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Summary: Jeff Hardy had made a successful comeback after years away from the WWE, and he should be on cloud nine but he finds himself lost with no direction. Can a person from his past come back and change him for the better or will he be lost forever?

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Series: Mended Hearts Series

Authors Notes: Thank you for the reviews on the first chapter, as I have only now just posted the second one. I appreciate the time you take out of your day to read my work and I hope I can bring you along for the ride here as well. This chapter will be taken from Trish's vantage point as the last two have been from Jeff's.


And the pain you feel is a different kind of pain.

She pulled out another box, putting away pictures to later be put into storage, never to be looked at again. As she cleared out the plastic from the inside of the already made box, she wondered just where she had gone wrong with her life.

She was a wrestler and a damn good one she thought. But she had decided that in order to be the woman she knew she could be, she would leave that behind and start a new life with her new husband. Now, only seven months into the marriage, she was here and packing up mementos from their life as if it had never even existed. She felt broken, tired of doing this and even for thinking about him the way she was.

Just a few more boxes and you will be able to put this away forever.

If only it were that easy. She knew that by packing all of these pictures and wedding presents away, that it might put him out of her mind for a little while, but nothing would ever truly put him out of her heart. She had given herself to this man, had pledged to love him until the day she died. From where she was standing now, she was very much alive, even if it felt like her heart was dead. Just where had things gone wrong?

The day you walked away from the life you built and love in the ring.

She knew this to be true but deep down inside she had wished it hadn't been that that had done her marriage in before it even really began. She knew she wanted a family, to be able to go places and not get pounced on by the fans, and she knew she wanted to have babies. She also knew that he loved her and that he wanted the same thing, so she had done what she felt was the right thing. She had given up the thing she loved more then life itself. She had walked away from the Women's Title and the WWE altogether, without so much as a proper send off.

She thought of what was happening in wrestling now. Shawn Michaels, one of her deepest friends in the business was trying with all his might to be at the top of the game again, and Melina was riding high with her old championship. Giving the women of the WWE something to truly fear. Matt and Jeff Hardy were the tag champions as she knew they very well should be, and all seemed right with the world of wrestling. So why was she feeling that she could be the missing link? Why did she want to go back after she had walked away so easily only seven months before?

Him, you know you need to finish what you started with him.

The him that her mind refused to name was Jeff Hardy, and just thinking his name, allowing it to pass through her brain again after all these years of them being apart and not being what they once had been, best of friends, it made her heart sick. There has been a time when the only person on the entire roster to ever truly get her had been this man, with his rainbow hair and colorfully drawn arm marks. His high flying moves had showed him to be a risk taker and the need to be the best he could be had worn on her and made her come to like him.

They had been introduced to each other by Amy Dumas, who had been Trish's closest female friend in the business at the time, and Amy just knew that they would hit it off. As it turned out she wasn't much off, because there was always an unspoken feeling between them, even then.

She had been with her boyfriend at that point, and he had been with Beth, but they found themselves drawn to each other each and every night they had to work together. When they had finally been put together, Jeff had been sure it had been fate, something he believed in strongly at the time.

As she remembered that time, she wondered to herself if he still believed in fate? Or if over the years that had passed with time. Would he still find it in his heart to believe in her as well?

"I am going to have to kiss you Trish. I know it shouldn't be an issue because of us being as close as we are as friends but if for any reason you think you cannot go through with it, i want you to tell me now so I can handle it."

She had watched him as he spoke to her then, so boyish, so young but yet old for his years. He looked nervous to be even bringing this up with her, but she knew that in order for them to make the most of the situation they were being given with the fans and the business, they had to make it look as real as possible.

"It seems to me that kissing me in that ring out there should be the least of your problems."

Jeff had laughed then, the small smile he always had when he did able to light up the darkest room no matter where he was. She always noticed that first about him, his smile was so enticing.

"Then what should I be worried about then?"

"You should be worried that I might like it and want you to do it again."

She thought back fondly to that time in her life, when she had been playful and non caring, as if the world could stop and everything would turn out just fine. She hadn't been worried back then what her then boyfriend would think, and she hadn't cared about Beth. The issue now was as she looked back, that she should have been worried.

There had been fallout of course from that show of affection on air. Even though it had been their job and they were only going with what had been written for them, their partners knew that there was more too it, even when they both hadn't wanted to admit it. So her relationship had ended, with speculation that Jeff and her had been more to each other in the two years prior then just wrestling buddies.

Anyone who worked with them knew this to be true, so it was amazing that it had taken Trish as long as it had to finally admit it to herself. But by the time she had come to terms with it, he was on his way slowly out of her life. The WWE had broken the two of them apart, content to have Jeff be helped by Shawn Michaels and guided in a different direction. They also pushed for her to win the Women's title again, which had been a long time coming since the time before it.

It was amazing to her how things could change so quickly over night. Slowly Jeff started pulling away from her, choosing instead to go back to Beth and give his everything to make it work. He had gotten rid of her, rid her from his heart and in the meantime, had broken his ties with the business. Jeff Hardy had turned his back on their friendship and what might have been, so that he could go off and be alone.

So why did she care now? Why was she sitting here packing away items from her marriage and thinking about Jeff Hardy? What did the enigma have to do with what was happening to her right at that moment?

Could Ashley have been right in thinking that there was unfinished business between the two of them and Trish needed to fix it and move on properly before she could ever feel good about her life again? Or was it what she thought it was and that she had loved Jeffrey Nero Hardy and had never gotten the chance to tell him that she had never stopped?

Closing up yet another box, she dragged the tape across the box, letting the sound of the screeching tape machine take over her mind. She couldn't let herself go back there, not now and not ever. Jeff was a thing of her past and all she wanted to do now was move on and make herself the brightest future. Even if it meant giving up on the one true thing she had been holding onto for years. Jeff Hardy's heart.