Ted DiBiase was walking into the ER of the hospital in Miami. His friend and wrestling buddy, Cody Rhodes, had been hurt during a match. He headed back to see Cody.
"Man, you took a hit." He said walking in.
"Thanks. I know." Cody replied. "The doctor should be in a few. Why don't you go and get me a drink or something?"
"Fine. I'll go." Ted walked out of the room.
He walked a little ways down the hall when he bumped into someone.
"Oh, I'm so sorry." He said helping her pick up her things.
"That's okay. I wasn't watching." She said softly.
As he helped her, she looked familiar to him but he couldn't place her. She was really beat up and he wondered who would do that.
"Again, I'm sorry." He said to her.
"Ted?" She said softly.
"Yeah, do I know you?" He asked her.
"Katelyn. Katelyn Hahn." She said.
"Katelyn. Oh my god." He said hugging her. "What happened?"
"My husband." She replied.
He was shocked that this was Katelyn. His high school girlfriend who he had loved more than anything. How could she have a husband who would do this to her?
"Is he here with you?" Ted looked around and saw no one.
"No. After he hit me, I left and came here."
"Let's go in here and talk." He said as they headed into the exam room she had come out of. He was still shocked to see her. They hadn't seen each other in nine years. But even with the bruises, she was still the most beautiful girl to him.
She sat down on the bed in the room and he sat in the chair that was nearby. He wanted to know exactly what happened and what she had been up to the last nine years.
"So, tell me what happened?" He said as they sat there.
"He got angry when I said I was leaving him." She replied softly with her head down.
Ted looked at the girl in front of him and he couldn't believe it. This was not the Katelyn he knew in high school. That girl never let anyone push her around and she always had her head high. Just the thought of what this person was doing to her made him angry.
"What did he say and do?" He said moving closer to her.
"I told him I was leaving him because he was abusive. He grabbed me and said I wouldn't leave him. When I hit him and pulled away, he hit me. Once I was on the floor and he started hitting me again. I blacked out and when I woke up, he was gone. So, I headed here."
"Kate, this isn't you. You would never let some guy or anyone do this to you."
"That's the girl you use to know. I'm not her anymore. All that changed when I married Nick." She said getting up.
"No. She is still in there somewhere." He said grabbing her arm gently. He pulled her to him. "Kate, you are as strong as you always were."
"I wish I believed that." She whispered.
"I'm not letting you go back to him. You can come and stay with me."
"Ted, I don't want to drag you into my drama."
"You aren't dragging me anywhere. I'm offering to help a friend. A friend I care about and have always cared about. Let me help you."
She took a deep breath and thought about things. She had planned to find him and ask him for help but she didn't want him to have to deal with her drama.
"Katelyn, please let me help you."
"Alright. I will come with you." She said quietly.
"Good. Now, let's check you out and I will take you to my hotel. I leave out for home tomorrow morning. You will come with me and work on getting away from him."
"Okay." She said to him. She was relieved that she had found him even by chance. She knew he could help her.
He left her in the room as the doctor examined her and went and explained everything to Cody. Once he had, he headed back to the exam room. The doctor had given her some pain medication.
Once the doctor released her, Ted took her to his hotel room. He helped her into bed and made the calls to get her on the plane with him the next day. It was a short plane ride to Tampa but everything was set up. Once she was asleep, he knew he shouldn't but he started going through her things. He wanted to find out about her husband.
He looked at her driver's license and found out her name was now Katelyn Connor. So, he knew her husband's name was Nick Connor. He continued to go through them. He found all of her personal papers that had everything on them about her trust fund and everything else. He learned she lived in Miami with her husband. He found photos in her bag and hoped one was of her husband but when he went through them, they were of him and her during their relationship. He didn't know she kept them.
After looking through her bag, he got on his computer and looked up her and her husband. He found out her husband was an investment banker in Miami and she was the marketing promoter for the Miami Heat. He had no idea she worked in such a high profile job. He wondered how she managed to hide the bruises from her employer. He had just finishing reading the article written about her when he saw she was awake.
"Hey, you're up." He said walking over the bed.
"Yeah. It's hard to sleep sometimes when I'm in pain." She said getting up.
"Katelyn, I'm sorry that this happened." He moved to hug her.
"It's not your fault." She replied as he hugged her. "You and I haven't spoken in nine years."
"Kate, I'm sorry about that. I should have stay in touch with you."
"Ted, we were going in different directions. You wanted to follow your dream and you did. You have the career you wanted. I might not have gotten the life I wanted but it was the life I chose."
"So, you have decisions to make."
"I know. Once I'm away from here, I can file the divorce papers and get out of this marriage."
"Kate, why did you marry someone like that?"
"I didn't know how he was when I met him. He was nice and considerate. I never suspected he was violent."
"When did you meet him?" Ted was worried that he had met him right after they ended things and she was upset over their breakup and Nick took advantage of that.
"My junior year. We seemed so right for each other but I was wrong. I think I was looking for that connection again. The connection I had when I met you back in the eighth grade." She smiled slightly.
"I remember that. You had just transferred to the school from a boarding school in Maine. We were assigned to be lab partners. We just clicked. It wasn't long before I was so in love with you." He took her hand and rubbed his finger over the bruise she had on it.
"I think I fell in love that first day when you stopped me from tripping over your book bag in the lab." She laughed. "So I almost literally fell for you."
"That you did." He laughed before getting serious. "Kate, I promise to help you in anyway."
"Thank you."
"Now, how about some food?"
"Sounds good."
He ordered them some room service and they ate in silence. He wondered if her husband even knew she was gone or if he cared that she was gone. He decided once they got to Tampa, he was going to hire a private investigator to find out everything in her husband's past that would help her get her divorce.
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