A/N: I only own Melody Aundrea Cena and anyone else who may appear unfamiliar to you. I wanted to do this story long time ago but then I started losing interest in the WWE, which should explain the delay in updates.

Summary: Dating for over 8 years before being married for almost 3 years and now Melody and John have hit a rough patch in their marriage. They had always been happy with each other but when the past begins to catch up with them, will their already strained marriage survive the torment of the past or will they call their marriage quits for good?

The Only Exception

John Cena stood in his locker room holding a picture out in front of him. He couldn't help but smile at the image. He held his wife, err soon to be ex-wife, in his arms while she kissed his nose. The image had been taken during their wedding almost 3 years ago. Those were definitely the happier times in their marriage. He definitely missed her. He thought about her every night and longed to hold her in his arms. Sure you may have been wondering what went wrong in their marriage and honestly it was a lot of things. And once one thing started to cause problems for them, another thing would just appear out of nowhere. It was like they could never catch a break.

Losing her was never an option for him. He would always fight for her to be in his life whether that be as his wife, which he really wanted, or as a good friend. He couldn't see his life existing without her. That simply wasn't an option at all. It had been weeks since he had seen her. She had moved out of their house and into a condo that was a few minutes away from him. But the distance didn't really feel like it was separating them since Melody worked as the Physical Therapist for the WWE. And so John was always a regular for her when it came to her annual check-ups.

Stepping out of his locker room, he walked towards the direction of Melody's office. He waved hello every now and then to any co-workers that he would run into. Finally reaching her office, he prepared himself to open the door when the door flew open and Justin Gabriel stepped out of the locker room laughing along with Melody. Justin looked at him as he stopped in his tracks.

"Good to see you, John!" Justin said as John nodded shaking Justin's hand.

"Same to you." John said as Melody stepped aside to let him into her office.

"I'll see you soon, Mel!" Justin said.

"Of course, Justin! Stay healthy!" Melody said as she watched Justin walk away.

John watched as Melody shut the door before walking over to her desk to gather his folder. She flipped through the papers that were in the folder as he took a seat on the table that acted as her area to check her patients out.

"How's your knee?" She asked as she scanned through the papers from their previous check up.

"It's alright. It hasn't really been giving me problems." John said as he watched her close the folder before setting it down on her desk.

She turned to look at him as she walked over to him. Stretching out his left leg, she studied his reaction before looking at his leg. Everything seemed to be just fine in his leg as he had said. She walked back to his folder before writing some notes down.

"Have you been taking any medication for your knee? Or has the doctor cleared you off of that?" She asked looking back at him.

"I haven't been taking the medicine for a good two weeks now. Doctor says that my knee healed better. Plus there wasn't anymore pain in my knee." He stated as she nodded her head before writing down what he just said to her.

"That's good to hear! I'm glad that everything's going well with your knee." Melody said as she closed the folder, "I think that's everything that we needed to check up on."

"Thanks, Mel!" John said.

"No problem. I'll see you in a couple days just in case something begins to hurt again." She said as she looked at him.

"How have you been, Mel?" John asked.

"Please it's Melody." Melody said as John gave her a questioning look.

"I'm sorry. I just want to have small talk. Maybe talk about everything?" John said.