“Fucking slut!” Adam cursed, smashing through the locker room door. Jay looked up from where he was lacing up his boots and studied his friend for a moment. “Go fucking figure!”

“What crawled up your ass and died?” Some days if Adam wasn’t bitching about one thing then it was another.

“You know, I never figured her to be a slut. I really didn’t.”

Jay shook his head. “Weren’t you going to talk to Shane about the storyline?”

“Yeah, well let’s just say he was busy.” Adam snorted, arms folding across his chest. “And that he wasn’t alone in that suave office of his. The least they could have done was locked the door.”

“Who?” Jay still felt like he was missing a big part of the picture. Once again Adam was talking as though he had been informed of everything when the reality of it all was that Jay knew nothing. “Shane?”

“Yeah, Shane.”

Jay rolled his eyes. “And then this slut would be who?”

“Who the hell do you think it is! Jesus Jay, do you not have a brain in your head?” Adam cursed, kicking the duffle bag that was sitting in the middle of the room. He honestly had no idea who it belonged to and really he didn’t care. “I can’t believe this!”

“Wait! Are you talking about Tania?” Suddenly everything was starting to fit together, he had seen Tania with Shane earlier. It only made sense that they would still be hanging out together.

Jay let out a little laugh, but stopped the moment Adam’s head snapped towards him. “What the hell’s so funny Jay?”

“Poor Adam. He finally found something that he couldn’t have.” He knew Adam wouldn’t be too happy with all his baby talk, but it didn’t matter. Jay finally had found a ‘thing’ that would bother Adam, and as a result was going to exploit it for all that it was worth. “What’s it like, to realize the world doesn’t revolve around you?”

“Shut up Jay! Do have any idea how much this ruins my chance?” He couldn’t just steal her away from the boss. His career would be on the line if he even tried it, and it definitely wasn’t worth some slut. “He just had to get to her first.”

“Well if she’s such a slut like you say…doesn’t that mean you still have a chance?”

Adam sighed. “I don’t want a slut. Especially seconds after Shane.”

“Then why are you still complaining about it?”

“Because Shane’s not going to have the luxury of having her either.”

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Standing up from the couch, Tania wiped the palms of her hands against her pants. The night had been…crazy, to say the least. She was a technician who’s only job was to set up the arena for the show, then take it down. Not to sing the anthem and make out with Shane McMahon. He was in effect, her boss.

Then there was the entire friendship with Randy. Though a little strange, it still felt nice to have someone to talk to. The only thing was, is that how Randy saw things? There were so many stupid questions looming around her mind all she wanted to do was scream.

“Why me?”

It was the calling of Randy’s name that brought her attention back to the television screen. There he was, walking down the ramp into the ring wearing next to nothing as usual. She couldn’t deny it, the man was definitely good looking with a body of a Greek god. She suddenly thought of a few ex-boyfriends she’d love to have meet Randy. A little convincing and Tania was almost certain that she could have Randy playing her newest love interest for a few days. Then again, she could also get Shane who wouldn’t have to play the part judging by the way things were going.

As hard as she tried not to, Tania had more than enjoyed the kiss. In fact, she was almost certain that they would have continued if it had not been for Adam interrupting the two of them. “Just gets more confusing don’t it?”

“What gets more confusing?” Tania jumped in hearing another voice behind her. Turning around, she found herself coming face to face with Vince McMahon.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t realize you were here…” She hadn’t even heard the door open. Vince held up a hand letting her know that there were no hard feelings. “Shane stepped out.”

Vince shook his head. “I know, I saw him in the hall. I was looking for you actually.”

“Me?” Tania mentally kicked herself in realizing how lame the words sounded as they came out of her mouth. “Oh.”

“I wanted to tell you how thankful I am that you went out there and sang the anthem for us, you really pulled it off. I don’t know what we would have done if Randy hadn’t been in the room to mention your name.” Vince smiled. He couldn’t think of anyone else off the top of his head that would have been able to do the job for Lilian.

“I’m sure you would have found someone else to do it for you…”

“Maybe so.” Vince admitted. “Anyhow, that’s not why I’m here.”

Tania’s was taken a little off guard by this. She couldn’t figure what else Vince could possibly want with her. “Okay…”

“As you know, Lilian had pretty much lost her voice. She’s heading up to see someone about it in the morning, but the medical professionals around here have advised her not to use her voice for at least the next week or so until they figure out the right diagnoses.”

“I’m sorry to hear that.” She couldn’t begin to imagine how Lilian was probably feeling. All that time off work. “What does that have do with me?”

“We need someone to fill in for her on RAW while she is gone.”

“Don’t you have other announcers?” She was pretty sure that there had to be at least five of them that were on the WWE’s payroll. Why couldn’t Vince just use one of them instead of her? She had barely made it through the anthem, how would she be able to announce in the ring? She didn’t even know how to do the job.

“Raw pride’s itself on having a female ring announcer. That and Tony is on Smackdown, while the others are contracted for house shows only.”

Tania let that piece of information sink in for a moment. “Don’t they deserve the chance before me?” She was sure that a few of them wouldn’t be impressed with her suddenly jumping into a position she had no idea about when they had been working for such an opportunity for years.

“Look, don’t worry about a decision tonight. Go out after the show with Randy and enjoy yourself. You’ll be at the show tomorrow so you can let Shane or I know your decision. It will be two shows at the most, next weeks RAW and the one after…” Vince watched to see Tania’s reaction to all of it, he didn’t want to pressure her into something she wasn’t comfortable doing.

“Then I guess I’ll let you know tomorrow.” Vince nodded as he turned back towards the door and made a quick exit. Falling back onto the couch Tania just laughed. Things went from confusing to insane with one visit, go figure. She wondered what Randy would think of the entire situation. Eyes drifting to the screen, she watched as he was tossed over the top rope onto the floor beneath, blood clearly visible on his face. “If he’s even conscious enough to give me his opinion.”

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