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Nikki and Courtney are sitting in the catering area of the Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center talking about Wrestlemania when a tech manager comes walking up to them.
"Excuse me, Miss Andrews. There is a man here to see you," He states, "I didn't know if you wanted him in your locker room, so he's out with security causing quite a scene."
Nikki shoots Courtney a look before they both rush off to where security is located. They see Dave standing there, his chest puffed out, standing in his fight stance. Nikki rushes up to Dave who grabs her arms and pulls her behind him.
"This jerk says he knows you," Dave spits out, glaring at someone behind security.
"Listen you jacked up freak!" A male voice calls out, "you're asking for it!"
"Derrick?" Nikki calls out, peaking out from behind Dave, "is that you!"
"Nicole! Damn it call them off!" The voice calls out again.
Nikki rushes forward, pushing through security to find her older brother standing there, with a security guard's arm wrapped around his neck.
"It's ok guys, he's with me," Nikki calls out, the man with his arm wrapped around Derrick's neck, releases slowly.
Dave pushes his way through the crowd causing Derrick to growl, lunging for Dave. Nikki pushes Derrick back standing between the two, Dave makes a gesture towards Derrick, causing him to jump back forward.
"Derrick enough! Stop Dave!" Nikki calls out, "leave my brother alone Dave."
"This jackass is your brother?" Dave questions, "no fucking way."
"David! Leave Derrick alone," Nikki states again, "Derrick what the hell are you doing here?"
"Surprise sis! I had some time off so I decided to come visit. C helped me get tickets and everything," Derrick explains.
Nikki shoots Courtney a look and she shrugs and puts on her innocent face.
"Who's this jacked up asshole," Derrick demands, "because I want to kick his ass."
"Derrick, that's my boyfriend," Nikki replies, smiling, "and besides I think he could take you."
Derrick scoffs as Nikki grabs Dave's hand. Courtney and Derrick follow close behind, chatting away. Dave looks over his shoulder and then back at Nikki.
"Are you sure he's your brother?" Dave asks, smiling.
"Positive," Nikki replies, "polar opposites aren't we?"
"I'd say so," Dave answers, "but I'll be nice for you."
"Thanks babe," Nikki kisses his cheek softly before turning to her brother, "I'm so glad you came!"
"I am too. I haven't much time to see my baby sister these last couple months," Derrick replies, "when was the last time we saw each other."
They arrive at Dave and Nikki's locker room and they all sit down on the couch, Nikki sitting on Dave's lap.
"I think it was at Jason's funeral," Nikki replies softly, looking down, "that was about 9 months ago."
"Jason?" Dave questions, "who's Jason?"
Nikki looks over at Derrick and Courtney and Derrick finally speaks up.
"Jason was my twin brother," Derrick states, "he died over in Iraq."
"I'm so sorry, I never knew," Dave replies, "why didn't you tell me?"
"You never asked," Nikki replies, with a weak smile, "I was going to tell you when the time was right."
Dave nods and squeezes Nikki's hand as a sign of comfort.
"So Nik, you going to introduce me to all the other wrestlers?" Derrick asks, standing up, "or do I need to get 'lost' in the diva's locker room?"
"I'll show you around Derrick," Nikki slides off Dave's lap and gives him a kiss, "we'll be back."
Derrick and Nikki go one way as Courtney heads back to her locker room. They walk into catering and Derrick's eyes light up. Nikki laughs as they head over to a table.
"Hey guys!" Nikki states happily, "this is my brother, Derrick. Derrick, this is Shane Helms, Shawn, Jay, Chris, and Maven."
"Hey there sweetheart," Shawn says, pulling up two extra seats for them, "how's life?"
"Going good Shawn," Nikki replies, sitting down next to him, "I'm on cloud nine right now. Nothing could go wrong."
A shadow falls over the table and Nikki turns around to see Paul standing there, arms crossed over his chest, smirking.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" Paul asks, "I think I found the loser table."
"Don't you have some where else to be?" Shawn states, standing up and sizing Paul up.
"I just need to talk to the infamous stripper," Paul replies with a smirk, "Nikki, lets take a walk, shall we?"
"Fuck you Paul," Nikki spits out, standing up next to Shawn, "leave me alone."
" 'Fraid not, lets go," Paul grabs Nikki's arm and starts to pull her out of catering.
"Hey! Let her go!" Derrick yells, standing up, "leave my sister alone."
Paul stops and chuckles. He turns around and looks over Derrick and turns back around, walking away. Derrick rushes after the two as Paul continues to drag Nikki along side him. Suddenly, a voice booms out, causing Paul and Derrick to stop.
"Let her go!" Dave roars, running past Derrick and up to Nikki and Paul.
Paul shoves Nikki into Dave and turns to leave, but Dave grabs him and throws him against the wall.
"Touch her again, I'll kill you. I won't wait for Wrestlemania," Dave warns.
Dave lets him go and quickly turns to Nikki, concern flooding his face.
"Are you ok baby?" Dave asks as Adam joins the two.
"I'm fine," Nikki replies, waving her hand in the air, "nothing happened."
"Who was that asshole?" Derrick demands, rubbing his sister's back.
"That'd be Paul Lesveque a.k.a. Triple H," Dave answers, "the meanest son of a bitch around. Are you sure you're ok?"
"Dave, I'm fine," Nikki states, "don't worry about it."
"I will worry baby. I'm not going to stop worrying until this is all over," Dave says, his voice dropping, "I couldn't live with myself if something happened to you."
Nikki smiles and leans into Dave who kisses her forehead.
"Will you be ok for a little bit? I'm going to go find out more about my match tonight," Dave asks.
Nikki nods and he walks away down in the hall. Derrick steps up next to his sister and she sighs.
"Come on, let's go back to the locker room," Nikki says, linking arms with him.
"Nickel," Derrick states after a few minutes, using his nickname for her, "I guess I was wrong about Dave. You two are perfect for each other."
"Thanks Derrick, I really appreciate that," Nikki replies, "I really love him."
"I can see that he feels the same way about you too. Jason would've liked him"
They walk into Dave's locker room and sit down on the couch, flipping on the TV to see Paul walking down to the ring, alone. He grabs a chair and sets it up in the middle of the ring, sitting down.
"It never ceases to amaze me in how under appreciated I am," Paul says, a sour look on his face, "do you know what I went through, especially with making Randy Orton and Batista into stars out of NOTHING!"
"In Evolution's glory days, we were unstoppable, but actually that's not true because the only thing that could stop Evolution was Evolution. Batista is a selfish son of a bitch and now he wants to make a name of himself?" Paul chuckles and continues, "Batista made a BAD decision to turn on me after the Rumble."
Nikki bites her lip and Derrick watches her expressions before turning his attention back to the TV.
"I guarantee that you would've beaten JBL and Cena, hell even both of them at the same time, but instead you chose to stay here…. and YOU…WILL…. LOSE!"
Dave walks into the room as Paul says that and scoffs, sitting next to Nikki.
"Dave, you are NOT good enough, I don't even know why you'd even consider yourself at my level!" Paul yells, his anger rising, "I've beaten them all, you weren't even at Wrestlemania long enough to get a cup of coffee, but I've beaten them all. There was one little asterisk on my record with Benoit, but I proved last week that he too can be beaten."
Nikki grabs Dave's hand and holds it tightly as Paul leans in closer to the camera, smirking.
"There comes a time when the animal turns around and bites the hand the fed him and I will have to do the right thing and lay the animal down…for good! And tonight's match is going to be a lumberjack, hand picked by me!"
Nikki gasps, looking up at Dave. He stares intently at the screen as it goes to commercial and turns to Nikki who has fear in her eyes.
"Don't worry, that won't happen," Dave comforts, "I'll prove to him that I am on his level and that I can beat him."
Nikki nods as there is a knock on the door before Eric Bischoff comes barging into the room.
"Dave, Nikki, I never knew anything about the lumberjacks, but Batista, you are a marked man, have you ever felt that way before?"
"No, but I am going to be feeling like a marked man after I win Triple H's world title," Dave replies, smiling down at Nikki.
"I'd be so proud if you'd be the world champion," Eric states as Nikki rolls her eyes at the comment.
"Do you mean that?" Dave questions, hiding his smile.
Eric nods and Dave smiles, nudging Nikki, who stops laughing.
"You'd make a good politician, you know you should run for office," Dave suggest as Nikki nods in agreement and amusement.
"Well there is a mayor vote coming up soon in my hometown," Eric says, trailing off, "I like that idea!"
Dave smiles and Nikki rolls her eyes in humor. Dave turns back to Eric and stops him.
"Better yet, a used car salesman!"
Eric gives Dave a funny look as he walks out of the room. Nikki busts out laughing as Dave chuckles.
"What a freak," Dave states, shaking his head, "any ways, about tonight. You are to stay back here. I don't need you pissing off those lumberjacks."
"Dave, come on!" Nikki pleads, "can I please come out? I'll sit at the announce table with JR and King…please!"
She pouts and Dave shakes his head, laughing. He finally gives in causing her to squeal and hug him tightly. He pulls away from her and stares down at her.
"You need to stay there, don't come down to the ring no matter what," Dave instructs, "Paul is going to pick some of his cronies and I don't need them coming after you too."
Nikki nods and looks over at Derrick who is watching them.
"Are you going to stay back here or go out to your seat for this?" Nikki asks.
"I'm going to go out there," Derrick replies, "I was just about to leave."
Nikki gives him a hug and he leaves the room. Dave changes and starts to stretch as Nikki fixes her hair. He finishes and waits as Nikki puts the finishing touches on her make-up. He wraps his arm around her waist as they head to the gorilla area. They see that Glen is waiting for his cue and he shakes his head at the screen, looking up at Dave and Nikki.
"Do you see this shit?" Glen asks, pointing to the monitor.
Around the ring are Paul's lumberjacks all people that hate Dave. Nikki shoots Dave a worried look but he ignores it. They hear Glen's music hit and the two men shake hands before Glen heads out to the ring. Dave's music hits and the two walk out. Dave poses at the top of the ramp before giving Nikki a quick kiss. Dave heads down the ramp as Nikki joins JR and King.
"We're now joined by the lovely Nicole, welcome!" JR states, handing her the headphones.
"Thanks JR and King, I'm glad I could join you tonight," Nikki replies happily as Dave poses on the turnbuckles.
Suddenly, Paul's music hits and he comes out. He smirks as he walks over to the announce table. Nikki's eyes go wide as he sits right next to her, draping an arm around her shoulders. She shrugs it off as Paul glares at Dave in the ring.
"Hey sweetheart," Paul whispers into her ear, then speaks up, "how does it feel to be sitting next to a real man?"
"I wouldn't know since you're not a real man," Nikki shoots back, turning her attention to the ring.
The two men lock up and Dave tosses Glen into the corner before giving him a powerslam. Hassan jumps up on the apron and his Dave from behind, but Dave jumps outside the ring and hits Daivari. Glen meets him on the outside and gains the upper hand before Masters tosses Dave back into the ring where Glen is in control. Dave fights back and hits a reverse elbow on Glen but La Resistance grabs his legs, trying to pull him, groin first, into the ring post but Dave kicks them off, allowing Glen to hit him with a DDT. Instead of going for the cover he throws him into the corner before giving him a huge clothesline in it, then covering him for the 2 count. Dave fights back with some shots to Glen's ribs, but Glen gets in that nasty uppercut followed by a dropkick. He picks Dave up and gives him a sidewalk slam, going to climb to the top, but Snitsky jumps up causing Glen to kick him in the head allowing Dave to toss him off the top rope. He sets him up in the corner, giving him some shoulder charges before lifting him up and giving Glen a huge vertical suplex. Dave stands over Glen who grabs him by the neck, going for the Chokeslam, but Dave struggles out of it.
Paul grabs Nikki by the hair, standing up and pulling her up as well causing Dave to take his focus off of the match. Snitsky gets a cheap shot in on Glen who jumps to the outside to take him on. Dave is attacked from behind by Tyson Tomko, Adam, and Jay, pulled to the outside and beat on. Nikki shoves Paul into the announce table and rushing down to the ring with Paul stalking up behind her. She turns to look at Paul and runs into someone. She turns around to see Chris Masters standing there smirking at her. Dave comes up behind him and knocks him to the ground telling Nikki to get out of the way, tossing Maven into the steps. He clothesline Rob Conway who flips over and tosses Sylvan up the ramp. Nikki's standing on the ring steps as Dave slides into the ring and gives spinebusters to both Adam and Jay, staring down Paul after he cleans the ring of the lumberjacks. Glen comes up behind and gives Dave the chokeslam, covering him but before the count of three, Dave kicks out. Glen picks Dave up and goes for the tombstone but Dave wiggles out of it and gives Glen a huge spinebuster. He kicks Glen in the gut, looking at Paul giving Glen a huge sitdown powerbomb for the win!
Nikki gets into the ring, hugging Dave tightly as he stares down Paul. Dave kisses her softly before holding open the ropes for her. They walk up the ramp, Dave's arm around her shoulders protectively. They push through the curtain and Dave stops Nikki.
"Damn it Nikki," Dave states, "you could've got hurt out there!"
"I'm sorry Dave, but I'd rather take my chances with 15 lumberjacks then 1 Paul," Nikki replies softly.
"They were out for me," Dave explains, "if I wouldn't have knocked out Masters, he could've done some damage."
Nikki looks down at her feet. Dave sighs and lifts her chin, looking deep into her eyes.
"I love you Nicole," Dave says truthfully, "if anything would've happened, I don't know what I would do."
Derrick comes walking up to the two as Dave kisses her forehead. He nods at Derrick before the three head back to Dave's locker room. Randy and Courtney join the two as Dave changes.
"Want to go clubbing tonight?" Courtney asks, "there's a great one around here."
The three nod and head back to the hotel to change for clubbing. Nikki exits the bathroom and Dave looks up, his jaw dropping. She's wearing a short black skirt, with a blue top with a plunging neckline, going all the way down to her belly button.
"Damn baby!" Dave exclaims, twirling her around, "how in the hell are you wearing the top?"
"Double stick tape," Nikki replies, grabbing her purse, "wouldn't want the goods to fall out dancing."
Dave chuckles and they head down to the lobby where everyone is waiting. They pack into two cars and head over to the club. When inside, they grab a table and Dave and Randy go up to grab everyone's drinks. Courtney grabs Nikki's hand, pulling her out on the dance floor. The two men return and notice their girlfriends missing. Derrick points out to the dance floor to Nikki and Courtney. Dave chuckles, heading out there, walking up to the two.
"Stop hogging my girlfriend," Dave pouts.
Courtney steps aside and Dave pulls Nikki close as 'Golddigger' continues to play. Dave leans in close and Nikki feels his hot breath on her neck.
"Do I need to get a pre-nup when we get married?" Dave jokes causing Nikki to look up at him, shocked.
"When we get married?" Nikki repeats.
"Yeah," Dave replies, "we are getting married someday."
Nikki smiles and kisses him as 'Little Bit' by 50 Cent starts to blare through the speakers. Nikki presses her body against his and they grind together. Dave runs his hands down her body, sending chills down her spine. Dave leans down and places soft kisses on her neck, finding her sweet spot and sucking softly. Nikki gasps softly, leaning into him more.
"Dave…." Nikki purrs softly, "I think my legs turned to jello."
Dave chuckles, sweeping her off her feet, carrying her back to the table.
"Derrick, do you think you can catch a ride back to the hotel with C and Randy?" Dave asks as Nikki looks up at him in surprise, "Nikki's not feeling too hot, so I'm going to take her back."
Derrick nods as Dave grabs Nikki's purse and walks out the door with her still in his arms. As he nears the car, he sets her down and shoves her against the car, kissing her hard, letting his hand slide into her revealing top, squeezing her breast softly. Nikki moans softly, arching against Dave.
"We better wait until we get back to the hotel room," Dave says, breathlessly, "I want you so damn bad, but not here."
Nikki nods and slides into the passenger seat of the rental car. Dave speeds back to the hotel, and drags Nikki up to the room quickly, shoving open the door and pulling off her top before the door shuts. He presses her against the door, kissing his way down to her chest and back up again to her mouth. Dave fumbles with the buttons on his shirt before ripping it off, picking her up, his mouth never leaving hers, and carrying her to the bed. He lays her down and lays on top of her, kissing her neck. He pulls off her skirt and she helps him push off his pants. Before he enters her, he looks down at her and kisses her softly.
"I love you," he whispers, pushing into her.
LATER THAT NIGHT
Dave looks down at the slumbering Nikki. She's curled against his body, her hand resting on his pec. He places his hand over hers and smiles.
"It's time I let her know how I really feel."
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