every muscle and bone hurt to it's core, he shuddered harshly and fell down onto his hands and started to gasp and cough up blood.

"Casey! Whatever is going on with Twilight its hurting Jeff! He can't breathe!" Matt yelled to Casey who had her back to him watching for the fighters. Casey looked back at Jeff and gritted her teeth.

"Matt stay with him, I have to find her and ArchAngel!" Casey shouted back, but before she could step foot into the pool of muddy water a body burst forward on the other side of the bridge, guns pulled, wildly looking around. From the silhouette she could tell it was Twilight. Casey could hear her ragged breaths, at the same time she could hear Jeff's coughing subsiding a little.

Twilight whirled around to face the opposite side of the pool where she saw Moon Dog at its edge and further behind she saw Jeff nearly face down in the muddy soil, while his brother tried to hold him up with the help of the others.

'Tone down the hell flames Twilight, your hurting Jeff, he can sense all of this remember?'

'Maybe its better this way, now he knows everything, he's in danger if he stays around me. I like the fucker, probably even love him, but I can't put him in dangers way.'

'I swear on everything that is fucking holy Twilight I will rip you out of my own brain and kill you if you don't turn it down, he is feeling everything you have experienced from day one, all in a span of 10 minutes, it's killing him!'

Twilight grimaced and slowly closed her eyes to regain some of the raging aura. She brought some of it back into herself which silenced Dawn's voice yet again. She opened her eyes and saw Jeff breathing better; he was up on his knees and locked his eyes on her, which she quickly looked away. She didn't want him to see this.

"Moon Dog, get Dream Catcher outa here NOW!" she bellowed over the rain while walking towards them, she walked under the darkened underside of the bridge and just as she came out on the other side Gabriel burst up through the water and had her in a choke hold.

Twilight struggled to get out of his grip, when suddenly he pulled something off of his waist and wrap it twice around her neck and tightened it.

'Oh fuck NO! Not this, not in front of him!'

"Say hello to your old friend Twilight!" Gabriel hissed in her ear. Twilight could feel the chainsaw chain bite hard into her neck, making any movement agony. She could feel the blood starting to run down her neck, mixing with the rain. She struggled harder as she watched Jeff start to double over again and breath hard. She doubled her efforts and managed to get one of her feet behind his ankle, she yanked hard, which send both of them back down into the muddy water again. She scrambled off of him, with the chain still hanging from her neck and just as she went to stand, her knee exploded in pain. Quickly she flared her aura and drew her hidden throwing knives and sent them flying at Gabriel. Each of them hit a mark, embedding them deep into his skin. One in his chest, two in is stomach and one in his lower thigh. Gabriel pulled his gun and took aim quickly; she quickly pulled her gun and cocked it back.

"Say hello to the Devil for me and I'll see you in hell."

She pulled the trigger and shot him in the chest just as he fired his last shot which tore through her right side just under her rib cage. Gabriel fell backwards into the water again, Twilight stayed tense as she watched the body of him just float there face up. She slowly turned and began to walk towards the edge of the pool to where Moon Dog was. Her knee was screaming in pain, her neck still lightly bleeding over the chain that hung loosely from around her neck and she was holding her side to put pressure on it. She looked to Jeff and found he was back on his feet again, albeit with some help, but he was in better condition than she was.

'Twilight…rest…we're free, from everything.'

'Free?...Is this what this means?'

'Yeah, nice feeling isn't it.'

'Yeah…now shut up, I want to sleep.'

She could hear Dawn's protests that she shouldn't sleep, she didn't care. She watched as Casey was fussing over Jeff who now stood on his own to feet, he was trying to get over to Twilight but she wouldn't let him go. The rain finally eased up and she decided it was time to rest, she took a knee in the muddy soil close to the edge of the pool, she closed her eyes and rested her head on her damaged knee. Everything hurt, she was exhausted on so many levels, drained she didn't want to move. She kept her eyes closed and just as she was about to fall over, she felt a raging pulse through the water. She looked back and found Gabriel sitting up and taking aim at Jeff who was completely un aware. In a split second he fired off the shot before collapsing again finally for good, Twilight managed with the last of her strength to fling her battered body in the line of fire.

She could hear Casey's scream, and then she felt it, the fiery pain that shot through her body. She was hit on her left side right above her hip bone. She fell limply half in the water and half on the edge of the pool. No sound came from her lips, her eyes to the heavens; she slowly closed them ready to accept anything the God's deemed she was worth for her crimes. The white noise came back; her aura withdrew back into her and she felt the light rain come down on her face. She could hear Mikey and John take off on their bikes, and she half expected Casey to be all over her crying and fretting. Her mind was sorting out, re organizing; the white noise was louder than before. She heard the splashing of the water as someone ran to her and then the gentle feel of someone's hands lifting her up close to them. She felt the chain being unwound from her neck, she felt the pressure being applied to where she was shot, she didn't have the energy to scream, and she wanted to sleep. She curling into the person's arms and felt their heart beat.

'Twilight, we are one now…and that heart beat you feel…it beats for you.'

That was the last time Twilight heard the other voice in her head. Before she slipped into a sleeping darkness, she felt a soft pair of trembling lips on her forehead; the white noise was silenced by that voice again.

"Dawn, stay with me please. Rest, but stay with me. Please."