I'd finally found a job I loved. I was working as a writer for the WWF. My entire day was filled with coming up with interesting storylines for the various wrestlers and their personas. I loved almost every minute of my day. And most of the people I worked with.
The one dark spot in my day was Paul Levesque. Otherwise known as Triple H or Hunter Hearst Helmsly. He was cocky and rude and seemed to question every idea I came up with. He would sit in writing meetings almost sneering at me. As if he was daring me to come up with a story line for him, just so he could shoot it down. It took all of my self-restraint to not slap the sneer off of his face on a daily basis.
The worst came when I created a vampish manager and Vince decided that I would fill the part myself. Paul seemed to delight in assuring me that I wouldn't last a week in the ring, or on camera.
One afternoon while I was talking to one of the costume people, Paul stumbled upon us, "What's going on here?" He asked as he looked over Margie's shoulder at the drawings of costumes she'd created for me. "Is this what you are going to be wearing?" He asked, a smile spreading across his face.
Margie nodded and held the drawing up to give him a better view. "What do you think?" she asked. I dreaded his response.
He pretended to study the drawing for a moment, "Well I like the idea of a full body leather suit, but I think a mask would make it better, you know, kinda hide the obvious flaws." He laughed at his own joke and walked away.
"What is his problem?" I said through clenched teeth as I fought the urge to cry. Margie shrugged nonchalantly but said nothing.
My character seemed to take off quickly. I was paired with one of my favorite people, Adam Copeland, so that Lilith and Edge formed a relationship. I loved the rush of the crowd and the energy they gave me.
After several months it was decided that Edge would get a push to see if he could work at the main event level. He seemed to take to the role and I loved the exposure that the push brought. Once again I found myself only finding one dark cloud; Paul. As a result of Adam's push I now had to face Paul every night on the mic. The upshot was that we could say all the mean and nasty things to each other that we really felt.
After a long run it was decided to end the storyline that involved both Edge and Triple H. We scheduled an ending that would involve me interfering in their match and embarrassing Triple H. It wasn't a clean ending but it left the door open for revisiting the storyline if we needed to.
On the night of the show I did everything that I was supposed to do only to have Paul intentionally sabotage the entire plan so that rather have me embarrass him, he turned the tables on me, leaving me alone in the ring with him.
Without thinking I began yelling at him, "What are you doing? This was not how this was supposed to happen!"
"I like this ending better." He said with a shrug.
"You are not on the writing team! You have no say so in what happens!"
"What the hell's wrong with you? Are you on the rag or something?" He punctuated the sentence with his "Triple H signature" sneer.
The rage bubbled to a fevered pitch before I could control it.
Before I really realized what was happening I'd slapped him hard across the face.
For a moment the entire arena froze. Even the audience knew that something big was about to happen. I stood staring at Paul wondering what was going to happen next. He turned back to face me, and the heat in his eyes nearly knocked me off of my feet. I started to move away from him only to have his hand shoot out and grab the handful of hair at the back of my skull. I wasn't sure what was going to happen next, but my heart raced with an anticipation that I was not used to. He pulled me close to him so that he was looking me in the eye while I looked up at him. I could feel his breath on my face as he glared down at me. Strangely I was not afraid of what he was going to do; rather I got angrier with each passing second. He was holding me by the back of the head as if I was some object or something. I started to struggle to free myself of him and slapped him hard again hoping that he would just drop me. Nothing prepared me for his next move. He mouth descended on mine, crushing against me while his free hand moved to my ass and pulled me against him. The heat of his touch seemed to move through me, igniting something I didn't even know was there. I heard voices behind me, but didn't care. I wrapped my arms around his neck, and tangled my own hand in his hair. Finally he let go of the back of my head and now both of his hands were on my ass, lifting me. I followed his lead and wrapped my legs around his waist, relishing the feel of his strong body between my thighs. His tongue entered my mouth and seemed to tease me. I tightened my legs around his waist and thought I heard a deep growl in response. Something inside me responded to him and almost purred back at him. His whole body seemed tighten at once, despite the tight leather of my suit, his fingers dug deep into my ass.
I felt hands on my waist pulling at me. Instinctively I held harder onto Paul, and his hands held me tightly. Again I heard voices, only they seemed more insistent this time. The hands on my waist pulled harder and I found myself slowly being pulled away from Paul.
When I finally looked around I saw the strobe light and heard Edge's intro music. I turned around and saw Adam looking at me with an expression that said, "What the hell are you doing?" Before I could say anything to him, he moved quickly passed me and punched Paul. It took me a moment to realize that he was probably doing exactly what his character would do if 'Lilith' had been caught with Triple H. Paul, for his part, sold the punch very well, then allowed himself to be dragged out of the ring by X-Pac.
The rest of my time in the ring was a blur. Adam got on the mic and made some threatening comments towards Triple H and then took my hand and led me out of the arena. Once we were past the curtain he dropped my hand and turned to look at me, a huge grin slowly spreading across his face. "So...?"
I waved a hand to cut him off, "I don't want to talk about it," I said and immediately went to my dressing room, on my way passing several guys who tried to stop me to talk to me. I waved them away and closed the door behind me. I sat down and without really thinking began unlacing my boots. I ignored the knocking on the door, even as it went from simple knocking to loud pounding. Finally I heard someone testing the doorknob. Within a few seconds Paul was storming into my small dressing room.
"What the hell was that?" he demanded.
It took me a full minute to realize that he was blaming me for what had happened in the ring between us. "You grabbed me!" I yelled as I threw one of my boots in the general direction of my bags.
"I didn't think you were going to kiss me!"
"I...I kissed you?" I stammered.
