Fatal Attractions

Chapter 5-Revenge

A/N: I didn't mean to ditch you guys. Over the summer I was really bored and I had nothing to do. But now, schools in and I have no other choice but to do work, and I have a major Spanish project. I'm so mad right now, but I can be happier by presenting you with the fifth episode of Fatal Attractions. Enjoy. Oh and warning: this chapter may make you hate Mickie James :-)

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What the FUCK? John thought with a mouth wide wasn't usually that vulgar but this was an exception. Because not only did he see Maria at the zoo, but he saw his former ex kissing up on one of his best friends. I thought HBK and Maria were together... He glanced over at Shawn and saw that his mouth was open. Next to him, Candice, Victoria and Mickie were giggling silently.

"Scandalous!" Candice hissed to Mickie, "Forget about revenge, Mickie, this is juicy itself!"

"Oh no, I'm still gonna get my revenge" Mickie whispered quietly, "I gotta protect John, you know. But this is too good. That slut's in for it with sexy boy now."

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The first thought inside of the Heart break kid's head was the same as John's. Except for him, he kept repeating it over and over, still trying to process what just happened. The girl, who he was in love with, just kissed on Rey Mysterio, his best friend. Rey knew Shawn had loved Maria, he had told him so on the phone just the other night. But he kissed her as if the two didn't even talk. Maria...Rey...why would you do this to me? He thought disappointedly as the pit of his stomach dropped. His eyes met Maria's as she turned around to look at him. Their faces both read the same: despair. But Shawn wondered if this was a trick. Rey was just playing him like a dog, and Maria was in on the trick.

Maria first thought of Shawn. What had came over Rey, she didn't know, but surely, her current crush did not believe that she had kissed him. Rey had came to her first. Please don't be mad, Please don't be mad she thought as she pulled away from Rey and turned to Shawn. But Shawn's face was blank. Maria felt the tears starting to form in her eyes. "Shawn, please..." She could see the hurt in his eyes. "Shawn..." She started to come closer to him, but Shawn started to step back.

"No" Shawn told her, disbelief now filling covering his face. "You were just playing me like a toy. You and Rey, in it the whole time."

"That's not true!" Maria cried out, tears streaming down her small face. "Shawn, you saw that I didn't kiss him! he kissed ME!"

"Shawn, man..." Rey started to say.

"I especially don't want to hear from you" Shawn snapped at Rey, his cheeks turning red from anger. "I already told you how I felt about her, and you just took advantage of it. You were playing me too." He sighed. "You know, we used to be cool, but now, I don't even think that we can talk anymore."

"Shawn no!" Maria wailed, falling to her knees in the dirt. There were dozens of onlookers but she didn't care. She covered her hands in her face. Shawn just stared at her for a while, then turned his foot and started to walk away, his love shattering into a million pieces with each step he took as silent tears streamed from his eyes. Maria continued to wail in her hands. People who onlooked were booing and disagreeing with Shawn, whispering with one another.

"Maria..." Rey was about to reach for her, but a hand was put on his shoulder. He looked up and saw that it was John, shaking his head at the San Diego native.

"John! come back!" Mickie hissed to her boyfriend angrily, crossing her arms. I hate that bitch she added in her head, glaring at Maria.

Maria started to sob even harder than the last few seconds. She lost the person she was beginning to love, and that makes two men in her life that had decided to end things with her. Could love hurt any more than this? God I don't know what I'm doing she thought sadly, But I wish you would bring me out of this suffering.

"Maria."

Maria heard that voice, and her crying momentarily stopped as she knew who it was. John bent down beside her, on his knees in the soft zoo dirt. He put a hand to her back, and she looked up at him, eyes bloodshot red, her nose slightly damp and her face gazing at him curiously. He didn't care about hating her. He didn't care about not talking to her. All he cared about was making her feel better, because it had just clicked to him when he saw the scene. He finally realized how much pain he had put into her by kissing Mickie and breaking up with her. "Maria, I want us to be friends" said John quietly, taking a thumb and wiping away the tears that were making its way down her cheeks. "I want to be there for you. Don't cry, please. For me?" He raised his eyebrows hopefully, his steel blue eyes looking into her bright emerald ones.

Maria was surprised her wish to God was answered so quick. John was her miracle? oh well. She didn't care if he was her ex. She didn't care if Mickie was cussing her out a few feet away. All it mattered was that John was here, and that they were finally able to settle their differences. "OK" Maria said to him, sniffing. The next thing she knew, John had grabbed her and pulled her in for a hug.

"I missed you" He whispered in her ear, squeezing her gently. "I really missed you." He had no idea what came over him to suddenly come, apologize, and even make up with Maria, but he felt he knew that he had to do it before the feeling of guilt weighed him down.

"I missed you too" Maria whispered back, hugging him as the group of onlookers had their cries of "awwww." Mickie was staring at the two, then turning around to her divas, the three began to plot of a way to stop the two from getting together, and they just didn't know how successful it was gonna be.

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It was an hour after that unfortunate event happened. John and Maria had to be at a photo shoot an hour before Smackdown! was to begin. Rey, who had privately talked to the two to make things up with them, wished them good luck ahead of time. "Maria!" John complained, tapping on the door.

"Coming!" Maria stepped out, wearing a sleek black strapless dress. The dress went down to her knees and made her legs look even longer. She had black strappy stilettos in one hand and a black rectangular purse with a crisp bow in the other. Her make up, subtle yet morphing, made her eyes look even more green. She closed her door and turned to see John looking her up and down.

She looked at him. He actually had a pink and white striped collar shirt, with a white shirt underneath. He wore some long khaki pants and his usual sneakers. He wore a black hat over it all. "That's not like you" Maria told him with surprise.

"Birthday present from my family" John said, rolling the eyes, "I dress too gangster for them."

Maria laughed and they started to walk together, chatting quietly and peacefully. Both of them found it hard to believe that they were getting along and just the other day there was tension between them. As they talked quietly amongst themselves, They passed by a door that just so happened to have Shawn Michaels come out the room. Maria nearly froze when she saw him, but when her green eyes met his familiar sky ones, she quickly averted her gaze to the floor. HBK just looked away himself, and when she passed, stared after her. Maybe he was wrong. Rey did kiss Maria first, and she didn't look like she was into it much. Maybe I owe a little visit to Rey He thought as he locked the door, but right when he turned around, Rey was standing next to him, looking guilty.

"Perfect timing" Shawn told him with a smile. Rey looked up at him in confusion. "I want to talk, Shawn, about what happened..."

"Let's talk over coffee" said Shawn, putting his arm around the 619 champ, and the two began to walk towards backstage coffee.

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"Thanks" Maria said to the Hispanic cab driver, winking as she handed him a twenty dollar bill. He took it without any facial expression, and drove away as they closed the door. "Geez. Well, he's not in a good mood."

John simply laughed as they headed to some studio building that had WWE professional photographers waiting for them. Soon they went in and was getting closer to their designated room. Maria was smiling and walking so fast that John nearly had to jog to keep up. "Calm down" He told her with surprised eyes.

"Sorry" She said, a cheesy grin splattered on her face, "I haven't done one of these since...since..." Her smile faded a bit, and her cheeks suddenly went red. She looked down at her toes as her walking rate decreased. "Since we broke up" She said quietly, and John's face suddenly went red too.

"Well, your getting your chance now" said John quickly, hopping subjects, "Come on, let's show that camera what we're made of." That was uncomfortable He thought to himself. Unfortunately, the cheating on her didn't want to come into his mind. He wanted to forget that even happened.

Maria looked at him and giggled. "Ok." She was embarrassed now that she had mentioned the breakup to him, but John apparently felt as she did and didn't have anything to talk about. All this time she thought that they could never be friends...well apparently it was possible because they were together and they were in the photo shoot room, about to get pictures.

"Hey Maria, John" The photographer known as Brian greeted them. Maria cheerfully said hi. She and Brian were good associates and got along great.

"Just go stand in front of the white...hangy thing that you see over there" Brian said, waving a hand off over there. "You look great, you two. Wow John, a surprising change of clothes!"

"Eh" John said with a shrug, grinning, "I'm too gangster these days, apparently. But, oh well, I'm stripping for the photo shoot." Before Maria could even open her mouth to question, John unbuttoned his shirt to reveal a wife beater underneath, and stripping that off, Maria found herself staring at a solid six pack. The one that she used to love rubbing. "Erm, great" She murmured, blushing as she walked to the white hangy thingy. But once again, her eyes caught on to John's pack. John saw her glancing over at him and grinned. He loved to show it off, and he loved how Maria was paying close attention to it.

"Okay, lets get some huggy pictures" Brian requested, his eye behind the camera, "Show the camera what the couple is about."

Maria looked at John, and they both blushed. "Erm...okay." She threw her arms carelessly around his bulky waist, and that made the two start to laugh freely.

"Great job!" Brian said with a chuckle, snapping pictures, "Almost knocked him over Maria, be careful. Now, John, pick up Maria and imagine it was wedding day."

John had no problem leaning down and picking up the cheerful girl. Maria squeaked as she was brought high up in the air. She looked down worriedly. "Maria you pervert!" She whipped her head around and saw that her hand was lightly touching one of his pecks. "Stop touching my breast" John said, putting on a fake serious look.

"Great chemistry" Brian complimented as he took more pictures, "You two are convincing, almost like a real life couple."

John set her down as the two of them shared blushing faces. If only you knew they both thought.

"If you two don't mind, I'd like to see a small smooch" Brian requested, "Just so you can show those fans who the real couple around here is."

That made John's face and Maria's face even redder. "Um, er..." John cleared his throat. "Can we avoid that? I uh, have a sore throat, and Maria might get sick." Even though John was friends with Maria now, he was afraid what the kiss might've done.

"Ok, that's fine" said Brian, waving his hand as Maria sighed with relief to herself, "Just lets fit in some more pictures. Give me everything you got."

Maria was glad that John covered up with a lie. She too also was afraid of what was to happen. At least she had gotten over her emotions for him. As the photo shoot went on, John and Maria did silly things like piggy back rides, sexy model poses and silly little kid poses (like two fingers over the back of someone's head, sticking out the tongue and crossing the eyes, etc.).

"I'm out of film" Brian said about ten minutes later. "Great job you two. I'll see you around Smackdown, and it starts in twenty minutes."

Without another thought, the two dashed out of the building and caught a different taxi cab (this time with an enraged black man and his marriage issues) to get back to San Diego's stadium. Maria was anxious to get there, because she had to go bad.

"I mean, I know that she wants a fair relationship" The bearded man was saying, "But dang, I mean, all I wanna do is sit down and watch football! Is that wrong? Tell me, is that wrong?"

"She wants more attention from you" Maria said to him as they approached the center, "Pay some more attention to her and maybe you'll get something in return."

"A good something, if you catch my drift" John said to him with a big dimpled grin. The man started to laugh. Maria opened the door and jumped out as the cab rolled to a stop. She ran as fast as she could in, because she could barely hold it. It took her a few seconds but she finally made it with five minutes till showtime. Relieved, Maria headed out a few seconds later, looking for John for their next scene. She looked and saw double doors. She was headed toward them, when suddenly a bunch of hands grabbed her arms. She whirled around and saw that Mickie, Candice and Victoria was holding duck-tape and rope.

"You better stay away from John, slut" Mickie warned, a dangerous glint in her eyes.

"You're the slut" Maria snapped, trying to wiggle out of all three grips but it wasn't successful, "I'm not even into John anymore! Shawn is my-" She instantly cut herself off, realizing that she was about to reveal whom she liked.

"Oh, so you have a thing for a certain HBK?" Candice giggled, "This is too good. Well, too bad, he's mine."

"Since when?" Maria gaped at her.

"Since I said so" Candice mocked her.

"I'm gonna make sure you never get found" Mickie hissed as she pulled out the duck tape. Maria started to yell, scream and put up the best fight she could. She was able to break out of the grip and started to head away, but only to break her heel and crash to the floor. Soon, she found her mouth duck-taped, her hands roped behind her back, and the three girls instantly taking her into a room. Maria muffled yell, hoping someone would hear her but it was hopeless. Nobody heard or saw.

Her stomach began to drop as the three took her down to what seemed to be an old abandoned room that resembled a cellar. Candice and Victoria put a tighter grip on her wrist as they prodded her down the stairs. It looked about 30 years old with a old chair, table, a doll with missing limbs and alot of things that creeped out Maria. She knew she was about to be tied up in here. I gotta get out of here Maria thought, I can't let them get me like this. I have to think of something.

"Untie her hands" Mickie said to the girls urgently, having a firm grip on Maria's hair. Before Victoria could reach for her hands, Maria used her final attempt to get out by charging at Mickie with a headbutt. Her head connected with Mickie's perfectly as the brunette screamed with her hands clutching her forehead. Maria tried to run back up the stairs, but failed as she fell and hit her own head on the stairs, splitting open her skin and blood came rushing out. She screamed in pain as her toe also throbbed in unbearable pain. Blood blinded her eyes as Candice and Victoria roughly grab her and almost dropped her back down at the sight of her blood.

"Untie her hands!" Mickie said angrily, standing up and holding a knife in her hands. Maria couldn't even tell what was going on. She was in a daze, her eyes half open and her senses wavering from reality to another world. When she was trying to focus, she was tied to the chair, her legs tied too.

"Don't you ever mess with John again" Mickie whispered dangerously, the same evil glint still in her eyes.

"HBK is so mine" Candice said to Maria, grinning snidely at her. The three girls laughed and headed back up the stairs.

"HHMMPH!" Maria shouted, but she knew that help wouldn't be on the way that easily. As the girls closed the door, the room shut to complete dark, which is Maria's biggest fear. She began to breathe harder, looking around and seeing no light except from the crack in the door where Mickie had came in and out of. How do I get out of here? Maria thought to herself, calming herself down so that she wouldn't collapse from fright at the sight of the darkness around her. She was about to give up. What would John do? she thought to her self in wonder. She remembered that on the Marines, John had hopped up and broke the chair straight on the ground.

My legs are tied up though Maria thought. Realizing that her shoes were on, she kicked them off (luckily they were the kind you slip your feet into) and began to wrestle away at the ropes that tied at her feet. Eventually, she got to the point where her feet were free, and she stood up, closing her eyes. After counting to three, she took a running start to what she could see was the wall backfirst, holding her breath waiting for the impact. She charged straight into the wall successfully and the chair cracked into pieces. The ropes bundled loose against her hands, and she was free to remove the duck-tape from her mouth. By this time she was really weak from all the blood she had lost from her forehead. She could barely stand, and she started to get dizzy and unfocused. She looked up at the door and saw about four of them.

Gotta open one She thought, shakily crawling up the stairs as if she were a toddler. She reached for the middle door in her world, and it was locked. The other doors disappeared suddenly and she was back in reality. "HELP!" Maria cried hoarsely, pounding hard on the door. "HELP ME! Help me...help..." Her repeated poundings lessened down every second, as well as her voice, until she had stopped hitting, and began to grow sick and sink to the floor. Must...stay...alert she thought feebly, but she couldn't find the power to hang on. She was growing faint because of the blood loss, and the fight that was in her was finally gone as she drifted unconscious in the dark room.