Jamie

I couldn't believe that Shane could suggest such a thing, it was nearly as though I was a kid again and he was trying to set me up with his best friend's brother, typical Shane always trying to set me up, trying to find a 'good' guy for me to marry.

"Shane, I am sure Dave has more important things to do than have a stupid dinner with me," I rushed attempting to gain control of the situation.

"Well actually I do believe that you promised me dinner and even said that you'd let me pay. You're not going to back out on a promise now are you?" Dave said looking down at me, his arm was still around my shoulder and I felt oddly at peace not to mention nervous as hell at the idea of having dinner alone with Dave, after all this time there wouldn't be any three year old to interrupt.

"Ah no, I guess not." I muttered as someone cleared their throat reminding us that we were in fact still in Uncle Vince's office.

"As much as I would love to hear Shane once again trying to set Jamie up, I have work to do and that's slightly difficult when my office is being occupied by three adults and two children. Jamie you also have work to do so why don't you three take the boys and head to the photography office, Sharmell is bound to call again soon."

"Sorry Uncle Vince, you know Shane, he just can't keep his nose out of my business."

"I know, now give your Uncle Vince a kiss and head back to work." Vince smiled and I walked over kissing his cheek slightly before ushering the four males out of the room, bloody typical boys always needing a woman to give them direction.

"Okay, so you two are on for tonight, I'll take Eli for the rest of the evening. Jamie give me the keys to your rental" Shane said holding his hand out for my car keys,

"I beg your pardon?"

"I came in dad's limo, it's already got Aurora and Declan's car seats in there dad wont allow another one, so I figured I'd take your car"

"Good idea, here" I replied handing Shane the keys to my rental.

"Eli you be a good boy and I'll come and get you after Dave and I have dinner," I said dropping to my son's level.

"I'll have nothing of that, have the night off. Eli can stay with me, I'm sure him and Declan will love it"

"Oh mommy can I pwease spend the night with Uncle Shane and Decy?" I looked between Shane and Dave who both shrugged; this was a decision for a mother to make and it wasn't that I didn't trust Shane, Eli had stayed with him several times, it was just that if I agreed that Eli spent the night away was I giving Dave the idea that he might get lucky. I really didn't want him thinking that, after all I'd already had one close call this evening. I looked at my son who was jumping up and down begging me to say yes, how could I refuse that look?

"Alright, but you be good for Uncle Shane alright?"

"YAY! Thank you mommy, I love you" Eli cried wrapping his arms around my legs,

"You're welcome, now give mommy a kiss and you can go with Uncle Shane." I couldn't help but smile as I picked up my son and gave him a hug and a kiss once again warning him to be a good boy for Shane. Just then Vince popped his head out of his office,

"How many times do I have to tell you lot? Get back to work!" Dave and I said goodbye to Shane and the boys, when I hugged Shane he urged me to remember that Dave wasn't Conner and that things were going to be alright. After our goodbyes Dave insisted that he walk me back to the photography office and as we walked we organised where we would meet after the show.

The meeting with Vince and Shane organising my love life had put me behind on the shoots I was required to do therefore I had to reorganise my evening to ensure that those who needed their shoots completed before their match got them done and I also had to ensure I didn't book someone during their match or promo. Most people didn't know about my relationship with the McMahon family and had decided that as I had successfully managed to calm the savage beast that was Batista I had proven myself worthy therefore I was given space to move and reorganise my schedule.

Dave was in the main event and I managed to finish my final shoot about 5 minutes before the end of his match so I made my way to his locker room letting myself in and getting comfortable watching a monitor he had set up. The second he walked up the ramp and through the curtain I turned the monitor off and lay down pretending to be sound asleep. I heard the door opened and a sigh,

"Ah, all my dreams coming true, a gorgeous woman sound asleep in my locker room, who I'm going to get to take out for dinner. I am one lucky man," his reaction made me snort with laughter which totally blew my charade.

"She must be dreaming about me, wait that's a bad thing if she is laughing about me. Damn!" This just made me laugh even more and actually look up at the man.

"Ah she wakes!" He smiled before dropping his act.

"Hey, I'm hot and sweaty so I'm going to take a shower I'll be out in a minute but feel free to join me," I was shocked, Alex was right he did want to sleep with me, until I saw his cheeky grin and wink.

"Yea, to swap your deodorant with itching powder," I called to his departing back before lying back on the couch to wait for the man. I couldn't help but day dream him in the shower, the hot water running down his head the water washing away his sweat, Dave rubbing soap all over his taunt muscled body. I nearly took Dave up on his over to join him but refrained as I wasn't ready for that sort of behaviour, I didn't know if I'd ever be ready to do that sort of thing again. Growing up I would say that I wanted a football team of kids, at least four but I really wanted around six. Now-a-days I was more than happy to only have one child if it meant that I would never have to have sex again, something that has never been a good experience for me.

A few minutes later Dave came out of the shower once again wearing his suit and giving his hair a quick dry with his towel. We headed down to the parking lot and then sat in his car trying to think of a place that would still be open, after driving around for a couple of minutes we found an International House of Pancakes and decided to eat there, it wasn't exactly luxury but luxury wasn't open this late.

"I think I'll pass on the pancakes this time, perhaps I'll just have the double BLT Sandwich," Dave smiled as he remembered what had occurred earlier,

"Hmm good idea, I think I'll opt for the Grilled Chicken Ceaser" I smiled back at him as we made small talk about random things while we waited for our waiter to return to take our orders, once they'd been placed Dave smiled slightly.

"Eli reminds me of when my girls were little, I miss them so much. I tried to ring them today but they were all busy, it's always the case"

"When was the last time you saw them?"

"They spent a weekend with me just after I had surgery except they spent most of the time out with their friends so in reality I saw them for about an hour, after all who'd want to spend time with their dad who is stuck on couch rest plus I was still with Angie and they could never stand her."

"Why not?" I asked carefully,

"They thought she was a bitch and materialistic. Whenever the girls were around she'd be trying to get my attention like a little kid, she believed and acted like the world revolved around her and therefore we should give in to her every whim. My girls weren't raised like that and think that people like that are shallow and want nothing to do with them, I was blinded by the fact that Angie was someone in need and was allowing me to be her knight in shining armour. I would always get angry at the girls because they wouldn't do things the way Angie did them, but I was wrong, I was asking them to go against their morals and I'm sorry for that," he sighed looking down at his placemat, I wanted to ask if he'd told his girls that he was sorry and that they were right but our meals arrived and he got stuck into his food quickly changing the subject.

Once we'd eaten we toyed with the idea of desert but decided that after what had happened earlier it was probably best that we skipped it, besides we were both full. So we decided to head back to the hotel, and Dave drove while we continued our conversation. The man was just so easy to talk to so we had no issue with uncomfortable silences. Back at my hotel room we sat on the bed and put on a movie, it was so nice to have some time without Eli around; I hadn't had time like this since he before was born. The movie ended and we remained sitting staring at the TV as the credits rolled and the screen went black.

"Are you okay?" Dave asked putting his arm around me and pulling me into him, I must admit I was staring off into space and must have looked completely out of it, without even thinking I cuddled into the man's embrace feeling an immediate comfort.

"Sorry just thinking about earlier with Booker. Hey will you stay with me tonight? I don't want to be alone," I asked without thinking, I knew he was going to say no after all who would want to stay with me?

"Of course I will, just come with to my room so that I can get a change of clothes I don't want to spend the night in my suit, I've already ruined one shirt today," he smiled holding me closer. What? Did he just say he would stay?

"Uh yea sure" I managed to stammer out and pull away standing up in order to head to Dave's hotel room.

His room was huge; clearly he shared it as did many of the superstars but this hotel room had what seemed to be two bedrooms, the one where his bed was and the other that had a sofa bed for his roommate.

"Benoit and I don't usually have such a big room, we ordered a single room with two beds but the hotel stuffed up and gave us a suite, so we did rock, paper, scissors for the room and I won. But since I'm staying with you I'll let him know that he can have the bed," Dave explained grabbing a piece of paper and scribbling a note to his absent roommate before grabbing his bag and leading me back to my own hotel room. There I headed to the bathroom and changed into my normal sleeping attire; a pair of satin boxer shorts and a t-shirt while Dave changed into a pair of light weight track pants and a white singlet, even wearing that he looked gorgeous. As soon as we climbed into bed Dave wrapped his arms around me again,

"It'll be alright, Vince will deal with Booker and we'll make sure he doesn't come anywhere near you again," I just smiled up at him, I knew he was telling the truth but it didn't make me feel any better it was just like Conner was around again, Booker was just a black version of Conner. I eventually fell asleep wrapped in the arms of the World Heavyweight Champion and he was still there when I woke up, he looked gorgeous when he was asleep.

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A/N: Sorry for the short chapter it was originally longer but I decided to change a bunch of stuff.