Chapter 2

Chris woke up early next morning, sweat beaded over his entire body. He'd had another dream involving John. He looked at Emily while she slept. She was curled up in the foetal position on her side of the bed, he was stretched out on his side. He reached over and put his hand on her side and she slowly rolled over. Her green eyes fluttered open and landed on his, and she smiled.

"I'm glad I have you," said Chris quietly. His hand moved up her body and onto her face. He stroked her cheek lightly with his thumb.

"I'm glad I have you too," she replied, with a smile.

They laid together for a while longer. Emily drifted off to sleep again, so Chris silently slipped out of bed and padded down the stairs in just his boxers. Their dogs ran at him and began licking his hands but he ignored them and set about making coffee. He picked up the mail and sat on the step of the back door with his coffee.

Letters had been sent to him and Emily from fan's of wrestling around the world, many letter's were very sympathetic towards the two of them. Emily had found it difficult to read them, so she often left them to Chris. Reading them made memories of that night flood back again. It hurt so much. A tear ran down his cheek, dripping from his chin and into his coffee. Annoyance washed over him and he got up. He had to wake Emily up because they had to be at the TNA offices for a meeting.

Chris inhaled deeply as he pulled open the door to the TNA offices. Emily was beside him holding his hand tightly, he had accidently left the notes from fans on the breakfast table and Emily had read one of them. It had taken her nearly an hour to compose herself. As they walked through the offices random people shouted their greetings at them. Chris smiled falsely at all of them in acknowledgement, making their way to Dixie Carter's office. When Emily walked through the door she was immediately engulfed into a hug from Dixie. Emily let go of Chris's hand reluctantly and patted Dixie on the back.

Over the short period of time that they had known each other, Emily and Dixie had become quite good friends. They had been coming up with new storylines together, and spending so much time together meant that they had learned to trust one and other. However, Emily had never told Dixie what had happened to make John Cena go psycho. That secret still remained just with Emily and Chris.

Dixie looked over at Chris, he didn't look as he usually did. Normally he would be immaculately dressed, shaved and most of he would have a smile on his face. Today, 

however, he looked a bit scruffy; his hair was sticking up, he hadn't shaved and he was wearing a particularly unattractive scowl on his face.

"What's up with you?" Dixie asked releasing Emily from her grasp and taking her seat behind her desk.

"Nothing. We just had some more letters from fans," Chris replied he looked over at Emily who was looking at her feet. The other fact was that when he was getting dressed he realized that tomorrow would the anniversary of their friends, and John's disappearance. Ever since he had found out, he was finding it very difficult to bottle his fears of what could happen. In the back of his mind he knew nothing good would come in the next few days. He just needed to ignore his past. He just needed to forget John, forget the WWE, forget his dreams, forget everything but the present. That was a challenge that Chris didn't think he could handle.

Big shout out to Super T, you rock girl!

Next chapter will be up tomorrow.

Angel
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