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A/N: So here you go, as promised, the next chapter. Sorry it's a bit later than what I told you guys, but I've been absolutely swamped with other things for the past week and the week before that I was on vacation.

"So how exactly are you planning to find out who suggested this storyline?" Matt asked. He was sitting in the hotel room he was sharing with his brother, half watching TV and checking his email on his laptop. "It's already Thursday and you haven't done anything." Truth be told, Matt was rather confused as to why Jeff had agreed to do things Mr. McMahon's way. He had put up such as fuss when the storyline was first revealed that Matt was at a loss as to why his brother would agree to do the entire thing unscripted.

Jeff just shrugged. "I don't know," he admitted. "I hadn't really thought about that when I agreed to do things this way."

Matt sighed; this was going to harder than he thought. "Why don't you start by making a list of people who could be behind this?" He suggested. "I'll even help you if you want."

"Alright." Jeff grabbed the pad of paper and pen that were near the phone. "Who's first on this list?"

Matt thought about it for a moment. Who indeed? Which one of their coworkers would actually come up with something like this and then manage to get it put into place as a new storyline? Finally he said, "Jericho."

"How so?" Jeff asked, not writing the name down right away. "I know he's not the best guy on the roster right now but you're going to have to give me a reason. I mean, I'm not just going to Shawn or Hunter, for example, just because you tell me to!"

"Actually, now that you mention it, put Shawn and Hunter- or at least Shawn- on the list too," Matt said. "They were worried about whether it was smart for you to wrestle or not."

"So?"

"So you have to keep in mind that this may not have been done to hurt you, but to keep you safe," Matt explained patiently.

"Does that mean that you're a suspect since you're always so worried about me?" Jeff was mostly joking but he also was curious as to whether matt thought that literally anyone, no matter how close he was to them, could be behind this.

Matt just laughed. "Sure, I guess," he said. "Thought I'll tell you now, I swear I didn't set any of this up."

"I know, don't worry," Jeff reassured him.

"But don't listen to anyone else when they tell you that."

Jeff snorted. "Alright, Matt, sure, whatever," he muttered. "So Shawn and Hunter are on the list, but why Jericho? You never did say why you suspect him."

"Well, before they had Shawn feud with Orton in order to defend you while you were out he was feuding with Jericho. It was a popular feud and the creative team was really pushing it. Jericho was ready to add 'retired Shawn Michaels' to his resume when suddenly you're gone and Shawn moves on to work with Orton," Matt explained.

"I don't follow," Jeff interrupted. "I can understand him being a bit pissed, but this seems like he would be angrier at the writers than at me."

"That's because I'm not done explaining things yet," Matt said. "So anyway, Jericho gets pushed off to the side and is only really added in much later just to keep the storyline going, not because he's actually needed. Then you come back. Everyone still loves you and creative was going to give you a huge push anyway and once again Jericho would have been pushed aside."

"Wait, so are you saying that you think that he blames me for getting injured- though I'll admit it is partially my fault- which forced creative to change their plans and ruin his moment of glory?" Jeff asked. He thought he understood where his brother was coming from but it was still a slightly far-fetched theory.

"Yes. It's a possibility, you know," Matt told him. "And you can't overlook anything if you want to find out what's going on."

Jeff sighed and rolled his eyes, but wrote down Jericho's name anyway. "Who else could secretly be an evil mastermind determined to ruin my life?" He asked sarcastically.

"Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase," Matt said after thinking about it for a moment. He didn't show any signs of hearing the sarcasm in his brother's voice.

Jeff nodded; those names at least made some sense to him. "I'm assuming because they're young, second-generation wrestlers who were doing good- and want to continue being pushed- but are now being overlooked because creative wants to push us in the tag team division?"

"Yeah, that's basically what I was thinking," Matt said. "And add Maria to that list as well."

"Maria? Matt, there's no way Maria's behind this!" Jeff protested. This was going a bit too far, in his opinion. There was no way he was going to write down Maria, of all people, until he had a pretty damn good reason for doing so.

"I'm not trying to say that she did this intentionally, but you know how she can talk," Matt explained patiently. "Isn't it possible that the wrong person overheard her worrying about how you were doing? You know how she is when one of her coworkers gets injured…"

Jeff scowled, but silently- and grudgingly- admitted that his brother may have point. Maria did talk to anyone who would listen and she did tend to worry about her coworkers when they got injured. Often the two things would get combined; Jeff had listened to her talk about how she was worried about someone many times. Her name got added to the list as well.

"I think this is enough," Jeff said. "Vince is going to give me ten or so minutes each week to talk about whatever progress I'm making in this search and how I'm trying to solve this. So if you count Shawn and Hunter as one and Rhodes and DiBiase as one then that would make four times we could question people during our brief segment."

"And use the other four weeks to do what?" Matt asked.

"Well if we ask around the locker room during the week we could talk about that during those four segments," Jeff suggested. "Do you think that would work?"

Matt thought about it for a moment before saying, "I think it would. It would just require getting quite a bit of information from the others during the week and then sifting through everything to see if we found out anything useful. Of course there's always the chance that we won't have enough to talk about, but I don't think that's going to happen."

"Not to mention we'll still have to keep the audience entertained somehow," Jeff said, almost to himself.

"That too," Matt admitted. He sighed. "This isn't going to be easy at all."

XXXXX

"So I was thinking maybe a missed RKO followed by a Twist of Fate…" It was the Saturday after Jeff's new storyline began. Jeff was with Orton trying to come up with a good ending to their match, which was supposed to be the main event for the upcoming Raw show. "Then I'll climb up to the top turnbuckle and-"

"And what?" Randy interrupted. "You can't do a Swanton for the next 8 weeks, Jeff, or did you forget?"

Jeff blinked slowly. He had forgotten about the second side of his currently storyline. He had been so wrapped up in trying to figure out how to find out who set everything up that he had completely forgotten that if he did any high risk maneuver he would have to be "fired". "Oh yeah," he finally said. "So what do you propose we do instead?"

"I like your idea so far, but what about as soon as you reach the top turnbuckle I know you off or something?" He suggested.

"I'm assuming that I'm supposed to act like I suddenly realized the restrictions placed on me and hesitate for long enough so you can come up and attack me?" Jeff asked.

"It would be perfect if you did," Randy said.

Jeff nodded. He didn't like the idea but then again, he never liked having to lose any important matches. He knew, though, that it would be like this for the next eight weeks and he tried to mentally prepare himself for it. He was going to be losing a lot of matches leading up to Wrestlemania and there wasn't anything he could do about it except just weather through it and hope for the best.

XXXXX

Hello amigos! Matt typed, taking advantage of the fact that the hotel room was, for once, actually quiet to type up another MySpace blog.

So most of you have probably already seen what happened on Monday, but just in case you didn't here's a brief recap: Jeff is currently banned from using any high-risk maneuvers under threat of being fired. Furthermore, this idea was suggested by a coworker of ours. Now Jeff and myself have until Wrestlemania to try to figure out who's behind this. If we do, Jeff gets a shot at any title he wants but if we don't the ban becomes permanent.

At this point I actually think Jeff's handling this better than I am. He's calm and collected- though that might just be because it hasn't quite sunken in yet, though once it does hit him he's just going to be a complete mess. Jeff- and I- know that those high risk maneuvers define him as a wrestler. If he can't do them his entire arsenal is just completely destroyed and that's going to be a hard hit from him.

On the other hand, I'm not handling it well now. I'm worried about him, about how he's going to handle it later, about how we're going to solve this, about what will happen if we don't or if he does a Swanton anyway. Hopefully as time goes on things will get easier to handle, though for some reason I doubt that.

This certainly wasn't the return Jeff and I had planned on making, but nevertheless you can't deny that it has been a memorable week. I'll keep you updated on what's going on, but if you watch Monday Night Raw every week you'll see us there giving you updates on the show as well.

Adios and thanks for your support during this.

Matt posted the blog and sighed. The post didn't really seem like it fit for some reason. Maybe it was just the phrasing but there was still something about it that wrong, like he had deliberately lied to his fans, though he couldn't find a place where he did. He sighed again and tried to push the thought from his mind. He quickly pulled up his email, deciding to just check his messages quickly before turning in for the night.

At first glance it seemed like all of his emails were from friends and family who had seen Monday's show and wanted to know what was going on. Matt took a couple of minutes to reply to a few of them, but didn't get through all of the emails; he didn't particularly feel like typing the same general message over and over again, not when he was so tired. It wasn't until he was about to close the window down that he noticed an email tucked in amongst the others that didn't seem to be about Jeff's "storyline". His curiosity got the better of him and he quickly opened the message and began to read.

Hey Matt, I know you don't really check out those pro wrestling news sites, but I saw this on one of them and decided to send it to you.

INSIDE INFO ON NEW HARDY STORYLINE

Inside information on the new storyline that Jeff Hardy has been put in seems to suggest that it wasn't intended to be put in effect. Reports indicate that not only did neither Hardy brother know of the new storyline before they appeared on Raw, but after they went backstage it was revealed that the storyline had been smuggled in amongst the others and was actually created by one of their coworkers. However, beyond what was revealed on Monday, nothing else is known about where this is heading. Backstage it is also thought that Jeff, Matt, and Mr. McMahon will not be using a script the remainder of the storyline. Jeff and Matt have also gotten permission to try to find out who suggested the storyline.

You told me about what was going on, but I thought you said that no one else knew the truth about the storyline and that you were only going to be telling people when you started asking them questions. I could be wrong though, but I thought you'd like to see this anyway, in case someone is leaking information about this, since I know you said that Vince didn't want any of the details leaking out.

Matt had to read through the email a couple of times before it actually registered in his mind. It was true that Vince hadn't wanted the details to get out; he had basically threatened the writers to keep the information to themselves, though they did that for most storylines anyway. He knew that Jeff hadn't told anyone, he certainly hadn't, and he doubted that Shawn did, except maybe Hunter- though Matt knew that Hunter wouldn't tell anyone either. That meant that someone was listening in on their meeting with Vince- or the person who gave them the information was the same person who suggested the storyline.