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Listen to Her Voice
(3rd Person POV)
Wrestlemania
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The rain pounded the pavement as dark clouds filled the sky in Detroit. They day of reckoning for the WWE Universe had finally come; it was the day of Wrestlemania. The crowds were already outside the arena and it was only three hours before the show. Life was moving rampantly even though the weather was telling people to stay indoors; the public was coming out in droves to see the WWE put on its biggest and grandest production of the year.
Louisa Michaels sat in her locker room listening to the pounding rain on the ceiling above her. She loved the lighting and thunder, there was always something magical about it that enticed her. Lou listened to the rampant banging above her head. Her stomach had so many butterflies in it right now she didn't think John could help her get rid of them this time as he had when she first debuted so many months ago. It seemed like years ago now since Stephanie had hired as the commentator. But looking back look at how amazing her life was turning out. She didn't expect any of this when she walked throw those doors that day. Hell, she was amazed they had even given her interview, let alone hired her. But now, now she had this amazing family who protected and supported her. A loving brother, John Cena who would beat anyone who hurt her to a pulp; a wise uncle, Triple H, who could settle her temper and listen to her side of the story; an amazing best friend, Alex Riley, who she never would have thought she would have found, but low and behold the FCW champion was the one that had trained her for this very match. Something told Lou that she and Alex would be together for a while, but that stupid dream did still linger in the back of her mind. At this moment though, that was set aside. And then there was one more person that completed her family, her wonderful, talented, and loving, father, the Heart Break Kid, Shawn Michaels. Without him Lou would have never made it as far as she did. Even though at times Shawn was overprotective and a bit possessive of her, she still loved him. He was the only family she had left now anyone since Gramms or crazy Aunt Dorothy had been killed by a careless driver as she was crossing the street in San Francisco. Lou couldn't help but wonder if Shawn had hired someone to take care of the old woman for ruining his life, but that seemed very unlike him. So the idea was scratched from her mind, immediately.
"Louisa, are you in there?" Lou heard a familiar voice say as the door knob turned and a head peaked through the opening. Alex Riley emerged with his hand covering his eyes as a wide smile spread across Lou's face. "Are you decent?"
Leave it to Alex to actually care if I'm in clothes or not, Lou thought while she rolled her eyes.
"Yea, you can remove your hands from over your eyes." Lou giggled as the FCW champion opened his eyes and grabbed the girl to pull her closer to her him.
"Your nervous," Alex pondered looking into her eyes.
"How'd you know Captain Obvious?" She questioned sarcastically while rolling her eyes.
"I listened to your voice," shrugged Alex as he plopped down on the couch, "And that look in your eyes gives it away. I saw the same look when you first went to FCW with me."
Lou blushed as a bright shade of red covered her cheeks. She had been pretty nervous when that had happened, but that was FCW this, this was Wrestlemania, "The Grandest Stage of Them All." And she felt like she was going to puke her entire digestive track out.
"I can't do this." Lou said throwing herself across the couch and in the process on top of Alex. Riley looked at the girl in front of him in shook. Immediately, jolting off the couch and bringing both of them to their feet.
"You can do this! I've seen you. Michael Cole is an easy opponent. Louisa, look at me," Lou rose her head and looked at Alex, "You're the most brilliant, beautiful, smart, classy, humorous, sarcastic, talented, wonderful, amazing woman I have ever meet. I'm not letting you throw away everything you have worked for just because you're a little nervous. We're all nervous at one point or another in our careers and I know I'm still nervous every day."
Lou huffed, "What do you have to be nervous about?"
"That this girl, that I like a lot will see right through my mask and figure out that I like her. But what if she doesn't like me? Then what will I do? I most certainly can't tell the girl I have feeling for her. What if I say something wrong? What if I never get to where she is? What if she thinks I'm a fool? What if…"
Before Alex could finish his next statement Lou's lips locked with his in complete and total harmony, it was like a key fitting into a lock. Lou instantly pulled back.
"I… I… I thought the girl you were talking about was me…" Lou whispered lowly. Silence over took the two. One could hear the rain drops falling on the roof once more as the two stared at each other.
"I was…" Alex trailed off leaning in closer to her. "You're unique Louisa Michaels. I've never met a girl like you. You truly are the Juliet to my Romeo."
"Alex… I don't know what to say." Lou said while looking up at the FCW wrestler.
"You don't have to say anything, right now, but I have something really important to ask you after you're match against Cole." Alex said kissing Lou on the cheek and walking to the door and leaving.
"If you're going to ask me to marry you, you're insane!" yelled Lou down the hallway as Alex waved his hand back at her as he continued to walk away. Several WWE crew members gave the Michaels girl weird looks as she rolled her eyes. Lou realizing that many eyes were on her quickly changed the topic. "There is nothing to see here, you can all go back to work now! Remember we have the biggest show in WWE entertainment to put on, back to work!"
Lou shut the door to her dressing room and slid down to the ground. And just like every cheesy love movie that everyone has ever seen, Lou muttered the statement her heart had been hoping for since she met Mr. Alex Riley.
"He likes me; he really, really deep down likes me."
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"Here is your winner and the new WWE Champion, Randy Orton." Announced Lillian Garcia as Hunter and John lay on the ground unconscious and exhausted from everything that had happened in the match. The Legacy ambush had been too much for the two. They had tried and sadly the two had failed at stopping Randy from winning the match.
Lou sighed and shook her head in high frustration with the resident psycho path of the Raw roster.
"That good for nothing snake in the grass," Lou mumbled under her breath as she stomped toward the curtain to go and give the precious new champion a piece of her mind.
Randy, Cody, and Ted rounded the curtain as Lou placed her hands on her hips angered and annoyed. Her eyes narrowed as the trio quickly caught sight of the short brunette.
"Awe Miss Michaels, come to congratulate me on my win?" Randy said as the boys quickly formed a circle around her, Randy wrapping an arm around her shoulders.
"Not a chance, Orton. I'm here to tell you you're nothing, but a sneak who needed henchmen to help him win that match. At least Hunter or John could have done it themselves." Lou growled angrily.
"Key word in that sentence?" questioned Cody as he looked at Lou like she was a piece of meat.
"Could," Ted replied.
"And neither of them did that so now we have a new WWE Champion. You should bow in his presence." Cody told her as Lou rolled her eyes and tried to squirm out of the situation she had gotten into.
"Actually, I think I have a better idea than that which would sweeten this night even more." Randy said looking down at the brunette in his arms. "Michaels, do you recall that first night where we introduced ourselves to you?"
"Sadly, I do. And I also remember that DiBiase was making up insults that I never said to you and causing you to almost attack me. But then a certain doctor of thuganomics came out and saved me." Lou said with a smile on her face as she glared at the three men in front of her.
"I meant after that Michaels, when I told you Legacy will always welcome you." Randy told her. He held out his hand in front of her and waving it around. "Imagine it, everything you ever wanted at the tips of your fingers. We could help each other. Think of it, the championships, and the power, everything you ever wanted. And all you have to do is pledge your allegiance to The Legacy."
"No, I have everything I want with Shawn, Hunter, and John. Life may not be perfect, but it never is. And I will never join you jerks, now if you excuse me I have a match to prepare for." Lou said shoving the WWE Champion off her and stomping back to the locker room area. "Oh, and if you three interfere tonight, let's just say hell hath no fury like a divas scorn."
And with that Lou left the three Legacy men standing there staring after her.
"Well that went well." Ted said annoyed. "I told you it wouldn't work Randy."
"Yea, that was a waste of time, what makes you think her perception of us is ever going to change?" Cody asked watching the girl walk away still angry at the three men.
"Boys, if there's one thing I learned in this business, it's too never say never and DX and Cena are bound to screw up sooner than later. This whole feud with Shawn and Undertaker has taken its toll on her and the WWE Championship match was the only thing keeping her sane." Randy said also watching Lou stop to talk to several of the other wrestlers in the hallway sending hateful glares back at Legacy every once in a while. "And I have a feeling it will be sooner rather than later. When those bozos make that unforgivable mistake we'll be waiting in the wings.
"And that's when Louisa Michaels joins The Legacy."
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Lou stood ready in the gorilla as the several wrestlers approached and nodded at her with a smile. She rolled her wrists and jumped up in down to pump herself up for the match. Cole had already made his entrance and it wasn't anything grand. Lou's, however, was going to be a surprise to everyone. When John had approached her with the idea she thought it was ridiculous, but the Cenation Commander in Chief always did have style when it came to his Wrestlemania entrances and he wanted to pass that style onto his younger counterpart.
"Are you Louisa?" a voice asked. Lou turned around to find two men standing by her. Lou's eyes widened intently staring at the two men who sang her theme song.
"John was right in real life, you really do break a lot of man's hearts with your beauty." Taio Cruz said to the young woman as she blushed crazy. "It's nice to finally meet you Louisa. I'm a huge fan."
"Me as well," said Ludacris shaking Lou's hand. "I do admire your work. Between you and me, I personally enjoyed you handing Legacy's ass to them several weeks ago."
Lou had to chuckle at Taio who nodded his head in agreement with Ludacris.
"Miss Michaels, ten minutes!" shouted a stage tech.
"We'll meet you out there nina," yelled Taio as he and Ludacris dashed in different directions immediately after the techy had yelled.
Lou took her mark as she wanted for her entrance to be cued up. The butterflies in her stomach had once again returned. The wise words of her father rang through her head once more, "By finding your center, you find yourself."
John's words also rang through her mind, "By having the courage to be yourself, you put something wonderful into the world that was not there before."
Alex's then came to mind shortly thereafter, "Don't Alex me Louisa, I know you and you just have to believe in yourself. Be the girl I know you can be. Be that girl that slapped the bejeezus out of Randy the other night. Be the girl that super kicked Ted. Be the girl that accepted being Shawn's daughter. Be that girl."
She heard Taio's voice fill the speakers as she dashed onto the stage and started dancing along with Taio and Ludacris. Lou's gear appeared to be amazing. She was in a red ball gown, but as she danced around with Taio and Ludacris, the beautiful Michael's girl shed her layers to show to show case her in a bright red sports bra, white pants marked with a cursive L on the side along with a heart with a dagger going threw it just her father's had from his younger years.
She ran into the ring and slid in with ease as the crowd roared causing Lou to go a little death. The WWE truly had had embraced the long lost Michaels girl in no time at all and know her she was at Wrestlemania fighting alongside her new family with pride and honor.
"Michaels, Cole, I want a clear match out of the two of you, you hear me?" questioned the referee as both competitors nodded. Lou looked up the heavens, she stuck in her hand in the air in honor of Rebecca. This one wasn't just for her, but the long ago torn apart Michaels family.
The bell rang shortly after and Lou locked up with Cole.
"You're a foolish girl for thinking that you'll win against me." Cole told Lou with a laugh as her put her in a power hold.
"Oh really?" questioned Lou with a roll of her eyes as she kicked Cole unlocking the two. Lou's vicious kicks and punches continued as Cole backed down rampantly. "You have always underestimated me Cole, but I know you've always been an idiot that's nothing new."
By this time Cole was on the ground begging for Lou's forgiveness and praying she would give it. Lou, however, refused to relent up from her vicious onslaught. Lou was about to go for the sharpshooter when she felt someone from behind her yank her around.
Those cold blue eyes meet her's, but instantly they backed off. He turned his attention to the stir crazy announcer, who was just coming to. Before the steely blued eyed man could do what he wanted Lou hit a Sweet Chin Music and went for the cover. Quickly, he slid out of the ring and dashed off.
"1…2…3… Here is your winner, Lou Michaels!" announced Lillian Garcia with a smile on her face.
Shortly after, Vince McManoh, himself came out and fired Michael Cole. He even gestured to Lou to give the x-commentator another Sweet Chin Music he so much deserved.
Lou nodded her appreciation and exited the ring with a round of applause and cheers. Everything was right in the world once again. But there was one thing bugging the young woman.
That was why Randy Orton had tried to interfere in her match, but that was for another time. Right now, she had some celebrating to go do. After all, she had rightfully earned it.
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"LOU!" Alex yelled down the corridor as the FCW Champion came running towards Louisa. "You were absolutely amazing out there aside from Orton coming out there, brilliant, pure brilliance!"
"Yea," Lou said with a smile as she grabbed Alex's neck wrapping her arms around him.
"You know I would have never gotten here without you. Thank you." Lou whispered to him. "Hey, Alex?"
"Yea, Lou…" Alex muffled into her hair.
"No matter what happens you'll always be there right?" Lou asked glancing at the monitor to see Shawn lose to Undertaker.
"Babe, I promise I will always be there for you, which brings me to my next question." Alex bent down on one knee. "Will you be my girlfriend?"
Lou's smile widened times a million as she yelped with excitement.
"OF COURSE," Lou yanking him up, wrapping her arms around his neck, and the two exchanged in the most passionate kiss they had ever had. In the WWE Universe, there are only 5 kisses that the fans remembered, but this one blew all the rest away.
"That… that… that… was…" Lou began to utter but was cut off.
"That was totally unnecessary and not needed!" Shawn yelled as he came storming down the hallway. "Carson, YOU PROMISED ME! You wouldn't date wrestlers! And I walk back her to find you making out with this FCW scumbag!"
"Hey," said Alex offensively.
"Dad, first off Alex is not a scumbag. Second, you need to back down and cool off from your match just because you lost doesn't mean you need to take it out on everyone!" Lou yelled back.
"You little wrench! Look what I have given you! I gave you this world and I can easily take it away too." Shawn then grabbed Lou's wrist and pulled her away from Alex. "You will never see Alex Riley again, do you hear me?"
"Shawn, let go of me!" shrieked Lou as she squirmed out of his grasp. "I don't know what has gotten into you…"
Before Lou could continue, Shawn super kicked her.
Alex rushed toward her frantically shoving HBK out his way. He bent down beside the unconscious girl and cradled her in his arms as she slowly started to come to.
"I should have known you were never my father," Lou muttered, "A real father would never do that to his daughter. I hate you… and I never want to see you again."
"Lou," Alex tried to reason with her.
"No Alex, I hate him and never want to see him again! Leave now Shawn!" Lou shrieked as Shawn looked at her dumbfounded. "Shawn, I said leave now!"
That day Shawn did leave, not even trying to apologize to Lou. Because to Lou, her father was now dead to her, once again.
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My darling readers I'm so sorry for the long wait! I have finals to study for, Christmas shoppingto do, and paper to write, but I finally had time to write this update. I know that's the usual life of a college student. So don't be expecting anything to soon until shortly after the 22nd of December. I hate to make you guys wait for the last two chapters! But please be patient with me!
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