They went and got subs at a local deli and decided to take a day in California. They decided to cancel the flight and sign up for a new one after the match tonight; after all he had an entire week off. After lunch they walked to the WWE shuttle that took them to the arena. There wasn't much too a house show. More fan interaction being that they were not on television. A lot of showing off of things that they couldn't do while doing the live televised shows.

Adam escorted her to a waiting room so he could change in the communal dressing room. "I'll come and get you after the show."

"When do you go on?"

"Well Jeff and I are the main event tonight."

"So you are going to be gone forever."

"More like an hour. You know if you want you could go down ringside and watch? Or you can watch from somewhere in the arena. Make it less boring for you," he grinned.

"Maybe I'll hang out back with the "paramedics" and catch up on local medicinal gossip," she chuckled putting quotations around paramedics knowing full well that they were actors who knew first aid. He gave her a quick kiss and walked out of the room.

Adam was at the entrance waiting for his theme song to start so he could run into the arena. Normally Jeff got last introduction, but he was going to make a promo on Adam before the match, make sure that he was over. Not that Jeff could be more over than he already was.

Adam peeked through the curtain and saw Jeff in the middle of the ring talking about how he was going to beat the hell out of Edge tonight. Hmphh, he chuckled. As long as he had been in the business it still made his insides churn and he could feel the excitement and anxiousness over knowing that the guy in the ring out there was talking about him, and that in a minute he was going to walk through that curtain and hear a mix of boos and cheers. He was used to the boos; they just mean that he was doing his job. He grinned at the thought, then he heard Justin Roberts call him to the ring as he heard the beginning of his theme song start.

Val snuck around the back and watched through the curtain at the other end of the ring. She had gotten bored with the false paramedics who were in the back waiting for the fight. The had been used in the CM Punk and Kane match when Kane supposedly threw Punk through the canvas. They were telling her how they aspired to be actors. One had been a promising med student who wanted something built more to her status. She was too good to be a nurse, and those that were nurses were bookworms with no lives. She kept her profession to herself.

She loved to watch Jeff fight, and the same could be said for Adam. They were both very good at what they did. As she was watching Jeff make his promo when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked behind her and saw Beth.

"So, you're going to Canada I hear, Jessica," she laughed.

"Jessica?"

"As far as Jeff and Matt know Adam said he was dating a girl named Jessica. Apparently she's a well built brunette." Meaning quite a bit different from Val who was a moderate blonde.

"Basically he's dating you." She smiled.

"Cute." She paused. "Matt's in the back, how're you goin' to explain your bein' here if he catches you?"

"I'll cross that bridge when I get to it."

"Well, just so ya know Jeff saw you earlier. I have him questioning it, but he knows it was you."

All of the color drained from Val's face. She knew deep down, no matter how she tried to make herself believe otherwise, she couldn't lie to Jeff. "Did you tell him?"

"No, it's not my place, but I think if you take this where it might end up this week, you really need to tell them. You're their baby sister, they may get mad, but they'll get over it. Just give 'em time. Believe in them, hell, believe in yourself."

"Sometimes you sound too much like Jeff."

"After you've been with someone for ten years they rub off on you, and vice versa." Adam's theme hit turning her attention back to the ring. She was at the entrance forty-five degrees to the left of his entrance so she was able to see his head bob above the crowd as he made his way to the ring. Someone said something to him and he stopped walked up to his face and put his thumb to his nose, fingers standing in the air, and wiggled them. Then he went continued to make his way to the ring. He walked around the ring, Jeff's eyes never leaving Adam. Then Adam jumped into the ring and started a stare down with Jeff. Quickly he averted his gaze as the referee intervened and he ran to the corner turnbuckle. He jumped up and landed on the second rung. He made a wired face, but then went back to doing his gimmick. He jumped down, his face cringed again. He started to run across the mat, but the run became a limp towards the end, but he trudged on. He lept to jump to the second turnbuckle again, and his ankle landed wrong. Adam fell and grabbed his ankle. His face showed every ounce of excruciating pain he could show. Jeff and the ref ran over as Adam held his ankle. Hismouth was open as wide as it could be and Val's heart ripped in two as she heard him holler and shout, the manly version of screaming. More refs came running out along with the fake paramedics. Getting to the ring she knew they had no idea what the hell they were doing. She ran to the superstar entrance, but security held her back saying that she had to wait until he was brought back here.

"Get a real ambulance! Get a stretcher! Do it NOW!"

"Maim, I know you are with him, however, I need you to calm down until a medical professional arrives." He was holding her shoulders.

"Damn't you buffoon! I am a medical professional!"

From behind the curtain she could hear the crowd quieting down. She figured out why as Adam spoke into a microphone, "I'm sorry, but I can't fight tonight." The arena filled with more boos than cheers.

The other set of security guards pulled back the curtains. Adam was being helped to the back by two referees and Jeff not far behind asking, "Man are you okay."

Once he was behind the curtain they walked him over to the stretcher. Jeff helped lift him up and Val shoved past the guard. Jeff looked up and smiled as he saw her. "Baby sista, thought you were here. Thank God, you wanna take a look until the doctor gets here?"

She didn't even acknowledge him, only taking in the Adam's pain and the sight of tears on his face. She put her hands on his face and wiped away the tears. "Hey," she whispered, "it'll be okay." She reassured him.

Beth and Matt came up next to Jeff as he stared in amazement. "What the hell is going on here," Matt inserted into the silence.

Jeff shook his head, "That's what I want to know. Beth, babe, do you know what's going on?"

"Yeah, why is she so upset. Doesn't she deal with shit everyday? What the hell is making him so damn special?"

"She's dating him."

Matt and Jeff's jaws dropped simultaneously as they looked back at Valerie and Adam.