Hurt But Not Broken

Tried

A.N. This was originally going to be longer, but I left a lot for the next chapter. I'm still not sure what I'll do for it, but I'll figure out as I go. Review, fave, do what whatever, just enjoy!

"I've missed Smackdown." April sighed happily as her neck rolled in a circle. She was just about to get dressed in the bathroom in the Diva's locker room when Celeste sat beside her; holding a piece of paper out to April.

"This was slid under the door. It's got your name on the top." She was right, on the top side of the folded paper was 'April' written in neat handwriting. April began to read the note aloud so her friend could hear.

"It's from Jon." She slowly unfolded the paper and read through it slowly.

"In case you can't remember, I said I wanted to speak to you tonight. I still do.

There are a few things we both need to say, things to make right. But I don't want to say them where people may hear us; I can imagine you feel the same way.

My room number is 403, meet me there when the show is over if you want to talk.

Love Jon."

April folded the note; suddenly feeling confusion, dread and some happiness deep down. All at once. He couldn't go and tell her straight to her face. Jon just had to tell her when she was too tired to remember any of it.

"You can't actually be mad at him, can you?" Celeste put her hand on April's back and stared at her. It wasn't right to be angry at Jon; he was at least trying now.

"He couldn't tell me to my face! At least, not from I can remember, I must have been half asleep at the time. So yes, I'm a little mad." She spat to her friend and grabbed a handful of her own hair as her elbow rested on her thigh.

"Let's just go out there and have a great re-debut match!" April smiled and leaned her head on her friend's shoulder.

"I love you, Cel."

"Love you too, Little One." The two laughed and April gathered her clothes that were placed on the bench beside her.

She had been slow to change into the attire she was wearing; her new cut t-shirt, black shorts with matching boots and knee pads as well as a black hooded zip up vest. She was herself; in Shield form.

Shield! She would have to be around Jon, it would probably be awkward for the two. No, she didn't want to ruin her in ring re-debut after more than six months of being away. At least she came out with a theme song that was sort of mixed with her old theme song and the Shield theme song. It was pretty cool when the group had heard it.

Celeste had quickly applied her make-up when April slowly got dressed. She applied April's make-up slowly, being sure to get everything right on her friend's face that Creative wanted; they had a certain way for each Diva to want. She also curled and tied April's hair into pigtails.

"You're all ready to go!" Both women packed the make-up and hair implements away. They walked out hand-in-hand to where the gorilla position was. There was Nikki and Brie standing at the curtain, talking about something while Nikki fixed her top to show more of her breasts.

"Ew, she and Eva are as bad as each other!" April whispered and the two giggled she the twins went down the ramp to their music. Next came Celeste, who then stood at the end of the ramp and waited for April.

"Here I go." The nerves began to kick in. Almost nine months of not being in the ring had begun to make her nervous about how her body could handle things.

Her new theme song played, the video showing both her and her Shield members. April didn't want to go out with them; she'd ran into Colby when she was Celeste were going to the curtain and said she didn't want to go through the crowd with them. He had obviously delivered the message.

Celeste started the match against Brie. She could get any of her offense going, as Brie either blocked or countered any moves the light brown haired woman had. The only small bit of offense that Celeste could get was whipping Brie into a nearby turnbuckle and spearing her as Brie struggled to get to her feet.

Celeste tagged April in and Brie tagged Nikki in. Both were quick to enter the ring, and April looked like she hadn't lost a beat. Clotheslines delivered to Nikki when running to the smaller Diva, using ropes to any advantage to get Nikki off her feet, pin attempt again and again. But nothing had got her down for a count of three.

April climbed a nearby turnbuckle and delivered an axe handle to Nikki as she tried to get to her feet. Nikki had once again kicked out at two. But April saw Nikki get onto one knee and took her opportunity, cinching in 'The Black Window' on the Diva. She felt Nikki's hand tap lightly on her thigh.

April and Celeste's hands were raised by the ref and the two hugged; they only let go when the Shield's music had run through the arena and the crowd cheered. Putting on a good face for the crowd, April smiled at her boyfriend as she climbed through the ropes and out of the ring to the floor. She kissed her cheek before the four had left Celeste in the ring, who followed behind smiling.

"If you want to talk, you know where to find me." Jon lightly ran his fingers over the back of April's hand just as he walked off. It was a small gesture that he hoped she would receive; he did want to see her that night. Message received!

"Up for a snack?" April almost jumped, turning around startled to see her friend now in front of her.

"Yes, I think that would be good for me to eat a little bit." Vending machines with different sorts of chips and drinks were all around the arena backstage. April picked out a small bag of chicken flavoured potato chips and Celeste brought just plain ones.

"I'm going to go see him." Celeste stood shocked for a moment at her friend's sudden change of heart. Wasn't she nervous to see him only around fifteen minutes ago? But then she shrugged, April would tell her everything anyway, even if she had decided to chicken out at the last minute.