A new girl in town
Chapter 45
Kane/Taker/J.J./Sammy
Following J.J.'s instructions he got setup to play and then at the last minute put his headphones in.
He listened quietly smiling to Cassie sing.
I don't know what she's talking about Kane thought. She has a great voice.
Then he pulled the earphones out.
"Sorry." He said to their confused faces. "She was nervous about something she sang and asked me to not let anyone else hear it."
"J.J. show me how to send one back please." Kane asked.
She showed him and he got to work.
Email:
Kane to Cassie
I loved it you have a great voice. I will listen to the other things later. Can I let Taker, Sammy and J.J. listen?
Miss you too. What do you mean you can't get Kayla either? I'm going to have to go check on her.
And what is totes?
Kane had no sooner sent the email when his phone went off again.
Wade to Kane:
Fuckin hell. What is even going on RN? Has the world gone insane?
Wade:
Cassie just smoked her 3rd bowl in 15 mins and won't say anything accept she sent you things. IDK. :S :( What the fuck...
Kane to Wade:
Tell her to stop it. I just emailed her back.
What is IDK and RN? You guys are driving me nuts using words I don't know…lol
"You are very popular." Taker said smiling.
"I didn't know phones would make me this busy." Kane said. "So Kayla hasn't contacted anyone and they've been trying to reach Her." Kane said sounding worried.
Wade to Kane:
Shit, sorry! RN = right now. IDK = I don't know. IDEK = I don't even know. Kayla uses that one a lot.
"We'd better go check on Kayla." Kane said. "They are all saying they can't reach her."
"Yeah." J.J. said
"Hurry up guys meeting in twenty." Taker said.
"We'll make it." J.J. said.
Kayla
Kayla was just getting into the groove of things when the door opened.
Kayla looked up expecting to see the dynamic duo again trying to cheer her up. Instead she was face to face with Hunter.
Kayla looked up from her screen.
"Well, if it isn't DX'S finest. What the fuck can I do for you?" She said.
She could hear the rest of DX behind him outside the door.
"Just a friendly warning." Hunter said snidely. "You or your friends get in my face again it's…"
"And you'll do what, exactly? Have your little group attempt to kick my ass while you yell instructions from the peanut gallery? Beat X-Pac up some more? Oh yeah, I know about that one. Get your crazy amazon bitch to attack Taker's girl again? C'mon, Hunter, let's hear it," Kayla interrupted.
"I'll end you personally. All of you." Hunter said his face turning red with anger. "You have no idea what you're messing with her girl or who. I will destroy you and all your friends. As or X-Pac I won't lay a hand on him again. I'll let the others do it. When I kick him out of DX."
Kayla couldn't help it; she laughed in his face.
"You're a piece of fucking work," she said. "No really, you are. I don't give a fuck about your threats; bring it on. You may think you own this place but I've got news for you: you will never own me," she said.
"Game on." Hunter said leaving and slamming the door behind him.
Kayla heard someone slouch against the wall with a soft thud.
What the fuck was that... or who the fuck was that? She wondered.
Shit, was it Sean? He probably just heard all of that if he's out there. If I'm any judge of Hunter, this is probably news to him.
Kayla heard another soft thump.
Kay.
Yet again, I'm too curious for my own fucking good. Kayla thought as she got to her feet and exited her office.
Maybe I should've been a journalist. I seem to only want info straight from the source. Around here, that's asking for trouble but I can't seem to stop myself.
X-Pac looked over at the sound of the door. Then still leaning on the wall he turned to staring at the ceiling again.
I'm so fucked. X-Pac thought. He's probably going to Vince's office right now to get a nice big brutal person to beat on me tonight.
"Hey," Kayla said.
"Hey." He said without turning his eyes from the ceiling.
"I know asking if you're okay is redundant as fuck but yeah. Can I do anything?" Kayla asked.
"Yeah go out with me for my final cigarette." He said morosely.
Just then Kane and J.J. walked up the hall.
"X-Pac what are you doing here. If you're playing watchdog for Hunter you're in deep shit." Kane said as they approached.
X-Pac spun around at the sound of Kane's voice.
"He's not. Hunter You just missed Hunter barging in to my office and blustering like a mother fucker without a brain. Sean has just been excised from the group so that Hunter could prove a point. What that point is, I'm still not sure," Kayla said.
"Then you really are in deep shit kid. You know you're going to get your ass handed to you." Kane said. "Hunter knows the kid will get killed. He'll set it up himself. His point is I can do anything to anyone at any time."
Kayla sighed.
"This place is fucked. Why does he keep getting away with shit like this? He's obviously enemy no. 1 around here but... Jesus fuck, does not compute," Kayla said.
"We've suspected for a long time that Hunter has something on Vince." J.J. said. "What it is we have no idea. But Vince is afraid of what Hunter will do so he gets away with murder."
Kayla shook her head.
"What can I do for you guys?" She asked as if they'd just gotten there.
"A couple of things." Kane said. "Turn your phone one everyone has been emailing and texting me cause they can't reach you and they are worried. Then don't forget the meeting." Kane added smiling.
Kayla shrugged.
"It's on... on vibrate," she said.
"It's easier like that. Talking won't change a damn thing," she said.
"Talk to them hun they miss you like crazy." J.J. said. Then she took Kane's hand and they walked back down the hall together.
Kayla rolled her eyes.
"Smoking time if you still want to," she said to X-Pac.
"Yeah may as well have one more before the firing squad." X-Pac said shaking his head.
Cassie/Kane
Email from Cassie to Kane:
Dude, I'm so stoned right now. Fuuuuuuuck. That third bowl was probably a bad idea. Um. I'm going to try super hard to make sense. No promises though. Sorry.
Aw, you really liked them? :O You aren't just being nice? I know I'm being weird or whatevs but I just really want you to like me. :'(
Um. Toats = short for totally. Whatevs = short for whatever. Wade and Kayla make fun of me for using them because they say I'm not from Cali or something but they can just fuck off for serious.
Sending this before I say anything dumb haha. Doing that is pretty much my trademark by now but I'd rather not be embarrassing.
Aw, you miss me? Really? :O :D 3
LOL yeah. Sorry about that.
Kane to Casssie.
Yeah I really liked it. I'd like to play if for the others can i? and no more smoking…
Email from Cassie to Kane:
Yeah, I guess so...? :S :( I don't think it's Taker's thing though. Plus if he hates it, it'll be like getting hit by the wrath of an angry god and I think I'm too high for that haha.
Email Kane to Cassie
It'll be fine. He liked what Wade sent.
"I swear if I get one more email or text today I'm shutting this thing off." Kane said putting the phone back in his pocket.
"Welcome to the 21st century" J.J. laughed.
"AARRGG" Kane growled as the phone went off again.
Pulling it out of his pocket he read.
Email from Cassie to Kane:
What Wade sent? I'm lost... but I usually am haha. I know he's been in the studio since we got home but I figured he was working on stuff for Kyle. :O
Kane didn't respond instead he pressed the off button then the yes to this will shut down the phone.
"Why did you do that?" J.J. asked.
Kane just sighed and shook his head. "Enough" he said.
Kayla/X-Pac
"Kay, it's a plan. Lead the way; I'm directionally challenged," Kayla said with a wink.
Without a word X-Pac headed to the back of the arena.
Kayla fished her cigarettes and a lighter out of her hoody and offered them to X-Pac.
"You look like you need them more than I do right now," she said.
X-Pac lifted his head to take them and she saw his eyes for the first time.
He looked really scared.
"Hunter's king of the jackasses. If I hadn't made promises, I'd kick his ass right now," Kayla said.
"He may be a jackass but he's strong and he fights dirty." X-Pac said.
Kayla shrugged.
"He's never fucked with me. I came from the USMC; we know our shit," she said.
"That may save you if he goes for a physical attack. But it won't save my ass. I'm totally screwed. DX has made a lot of enemies over the years. With them I was protected from the others. Without them I'm doomed." X-Pac said.
Kayla sighed.
"I wish I could help. This sucks; I hate feeling helpless," she said.
"No one can help that's the thing. If they try Hunter will go for them too." X-Pac said. "I should have left a long time ago when I was teaming with Kane. We could have really been something. But I had to screw him over. I should have known Hunter was lying when he said Kane knew about the plan."
"That may be true but Kane will never forgive me." X-Pac said. "It was all supposed to be so simple."
"Yeah? What was?" Kayla asked.
"We publically throw Kane out of DX he goes to the Ministry and helps us destroy it from the inside. I was so sure this was a win for Kane that I didn't even think that he might not have known. You know a win for Kane and for DX." X-Pac said. "Only the real plan was to humiliate Kane. I knew when I saw the look in his eyes that there was no plan. But it was too late."
Kayla nodded.
"But you've been regretting it ever since, huh? Maybe even while it was happening," she said.
"Yeah. I didn't see the look in his eyes till I backed up by then Tori was on him. I've tried several times to apologize but you saw him. I'm surprised he stayed around long enough to talk to you because I was there." X-Pac said. "He either avoids me or stares at me with hate in his eyes."
"I don't blame him. Not at all. I would feel the same way if someone screwed me over the way we did." X-Pac added.
"Do you think he knows any of this? That you thought there was a plan, I mean. I can't say it'll fix things but context matters and this wasn't all on you," Kayla said.
"I don't know I told him everything after his accident. But I don't know how much he heard or believed." X-Pac said.
Just then, Kayla felt her phone vibrate. She reluctantly took it out and glanced at the screen.
"Fuck, meeting time AKA Vince's 15 minutes of douche baggery," she said.
"Yeah let's get it over with. I won't find out what Hunter plans for me till the second meeting but maybe he'll accidently give me a hint." X-Pac said turning once again back into the building.
"Can I give you my number or something?" Kayla asked.
"Sure it'll give me something to do from my hospital bed." X-Pac said trying to smile.
Kayla recited her number.
"Let me know what happens, yeah? I'll be stuck in front of the computer all fucking night," she said.
Then she tentatively rested a hand against X-Pac's shoulder.
It's those damn eyes. I'm such a sucker. She thought.
Kayla/Kane/J.J./Taker/X-Pac
They arrived at the meeting and Kayla saw that Taker, Kane, and J.J. were already there. X-Pac looked around for a moment then took a seat off alone where he could see Hunter.
Hunter turned around and glared at X-Pac then smiled cruelly.
Go kill yourself. Kayla thought at Hunter.
Good she's pissed. Just wait till after tonight she'll see I control this place completely. Hunter thought.
Everything about him screams 'punch me in the face'. Kayla thought as she began to envision doing just that.
The meeting was over in no time it was the usual thing of Vince yelling at everyone and threatening to fire people.
After the meeting X-Pac headed to the DX locker room hoping to get his things. He found them shredded on the floor outside the door. Everything he had in the locker room had been torn or broken beyond repair.
Well. He thought. At least I have the clothes on my back. Guess I'll be wrestling in those.
Kayla got to her feet in relief.
Why the fuck do I even need to come to these things? She wondered for the millionth time.
Nothing useful or important ever happens unless you get off on Vince and his power trips. My time could be better spent doing what he's paying me for.
Picking up his destroyed gear X-Pac tried to find an empty locker room to use for the night.
Kayla started heading back to her office when she noticed Sean. He appeared to be searching for something.
Maybe I should ask what's up? She thought. Then she shook her head. He's probably had enough Kayla for one night. If he needs anything, he knows where to find me. However, this didn't stop her from giving him a brief wave as she passed.
X-Pac nodded at Kayla then continued searching.
X-Pac finally found a small locker room and went in. He went through his things and found that everything including his boots had been slashed to ribbons.
He sighed.
If I know Hunter and I do. He'll send Tori back to the hotel early to wreck all that stuff too. I'm so screwed.
Kayla tried to lose herself in work and was partially successful. She could do this kind of work in her sleep. As she worked, her thoughts began to wander.
Is Kane softening towards Sean? I didn't get a look at his eyes but I didn't hear hatred in his tone.
Will there even be any Sean left after tonight?
Why the fuck does this frame still look wrong?
Why haven't I learned to stay out of other people's shit?
Kayla Rene Jacobs: the fixer of other people's shit but not the fixer of her own.
She sighed and continued working.
Her thoughts wondered to how much she'd rather be back in the hotel.
Shit. She thought. Where the hell is X-Pac staying tonight? Does he have his own room? Maybe I should go and ask she decided getting up.
She wondered around a bit trying to find him then she saw a crewmember and asked them. Luckily they had seen him go into an empty locker room and sent her there.
She knocked a few times on the door and waited impatiently for a response.
"Hey Kayla." He said sounding distracted.
She saw that he was still in street clothes.
"Can I come in for a sec?" Kayla asked.
"Sure." He said opening the door wider to allow her in.
"Where's your ring stuff?" Kayla asked.
"It had an unfortunate accident." X-Pac said trying to smile.
"Of the Hunter variety, C I assume. Fan-fucking-tastic," Kayla said.
X-Pac shrugged and held up his shredded boots.
"Fucking hell," Kayla said.
"Where's the rest of your stuff?" She asked.
"Probably back at the hotel having the same accident." X-Pac sighed. "I hate shopping."
"Not if I get there first," Kayla said with a smirk.
"You can't leave Vince will have your head." X-Pac said.
Kayla shrugged.
"On the scale of how much fucks I give... yeah. People I care about ranks higher than Vince McMahon," she said.
"Thanks but I really shouldn't get you in trouble." X-Pac said.
"Dude, please stop punishing yourself for everything," Kayla said.
"This is on me. Your name will never come up," she added.
"Ok if you're sure." X-Pac said handing her his key card.
"Kay, thanks. I'll be back in a bit," Kayla said as she left the room.
The ride from the arena to the hotel was short especially since Kayla was paying no attention to the speed limit.
She got to the hotel and ran up the stairs. Opening X-Pac's door she saw Tori had already done some damage.