Cody carson slowly got out of a black truck, parked on the oppisite side of the street. He took a deep breath and Flipped the hood of his quicksilver A3 hoodie back. HE forced himsewlf to cross the street. Step after step his stomach turned and sweat started to form on his brow. He rolled his engagement ring around on his ring finger and walked up the steps. Before he even has a chance to knock the door flies open and Jalie Thomas, standing in a pair of cargo pants, and a halturtop, her fighting cloth, glares at him. "You gutsy little skank whore. Did you really think it wise to just show up on your own accord...? And alone? Because Seth isn't here to protect you. And Carmen, well, she fully agrees you need some sense beaten into that incredibly thick skull of yours..."

She tilted her head back, eyeing him and looking ready to kill. Thrilled at the prospect of it, really. Cody can't look her in the eye. She looks at the ground and then to the side. He opens his mouth to speak but doesn't. Then takes a deep breath and looks at her. "Go a head, kill me. Fuck, I could care less right now. My life is..." Jalie cuts him off.

"Worthless. I know. That still doesn't give me an explanation as to why you thought Carmen's feelings were just as disposable. You fucked with a Dumas woman, and you blew it. Chasing after Brandi and fucking her relationship up too was more important than explaining to Carmen that Brandi's note meant nothing but friendship. Well, I guess it meant more than that to you though, didn't it...? Obviously you had some pent up feelings there. Which, I might remind you, should have kept you from getting with my sister in the first place. But common sense was never your strong point."

"Look Jalie, I owe you nothing. I came here for Carmen, not you." Cody sighed. "I know I fucked up, big acutally. But what give you the right, to say what I felt... feel for Carmen is basically bullshit? Would you sooner of had me leave carmen after we where married, for brandi?" Cody stops himself. "I'm not going to do this, I told myself that I was going to come here and accept my fait and do what ever it takes for carmen..." Cody looked up and shook his head. "Anything, but gettign my dick or nuts cut off."

Jalie smirked, looking at him as if he were a child.

"You owe me nothing? That's funny, because I seem to remember you swearing to me not to hurt her. We spoke about this already. You knew there were consequences once you entered into this family. So don't try to make me out to be the big bad guy here, alright? Me and Jay are all that Carmen has, and i'll be fucking damned if i'm gonna let her down just because it suits you."

"Your wrong Jalie, she has me. No matter what you say, she will always have me to turn to..." Cody looks past jalie and he and Carmen dumas lock eyes for teh first time in almost 2 months, outside of the ring. Jalie looked over her shoulder at her sister and and nodded, Carmen walked into the other room and Cody Lockes eyes with Jalie.

"She had you, Cody. And you let her down. For a woman who has no romantic interest in you whatsoever. Now you're gonna have a lot of shit to go through before you will ever regain my trust... Consider yourself on probation. If you so much as glance at another woman, say another womans name, THINK of another woman, then you will never get near Carmen again, period. I won't have you hurting her every time she turns to you... Now as for you getting back on her good side, well, that's up to her..."

Jalie beckoned him inside and disappeared upstairs. Carmen was standing in the living room, dressed in a pair of jeans and Cody's old quiksilver t-shirt. She gave him an appraising look, waiting for him to speak.

"Babe, I am truely sorry. I thought you left me. I thought all I had was brandi..." Cody looked at the ground. "What a fool I was eh? heh, she didn't want anything to do with me, and who could blame her eh? Fuck, running this through my head for hours hasn't helped the way it sounds." Cody paused and took a step towards Carmen. "I'm sorry babe."

"You sound awfully disappointed that things didn't pan out with James..." She muttered. Her voice was low, disbelieving.

"I was gone, just days, Cody. And honestly, you knew where I fucking was. Where I always am. I just... I don't see how you could throw our engagement away on a crush you had in high school!"

She raised her hands to her head, tangling her fingers in her hair as tears came to her eyes.

"Don't cry Carmen." Cody paused and stepped forward, gettign a straight punch to the mouth from carmen.

"Since when do you care." Carmen said grabbing her hand as tears fell. "Do you know how much I cried you..."

"Carmen, I know. Trust me, I know. I felt the same way, But I couldn't just turn around and come running back to you, I didn't hear anything from you for so long I thought you washed your hands of me." Cody paused and whipped the blood from his lip. "If you don't want me here I'll leave."

"Cody of course I want you here! If I didn't want you, didn't love you do you think i'd be so god damned confused right now?! You were supposed to come to me! To find me, tell me that Brandi was just a friend and that you weren't returning any feelings... But instead you fucking called her, professed your love for someone who could care less. And you left me here, waiting for you. Why didn't you... Why didn't you just come for me? Look for me? You looked for Brandi instead..."

"No I didn't. I mean, I'm affaird of your sister, and I knew If I came for you, she would kill me. So a Waited for things to cool off. Brandi is just a friend and I wouldn't ever have sex with her. It was an accident and I didn't mean for it to happen. My mind said one thing and the brain this most of the time over poves 90 percent of men told me a differant. So I choose wrong."

Carmen shook her head, still not understanding him.

"You showed up at her house. You called her. You got the nerve to tell her you love her but you couldn't get up the nerve to get past Jalie? She's been waiting for you to show up! When you didn't come after me the next day she was just as shocked as I was. She defended YOU! Until she saw your shit on tv.But even then, she thought you'd at least come and talk to me. Sure, she might bitch you out on your way in, but so what? At least you would've been here.

Cody dropped onto the couch dropping his head on his hands. "Everything has to be so fucked up." Paused rubbed his face and carmen walked over and stood infront of him. "Why didn't I come you really want to know?" Cody paused. "It wasn't you, it wasn't Jalie, It wasn't Brand, It was me. I questioned myself, my love for you. I made myself think that I didn't love you. I forced myself not to call you. I forced myself to go to brandi, I forced myself to make you hate me. And I hated it, But I couldn't help it. Its just like lieing, start small and soon your in a hole to deep to get out of. So, I'm sorry."

Carmen nodded, although her face still showed skepticism. She placed two fingers under his chin and lifted his face, looking him in the eye.

"Cody, I have to know that these feelings you have for Brandi are over with. I have to be able to trust you again. How am I supposed to know you're not still chasing after her, hoping she'll drop Rick? I just feel so insecure now and.. I feel like what you said before. That everytime you're with me, you're thinking of her."

"How can I think of her carmen..." Cody leaned in closed almost about to kiss her, pulled away. "I know that waht I felt for brandi wasn't what I feel for you Carmen. I just had to face what i felt, and now that I have I have seen that I will never hurt us again. It will make us stronger. And I needed to get her out of my system." Cody looked at her deep into her eyes. "I swear to you it will never happen again." Cody took of his necklace with a CC and a CD in a heart and his ring. "You choose the time when you want me back." He handed them to her, and leaned back closing his eyes and waiting for her to say something or do something.

Cody's eyes shot back open when Carmen nailed him with a solid kick to the groin. He groaned, falling sideways onto the couch.

"Wha... What the..?" He gasped. Carmen kneeled down beside him, stroking his hair.

"I just had to get that, out of my system. Now take your stupid stuff back and take me out to dinner or something." She demanded.

"Yes dear..." He moaned.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________ Match Talk

Rumbler? You where in A3? Heh,m never noticed. Why? Oh, my little itch. Because you are forgetable. Just look at the rest of the talent.  It's obvious that you could never...no, no would ever be able to compete with us.  Frankly I'm glad that you left, less dead weight to carry around. Me?  I have much better things to do. You see why you're ranting about how we weren't jelling as a stable. I'm the World Champion of AWA.  I have place to go, people to greet. People more important, and more worth my time then yourself.

Rumbler, Your a disgrace. Way to go with showing any kind of loyalty to us. We were suppose to be your brothers. It was us against the AWA, You're views are totatlly fucked. I was NEVER Hunter Davis's puppet.  Davis was trying to give us all a fair chance against an establishment that only gave you shit if your last name happend to be Young. What did back stabbing me get you?  You're shitty title?  Well, Pal, I happen to be the World Champion no thanks to you.  Like it or not, I'm the King around here.  People aspire to be me, I give them something to believe in. You took the cowards way out. And the most pathetic part of all is you. Trying to use your former friends as your reason.  You wanted to be noticed.  Well, junior, that chair shot you gave me got you noticed alright.  I'm afraid though, it's not the kind of attention that you want or can handle.

Rumbler, Treason is a crime. Your disloyalty to A3 will not only get you noticed but punished beyond what you can even grasp.   You have sided with the enemy.  Who is the enemy?  Anyone that doesn't roll with A3 is considered to be a traitor.  How are you going to feel when no one will be there to help.  NO one around to save your ass.  For you sins Rumbler, I must set things right.  Not even God can save you now.

Bitch, shut the fuck up. You're embarrassing yourself. If you would kindly take a look at the records you shall see that my record is nearly flawless. I have a better win loss average than every single member of the active roster.

Let me make one thing clear to you here Rumbler, you have seen absolutly nothing of what I can do.

You may have seen my matches, but as I have stated before, I have yet to take my performances out of first gear. I see no need to when I am entering the ring against such weak opposition, and don't get it twisted, I include you on my list of weak opposition, along with mike young and ever other fucking idiot who thinks he is better then me.

What did you solve you fucking idiot. Really what did you solve by interfereing in my match and not finishing the job? Are you really that fucking dumb. I still won. Isn't the made reason you interefere is to screw someone out of the match. Well, guess what slap nits, you didn't. You are a fucking speck. A speck of dust. I took you in and this is how you repay me? Huh, you thought I was a shitty leader, you thought A3 was all about Cody.... Well, I'll let my actiosn speak louder then words...

get bent.

Your God,

Your champion,

Your resolution.