Chapter 4

Catelyn walked the backstage area completely and utterly lost. Maybe she should've been paying attention to where she was going but hey now, that would've been the smart thing to do and according to her mother, she wasn't exactly known for her intelligence, because really all those A's on her report card obviously meant nothing.

"Hey, who are you?"

She turned around to see two tall men walking towards her, both oozed cockiness and both seemed to think they were the greatest thing to ever walk god's green earth. She wandered how those 2 got along without fighting with the 'I'm the best there is' attitude.

One of them was wearing a big wolfish grin as he stared at her, his dirty blonde hair was wavy and shoulder length. He slid his sunglasses down his nose as his blue eyes looked her up and down, the smile growing as he did so. The other man was younger but seemed if possible, the cockier of the two. He had short brown hair and bright blue eyes that also roamed over her and when they actually reached her eyes, they promised to make even her wildest dreams come true.

She didn't want to be anywhere near them.

But Catelyn wasn't one to lie, they were both easy on the eyes, if it weren't for the vibes they were giving off, she could probably sit there and look at them all day, but why feed their ego's more. It would be more fun taking them down a notch or two.

"Who's asking?" She drawled.

The one with the short hair rolled his eyes. "obviously we are. You a new Diva?"

She lifted an eyebrow at him. "Diva?"

He laughed, "Look at this Edge, they hired another one who knows nothing about this business. You know what that means right?"

"More Lingerie Fashion shows." They high-fived each other, laughing. Catelyn just stared at them in stony silence, clearly not amused.

"I'm sorry you think I'm doing what?" She asked when they finally calmed down.

"Were you hired to work here as another bimbo?" The blonde enunciated slowly, thinking she was clearly dumb and couldn't understand anything they were saying.

"No." She replied back, matching his tone and his enunciation. "I'm not some stupid bimbo, I have brains and wouldn't be caught dead doing that."

"Are you a lost fan? Did you sneak back here?" the other one asked.

"As if." She said with a roll of her eyes. "I wouldn't be caught dead cheering on this stupid show anyways. Now if you'll excuse me, I have better things to do, prettier… things to look at, excuse me."

With a flick of her hands, she motioned for them to part and when they didn't, she muscled her way in between them. No easy feat but she tried to make it look easy as she breezed off down the hall, not looking back.

When she turned the corner, she slowed down, still trying to figure out where the hell she was.

"Lost?"

She scowled as Matt Hardy caught up with her and slowed to keep pace.

"What do you want?" She asked.

"To apologize for what I said. It was out of line."

"You're damn right it was."

He continued walking with a small frown on his face. "That's it?" He finally asked. "no apology accepted?"

She lifted an eyebrow at him as she finally found Shawn's room, only because he was standing out in front of it, seemingly looking for her.

"Sure I'll say that, when I accept your apology. There's Shawn, talk to you later."

She sped up and without speaking to Shawn, walked into his room. Shawn and Matt glanced at each other before glancing back at the door, more importantly the name across the door, Men's locker Room. Moments later Catelyn walked back out of it, her face beet red.

"You could've told me." She hissed at them.

Shawn tried to keep a straight face but then he glanced at Matt who wasn't doing such a good job as they both burst out laughing.

The door behind Catelyn opened once more and Johnny Nitro stood there with only a towel on and a smirk on his face.

"Like what you see baby?"

Her face went even redder as she looked down, refusing to meet his eyes. Shawn and Matt quickly stopped laughing as they glared at him.

"Why don't you come back in and I can finish the show off."

She took a step back, tears burning her eyes.

"Nitro, back off." Matt said through clenched teeth.

"Did you already lay claim to her?" Nitro asked with a smirk. "Is she a good little ring rat?"

"Watch your mouth." Shawn said, stepping up to him. "You want to continue with that train of thought, be my guest, but you won't get far."

Nitro looked between the two, sending a smug smile and a wink to Catelyn before going back inside.

"You could've told me." She muttered again, still not looking up. She didn't know what it was but as soon as she walked in there, the door had closed and she saw, well what she saw, she was overwhelmed by a feeling of panic, of being trapped and turned right round again. She didn't get it. She had no memory of what had happened. She couldn't remember so why did guys in general and any advances make her want to freak out. There was no plausible explanation for this. Was there?

"Did he hurt you?" Matt asked.

She shook her head, begging the tears not to fall but they did anyways. She heard Shawn sigh and then an arm was awkwardly wrapped around her.

"I'm just going to take her back to my room. I'll talk to you later Matt, maybe kick him extra hard for her in your match later."

"No problem, I'll see you later. Bye Catelyn."

She didn't answer but as soon as he left, she stepped out from under Shawn's arm.

"I'm fine." She said, her words short and clipped.

"You don't look fine, what happened?"

She took in a deep shuddering breath and as she let it out, lifted her head and squared her shoulders, hastily wiping at the tears still on her cheek. "Nothing happened, I'm fine. What now?"

He pointed across the hall. "That's my room. See it has my name on it."

She rolled her eyes and waited for him to open the door before stepping in behind him. He watched her move around the room and organizing her things before she flopped down on the couch and started writing in a notebook.

"That's it?" He asked. "You're not going to elaborate?"

She stopped and looked up at him mock surprise on her face. "I'm sorry but I'm just the hired help. I wouldn't want to bother my employer with my personal problems. It crosses that whole, employer/employee business relationship line."

He sighed, running a hand through his hair. "You're not going to make this easy on me are you?"

She schooled her face into a blank expression. "Make what easy on you?"

"This, everything."

"Why should I?" She asked, returning to her notebook.

"Because I'm doing the best I can for having found out I have a 21 year old daughter."

"I get that this is hard for you." She quietly replied, not looking up. "You want to treat me as an employee that's fine but you can't decide once in awhile to play the father, to be concerned. You can't do that. This may be hard for you but this is hell for me. In a matter of days my whole life was turned upside down then to top it off I'm sent to the father I never knew existed who would do anything to have this go away."

He opened his mouth to say something but she cut him off.

"Please don't deny it, I'm a lot smarter then mom ever gave me credit for. If I could disappear and let you carry on with your happy existence, I gladly would but I can't go back home. For more then just mother kicking me out I can't go back home."

"What happened?"

She looked up now her eyes drilling into him. "You're crossing that line again Shawn."

He sighed and opened his mouth to say more when there was a knock on the door.

"You're wanted for your promo."

He shook his head at the timing but motioned for her to follow. "Just stick by me." was all he said.

She followed him out of the room and down the many hallways until he came to a stop in front of a camera crew, a red background and a young woman who was fixing her make-up and quietly talking to herself, seemingly going over her questions. Shawn motioned her to the side as places were called, the camera began to roll and the young woman began to talk, introducing Shawn and asking him a few questions.

Catelyn watched, trying to not let her mind wander but oddly enough, Shawn was able to hold her attention as he talked. She found him funny and interesting and was soon caught up in what he was saying.

"You." A voice screeched.

Shawn stopped and turned to the female voice but she was looking right past him, right past Maria, right past the camera crew and right at Catelyn.

Catelyn for her part seemed dazed and confused as she turned to focus at the woman pointing at her. Confusion clouded her features as she stared at her, wondering if she had bumped into the Latina at some point and pissed her off. Yet her mind came up blank. She looked behind her to see if someone else was there but there was only her and Catelyn quickly backed up as the enraged woman approached her.

"Who the hell do you think you are?" The woman snarled in her face.

Catelyn stared at her before glancing at Shawn who was quickly making his way over.

"I'm sorry, do I know you?"

"As if I would waste my time on you but you seem to know my boyfriend."

She slowly shook her head and glanced again at Shawn as realization washed over him.

"Melina, step away from my assistant." He said, moving closer and trying to move in between them.

"Your assistant?" She asked in disbelief. "Your little assistant was the one all over my man?"

"Who?" Catelyn asked, still wondering who she was talking about. She had been all over no one. In fact she had spent a lot of time running away.

"As if you didn't know." The woman, Melina snapped.

"Melina, calm down." Shawn said, completely moving in between them now. "She really doesn't know. It was an accident."

"How is walking into the men's locker room and trying to remove his towel, saying she has a show for him an accident."

Shawn ran a hand over his face. "Oh boy. That's not what happened. Catelyn accidentally ended up in there and left right away. It just so happened Johnny was in there too."

"He was hitting on me." An outraged Catelyn cried, finally understanding what was going on.

"Whatever." Melina huffed. "You listen up little girl. You keep your grubby little ring rat paws off of my man and keep them on your own." She glanced at Shawn with a roll of her eyes. "Because next time I won't be so nice."

Flipping her hair back she stomped off leaving both of them behind with a look of repulsion on their faces at what Melina had implied.

"Cut." Someone yelled.

"That was so awesome." From another voice.

Catelyn looked around, her eyes widening in horror at the camera currently pointing at them.

"That was on tape?" She asked in disbelief.

"Actually that was live." Shawn said, rubbing at the back of his neck. He could just hear Rebecca's phone call demanding to know who Catelyn was.

"I was on TV?" She screeched. "Take me off."

"We can't, it was live." Shawn reminded her. "I maybe should have mentioned that with this job there was a chance you could end up on TV."

"Yes, maybe you should have." She hissed, pushing past him and down the hall.

"Catelyn." He called, running after her.

"Leave me alone. I don't want to be on TV. I hate this stupid place."

He grabbed her arm and against her struggles, pulled her into his room.

"Just calm down." He told her.

"No." She replied. "I didn't want to see her ugly ass boyfriend and I sure as hell didn't want to be on TV."

"And acting like a little spoiled brat isn't going to change anything."

Catelyn knew he was right so did the only obvious thing. She crossed her arms over her chest and pouted.

"That's not helping your case." He said, his tone slightly amused.

His cell phone began to ring and he groaned, reaching into his bag to grab it.

"Michaels."

Catelyn relaxed a bit as she turned to him and listened to his side of the conversation.

"No baby, I hired her Friday night… You said you wanted me more organized so I got an assistant… what's the big deal… how could you even say that? She's half my age…I know you're younger then me too but look she was kicked out by her mother and in desperate need of a job… what was I supposed to do…She just needed help… No for the last time I'm not sleeping with her… Nitro was spouting off at her he said stuff to Melina… just a big misunderstanding…she's my assistant, that's it… I promise… I know.. I love you too, kiss Cameron and Cheyenne for me… Bye baby."

He closed his phone with a frustrated sigh.

"Are they…" She trailed off uncertainly on the topic of her half siblings. She was curious but like she told him he couldn't act the part of the father when he damn well chose to and that meant she couldn't act like he was her father, no matter how curious she was.

"Is she mad?" She quickly changed the question.

"She was shocked by what Melina said but she understands. Look me and you we're going to have to come to an understanding if we're going to work together." He sat down across from her and looked at her.

"Fine. You keep me the hell away from the cameras."

"watch your mouth."

"I just said hell."

"exactly."

"Oh boy we're gonna have problems."

"Why's that?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I say a lot worse then hell."

"didn't you ever go to church?"

She gave him a look as though he were crazy. "Let's stop that thought and remember who my mother is."

"Good point."

"Why, do you?"

"Yes I do."

"Oh boy, maybe it's a good thing you're not accepting me as a daughter."

"Hey now-"

She held up a hand to stop him. "Anyway. An understanding. No camera, no church, no asking me questions when you feel like being a dad."

He stared at her but then nodded. "Fine. I may not be able to stop the cameras but I won't throw you out there if that's what you mean. I can't make you go to church although I ask that you reconsider and go with me once, it's not that bad and whatever has happened to you, you just may find healing there. I will ask you questions not as a father but as someone who is concerned for your well being."

She snorted. "And why would you be concerned for my well being."

"Don't question it, just accept it."

He stood up and began packing his things.

"Don't you have to go wrestle?"

"Nah I just had the promo to do."

There was a knock on the door and Catelyn went to answer it.

"Hey." Matt said with a big smile. "That was pretty cool when you were on TV."

She pulled a face. "Like I wanted to be."

"What's up Matt?" Shawn asked, moving up behind her.

"You're wrestling now. Me and you against Nitro and Edge."

Shawn sighed. "I'm not bringing her out there."

"Good, cause I'm not going out there."

"I know but the match was probably made so you would go out there. Or to keep you away from me so Melina can get to you."

"Jeff already volunteered to look after her."

"There, now you'll be safe." Shawn pointed out.

"I don't need a baby-sitter." She snapped. "I'm a big girl I can handle myself."

"But if I get lonely, I'ma need your help." Matt answered her with a grin

"Pay attention to me I don't talk for my health." She fired back biting back a smile.

"I want you on my team."

"So does everybody else."

Shawn stared at both of them like they were crazy as Catelyn giggled.

"Promiscuous By Nelly Furtado and Timbaland?" Matt questioned

Shawn just continued staring but Catelyn smiled at Matt as he shot another line.

"Wait! I don't mean no harm, I can see you with my T Shirt on."

"I can see you with nothing on, feeling on me before you bring that on."

"Bring that on?"

"You know what I mean."

"Girl, I'm a freak you shouldn't say those things."

"Ack, that's enough." Shawn cried.

Catelyn and Matt laughed.

"Cute." Shawn said. "Catelyn, you don't know the WWE and what people would do here. Trust me, you'll be better off with Jeff."

She looked between the two men, ready to argue but stopped at the looks on both their faces. There was no way she was going to win this one.

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