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Dawn Marie entered her hotel room, a sigh escaping her as she dropped her bag near the door, then let herself collapse onto the bed.
After her night of humilation, she was feeling exhausted. Doing something you were one-hundred percent against as well as crying your eyes out really wore you down - and out. All she wanted to do was crawl under the covers as sleep as long as humanly possible.
However, her mind was too occupied to allow her to go to sleep just yet.
Another soft sigh coming to her, the brunette felt terribly guilty as she recalled what had happened after her act in the ring...
She had lashed out at Sean O'Haire, verbally attacking him when all he'd done was be nice to her. He'd always been nothing but genial toward her - and she'd treated him like crap. Jeez, he hadn't even tried to gawk at her.
The brunette ran a hand through her long hair, wishing she'd handled the situation better. She knew she couldn't erase what she'd said, but at least she could apologize... Maybe she should go and do that right now.
Her nearby cell phone began to ring, startling her. Quickly, she reached for it, noting the words 'Lita cell,' along with the redhead's cell phone number on the caller ID.
"Hello?"
"Hi, Dawn... How's it going?"
The brunette grimaced.
"Not great," she admitted. "Did you watch the show?"
"Of course I did," Lita replied.
Dawn Marie removed her ear from the phone for a beat as she heard knocking at the door. She wondered who in the world that could be, and Sean's face flitted into her mind. Then again, it could be that slimeball Heyman, coming to torment her about her segment on the taping.
"Listen, can you hold on?" Dawn spoke into the phone. "Someone's at-" She rose to open the door, her jaw dropping in shock. The redhead, her cell phone still pressed to her ear, as well as Trish Stratus and Victoria, all stood just outside.
"Gotcha..." Lita quipped.
"My God! You guys!" A smile brightened the brunette's face as she looked at her three friends in utter surprise. "I can't believe you're here!"
"Well, you didn't expect us to just sit idly by after Li here told us what you were going through - did you?" Trish asked, the little blonde putting an arm around her as they all stepped into the hotel room.
"We're all officially on the SmackDown roster now," Victoria told her.
Dawn Marie's jaw dropped open in further surprise. She recalled Lita having mentioned that a few of them might jump ship to SmackDown, but she had to admit - she hadn't really take it seriously. After all, RAW had the Women's championship, for which all three of the divas standing before her were top contenders.
"You all did this for me?"
"Well," the redhead spoke, "maybe not all for you. Edge has been complaining that he misses me all the time..." She grinned.
Dawn Marie laughed softly - of course, the fact that Lita's boyfriend was with the SmackDown roster was a benefit to her moving there. And the brunette knew the high-flying diva loved Edge far more than a title belt.
"I'm... speechless - simply speechless," she said. She looked from one of them to the other and then the other. "Thank you, ladies!" Dawn then gave each of them a hug.
The little blonde diva's face grew serious with determination.
"We four are going to take the SmackDown Women's division by storm..."
Lita nodded her agreement.
"And we're going to see to it that Paul Heyman gets exactly what he deserves..."