Matt had a hard time concentrating on anything else for the next few days. His thoughts kept drifting back to Adam. No matter what he did, he could not get the blonde Canadian out of his mind. He wouldn't admit it out loud, but he was worried about the guy. He could only imagine the things Dave could be doing to him.

Jeff was worried about him too. He was constantly bugging Matt about it, and he was even making blueprints of how they could rescue him. Matt wasn't sure why they needed blueprints, but when Jeff was making them, he was at least quiet, so Matt just let him do it. It kept him distracted while Matt made some phone calls.

The first person he called was Jay, seeing as how he was still really tight with Adam. But Jay would not answer his phone, so Matt just left a message saying to call him back. Then he tried calling John, but Shawn just answered it and said that Cena was busy wrestling with one of his brothers and that he was going to have to call back too. That was when Matt started getting frustrated and as he called Randy, he vowed to kick the Legend Killer's if he could not talk on the fucking phone.

"Casa de Orton, this is Randall speaking," Randy said with a fake Hispanic accent as he answered the phone.

"Hey it's Matt."

"Ah, Senor Matthew Moore Hardy! Tell me, why are you bugging me on this--"

"Hold on," Matt interrupted. "Just stop for a second. Why are you talking like that? You sound absolutely ridiculous."

Randy sighed before going back to his normal voice. "I'm watching Spanish soap operas right now. I don't have a clue to what's really going on, so I'm making up my own stories for them."

"Wow, I think you might have just out gayed yourself. I did not know that was possible."

"Shut up Matt. Why did you call me anyway?"

Matt sighed. It was time to get down to business. "I need to talk to you about Adam and Dave."

"Okay. What about them?"

"Dave's abusing Adam."

There was just silence coming from Randy's end of the phone. "What?" Randy finally yelled. "Are you sure?"

"I'm damn sure. Jeff and I overheard it, and we saw the bruises. And Adam was obviously terrified of Dave."

"Shit," Randy cursed. "I always knew Dave was an asshole, but I didn't know he was this bad."

Matt nodded, even though he knew Randy couldn't see that. "Well we need to do something. And I was thinking that since you used to date him, maybe you could talk to him and help him realize he needs to leave Dave."

Randy took a deep breath. "Uh Matt? I don't know how to tell you this, but I'm not going to be the right person to do that."

"Why not?"

"Because I know him. And either though we dated, it was never about love. He couldn't have loved me anyway, because his heart has belonged to someone else for a long time now."

Matt frowned. "Who the hell are you talking about?"

"You of course."

Now it was Matt's turn to be silent for awhile. Adam loved him? Adam fucking Copeland loved him? "What? Are you on drugs again Randy? Because we've talked about this!"

Randy sighed in frustration. "Matt, the whole thing with Amy was a desperate attempt to deny his true sexuality. You're completely comfortable with being bisexual, but he freaked the fuck out when he realized he was falling for you. He did a stupid thing to try to lie to himself, and he's been paying for it for years. He doesn't think you'll ever love him or even really forgive him for that matter. But Matt, despite whether you'll forgive and even come to love him back or not, YOU have to be the one who helps him. YOU are going to be the ONLY one he'll listen to."

Matt didn't know what to say to that. He had a hard time accepting the fact that Adam loved him. But as he stopped to think about it, some of Adam's previous actions with Amy had been way too exaggerated. Maybe hindsight really was twenty-twenty. "But what the hell do I say to him?"

"I think you might already know Matt," Randy said cryptically.

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"Oh come on Matt. You've admitted that you've always felt more attracted to guys than girls. In fact, Amy was your only actual girlfriend. Jeff said it took you forever to admit that you loved her because you got hurt so badly by your first actual boyfriend. I used to think he meant emotionally hurt, but then I saw all the guys you went with after you and Amy called it quits. Evan was the biggest example of them all. None of those guys could even begin to hurt you physically. And that was when I realized what Jeff wasn't actually saying: you've been abused too."

Damn it, I hate it when he gets all perceptive like this. The bastard can't even keep his own love life stable, yet he knows just about everything about everyone else's. "Okay, okay, I'll talk to him," Matt said. "Just--"

"Keep your past on the down low? Don't worry Matty, you're the first person I ever admitted I knew that too. I'm not going to go off and blab to the whole world. And don't be mad at Jeff for saying anything. I don't think he thought I would actually figure out the real truth. He thought I would just take his words at face value."

"Well you should have," Matt grumbled. "It would have made me feel a little better."

"Sorry Matt."

"I know you are, so don't worry about it. I should have known people were going to find out sooner or later." He took a deep breath. "Do you think I should tell Adam?"

"Yeah, maybe you should. It might help him realize he doesn't deserve all that shit he's being put through." There was a slight pause and then it sounded like Randy was talking to someone else on his end of the phone. "Hey Matt, listen, I have to--"

"Go? Yeah, I figured you did," Matt said. "I'll talk to you later man."

"Okay. Bye."

"Bye." Matt hung up the phone and leaned his head back against the couch. This was a lot of information to take in. Apparently Adam love him, Randy was a philosopher in his spare time, and he was going to be the one that would have to save the day. He wasn't sure if he was up to it though. He knew from his one bad experience that everything was going to get much uglier before it got better…if it got better anyway.

Jeff came in and sat down next to him. "Who were you talking to?"

"Randy. Oh, and thanks for telling him about Sam. I really appreciate that."

"What? I didn't say anything about--"

"Well you said enough to let him put pieces of the puzzle together." Matt shook his head. He wasn't really angry at Jeff; he was just really frustrated. "It's been fifteen fucking years since that bullshit went down, but now it feels just like fucking yesterday dude."

Jeff hugged him sympathetically. "You've never really made peace with it dude. You just kind of buried it deep inside you and tried to repress it."

"Well do you fucking blame me?"

"No but you do need to come to terms with it man. And you need to help Adam too. Daddy helped save you from Sam and now it's your turn."

Matt didn't say anything. He didn't need to. He knew that despite all of the baggage he and Adam had, Adam didn't deserve to get mistreated like this. Adam had made an honest mistake in trusting and loving the Animal just like Matt had a mistake when he was nineteen years old, when he had fallen in love with and nearly got killed by an ex-con with a penchant for violence. And if he didn't hurry, Adam could possibly meet the same fate he had almost suffered after two years under Sam's control. And he did not want that for his old friend. He did not want that at all.