A/N Hey Guys! I would like to say thank you to a few people who have been reviewing this story for me. I can't tell you how much they mean to me. It really does motivate me. I am really trying to get this updated faster, but unfortunately for personal reasons I have been unable to. As always, any and all comments are appreciated!

Within 10 minutes of arriving at the arena Lucy received a text that simply said call me asap. Rolling her eyes, Lucy dialed the number she knew by heart. "Hey Mom, what's up?" A soft voice crept through the line, "well I spent the last hour convincing your father that it was not necessary to fly to wherever it is you are right now and drag you home locking you in your old bedroom." Lucy chuckled, "he got the reports then?" She could practically hear her mother rolling her eyes, "Lucy, I'm not going to be surprised if he hires a private investigator to follow you. A wrestler sweetheart; and what about your life in Seattle? Does he expect you to move to Las Vegas or travel with him all year? We'd never see you!" Lucy began to grow restless, she didn't understand her mother's concern, it's not like she was planning on staying married to him. "Mom, don't tell Dad this but our arrangement is temporary, I'm only traveling with him for about 5 more months. I have no intention of staying married to him." After saying her goodbyes and promising to call again soon Lucy hung up the phone. "So you're not planning on staying married to me? This is all just temporary?" Lucy looked up and met Dean's eyes, "Yes, Dean. But you knew that. I didn't want to have this arrangement, you decided it for me. I'm only here because I have to be." As Dean looked deep into her eyes he could tell something had changed, gone was the girl who woke up in his home this morning, the person who was looking back at him was someone that Dean didn't even recognize. Shaking his head he made a move to grab her hand, but stopped himself, "No, there's no point in getting attached if it's going to be over in a few months. Come on, I've got to get ready soon and I really don't like the idea of you being back here by yourself."

As he warmed up for his match with Seth and Roman, Dean thought about how much he was surprised at what he overheard Lucy say, if he was honest with himself, yes it bothered him. He didn't want to fail at this. He wanted to prove everyone who ever told him he would fail at it that they were wrong. Dean was so caught up in his own thoughts he didn't even hear the stagehand tell him, Seth, and Roman to take their spots. In fact, it wasn't until Seth smacked his shoulder that he came back to Earth. "Hey man, snap out of it. We've got to go out in a few minutes. If you don't focus you could get someone hurt." Nodding, Dean pulled himself together and turned his thoughts away from his wife.

Lucy was in the back talking to Nikki and Brie about their days off, but no matter how she tried she couldn't shake the look in Dean's eyes when she told him that she still wanted to get a divorce. He looked crushed. "Hey Lucy, what's wrong? You seem to be somewhere else tonight." Lucy looked at Brie and Nikki, "No it's just something with Dean. He seemed surprised that I am still interested in getting a divorce. I mean it's not like we've had any kind of explosive breakthrough or something. I just don't know if there is anything that we have in common and besides there's Jake…" Nikki cut her off, "Jake? Who the hell is Jake?" Lucy lowered her head to her knees and quickly began to explain her history with Jake. "We've known each other all our lives, we went to the same schools, and we went to prom together. Our families have known each other forever, and we went to prom together. Being a few years older than me he went to law school and got his degree while I finished up undergrad. I got my paralegal certificate because I wanted to work in the legal field and I didn't want to go to law school at the time. His family and mine have pretty much planned from the day I was born that we'd be married someday. I went to a conference, got married to Dean, and since then I have been trying to get a divorce." Brie and Nikki were stunned. "Do you love Jake? Do you even want to marry him? I mean have you even talked about it?" Lucy looked at Brie, "I mean, Jake has always been the guy that I'm supposed to be with. I mean my parents and his think it's a great idea." Brie leaned forward, "But Lucy what do you want? Do you actually want to be with this guy?"

Lucy was saved from answering the question by Seth knocking on the door, "Lucy, come on, Dean's in the trainer's office and he needs to talk to you." Lucy was confused, "What happened? Is he okay?" Seth shook his head, "I don't know, Roman is with him now. The trainer wanted me to come get you before so he could give you instructions on what to do for him tonight." Lucy followed along behind Seth, "But, we don't even room together. I don't know anything about him. He'd probably be better off staying with one of you tonight." Seth didn't respond, he just nudged her into the room. Lucy found herself alone with Dean and she was surprised at how beat up he looked. "What happened tonight? You look like you went through a war." Dean cracked a smile, "One of the new guys kicked me in the wrong spots a few times." Lucy was pretty sure there was more to the story that he was telling, his eyebrow was split open, he had an icepack on his head, and he had bruises already forming on his arms. "What did the doctor say? I mean he doesn't really expect me to take care of you does he?" Dean slid off the table and started walking towards the exit, "No princess, neither I nor the Doc expect you to take care of your husband." Lucy cringed at the word, "Is there anything else we could call you? I mean, does everyone have to know we're married?" Dean spun around, "Why? Am I not good enough to be married to you? I mean, what do you care if a doctor recommended that you stay with me tonight, our marriage is only temporary right?" Dean walked out the door, grabbed the pills from the doctor's hand, mumbled his thanks, and slowly limped away.

The doctor entered the room bewildered, "You're going to stay with him tonight right? If you weren't here I'd ask one of the other guys to do it, but since you're his wife and visiting him on the road I thought you might like to take over that responsibility." Lucy stared, "Sir, what is it that he needs tonight? I mean I have no real medical experience so I don't know if I could help him. I mean wouldn't it be better if someone who knew what they were doing stayed with him?" The doctor smiled, "You sound like most of the new wives who come with their husbands for the first time; no honey all you need to do is make sure he takes his pills and then when you wake up in the middle of the night, poke him or something to make sure that he responds." Lucy slowly nodded her head, she was still reluctant to help Dean but was beginning to realize just how it would look if she refused to help him. "Okay, but can I have your number in case he needs something?" Once they had exchanged numbers Lucy walked down the hallway hoping to find Dean in the maze that was the backstage of the arena.

As luck would have it, it wasn't long before she was stopped by Roman and Seth who told her that Dean had already went back to the hotel. She followed them to the car; she was still a little nervous around the men but she had spent a limited amount of time with them so hopefully she was correct in her initial impressions. Seth, she got the impression that he was the most sensitive of the three guys. He would listen and empathize. Roman, he was much more serious and straight to the point. He would listen and give you the swift quick you needed rather than the sympathetic person you wanted. Once they were on the road the two men began to question her about her relationship with Dean. Roman started, "So Lucy how did you and Dean meet? He didn't really give us a lot of the details so we were hoping you could fill in some of the gaps for us." Lucy knew these two men were her husband's closest friends in the company, "What did he tell you? I don't want to bore you by repeating the same details that you've already heard." Seth chuckled, "Don't worry about that, all we know is that you're married." Lucy was slightly taken aback by Dean's refusal to tell these two men the details surrounding their situation. Pushing her feelings aside she told them the basics of the story; "We were in Las Vegas at the same time about 5 months ago, and we were drunk and got married. The next morning I found a note and our marriage license on the dresser and I've been trying to get, first an annulment, now a divorce, ever since. He agreed to sign the papers if I traveled with him for six months." Seth and Roman both raised their eyebrows and shared a glance, that wasn't like Dean at all to be THAT stubborn, especially not with women. Normally he was a love them and leave them type, this was completely out of character, there had to be something that Dean really liked about this girl. Seth, while not deciding to share his opinions with Lucy did note, "Umm, Lucy do you know when Dean moved to Vegas?" Seeing her shake her head Seth turned around, "You should ask him that sometime." For the two men things were starting to make a lot more sense, for Lucy, the rest of the car ride was spent pondering what it could have been that brought Dean to Las Vegas after their disastrous first meeting there.

Once they arrived at the hotel, Lucy headed straight to the desk hoping that she would be able to at least talk to Dean about the situation at the arena before he went to bed. The lady at the desk informed her that Dean and Lucy were going to have to share a room because the hotel was overbooked. After being given a key and pointed towards the elevator Lucy waited as Seth and Roman finished checking in. "Any advice on how to handle Dean tonight, I mean you guys have more experience than I do with this." Roman nodded, "Just make sure that no matter how much he argues that you don't let him go to sleep without taking his medication. Yes, he's going to be loopy and he's probably going to say things he doesn't mean, but he needs to take them so he doesn't have a headache in the morning. If you need any help getting him down, or if you have any problems, we're just two doors down from you guys so come wake us up and we'll give you a hand." Lucy nodded apprehensively, "What's the worst thing he's ever said to you?" Seth and Roman both laughed, "Well one time he told Roman to fuck himself and jump off the ledge of the hotel window. And he told me that he loved me but if I didn't stop humming he was going to cut my tongue out." Lucy got even more nervous, "But he's never hit you right, I mean he was pretty mad when he left the arena and…" Roman held up his hand, "If he hurts you in any way, tell one of us and we will deal with it, he maybe our friend but we don't tolerate hitting women at all. And, Lucy, don't worry I'm sure tonight won't go as badly as you expect." With that Roman knocked on the door and Lucy began to feel a knot form in the pit of her stomach, this was not how she imagined how the first night with her husband, any husband, would go. Of course, she amended mentally; this would be the first night that she could actually remember.