Chapter 1: Torn on the inside
This chapter is an introduction so you guys can understand how Randy became an alcoholic. In the next one we will see interaction between Randy and Cena. This is my first story so go easy guys! Sorry about grammatical errors, English is not my first language. Hope you enjoy it. Reviews and suggestions are welcome.
Randall Orton's career made it extremely difficult to go back home frequently. Right now he felt his marriage was going to fall apart at any minute and he knew he was the only one to blame. Even though he had achieved tremendous success as a wrestler, he felt like a failure in every other aspect of his life. His wife, Samantha, had stayed with him even after all he had put her through, after his drug abuse issues, after he almost died from a drug overdose. After that specific situation he had promised himself and his wife that he would beat his addiction and work on being a better man. He was always an arrogant and selfish man, putting his career ahead of his wife and it took almost dying to realize that he had everything and that if he didn't mature he could lose it all. He had to make it work, he always knew he didn't deserve Samantha but he had to try and make everything right.
Then, Alana was born, his beautiful baby girl, and he promised Samantha that he was going to cut back his work days so he could spend more time with his family. And for a while everything was perfect, he wasn't doing drugs and to the world he was the cocky Viper everyone got used to hate and love, and to his family he was a good husband and father.
He was drafted to Smackdown and he was elected by management to be the franchise player of the show. Then it was announced that the superstars would be making cross-band appearances in Raw and Smackdown on a weekly basis. When Samantha heard the news she felt uneasy and scared that Randall would get caught up in all the pressure and he would resort to drugs again, plus she knew that this meant that Randy would be coming home less and Alana needed his father. But Randy promised that everything would stay the same.
However everything changed, it was impossible to spend a significant amount of time with his family when he had to fly all over the country and perform on Smackdown and Raw and the house shows. Sometimes he would go home for a few days once a month. He would fight with Samantha every single night. After he almost lost everything he worked for a few years back because of his drug addiction he was not going to put his job in the line ever again. He loved wrestling, it was his passion, and he was one the most important wrestlers in the WWE and when he started appearing in both shows his career had boomed all over again, people couldn't get enough of the Apex Predator. The truth was that when he was in the ring he felt invincible and he could see how successful he was. But for some reason when he was home he always felt like a failure, like a fake. So even though he knew that he was putting a strain in the family by working non-stop he decided to keep going, after all he always made sure that his family was well provided for.
He was sitting in the middle of the locker room; Samantha had called him to let him know that their little girl had watched his daddy working and that she missed him. They got into a really huge fight when he informed her that he wouldn't be able to go home in the next few weeks. He couldn't get Samantha's words out of his head: "Look Randall I have been with you every step of the way, but I'm just tired of you breaking your promises, I need my husband and most importantly Alana needs her father not just a provider, I am perfectly capable of taking care of her on my own. So you need to decide which one is more important, your family or your career. If you don't get it together soon, I will make the decision for you and ask for a divorce." And then she hung up.
He had been having problems sleeping in the last few months, his family issues and all the hours of work and travel were taking a toll on him. And there was nothing he could do, the last time he started taking sleeping pills he almost got himself killed. So now, after every show, he would go to the bar at whatever hotel he was staying and have a few drinks by himself, just enough of them to take his mind of things and help him sleep.