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A/N: Thanks to everyone who read and reviewed. You guys are awesome! This chapter focuses on Evie's first night in the WWE and her meeting with Ted. So as always enjoy & review!
Evie nervously gripped onto the strap of her gym bag. When she left the hotel she was perfectly fine. Her nerves were in check. That all changed once she made it to the arena.
'Calm down Evie.' She thought to herself. 'Just relax.'
Finally she made it to her destination. Evie was now standing in front of Vince McMahon's makeshift office. Taking a deep breath, she knocked on the door. Just knocking on the door alone made her nervous.
"Come in." She heard faintly from behind the door.
Taking one more deep breath, she reached for the doorknob, pushing the door open. The second she walked into the room and saw Vince, all her previous thoughts of calming down were now shot to hell.
"Ah Evelyn James!" Vince exclaimed. "Welcome! How are you doing today?"
"Hello Mr. McMahon. I'm doing good, and yourself?" She said with an uneasy smile.
"Call me Vince. Please Evelyn, have a seat." He said gesturing towards the lounged chair placed in front of the couch. "So today is your first day. Are you nervous?"
Evie smiled politely before she sat down. "Not at all." She responded, lying through her teeth. Her entire body was shaking because of her nerves. She hoped he didn't notice.
"Good, you have absolutely no reason to be." Vince replied as he looked towards his newest employee. "I've seen many of your matches and promos. Needless to say, I'm impressed. Before I push you into anything heavy, I want to start you off slowly."
She continued to listen as her employer spoke. At first, she was flattered that she had impressed him. Actually, she still was. What threw off was that he wanted to start her off slowly. That is possibly the worst thing anyone could hear right away.
"Before I actually put you in the ring, I want to start you off on backstage commentary. Then from commentary, maybe I'll have you managing somebody. Maybe, I'll have you managing someone and wrestling at the same time. I still haven't decided on what I want you to do after backstage commentary."
With each passing second Evie's smile grew even more fake than the second before. She really wanted to get into the ring right away, not two years from that day. Beggars can't be choosers. The most she could do was go with the flow.
"That sounds good Vince." Evie commented. What she really meant was this is all bullshit.
"I'm glad you agree." Vince as he looked through her contract. "You are good in the ring. I just want to add more onto what you know. Also, I want you to work on your submission technique, its a little weak. So, while we are on the road, I'm going to have another superstar train you."
'Fantastic, I've been wrestling for six years, and apparently I need more training. Way to contradict yourself.' Evie thought to herself. 'Just keep your mouth shut and accompany this. Don't ruin this for yourself, you've worked too hard to get here.'
"Who will be training me?"
"Ted DiBiase. However, your trainer may change every now and then." Vince replied. When he looked at her a little closer he noticed the look on her face. "But I just want you to remember, your training on the side probably won't last that long. I just want you to work on your in ring presence first. The WWE works a lot differently than the indies."
She only nodded as he spoke. At this point she was somewhat paying attention. When he mentioned her working with DiBiase offscreen, her thoughts instantly went to Kristen's plan and how it was going to go into affect faster than she thought. That and the fact that she hated him.
"Sounds good."
"That's all I needed you for. You can go ahead and change into your work out gear. Ted is waiting for you out in the ring area."
"Okay, thank you Vince." Evie said as she got up. "Have a nice day."
"You too. Oh and before I forget, here is your script for tonight." He said handing it to her. "Welcome to Raw."
"Thank you."
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Fifteen minutes later, Evie was changed into her work out gear and heading towards the ring area.
"Its not or never." She muttered to herself as she walked down the ramp.
Feeling like he wasn't alone in the ring area anymore, Ted looked up from his phone to see a familiar face walking down the ramp. He felt a smirk coming across his face. This was going to be fun.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't Evelyn James." Ted said as she approached him. "I'm training you?"
Oh how she really wanted to smack him. Now that she was actually in front of him, her hate for him intensified. It was because of him that her cousin was borderline crazy. At least in Evie's opinion she was.
"Yes you are. Although, I don't know why you're training me. You haven't done anything except follow around Randy Orton like you're his bitch." She retorted as she slid into the ring.
Ted smirked at her comment. He had always liked her. She was a spitfire. The fact that she hated him only made him like her even more. If that made any sense.
"At least I didn't start on backstage commentary."
"How did-"
"How did I know?" He questioned cutting her off. "Lesson number one Evie, in this business, nothing stays quiet for long."
"But-"
"Rumors are confirmed or denied just as fast as they are started Evie."
"Don't call me Evie. You lost that right a long time ago."
"What I call you should be the last of your worries, okay? We've wasted enough time, lets get down to business."
With that an intense training session began. Evie was generally a high flyer. So most of her moves consisted of ariel attacks. However, since her submission technique was moderately weak, she needed help there.
"When your opponent has you in an arm and hammer lock, your first instinct should be to reverse it. The longer your opponent has you in the move, the more damage he or she can do to your arm. Naturally there is a quick way to reverse the move."
"All right."
"I'm going to put you in the hold. Once I get you in the hold, you're going to bend down and pull my leg."
"Okay."
Ted did as he said he would. He purposely applied a lot of pressure on her arm. The point was to see how fast she could reverse the maneuver. And to be an asshole to her of course. She had been a bitch to him all day.
Evie winced at the pressure he had put on her arm. He was doing it on purpose, she knew it. He was being a dick to her because she was being a bitch to him. Smirking through the pain, Evie bent down slowly, being sure to rub her butt against his crotch. She heard him groan lowly, this made her smile. It was obvious that she enjoyed tormenting him. Then in one swift motion, she pulled Ted's leg, thus having him slid between her legs onto the floor of the ring.
Ted didn't even get a chance to blink. She had pulled him so fast. He was definitely proven wrong. Evie, who is a small girl, is deceptively strong.
"Good job." Ted said as he got up off the mat. "I'll see you in the hotel lobby tomorrow at 6:30 in the morning. Get ready for some intense training, you are nowhere near the level Vince wants you at."
Evie rolled her eyes. "I'll see you bright and early."
"Yeah, you will." Ted said as he slid out of the ring. "Oh and Evie, I know you like me and all, but keep things professional in the ring. We're at work." He said referring to the stunt she had pulled in the ring not too long ago.
For the first time in her life, she was speechless. Ted had completely taken her off guard with that comment.
Shaking her head, Evie headed out of the ring and backstage to get ready for the night. Tonight was her first night as a backstage interviewer. Her first night many.
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"I hate your ex boyfriend." She stated as she walked into the hotel room later that night. "He is a douche bag."
"Why? What did you find out?" Kristen questioned hurriedly. She hadn't expected Evie to find out something that fast.
"Nothing at all." She said sighing. "Its just his over all presence."
"He's not bad at all."
"The sex must have been good for you to have forgiven him for everything."
"You're just mad because you haven't had sex in two years."
"Better to be without sex, than to be with an ungrateful asshole."
Kristen shook her head. She had given up. The two cousins had been having the same conversation for the last week. No matter how much she tried to tell Evie that Ted was a great guy, she knew that Evie wasn't convinced.
"What did he ever do to you Evie?"
"Nothing at all." She said lying. "There's just something about him that I just don't like."
"If you say so." Kristen said shrugging her shoulders. If her cousin said it was nothing, then it meant nothing. "Enough about him, how was your first day?"
Sighing, the new WWE Diva sat on the bed. It was time for her to tell Kristen everything. And by the time she was done, she just hoped that Kristen wouldn't have a new idea.
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"Where were you before Raw tonight?" Cody questioned his friend as he set his beer bottle down on the table.
"Training the new diva."
Cody was perplexed. He was backstage all night, and he hadn't seen any new diva wrestle in a match during Raw.
"New diva?"
"You saw her. She was the cute brunette who interviewed us tonight."
"So that's why you were all smiles."
"Pretty much. But there's more to her. Do you remember my ex, Kristen?"
"Yeah, what does she have to do with the new girl?"
"Everything, she's Kristen's cousin."
Cody suddenly became interested. Ted was after his ex girlfriend's cousin. At least that's what it looked like from Cody's point of view. Then a thought dawned on the young superstar, if anything were to happen between the new girl and Ted, it would only be a disaster in the end.
"And that affects you how?" Cody questioned. He wasn't completely sure as to where Ted was going with all this.
"Evie has always hated me. And the more she hated me, the more I liked her. She's a spitfire, different from any other girl I've ever met. Furthermore, she's easy to piss off."
It was exactly what Cody thought it was. Ted had it in for the new girl. And apparently, there was something else there. More than Ted told him. Correction, more than Ted would want to tell him.
"So how do you fit into training her?
Sitting back, Ted began to tell Cody how he fell into training her. While he was talking, he made a mental note to not tell Cody the whole story. It wasn't for him to know. Ted said he didn't know why Evie hated him. But the truth was, he knew why. The trouble that he had caused, is what made Evie hate him.