Dawn Of The New Brood
This is my 1st wrestling fanfiction I've ever done. I've watched it for well over 9 years, personally loved the older stuff so I'm writing into more of those areas. I wanted to write something different from what I usually write for a change, try something new. Plus I loved The Brood, as most people I have my favourites and their one of mine. This is around 2001-2002 area, after Edge and Christian split up and the alliance had been tackled down. But with Christian still having his long hair : ) I don't own the people, just created the plot and what's in it, not what really happened in story lines.
A mysterious blood bath happens after one of Christians matches, he didn't do it but who did...? Return of The Brood? What's really happening and who's returned and why? And... Why are some people going missing?
As soon as the meeting was over Christian couldn't have darted out of the room any faster. He just felt like he needed to get away, away from everybody and cool down from his anger. He heard his friends that he was sitting with calling after him in worry, some possibly trying to follow, but Christian didn't care at the moment. His first thoughts were to just get back to his dressing room and lock the door firmly behind him.
As he marched himself down the corridor he saw two familiar figures leaning on opposite walls to each other. Both looking down his way, making Christian blow out a heavy sigh. He so wasn't in the mood for this... Plus... How did they get out of the meeting room so quickly? He was one of the first out...
"Hey... If it isn't our favourite little blonde." Matt greeted Christian.
"Yep, we're glad you've finally decided to come back." Jeff added. "Not that we can personally blame you. Shame on what happened to Jeff Jarrett."
"And what would you care? You both were slamming him into the ground last time I saw you two." Christian frowned.
"We can change our minds." Matt replied simply.
"Whatever. Is that, like you're new motto or something?"
"No, seriously Christian. We're being sincere." Jeff reassured and did a fake attempt of looking sorrowful.
"We're just glad that you're feeling better now, getting out and about again." Matt added sweetly.
"Look. I'm really not in a very good mood right now, so out of my way." Christian grunted in annoyance. He couldn't even fake a nice response or good bye. With that Christian went ahead and pushed himself forward, to walk past them both.
"What's the rush?" Jeff smirked and stood in Christian's way, blocking the hallway that Christian needed to use to get to his dressing room.
"Move." Christian sternly growled.
"Now... That's not very nice." Came a female voice, it had all three of them looking in the direction of where the voice came from.
"Hey, Luna." Matt greeted her casually.
"Well I guess I'm not a nice person now, am I?" Christian frowned back at her comment.
"Bad mood then?" Luna smirked.
"Yea... Christian's already getting stressed on his first day back." Jeff mocked.
"Fine. Could you move? Please." Christian forced out at Jeff, who was still standing in his way, and pretended to be sincere with his wording.
"See. Now was that so hard?" Luna replied in a sarcastic tone of voice. "You really need to take better care of yourself. At your rate you're going to have high blood pressure."
All three of them smirked at that comment, leaving Christian questioning. What was so funny about that? What a bunch of freaks! And Christian still believed he wanted nothing more to do with them. The only one he might even consider to chat to by himself was possibly Jeff, and he had to be on his own. See whether he was still feeling like himself and was he still having these weird feelings. Last time he checked Jeff was the closest one to understanding... However, that was before he went missing and came back like this.
"I'll go with you." Jeff offered, as if reading Christian's mind.
"And why would I want that?" Christian shot back.
"It's not that safe you know..." Luna added. "Besides, you and Jeff. Never did really have a good chat to get to know each other very well, did you? I think you two could be good friends if you open you're mind a little."
"Plus... We wouldn't want anything to happen to you. Now would we?" Matt added. The other two nodded at the last part.
"Whatever." Christian sighed with a frustrated frown, seeing that they most likely weren't going to shut up and leave him alone till he accepted their offer.
With that Jeff looked at Christian and gave him a big smile. "Don't have to sound so grumpy. I think me and you could be so close if you'd just loosen up."
"Oh yea? What do we even have in common?"
"Well we both have older brothers and both our teams helped to create the TLC matches, there's a start." Jeff continued to smile.
"Whatever." Christian grunted and walked past the three of them and let Jeff start to trail on behind...
"Christian!" Called a voice from behind them, they were so close to reaching Christian's dressing room without bother.
Christian rolled his eye's in annoyance, quickly realising who was yelling after him. He didn't bother to stop, not wanting to speak to the individual.
"Christian!" Came the voice again.
"Go away, Edge!" Christian yelled out to behind him and continued to walk off.
But Edge very soon had caught up with him and stood in front of Christian's path so he couldn't proceed any further. Christian cussed at himself under his breath, hating the fact that Edge can easily catch up to him because he was taller and bigger than himself.
"Wow! What's with the rush off, Christian?" Edge exclaimed, trying to catch his breath.
"Hi Edge." Jeff greeted cheerfully.
Edge nodded happily enough in reply to it, as if to say 'same to you'. He then went back to focusing his attention on his younger sibling.
Christian frowned at first, wondering what was going on there. For the past times Edge had been saying that he didn't like the Hardyz very much recently, since they mysteriously left and came back. But then again, after rethinking it it did seem that Edge could've been over acting and wasn't totally sure whether he had been sincere.
"Good bye, Edge." Christian replied firmly, eye's turned into slits and glared at him with annoyance. He tried to push past him but soon failed when Edge didn't budge and just made Christian bounce back off of him.
"What's wrong? You know that you shouldn't really be walking around by yourself after things." Edge asked in just the same amount of firmness.
"Huh? Well... I'm walking with Jeff..." Christian pointed out.
"You weren't when you were leaving the meeting room." Edge also pointed out.
"And who do you think you are? My father or something? What's with all the accusations? I am not a child, I don't need a chaperon!" Christian shot back in anger.
Edge didn't look like he was taking the anger from Christian all to well. Christian's anger turned into disbelief for a second when he could've swore he saw Edge's eye's flash blood red in anger for a second, his whole expression was a dark. But thought that he must've been seeing things when they quickly returned to normal. Possibly a trick of the light? That was strange beyond belief... Himself and Edge had fought between themselves a million times, as all brothers do, but he'd never seen that kind of reaction from him before. Was this really Edge?
"Come on Christian, he was only looking out for you." Jeff intervened softly.
"What? No bitchy little comments from you today? No sarcasm?" Christian shot back at Jeff.
"Don't worry, Edge." Jeff sighed, ignoring Christian's blunt words. "Christian's having a bad first day."
"So I see." Edge replied dryly.
"I'm only having a bad first day because of you." Christian frowned. "Why are you keeping things from me?"
"Keeping things from you? Since when?" Edge replied, pulling a face of disbelief. "I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Why are you acting so weird all of a sudden? Why didn't you mention Luna was back to me? You apparently told other people and they said that you said you told me all about it." Christian firing more questions.
"Wow! Where is all of this coming from?" Edge defended. "I don't mention a few things to you and you go all crazy on me. I thought we'd been getting along so well too recently."
"So did I." Christian growled. "Until now."
"You're being ridiculous." Edge frowned at Christian. "All I want is for us to be closer. We've been spending the best part of 3 weeks together, thought we were gaining that better relationship."
"..." Christian just looked down at his feet, unsure for once on what to say. In all honesty he just wanted out of this conversation. Yes... They had been spending most of their time in the past 3 weeks together, mostly due to Edge's protectiveness. Edge would only leave him alone for a half an hour or something a day, strange though... Never ever did mention what he was doing in that time frame. Yet, Edge often needed to to know what he had gotten up too while he was gone. Was it just him seeing all these strange little new twists to Edge? Is this really the brother he used to tag with? The more time he's with Edge, the more weird he seems to get. Yet... In all of his life Christian had never seen Edge like this. At times he was acting like a totally different person, like Christian didn't know him at all...
"Don't you think you're over reacting a little bit?" Jeff questioned softly to Christian.
"Yea, is it something that Jericho said to you or something? He's only really trying to stir it for us." Edge added.
"Suppose..." Christian huffed to himself gently. "But he's my best friend, he gets it."
"Oh he does, does he? I personally think he's just jealous of brotherly relationships that's all." Edge shot back.
"I don't care!" Christian snapped. "He's my best friend. I will not drop him. You want to make up with me then you'll have to tolerate him, he's part of the package with me."
"I haven't got to tolerate anyone, Christian." Edge sneered back. "The only one's that should matter is your blood relations. And for me, that would be you."
"He's right, Christian." Jeff nodded in agreement. "Family is what matters. Friends come and go and can easily be dropped."
"Enough." Christian snapped. "I've had enough of discussing this. It's not happening, everyone needs friends too. All I want is to go into my dressing room and have some peace."
"Fine." Edge replied simply. "I'll just simply go to my own dressing room then, if that's how you feel. Jeff can just go with you and chat for a bit."
"It is." Christian insisted. "I'll speak to you later."
Edge then gave a sweet smile at the last comment and turned to walk away to his own dressing room. Leaving Christian a little baffled, why was he so willing to go away now? For past few weeks he'd been insistent on being with Christian, he was now alright with it as long as he's with Jeff or something?
"He means well you know."
"Huh?" Christian questioned, not totally hearing the sentence due to just coming out of the shower stalls. He walked out of the shower area, with a bath robe wrapped around him, and came into the main dressing room area.
"Edge. He means well really." Jeff repeated, moving his gaze up from the floor to Christian himself. He was sat on one of the big benches, looking like he hadn't got a care in the world.
"I guess..." Christian shrugged away. It wasn't really any of Jeff Hardyz business on what he and his brother did. He went and sat down on the bench next to the one Jeff was sitting on and turned to look Jeff's way.
"Me and my brother fight all the time." Jeff continued in a casual voice. "It's only natural. But we always realise that blood is thicker than water and that we work better together than apart."
"That might be the way for you and your brother work but not for me and Edge." Christian frowned. "You see, I can work without my brother. I can have my own everything, just because he's my brother doesn't mean he's got to stick to me at the hip. Since when have you gotten so darn thoughtful of things anyway?"
"Why? I'm always thoughtful." Jeff mocked, pretending to act insulted by the comment but the smirk was a dead give away. "Besides... You're the youngest. The youngest always likes to seek out attention and try to act independent when he clearly can't look after himself properly."
"And where did you get that crap from?" Christian shot back. "Animal nature book? You're starting to sound like a shrink now, Hardy."
"It's not crap, it's facts. Get you're wording straight." Jeff defended and frowned.
"Facts, huh? Well, I guess I don't relate, I don't come from a massive brood family. Can't do things that haven't been shown or are not there." Christian shrugged. "I guess... I just don't have the basic instincts then."
"Their in everybody." Jeff insisted.
"Well if they are then their really down deep in me then because I don't feel family things much." Christian replied, not understanding why Jeff was acting so insistent on family. What was the bid deal? Couldn't he live without Matt permanently hovering around him or something?
"What about Gangrel?" Jeff asked out of the blue.
Christian felt his skin crawl a little when he heard that name come up in the sentence. He hadn't heard that name much in recent times. "What do you mean?" Christian questioned softly.
"Gangrel. Wasn't he close to you? Like family?"
"This is a bit sudden of a subject isn't it?" Christian questioned wearily, giving Jeff a uncertain glance.
"Weren't you?" Jeff repeated, eye's locked on Christian. "We were both in that group with him."
"That was a long time ago, Jeff." Christian reminded him, his voice almost going on the defensive side. "And yes... I guess we were. Once upon a time..."
"Me too." Jeff replied. "When I was in The New Brood he talked about you non stop, you were clearly his favourite."
"Jealous or something and can't let it go?" Christian almost teased.
"Of course not." Jeff frowned. "You needed the attention and protection a lot more than I do."
"Why are you saying this to me?" Christian replied, confused on why Jeff would wish to discuss this with him.
"Well... You were in The Brood too. No one else would understand the stuff that happened, now would they?" Jeff responded as if the answer was the most noticeable thing in the world.
"No... I guess not..." Christian nodded slowly in agreement. "From what I remember was that Gangrel wasn't fond of Edge, he always liked me more and Edge didn't like it. He wasn't jealous or anything of him or me... Just... Didn't like him. Used to always go on about how I didn't really know him and why he was here. I think he hated our closeness... Felt he was a bad influence or something on me. Ha! Look who's talking!"
Jeff's eye's shifted a little, making his expression look dark. His eye's were now focused on the floor, as if in deep thought from what Christian had just said.
"He was the same with you two." Christian carried on. "After me and Edge left The Brood and you guys joined Gangrel he started going on like that again, not as bad or serious but still... Kept fretting about something. No matter how much I asked he never did tell me about it or the situations I weren't involved in when I was in The Brood. Guess it was better that I didn't know what happened behind my back..."
"Oh... I've got a feeling that everything is going to come and slide into place very soon, Christian." Jeff replied in a dark mysterious voice. His face was now totally covered by his loose hanging hair, he was just glaring at the floor.
"Why bother? The Brood is over Jeff. All the stuff from it is old news." Christian replied. He looked at his watch and it was leaving time, most people would have left by now. Christian would prefer to do just the same, the place like all the others gave him the creeps. "Jeff? Are you still having the same feelings as before?"
"Hmm?" Jeff replied in a questioning tone but didn't raise his head at all.
"You know... Those 'feelings' we were discussing about at that earlier show..." Christian tried to prompt.
"Yes I have but nothing like yours." Jeff replied mysteriously.
"I don't get it." Christian frowned at the comment, he either still felt them or not!
"You will, very soon." Jeff replied simply, still not making any movement.
"Look, Jeff." Christian turned more stern. "I'm really not in the mood for games."
"Who says I'm playing?" Jeff turned his head ever so slightly, revealing just one very darkened eye glaring in Christian's path.
Christian jumped a little by the sudden dark glare. What had just happened to him? He seemed to be able to switch moods like a light switch. One minute he was being cheeky and sarcastic, then he was defending Edge and acting soft, now he had gone to being dark, dangerous and mysterious.
"I'm sorry... Didn't mean to make you jump." Jeff mocked, a dark smirk could almost be seen across his face now, under all the hair. "I should act more caring and protective... Maybe we should even act like brothers. Yes... I like that idea much better."
"What!?" Christian exclaimed, stunned from hearing that. "Are you high or something Jeff?"
"Oh, there's nothing wrong with me, Christian. Nothing wrong at all." Jeff continued to smirk. With saying that he got up off the bench and stood up, so almost looming over Christian who was still sat on the other. His hair still quite flung over his face but with him standing up now Christian could depict his face better.
"Get out." Christian said bluntly and showed the firmness in his face. Christian thought he could have a discussion about the weird things with him but it was clear that Jeff has other ideas. More like he was the weird thing! What the hell was he going on about!? Was Jeff trying to have play a joke or something on him!?
Christian looked up into the dark expression of Jeff Hardy and felt the shivers run through him again. Jeff was making him very uncomfortable, he didn't care anymore about getting answers for anything, he just wanted him to leave.
"Aww... And here was me thinking that we were finally making a break through in our relationship." Jeff tutted and bent down to look at Christian directly in the eye.
"I mean it, leave. There's nothing else left to say to each other." Christian stuttered, trying to show he was still major serious but was finding it hard not to be fearful of him.
"No Christian, I don't think we're done here." Jeff denied and didn't move an inch.
"Excuse me!" Christian fumed. "What's you're problem? I haven't done anything to you. If you want to go hiss at someone go find Lita! You seem to like doing that to her!"
"She has no point, she is nothing to anything related to me." Jeff grunted rudely.
"Why?! She's in your team! And why have I got anything to do with this?" Christian frowned. "Do you just exist recently to annoy me?"
"I want us to have a better our relationship, it's important." Jeff replied firmly, making it sound like Christian should already know this.
"Better relationship? For what!? We're not even friends!" Christian exclaimed in annoyance.
Jeff's eye's narrowed in slight anger and glared right into Christian more. "It is very important." Jeff replied sternly, face showing he was deadly serious. "But I'm willing to be more patient, I am the older one after all."
"Look, I'm not you're brother or your anything. All I want is for you to leave. Now!" Christian shot back, furious that Jeff was almost talking down to him. What the hell did he really want?
With that Christian shot up to his feet and motioned for Jeff to get back straight up and get out. Jeff got back up straight but didn't move anything else, just glared at Christian, totally focused on him. Christian frowned intensely and turned his back on Jeff to walk over to the door, and went to proceed to open it.
Christian jumped out of skin when out of nowhere he felt someone wrap their arms around him, before he could totally open the door fully. He was just quick enough to see the person behind him lift their foot forward and kicked the door back shut. One arm wrapped tightly around Christian's waist and the other wandered freely.
"Jeff! What the hell are you doing?" Christian demanded, trying to hide his shock. Christian made sure it was Jeff by quickly flinging his head back a little to see him.
Jeff didn't verbally reply. For a man this size Jeff had Christian pretty well stuck next to him, Christian tried to wriggle a little but didn't seem to be getting very far from the arm that was around his waist.
Next thing Christian felt was Jeff's free hand gliding through his soft long blonde hair, almost stroking it. Then felt Jeff's face lean into Christian's head and neck area. Was he smelling him slightly? That was what Christian thought anyway when he could hear Jeff breathing in softly. Almost smelling his scent and... Creeping the hell out of Christian! It was making Christian very nervous and out of instinct tried to scrunch up his neck from Jeff. That soon proved useless when Jeff's free moving hand stopped at the top of Christian's head and held it up with gentle force so Christian couldn't cover his neck like his instinct desired.
"What the fuck are you doing, Jeff!?" Christian screamed, unable to keep his cool no longer. Christian wasn't usually easily freaked but this one had him! He was feeling some very unhappy vibes from Jeff and the way he was able to do all this with such ease made him beyond uncomfortable.
Once again Jeff Hardy didn't give any verbal response. Next thing Christian knew was Jeff slamming his lips down on a major vein in his neck, sending almost ice through Christian's body. Christian gave out a small squeal involuntary from the action. He felt Jeff's lips form a quirky dark smile on his skin while staying firmly placed in that neck area.
Christian heard a slight hissing kind of noise escape Jeff's mouth slightly but nothing to what Lita had said. This one was a more... Happier and protective sound. Didn't sound threatening at all. Not that it made Christian feel any more at ease!
The whole thing went on for a couple of minutes but to Christian it felt like a lifetime. He would've usually have screamed and shouted his ass off at something like this but fear had struck him hard. Freezing him almost... Unable to really move or say anything, even if inside he really wanted to.
All of a sudden he felt Jeff's mouth leave the vein in his neck and dared to hope that Jeff had finally had enough of this joke and would leave him alone. But to only have his hopes dashed when he felt teeth grab a small piece of skin. Christian didn't do a reaction at first, couldn't believe what was happening but soon realised... Jeff nipped him! A small but hurtful nip and Christian soon found himself yelling from it out of reaction. His screaming only grew more when Jeff did a full bite down on his soft neck. It didn't draw blood but it had almost snapped him out of being frozen and he didn't like what Jeff was doing.
"Get off!" Christian yelped loudly and finally got an arm free and elbowed Jeff hard in the ribs. "What the hell was that for!?""
Jeff went falling backwards a little but caught himself a few feet behind an recovering Christian. He very quickly stood up straight again and just gave a creepy dark smirk back. "Fine, we're finished. For now anyway."
"That doesn't answer for what you just did!" Christian shouted at him, not happy with Jeff at all. His hand clasped the area that Jeff had just bitten, his face looking at Jeff in disbelief. "Do you just get a kick off grabbing people from behind and biting them or something!?"
"Loved listening and feeling your blood pumping through your veins. There was no need for all of that! You really need to loosen up, Christian." Jeff defended and acted like what he did was the natural thing in the world. "And no. I don't just go and that on just anybody. Ewww!"
"And what the hell makes it OK for you to do that to me!?" Christian continued to yell, still looking at Jeff in disbelief.
"Cool it Christian." Jeff replied simply. "You're taking it way out of line. I was just being affectionate... And I'm sure you'll grow to love it, people I know usually do."
"Affectionate!? You bit me!" Christian exclaimed, that was one crap excuse in Christian's book. Not to mention well out of weird! "And I don't think so, I'm really not into that kind of thing."
"You'll grow to love it." Jeff repeated with certainty.
"Get out!" Christian barked, all he was doing was getting more angry with Jeff. He didn't want him near him ever again! No one had ever made him feel that shocked and scared in his life and he sure as hell didn't want to experience it again.
"Fine." Jeff replied with a raised eyebrow. "I can see that you need to go cool yourself down. This isn't over."
With that he walked past Christian and went out the door, face not leaving Christian the entire time. Christian slammed the door and locked it immediately. Only after doing that did he realise that he'd been holding his breath and gasped with relief. What the hell was that all about!?
Jeff getting super creepy in this and mysterious, lol. Plus, can Edge really be trusted and is he really holding information back from Christian?
Enjoyed writing this chapter a lot more than the last : )