Scream

Author: LexysCPD
Chapter: (10/45)
Words: 2,743
Disclaimer: I don't own WWE or the plot, just how the story goes.
Author's Note: So here is chapter ten. AJ and Paige talk like rational adults in this chapter. There are warnings, all types of abuse in this chapter. If you don't want to read it, just skip the parts in italics. Everything is pretty safe.

To the Guest who said this story was really boring because there are no Pai-J moments. One, what do you mean no Pai-J moments? Like to no romance, because I did say in the beginning of the story that it won't happen for some time. And by some time, I really did mean some time.

Two, Pai-J can't happen right now, because AJ screwed up, and Paige's past will get in the way in more ways that one. Hint*Hint for other readers.

And three, I'm sorry if you didn't enjoy this story. I hope you stick around, if not, thanks for reading. And letting me know that you didn't enjoy the story, for the honesty. And I hope you find other stories that you enjoy. And I am being 100% serious and not trying to be an asshole whatsoever in case I may come across like that. I'm sometimes a total asshole/dick when I'm not trying to be.

Now, on with the story, enjoy.

Update: April 21, 2015

"ENOUGH!" Stephanie exclaimed, glaring at the two girls, who were bickering in front of her. AJ had a black eye while Paige had a busted lip. It took some time for the referees to separate the two. "I don't know what's going on between you two, but you can not act like children out there! I want you to sort it out or come to an understanding, or I will strip of the title, and for the next year, neither of you will have title shots!"

Paige flinched at the threat. She nodded as she looked up to her boss.

"Good, now get out of here. You have until Monday to sort it all out."

Both women nodded and rushed out of the room. Paige and AJ looked at each other, not sure what to say.

"Can we talk? Like real adults?" AJ asked, looking at her ex-friend.

Paige sighed and nodded. "Yeah. I know I haven't been trying either."

AJ gave Paige a small smile. "Your hotel room, at eight? I'll bring food and drinks."

"No alcohol. I'll tell Emma and Seth that I will be okay, and for them to go out. They've been babysitting me for the last two weeks," she responded, a small smile on her face.

AJ smiled and nodded. She told Paige she would see her and walked away, wondering what they were going to talk about. She really hoped that they could get over what happened between them, and go back to being friends.

Fireproof Flame

AJ stood up straighter before knocking. She smiled when she saw Paige open the door. She walked in and sat on the ground. She placed the food in front of her. Paige sat down in front of her.

"McDonalds?" Paige asked, raising an eyebrow. AJ grinned and gave Paige the food she had bought the Brit. Paige rolled her eyes and started eating.

Once they were done, they sat next to each other, neither of them knowing where to start.

AJ decided to start. "Do you know how I told you Phil and I broke up because we were better off as friends?"

Paige nodded, as she looked at the older woman.

"That wasn't entirely true. I liked him, I loved him, but he didn't feel the same way."

"Why?" AJ asked, tears in her eyes, as she stared up at Phil.

He shrugged. "I thought I would have feeling for you, but it never happened. I like you, you're a great friend, but I'll never see you as more."

"Then why did you date me?"

Phil sighed, as he ran his hand through his hair. "I thought that maybe I would fall in love with you, but that never happened."

AJ just shook her head.

"I'm sorry April, but if I stay with you, I won't be happy." He gave her a small smile, kissed her cheek and walked away.

"He wanted to be friends, but it hurt too much." Paige didn't respond, she just looked at AJ, waiting for her to continue talking. "I know it's not the same, because I didn't go through what you did, but I know a little of what you went through. I broke your heart, like he did to me. And I'm sorry. I am really sorry."

Paige shrugged. "I may have overreacted. I should have gone off like that, but I did. I went off on you, and I'm sorry for that. Sometimes, my mind goes to its dark place, and I lash out. I turn to alcohol, and it ends badly. I don't want to go through that anymore, but I do."

"What did he do Paige?" AJ asked, staring at Paige.

The Brit had tears in her eyes. "Isn't it obvious? He damaged me, broke me."

AJ bit her lip as she moved towards Paige.

"How did it start?"

"We worked in NXT together, and we started talking. We were friends for sometime. He asked me out, and everything was great for the first four months. I fell for him, and he just changed. We were arguing. He said some things and then I said some things.

"Why do you have to be such a dick?!" Paige snapped, glaring at him.

He was glaring back. His hand twitched. "Don't call me that!"

"Why not? Because you know it's true? Because you know that you're being an ass for no fuckin'—"

Paige didn't continue anything because he raised his hand and slapped her. Paige's eye stung with tears as she could feel the throbbing pain from her cheek.

He stood there, frozen. His eyes were widened. He looked at her cheek, then at his own hand.

"Paige," he whispered looking at her with wide eyes. "I-I'm sorry."

Paige shook her head and took a step back. She didn't want to be near her.

"He spent the next whole day apologizing to me."

"You forgave him," AJ stated, staring at the younger girl in front of her.

Paige gave her a smile. AJ could see that it was very fake.

"Is it that obvious?"

"How did no one notice?"

"We kept our relationship a secret."

"Was it his idea? To keep his secret in the dark?"

Paige shook her head. "It was mine. I didn't want out relationship to affect our work. I didn't want people to make a storyline out of us. And then, when he started hitting me, I couldn't tell anyone. I was embarrassed. I was the bloody Anti-Diva. I was the strongest woman in the roster, and being a-a victim of abuse, I didn't want anyone to know."

"How did no one see a difference in him?"

"He had two sides, the one that everyone saw and the one I fell in love with, and the other side, the only one I saw."

"Why didn't you try to get away earlier?"

"I loved him. I know people say that we have to get away, and that we should love ourselves and get away. But they don't know. They don't know anything. I loved him, and I though, maybe, just maybe I could fix him. I can make him back to the man I fell in love with. But that didn't end well," she whispered, looking to the ground.

"Paige—"

"He threatened Emma!" she exclaimed, standing up. "He-he said if I left him, he would go after Emma, and I couldn't have that!"

"You want to leave me?" he asked, a smile on his face.

Paige glared at him, her fists clenched. Her jaw was in pain from the punch she had just received.

"You're trying to leave me? Really? You're pathetic Paige."

"Shut up," Paige snapped, her tears blurring her vision.

"Who's going to love you? There is no one in this world that will love you like I do."

She shook her head. "No, I'm leaving you. I don't need you!" Paige turned and walked to the door.

He grinned. "Okay, leave then. Walk out the door. I want a new girlfriend anyways, about Emma?"

Her hand stopped inches away from the knob.

"How long do you think it'll take me to break her?"

Paige turned to him. "You're going to stay away from her!"

She felt angrier when she saw him smirk. "Are you going to stay? Are you going to continue being my girlfriend?"

Paige looked to the ground and nodded. He walked up to her and pulled her into a hug.

"I knew you'd see it my way. You can't leave me," he whispered into her ear, before letting her go and taking a step back. "But I still have to punish you."

Paige never saw the fist. All she remembered was a burst of pain.

"I tried, I tried leaving, but he always brought me back!" Her tears were streaming down her face, and AJ couldn't help but feel tears in her eyes.

"Paige, he's not coming back. You don't ever have to deal with him again.

He was sitting on the chair, staring at the door that Paige had just walking towards. Her make-up was smeared, leaving her bruises visible.

"You'll be back. You always come back."

Paige turned to look at him and responded. "Watch me!"

"I give you until tomorrow morning. You'll be back tomorrow. I love what you did with your face though."

Paige froze. She touched her most recent bruise. She sighed and closed the door.

"Come here now," he told her. He watched as she walked back towards him. He stood up and waited until she was right in front of him.

He reached over and grabbed her hair. He grinned when he heard her make a sound from pain.

"Don't ever disobey me again," he snapped, pulled in her hair, which made her lose her balance and fall to the ground. "You're going to sleep on the ground today. And I wake up and see that you disobeyed me, I will make you wish you were dead."

Paige flinched when she felt someone touch her.

"Sorry," AJ whispered, looking at Paige.

"It's okay," Paige responded, her mind far away.

"How about you go to bed, we'll talk later," AJ whispered, giving her a smile. "I texted Emma, and she's staying at Seth and Dean's. I'll stay here with you."

Paige nodded. "You do know nothing changed right?"

AJ frowned and responded. "Yeah. I know."

Paige gave AJ a small smile before heading to her bed.

AJ looked at Paige, who seemed to not want to go to bed.

AJ made a decision right there and then, and decided to sleep in the same bed as the younger girl.

Paige thought it would keep the nightmares away, but it didn't. She didn't feel safe around AJ anymore.

Fireproof Flame

WHEN AJ woke up the next morning, alone. Paige was gone, and she hadn't seen her for the remainder of the weekend.

When Raw came along, Stephanie and Hunter called them into their office.

"Did you two get over whatever was going on between the two of you?" Stephanie asked, watching the two.

Paige nodded. "Yeah. What happened in Smackdown won't happen again. I'm sorry for being unprofessional."

Stephanie nodded and looked at AJ. "And you?"

AJ nodded. "We came to an understanding. We will be ready to work together again."

"Good, because you two are doing a promo tonight. And whatever you two were doing out there, it's great and I want you two to continue," Hunter told them, nodding.

Paige looked at him to continue. "And what exactly is that?"

"You started it," he responded.

Paige gave him a sheepish smile. "Well," Paige started, but didn't continue. Her cheeks turned slightly red, and Stephanie felt bad for the girl.

Stephanie could see that there was something else, and she wasn't going to push them for answers.

"So this crush thing, relationship thing, it's something we can get into, until your Hell in a Cell match. We'll see what happens after that," Stephanie told them and watched as they nodded.

"So we act like Paige declared her feeling for me and I've just realized mine, and have lost my chance?" AJ asked, wanting to be one hundred percent sure of what was going on.

Stephanie nodded. "That's pretty much it."

Paige gave them a tight smile, not sure if anyone knew how hard that was going to be.

They dismissed the girls and they walked out of the room. Paige looked around, not sure what to do.

AJ wondered how uncomfortable the other woman was. She looked like she didn't really want to be there, and AJ decided to let her go.

"I'm going to go check on Dean, I haven't talked to him in some time."

Paige nodded and told her that she wanted to talk to Emma. Both went off to their separate ways, only to meet up later during their promo.

Fireproof Flame

"ON Friday, I was out of line. I shouldn't have said what I said, and hurt someone I care about," AJ said, from the middle to ring. "Paige, I want you to come out here, so I can apologize to your face."

Paige's song went off and Paige came out, her belt around her waist, and a mic at hand. She stopped on the stage.

"Paige, come here, so I can personally apologize to you."

"Why would I go there? Haven't you done enough damage?"

"What are you talking about?"

Paige took a deep breath before looking at the woman at the stage. "AJ, I tried to tell you how much I loved you these last couple of weeks, these last three months, ever since you came back, hell, even when I came out here to congratulate you. But all you've done is shoot me done, and I've had enough of it."

"Paige, please, I want to talk to you," AJ told her, walked towards the ropes.

Paige tapped the mic against her chin. "AJ, I gave you a chance, I gave you many chances, and I'm done giving you chances. I'm done."

AJ sighed and shook her head. "I've just realized."

"Yeah, well, you just realized too late. Come next Sunday, I will beat you, and prove that I don't need you around."

AJ watched as Paige turned around and started to walk away. "How about we add something about the match."

Paige stopped and turned to look at the older woman.

"How about we make the match more than just the title?" AJ suggested.

"What do you have in mind?"

"I know you said you gave up on me, but I don't want that. What if, at Hell in a Cell, if you win, you keep the title, and you choose what happens with me. And if I win, I get the title and a chance?"

Paige thought about it for a second. She nodded slowly, "Okay, deal. We'll have Stephanie or Hunter to add it to our contract."

AJ smiled and nodded. She brought the mic to her mouth. "Now I have two reason to fight harder." She blew a kiss to Paige, as her song came out.

Paige walked off the stage while AJ skipped around.

Fireproof Flame

"SO you forgave her?" Emma asked, while she sat with Seth and Paige.

Paige shrugged. "I'm just tired of it all. I mean, we're not friends or anything. We just work together."

Paige told them nothing about what she told AJ. She wasn't going to tell her best friends that she told AJ about her ex-boyfriend when Seth and Emma barely knew anything.

She just hoped she did the right thing when she told. She wasn't going to forgive AJ. And she didn't know what she was going to do if she wins at Hell in a Cell.

The whole thing was just confusing for her.

He kissed her neck, while she was pushed up against the door. There were tears running down her face. She had tried to fight, but all that she ended up with was a busted lip, bruised cheek, and a kick to the stomach.

"This is all you're good for," he whispered in her ear. He pressed his body against hers and laughed when he felt her struggle. "You love it. You love it when it's rough, I know you do."

Paige shook her head. "No, please stop."

"I love hearing you beg."

Paige started to silently cry as she felt him start to remove his clothes, followed by him removing hers.

"Paige," she heard Emma call out. Paige shook her head, getting out of the memories she was momentarily stuck in.

"Paige, are you okay?" Seth asked, reaching over and touching her hand.

Paige flinched and moved her hand. She was trying to get the memories out of her head; she didn't see the hurt look on Seth's face. Emma did and she reached over and grabbed his hand. She gave him a small smile, and he nodded.

"I-I have to go," she muttered, as she grabbed her things and stormed out of the place.

She slammed her hotel door when she got to the room. She wiped her tears and looked around the room. She didn't want to remember, she didn't want to think about it, but she didn't want to get drunk, she didn't want to burden Emma or Seth, or any of their friends. She didn't know what to do.

She was fucked. Stuck with the memories.

You guys won't know who the boyfriend is until later. I want to keep it a secret. You can guess, but I won't tell you if you're right or wrong. I think it might surprise you.

AJ will try to get closer to Paige in the next chapter. And you'll see more about Paige's life with her ex.

I've decided to make this into a two parter, so instead of waiting two days, I will post the next chapter tomorrow. After that, it'll be every other day until I have enough chapters written or it's another two parter or I'm just being nice or it's a special day.

Thanks for reading and don't forget to review.

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