Chapter 5

Jeff stormed out after they finished their appearance. Matt followed after him.

"Dude, would you slow down." Matt yelled after his brother. "Jeff!"

"What!"

"Hey, calm down. Don't take it out on me." Matt yelled as Jeff finally slowed down. "What is wrong?"

"Something's up. I know it."

"Why?"

"I just feel it. I don't think that I can do this storyline right now. Not with everything going on. My relationship with Meg is falling apart, and now they change this storyline and it's not right."

"Why?" His brother asked him.

"Because she's not here. It's always like something's missing and it brings up this stuff that I thought I had gotten over a long time ago. I just can't deal with this tonight. It's been a bad day since I woke up this morning and I don't see it getting any better."

"Dude. You've got to relax a bit. Look this night is almost over. We just have our match and then after that we'll head back the hotel and just chill out for a little bit. Tomorrow's another day. All right?"

"Yea, I'll calm down." Jeff went off to the locker room; Matt hung back for a little bit. He knew that Jeff needed to be alone to unwind and he saw Jay and Adam coming up with Vicky.

"Good Job, guys." Vicky said as they came over.

"Now all we have to is the actual match." Adam added.

"Yeah, any idea who'll be joining us?" Vicky asked.

"Well, I guess it could be any Diva, except Michelle and Maria because they have a match tonight." Adam said.

"Maybe she doesn't even know yet." Jay said.

"Yea, they'll just throw her in at the last minute." Matt said.

"Why not. They just did it to us." Adam quipped. "Where's your brother?" Just then the sounds of a guitar playing could be heard. "Well I guess that answers it."

"He just wanted to unwind a bit before we go back on."

"Yeah, well let's get in there we need to plan the match." Adam said.

"Catch up with me later; I got a few things to do." Vicky said and she walked away.

"Later." Adam said as they all headed into the room. Jeff looked up and put his guitar down.

"Sorry guys I just had to get my head in the game." Jeff said. "I'm ready now."

"Good because remember this is my first match back." Jay said with a smile. "So you all have to make me look good."

"Now that's impossible." Adam added.

They continued on and planned the match. After while, even Jeff was joking with them and pushed all of his problems out of his mind.

"So Vicky keeps getting involved and then who ever this Diva is, comes out and lays Vicky out. You guys get the pin and presto we're done, and I can go introduce myself to some sexy Diva." Jay said.

"You are hopeless you know." Adam said.

"Yea, but oh so pretty."

"Let's go." Jeff said as they all headed to the ring.

While the entrance music for the Hardy's was going off, Shane knocked on Jessica's door.

"Ready to go?" He said as he entered. He took one look at her and felt light headed.

"How do I look?" Jessica asked.

"Absolutely amazing." He couldn't stop looking at her. She stood before him wearing skin tight leather pants, and her old school, Team Extreme tank top, altered to fit her like a glove.

"Okay, let's do this." Jessica said pulling up her long armed gloves. She went to go out the door. "Am I allowed to leave?"

"Let's go." He grabbed her hand and they went out the hall. A feeling of nausea swept over her as they walked down the hallway. She gripped Shane's hand tighter as they passed some other wrestlers. She got a few smiles from some but others just stared at her in shock.

"Well I guess you got your surprise." She looked to Shane.

"Everything's going to be fine." He reassured her.

"Yeah, I know." She walked up to the entrance and waited for her cue. She sucked in her breath when she looked at the monitors and saw Jeff's face there. "I can do this. I'm in control." She whispered to herself trying to fight her rising panic.

"All set?" She turned around and saw Vince there.

"Hey." She said and hugged him.

"Just take a deep breath. You're going to be great." Vince said then excused himself. She saw Vicky step on the apron and distract the referee. That was her moment. She sprinted down the ramp and thrived off the screams and cheers as the fans recognized her coming in. She snuck about behind Vicky and pulled her of the apron slamming Vicky's face on the ring. She quickly hit her with a twist of fate. "Edge" turned around to see his wife lying on the ground. He looked up to see Jessica standing there, and that's when she saw it. Absolute shock. She walked up the ramp and turned back to the action right as Matt pinned Jay. The Hardys had won, but looking at their faces she knew that her appearance was unexpected. She looked at the shocked faces of Jay, Adam, Matt and then she saw Jeff. He looked frozen and unable to move. "I'm gonna kill Shane." She thought to herself, as she stared at the heartbroken face of Jeff Hardy. Remembering where she was, she did her salute to the crowd, and walked off.

"Where the hell is Shane?" She yelled as soon as she came off.

"What's wrong?" Steph came up to her.

"What's wrong? I just walked out and saw four of the most surprised faces I have ever seen in my life. They had no clue I was going to be here!"

"Calm down." Stephanie said to her. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Shane. She pushed aside Stephanie and went up to Shane.

"You son of a bitch, how could you lie to me like that? You told me you told them, and they were cool with this!" She screamed at him.

"I did." Shane explained trying to get a hold of the situation.

"Shane, I saw them. They were not expecting to see me out there!"

"That's what they were supposed to be. They were acting."

"I know these guys; they're not that good at acting. You lied to me."

"What does it matter?" Shane exclaimed trying to calm her down. "All that matters is that you returned. You did it. Look I didn't tell them, because if I had to tell you that they weren't cool with this you wouldn't have returned. You needed this."

"So you did all this for me? You made me a fool."

"I didn't make you a fool. I wanted you to succeed. Come on, admit it, when you went out there and gave Vicky the twist of fate, I saw the look in your eyes. You were back. That's what I wanted. I wanted you to be happy again." Shane started to relax when he saw her face soften.

"It did feel good. You know out there doing some of my old moves, I felt the adrenaline. It felt good." She leaned into him.

"See I knew you would."

"Yeah," She lowered her voice leaning closer to him. "Remember this move?" She raised her knee and solidly hit him in the groin. Shane fell to the ground.

"Jessica!" She turned at hearing Vince's voice. She looked around and realized that everyone was staring at her. She saw Jay, Adam, Matt and Jeff watching her in awe.

"I'm sorry." She said then looking at Vince, "You're son's an ass." With that she walked away.

"Yup!" Jay said with a laugh. "She's back."

"Quit it." Matt said to him. "Jeff, you all right, man?"

"Fine." He walked over to Shane. "That what the smirk was about, right? You knew she was here but just wanted it to go down like this. I knew you were up to something."

"Okay," Steph interrupted. "Everyone needs to calm down. You four I want to review with you what we have planned. So head back to the locker room and I'll be there in a minute. Jeff, I'm sorry. Shane go home, you've caused enough trouble. I'm gonna go find Jess."

"All right you heard her. Everyone can leave." Vince said, "Shane come with me." Shane followed his father out. The crowd dispersed, with clusters of wrestlers and diva's talking about the scene they had just witnessed.