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It was just a little less than twenty four hours before WGEF’s Raw airs live from the sold out AT & T Center. As a promotion for her show Trish was scheduled to appear on The Tonight Show. Not that she enjoyed it in the leas, in fact she hated it. But it was promotion so she didn’t have a choice but to bear it. As the scene continued to play we see Trish’s limo had reached the TV station where the Tonight Show broadcasted from and was pulling into the parking lot. As it did the large crowd that had gathered outside crammed around the windows trying to see who was inside. Trish rolled her eyes muttering something under her breath as they pressed against the glass. The limo crept through the crowd finally coming to a stop just in front of the rear entrance.  The driver’s door opened and a middle aged man dressed in a plain black suit with a white dress shirt stepped out. He walked around to the rear door, grabbing the handle and pulling it open.  As she steps inside the building she sees a small square reception desk a short ways down the hall. She pauses long enough to adjust her purse on her shoulder before heading towards it.  When she reaches the desk she sees the receptionist is on the phone, she leans across the desk trying her best to be patient for her to finish the call. A few moments pass and the receptionist finishes her call. She places the receiver back on the hook before looking at Trish with an annoyed look on her face.    %Receptionist% Is there something I can help you with?   %Trish Stratus% First of all lose the attitude sweetie, I deal with that shit all day and I don’t need to put up with it from you. Now I’m here to appear on the Tonight Show. I just had a long flight and I’m tired so save me the bullshit and tell where the studio is.   %Receptionist%  Your name please.   %Trish Stratus% Trish Stratus.   The receptionist turned her attention away from Trish grabbing a clipboard from on top of her desk. She lays it down in front of her flipping to the page for the Tonight Show’s guests. After flipping through a few pages she finds and begins scrolling down the list of names on the piece of paper attached to it. As she continues to scroll up and down the list of names Trish starts tapping her French manciured nails on the desk in an irritated fashion. Finally the receptionist finds her name towards the middle of the list and lays the clipboard back down on the desk.   %Receptionist%  Okay, you go down the hallway behind me till you reach the end. There you will find a hallway running horizontally, turn right and go about halfway down to the elevators. Press three and it will take you to the right floor. Once the doors open, turn to the left keep going till you reach the end. There you will come across a steel door with the Tonight Show logo on it, just tap on the door and they’ll let you in and take it from there.   Trish flashes her, her usual smart ass grin before pushing her small frame off the desk.   %Trish Stratus%  See that wasn’t so hard was it? I guess finding good help isn’t just a problem in the wrestling business.   Before the receptionist could respond Trish walks past the reception desk making her way down the lengthy hallway following the directions the receptionist gave her. The hallway seemed to go on forever. After what seemed like a good hour Trish finally reach the elevators. She stepped inside pressing the number 3 button. A few seconds later the doors reopened. Trish stepped out into the hall once again following the receptionist direction. A few moments pass and she finally came upon a solid steel gray door. The receptionist hadn’t given her the color but the Tonight’s Show’s logo was on the door so at least she had gotten the right one. She raised her hand up knocking as loudly as possible so anyone standing on the other side would hear her. Moments later the heavy door swung open and a young man with semi curly brown hair stood on the other side. She politely gave him her name. He nodded and ushered her inside. He leads her down a smaller hallway than the one she had just came down, to a small room. The room was almost empty except for a director’s style chair positioned almost directly in the center of the room. In front of the chair was a large oval mirror with the world’s biggest collection of makeup that Trish had ever seen. Trish steps inside the room making her way over to the makeup chair. She lifts herself up into the chair getting comfortable as the young gentlemen excuses himself. She had no idea who he was or what he did but he was awfully nice. As she waited for the makeup artist to finally get there, she scanned the room looking for something to amuse herself with. On the far wall was a picture of Jay Leno and Trish couldn’t help but notice it. He had a rather goofy smile on his face. If that was his normal disposition she already wasn’t going to enjoy herself. She studied the picture for a few seconds longer when her cell phone started to ring. She reached into the pocket of her of her blue jeans pulling out her silver RAZR. She flips it open seeing her assistant Karen’s number on the caller id screen. She presses the accept button as she raises the phone up to her ears and starts to speak.   %Trish Stratus%  Hey Karen, I was just about to call you. Did the sets and everything get there?   %Karen%  Relax…everything’s here. I went ahead and told them to set everything up so that it was ready when you got here.   %Trish Stratus% Great, I have a feeling that after being on here I’m going to need to burn off some energy.   %Karen% You’re not insinuating that Jay’s going to get on your nerves are you?   %Trish Stratus% You’re funny, you know that? The time I have an interview of any kind and I get someone who doesn’t get on my nerves will be the exact same day that Mickie James isn’t a complete nutcase.   %Karen% Speaking of the devil, your all time favorite person just did an interview with your favorite interviewer.    %Trish Stratus% Oh joy for me�?twiddle dee and twiddle dumb had a little talk. I can just imagine how scintillating that conversation was. Do I seriously want to know or was it as stupid as I’m guessing it was?   %Karen% Oh it’s as stupid as you’re guessing.  %Trish Stratus% Alright (She Sighs), let me have it. %Karen% According to Todd when Mickie barged into your office she challenged your authority and you’ll be thrilled to know it aggravated you to the point where you booked her into a match against you.   %Trish Stratus% What in the hell has he been smoking? Something pretty strong by the sounds of it. She challenged my authority huh? Yea�?okay. What did she do pay him to ask her something like that to make her look more important than she is or did he come up with that retarded question by himself?   %Karen% Judging by her response I’m guessing he thought of it all by himself.   %Trish Stratus%  (In a curious tone) Oh really now, that’s something I never thought I would ever hear. Do I want to know what her response was?   %Karen%  The ever so surprising she wasn’t challenging your authority she was just giving you suggestions on how to improve this place, which she apparently is a huge fan of. You will be relieved to know that she doesn’t have a huge grudge against you like everyone thinks she does but she does want to pay you back for what you did to her in your WWE days.   %Trish Stratus% Whatever floats her boat. If she’s got some bur up her ass because I didn’t drop everything in my life just to make her happy then that’s her problem. Honestly Karen with people like her running around loose on the streets and you wonder why I’m so selective on which ones I associate with and which ones I don’t.   %Karen% Apparently she’s been getting under Natasha Kaine and Michelle Hardcore’s skins as well. Todd asked her if she was at all concerned about them or SVD sticking their nose into your match.   %Trish Stratus%  What did pain in the ass have to say?   %Karen% She’s sure she’s in agreement with you over it, that you want it to be a fair fight and that you don’t want anyone’s help in taking her out if that’s what happens.   %Trish Stratus% I’ll give the psycho some credit, she actually did get one part of that right. I don’t need anyone’s help in taking her out. Not out of the match at least. Out of the ring afterwards is an entirely different matter altogether and if Natasha, Salman and Michelle want to offer their services and come down to carry her limp body out of the ring afterwards they’re more than welcome. During the match, they’re not needed.   %Karen% She seems to be under the impression that if they did interfere that you and her would band together.   %Trish Stratus% Are you freaking kidding me with that? She comes into my office running her mouth to me about how I should run my show and then thinks that if a few other people that she’s managed to piss off come down to the ring and kick her ass that I’m going to bail her out?  Please! I’ll help out Chris Michaels before I would her and you know my opinion of him.    No sooner had Trish finished the sentence, the door to the room opened. A woman who looked to be in her early fifties stepped inside. Trish took her attention off her phone call to acknowledge the woman before returning back to it. She quickly informed Karen that the makeup artist was there and she needed to go. After saying a quick goodbye she flipped her phone closed and stuffed it back into her pocket. She quickly turned her head around giving the make up artist instructions on how she wanted her hair and make up. The woman simply nodded as she went right to work. After what seemed like an eternity she finally announced that she was finished. Trish looked into the mirror letting out a sigh of relief as she rolled her eyes. She slid out of the chair turning around to face the woman. Trish offered a smirk as if it to it’s about time. She was about to offer a comment when the door to her locker room opened. The semi curly blonde haired man who led her into the room earlier had returned. He poked his head inside to inform her that the show was about to start and her spot was going to be first. The smirk disappeared from her face and was soon replaced with a polite smile. Ignoring the makeup artist a few feet away from her, she made her way across the room following him out the door. He leads her left and right through out the hallway being told to be friendly towards Jay, laugh at his lame jokes and answer as politely and thorough as she could. Trish rolls her eyes in annoyance at his back, she knew what her job was and didn’t him telling her how to do it. She was there to promote this Tuesday’s edition of Raw, and sell it the best she could. Finally they reach the studio where the Tonight Show broadcasts from. He leads her to a plain blue curtain and instructs her that Jay will be ready for her in a minute. Trish nods staring at a small TV screen hanging from the ceiling. Jay was doing his usual opener with the wacky headlines he had been submitted.  One referred to someone reporting a large pile of crap sitting on top of a trashcan. Serenity almost gagged at the sound of it.  After a few more lame jokes, Jay announces Serenity’s name as his first guest. %Jay Leno% Joining us tonight all the way from the World’s Greatest E-Federation, a woman who this Tuesday will be competing on this week’s Raw…please welcome Trish Stratus!  “Time to Rock ‘N�?Roll�?by Lil Kim plays over the p.a. system as Trish makes her way onto the stage. She smiles and waves at all the fans that are cheering for her. She smiles as she walks up to the desk where Jay gives her a hug and a kiss on the cheek. She blushes slightly as she takes a seat in the chair beside Jay’s desk as Jay lowers himself to the chair behind his desk. The music slowly starts to fade and the fans do as well as the interview gets underway. %Jay Leno%   Getting right into this, I see tomorrow night on your very own show you’re facing a woman that you had a rather heated history with. That woman being Mickie James. The way I understand it, this problem between the two of you had ended when you left the WWE to help run the WGEF and has now only resurfaced with Mickie signing on to the WGEF roster. Can you tell us how everything got started again? %Trish Stratus% There’s not really much to tell Jay. Mickie signed with the WGEF last week and on her very first day she came into my office telling me how to run my show and who to put on it. I decided that if she had such a problem with who was being booked on my show then I was going to give her a chance to put her money where her mouth is so to speak against someone that she couldn’t help but see as a valuable opponent. %Jay Leno% You’ve definitely done that. After Mickie’s recent criticism of your show are you using this match in any way as revenge? %Trish Stratus% I wouldn’t say revenge. More like teaching her a lesson for running her mouth where it wasn’t needed nor wanted. %Jay Leno% That’s some lesson. From what I hear Mickie is looking to pay you back for what you’ve done to her the past. Does the same hold true for you or is this solely about what happened recently? %Trish Stratus% She’s looking to pay me back for what I did to her in the past is she? That’s funny. She was the one who followed me around like a puppy in heat and yet I’m the one who did stuff to her? Yea…okay. I don’t know why I’m surprised, Mickie always has lived in a dream world. As far as my position in this match goes, I’m not going to lie Jay I’ve love to get retribution for the stalking and inappropriate touching but this match isn’t about that. It’s about teaching her to keep her nose out of my business. %Jay Leno% After this match is over, will this be the final end to the feud between you and Mickie or is this only the beginning? %Trish Stratus% You’ll have to ask Mickie on that Jay. In my opinion once I get done teaching her to keep her nose out of my business, I’ll be done dealing with Mickie James as well. Besides I have much more important things coming up then beating the same lesson into Mickie’s head over and over again until it finally sinks in. %Jay Leno% Well Trish I want to wish you the best of luck tomorrow night. Remember to make sure to catch WGEF Raw tomorrow at noon live on USA. (He turns back towards Trish) Trish, thank you again for coming by. Coming up next a performance by Three Doors Down�?stay tuned. The camera pulls away from the two as Jay shakes Trish’s hand thanking her for appearing on his show. Trish mouths the words thank you and it was her pleasure to do it. A complete bold faced lie but it was nothing more than a commodity anyway. As the show heads into one of its many commercial break, Trish exits the stage heading in the direction of the dressing room. She stops in long enough to grab her purse from its spot on the back of the chair, flinging it on her shoulder and making her way out of the small room and down the hall to the elevator as the scene fades to black.

...Trish Stratus