Ch.5
Ali finished up work and sped home. She avoided all of the people in the hall way, turning up the music and plopping in her headphones. She just wanted to get home and get ready for her interview with Vince and a nice time with Dean.
She pulled into the parking and quickly sped up to her room. As soon as the door she was stripping off clothes throughout her apartment, until she was in her room and put on a nice dress, adorned with a belt. Looking into the mirror she decided that she would stick to wearing her converse with the dress, it went well and figured if she was to work with the WWE then she'd do it in comfort right? I mean everybody saw that the trainers there wore uniforms and never saw their shoes unless they actually came out into the ring.
She looked herself once more in the mirror and approved of how she looked. Looking at her phone for the time she smiled, a missed call from Dwayne. Over the years she had become closer to him and decided to call him back, for it was only seven and she had an hour until Vince would pick her up.
She dialed Dwayne's number and listened to the rings. When she was about to hang up and try again later he answered.
"Hello?" Dwayne seemed out of breath and Ali couldn't help but laugh. She knew exactly what he was up to.
"Sorry Dwayney poo, is this a bad time?"
"No, just finished and she is leaving. Just give me a sec, don't hang up." Ali laughed another time and heard muffled sounds through the phone. "Alright I'm back, what can I help you with?"
"Hey now I'm returning your call" Ali was a bit confused but hey, good time to just talk too.
"Yea that's right. Well you called me and I heard an interesting conversation with you and Joe boy, so I thought I'd call you and question it at a better time."
Ali could feel herself pale; she really didn't want to talk about Joe. "Yea well it brought some things to my attention that I no longer need to question. Not much to really talk about."
"That is good to hear then. Well anyways, your dinner is tonight right? Good luck and I really hope you get the job. You can travel with me on the Samoa's' bus that includes Tamina, and the twins. Either way you're set. And a hint about the big man, wear something professional, yet comfortable, nothing slutty. Leave that to the Divas."
"Is that a sense of protectiveness I hear Dwayne? Anyways, I'm wearing a dress with converse, is that okay? I really don't want to wear heals."
"You're wearing converse again? That's news I must share. Anyways yes that is perfect; heels are over rated, unless you're short like this girl named Ali."
"Whoa whoa whoa, that was harsh. I will say I'm slightly nervous about tonight. I mean I really want the job but I do have ring training as well and if I start to train in the ring again then maybe I can become a diva and that would be so much fun"
"One step at a time doll. Become a trainer there, then start training and let Vince discover you training with me, the twins and Tam. You'll do just fine."
"Thanks rocky boy. But would you really train me? I meant the twins could help me and Tam become a tag team and you could train me for individual and Tam could help with all of the diva shit. Wow I am getting ahead of myself here. One step at a time right?"
"Exactly but I think that is well thought out. I have to go; the boys are here to go out for a- Hello person Rocky is on the phone with!"
"Um hello... who the fuck is this"
"A wild one guys! And a girl! Well my name is Orton, Randy Orton. Nice to meet you."
Ali giggled; she always found the Viper to be hot as hell and decided to play the game. "Well Viper with the sexy voice, I'd say nice to meet you but I really actually haven't so I'm gonna go, tell Dwayne I'll call him tomorrow before dinner." And with that Ali hung up to let Dwayne deal with the questions and sure that he'd give her hell for it later.
Looking at the clock, it was quarter to eight so Ali went and put her hair up in a ponytail. Looking once more in the mirror she gave herself a once over, sent a text off to Tamina and the twins to let them know she'd tell them all about the interview tomorrow, receiving some sassy texts in reply along with good lucks. She suddenly felt nervous to see her friends tomorrow. Sure she talked to them all the time, but she hadn't actually seen them in years since they all made it big in wrestling and she went off to school and moved to Canada.
Looking at the clock once more, she grabbed her purse and walked out the door. She decided to take the stairs, hearing the pounding of her feet against the solid concrete calmed her nerves. She walked out of the stairwell once she got to the lobby level. She saw Vince standing by the reception desk and walked up to him.
"Good evening Aria, we are going to meet some other people at the restaurant, if you are ready to go?"
"As ready as I will ever be." With that Vince led the way out of the hotel and to the limo. A man opened the door for them both, and once inside Ali saw Stephanie and Paul Levesque. She understood that they were all to decide if she would be hired, but this seemed much to be a trainer.
"It is about a five minute drive to the restaurant, and no these aren't the people we will be meeting, there are three men to meet us there. This is my daughter Stephanie and my son in law Paul."
"It's nice to meet you both, I'm Aria." Ali crossed her legs and fiddled with the hem of her dress. Who would these three men be and what did they have to do with all of this.
"And vice versa, now there is no reason to be nervous, and I can tell you're wondering why there are others involved, but not to worry it will all be revealed in time."
"Alright, thank you." And with that the car came to a stop, the door opened and they all gestured for her to get out first.
In the restaurant, the four of them walked to a table in the back where the three mysterious men sat. Paul and Stephanie sat beside the man with blonde and brown hair; next to him was Dean and…Joe. Ali's heart stopped as she sat between him and Vince.
"Now that we are all here let's get started. Now introductions, Jon, or Dean as we've decided, Joe, now Roman, and Colby now to be Seth. This here is Aria, and we are all going to form a story line." Vince jumped right into the topic.
"Whoa wait. This-wait I thought I was to be hired as a personal trainer, not some whore on the side to be a manager." Paul and Stephanie, even Vince let out a small laugh.
"You will be, but once we heard of your connections, like how you know some people in the company, we thought why not give you a story line and eventually ring time." Paul gave Ali a reassuring smile, while Dean and Joe gave her a quizzical look.
"It seems some of you already met?" Stephanie inquired the looks Ali was getting.
"Uhm... yea, I work with Joe in the CFL and I live next to Dean at this current moment. But I don't know Colby; it's nice to meet you."
"Likewise babe" Dean smacked Colby's arm and they both laughed.
"Well I'm glad you three have been spending time together, Ali I am going to ask you to do the same and join in on their outings or whatever they do together. But on the topic of your job Aria, we will start you off as a personal trainer for one of the superstars and after a couple of months and show time, we want you to start having an onscreen relationship with one of these boys here, still to be decided and that will start a feud between who you work for and that of the shield, which is these three. Then it that feud we will introduce you into the ring, and will be trained by the Samoa clan."
Joe didn't say anything but just raised an eyebrow at the mention of his family; it didn't go unnoticed by the big man and his daughter.
"Question Joe?" Stephanie leaned forward a bit, and it was somewhat intimidating.
"Not really, just, why the Samoa's?"
"Probably because the Usos are the ones who recommended her along with Rock and Snuka, so they are to train her over time."
"We can train her too" Colby smirked as Dean cut into the conversation.
"Yes, good idea." Vince looked like he was thinking more things through as the table went silent.
They all ordered their food, all the men looking at Ali oddly as she ordered her burger. "What? I like food, there is no way in hell I'd get a salad instead of a burger, ever." They all chuckled as Stephanie agreed and ordered a burger as well.
They all ate their food, making small talk, and Joe and Ali talked a bit.
"Didn't know you knew my family?" Joe questioned Ali
"Yea, it's a long story actually" Ali laughed trying not to give anything away.
"I deffs want to hear this another time then." Joe smiled and Ali couldn't help but smile back, and the glares from Dean didn't go unnoticed.
"Sounds good Anoa'i." Immediately Ali wished she could take that back, she hadn't called him that in a long time, and hoped to god that he didn't remember how often she had called him that.
She let go of her breath when she heard a low rumble come from his chest. Taking a sip of her iced tea, she went to talk to Colby.
"So Colby, anything I should know about you?" Ali slightly leaned over Joe to get a better look at Colby and Dean.
"Nah, you can learn all you need to over the course of time we will spend together, speaking of, we are gonna go for drinks after this and we would love for you to join, as long as you can hold your liquor."
"I am so down, Dean you're going too right?"
"Of course." Dean's sharpness didn't evade anyone at the table and Ali decided she would question it later.
"Well now that everybody has gotten to know each other, we are off. The bill is paid for so don't worry about that. We will formally sign contracts on Monday, the boys during RAW and Ali shortly before the show, stop by my office."
"Alright" "Okay" "Yes sir!" They boys answered and Ali just nodded her head.
The McManns left and the four of them sat there for a moment. Dean was the first to stand up and walked towards the door, Colby stood and waited for Joe and Ali to follow suit.
"What's Deans damn prob. Dudes he is pissed at something" Colby almost talked like a teenager and it amused Ali. She could tell she would get along with him just fine.
"I'll talk to him." With that Ali left the boys and walked out the door to Dean.
"Hey"
"Hi."
"Dean what is with you?"
"You. You're all over Joe, and barely spoke to me the entire night."
"Well sorry. But I know Joe, we work together and I told you that. You were at an awkward angle for me to talk to, I had to lean over Joe to talk to Colby."
"Whatever, you know I knew you wouldn't feel something for me, you're just a slut looking for a good time with whatever guy that comes along." With that Ali balled her hand up into a fist and drove it into Deans jaw.
"Fuck you. I actually like you. I did feel something, now? It's fucking gone."
Dean cradled his jaw with his hand, seething. Blood pooled in his hand and Ali remembered she was wearing a ring.
"Fuckin' eh. I'm sorry-" Ali was cut off by the other two guys coming out.
"Wow Jon what did you say to deserve that?" Colby of course wanted to know the dirty details.
"Said something I shouldn't have, let's go to the bar."
Joe gave Ali a quizzical look and picked up her hand. Ali hissed out when he grabbed the finger with the ring on it.
"They're out of ear shot, why'd you punch him?" Joe slowly slipped off the ring, not noticing or ignoring that it was the same one he gave her for her sixteenth birthday.
"Called me a not nice name so I did a not nice thing to his face, I forgot I had the ring on though. Who would've thought that a small little sapphire could cut a face?"
"You did hit his jaw. I think you broke the finger, I can either reset it or you can drink the pain away?"
"Reset the bitch." They both laughed as she braced herself for the pain. The resetting is always worse than the breaking.
Joe pushed on her finger and she yelped out, the other two boys turned around and jogged back to them.
"Yo I thought you guys were right behind us, what the fuck was the yell for?"
"I broke my finger…" Ali grabbed the ring from Joe and put it on her right hands ring finger, careful not to touch the middle one and walked past the guys and into the closest bar.
Joe stopped Dean and let Colby go ahead. "Dude, you deserved that. She is nothing close to being a slut, and pull something like that again, and I will deal with you." Joe walked past Dean and into the bar. Dean just scoffed and followed after.
The next morning Ali woke up to an aching head and finger. She didn't remember much from the bar, just that she did a lot of shots with the guys and outlasted Colby. Rolling over she hit a warm body and screamed.
"OH MY FUCK. WHO ARE YOU?" Ali jumped out of bed and hit the wall. When the body did nothing she dared to pull back the sheets and immediately sickened. The body wasn't warm; it was the slick red blood that was. A sticky note attached to it.
'We found you. There is no running from us Ali. Or should I call you Aria'
Ali hit the floor, called the police and sat there, unmoving. She let them come in and take her down to the station. She clutched the note and handed it over to the detective who then let her explain everything. Why she really moved to Canada, why she changed her name, everything. Her father was involved with the Irish mob and couldn't pay up so they had been after her ever since.
"Miss, is there anybody you can call to pick you up?"
"Ye-yes."
"Alright, you can use my office; I will give you my card and will be in touch."
Ali picked up her phone and dialed Taminas number. Within minutes she was there with the twins and Dwayne.
She stood from her seat and it didn't take long for them to recognize her. Tamina was the first to hug her, then the twins and finally Dwayne.
"You are so staying with us from now on." Tamina looked over her shoulder and that's when Ali saw Mike in the background and nodded to her friend to let him come over.
"Thanks Tam, but I'd rather stay with someone who I won't interrupt their sex life." They all laughed a bit.
"You can stay with us then! No sex lives to interrupt, I mean there will always be at least one of us with you!" Jimmy looked over to Jey and they both started nodding.
"Fine fine, but can we go somewhere else so I can explain everything to you guys? Yes Mike can come too."
"Yea, I'll drive" Dwayne led everybody out of the precinct and to the cars. They drove to the arena and went to Dwayne's dressing room.
"Are we allowed in here? I mean it's Friday, not Monday?"
"Yea, the Usos are on smack down and this is the safest place to talk, besides, MY dressing room."
With that said Ali got started. She explained how she wasn't really an orphan, but that her father was high up in the mob, her mother was killed and she was put into witness protection, had to make drastic changes and for the past five years nothing bad happened, until last night. She explained why she had to change her name and her looks, everything. Even moving to Canada, though she had grown to love it. Also this explained why she didn't pursue wrestling at first and went into training. She told them why she couldn't tell them anything about it or why she changed her name or why they couldn't tell anybody else. She answered all of their questions.
"But why couldn't Joe know?"
"Really Jey? You don't know?"
"Like you do Jimmy. I don't even know and I'm the girls best friend" Mike grabbed Taminas hand. "Wait, why couldn't he know?"
"You guys, it's obvious she wanted to disappear in his life like he did in hers. Except that didn't really work cause they work together."
"You know Dwayney, sometimes it's scary how you know these things. But yea that's pretty much it. He left without anything and doesn't even try to talk to me so why should I try?"
"Maybe because he knows it's you without really knowing"
"Jey that is the smartest thing you've ever said."
"I have my moments"
"Anyways, yea I will be working with him in the WWE though. I am to be someone's personal trainer, have an onscreen relationship with someone in the shield, and it causes a feud. Yay fun times. I am also to be trained by you guys, and eventually get in the ring time during the feud."
"YES I KNEW IT UH UH UH FUCK YEA" Jey started jumping up and down, giving everybody a good laugh.
"Well I want to get home and sleep, Twins, if I am to stay with you boys, you're driving me home"
"Yea we can head out now."
The three of them left, leaving the others in Dwaynes' changing room. The car ride back to Ali's was silent. The police allowed her to take out her things, including clothes and necessities. The twins took her to her place, and helped her pack up. She drove back in her car with Jimmy and he told her where they were staying.
"From now on you will travel on our tour bus."
"Yea until my story line starts. But thanks Jimmy."
"Could you really not of told us sooner?"
"No, not even really supposed to tell you now, but the more you know the better right?"
"Yea I guess, how long did you know he was in the mob?"
"Since I was a little girl. That is mainly why I liked to party with you guys, I could just forget. But my mom was killed when I turned 18 and that was also when Joe left so, I just wanted to leave and I accepted the witness protections rule and guidelines."
Jimmy stayed silent as they pulled into the hotels parking, and he carried most of her bags up to the room. She grabbed the remainder of things and followed him up.
"You can take the bed, I'll pull out the hide-a-bed and Jey can have his bed."
"Thanks guys but I'll take the hide-a-bed thing. And where should I put my stuff?"
"Just wherever we obviously don't care. And you sure?"
"I'm very sure sweetheart. I just kinda want to go out and drink."
"Sounds good to us doll"