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Chapter Fourty-Two:
Edge limp to the back with his arm on his ribs. From his antics before, no one backstage would help him. Om to didn't expect this. He wonders sometimes if they know that his niece didn't have surgery.
He finally gets to the locker room to pack his valuables and go. He doesn't want to stay for Lita to get more ideas to humiliate him. For him luckily, his one close friend, Christian, is the only one there.
"Man, what did you do to them?" Christian asks as he as watched his punishment.
"They are just getting back to me from before, that's all." He painfully puts on his shirt.
"I don't think that is the whole story; you pissed up higher management."
"Christian, do you think they know?"
"Know what?" Edge gives him time to ponder. "They could know. If they do it does make sense. Plus, you were not on good terms to begin with."
"I know, but it was worth it."
"You mean with the girl and her mother." He refers to Michelle and Jamie.
"She wasn't her mother when I met her." He defends.
"Isn't she now? You said that her probation would be up by now?"
"She is and they are having a wonderful time." Edge speaks a bit upset. Their calls have turn every two weeks with Edge's work schedule.
"You want to be with them, don't you?" Christian observes.
"I do, but they are better without me. I need people to like me again. I don't want Jamie to be rejected by people just because I am with her."
"You just have to be the kind, respectful, and caring person I know you are outside the ring." Christian advises.
"If that is what I have to do then I'll do it." He wants Michelle and Jamie to be proud to have him around.
"Edge, you can be a very determine person. You just focus on this and I know you can accomplish it." He supports him as he heads to the door.
"Thanks." He appreciates.
"You are welcome." When he opens the door, he almost hits a child and a woman. "Oops sorry." Christian smiles knowing exactly who it is. Edge has shown him pictures on his phone on what they look like. "He will be ecstatic to see you; both of you." He lets them in. "Oh buddy of mine, some people are here to see you." His says in a joking tone.
"Can you tell them I had enough humiliation for one night?" Edge doesn't turn around as he assumes it is Lita or Jeff.
"You think we would humiliate you, Mr. Adam." The child speaks sweetly. Edge straightens up at that voice. He recognizes that voice anywhere which makes him turn around to prove it is actually them.
"Joan, Michelle, what are you doing here?" He is surprise by this visit.
"Mommy, we should have called first he doesn't want us here." Joan pouts.
"No Joan don't leave." He walks towards them. "Come here I have missed you." He picks her up.
"I missed you too, Mr. Adam." Joan hugs him tight. "We don't take as much as before."
"I know bumble bee. I am so sorry about that." He can't believe they are actually here."
"It is okay I know you are busy. Now, who is your friend? Hello." She waves at Christian.
"This is my close friend, Christian. He is like Joan and Johnny to you." Edge introduces.
"You mean that… oh man." Christian figures out that the girl is friends with the children of Lita and Jeff.
"Yes, say hi to them." Edge orders.
"Yes dad." He rolls his eyes. "Hi, I am Christian." He introduces himself as he shakes with Joan's hand.
"Please to meet you." Joan smiles.
"You must be the beautiful mother." Christian kisses her hand.
"Christian back off." He steps in front of her.
"You are dating the mother." Edge glares at him. "No, you like the mother and I want to date her." Christian grins.
"Mind your business. Let us go eat somewhere." He requests very annoyed now by his friend.
"We have to visit Lita, Jeff, Johnny, and Joan first." They haven't watched the segment or match, so they don't know what happen between them.
"Sure, bye buddy." He grabs his bag to head out.
"Please to meet you." Michelle speaks kindly.
"Very nice to meet you hope to see you again." He flirts to have Edge turn his head back to glare at Christian. After, he pulls Michelle closer to him.
When they leave, Christian chuckles. "He definitely likes her."
"What was that?" Michelle asked.
"What was what?" Edge obvious to his previous reaction.
"You were very protective of me." Michelle reminds him.
"Protective? I was just looking for you." He covers up his lie.
"Mr. Adam, lying is bad. You like mommy and was jealous that Mr. Christian was flirting with her." She giggles.
"No I wasn't." He doesn't want to admit it.
"Maybe we should go visit everyone by ourselves, he doesn't care about us." Michelle takes Joan from him.
"Or yah, if I didn't care would I do this?" He kisses her lips. Michelle lets Jamie down as she giggles. The kiss lasts a minute before they break off. "Do you now doubt my care for you two?"
"It is fading, but I think I need a bit more." She pushes his lips to her again. They sweetly kiss as Jamie runs to Jeff and Lita's private room.
The kiss breaks off as their foreheads connect. "Do you believe me now or do I need to proceed with a different action." He grins.
"I am not officially yours yet, so none of that." She warns.
"Edge, is this how you show me you love me? You kiss and flirt with another woman." Lita inquires with Jeff, Jamie, and a pretend camera crew.
"What does she mean by that? Do you still love her?" Michelle let's go confuse.
"Michelle, it is just for a storyline. I am not really in love with her. I just want them to not get married."
"So, she can marry you?" She argues very mad that she has been played this whole time.
"Is this true, Mr. Adam? Is that why you don't call us that often anymore?" Joan wonders upset.
"No bumble bee it isn't true. This is just a storyline I still care about you two."
"Not as much as her." Michelle argues with cross arms. "Jamie, let's go we probably wasted our time here." She waves her over.
"No, please stay I have missed you two so much. This is just a storyline just like before when Lita and I pretended to be a couple. We weren't officially one we played it off for the storyline. You have to believe me that I don't love Lita." He explains to Michelle and Jamie.
"You have said it about ten times earlier tonight."
"Is that true?" Michelle inquires.
"It is, but it was a stipulation for the match. I has to say 'I love you, Lita' when a signature move is used. They set me up to execute as many of them as they can to make me say it."
"So you confess that you don't love Lita? You confess that she can live her life with Jeff?"
"Absolutely." He pleads accepting anything to win her over.
"You won't interfere in their relationship outside the storyline?"
"Yes, I promise just don't leave me. Ever since Joan told you about your father, I couldn't get you out of my mind." He admits.
"Okay." Michelle signals for the cameras to go away. "I will give you this last chance."
"Thank you." He gets up to kiss her. She can't help to put her arms around his neck to enjoy it.
"He does care about us." Jamie sighs a breath of relief.
"We just want to make sure." Lita explains why she did this whole situation.
"I know he still has a way to go before he fully proves to us that he is trustworthy."
"Especially for Michelle, I was like that before the storyline. I want to make sure it doesn't happen to her."
"It won't I will make sure of it." Jamie promises. Edge and Michelle break off again to look each other in the eyes.
"You want to eat out my treat." Edge offers with an arm around Michelle.
"I am in, what about you guys?" Jamie asks.
"Maybe not today we have to plan our wedding. It is going to be…"
"You are still having it?" Edge asks.
"It is, is there a problem?" Lita questions.
"No, there isn't." He says as Michelle smiles.
"We have to run we have a meeting with Vince and Stephanie." Lita excuses.
"Maybe we will join you three later, which restaurant are you going to?"
"We are going to Checkers; Jamie loves their burgers and fries."
"I do. Hope to see you four later." Jamie hugs them all before holding onto Edge and Michelle's hand.
"You still want to test him." Jeff wonders.
"Yes, we have to be absolutely sure. This won't only damage Michelle, but Jamie as well." Lita explains her concern.
"Okay, come on we have to meet Stephanie and Mr. McMahon." Jeff guides her to the office.
They are all in Vince's office. "We called you all here to discuss the details of what will happen in the upcoming weeks." Stephanie explains with Vince sitting down on his chair.
"Okay, what is the plan?"
"Since your wedding is not until next week, we thought we use your children on Smackdown for a segment and match." Vince continues.
"What is the segment regarding?" Lita inquires concern. This is the reason why she doesn't want them apart of this.
"Well, we want your children to distract Edge in a couple of matches."
"How many matches are we talking about?" Jeff wonders.
"We are thinking about ten matches." Vince tells them like it is not too much.
"No, they can't be interrupting that many. That is at least one every day."
"Lita is right I thought you would only use them for live events; Raw and Smackdown." Jeff argues.
"We would, but we want to introduce them to the crowd, so the crowd isn't surprise when they see them at the wedding." Vince explains.
"That is the point we don't want them to be introduced to everyone. They are not to be put in this kind of work; they are not ready." Lita argues hugging them.
"We can only use them for this storyline. Sp we are going to use them to make it better."
"You think they are best for business." Jeff is astonished by this idea.
"Stephanie, can't you do something. They are not supposed to be out there to foil someone's match. I know you grew up into this business, but you weren't part of the storylines back then, weren't you?"
"No, I wasn't."
"So, what is the difference with our children? You have never included children into a storyline before."
"This is different, we have a contract to use them for this storyline and only this storyline." Vince grins.
"He does mommy. We signed it earlier tonight." Joan agrees.
"That is right." Vince nods with a smirk.
"Joan and Johnny, how about you go find John Cena or Trish Stratus we need to talk to our bosses?" Lita tells them sweetly.
"No mommy, I got us into this mess I'll get us out." She stands strong.
"How about you, Johnny?" Jeff asks.
"I'll stay with my sister. I will always support her in anything." Johnny stay put.
"What are you going to do, now?"
"Mr. Vince, did you read my contract before you signed it?"
"Nope, I didn't."
"In my contract, it says we are only part of this storyline and only this one."
"Yes, we have agreed it does say that."
"What you didn't notice because you didn't read is that we are only part of the wedding for the storyline." Joan reveals.
"What, it doesn't say that?" Vince is surprise by this condition.
"It does."
"You said that this contract is to protect you from other storylines, not this one." Vince restates her words.
"I did say that, but that is only part of the contract. The other part is that we, Johnny and I, are only part of the wedding. We are not contracted to use any other way."
"Let me see the contract." Vince asks not believing this. He thought he had her cornered.
"Here you go." Joan gives her the contract.
Vince takes it and shreds it. "Oops, it seems the contract is invalid." He grins happily.
"Mommy, what have you always advise me with important documents; especially valuable papers?"
"You should always have two copies of everything." Lita grins knowing that was the copy of it.
"No!" Vince shakes his head. "You don't have another one."
"Yes I do." Joan takes out the original one. Vince wipes his hand down his face.
"Dad, I think you are losing your touch." Stephanie tries not to laugh.
"As you see it, it says 'Johnny and Joan, Lita and Jeff's adoptive children, will only participate in the wedding and nothing else." Joan reads.
"Let me see." Vince asks to get a hold of the original.
"Certainly." She takes out a magnifying glass. "Here we are." She restates the part again.
"It is there dad we can't use them."
"Damn." Vince crosses his arms. "Fine, you all can go. We will see you on Smackdown." He sends them away disappointed. Joan gets off Lita's lap, after giving her the contract, to go to Vince.
"You are great at the negotiations." Joan compliments. "I tell you my secret." Vince turns to her. "I get my knowledge from you. I know when to be smart and tough in these situations. Thank you for your wisdom." She hugs him.
Vince is touch by her compliments. "You are welcome." He hugs her back. "I was serious about the future here for you."
"I will really consider that, but I just might want to be a wrestler." She smiles innocently.
"Oh no you are not." Lita shuts down that idea.
"Just kidding, mommy." She turns to Lita with a smile. Afterwards, she turns to Vince and smirks. Vince smiles as Joan puts a finger over her mouth to keep the secret.
"We will see you on Smackdown." Joan waves bye to them.
"She will be a handful to deal if she does become a wrestler." Stephanie acknowledges.