He betrayed him. He made him look like a fool. So why does he care so much to watch him get beat by Kurt? He deserves it. No, no he doesn't. He made him this way. He ignored him, he made him feel like dirt. He made him believe he truly and utterly hated him, when the truth was that he couldn't have fallen more in love with anyone else. He pushed him away to keep him from seeing the truth and now he had to deal with watching him fall. Not while he was around. No sir.

"Angle!" Christian shouted down the hall.

"Well, well. Look who it is. The Instant Classic. Coming to beg us to take you back? Mhhm?" Kurt elbowed Robert in his side, who tried to keep a smirk off his face. A.J. came up from behind them.

"Kurt, um, I finished what you asked me to do." A.J. stuttered, his face turning bright red as soon as his eyes meet Christian's.

"A.J., you idiot, can't you see that I am in the middle of something!" Kurt shouted. A.J. cringed at the word idiot.

"Sorry. I didn't mean too." A.J. murmured.

"Come on Kurt give him a break, he's too stupid to understand." Robert patted A.J. on the back. A.J. let out a sigh.

"Alright just make sure it doesn't happen again." Kurt hissed in A.J.'s face. "Now go. I don't want to look at you anymore." A.J. nodded and turned to leave.

"Hey A.J., by the way. I could use a favor later, if ya get what I mean. Ms. Brooks is kinda mad and me so I'm pretty sure I won't be tapping that tonight. So if you could stop by my dressing room in about an hour, that would be great." Robert said, grabbing a handful of A.J.'s ass. A.J. swallowed but reluctantly nodded once again. Christian had a disgusted look on his face that made A.J. feel even worse.

"Anyway back to you Christian. I suppose we could let you back on our team. I mean you are really good." Kurt looked to Robert.

"Yea, you'll be more useful than A.J., that moron. Wanna know what A.J. and women have in common?" Robert asked. Kurt had an intrigued look on his face. "Both are only good for one thing!" Kurt let out a howl of laughter. Christian felt his anger building.

"You got that right. I have to say that sweet ass is the only reason he's even still here." Kurt high fived Roode. Christian finally couldn't take it anymore.

"You cannot be serious! Kurt you've got everything I want. My old status, my friends, the championship but above every single one of those A.J.!" Christian shouted, his face ablazed. "I refused to stand by and let you treat someone as beautiful and amazing as him like this! Oh and Robert, if you ever, ever, EVER touch A.J. like again I willl hurt you. Very badly." Christian grabbed Robert by the collar.

"Hey you let him go!" Kurt pulled Christian off of him. "Like you have room to talk anyway Cage! Who never treated A.J. like a real person? Who made him come crawling to the Angle Alliance? You did. He act this way, he gets treated this way because of you!" Kurt spat in Christian's direction as both of them began to stumbled away. As they turned away, they saw that A.J. was still there. Robert got an evil smile on his face.

"Well A.J.! You heard everything right? Well let's just say that you're paying for every single thing he just said! Hope you don't intend on sitting for a pretty long time." Robert winked at A.J. as both of them escaped Christian's rampage.

"A.J..." Christian buried his face in his hands. "I'm sorry. Now you're gonna get hurt and it's all my fault!" Christian turned and punched the wall as hard as he could. A.J. didn't say anything. He just whirled around and jogged the other way.

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Christian was starting to pack up his things when he heard a knock at the door. He opened it expecting Kurt or Robert to be there, waiting to punch him in that face. He braced, but the blow never came. He opened an eye, only to come face to face with AJ.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Christian murmured, seeing a black eye that had not been there earlier.

"I, um, I have a question." AJ stuttered, slightly trying to hide the big black eye on his face.

"Sure. Ask away."

"Did you mean what you said? About me being beautiful and amazing?"AJ asked.

"You have no idea how much I truly meant that. I love you so much it hurts. I wish I had been able to tell you that before...then maybe you wouldn't be in this situation."Christian stroked a finger down AJ's cheek. AJ began to tear up. "What? Did I do something wrong?"

"No, it's just...the person I have been in love with for...a really long time...loves me..." AJ buried his face in Christian's chest, loving the feeling of Christian's arms around his waist. "Christian, please, don't let me go back to them. I wanna stay with you. Please."

"Angel face...of course. I don't ever want you to go back to them." Christian pulled AJ as tight as humanly possible.

"Can we leave? I wanna get out of here before Robert notices that I'm not coming."

"Sure babe. Sure." Christian nuzzled AJ's neck. "I love you."

"I love you too."

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Tchea. At first, I didn't wanna post it. I didn't think it was very good, but I decided to post it anyway. I hope you all enjoy it. :) Please review, I would be happy if you did.