Chapter 3 – Einstein Has A Voice
"Thank you so much for understanding Vince," Lillian Garcia smiled as Vince McMahon opened the door of his office for her, leading them both into the backstage arena hallway where RAW was being televised that night.
"After all your dedicated service to the WWE it is the least we can do for you Lillian," Vince replied with a smile.
"Well thank you again Vince and I'll be getting back to you about Wrestlemania soon," Lillian added.
"Don't forget," Vince nodded "I need to know before March 1st."
"I completely understand," Lillian nodded "I will be talking to you soon."
"Great," Vince replied "I will be seeing you around then my dear."
"You too Mr McMahon," Lillian replied before and she turned to walk towards her locker room and Vince turned heel and headed back into his office.
Lillian released a sigh of relief as she started to head back to her locker room.
"What happened?! What happened?!" A voice practically shouted from behind the ring announcer, causing her to jump out of her socks.
Meanwhile.... also in the arena backstage....
"Please don't tell me that I....," Heidi Maree Orton practically shouted as she barged into the Orton locker room.
"Got beat to the shower by your father?" Lita asked as she looked up from the book she was reading.
"Not again!" Heidi pouted as she dragged her feet over to the black leather couch where her mother was currently stretched out along "How long has he been in for?"
"I'm sorry honey," Lita replied wincing as she answered her daughter "He literally just got in the shower before you barged in the door."
"Oh man!" Heidi exclaimed as she flopped onto the couch opposite the one her mother was on "I am not going to get in that shower before midnight am I?"
"Knowing your father," Lita replied honestly "I'd say not Heids."
"And we have that massive surprise party for Brooke and Penny tonight too and I definitely can't go smelling like a sock," Heidi whined as she folded her arms across her chest.
"Hold up," Lita said, sitting up to face Heidi and crossing her legs "Why do you smell like a sock anyway?"
"Ash and I went to the gym," Heidi replied.
Lita cocked an eyebrow at her daughter.
"OK OK," Heidi said "Ash dragged me to the gym."
"That sounds like the truth," Lita commented "I know that you hate the gym more than anything."
"True," Heidi nodded, accepting the fact.
"So, wait," Lita said, suddenly realising something hadn't been properly explained "Why did Ash drag you to the gym?"
Heidi chuckled to herself a little before she answered her mother.
"Because he was scared of working out in there alone with Glenn," Heidi said with a smile.
Lita couldn't help but let a laugh escape her lips.
"I'm fully serious mom," Heidi said as she joined her mom's laughter "He actually wouldn't let go of my arm until I agreed to work out with him while 'scary ass Kane' was in there."
"You know he's becoming more and more like his father everyday," Lita commented, her laughter calming down "So you ended up working out did you?"
"Yeah," Heidi nodded as her eyes found the bottle of water sitting next to her on the couch and she reached for it "It wasn't too bad. Plus I got to perve on all the hot young rookies who were also working out."
"Don't you let your father hear you talking like that," Lita said seriously before turning around to check the bathroom door was fully closed and the shower was still running "So anything you saw and liked?"
Heidi couldn't help but laugh at the eager look spread across her mom's face as she took a swig of water from the bottle in her hands.
"You are honestly worse than I am," Heidi commented with a smile "But you did miss out on a show. Some of those rookies are very very easy on the eyes."
"I've heard that Tyler Hadson is amazing on the eyes," Lita commented.
"The new Canadian guy?" Heidi inquired.
"Yeah," Lita nodded with a smile "He's only about your age you know. Maybe 19 or 20."
"Hmm...," Heidi contemplated "I will definitely be looking out for him."
"Like I said my dear don't let your father know you are on the hunt," Lita said with a small chuckle.
"You know who was even nicer to look at in that gym though?" Heidi said, veering off the topic of her father and his disapproval of her and everything that was male.
"Who?" Lita asked in curiosity.
"My dear friend Ash!" Heidi exclaimed in both shock and excitement.
"Ash?" Lita asked, not quite sure if her daughter was talking about the same Ash that she was thinking about.
"Yeah," Heidi eagerly nodded "I mean we were working out on the treadmill for awhile and then all of a sudden the shirt came off and it was like 'Whoah'."
"Surprising?" Lita inquired.
"I don't know," Heidi answered honestly "But I mean where the hell was he hiding those guns and the matching six pack?"
"Just as impressive as your father's when he was in his 20s?" Lita inquired, trying to get a better grasp of the magnitude of this shocking news.
"Ew mom," Heidi whined scrunching up her face "Don't ruin my buzz and my visuals with images of Dad. Ew."
"You father did have a very impressive body back then," Lita sighed, day dreaming a little.
"Mom you're not getting turned on just thinking about it are you?" Heidi inquired with a really grossed out look on her face.
"Heidi!" Lita exclaimed, a small laugh escaping her lips at the look on her daughter's face "You just take it too far don't you?"
"You're the one that was day dreaming about dad's 'hot bod' and getting turned on and gross stuff like that," Heidi commented, raising an eyebrow at her mother "Show a little contol mother. Geeze."
Lita just shook her head and laughed at her daughter. She couldn't believe how witty and spunky Heidi had become. Lita didn't know any other 17 year old that was as confident in everything she did as Heidi was. Confidence just oozed out of the young brunette as did the witty comments and comebacks. Lita had never won a verbal wit war against her daughter and she doubted that day would ever come.
"So what are you going to do about this whole shower problem then my dear?" Lita asked her smart assed daughter, changing the subject entirely.
"I don't know!" Heidi exclaimed in her whiniest voice possible "Where else am I going to be able to shower?"
"Well we're not going back to the hotel before the party because it's almost an hour in the other direction," Lita pointed out.
"Exactly," Heidi nodded "And everyone is staying at the same hotel for the first time in history, so no one will have a shower any closer than ours."
"So why not shower here?" Lita suggested causing her daughter to look at her like she was a complete retard.
"Have we not just established that father is in the shower here mother?" Heidi inquired, cocking an eyebrow at Lita.
"I realise that," Lita said rolling her eyes at Heidi "I mean't why don't you shower here at the arena."
"Where am I going to shower? In the middle of the ring out there?" Heidi inquired, still thinking her mom's suggestion was completely stupid.
"Why don't you go and shower in the Divas locker room?" Lita suggested.
"Cause I'm not a Diva?" Heidi suggested.
"Your behaviour begs to differ my dear," Lita replied "But seriously, just go and shower in the Divas locker room. There are loads of showers in there."
"I guess I could," Heidi nodded "That is a very valid suggestion mother."
"'Thanks mom for such an amazing idea!'" Lita suggested.
"Don't push your luck Ames," Heidi retorted "You still owe me for getting turned on thinking about Dad whilst I was still in the room."
Meanwhile...
"Maria, I am going to freakin' kill you if you EVER scare me like that again!" Lillian yelled at her friend "Jesus Christ, I almost wet myself!"
"My bad," Maria suggested with a cute little smile "I was just a little excited?"
"Jesus Maria," Lillian breathed as she tried to catch her breath and stop her heart from racing.
"So how did it go?!" Maria asked, suddenly getting excited again "What did Vince say?!"
Lillian turned to her friend and shook her head with a small laugh as she watched Maria practically bouncing off the walls in excitement.
"Well he accepted my resignation and said that I was going to be greatly missed in the WWE," Lillian started as she began to lead Maria in the direction of the Divas Locker Room.
"Well of course you are!" Maria exclaimed as if Lillian's statement was completely obviously "You have been with the WWE doing an amazing job for almost a decade now!"
"Yeah," Lillian agreed before continuing her story "Well he said that it would be no problem except for the fact that I won't be able to terminate my contract because it's so close to Wrestlemania and apparently he doesn't have the time to try and find a replacement for Mania with all the other stuff involved with it."
"But I mean it's not really your responsibility to try and find a replacement for your job Lil," Maria commented.
"Yeah but it kinda is if I want to get released from my contract earlier than May when all the contracts that get renewed, get renewed and the ones that don't, don't," Lillian explained as she and Maria continued to walk the backstage corridors of the arena.
"True," Maria nodded "Are you still 100% sure that you want to retire now Lil? After all this time?"
"Yeah I am Ria," Lillian replied sighing.
"Aren't you going to miss it though?" Maria asked "The screaming fans every Monday night. Singing the national anthem on Live TV every week infront of thousands of people. Getting a front row seat to per on all the hot new rookies?"
Lillian couldn't help but chuckle a little at Maria's last statement.
"Gosh how could I leave the hot new rookies?!" Lillian exclaimed with a small laugh.
"That's right," Maria nodded seriously "Aren't you going to miss those shiny muscular bodies?"
"Of course I'm going to miss it, all of it Ria, but it's been almost a decade now and I think that it's time for me to move on," Lillian replied honestly "I've loved all the time I've had with the WWE, especially all the amazing friends I've been able to meet because of the WWE, but there are so many more things I want to do with my life. I think that it's time I start on those other things and leave the WWE on a high note. On good terms."
"What does Dave think about it?" Maria asked.
"He knows that this is the right thing for me to do right now and he's being 100% supportive even though it means that we're going to have to spend less time together now with him on Smackdown and being on the road still," Lillian replied.
"Yeah that is going to suck," Maria commented.
"But he's been putting off this surgery on his tricep for months and months now so I'm trying to convince him to take some time to do that when I finally get to retire," Lillian explained.
"That would be so good Lil!" Maria exclaimed excitedly "And then you guys can spend plenty of time as the happy married couple who spend plenty of time in the bedroom getting busy."
Lillian couldn't help but laugh at the little dance that accompanied Maria's last words.
"That is the plan my dear," Lillian laughed "I mean we haven't exactly had all that much time off the road, not travelling since we got married a couple of years ago. It definitely would be nice to get to spend some time being a proper married couple."
"And I know how much you and Dave want a baby Lil," Maria said as she smiled at the her friend.
"Yeah," Lillian nodded.
"That one of the reasons you're retiring too?" Maria questioned.
"Yes," Lillian immediately replied "Dave and I have been married for enough time now that I know that I'm ready to take that next step. I've always wanted a big family and if I leave it too late who knows whether or not I'll ever get the time to have kids. Leaving the WWE is going to give me the time and allow me to settle down and have kids."
Maria smiled at her friend before she spoke again. "So you won't be able to get out of your contract until May then?"
"Pretty much," Lillian replied with a small nod of her own "Unless I can find a replacement before March 1st that I can get ready to take over at Mania."
"So if you find someone to step into your role then you can get out of your contract before Mania?" Maria asked, making sure she understood what was going on "So you could get out of your contract as early as late March?"
"Yup," Lillian replied with a smile before a look of engrossed thought crossed her flawless features "Now the question is where the hell I'm going to find someone to replace me."
"Maybe you could like hold auditions for it?" Maria suggested "I'm sure loads and loads of girls would try out. There are millions of girls in this country dying for a job like yours especially with the WWE."
"Valid idea Miss Kanellis," Lillian nodded as she further thought about it "I'd have to do it soon though."
"You would need to organise it really soon though," Maria nodded as the pair finally reached the door to the Divas locker room and Maria swung open the door.
"Would you want to have complete open auditions?" Maria asked as the pair entered the locker room "I mean where would you have it?"
"You are just full of questions aren't you?" Lillian said with a smile laugh "Way to try and stress a girl out."
"I'm just trying to help," Maria pouted.
"I know you are honey," Lillian laughed as she smiled at her friend "And I appreciate...."
A moment of silence passed and an utterly confused expression crossed Maria's face as she looked at Lillian who had just stopped mid-sentence and was now staring into space.
"Lil, what the....," Maria began to ask.
"Shhhh!" Lillian quickly hushed her friend as she continued to look into space, her eyes pricked "Can you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Maria asked, very confused as to what exactly was going on.
"That singing," Lillian simply replied, not bringing her eyes out of space.
"You look like you're in a retarded trance you know," Maria commented.
Lillian broke from her trance and raised her eyebrow at her friend.
"I'm trying to listen to who that is singing," Lillian explained.
Maria scrunched up her nose as she strained her ears to find the voice Lillian could obviously hear singing.
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?
Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart now?
"Ok so it turns out you're not so retarded after all," Maria admitted "I can hear it to."
"Yeah but who the hell is singing?" Lillian inquired, her ears still intently listening to the voice "None of the divas can sing like that that I know of."
Why would you wanna make the very first scar?
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?
"Maybe Jillian actually can sing and she's been playing dumb this whole time?" Maria suggested.
"She wouldn't be the only one," Lillian scoffed rolling her eyes before she was met with a sharp punch into her right shoulder "Ow!"
Lillian turned around to see Maria frowning at her.
"I am not dumb!" Maria pouted.
"And apparently really strong!" Lillian commented as she continued to rub her arm where Maria had just punched her "Geeze girl, where the hell did you learn how to punch like that?!"
"Tod taught me," Maria said with a triumphant smile plastered all over her face.
"The rookie Tod?" Lillian inquired with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah," Maria replied with a smile, starting to blush slightly.
"As in half your age rookie Tod?" Lillian inquired again.
Maria's smile turned immediately back to a frown as she eyed Lillian.
"Would you like the bruise on your right arm to match the one I already gave you on the left?" Maria commented.
Lillian immediately shook her head violently before the blonde turned her attention back to the voice in the Divas shower room.
Maybe I should have seen the signs
Should have read the writing on the wall
That I would be the one to fall
"I doubt very much that that's Jillian in there," Lillian commented as she, followed closely by Maria, started walking slowly towards "She may not be as awful as she pretends to be, but there's gotta be some awful in there somewhere to produce that kind of sound."
"Correct," Maria agreed "Maybe it's one of the young ones."
"Definitely not," Lillian immediately replied.
"Why not?" Maria inquired, a little curious by Lillian's immediate negative response "It could be like the rookie twins maybe?"
"All the rookie divas were having their own little karaoke in the locker room before RAW a couple of weeks ago," Lillian replied as she continued to intently listen to the voice she could still hear emitting from the set of lungs in the Divas shower room.
"That bad?" Maria inquired.
"Let's just say that if I hear that Titanic theme song one more time sung in 5 different keys at once I will need to learn how to punch like you Ria so I can knock myself out and put myself out of my misery," Lillian explained.
Maria nodded "That bad."
"That bad," Lillian nodded.
No matter what you say
I still can't believe
That you would walk away
It don't make sense to me
"Well then who the hell is that in there singing like that?" Maria asked as the pair finally reached the door to the Divas shower room.
"I have absolutely no idea," Lillian answered as she reached straight for the door handle and turned it "But I am getting seriously jealous and seriously curious wondering."
Lillian tried to pull the door open towards her as quietly as possible much to the protest of Maria.
"We can't just barge in on them in the shower!" Maria hissed at her friend, her voice lowering in volume completely to a whisper.
"Why not?" Lillian asked "We do it to all the divas all the time! Hell, you do it all the time to me!"
Maria nodded.
"That's true," Maria agreed, causing Lillian to pull the door open further "But what if it isn't a diva?"
"She's in the diva's locker room," Lillian pointed out "Duh she's a diva!"
"Fine!" Maria gave up as Lillian finally opened the door to the diva's shower room completely, letting a whole lot of steam into the divas faces.
Lillian and Maria's eyes were immediately drawn to the furthest shower cubicle away. The white shower curtains were drawn and therefore the obvious location to the set of lungs that belonged to the diva that had the amazing voice. Lillian started advancing forward slowly with Maria close behind her.
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?
Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart?
"Lil I still don't think this is a good idea especially when we don't know who's in there," Maria spoke up again, yet only in a whisper, not wanting the occupant of the last shower cubicle to hear her.
"C'mon Ria," Lillian brushed off "You're the first one to pull practical jokes in this here locker room. It's funny getting busted in on butt naked in the shower."
"You didn't think it was so funny last week when me and Brooke busted in on you!" Maria stated.
"That's because I was butt naked in the shower WITH DAVE!" Lillian exclaimed in her own defence.
"Shhhh!" Maria immediately hushed the ring announcer.
Why would you wanna make the very first scar?
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?
Lillian continued to creep slowly towards the shower with Maria so close behind her she could have been ontop of the blonde.
"What if she's shy and doesn't like being naked infront of other people?" Maria suggested, still trying to change Lillian's mind about this shower raid.
"How many girls do you know that are divas that don't like getting naked infront of other people?" Lillian retorted with a question of her own "It's like in our job description."
"What clothing optional?" Maria suggested, rolling her eyes at her friend.
"You don't become a diva if you're scared of a little public nudity," Lillian explained.
"What if she's a new diva?!" Maria enthusiastically exclaimed, like a light bulb had just been turned on.
Lillian turned around to stare at her friend.
"We were never told anything about a new diva," Lillian commented.
"What if it were a surprise?" Maria suggested seriously, causing Lillian to put her hands on her hips and look at Maria with a very unimpressed look on her face.
"Are you done Pinocchio?" Lillian asked.
"Do you really want to barge on in on the new diva Lil?" Maria questioned, keeping to her story and her seriousness "Are you really going to be the one who welcomes the new diva with a shower raid?"
Lillian shrugged.
"Well at least she'll know exactly what she's in for every time she takes a shower in here," Lillian said.
It's not unborn anymore
How do I get it back the way it was before
And just as shower girl hit the highest note at the end of the bridge, Lillian lunged forward and grabbed the shower curtain. In one swift motion the blonde ripped the shower curtain open.
"SHOWER RAID!"
A/N: Hey everyone! I know it's been a really really long time since I updated any of my fanfictions but I had some time today and I have so many ideas for this story that I want to get out but I was just absolutely stuck on how to get this chapter done. Really sorry if it wasn't as good as expected, I promise the next one will be. Loads of comedic elements planned for Chapter 4 and of course the story line keeps moving nicely and everything seems to be going nicely for now, loll. If you've read One Secret you'll know that I am notorious for writing bumps in the road and twists and turns absolutely everywhere! Looking forward to getting on with this story and I hope you guys all keep coming back to reading it - I promise I will try my best to keep the updates a little more regular! PLEASE READ AND REVIEW! - good reviews and constructive criticism are welcome! God Bless, Mrs Bridget Orton xoxo