A Thin Line

6 part series

Author: PaulenaK ~ toukalah@hotmail.com

Rating: PG

Disclaimer: Everything WWE belongs to Vince McMahon.

Feedback: Is much appreciated.

AN: I wasn't supposed to post this one yet, but fate intervened. This one is for StaceyDC - A continuation of my series ‘Hated’.

 

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Only One More Day

 

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You can do this Victoria. It’s only one more day you’ll have to spend in his company and after that you can go on with your life and he can go crawl back under whatever rock he came out from and everything can go back to normal. Just think ‘Lita and Matt happy thoughts and everything will be fi-

 

VICTORIA! I need to get in there!”

 

A loud knocking on the bathroom door and the sound of her best friend yelling broke into her private mantra and she gave herself one last ‘You can do this’ stare before turning to open the door.

 

A very stressed looking Lita stood on the other side.

 

“Gee,” She said as she stepped passed the raven haired woman in to the bathroom. “Anyone would think it were ‘You’ getting married.”

 

Victoria paid her friend no heed, today was Lita’s big day after all. Today of all days she could forgive her friend anything. She just wished Jeff Hardy didn’t have to be a part of it.

 

They had barely spoken a word to each other through the wedding rehearsal and didn’t even spare each other a look at the big family dinner last night, it was apparent to one and all that they hated each other, yet fate seemed destined to have there paths continually cross time and time again. Well okay so this was only the third time, she told herself. But from where she was standing that was three times too many.

 

She heard the wedding march beginning and tapped lightly on the bathroom door.

 

“Lita… Li… its time.”

 

No answer came from inside the bathroom.

 

“Lita?” She called again pushing on the door.

 

It swung open and all Victoria’s thoughts of hatred for the groom’s younger brother left her when all she was met with was an empty bathroom.

 

 

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Losing Lita

 

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Two days… two very trying and tedious days of being subjected to her company. And one very long, long night alone on his brother’s couch trying to forget the last time he had seen her.

 

She was still deranged – That much he saw as soon as his eyes had clapped onto her long silky black hair and dark eyes. She had ignored him of course, that much he had expected. Not that that had worried him in the least after all ‘He’ got to go home when all this was over. As much as he loved Lita and highly approved of her marrying his brother he just couldn’t stomach her best friend. He inwardly flinched just thinking about her and had to close his eyes as if that tiny action would wipe her image from his mind. And it worked too. Right up until he opened his eyes again and the first thing he saw was her face staring right at him from across the room.

 

It took him a moment before it registered in his brain that something was wrong with this picture for one thing the bridal march had been playing for quite a few minutes now and still no bride was making there way towards them. And secondly Lita’s one bridesmaid and his partner for the day began to wave frantically at him, her expression panicked instead of disgusted, which was what he was used to seeing when there gazes met. And then she surprised him again by mouthing the word ‘Please’.

 

He moved immediately smiling to all who cared to look his way.

 

“What is it?” He said through tight lips when he reached her.

 

“She’s gone.” Victoria said looking behind him to Matt who still stood at the altar.

 

“Who’s gone? What are you talking about?”

 

“Lita!” She hissed through clenched teeth. “She’s gone and I can’t find her anywhere.”

 

Jeff’s gaze followed hers up to where his brother stood and before he could stop himself he turned on her accusingly and snapped. “What did you do?”

 

His eyes focused on her mouth as it dropped open.

 

“Do? What did I do?”

 

He nodded.

 

“I,” She began her panic turning to anger. “…Didn’t do a damn thing.”

 

He smiled now feeling quite at home now that her face was shrouded in fury. All that loving concern he could see in her eyes was starting to come off as cute!

 

“Good.” He said shocking her into silence. “Let’s go find her then before someone decides to go looking for her.” He said nodding towards his brother and without realising it they both walked off hand in hand to find the missing red head.

 

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Putting Feelings Aside

 

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“Where the hell can she be?” Jeff hissed as they opened another door to yet another empty room. “Think damn it think!”

 

“I am thinking!” Victoria hissed from behind him not realising he had been talking to himself and not to her or that he still clutched her hand in his. “You bloody well think!”

 

“I’m trying too so shut up!”

 

“Don’t tell me to shut up! You shut up!”

 

He stopped then and spun around so fast that she collided into him.

 

“Look,” He began his face very close to hers. “You obviously don’t like me, I get that and believe me the feeling is mutual, but we have to work together on this. There was a room full of people in there – You didn’t have to get ‘My’ attention.” He snapped starting to walk again.

 

“I wasn’t.” She declared sourly from behind him. “I was trying to get Matt’s attention.”

 

“I’m beginning to wish you did.”

 

“Likewise buster.”

 

Again he stopped suddenly to face her and again she plunged headlong into his chest.

 

“Like I said we’re together now, let’s just put our feelings aside and find Lita – Agreed?”

 

She nodded.

 

“Fine. It’s agreed.”

 

“Good.”

 

“Fine.”

 

“We understand each other then.”

 

“Perfectly.”

 

Neither of them moved.

 

His eyes went to her lips.

 

Hers to his.

 

He leaned.

 

She turned her face up.

 

He leaned some more… and then…

 

“What are you doing?” She asked her voice breaking the spell.

 

“Me!” He exclaimed pulling back. “What are ‘You’ doing?”

 

She blushed and took a step back herself.

 

“I…” She hesitated. “I… I’m looking for Lita.” Her eyes dared him to contradict her and she sighed inwardly when he merely turned to continue on there quest in finding Lita not even realising that as she fell into step beside him that her hand willingly found his.

 

 

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Finding Lita

 

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“There is one place we haven’t looked.” Jeff said nodding to a door down the hall.

 

Victoria took one look at the sign on the front of the door and quirked a brow. “The men’s room?”

 

He nodded and started towards it.

 

“Think about it, where would you go for a little quiet time?”

 

“A library.”

 

He cocked his head to the side and stared at her curiously and continued to stare at her until she punched his arm to snap him out of it.

 

“That’s where I would…” He began then waved his words off as his mind began to realise why it was they were here in the first place. “Where would you go if you didn’t want anyone to find you?”

 

When put like that Victoria had to admit that the men’s room would be at the top of her list. Provided there were cubicles inside with lockable doors.

 

“You wait here…” He began starting toward the door, but she followed and pushed passed him into the men’s room.

 

“I’ve seen a penis before.” She said over her shoulder. He followed her some what slowly and she wanted to laugh at the look on his face. “What? Did I shock you?” She asked starting to check the cubicles.

 

“Me? Nah…” He said with a wave of his hand and a chuckle, but Victoria wasn’t convinced.

 

“You know,” She said with a smile. “If you wanna go…” She added and nodded towards the urinals. “Go right ahead… I might bite though.” Her grin was a mile wide as she paused in her task of checking the cubicles to look back at him and her amusement dimmed when her eyes met his. He looked like he was actually considering doing what she had just suggested, his eyes telling her that he hadn’t missed the double meaning behind her words and her mouth fell open when his hands actually went to undo the front of his pants.

 

And then they heard a sneeze, a ‘Darn it all’ and then the ruffle of material as Lita exited the last stall.

 

 

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Caught

 

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“Well this is new.”

 

Was the first thing she said as she faced them and grinned when in unison her soon to be brother in law and her best friend looked down at there still joined hands only to snatch them back when they realised what they were doing. And then Victoria went on to slap Jeff on the shoulder as if it had all been his fault they had been caught holding hands before taking the steps that would bring her to Lita’s side.

 

“Honey, are you okay?” She said taking Lita’s chin between her thumb and fore finger so she could check for any evidence of tears.

 

“Yeah. I’m fine. Just got a little freaked before that’s all.”

 

“A little freaked?” Victoria exclaimed. “Li, you climbed out of a bathroom window in your wedding gown. I think that constitutes as more then a little freaked.”

 

Lita rolled her eyes and blew a burst of air through her mouth.

 

“Okay so I was more then a little freaked, sue me.”

 

Lita, Victoria is just worried about you that’s all.” Victoria shivered as the sound of Jeff’s voice came from directly behind her. “We both are.” He continued.

 

Victoria swallowed and literally felt his words as his breath caressed the back of her neck. Stop it, she sternly told herself but aloud she said. “Yeah, we both are.”

 

Lita quirked a brow at them both.

 

“Right, I heard how worried you are about me,” She said and chuckled when they both blushed. “If I didn’t bloody sneeze I might of heard something juicy.”

 

“That was-“

 

“We just-“ They both said in unison.

 

“You go,” Jeff said motioning for Victoria to continue, but she shook her head.

 

“No, you go.”

 

Jeff looked from Victoria to Lita and then back again. He didn’t want to go first in case he said the wrong thing and he and Victoria went back to hating each other. If the truth be known he didn’t hate her at all and there short time together looking for Lita had made him more then aware of it. Nah-uh, he wasn’t going first. She could.

 

“Ladies first.” He said.

 

“I’m no lady.” Victoria countered readily. There was no way in hell she was gonna go first. This was the first time they had actually went a full fifteen minutes without being nasty to one another and in that fifteen minutes she found him to be not that much of a pain at all. He was actually quite nice and well… she wanted the ‘Nice’ to continue.

 

Jeff raised a brow as he remembered what had happened between them in that movie theatre. Oh she was a lady alright, he thought - A very naughty and sexy lady.

 

Lita watched these two face off and shook her head before walking to the door.

 

“I got a man to marry,” She called over her shoulder. “You two coming or you gonna get a room instead.”

 

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All’s Well That End’s Well

 

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“Well that’s that then,” Jeff said as he, Victoria and the rest of Matt and Lita’s guests watched and waved as the limo sped the two newly weds off to begin there honey moon.

 

“Yep.” Victoria replied her eyes still on the departing limo. “That’s it.”

 

Jeff shoved his hands in his pockets and looked down at the woman standing just a few feet away only to shift his gaze when her head turned to him.

 

“I guess everyone will start to leave soon.” She remarked and sure enough those guests who weren’t filing back into the church were making there way to there cars or just standing there as they still were. She turned fully and faced him then.

 

“I guess.” Jeff said shuffling from one foot to the next.

 

“It all turned out well then…” She said taking the tiniest step forward.

 

“Yeah,” He answered taking a step forward himself.

 

“So…” She took another step forward and her tongue snaked out to moisten her bottom lip.

 

“So…” He said his voice turning to a mere whisper as his eyes latched onto her small action.

 

“I…” Her eyes closed and her chin came up.

 

“You…” His head titled slightly and he leaned down just a little bit and - Perfection.

 

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“Do you think it worked?” Matt whispered to his new bride as the limo drove off.

 

Lita grinned and lifted her head up from where it rested on her husbands shoulder to peer out the limo’s back window to see her best friend and her new brother in law locked at the lips.

 

“Oh yeah,” She replied with a grin before pulling Matt’s head down to hers.

 

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End

 

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