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Brotherly Hate-Chapter Forty Six-Fall From Grace

Mara Daniels sat alone in a corner of the women's locker room reflecting on the past week, it had been quite surreal, Jason and John, who a week earlier had seemed like imploding at any moment, were now back to their normal selves, the Shawn Michaels incident had seemingly put their relationship back on track. Something that really confused her was Jason's attitude, he was still the same person he always was except whenever Shawn's name was mentioned he would go silent, it seemed all the months of friendship had disappeared from his memory, then Christmas came and Jason had received a gift from Shawn. He didn't open it in front of John but Mara later found a framed photo in his room of Shawn, Jason and her posing backstage after their match at Summerslam, written in the bottom corner was a small message saying 'To the MVP of the match of the year… and a good friend' Jason had seemed plagued by guilt since then although he never showed it in front of John. Ashley came and sat next to her.

"Have a good Christmas Mara?"

"Huh? Yeah, it was alright".

"Cool… Mara?"

"Yeah?"

"Look, there's no easy way to say this but… Miz and Spanky said they don't want anything to do with Jason anymore".

"… Oh".

"I'm sorry, but after what he pulled last week well, it set Spanky off, he sees it as a slap in his face after he forgave Jason about the chain thing when they faced him and John".

Mara stayed silent.

"You sure you're alright?"

"I don't know Ash, I mean, he hasn't changed as a person but… something's wrong with him".

"I know exactly what's wrong with him, and he lives with him".

"John?"

"Yes, think about it, don't tell me you haven't noticed what's going on, Jason may not have but John HAS changed and it's not for the better".

"He acts normal at home".

"Yeah, but when he's on his own he acts the way he did back when he first came in, you know, the don't need anyone routine".

"Yeah but… why doesn't he act like it around Jason?"

"Think about it Mara, Jason always does things the right way, you saw how he reacted whenever John used the chain".

"But that was before he nailed Shawn with the chair".

"True, wait, that means he has noticed but then… shit".

"What?"

"Remember what Shawn told him last week? About John?"

"Yeah".

"Most people are gonna think it's because he didn't believe Shawn but, I think he did believe Shawn but doesn't want John to turn his back on him".

"So he hit Shawn to show loyalty to John…"

"Exactly! John's the last member of his family so he's gonna try and hang on to him".

"Yeah".

"But then again maybe I'm wrong and he's just changed for some other reason, but that's what my money's on".

"Right, thanks Ash, thanks a lot".

"Don't mention it".

In a separate locker room Shawn sat looking at the ground, Miz sat next to him watching Spanky pacing around in anger.

"I don't believe this, after everything you did for him…"

"Brian…"

"I mean, how many times did you save his ass?"

"Brian…"

"You even took him in no-one else would…"

"Brian! Calm down".

"Calm down? Shawn if anything you shouldn't be calm, how can you sit there and let him walk around after what he did? If it was me…"

"But it wasn't you, it was me, it was me he hit with that chair, it was me who he decided to turn on".

"But Shawn, you gotta snap out of this depression…"

"And how should I do that? Someone I considered a friend just turned on me! I can understand how Marty felt when I did it to him".

"But…"

"You know something? I never should have came here tonight, I don't have a match, I don't have an interview scheduled, the only reason I came was because Teddy told me that Jason was gonna explain his actions, but I don't wanna hear 'em right now, I'm going home".

"Shawn? You're just gonna walk and let him get away with this?"

"I'm not, I'm still hurting right now, once the pain goes then the anger arrives, then I'll be able to face what I'm gonna do to him".

With that he picked up his bag and headed out to his car, he was about to get in when Josh Mathews came over to him.

"Not now Josh".

"But Shawn, Jason's about to go out and explain his actions, why are you leaving?"

"Because chances are he's gonna call me out, and I can't face him right now, the kid turned on me Josh, he took the friendship we had and destroyed it! But, I may be going home today but Jason, I got two words for you, Royal Rumble!"

Then he climbed into his car and drove off.

Jason Cena's music hit and the teen and Mara came out into the arena, almost immediately Mara was stunned by the hatred he was receiving, Jason however stood with his arms out making a 'bring it' gesture, the boo's intensified but Jason merely laughed it off and headed down to the ring and grabbed a mic for his speech, Mara watched him closely, he still had the look of guilt in his eye but the rest of his face was a picture of arrogance, he raised the microphone to his mouth.

"So, let me get this straight, some eight years ago, at Wrestlemania fourteen, in Boston, I sat in the front row and watched Shawn Michaels, my favourite wrestler, broken back and all, defend the WWE title against Stone Cold Steve Austin, and he lost. The next night, also in Boston, I sat in the front row as Triple H came out to the ring and said that Shawn 'dropped the ball'. So what I'm trying to say is that, in eight years, Shawn Michaels has gone from 'dropping the ball', to taking the ball and going home".

The crowd booed him; he took in the hatred before continuing.

"Now, I'm supposed to come out here and explain my actions from last week, and I am sorely tempted to tell you what I told everyone else, that being that I don't owe you people anything, let alone an explanation, and I especially don't owe you Milwaukee jackoffs anything" The crowd booed again. "Number one rule of being a bad guy, which according to you I am, always go for the cheap shot at whatever town you're in, but I didn't really need to do that cause you people seem to have already decided I ain't worth shit to you" this got a cheer.

"Now, I'm pretty sure that the reason you booed me when I came out was that when I turned on Shawn Michaels, and pretty much stuck a knife in his back, you people felt like I turned on you too, you felt like I took all your approval and threw it back in your face, that I went from an ass kissing good guy to an ass kicking bad guy. Well, if kissing your asses makes me a good guy then I have a news flash, I never was a good guy! I never came out here and kissed anyone's ass, I never came out here and asked for your approval, sure I got you to sing along whenever I told my opponents that I had two words for them…"

More boo's. "See? If I was a good guy you would have finished that for me, but anyway, I never asked for, needed, or wanted your approval! And I'd love to tell you how I feel, but this being live TV I can't but I'll say this, the name of my finisher pretty much sums it up! Now, as far as my explanation for what I did to ol' HBK well, let me ask you people something, if you were in a position where you had to choose family, or some guy, who would you people choose? And add in the fact that it was Shawn who put me in the position where I had to choose… no it was Shawn, I asked him not to make the challenge but he did anyway, all he had to do was not make the challenge then I wouldn't have been put in a position. And as a result Shawn has 'lost his smile' again and gone home with his tail between his legs, but before he left he said he had two words for me, well Shawn as far as the Royal Rumble is concerned…"

The Miz's music hit and he came out with a mic.

"That's enough Jason, just quit while you're ahead".

"Miz, I'm trying to speak to the people".

"Yeah? Well the people don't wanna hear you anymore, not after you betrayed them, betrayed Shawn, betrayed me, just so you could kiss your brothers ass".

"What?"

"Jason, you have to realise something, your brother has changed, he doesn't care about… well that's not true he probably does deep down, but right now all he wants is the WWE title and he doesn't care what, or who he uses to get it".

"Shut up Miz, shut up!"

"Why? Can't you handle the truth? The truth I'm telling you now, and the truth Shawn was trying to tell you last week is this, John Cena is nothing but a low-down piece of…"

Jason snapped, he nailed Miz with the mic and began to punch away at him, he whipped Miz into a corner but Miz came out with a clothesline! He charged Jason but the teen sidestepped and sent him over the top to the outside, he rolled out after him and gave him a few more right hands then whipped him head-first into the steel steps, the top layer were knocked off their hinges and went flying, Jason picked Miz up smirked and F-U'd Miz into the ring post! The force of coming to a sudden stop against the steel caused Miz to fall head-first to the ground, Jason picked Miz up and rolled him into the ring and locked on an STF-U, he put it on tight but before he could really lock it Spanky ran down to the ring and broke it up, he hammered away on Jason before dropping him with sliced bread number two, he then went to help Miz and rolled him out of the ring, EMT's came out and put Miz in a neck brace and on a stretcher, as they were wheeling him out Jason got up and grabbed the mic.

"Hey Spanky! You wanna fight me so much? Why don't you go back there, put your gear on, and have the guts that Shawn obviously doesn't and face me tonight!"

Spanky turned and looked thoughtful. "You're on!"

Meanwhile Shawn sat in his car at some traffic lights, he was still thinking about the situation with Jason. "Rebecca was right all along" he thought, then again the kid had won her over, after his stay with them she had been saying how nice he was, he had pretty much thrown that back in her face, and Cameron, his own son had liked Jason so much that he put the teen second behind him on his favourites list, Jason had pretty much slapped his son in the face… wait a minute, he had slapped the kid across the face! Figuratively or not, no one disrespects Shawn Michael's family! He smiled as he felt the anger rising, the kid wanted a fight? He'd give him one! He spun the car round and headed back to the arena.

Jason was pulling on his elbow pads when Mara walked in, she struggled with the question she had on her mind, at points during his rant back in the ring he had seemed as though he didn't mean what he was saying, the parts about Shawn being a quitter and forcing him to choose anyway.

"Jason? Can I ask you something?"

"Yeah, fire away".

"What you said out in the ring, did you mean it?"

"What? Of course I did! Why would I say it if I didn't mean it?"

She looked him closely in the eyes as he said this, the guilty look was there as he said it, he hadn't meant it.

"Never mind, let's go".

Jason was already in the ring when Spanky's music hit, he charged through the curtain and hit the ring running, Jason met him and quickly hammered him back into a corner, he gave him several right hands and lifted him up to the top-rope and gave him a big uppercut causing him to fall all the way to the outside, he rolled out of the ring and hammered him down, he whipped him into the crowd barrier and clotheslined him over it, he rolled into the ring to break the referee's count then went and suplexed Spanky back over the barrier and whipped him into the steps, then he picked him up and gave him the F-U into the ringpost! He rolled Spanky in the ring and gave him another F-U, he covered but pulled Spanky up at two, he picked him up and hit a superkick before putting on the sharpshooter! Spanky tapped almost immediately to give Jason the win but he wasn't finished, he threw Spanky to the outside and started to take the announce table apart, he called for the F-U but Shawn's music hit! Jason turned to the ramp and watched in shock as Shawn calmly walked down and round the ring before getting in Jason's face, the two stared each other down.

"C'mon kid" said Shawn. "Don't you wanna fight? You were fine with it last week".

Jason didn't move, Shawn got right up in his face and whispered. "Maybe you just can't fight face-to-face, like your brother…"

That set Jason off and he swung for Shawn's head, Shawn blocked it and opened up on Jason, he pounded the teen down then whipped him into the ringpost and knocked him down with a clothesline, he turned to check on Spanky but Jason grabbed one of the monitors, Shawn turned round and smashed Shawn across the head with the monitor! He then picked Spanky up and put him on the table then he picked up Shawn and gave him the F-U onto Spanky and through the table, he then grabbed a mic.

"What's the matter Shawn? You lost your smile again? Oh, by the way the Royal Rumble? I accept! I'm gonna kick your ass, then I'm gonna win the Rumble and go on to Wrestlemania! Speaking of that, at Wrestlemania fourteen, in Boston, I watched you get your ass kicked! Next week, in San Antonio Texas, your hometown, I want you to sit in the front row as I do what you couldn't and beat a bald-headed SOB! And if you ain't down with that I got two words for ya!"

He dropped the mic and walked off, Mara stared back at Shawn and Spanky before following, Jason glanced back over his shoulder at them as well before muttering to himself. "I'm sorry".

End of Chapter
Well there ya go, Jason vs. Austin? Or is it a trick? Guess we'll find out next time!

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