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Summary: Jeff Hardy has got a lot more then wrestling on his mind lately, and it all centers around a certain WWE Diva. Will he admit his true feelings in time or will he lose his chance forever.
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Authors Notes: I was going to write the match right and make it eerily similar to what happened on Monday because let me tell you, I am so pissed off that they actually gave up the titles that way, but my anger would only make the chapter wrong, and I do not want to do that. So for those of you that read this chapter expecting the match recap from Monday, you won't get it. What you will get is the aftermath with a few add ons to the match from my imagination. What I would have done had I been there.
"Son of a bitch! Now don't tell me that was fucking planned!" Ashley screamed at the television, using all of her might not to smash her fist through it. She had been fine with the amount of action that had been going down in the ring, that was until they started hitting on Jeff's lower back and knee, the two places that were injured.
Now all bets were off. She knew that this had all been walked through before, as was the custom in the tag matches, hell any matches really but more so with tags. But for the life of her she couldn't see Matt and Jeff allowing it go down quite this way. She was disgusted with the way they had lost the belts.
Not giving another seconds thought, she looked around her and when she noticed that no one was watching her, she made her way out through the curtain. She knew should Vince get a load of this, she was certainly in deep shit, but she also knew she couldn't sit back there and do nothing while Jeff and Matt got their asses beaten this way.
Cade and Murdoch were slowly coming up the ramp at the moment she came out behind the curtain. The crowd saw her instantly and starting screaming. What she didn't expect was that Trevor and Lance would think that all the cheering was for them, but it helped in her favor.
As they made their way closer to her, she prepared herself mentally for what she was about to do. If they wanted good television then they were about to get it whether they liked it or not. The men bumped into her then, causing them to spin around and take in the sight before them.
Murdoch strutted over to her, obviously trying to put the moves on her and she slapped him. As Cade came over to get in her face she did the only thing she could think of and she used the move that Matt had taught her when they first started dating. She super kicked him in the face and watched as his body hit the ground, the force of it shaking the ramp and making a loud boom.
She jumped over the men and made her way down to the ring, hell bent and determined to check on both men. She needed to know more then anything that Jeff was alright but she also found herself concerned about the older Hardy as well. They had dated for awhile but they were still friends and she didn't wish him any harm.
They caught her eye then as she entered the ring and she saw the realization hit their eyes. She had broken code and come down to the ring without being told too and that was going to cost her severely. Sure it looked good what she had done, and it might even spark a better angle for herself, but she was still in trouble.
She didn't care though and as she bent down to check on Jeff, Matt slid over, whispering something that she couldn't quite make out.
"What?"
"You broke story line."
"Well they stopped beating on you, so your welcome."
She turned to Jeff then and looked down deep into his eyes. He was awake and coherent, something the referee had already checked on most likely but something that Ashley was happy to see for herself.
She looked up to the crowd then and saw them all standing almost totally silent, waiting to see what was going to happen next. All of the people in the arena tonight knew that she had dated Matt, so it should come as no shock that she was out there. But they also knew that they weren't together anymore, so it gave them pause as they all tried to figure out just what she was doing out there.
Without a rational thought in her brain to tell her otherwise, something she was more then happy about, she bent back down to Jeff and put her lips to his in the softest kiss she could give, without giving away for a second just how much she had been dying to do this.
He responded almost immediately which threw Ashley for a loop. When she had thought of the idea to do it and give the fans something to talk about, she hadn't thought that he would have read her mind this way and been so willing to do it.
Matt stood up then and instead of helping his brother up, just backed away from the ring and jumped down to the outside, leaving Ashley to do the only thing she could think of as she broke the kiss. To get Jeff up and out of the ring before all hell broke loose.
"What the hell was that out there bro?" Matt yelled accusingly. "Since when do you go around kissing Ashley like that?"
Jeff sighed and turned to face his brother. He had just come back from a meeting with Vince and Ashley and had heard the gamut of just what had gone wrong out there. The last thing he needed was to hear it from his brother as well. He knew it was wrong, that it wasn't scripted but it had just felt right.
Not to mention something you have been craving for all week long, hell for months.
"Talk to her man, she kissed me remember? I just did whatever felt right in the moment for the crowd." Jeff explained as calmly as he could. "If you have issues with it talk to Ashley. But why do you care so much anyway? What happened to the whole 'just friends' thing you were talking about earlier tonight?"
"You don't get it do you? I do want to be her friend but I don't want to watch as my brother sticks his tongue down her throat."
Jeff couldn't handle it anymore. If he didn't make a move on her Matt wasn't happy and if he did Matt wouldn't be happy so there was really nothing he could do to make his brother feel better about the situation. Not wanting to listen to another word he headed for the door. He needed to get his knee looked at and now was as good a time as any.
As he walked through the door he saw her standing there, almost as if she hadn't just run out to the ring and helped save the day. She looked clean and changed with her clothing and she just looked like a vision in white. He found himself remembering the kiss in the ring and just how good it had felt.
"I'm sorry Jeff, I didn't know it was going to cause this much trouble."
"Didn't know what would?" he asked,, tired of talking and just wanting to get the hell away from everyone.
"Wanting to kiss you."