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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
I've not always been the best man or friend for you.
But your love, it makes true.
The phone rang in the room causing Matt and Jeff both to look at it and question who would know they were there and want to talk to either of them. Both of them hadn't had a serious relationship in a long time so they both knew to rule that out. Could it possibly be their father or his new girlfriend, the woman he had been seeing since a few years after their mothers death? Was it possible something had happened to Daddy?
"Well you better answer it." Jeff said then, knowing that of the two brothers, Matt was the stronger one by far in terms of dealing with bad news. He knew that if was the one that picked up and it would be something regarding his father, he might collapse from the pain of it all. He had always been a beautiful disaster.
He listened intently as Matt spoke into the phone. He scanned his brother for some sign of what was happening on the other end or who it might be that was trying to reach them. When none came he smacked his brother on the arm and gave him a questioning look.
"It's for you anyway."
He passed the phone to his brother and went off in search of something to keep his mind busy. He knew who the person on the other end of the line was, and after the talk that Jeff and he had just had, he knew that his little brother might need some privacy. At the very least he should make himself scarce.
"Hello?" Jeff asked timidly, not knowing if there was a crazy fan girl on the end of the line or if it was something to do with work and a schedule change.
"Do you love me?" the voice said, careless abandon noticeable in her tone.
Jeff had to admire her. She was confused obviously by what he had said to her earlier in the night and as she sat at home in Toronto now, she was probably letting it eat her alive. She needed clarification and he wanted to be the one that gave it to her. Before someone else got to her and clouded her mind with more doubt about his intentions.
"Would it mean something if I said I did?"
She sighed into the phone and Jeff felt like kicking himself. He just now said he wanted to be the one to be honest with her and put his heart and his thoughts out in the open and deal with whatever the fallout was and here he was talking in circles again.
"You know it would. So do you?"
"I do." As soon as he said the words he realized how it sounded. It sounded like they were reciting vows and he had just agreed to love her forever, even in death. The thought of that was surprisingly warming to him which took him off guard but he also knew that it must feel awkward hearing that from him while she was in the midst of a divorce. Hadn't she just promised to do the same with another man.
"I was afraid you might say that." she replied, exasperated.
"I did not want to get into this over the phone, but since you called and you are a million miles away right now, I figure I might as well get it out now. Trish I know I did something horrible in the past with you, kissing you the one time that I did and then walking out on you a week later all in the name of getting my life together. I lied to you that day but I do not want to lie to you anymore. If I don't do this now, and miss the chance I will never be the same man again. I am in serious danger of losing myself, in the most horrible way and I know the only way to not have that happen is to finally be honest with you."
"And have me save you?"
He smiled at her reference to their earlier conversation and realized instantly he had been right, she hadn't been able to let it go any more then he had been able to.
"No princess, I don't want you to save me, I want you to help me hold on."
"If I do help you Jeff, if we go back to the past and try to fix what was broken back then, and it doesn't work. Who will be the one to help you hold on then?"
He knew she had been thinking about this because he had often wondered the same thing over the last few weeks. He knew in his heart that there was no other woman for him now, that she was it. He knew he would spend the rest of his life with this woman in whatever way she would have him but it was obvious she didn't or couldn't allow herself to feel the same way. He didn't blame her but it just meant he had more work to do to make her see it too.
"The only person I should have been holding on to this entire time was you and instead I let you get away. I will not make that mistake again and if you let me, i will spend the rest of my earthly life showing you that I mean every word of it."
She was silent for a few moments and he just took in the sound of her breathing. He knew she was thinking and he wanted to give her the opportunity to make sure everything felt right. He would not push her the way he had back then.
"I hate you so much for what you did to me back then Jeff. I want to hang up and just forget this ever even took place."
"Then why don't you do it?"
She sighed into the phone again and Jeff knew immediately that he had her right where he had wanted her all along.
"I can't do it because I love you too much to let you walk away from me again."
Authors Notes: This chapter is short for one reason and one reason only. I need to skip ahead to a new day here now and I don't want to add that part in at the end. So the next chapter will take place in a different day and time then this one and the last one have. Sorry for any inconvenience this makes.
