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Lita drummed her fingers on the table-top absent-mindedly, her head turned away from her late dinner company.
"Lita...hey!" Trish Stratus waved a hand before her best friend and fellow WWE diva's face.
The redhead turned back to face the blonde from Toronto.
"Huh? Oh, I'm sorry, Trish..." she said, then wearily ran both hands over her face. "I'm just a little distracted..."
"Humph...I don't blame you," Trish said, an almost-pout on her pretty face. "I would be, too, if that idiot Bischoff put me with Evolution and that psychotic bitch Victoria!"
Lita sighed.
"Victoria and I sort of called a truce..." she admitted.
"Come again?"
"We called a truce..." the high-flyer repeated. "We shook on it, because neither one of us wants to have to work with Evolution...Ric Flair is a legend, and I respect him tremendously - but I can't stand Triple H or his little shadow, Randy Orton..." She shook her head in disgust and disapproval.
"I don't believe it! You are actually going to be friends with the woman that has tried to take me out of commission repeatedly?"
"Trish, I don't have a choice..." the redhead stated. "She knew neither of us had a choice in the matter, so she decided to be the bigger person, and-"
"Why can't you go to Austin and demand he overturn Bischoff's decision?" the blonde diva asked, interrupting.
"I thought about doing that, and I still think about it..." Lita replied. "But Bischoff insists that there's nothing Stone Cold can do - that they make decisions independently of one another..."
"Do you really think he'd just come out and tell you otherwise?" Trish asked rhetorically, her head cocked to one side. "Come on, Lita...Don't be gullible..."
The redhead cast her eyes down, mulling over everything her friend had just spoken. Then, as the Canadian continued, she looked up to meet her eyes.
"For all you know, it could all very well be a setup - Victoria could already be working with Evolution, and Bischoff and them could be planning a sneak attack when you least expect it or something..."
The redhead ran a hand through her hair as she sighed again. She knew Trish could be right. The guys in Evolution and Victoria had certainly never been what she would call 'friends.' She'd just returned after a 16-month absence after breaking her neck on the set of the the former TV show Dark Angel. There were easily some people in the WWE that would no doubt rather she'd never returned. Victoria, a diva who would rival her for Molly Holly's Women's championship, could certainly be one of those people.
Lita decided right then and there that she would speak to Stone Cold Steve Austin... And she
would definitely keep her guard up as well...