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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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Authors Notes: Thank you so much for your support of this story and all of its chapters thus far. I said that the reviews were not mandatory and I meant it. But you all need to know how much your support has meant and this is the place for me to do it. So thank you from the bottom of my heart and I am glad I can bring you a quality Jeff and Trish story.


But these places and these faces are getting old.

Trish stood on the doorstep of the house, her heart caught in her chest and beating what felt like two hundred beats a minute. Now was the time to turn back and go back to the Hardy house, but she knew that if she did, then she would never truly move on. This had to be done and it had to be done now.

Learning the way she had about Jeff's feelings, not trusting in him from the beginning enough to chase after him and make him tell her back that just how messed up he had been, well she had the chance to make it right now. She planned on it before she ever went back to whatever her life was now. There was no other way around it.

Jeff really had loved her back then but had been trying to protect her from what he might eventually turn into. She should have seen it and had seen it a shade back when they had been working together years before but she had just let him walk away from her. But in loving her, he had forsaken some one else that she knew he deeply had cared for. Someone who had deserved to be the one holding the key to his heart.

He had forsaken Beth and now as she stood on the woman's doorstep, about to arguably make the worst decision of her life in speaking to her, she knew that deep inside she had to do this for things to be right. She had to be able to put the past behind her the way Jeff had asked a week before. She had to do it not only for herself and her well being but for him as well.

He had no idea what his leaving had done to her. How much of herself had gone with him despite what had happened in the time since. Sure she had moved on and married and even won the ladies belt a ton of times that she had lost count but she had never really been the Trish she had been then and she knew it.

She remembered the nights, spent crying alone in bed, about how she spent so much time on the road forcing herself to block out memories of him. Every person around her had been worried, even Jeff's brother Matt, without knowing the reasons why. She had not wanted to tell anyone what was really the cause of her despair but she was sure now that out of everyone, Matt had known.

She hadn't eaten for an entire month after he walked away and when she did, she ended up bringing it back up later. She felt that the sooner she died the sooner the pain would escape her veins and stop. She had wanted to stop feeling and when it did not come, she thought death would be an escape. But she hadn't died and Ron had been the one to step in and save her. Bring her back to what she thought was happiness again. But that had been a mirage because the person she should have married had been Jeff. She had never really gotten past all of it and she had used Ron to help her forget.

As she stood ready to knock on Beth's door, she realized just how blind she had been. She let her fingers grasp the doorbell and as the sound worked its way through the inside of the house, she waited with baited breath for the person she had come there to see to answer it. She didn't have to wait long.

"What are you doing here?"

"We need to talk."

Beth rolled her eyes but moved out of the way so Trish could walk through the screen door and into the home that her and Jeff had bought only four years before.

If Trish had been expecting the house to look like Jeff had loved living there she wasn't going to find it. She felt the cold blast of air as she came into the home and realized that while he might have gone ahead and wanted to give Beth a life here years ago, he had never really put anything into it. The place was cold and it felt full of pain.

"What could WE possibly have to talk about?" Beth said then, bringing Trish's gaze back to the reason for her visit.

Trish took no mind of the way Beth chose to speak to her, understanding that the woman had every right to hate her. She wasn't sure what Jeff had said when the two of them had split but she was sure that somewhere along the way Beth had gotten wind of their past and what Jeff had really felt for her.

"I'm here because of Jeff. I'm also here because both of us have some unfinished business and its time to deal with it."

"I have nothing to say to you Trish. I never have other then to say what a great friend I thought you were to Jeff. But as it turns out I was dead wrong. All you wanted was to take him away from me the entire time."

She shook her head then, knowing that wasn't what she had wanted at all. Sure, Trish had loved Jeff but she had been the one that had not had the courage to tell the man her feelings and she had let him walk away from her. She hadn't wanted to take him from Beth which was why he had never really know how she felt about him until recently.

"How can you shake your head when its the truth?" was all Beth could say in return.

"Because if I had wanted to take him from you back then I would have. You are wrong about my intentions throughout this entire thing. I don't know what you know about those days but I did in fact love your boyfriend. But I made a conscious choice to let him walk away and come back to your arms because of my feeling that it was not my place to break the two of you up. If Jeff had been meant to be with you, then he would have ended up with you and that would have been it. I never wanted to step between that."

"Then why did you?"

"I didn't. What happened between you and Jeff to make you both end up apart was between you and him. When he made his return I was leaving to be married. I had moved on with my life at that point and I had assumed that Jeff had done the same and was happy. I never and I repeat never, put the idea in his head to end things with you. That was Jeff's decision to make on his own."

Trish really looked at Beth then and noticed the look of realization hitting her eyes first and then the rest of her body. Trish now knew that whatever Beth had believed about that time was now being changed just by her being here and dealing with it. She could now see that Trish wanted to clear the air and wanted to make things right.

"What did you hope to gain by coming here today?"

"Well it certainly wasn't to be your best friend. I won't pretend that I do not love Jeff as I am sure you do as well. Why I am here is because I think we both owe it to each other to admit how we feel about the man and to come to an agreement that the past is in the past and that we both need to move on with our lives finally. You can tell me that you did move on, but Beth, I am looking around this home and the way it makes me feel tells me otherwise. You haven't moved on any more then I have."

Beth let the single tear fall then, and Trish knew that she had been right about the house and about the feeling she had gotten from being here. They might not seem to have a whole lot in common on the surface but Trish knew now that they had the most of important things in common and that was the inability to move on from Jeff Hardy.

"I don't want to hate you Trish. I just didn't have anyone else to blame. I couldn't believe that we weren't perfect for each other back then and even now."

Trish took a chance at that moment and she reached out to the young lady before her. Pulling her close and in to an embrace that felt for once, to be the one right thing to do in this moment.

"I don't hate you either Beth, and at the very least I know why you feel the way you do. Jeff is a hard guy to get over and I don't think as long as I live I will be able to forget him either."