A new girl in town

Chapter 59

J.J./Taker/Sammy/Kane/Kayla

"Where did Kane take off to?" Taker asked.

"He's walking Kayla back to her office." J.J. said.

"Oh that's a good idea." Taker replied.

"I still don't get it." Sammy said. "Who could be managing all of this? Could it be someone in DX?"

"It doesn't seem likely. The Road Doggs and Chyna are followers they wouldn't think of it unless Hunter ordered it. I don't think Hunter has the skills to pull it off." Taker said.

"Neither do I." J.J. said. "I don't see Hunter as tech savvy enough."

"No I don't think he is either. The pictures I could see but the other stuff…" Taker replied trailing off.

They sat for a while each caught up in their own musings about who could be behind it.

"I guess you saw Hunter give me the finger just now, huh?" She asked when she could no longer bare the silence.

"Yes that wasn't very mature of him." Kane said. "He's a spoiled entitled asshole."

Kayla laughed.

"True that, my friend," she said rolling her eyes.

Then, in her Hunter voice she said,

"Hey, my name is HHH. I'm twelve."

Then she laughed again.

"His name if you can believe it is Hunter Hurst Helmsley." Kane said trying to sound stuck up. "At least that's what he used to go by."

Kayla laughed some more.

"Did his parents really fucking hate him or something? I mean seriously, that is so pretentious! What's wrong with a regular name like Paul?" Kayla said.

"Apparently blue bloods don't name their children normal names." Kane said.

"Oh my god, did you just make a reference? To something I don't get?" Kayla asked.

Kane laughed.

"That's what he used to call himself. I had to look that up. It's someone of noble birth. Basically it's someone who comes from old money. A lot of it." Kane said.

"Dude, have you found the wonders of Wikipedia yet?" Kayla asked, barely being able to contain her excitement.

"What's that?" Kane asked. "I looked it up in a dictionary."

"Oh. I forgot about those. It's an online encyclopedia. I've wasted hours of my life on there, I can't lie. You look up one thing, and then you're like 'shit, that looks awesome too!' So you open that thing and pretty soon it's like three hours later," Kayla said with a laugh.

"Wade goes on there a lot when he's high. You guys have pages on there actually," she added.

"The fed you mean?" Kane said. "That would make sense. Vince tries to get the fed everywhere."

"Yeah, that's there too, but I mean people specifically... like you," Kayla said.

"Seriously." Kane asked.

"Yeah, seriously," Kayla said.

"You'll have to show me." Kane said. "But it'll have to be another time I have to get you back in it's almost time for the next meeting."

"Shit, sorry. Let's go," Kayla said as she led the way back into the building and back to her office.

Kane got her back to the office and went back to the locker room.

"What took you so long?" Taker asked.

"She needed to smoke and I didn't want to leave her alone." Kane said.

"Well at least you got back in time for the meeting. It's nearly time." J.J. said.

"I know. I barely noticed the time passing. Did you know about Wikipedia?" Kane asked. "Kayla says there are pages on there about us."

"There probably are." J.J. said. "I've never looked."

"I did." Sammy said. "When Taker first asked me out."

"I'm surprised you went out with me after the stuff they probably said." Taker laughed.

"I almost didn't." Sammy said laughing.

I wonder what's up there about me. Kane thought. Did J.J. ever look me up?

"No Kane I never looked you up." J.J. said seeing the thoughtful look on his face. "I have no idea what it says."

Once Kane had gone, Kayla fired up the browser and went straight to Wikipedia. She wasn't certain of how to spell Hunter's full name so she searched for WWE and found it immediately. Once there, she located the roster page and began scrolling through it. She made a few mental notes on people to look up when she found the time, and then suddenly he was on her screen.

Wow, he looked different before he started wrestling. Then a flash of different looking him kissing her popped in to her head and she quickly scrolled passed the picture.

He's a rather decorated athlete but you'd never guess it from the way he acts. Shouldn't he be classier or something? As she thought this, an image of Tye holding a glass of wine in one hand surfaced and she smiled before moving on.

There's definitely a relationship with Chyna going on... but are they exclusive? He doesn't seem like the faithful, one-woman only type.

Who's Shawn Michaels anyway?

He's a West Ham fan? Holy shit, me too!

He definitely likes his metal as far as music goes. He and Wade would probably have something in common if they hadn't gone straight to wanting to kill each other.

She reached the end of the page and quickly closed the tab. Then she deleted her web history.

After that was done, she opened the programs that she'd need for the night, connected her speaker dock to her phone and picked a playlist, then she settled down to another night of work.

Kane/J.J./Taker

Leaving the locker room Taker waited for Sammy to lock the door before catching up with J.J. and Kane. They went into the assigned room and found they were among the first there.

Kane watched as Hunter came into the room.

Could he really be behind this? It seems too obvious for him to be the one. After all anyone who has watched the two of them together could be doing this to put suspicion on Hunter. Kane thought.

Taker watched everyone weighing them as the stalker then dismissing them one at a time.

J.J. noticed Kane and Taker scanning the crowd.

They usually don't do that. J.J. thought. What are they looking for? Do they actually think the stalker is one of them? If it is who could it be.

Vince finally arrived and the meeting began. In typical fashion he yelled and belittled people. Then he started lining up the matches. Much to their surprise Kane and Taker were in singles matches. Kane was to face Big Show and Taker to face the Rock.

That's different. J.J. thought. They are a tag team why does he have them fighting singles.

He's trying to keep us from moving up the ladder to another championship match. Kane thought.

Vince is fucking around with us again. I wonder why. Taker thought.

Then he announced that Hunter had a Title match against Bossman.

What's he rewarding? Is it Bossman hurting X-Pac? Is that what Hunter promised him if he took the kid out? If so he's got control over everyone. Just offer his title up for grabs and most of the guys will do anything he wants.

The meeting ended soon after with J.J. still wondering what was going on.

Heading back to the locker room they were silent each working on their own thoughts.

Taker knocked on the locker room door and Sammy opened it.

Once inside they started talking.

"He's rewarding Bossman you know." Taker said.

"For what?" Sammy asked.

"For hurting X-Pac. He must have offered a championship match to him if X-Pac somehow got hurt badly." Taker said.

"That makes sense." J.J. said. "Almost every one of the wrestlers wants a shot at that title."

"But would they actually hurt someone for it?" Sammy asked.

Kane snorted. "You'd better believe it. Most guys will never get a shot otherwise."

"But that's nuts." Sammy said.

"In this world it's business." Taker said.

"Ok." J.J. said. "So assuming Hunter is doing that. Could the stalker be someone here?"

"Yeah it could be." Kane said. "We just have to figure out which one has the knowledge of technology to pull it off."

"How the hell do we find that out?" Sammy asked.

"I don't know." Taker said.

"Does anyone stick out?" J.J. asked. "Is any of them nerdy enough to be a closet tech wiz?"

I wonder what a nerd is. Kane thought. Is it someone like Sammy and Kayla who can work computers?

He sat quietly while Taker, Sammy and J.J. discussed technology and who might have access to it.

"I don't see anyone here doing it." Taker said at last. "It just doesn't seem possible to begin with. To think some of these muscle heads could do it is unbelievable."

"It doesn't have to be one of them that is tech savvy." Sammy said. "There could be someone helping the person responsible. So it could be any one of them."

"Thanks Sammy." Kane said with a laugh.

"Yeah." Taker said. "Now we're back to square one."

"Sorry." Sammy said.

"No it's good. We weren't thinking in that direction." Taker said.

Hunter/DX

Hunter opened the door and let the men in.

"Is it true?" One of them asked.

"Yeah." Hunter said.

"So we do it and we get a title match. We have your word." The other man asked.

"Yes you have my word." Hunter said. "It will happen as soon as it's done."

"You back out on this and we'll come after you." The first man said.

Yeah like I'm afraid of these assholes. Hunter thought.

"It'll happen." Hunter repeated.

The men left the room smiling. But Hunter was smiling more.

Kayla

Kayla worked in her usual rhythmic fashion, but even so the time passed slowly. Er Had it really only been forty minutes since Kane had left? An hour? An hour and a half?

She groaned and fought the temptation to bang her forehead against the closest monitor.

This shit isn't what I need right now. She thought.

She rose slowly from her chair and stretched. Then she left the office and headed out for a smoke.

The air felt refreshing against her skin. She leaned against a wall and took several deep breaths before she lit up.

She spent about twenty minutes chain smoking. The place felt strangely deserted to someone who had grown used to being surrounded by people and it made her unease grow.

Finally, when she figured she had wasted enough time, she headed back inside and back to her office.

J.J.

As time for her meeting approached J.J. wondered how the guys would do in their singles match. It had been a while for each of them. Not that she thought they'd lose she just worried her anyway.

Once at her meeting she completely forgot about the day's events and concentrated on work.

After the meeting J.J. headed ringside. She had announce right.

Sitting on the wall at ringside she took some candid shots of the fans coming in and their signs.

Then it was time and she took her position.

Kane/Taker/Sammy/J.J.

"Look on the bright side guys." Sammy said. "One of you gets to stay with me."

Kane laughed.

"What and watch you work." Taker said.

"Hey I watch all the events." Sammy said. "Especially if you guys are in them."

"That's good." Kane said.

It wasn't long before it was time for Kane's match he was up second. He stepped to gorilla position and waited while Big Show was introduced.

All I have to do is keep him moving and he'll run out of breath. Then I'll have him easily. Kane thought.

When his music went off Kane stepped through the curtain and raised his arms.

Big show quickly left the ring.

I didn't know he could move that fast. Kane thought lowering his arms but not setting off the ring posts.

Finally he entered the ring. Again he raised his arms but didn't set them off. Then he waved Big Show into the ring. Before long Kane had Big Show puffing like a freight train. He finished him and set off the ring posts before flipping out of the ring and walking back up the ramp.

"Not bad." Taker said as Kane walked back into the locker room.

"That didn't take you long." Sammy said.

Kane just smiled.

Before long it was time for the Tag match to happen.

Demoliton vs LOD.

They were only half paying attention to the match when Kane noticed something. J.J.'s out of synch. He realized. I haven't seen her this close to getting hit since Hunter went after her.

Damn they are getting close. J.J. thought as she just missed being run into again.

Just then she saw a blur heading in her direction. It was too late to move so she braced for impact.

Kane turned away for a second and when he looked back he knew something was up. The announcers were on their feet staring down at the floor. A quick look told him it wasn't one of the wrestlers. Then he started searching the area for J.J.

"She's not there." He said without realizing it.

Just then the announcers started calling out the EMTs.

It's J.J. I know it is. He thought running out of the locker room.