Disclaimer: I own nothing in WWE, not even Michael Cole. But I do own this fanfic, cause that's how I roll.

A quick thank you to all my reviewers, including the one who decided to point out that John's music doesn't suck. Everyone's entitled to their opinion.

Warning! Warning! If you do not like extremely long and boring match details then skip halfway through this chapter. You have been warned. I am sorry.

Here we go.

Brotherly Hate-Chapter 5

Jason felt his back slam hard against the mat again. "Damn! It seemed so much easier on the Indies".

His debut match with Hardcore Holly had started impressively, with Jason constantly on the offensive, even breaking out moves that reminded John, back in the locker room, of Jason's childhood hero the 'Heartbreak Kid' Shawn Michaels. Standing out the most was a clothesline which took both Holly and Jason over the top-rope; Jason however grabbed said rope and pulled himself over it backwards into the ring in a blatant rip-off of HBK. However Jason had got cocky and started showing off. "To Mara most likely" thought John, in the end Jason had climbed to the top-rope, posed, then completely missed a splash, Holly didn't need asking twice and immediately took advantage. Now, after about five minutes of beating Jason down, Holly was moving in for the kill. He picked Jason up and threw him back down by the hair and put him in a sleeper, Jason struggled for about a minute before going limp, Mara immediately started slapping the mat to try and bring Jason back into it. Chioda walked over to Jason to see if he was still conscious when it appeared that he wasn't he checked Jason's arm, it fell once, it fell twice, but on the third time he narrowly stopped it from hitting the mat, Mara breathed a sigh of relief. Jason desperately tried to break the hold. C'mon you're not gonna lose your fist match" he told himself. "You've worked too hard, and think how Mara will react if you do". He twisted his head slightly so he could look at her. She was staring straight at him, desperately willing him to get up, he smiled to himself and slowly raised himself to one leg, then two and started elbowing Holly in the ribs. After the third he felt the grip on his head loosen, two more elbows and it was free, he stood up straight and started throwing right hands at Holly's face. He backed Holly up to the ropes before whipping him towards the opposite ropes, Holly reversed and sent Jason flying towards them instead, as Jason rebounded back towards him he went for a clothesline, Jason saw it coming and ducked, hit the opposite ropes and caught Holly with a huge flying forearm taking the wind out of both of them. Jason lay there trying to catch his breath, he heard Mara calling for him to get up, he looked to his right and saw Holly already halfway to his feet, there was no way he could get up in time unless… He brought his legs back over his head and put all of his weight into a jump, landing upright on his feet in a picture perfect nip-up. (John raised his eyebrows as he watched) For a moment after landing Jason hesitated. "Hey! I did it!" he thought, then saw Holly's fist heading for his face. He blocked it and unloaded on Holly with punches and chops, he whipped Holly, this time it wasn't reversed, and caught him with an elbow, he hit the mat and bounced right back up, Jason whipped him again and hit a dropkick, Holly again got right back up, "Damnit, stay down!" thought Jason before leading in for a kick with his left foot, Holly caught it and gave him a cocky grin, Jason returned it leaving Holly with a confused look, then a glazed look as Jason's right boot caught him round the side of the head. Holly staggered, then fell catching his neck on the middle rope, rebounded up and was caught with a powerslam, Jason went for a pin but only got a two count. Both men got up and Jason immediately pulled Holly into a roll up for another two count, Jason pushed Holly back into the corner and charged, but ate Holly's boot as he raised it, Holly tried to follow it up with a clothesline but Jason ducked, booted him in the stomach and planted him with an impaler DDT, Jason slowly rolled into a cover and draped an arm over Holly, Chioda moved in to make the count, 1-2-Holly put his foot on the bottom rope. Jason pulled himself up and looked at Chioda, who responded by holding up two fingers, Jason glanced at Mara with a look that red "What do I have to do to keep him down?" He climbed to the top rope (John closed his eyes) and waited for Holly to stand before coming down with a cross-body, almost immediately after connecting he felt something was wrong, before he knew it Holly was on top of him, Chioda began his count, 1-2-kick out! "WHAT?" screamed Holly grabbing Chioda's shirt. "THAT WAS THREE!" Jason was on his feet straight away and began throwing punches at Holly again, Hardcore put a stop to that by kneeing Jason in the stomach, he whipped Jason off the ropes and went for an elbow, Jason ducked and went for another impaler but Holly lifted him up for an Alabama slam, Jason wriggled out of it and landed on his feet, Holly spun round and was met with a superkick which both Jason and Mara were sure, knocked some of his teeth out. Both men were down again, but staggered up, Holly went for a punch but Jason ducked, spun him round and hoisted him up onto his shoulders, he walked back to the centre of the ring and hit the F-U, he collapsed onto Holly, Chioda counted, 1-2-3! Jason leapt to his feet, more out of relief than anything else, before dropping to his knees, the ring announcers voice sounded far away as he said.

"Here is your winner, Jason Cena!"

Jason gave a weak smile, before feeling someone pulling at his arm, he looked up and saw Mara standing over him with a huge smile on her face, she dropped down in front of him and hugged him.

"You did it! I told you you could! I'm so proud of you!" She screamed in his ear.

"Thanks" he whispered, then he smiled. It had been worth the ass kicking just for this.

By the time they got backstage Jason was still feeling the effects of his match. "Just let me catch my breath for a minute" he gasped slumping into a chair; Mara crouched next to him patting him on the back. Both then became aware of someone standing near them, Jason looked up, a young man wearing glasses and holding a microphone was standing there.

"Jason Cena?" he began.

"Yeah?"

"I'm Josh Mathews, Smackdown announcer".

"Oh, nice to meet you man" Jason replied holding out his hand, Josh shook it.

"Thanks, anyway I wondered if I could get an interview?"

"Yeah, sure, can I just catch my breath?"

"No problem".

A few minutes later Jason was stood up and ready for his interview.

"Jason Cena" Josh began. "You have just participated in your first WWE match against Hardcore Holly, how do you feel?"

He held the mic in front of Jason's face; the teen took a deep breath.

"How do I feel? I feel as though I've been hit by a truck! All respect to Hardcore Holly he's a hell of a competitor and he certainly kicked my ass, but the bottom line is I won my debut match, thus proving that I do belong here on Smackdown and….." he trailed off, JBL had just walked into the interview. "What do you want?"

"Me? Nothin' I'm just here to make a point".

"And that is?"

"That is, if you struggled like that against Bob Holly, then you got no chance in hell against me at 'The Bash'".

"Listen 'Bradshaw', if I were you I'd focus on my match with the first draft pick tonight. Now, if you don't mind, I'm gonna go celebrate with my brother and girlfriend". He turned to walk away.

"Don't you mean your slut?"

"WHAT!" Jason spun round, Josh and Mara stepped in front of him, JBL walked off laughing, Jason composed himself before turning to Josh.

"No disrespect, but this interview's over".

Josh nodded and walked away, Jason and Mara headed back towards John's locker room, Mara looked at Jason, he was staring straight ahead with a look of pure rage in his eyes, she decided it was best to leave him alone for now; John was waiting as they came into the room.

"Hey kid, well done out there, you certainly handed Hardcore his…." Jason ignored him and walked straight into the shower. John turned to Mara.

"What the hell's wrong with him? I thought he'd be happy to win his first match".

"Didn't you see the interview he did?"

"Interview? No, I was using the toilet".

Well we had a run in with JBL and, long story short, he ended up calling me a slut".

"So why's Jason so hot?"

"Well he's always been kinda protective of me, and since your Mom died he's been even more protective, I think he's scared of anything happening to us, cause then he'd be alone".

"Oh…. Shall I go talk to him?"

"No, I will" she replied walking through the door to the shower, the curtain was closed and water was running.

"Jason? You O.K.?" No reply. "Jason? Talk to me, please?"

"What do you want me to say?"

"That you're gonna calm down and stop getting so hot over nothing".

"Nothing?"

"Jason it was me JBL called a slut not you" both laughed. "And if you haven't noticed, I don't really care".

"You don't?"

"No, I don't think something he says should matter to you".

"What if he'd called ME a lowlife?"

"Then I would've kicked his ass!"

They both laughed again. "Now c'mon hothead" said Mara. "Get dressed and let's go see who JBL has to face".

"C'mon Benoit!" Jason yelled at the screen. The main event of Smackdown was John 'Bradshaw' Layfield versus the first draft pick from RAW, who turned out to be 'The Rabid Wolverine' Chris Benoit. JBL however, had certainly been prepared for someone such as Benoit and had dominated the match almost from the start. Jason was thoughtful as he watched the match. "Jeez, if he turns up at 'The Bash' like this I don't have a chance!" John noticed the look on his brother's face.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm startin' to doubt that I can beat him".

John had an idea "Kid, when you were on the Indies did you ever have a feud with someone you really hated?"

"No, I only had one real feud, but that was with a guy I liked".

"Who?"

"Chris Sabin".

"Well, listen, in a case like this the best way to deal with someone like this is to get inside his head, psyche him out a little".

"I get you, like interrupt his matches?"

"Well, that's part of it but…"
"I gotta go!"

Jason ran out of the room, Mara turned to John.

"You sure that was good advice?"

"Nope".

Jason ran all the way through the backstage area until he reached the sound area, he walked up to the same guy he spoke to earlier.

"When I tell you to hit my music!" he ordered. The guy nodded, Jason turned to the monitor, JBL was just calling for the Clothesline-From-Hell.

"Now!" he yelled. Seconds later his music played in the arena, JBL froze as Jason walked out into the aisle way. JBL stood his ground, calling for Jason to come down to the ring, Jason just pointed for him to turn around. He did so and walked right into a crossface! JBL struggled, then tapped as Jason turned to walk away. "Cena 1 Bradshaw 0".

Yeah sorry about that, I put some of my first match into Jason's and got carried away. I'll try harder next time.

R&R

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