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Listen to Her Voice
2. The First Day is Always the Worst
(3rd Person POV)
"Okay so when I go for the Pedigree you jump in and give him a Super Kick, how does that sound?" questioned Hunter as he went over the main event for the evening. It was once again time for Monday Night Raw and DX's opponent was none other than Legacy. Over the weeks, DX had been attacked by the young hot shots known as Randy Orton, Ted Dibiase Jr., and Cody Rhodes. Shawn and Hunter had suffered from the attacks long and hard but nothing they planned seemed to be working, it was always as if Legacy had a one up on them. "Shawn, are you even listening to me?"
But Shawn was definitely not listening to Hunter. His mind was elsewhere focused intently on that of the WWE's newest commentator: Louisa Donaldson. Ever since they had hired her a week ago, Shawn had been distant and constantly had this sad look on his face. He wanted to know if that girl was exactly who he thought she was.
"Shawn!" Hunter yelled again snapping him from his thoughts. Shawn blinked and looked around to find himself nose to nose with his best friend. "We can't go out there like this, you got to get your head in the game, or do you want Legacy to kick our asses to Timbuktu and back?"
"No," Shawn said in a lowly whisper not wanting to let his friend down. But Hunter knew something was bothering Shawn even if he couldn't place it. Now was the time to talk.
"What's wrong, man? Ever since we got back from hiring the new announcer girl you've been acting all weird. What gives?" Hunter asked taking a seat beside the Heartbreak Kid.
"Call me crazy but does that Louisa girl remind you of anyone?" questioned Shawn. Hunter thought for a moment. The girl had brown hair, a great body, good looking too, but wait there was a standout feature that set Louisa Donaldson apart from the rest of the world: her eyes, one blue and one green.
Hunter had seen those eyes once before but it had been a very long time ago. They belonged to Shawn's little one year old daughter: Carson Michaels. But then the light bulb went on in Hunter's head.
"Shawn," sighed Hunter.
"Don't even say it Hunter," Shawn said as he looked him in the eye. "You don't know what happened to Carson and neither do I but maybe, just maybe God decided to give me a gift and send her back to me."
"I know your still hurting from that but you have to move on, it was twenty years ago." Hunter told his friend while putting a hand on his shoulder, "And if she is your daughter what are you going to do walk up to her and say 'Hey Lou would you mind talking a DNA test I think you're my long lost daughter!' What's she going to do Shawn?"
"I don't know but even if there is that chance that slightly screwed up chance that Louisa is my daughter I want to know! I can't just sit here and do nothing." Shawn explained to his friend with a twinkle in his eye.
"And what exactly are you going to do?" questioned Hunter. Shawn smiled at him.
"I'm going to lure DiBiase over to her tonight and provoke him to attack her. And if she can defend herself then while I'll go and talk to her." Shawn stated as Hunter put his hands on his hips.
"Do you think that's a really good idea?" Hunter asked worriedly.
"Yes, yes, I do." The Heartbreak Kid answered walking over to his locker and picking up his favorite cowboy hat. "I mean what could go wrong?"
But unknown to both Shawn and Hunter leaning against the door catching every word of their conversation was Cody Rhodes, Legacy's faithful spy.
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"And over here is the gorilla, this where the wrestlers and divas wait to make their entrances down to the ring." Stephanie explained to Lou. Lou had this bored look on her face as she followed the big business woman around being shown everything that went into making the show. "Lou, come on, I want to show you something."
Lou followed Stephanie through a curtain and was amazed at what she found.
"Welcome to your stage, Louisa." Stephanie said with a smile. Lou stood in amazement at the arena with its empty seats as a single spotlight shined on the announcer's table. It was like a sign from heaven. "Stu, knock it off!"
Okay, so maybe it wasn't a sign from heaven but just a jobber having some fun. Lou smiled and meandered down to her seat at the commentary table. Stephanie followed her and nodded at her to take it. Lou took the seat and it felt very strange, it felt like she belonged here but yet there was something missing.
"Louisa, I'm going to head out, I'll see you after the show!" Stephanie said as she waved good-bye to the twenty one year old sitting at the commentators table.
Lou closed her eyes and spun around in the plush leather chair that was now hers. She had a feeling that she was going to like it here. But for some reason there was somewhere else she wanted to be. Lou looked around to make sure no one was watching, so she slowly ascended the steel steps. Her heels clacking against the metal making it echo throughout the arena.
She slipped through the ropes and stood in the center of the ring just staring out into the massive sea of empty seats closing her eyes and letting the overwhelming sound of the crowd screaming for her take over. Seeing signs waving for her, hearing them chant her name, oh she wanted that but for now she would take what she could get.
"Hey get out of my ring!" a voice shouted snapping the brunette out of her peaceful daydream.
Lou's eyes flew open to find two men staring directly at her. One with ice cold blue eyes staring her down, tattoos running down the side of his arms, and about two feet taller than her. She was five foot four after all. The other man stood next to him had blonde hair, blue eyes, and was slightly shorter than the other man. Both of them though stood their giving Lou the death glare.
"Did you not hear me the first time, little girl? Get out of my ring!" shouted the taller man as the blonde nodded in agreement with what he said.
"Yea, yea, yea, I'm going. No need to yell." Lou muttered at the tattooed man under her breath.
"What was that? Randy, I think this girl just insulted you." The blonde stated with a sneaky smirk causing the tattooed man to become very, very, very scary looking. His eyes narrowed and he approached Lou pushing her up against the ropes.
"Well, it looks like we're going to have to teach her a lesson, aren't we Ted?" questioned the tattooed man to the blonde that he referred to as Ted. The two advanced more on a defensive less Lou, who stood there in pure terror but before any harm could come to her, she heard someone storming the ring. There was tussling and shouting but Lou still had her eyes closed. Finally, a familiar voice whispered in her ear.
"You're alright now you can open your eyes."
Lou opened her eyes to find a pair of baby blue eyes staring directly at her. A smile adorned the man's face while he held out a hand to help her up. She was hesitant at first but slowly she accepted it.
"So you're the new girl from the interviews, if I remember correctly, right?" questioned the man. Lou nodded her head still in shock from the situation a few moments ago. "I didn't catch your name, but you gave a really convincing speech if I recall right?"
Lou again nodded her head at the man.
"Well, let me introduce myself, I'm the Champ, the doctor of thuganomics," but before he could continue Lou burst out laughing.
"The doctor of thuganomics, really, that's the best you got?" she said continuing to laugh. John shrugged his shoulders at her and simply nodded.
"Hey, it's not my fault our marketing department sucks, they thought let's make a white rapper, ugh I knew I shouldn't of agreed but back in the day this is what I wanted and now I can't get away from the dang image." The man whined throwing his hands up in the air making Lou giggle at him.
Lou stuck her hand out to the man and introduced herself.
"Louisa Donaldson, the WWE's newest color commentator." Lou said while the man gladly accepted her hand.
"John Cena," said the Champ. "So, Louisa huh?"
"It was my great grandmother's name if you must know, but I hate when anyone uses it. I prefer if you just call me Lou." The brunette told the male wrestler. John nodded happy to oblige to the request.
"While Lou, what exactly we're you doing out here to put Legacy's undies in a knot?" John questioned.
"Legacy, is that what those two guys are called?" Lou asked. John nodded his head in agreement.
"There currently the terror of the locker room. DX is trying to take care of Ted DiBiase Jr., that was the blonde and Cody Rhodes, you have yet to meet him. The guy with the tattoos was Randy Orton." John growled out the last part. Lou knew that this group probably wasn't good news. "So what did you do?"
"Nothing, I was just standing in the ring. And bam those two showed up, tell me to get out, and then Ted told Randy I insulted him which I didn't do! That's when you came and saved the day." Lou said while smiling. John nodded knowing what an ass Ted was for almost getting the new announcer girl killed by Randy Orton. "Thanks, for saving me by the way, I don't think I would have survived otherwise."
"Ha, it's no problem! What are friends for?" questioned John with smile as Lou blushed. "So Lou are you doing anything right now, because I could give you the John Cena backstage tour?"
John wiggled his eyebrows at her causing her to laugh hysterically.
"Actually, Stephanie already gave me the tour. But I am kind of hungry, where do you guys get food to eat around here I'm starving!" Lou exclaimed as her stomach grumbled loudly for John to hear causing him to laugh.
"Follow me," John said sticking out his arm as Lou gladly took it. But before she could fully grasp it he broke into a run. John called over his shoulder, "How about I race you, shorty?"
"Bring it on, Cena!" she shouted as she sprinted past him, "There is a reason I was one of the best distance runners on my school's track and field team." And with that the two new friends ran up the ramp to catering enjoying themselves and living for the moment.
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*a/n: Anything in italics from now on will be Lou's POV presently with the psychologist. Read On…
I smiled at the memory of John chasing me down the hallway into catering. I remember how he crashed into a cart filled with wigs and I couldn't stop laughing because it was so hysterically funny. He even came out with a blonde one on backwards.
"So John was your first friend in the company?" questioned Nancy as I nodded.
"I guess you could say John was my big brother protecting me from Legacy and making me laugh when I was down. It was his idea that I come here actually." I said to Nancy honestly while she wrote notes on a piece of paper.
"Did you ever see John as more than just a friend? Lover perhaps?" Nancy asked while my eyes widened in horror and I felt like I was going to gag.
"John and me? No, no, a thousand times no, we're strictly friends." I stressed to the weary eyed psychologist.
"I'm sorry, Miss Donaldson, it just sounded," Nancy began as I raised my hand to shut her up.
"I know I get that a lot. But John and I are strictly friends, best friends though." I replied with a smile. "But my heart belonged to someone else…"
Nancy looked at me shocked. Oh, did she want to know who I was talking about now. But I wouldn't give her the justification of finding out about my lover yet, nope, she'd just have to be patient.
"So what happened at your first show?" Nancy asked leaning forward in her chair anxious to find out what happened between Legacy, DX, and me that evening. I gave her a cheeky grin and looked her dead in the eye.
"Sweet Chin Music"
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