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Listen to Her Voice
Acceptance
(3rd Person POV)
Lou and Shawn were back where they had started earlier that day. Shawn's locker room but this time Lou had shed her tears and ready to confront the truth. This time she wasn't going to run off and leave Shawn just standing their dumbfounded.
"Where do you want to start?" asked the older man.
"How about… we take this from the top?" Lou suggested while smiling at Shawn who nodded his head in approval.
"So that means the first thing would be what do you want to be called?" Shawn asked, "I completely understand if you still want to go by Louisa Donaldson that would be perfectly fine with me because…"
Lou looked up into the brown eyes of her father and gave him a gracious smirk.
"Actually, I have been thinking about this, what do you think of Carson Louisa Rebecca Michaels?" Lou responded to him while Shawn's face lit up with a smile.
Lou sat quietly while Shawn thought about her name. He tapped his finger to his chin. He was trying to hide his enthusiasm that was there for accepting his last name as part of her life. Lou thought she saw a tear slide down his face but he turned so that she couldn't see him crying. After giving Shawn several moments to recompose himself she cleared throat and brought him back to the current situation.
"Lou," Shawn said with a smile on his face, "I love it."
"I figured you would." She replied. "So that takes care of my name, are you going to tell the rest of the locker room or better yet Vince?"
"While in matters of the locker room, I think it would be best to not tell them your last name. There are some psychos in there, cough, Randy Orton, cough, so for now while you're commentating keep Donaldson attached to your name. It will be your ring name so to speak." Shawn explained in an overprotective dad tone.
Lou's face paled and she became eerily quiet. There was no way that she was telling Shawn that Legacy already knew her secret. He would go ballistic. No, he would kill Randy, Ted, and Cody. But Lou wouldn't have minded that why did she even care what happened to the second and third generation superstars? Did she feel some connection to them since she was a second generation superstar too?
She shook her head shaking away the thoughts of the Legacy immediately while Shawn looked at her with an all knowing smile that she always knew her father would have. She returned the smile which was a mirror reflection of Shawn's. Lou really was his daughter and she was finally proud of it.
Shawn sighed before looking back at her. Lou could sense his hesitation and began to worry about him.
"Shawn, what's wrong?" Lou asked a bit worried that she wasn't everything he expected, "I'm sorry if I'm not the girl that you dreamed up in your head but I am willing to put aside everything and make this work, so please tell me what's going on in that crazy mind of yo-"
"Would you like to move in with me?" Shawn blurted out. Lou was about to respond until she realized what he had just said.
"Excuse me?" Lou gasped.
"I know, it's not the most ideal thing ever Louisa but, we have missed twenty one years together and I want you to be a part of my life and not lose you again." Shawn explained as Lou looked at him with sadness and acknowledgement in her eyes. "I have this huge mansion and there are more than enough rooms and I thought that it would make up for lost time…"
Shawn looked at her with big puppy dog brown eyes as tears slide down his face. He was truly sad that he had missed every part of his little girl's life growing up. Birthday parties, teaching how to walk, learning how to drive, all that stuff he had missed and he wanted to make up for it. Lou's smile from earlier dimmed sensing that Shawn was missing Rebecca, her mother, his wife, he must have been living in the same mansion since she was killed and Lou was kidnapped. How dreadful must that have been living with all those horrible memories of the two women you loved and knowing that your wife was dead and daughter who knows where?
"You don't have to answer me now, but I just thought…" Shawn trailed off looking at Louisa.
"Yes," Lou said immediately as Shawn raised his head to look at the petite brunette. She was nodding her head in recognition to confirm what she had just said.
"Lou, you don't…" before Shawn could respond further he was cut off by the young woman.
"You deserve someone who loves you Shawn; you don't need to be by yourself in that place by yourself. It will drive you insane, so I say yes." Lou reasoned with The Heart Break Kid.
Shawn couldn't believe it! Lou was coming home with him to his beloved San Antonio after twenty one years, his beloved Carson was finally coming home!
"Oh my God, I have so much to do! I have to call Jenny and Alfonso needs to clean that place and oh you're going to have the best Texas cooking little lady!" Shawn said as he grabbed Lou for a hug and twirled her around. Lou laughed at her father's silliness which caused Shawn to laugh at his daughter's happiness. The two were so busy laughing that Shawn accidently tripped over the coffee table causing the two to stumble back into the leather couch and landing with a loud THUD! When the two landed they were facing each other smiling and laughing. No one would have expected this from the two of them at all after everything that they had been through, Shawn and Lou were finally accepting each other for who they were.
"Shawn," Lou whispered to the legendary wrestler.
"Yes, Lou?" questioned Shawn while he wrapped his arms around his daughter to embrace her in a hug.
"What was Rebecca like?" Lou asked quietly. Shawn stopped dead in his tracks amazed that the twenty one year old wanted to know about her birth mother. Shawn slowly began to remember what his late wife was like. He smiled down at Lou and examined her face closely seeing Rebecca's features etched in her just like his were.
"She was a lot like you, Louisa." Shawn explained to her. "She refused to take no for an answer. She had the most beautiful hair and it followed like Rapunzel's. Her smile was that of a thousand suns and it melted you to a puddle of mush the minute you saw it. Her eyes while they a bright green similar to the DX green that I'm wearing right now. That's kind of why Hunter and where this color because it is in memory of her. It was her idea for when DX first came into the business.
"You would have loved to meet her; she was amazing in every sense of the word. She was fearless which sometimes caused me trouble, but she was willing to put up with all the crap that came her way even she shouldn't have had to. Rebecca was one of the most amazing women I have ever and she deserved so much better than me, the pro wrestler with the big heart.
"I blame myself, you know for your disappearance and her death. If I hadn't been such a big star in the industry everything would have turned out different. Some days I just imagine what life would have been like the three of us together and living a normal life." Shawn sighed as Lou patted him on the leg.
"It's not your fault you know that right?" questioned Lou who was looking at her father sadly, "If you didn't become the amazing Shawn Michaels you probably wouldn't have her and then I wouldn't be here right now. We all regret things in life, Dad but this is one of the things you shouldn't regret. We're together now and I'm sure Mom had something to do with it."
"You called me Dad?" Shawn asked out of complete shock from the brunette.
"While that's what you aren't you?" Lou asked with a giggle, "Unless you're some bizarre space alien, oh no then were all screwed!"
"You," Shawn laughed while shaking his head at her and ruffling her hair.
"Hey! Not the hair, not the hair!" Lou shouted as Shawn grabbed her and began to tickle her, "No Shawn, no! Bad Shawn!"
"Knock-knock," a new voice resounded around the room and shortly after Hunter entered the room looking at the two who were laughing like crazy. "While, I never would have thought…" The Game muttered to himself as the father daughter duo stood up and brushed themselves off from their short bonding time.
"I'll see you after the show, okay Dad?" Lou questioned with a smile.
"Absolutely, how does dinner with me and Uncle Hunter sound? And then we can talk about your homecoming?" Shawn asked excitedly as Lou smiled and nodded leaving the room.
"Come on, Shawn we have a match to go over, remember, I've got to kick some Priceless ass tonight!" Hunter said excitedly rubbing his hands together to get back at Ted DiBiase Jr. for costing him a win last week.
"You go on a head Hunter, I'll be right there." Shawn answered as Hunter slipped out the door to head to catering to get something to eat before the show began. Shawn looked around his empty dressing room not believing what he was going to do which was talk to the air.
"Rebecca, I want to know if you can hear me, can you at least give me a sign." Shawn asked while standing in the center of the room. Outside there was a thunder storm brewing and Shawn could hear the big claps of thunder. At the precise second that he had asked that question the loudest boom of thunder was heard. "I'll take that as a yes."
"I promise you I'll keep her safe from danger. And that I'll refuse to let her make the same mistakes she did when it comes to living like this. I've learned some valuable lessons while I've been here and I'm sure I'll learn a few more. I'll protect because she is my daughter and if anything tries to hurt her while let's just say I'll happily super kick them in the face. I know, I know, violence only leads to more violence but she is the daughter of a legend and something tells me she won't need protecting for very long. I guess that's all." Shawn said finishing his little statement to the empty room. With his hand on the door he looked around the room one last time and smiled.
"Thank you for bringing her to me, she where she always should have been." With that Shawn shut off the light and let the door click behind him as sighed to himself. "And know that your heart will always belong to me."
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Awe, don't you just want to run and give Shawn a hug now? I know I do! This chapter took forever and a half to come to me because I thought it was going to be redundant with the whole father daughter confrontation scene but I added in that little bit about Rebecca, what did you think of that? I liked what Shawn said it was so heartfelt and that kind of inspired his monologue near the end too. Special thanks to the song "If I Die Young" by The Band Perry, for helping inspire me!
Alright shout out time!
Holler to my awesome reviewers: ( ), WWEStarBaby, Sport-Luver (I love that tattoo too! I saw him wrestling against Swagger the other night and I was like that is an epic tattoo!), MJ Potter Black Weasley, and WhiteAsukalover (x2 for reviewing chapters 9 & 10 woot!)(I love your quotes for wrestling on your profile page, love them!)
And who can forget the story alert/ favorite people? Not this girl! Shout outs to Sport-Luver, WWEStarBaby, and Miss Ashley
Gracias to all my reviewers, it means a ton for me to get feedback, you all are the best!
Okay so I usually don't say much about wrestling in my little rants but I have to wonder who else here thinks John Laurnitis is behind everything with the whole Triple H, Kevin Nash, and CM Punk thing. I didn't even see much of Raw last Monday except for the whole car accident bit and I shouted at the television and screamed E-V-I-L when he came on, let's just say my father gave me this weird look of what the hell is wrong with you? I'm calling it now, Laurnitis is behind everything! By the way why are they even keeping him around, NO ONE LIKES HIM! Triple H doesn't like him, Punk doesn't like him, Cena doesn't like him, and the other talent doesn't like him, so fire his evil butt and move on!
Phew! Okay enough talk about that on to more happy matters! Next week I'm giving you guys a double update since the next chapter is a cliffy and I move into school life is going to be a little crazy so I don't want to leave you hanging! Ha, get it, cliffy, hanger? Bad joke, I know… so you can look forward to that. Next chapter our antagonist make their return and let's just say that our young heroine is not going to enjoy it one bit…
So until next time, read Tainted by OhCassandra (good fic if I say so myself and she's a new author!), stop looking at those boxes in the corner and start to fill them with stuff, and find the missing flip flop that goes with your favorite pair of flip flops… ~always with much love ~L.
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