1A/N - same as before. Not real, nothing happened, only own Laura. Enjoy!

Chapter 2: One Shot, Two Shot

So I'm sitting at my desk trying to beat one of my friend's score at tetris when I am rudely interrupted by John and Randy busting into my room and claiming that it is time to get going to the arena. I quickly grab my bag and a coat and head out of the door with them to head to the arena.

When I get to the arena, Randy brings me to Vince so that I can check in to my first day of work.

"Thanks Randy, I'll catch up with you later."

"No problem sweety. And don't be nervous, Vince is actually a softy."

I knock politely on the door and wait for an answer. A young girl answers the door who looks similarly to the man behind the desk. Must be related.

"Hello Mr. McMahon, I'm Laura Staal and I'm starting my first day here in the athletic therapist internship. I was told to check in here before I start."

"Ah. Yes, thank you for coming here. I just have to get you to sign this form so that we can pay you for your work."

I walk over to where his desk is and I grab the pen from his hand so that I can sign my life away. I hand him back the pen and paper and smile.

"Now my daughter will take you to your mentor, Rick. Have a great time here and learn lots so that we can keep you on the payroll."

"Thank you Mr. McMahon, I'll try my best."

Stephanie leads me to the office where I am to meet this Rick fellow. We make small talk along the way and I can tell that she is a very busy woman seeing as she has so many people coming up to her and reminding her of the meetings she has today. We finally arrive and say our goodbyes as I enter the room.

"Hey, my name is Laura and I am here for the athletic therapist internship."

"Ah yes, I'm Rick and I'll be your teacher for this internship. Anything you need, you just come to me and ask. Each day you'll be assigned some wrestlers to look after, anything from taping to assessing what muscles may be torn or strained. Today you will have just two wrestlers to work with and each week the number will increase depending on how well you handle them."

"Alright. Sounds good. Just one question. If I have to assess muscles that are hurt, do I assess them myself and then get you to double check?"

"Yeah for the first couple of weeks I will have to double check just so that you can learn from mistakes, if you make any. Well I think that is all. You are assigned to Randy and John tonight, you can find them and see what they need done and when they want their treatments. Have fun tonight and remember I'm always here if you need any help or have any questions."

"Thank you very much. See you later."

So I walk out of his office and find that I have my own little therapy table set up with my name on it and a little cubby beside it. I place my bag there and head out into the main catering area to try and find out if John or Randy are in there. I look around the room and see none of them but some older interns wave me over. So deciding that it may be beneficial to actually get to know older interns in my program I walk over and sit down with them.

"Hey you're the new girl right?" The first guy asks me, named Kyle.

"Yeah, I'm Laura."

"Nice to meet you. Get your clients yet?"

"Yeah I'm assigned to John Cena and Randy Orton."

"Ha. Good luck. Randy Orton loves to make interns' lives hell."

"He seems fine to me. He lives beside me in residence and he's been nothing but nice to me."

"Well he'll change. Wait how did you get placed in the wrestler hall?"

"No idea. But I'm going to get going so I will talk to you all later."

I get up from the table and walk away from them. They seem like stuck up people but who can tell this early on. I get out of the catering area and decide to go to the main area backstage to watch the many different TVs on the wall. I look over all the TVs and notice that John is in the ring working out. I ask some random person how I get to the ring and they point me in the right direction. But with me being directionally challenged, I end up getting lost in some random hallway.

I finally find my way to the ring and head down the ramp. His back is to me and I whistle at him just like he whistled at me in the hallway. He turns around and smiles his little cocky smile.

"I know, I know, you like what you see."

"Oh no, I was just getting something off of my lip."

"Ha ha. So what can I do you for pumpkin?"

"Well I am officially your trainer, so what time would you like to have your first appointment at?"

"Umm how about in like 30 minutes, when I'm finished up here?"

"Alright, see you then. Bye John."

"Bye bye sweet cheeks."

I shake my head and walk back up the ramp and head back to my little training room. I walk in the door and turn towards my bench and see Randy sitting there with a big grin on his face.

"Hey you mister. I was looking all over for you."

"I know I'm just that popular. I just figured that I would come to you so that you wouldn't

have to look that far."

"Well I guess that this works better. So what can I do you for?"

"Just want you to check out my wrist, it's a little swollen and I need some tape."

"Alrighty. Here just let me see your wrist first."

I check over his wrist and it is indeed swollen. I test his range of motion and see how far I can push his joint until he tells me it hurts. I determine that he has just sprained the ligament and that with a little rest it will heal. But for now I just tape it up for him.

"Thanks darling."

"No problem. Hey Randy, I have a question for you."

"Shoot."

"I was talking to an older intern earlier today, Kyle, and he says that you're an asshole to all the other interns. You putting on a front for me right now?"

"Oh no. You see Kyle is not that good at his job, and he's just plain annoying so I like to annoy him back. You won't have anything to worry about, you seem to be pretty good at your job."

"Oh thanks. Well I'll see you later, John is about to come in to get taped. I'll see you after your match to take off the tape and look at your wrist again."

Randy hops off the bench and kisses my forehead and turns to leave towards the door. As he leaves, John enters.

"Why hello there. Hop up onto my lovely bench and tell me what I can do for you."

John walks over to my bench and hops onto it and smiles at me.

"Well I need my ankle taped, I sprained it at a workout a week ago."

"Alright."

I take his ankle into my lap and see that it is a bit swollen but it seems to be getting better. I grab my pre-wrap and wrap it around his ankle, and then grab the tape to wrap over the pre-wrap.

"Alright your all set. Wanna take me to that main room again so that I can actually watch the wrestling. I get lost all over this place."

"Thank you for the tape. And of course I can take you."

He offers me his arm and I take it as we walk out of the training room. We get back to the place with the whole wall of televisions. A lot of people have gathered so that they can watch the show. I turn back to John and smile.

"Thanks for the directions. You're a doll. Now go out there and don't get too hurt, because I really don't want to have to fix you up after your match."

"Hah, alright then. Hey do you want to go out to grab a bite to eat with me after the show?"

"Umm, actually I think I'm just going to go home after since I have an early class tomorrow. Sorry."

"No worries. See you later."

So I didn't see that one coming. I can't believe I actually had the will power to turn him down. I'm quite proud of myself, I think I deserve a tap on the back for that.

I sit down in an empty seat beside the wrestler that was in John's room earlier, Jeff. We make small talk and he explains some of the things that are happening within the show.

"Yeah I think it will take me a while to get used to this."

"Once you get used to it, believe me you'll be hooked."

"Ha. We'll see about that. When do you go out there?"

"I'm scheduled in the main event, so I will be the last one."

"I see, Mr. Big Shot."

Jeff smiles at me and I playfully punch his arm. I turn my attention back to the screen and watch

the rest of the show. Jeff gets up to go wrestle and I take this opportunity to head back to my training room to wait for Randy and John so that I can take off their tape. Ten minutes later they both show up together.

"Well who wants to go first?"

" I will."

John then hops onto the bench and I take his foot into my lap again. I grab the scissors and I carefully slide them under the tape and cut off the cast. I throw it in the garbage and stand up to cut off Randy's arm cast.

"There you go boys. I think I'm done here, want to get going?"

"Yeah sure, just let us grab our bags and we'll meet you at the car."

"Alrighty see you soon."

I finish cleaning up my station and grab my bag. I head out the door and walk the same way I came in and find the car with only a limited amount of difficulty. Randy and John arrive not 5 minutes later and we head back to the residence. I say my goodbyes and thank you to the boys and head into my room to call my brothers.

"Yo mo fo, how's life?"

"Oh hey Laura. I'm alright, how was your first day?"

"It was good Eric. Is Brooke around, or is she in bed?"

"She's in bed already, I'm responsible."

"Ha, okay, I'll believe it when I see it. Well I'm going to go to bed, tell everyone that I love them and I'll talk to you later."

"Alright, love you too, bye"

I get changed into my pyjamas and wash up. I set the alarm for tomorrow and get some sleep.

The next morning I wake up and do the normal routine of getting dressed and heading to class.

I finish up class for the day and I start walking back to the residence when I see some of the wrestlers playing some beach volleyball beside the residence. I walk over to where they are playing and decide to watch for a bit.

"Laura, come play!"

"No Randy, you really don't want me to play."

"Yes, yes we do Laura. No buts, your coming to play."

Reluctantly I get up off the bench and head over to one side of the net and start to play. On my team there is myself, Randy, John, Jeff, Matt, and Dave Bautista and were against Chris Irvine,

Hunter, Evan, Shawn, Cody, and Ted. I think throughout the game I hit the ball maybe twice over the net, all the rest either went backwards or to the side. Clearly I was the best player on the team. We finish up the game and head to the bathroom so that I can wash my feet in the tub. John comes in with me.

"So I think that I'm pretty much MVP for the volleyball game, I deserve a trophy."

"Well I can't give you a trophy, but what about dinner tonight with me?"

"Smooth but, I really need to go get some work done. Sorry."

I quickly get out of the bathtub and head to my room. I decide that I should probably get caught up on my anatomy. I make a list of the muscles that I need to know for the first midterm and try to memorize where the hell the come from and where the hell they go to.

"Knock knock. Want any help?"

"Hey Randy. Yeah sure, do you mind if you take off your shirt so I can see muscles?"

"If you wanted me naked you could've just asked."

After that comment, my roommate decides that she needs to leave. I guess were a bit awkward for her, but she trips over a shoe on her way out and me and Randy dissolve into laughter.

"Well we really know how to clear a room."

I laugh at Randy and then get back to studying. I would read where the muscle is, where it goes, and how to test for it. After I read that over, I go to Randy and test that muscle so that I can see where exactly it is.

"Wow should I come back later?"

"Ha. No John, he's helping me learn. What's up?"

"Alright, sure, we'll go with that. I'm here to ask if you all want to go to a movie tonight?"

"What movie man?"

"I was thinking Wolverine?"

"Yeah sure, Laura you in?"

"Um, yeah why not? What time we going?"

"Let's say like 20 minutes meet at our room?"

"Alright I'll be over in a bit. Now Randy grab your shirt and leave so that I can get changed."

"Or I could just stay here and help you get changed."

"Or not."

Randy and John leave and I quickly change into a pair of jean shorts and a plain black t-shirt. Brush some bronzer on and some mascara. Grab my purse and cell phone and head over to their room. When I get to their room other wrestlers are already there and five minutes later we all get ready to leave. As were walking through the lounge, I just get dirty look after dirty look from the older interns. I guess because I actually hang out with the wrestlers and not just sit on my butt and idolize them.

We decide that we should take a bus since there are quite a bit of us going. We end up getting to the movie right on time and we get seats. The movie was awesome and I would definitely go see it again. We head back to residence and I go back to my room. I change into my pyjamas and there is a knock at the door.

"Hey Randy. Need something?"

"Hey, no I don't need anything, just came to talk."

"Oh alright, come on in."

"So I hear you have been turning down John."

"Haha, yeah I guess I have."

"Why? He's a great guy, and I've never seen him talk about a girl before like he does about you."

"I guess I just don't want to get involved with anyone right now."

"Bullshit. I may not know you that well, but we seem to click really well and I think we could become good friends. You can trust me, tell me what's up."

"Alright. Well since my brothers are in the NHL I have been around players for a while. I was involved with a player who played minor leagues with one of my brothers and well I became pregnant. Yeah so I told him that I was pregnant and he told me that he didn't want anything to do with it because he was on his way to the NHL and he couldn't have that hold him back. So I had my child and never spoke to him again. So I guess I don't want to get involved with another 'celebrity athlete' because I feel like their just gonna do the exact same thing."

Randy looks stunned, but comes over to sit beside me and wraps his arm around my shoulder and pulls me towards him.

"That guy is an asshole. Your lucky that you have nothing to do with him now, you deserve better. Now John is a great guy and I know that he would never treat you like that. I think you should give him a chance."

"I don't know. I'll think about it alright? Happy?"

"Ecstatic! So you have a daughter. How old, name, picture?"

"Yeah, her name is Brooke and she is 5. The pictures behind you actually are of her."

"She's beautiful, like her momma. So she's five, and your turning 19. So that makes you 14 when you had her? That must have been tough."

"Yeah that's right. It was a hell of a time. But I had great family and friend support to get me through. They were always there for me and it made it a bit easier."

"Well you're a strong girl, and I definitely have a soft spot for you now. Your officially my girl best friend."

"And your officially my guy best friend. But now I would like you to leave so that I can go to bed. Ah thank you."

"Ha. Alright sweety, have a nice night. See you tomorrow."

"Night."

Randy leaves and I wash up so I can get to bed. It feels good to tell someone about Brooke. Well I set my alarm and get right to sleep.

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Alright well there is the 2nd chapter. I hope you all like it. I have up to the 4th chapter written and I think it will be posted by Friday. Please review and let me know what you think and let me know of anything you would like to see in the story. Thanks

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