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Jeff dashed down the street as fast as his legs would carry him. He cringed inwardly when he spotted Matt waiting outside the restaurant where they were supposed to meet. Even before he could see his brother's face, he could tell just by the older Hardy's body posture that he was not happy. Jeff had no doubt that he would be getting an earful from Matt about running off last night.

However, just as he closed in, Jeff's salvation came from across the street in the form of WWE divas Maria and Mickie James. The girls would be the perfect distraction to keep Matt off the topic of last night's activities.

"Hey, Matt ." Jeff greeted his brother. "I didn't know you had invited the girls to joins us."

Matt blinked and looked over his shoulder. "Oh well I…"

"Hey there," Mickie greeted them. "You guys going to lunch too?"

"Yeah, want to join?" Jeff offered before Matt could say anything.

"Sure!" Maria answered merrily. "It's always more fun when you have two handsome guys with you." She winked at both of them.

The two brothers let out a soft chuckle before following the girls in.

Lunch progressed in a normal manner with the four of them discussing Wrestlemania and the upcoming "Backlash" event. It wasn't until after they had ordered their food that things took an interesting turn when none other than Triple entered the café and sat down at a table not far away from them.

Jeff looked over at Hunter and raised an eyebrow. Hunter looked back out of the corner of his eyes and smiled as he winked at the young Hardy. Jeff couldn't keep himself from smiling a little back.

This little silent exchange was lost on the divas, but not on Matt, who frowned when he noticed it. It was enough to answer his question of where Jeff had been all night.

Jeff continued smiling as he turned his attention from Hunter back to his table. However, his smile faltered when it came face to face with his brother's disproving glare.

"What's he doing here…?" Matt muttered under his breath.

"I'd say he came to get some lunch," Jeff shrugged casually.

Matt gave Jeff a look as if to say, "You know what I mean…" and grumbled, "More like he's stalking you."

Jeff rolled his eyes. "He's not stalking me Matt. Could you turn off the big brother protection act for one afternoon?"

"Not if he's still here," Matt growled, quietly.

The younger Hardy rolled his eyes again and sighed, "You're impossible…"

The casualness with which Jeff was handling this situation only seemed to add to his brother's frustration.

"Jeff," Matt took Jeff's face in between his hands and forced his little brother to look him in the eye to show how serious he was. "He's a bad influence. With all the other issues you have going on you don't need Triple H's bad mojo on you too."

Jeff removed his brother's hands from his face, but kept them in his own hands. "Matt, he's not as bad as you think. He only does that manipulative shit to people he feels threatened by. I'm not a threat right now. Besides, I've had bad influences before and gotten through them fine."

Matt opened his mouth to say "Not before they almost destroyed you," but stopped when he noticed the girls were looking at them. He plastered a grin on his face and managed a chuckle. "Don't mind us, brother to brother talk."

"Yeah," Jeff added smiling a little more genuinely. "Matt's all worried about me now that I'm Mr. Money in the Bank."

"Right," Matt muttered.

"I get it," Mickie nodded looking more serious. "I know how it is now that I'm Women's Champion again; everyone has their sights on me."

"Yup, you'd better watch your back," Maria winked at her.

"Uh-oh, Mickie, looks like the gauntlet's been thrown down." Matt teased.

"Anytime, anywhere, Maria," Mickie punched her fist into her other open palm, in mock challenge.

While the others were distracted with their banter, Jeff turned back to Hunter, who looked fully back at him this time. The young Hardy smirked and wobbled his eyebrows in the hintingly seductive manner. Triple H grinned back and with a slight move of his head motioned toward the bathroom. Jeff nodded.

"Bathroom break," Jeff quietly announced to his table as he got up.

"Okay, don't take too long or we'll start to miss you," Maria giggled.

Jeff smiled and winked back at her before continuing to the bathroom. Once inside he made a quick survey of the men's room, and found no one else was in there. A few seconds later Hunter entered behind them.

"Well, since you couldn't stay with me I decided to come to you," Hunter grinned slyly.

"Glad you did," Jeff said as he walked over and locked the door, ensuring they would be left alone in the men's room.

Hunter raised a curious eyebrow at Jeff when the young Hardy looked back at him.

"My brother's been kind of a pain in the ass lately," Jeff muttered.

"Yeah?" Both of Hunter's eyebrows went up with interest at where this was going. "And what do you want to do about it?

Jeff took Hunter's hand and guided it around to his ass. The younger man smirked when his current lover got the reading and gave him a squeeze.

"Let's piss my brother off even more…"

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Matt tapped his fingers on the table anxiously, while Mickie and Maria exchanged gossip. Jeff had been a long time in the bathroom, and the situation was made even more nerve wracking by the fact that Hunter had gone to the bathroom shortly after Jeff had.

It was when their food finally arrived that Matt decided it was time to check on his brother. However, just as he got up from the table Jeff came out of the bathroom looking no different coming out than he had going in.

"You were in there a long time, are you okay?" Maria asked as Jeff sat down, looking genuinely concerned that the younger Hardy might be sick.

However, Jeff only waved it off with a casual shrug. "I'm fine I just stayed to write a little poetry on the wall."

"Aw, that's cute," Maria giggled.

"Think so?" Jeff grinned back.

Suddenly all eyes shifted to Hunter, who had just come out of the bathroom and sat back down at his table.

"You know he looks so lonely over there all by himself." Maria said sympathetically.

"Yeah," Mickie nodded. "Should we invite him to join us?"

"Yeah!" Maria exclaimed, grabbing Mickie's wrist, and dragging her over toward Triple H before either Mickie or the Hardy's had a chance to protest.

While the girls were busy with Hunter, Jeff turned to Matt, who was grumbling incoherently as he ate his food. The younger Hardy leaned in and whispered in his brother's ear. "I let Hunter fuck me in the bathroom just now."

"You what?!" Matt practically screamed as he jumped up from his seat.

"You heard me," Jeff said defiantly.

Matt just stood there opening and closing his mouth in shocked anger for few moments, before his lips suddenly became a tight thin line. "You know what? Fine! If you're going to keep pulling bratty shit like this just to piss me off when I'm only trying watch your back, then as far as I'm concerned, you're on your own!"

The older Hardy grabbed his wallet and pulled out enough for his food and slammed it down on the table. "If this blows up in your face you can pick up your own damn pieces, 'cause I'm done!"

"Fine!" Jeff shouted to Matt's retreating back.

And with that the older Hardy stormed out of the café. Leaving Jeff glaring after him and everyone in else in the café, including Hunter and the girls open-mouthed in shock...

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Oh dear... Matt is not a happy puppy...