Chapter 4 Celebrate good times

"We have so much too celebrate!" Shawn Michales called jovaly, standing up to make a toast. He had managed to gather most of his family under one roof to celebrate this joyful occasion. On one side of the large square table was his girlfriend Trish Stratus, his brother Triple H and his wife Stephanie. On the other side sat his children, his son Jeff, his daughters Jamie, Iziah, Harmoni and Raven, next to Raven sat his neice Storm. Shawn was so thankful that everyone was here and together he just had to make a speech, the others raised their glasses and listened to him talk.

"First to the return of our military girls. We are happy that you are home, now when are you leaving?"

They all laughed while Iziah shouted "never!"

"Secondly to Raven's recovery, I don't know how you did it but we are glad that your ok. Thirdly to Jeff's new hit album. Not what I'm into but well done" Shawn gave him a huge thumbs up. "And lastly to my two favourite women, my girlfriend and sister in law who are both proud mothers to be. Heer heer!"

"Heer heer!" They all clinked their glasses before Shawn went on. "Now for those who can't or won't drink there are plenty of alternatives and for those who are drinking, keep in mind we are not trying to out drink a small country" He looked mainly at Iziah and Harmoni who both keen drinkers.

"How about a large country then?"

"No Iziah" Shawn said shortly before going on "And for those who prefer human organs to actual food keep in mind no one wants to see that Raven Venom"

"Can I eat a live bat?"

"No"

"A rat?"

"No!"

"How about a cat?"

"It's funny cause it rhymes" Jamie squealed happily clapping her hands.

Shawn sat down again and let them go back to their chatting, he was a little worried about having Raven and Jeff in the same room but they seemed to be alright, tonight they let bigons be bigons. Now he was playfully taunting her with the fact that he could have chicken and she couldn't.

"You realise I could really hurt you right?" Raven pointed at him with her fork

"Perhaps but I still get chicken" Jeff grinned making Jamie giggle.

"You know if you put this much effort into your albums then one day you could be as good as Fifty Cent"

"I bet he could have chicken"

"You two have this conversation, I'm going to answer the door" Shawn laughed as the door screeched out it's familiar ding dong.

"Randy?" Shawn was a little surprised to see the younger man standing on his doorstep. Randy had always tried to be anti-social outside of work unless he wanted sex with one of the girls. In the last six months Shawn had noticed that he had even stopped doing that, he preferred to just go without speaking. Shawn couldn't exactly blame him, after a long hard day all you wanted was to be left alone.

"Hi Shawn, is Raven here?" He tried to be casual but the shock that his mentor was his wife's father was a little over whelming.

"Unless the next words out of your mouth are I'm sorry and of course I'll help you, we have nothin to talk about" Raven said from behind him. Her cold glare fixated on him.

"It was something along those lines"

"Really?"

"Yeah can we talk?"

"Whoa! Before any of that happens, you explain" Shawn pointed at Raven. Unusual things weren't new to him but this was almost too much.

"This is the hunting partner I was tryin to find, well we can all stop lookin now because I found him. I always do."

From the dining room she could hear Storm laughing at her comment.

"Alright" Shawn said, happy with that. "I guess I'll leave you two to talk." He gave Raven a look before going back to the kitchen. He couldn't say that he was happy that Randy was the partner he was dying to meet but he had learnt that Raven was alot smarter than people could ever imagine, she was far too smart to fall for the Viper's charm.

Raven took a seat on the front steps next to Randy and began to roll a cigerette, Raven didn't know why she bothered smoking it didn't do anything but make her thirsty but still she rolled it and began to look for her lighter. Breathing out a puff of air she looked at him. "Well talk"

"There was an incident" He started

"Good for you"

"Nikki Bella vanished tonight, slit throat like the sumarai"

"Good!" Iziah yelled from the kitchen.

"Shut it!" Raven yelled back. "Go on"

"I've come here to throw myself at your mercy"

"Knowin your luck, you'd miss" Raven said coldly re-lighting her smoke.

Randy sighed, he knew what she wanted to hear and if he wanted anything to do with her he would have to say it. "Ok I'm an idiot and I'm sorry, of course I'll rejoin the clan but I won't like it and probably be very sarcastic and fight you at every turn"

Raven finally laughed "I didn't expect anything less Viper"

"Heard about that huh?"

"Randy I hear everythin unless I choose not too"

"So now that I'm in?"

"Tomorrow night we will go into the woods and hunt, see if we can get any leads on this fucked up puzzle" Raven butted out her smoke and threw it in the garden, "For now I'm gonna finish celebratin with my family"

"I'll meet you there then" Randy stood up, he didn't want to leave, he wanted to stay with her. He knew it would take more than one day to get back the relationship they once had but he wasn't going to give up until he did.

"I'll see you tomorrow night Randy," Raven turned up the stairs "Oh and thank you"

"Your welcome" Randy gave her a small wave before turning on his way.

Raven watched him leave and again her heart broke as he walked away.