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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.

She was dressed, she was ready to walk out of the room and let the two children duke it out. But as much as she wanted to walk away and let the two of them kill each other, she knew she owed at least one of the brothers an explanation.

"I'll fix this alright? I understand why you need to leave, but I promise you, we'll get this worked out."

She wanted to believe him but really in that moment she didn't believe in much of anything. Matt had used her, which hadn't been such a surprise because she had always had the lingering doubt, but hearing him pretty much confirm it had really been on her list of things she had never wanted to hear. Thought and reality were two separate things and when they came together this way someone always got hurt. This time it had been her. So hurt in fact that after the night before with Jeff she was having some serious doubts.

"Whatever Jeff. I'll be in the hotel bar or Maria's room whenever this is over."

Without so much as a kiss goodbye she walked from the room, at the lowest point in her life and her career. She had gotten fired for something stupid and now she wondered if maybe she had been stupid with Jeff the past couple of weeks. What if he was only using her as a substitute too?

Not wanting to think about it any further she made her way down the hall to the elevators. She needed a way to forget and forget fast. Before it took her to a place she didn't want to be. A place she hadn't been since she had been an awkward teen.

"You did that to her Jeff. You don't know when to keep your damn mouth shut. So don't bother looking at me like that anymore."

At that moment he didn't want to look at Matt at all for the way he had been acting since entering this room only mere minutes before. In the span of time he had been here, he hadn't listened to Ashley telling him she didn't want him, he had lied about his feelings for her when they had dated and now he was blowing up over the two of them sleeping together. In fact in that moment all Jeff wanted to do was smack some sense into his older brother because it was obvious he needed it.

"I didn't do anything to her but love her."

Matt laughed and rolled his eyes, causing Jeff's anger to reach an almost imploding level. "You don't know what love is little brother."

"Maybe, maybe not. But I do know that what I feel for her runs deeper then just using her to get back at someone who broke my heart. I genuinely care about her."

"Save it Jeff alright? It's just the two of us here alone now. You only slept with her because you wanted something that you knew that I had. It's just like it was when we were kids."

Jeff raised his eyebrows unsure of where Matt was going with this or even what he was getting at at all. "What are you talking about? What does Ashley have to do with us as kids?"

"You always did like my toys better. Ashley was more then a toy to me but you get the idea. Its the same damn thing and you know it. You wanted to steal something of mine."

Jeff had had enough, there was no talking to Matt when he was on a roll of self destruction like this. Without wasting another second he pushed Matt up against the wall, laying his arm across his neck, watching as his brother realized just how serious Jeff was now taking things. There was nothing funny about the way he was talking about his old girlfriend, someone he had only thought of as a friend until Jeff showed interest and there was no way he was going to get away with any more of it.

He waited a few seconds before releasing his brother from the hold and watched in all seriousness as he caught his breath. "Lay off talking about her like that or I will do something worse next time."

"I don't get you Jeff. There was a time when you wanted nothing to do with any of my friends let alone my girlfriends. They just weren't your type. So what is it about Ashley that gets you? The Playboy thing? The fact that she likes rock music what?"

"She gets me because of her heart, something I don't expect you to understand."

Jeff walked towards the door then and as he went to open it, he came face to face with Maria, a frantic and scared look on her face. He had seen her go through many looks having acted with her on television but this was one look he had never seen before.

Something was seriously wrong.

"What's up Maria?"

"It's Ash--" Maria said, catching her breath but breaking off. Her eyes said a lot more then she could in that moment.

"Whats wrong with Ash? Where is she Maria?" Jeff hollered, grabbing her by the shoulders and trying to shake the words out of her. She had only been here with him moments before, so what could have happened in that time?

"She collapsed on the way downstairs to get some breakfast. I don't know what happened Jeff, she just told me to get you."

Throwing a look back towards the brother who minutes before he had been arguing with and about to punch, he grabbed Maria's hand, dragging her along beside him as he ran from the room and in the direction of where Maria had said it happened.

The paramedics had been called, Maria had told him that much while they had been running but that didn't matter to him anymore. If she had stayed in the room with them instead of getting her heart broken and running this never would have happened. They should have been in bed together still. His world seemed to suddenly be spinning around him at the thought that something serious had happened to Ashley.

All he knew now was that he had to get to her before they took her away. He was never going to leave her side again.