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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: Many thanks for the reviews thus far, they keep me motivated at a time when I have so many stories going I tend to lose focus. I hope I can continue this story in the same vain as I have been and create a meaningful romance for everyone.


Well I'm going home,
Back to the place where I belong,

She exited the cab and looked up at the tall building that stood so dauntingly in front of her. She had been here numerous times before in the life that was her WWE career, and she hadn't regretted a moment of it. As long as you didn't count the day she had to put in her resignation. That was the only regret she had because it had taken her away from the place she did feel she belonged.

In a world where feelings and thoughts got lost in the shuffle and pushed deep inside and never spoke about, as she looked in front of her now, she felt all of those old feelings resurface. The day she had said goodbye to her friends had been one of the hardest days of her life and coming home from it had left her drained and completely sick with loss. Her soon to be husband hadn't understood her then, but then he never really had when she looked back on their relationship.

So why did you even marry the man?

Why had she gone ahead and married him indeed. That was the question that everyone had asked her since she had told them about the upcoming divorce, and one that while she knew the answer in her heart, she could never repeat to anyone else. If anyone really knew the reason behind why she had married him, then they would never look at her the same again.

Trish wasn't the girl that did things to please people. She was the one that took the world head on and did what made her happy and what would make her life one of pleasure and learning. So why in the world had she let this one man dictate what she was going to do with the rest of her life? And why did she give someone she hadn't even dated the power to control the way she felt in her personal life?

She knew that divorcing him was the best thing she could be doing right now. She had packed all of his stuff away and shipped what she didn't want back to where he was now staying. She felt cleansed of him even though they hadn't been together all that long to begin with. If only she could cleanse herself of the man that still held the keys to her heart, then she really could be free.

But that was why she was there wasn't it? She was there now, in the Titan Tower to get her job back, to get her life back again. Only then would she be able to come to terms with her misguided past and make things right again. She was aware that he knew she was thinking of coming back, but she also knew that he thought it wasn't a done deal. If he knew she was here now, would he be happy about it? About her blowing back into his life when he finally looked like he had it all under control?

Control and Jeff weren't two words that normally went well together as she knew from their past, but right now, he did seem to be on the upward part of his career and the last thing she wanted to do, in searching for answers and to put feelings and emotions to bed was to throw his life into upheaval. Even though they had a rocky friendship and a rocky past, he did deserve so much more then that now.

Why haven't you been able to let him go?

Because as much as my head doesn't want to admit it, I have been in love with him all of this time. I want him to move on and I want to be able to do the same, but until I come face to face with him again and find out where we stand, things will never be resolved.

She made her way into Titan and put her head up high, knowing that for once, this time she had every right to be there and she was there with one purpose in mind. She was going to get her job back and when she did, she was finally going to be honest with her far away friend. Her heart depended on it.


"She's what?"

Jeff watched as Matt stood before him now with a perplexed expression on his crinkled features. When people looked at them, Matt looking so much like their mother and he looking so much like their father, they sometimes wondered if they were even related. As Jeff watched him now, running his fingers through his hair in absolute shock and confusion, he wondered the same.

"Ashley told me that Trish has been in talks with Vince about making a comeback in the WWE."

"I thought she went off to be happily married and make babies?" Matt asked, knowing that Jeff thought the same thing and finding the question to be pointless.

"So did I, but instead she now wants to come back and her marriage is officially over before it began."

Jeff watched as his brother lost himself deep in thought, not sure if Matt was really thinking about Trish now or about the fact that his ex girlfriend had been the one to tell Jeff what was going on. He knew that Jeff had been friends with Ashley before all of the shit between them went down, but he also knew that his brother was paranoid about something happening between them as well.

"Why do you even care? When you left the WWE all those years ago, I thought you put her behind you? I mean you did move on with Beth at the time and you two were even planning on eventually getting married. That obviously didn't go as planned by why would Trish coming back now upset you? Is there something you haven't told me?"

Jeff knew there was so much he hadn't told the older Hardy. So much that he had regretted doing, and things he even wished he had done. But he knew that none of that was relevant now.

"No there isn't anything other then what you know. I guess I just never got over her Matt, and thinking about her coming back now, it brings back the past and makes me want to work harder to make the future better."

Matt hugged his brother then, the silent vote of support evident. It was times like these, when Matt showed just how much he cared that Jeff was reminded that they were indeed brothers and in the end, they would stand together no matter who came in and out of their lives. It was the only thing in this life that made any sense anymore.

"Do not let her bring you down Jeff. You worked hard to get back here and to be where we are right now in the WWE. I do not need you running off to find yourself again."

What happens if I run off again only to find out that I do not want to be found?

Trish's making a comeback haunted him more with each passing minute and hour and day, and he knew now would be the time to tell his brother everything. Matt assumed Jeff was happy, that he couldn't be any higher on the pole of life in the WWE, but he was dead wrong.

He hadn't been himself for awhile. There was that spark that was missing, despite acting as if it wasn't missing when he wrestled in the squared circle. He was depressed, had even taken to seeing a doctor about it, just to be safe. He knew Matt would understand if he brought it all out now but he also knew that Matt didn't need to know every single thing. All his brother needed to know was that he couldn't and wouldn't leave him high and dry again.

"Matt, I won't run again. I told you I meant business in coming back and I meant it then as much as I do now."

He knew his older brother wouldn't believe a word of it and would instead watch and wait with baited breath and that was fine with Jeff. If Matt felt he needed to babysit him, then it was his loss of time.

For his own state of mind he hoped nothing came of Trish coming back, and if she did, that she would stay as far away from him as she could get. Otherwise nothing was secure anymore.