Two weeks had passed. John was finally getting put back on active duty. He couldn't wait. He was at a restaurant having breakfast He was reading the paper and eating.
"Hey." He heard a voice say. He knew that he knew the voice. He put the paper down.
"Hey boss." He said looking at AJ standing there with a coffee in her hand. "Wanna sit?"
"Don't mind if I do." She said down. "So night's the big night."
"Yeah."
"Are you excited?"
"I'm ready for it."
"Good."
"So that match with you and me still on or what?" He said jokingly.
"You know it." "You're going down."
"Really?"
"Yep."
"We'll see."
"Come on John you know "You Can't See Me" She said waving her hand in front of her face. John laughed.
"That was pretty good." AJ's cell phone rang.
"Sorry."
"It's ok."
"Hello?" AJ said picking up her phone. "What?" "Yes sir." She hung up. She had a confused look on her face.
"What?"
"That was Vince he wants me to fly to Connecticut right now for an emergency Board Of Directors meeting."
"Why?"
"I don't know he didn't say." "I have to go."
"Bye."
"Bye."
Later that night John was backstage at the arena. He was walking by a TV and stopped. He saw Vince Mcmahon and AJ standing in the center of the ring. AJ looked sad. Vince had a microphone.
"Earlier today AJ Lee met with the WWE Board Of Directors for several hours." Vince said. "And the subject matter of that meeting was AJ's tenure as the General Manager of Monday Night Raw." "So here to tell the results of that meeting in her own words, AJ." Vince said handing AJ the microphone.
"Because of allegations of my fraternizing with a Superstar on the roster, I'm hereby resigning as General Manager of Raw." "And I just wanna say that these allegations are completely false." "I know that some of my decisions as General Manager could be seen as unorthodox." "Some people may consider me mentally unstable." "But I just, I think some people like a crazy chick." "So I just wanna thank you guys for every second because I've loved every second of this job." She said fighting back tears. "Thank you." Vince took the microphone back.
"Allow me to introduce you to this person who is not the General Manager." "This person is not the Interim General Manager." "This person is the Managing Supervisor of Monday Night Raw." "Vickie Guerrero."
The crowd booed as Vickie made her way down to the ring. Vince handed her the microphone and left the ring.
Tssk, tssk, tssk AJ." Vickie said. "These allegations." "They're not only fraternizing with a talent." " "You had an affair!" "And you disgust me." "So I need you to go backstage and clear out all of your things. "Since this is my ring now, you need to leave." AJ started to leave the ring. Then she turned around and looked at Vickie. She got one of her crazy looks on her face and started attacking her. They were rolling around on the ground exchanging blows until Vickie got out under the bottom rope. AJ sat in the ring for a few minutes before skipping up the ramp.
An hour later John found her backstage and went up to her.
"If there is ever anything you need." John said. "If there's anything I can do for you." "You let me know."
"Thank you." "I can't believe any of this." "John Vickie said I had an affair."
"Yeah and you just let it go she said that." She said you were seeing somebody give me a name." "I'll go in the locker room." "I'll get'em we'll get there side of the story. "Then it becomes she said he said…
John."
"And it's all allegations and nothing means nothing…
"John."
"It's that easy you just gave up out there."
"John…it was you."
"Wait." "What?" He said shocked.
"That's why when the board asked me to resign I didn't fight it, ok?" "I didn't wanna drag you're name into this."
"Drag my name into it." "Wait, you're talking about that business dinner we had?" "It was business." "Yeah friends, business friends." "How can somebody make something out of that?"
"I don't know but they did and they went to the board." "I think it was Vickie Guerrero." "I'm sorry." She said with her voice breaking and her eyes filling with tears. "I didn't want it to get to this." "And it's a mess now and I don't know what to do." John hugged her.
"It's alright." "Don't worry." "I'm gonna take care of it." "I'll take care of it."
John went and found Vince right as Vince was getting in his limo.
"So let me get this straight." John said. "Vickie Guerrero comes to you with a bogus story about AJ and myself." "And not only do you believe her you give her AJ's job?"
"John there was incriminating evidence." "It is what it is." Vince got in his limo and left.
When the show was over John went back to the hotel. He decided to call AJ to see how she was.
"Hello?" AJ said.
"Hi."
"Hi John." She sniffled.
"Are you crying?"
"Yeah."
"We're gonna get this straightened out." "We know we didn't do anything and whatever evidence Vickie claims to have she can't prove."
"I loved that job John."
"I know and you were great at it and you should be proud."
"Are you busy?"
"No."
"I really don't feel like being alone."
"Wanna come hang out for awhile?"
"Sure." "I'll be there in a second."
"Ok." They hung up.
A few seconds later there was a knock on John's door.
"Hey." He said.
"Hey."
"Wanna watch a movie?"
"Sure." He noticed a sad look on her face.
"Hey." "It's gonna be ok AJ."
"It just really sucks." "I mean I could understand if the allegations were justifiable but they're not." "They're not, they're total shit." "We've never done anything and she knows it."
"I know." "Let's forget about the woman whose shadow eclipses the sun for a minute and have some laughs." AJ laughed. "There's that pretty smile."
As they watched the movie they both fell asleep. John woke up in the middle of the night. AJ was cuddled up to him. He grabbed a blanket off the back of the couch, covered them both up and went back to sleep.