Still

 

Author: Genta ~ gentah@yahoo.com

Rating: PG-13

Content: fluff, angst

Disclaimer: I don’t own anyone. I am borrowing the song from Jennifer Lopez and the characters I took while Vince was not looking… The lyrics are included within the story and are italicized

Distribution: just put my name and email on it … if you want it and let me know!

Characters: Nora Greenwald (Molly Holly), Adam Copeland (Edge), Nidia Guenard (Nidia)

Summary:  Adam is in a precarious position

 

 

When I sleep

I have dreams about the way we used to kiss

About the way you used to hold me

And say nothin would ever harm me

When we first met

Oh how you charmed me

Made me smile when I was down

Big pimpin' around the town

You and me

Whenever they'd see you

They'd see me

A lover and a friend to me you were

How did it end

How it hurts

To not have you in my life

when I wanted to be your wife

 

Nora lay curled in a ball trying to go to sleep. She wondered where Adam was. It wasn’t like he needed to be out with the guys. They had made a deal that while they were in England they would spend time together. So she cancelled all her plans with the girls. Although it seemed that the girls saw more of Adam than she did. May be she was living in the past, but while she slept things were the same. He would spend hours kissing her. He would cuddle with her. He knew about her past relationship and violate they were. He promised her that harm, physical or emotional would come from him.

 

          Nora wanted to just give him space. He was trying to advance his career. She was stuck in another rut. She faced a hard truth that if you are not blond then you are meant to be on the side of evil. She didn’t offer herself out as eye candy. She was a wrestler and nothing less than that. He used to admire her for that. She remembered when she and Shane called it quits, how he always try to make her smile. She never thought in a million years that he would ask her out and they would date. He showed her the time of her life. But that was then this is now.

 

          Nora was working on her cross word puzzle when he walked in. There was something completely different about him. He didn’t smile the same way. She could smell the alcohol and someone’s perfume. She would bet money on Trish or Nidia. They always called her a prude and less than what Adam deserved. She listened as he said that they needed to talk.  She watched as he explained that things were not going the way they should.  He just wasn’t ready to settle down. He was going to move out of the house and move in with Jay until he found himself a place. He hoped there would be no hard feelings and hoped that they would still be friends. Nora laughed to suppress her tears. She nodded and moved to the bathroom. This was a hard pill for her to swallow. He was more than a lover he was her closest friend. Now that was gone. She did not know what hurt worse losing a relationship or losing the man when she wanted to be his wife.

 

 

 

You never know what you have

Till its gone

Treated you wrong

For so long

Now you're gone away

But the love still lives here

 

 

 

Adam sighed as he heard her in the bathroom. Technically they were not supposed to leave until Thursday but something told him she would leave as soon as humanly possible. Nora was someone who did not have to say much to let people know how she felt. He knew that she was so devastated but she would never utter it. She would do what she always did. She would hurt the pain behind a smile and work through it.

 

He hoped that she did not turn to the wrong person when the pain gets to great. He shook his head. Nora was the one he should not worry about. It was him. He had been seeing Nidia for weeks. He knew when it got on the physical level he had to let Nora go. He had treated her wrong by his own choice. She was always supportive, always providing and this is how he treats her. He debated on telling her about the situation but not now. He would call her in a couple days.

 

He noticed that she was packing her clothes and on her cell phone. He sighed as she accepted the change of her flight. She would be leaving in three hours. He watched as she doubled check for her things. He knew that she was not one to stay and plead her case. He wanted her gone and she would honor that request. But there was only one problem. He wanted to rewind time and ask her to stay. That he was joking but what was done was done.

 

Still...

I still got love for you

Still...

After all we've been through

Still...

I gave my heart to you

And baby you're the only one

 

Adam sat and thought about Nora. Nidia was not chalking up to be a smart cookie. She was always admiring her new implants in the mirror. Adam was immediately turned off by them. If he wanted to play with play-do, then he would have bought some. He listened as Jericho talked about Nora dating different people but never going for the second date. Adam smiled as turned to his locker. They were trying new things and they were not working.  Adam had admitted to Jay that he still had love for Nora.

Adam tried not to believe that Nora still had a hold on his heart. But there was something about when she walked in the room. She was there with him through his spinal fusion surgery, she was there with him when he came back and was not judgmental about anything he did. She actually encouraged him to go through with the heel turn. He started as a heel so what would be the difference. Adam swallowed and realized that he needed something to drink. He got up and walked towards the drink machine.

 

There's other men than you

Still...

They can come close to you

Still…

Once I said I love you

I knew you'd be the only one

 

Nora brushed out her hair. She was listening to Victoria talking about her relationship with Tyson.  Nora was happy about the fact that Toria had found someone to make her happy. Nora tried to find someone. She had dated wrestlers and brothers of some of her friends. They just didn’t measure up to Adam. Adam was the standard that she measured men. They either did not smile, make her laugh or they just plain bored her. 

Adam was one of a kind. They were great men and came close to him but she had one problem. Once she uttered that she loved Adam that was it.  She never really told anyone that she loved them. She only told Adam because she thought that he was the one. Nora looked around and realized that she drank the last of her Sprite. She reached in her pocketbook and grabbed a dollar. She stood up and walked to the drink machines.

 

A good man you were to me

Always there to care

Would do anything in this world for me

Didn't matter, what, when, or where

You were there

I never thought we'd part from the arguments we'd start

When I just wanted to get some attention

And I'm sorry baby for bitchin

If I could take back the words

That I said to make you leave

I'd be down on bended knees

Asking you to please forgive me

 

 

            Nora walked to the drink machines. She second guessed wanting a Sprite and wondered if there was iced tea. She rounded the corner and noticed Adam trying to make a decision. He was clueless when there was a Coke and a Pepsi machine.  She smiled as she noticed that he had just taken a shower. She smiled when she thought of how good he was to her. Yeah he dated Nidia but when he slept with her he let Nora go.  Nora heard the rumors that Adam was tired of Nidia and her fake boobs. Nora remembered the arguments they had and never parted.

            Nora smiled when Adam would accuse her of starting an argument just so Adam would give her attention. She looked when she heard someone talking behind her. She looked back and he was gone. Nora shrugged and went to the Pepsi machine. She inserted the dollar and looked down at the selections. She chose the Hawaiian Punch. Nora had a weird feeling someone was watching her. She heard Stacy calling her. Nora grabbed her drink and walked off. Adam moved from the corner. He loved that woman ….

 

 

 

You never know what you have

Till it's gone

Treated you wrong

For so long

Now you're gone away

But the love still lives here

 

 

Adam realized that he realized that he now knew what it meant to never know what you have till it is gone. He wanted to walk up to her and just ask her out to dinner. He looked down the hall and realized that she and Stacy were long gone. He ran back to his locker room and picked up his cell phone. It was a weak possibility but it was worth a shot.

 

All of the good times we had together (together)

Do they mean something to you

Do you ever wish we never split (never)

Still got love for you...

 

Nora was walking to the rental car. She paused as her cell rang. She was astonished at the fact it was Adam. It was the one he set, She will be loved. She stopped to lean against the wall. She answered the phone. She listened as Adam spoke softly to her. He joked about when they went to Cancun and she fell as they were walking along the beach. Molly smiled as he described what she was wearing. It was the top with the sleeves off the shoulders and the wrap around was silk. She giggled as Adam remembered she had nothing underneath. Nora took a breath and asked her question. Do you ever wish we never split? Adam smiled and answered always. Adam suggested that she wait for him. Nora asked why? Adam answered simply I got love for you… still.

 

 

 

 

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