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Summary: He has the woman of his dreams by his side and twin babies to keep him busy. Life seems that it can't get any better for John Cena, until he gets the call for a return from the WWE. Will he make a return to the top or will someone from his past come back just in time to turn his life upside down?
Cast: John Cena and Trish Stratus as the main characters. Shawn Michaels as a supporting character.
Authors Note: There are some of you that do not realize this is a sequel to another sequel to the original story. So basically if this story seems to make no sense to you, please go back and read Bliss, and then read Whats Left Of Me. Thanks to all of you that do that,and thank you to each and every one of you that reviewed the last few chapters of this one. I have been doing my damnedest to work on this and I've been falling short. But I do eventually get around to it and here is the next update!
You can't see past the next round
He hadn't said anything to her for hours now. They had spoken vaguely when Randy had left the house only day before but since then it was like John was pulling away from her all over again. She wanted to say something about it to him, but with the babies and all of the demands on her time, it never seemed to come up.
Maybe getting my mother to watch the babies while I accompany John to Titan will open him up. We really haven't had much of a chance to get out on our own since the babies came. I might be reading too much into it. I'm sure nothings really wrong.
Now if she could only get herself to believe what she was thinking then everything would work out fine.
He had been this way since Randy's visit. Which was part of the reason why she wasn't immediately jumping on him. She had hopes that he would eventually come and talk to her,the way he had been lately so they could work through anything that seemed to come up together. This time was different in that he hadn't said much of anything to anyone. Shawn included.
"Do you want my peanuts?" she asked him, passing them over to where he sat beside her on the plane, awaiting the final landing in Connecticut.
He grunted a reply and closed his eyes again, the same way he had been the entire time they had been on the flight. Was it going to be like this the entire time they were at the WWE headquarters? Because if it was then she wanted the first flight home that minute. Her babies needed her more then John seemed too.
"John stop acting like this and talk to me!"
He slanted his eyes in her direction and opened them slowly, taking the woman before him in before closing them again. From where she sat it looked as if he had been going to say something and had thought better of it.
Damn it.
"There is nothing to say Trish."
Yeah right, he was taking a cop out. What a child. She thought, instantly feeling guilty for thinking the way she was. She had thought they had gotten past this thing between them. Hiding things and making the other feel pain. Apparently he did not feel the same and she was indeed in pain because she knew that he was.
The ability they shared of being able to think and the other could hear the thoughts wasn't working anymore either so she was at her wits end. All she wanted was for him to be honest with her before something ended up getting in the way again. As it always seemed to do with them.
"John ever since Randy came by and told you everything about that night you haven't been yourself. If you don't want to talk to me about it, then for God sakes call Shawn and tell him. Stop pushing us all away the way you have been."
Was he doing that? Was he really pushing his fiancée away,and someone he considered to be his best friend? He knew he had been different since the visit from Randy, hearing all that he had that day. He didn't mean to be this way but he was really bothered by all of it and the fact that Randy was going to have a child he was never going to see. Something John himself had almost had to deal with. He didn't wish that anyone, not even Randy.
"I don't mean to push you away. This whole WWE thing has me rattled a little bit, and Randy's visit didn't help things. I just don't know if this is the right move for me. I am having doubts."
So this was what was bothering him and he was afraid to talk to her about? He had fears about his career and wanted to hide it? Well she had to put a stop to that before it went any further.
"Randy put himself where he is John. I know we both said that we forgave him but it's going to take a long time to forget. At least for me anyway. I almost lost you because of what happened that night and I can't exactly look back and pretend it didn't happen. You're allowed to feel the same too." She broke off then, allowing herself to breath before taking a stab at the second problem that her future husband was facing. One that technically they should be facing together.
"Do you really want to go back to the WWE?"
He nodded, and Trish figured he was just saving his breath for a question that actually required more then a one word reply. "Then why are you so worried about going back then? From what I remember about your time in the ring on Raw when I was there you were at the top of your game."
"I was, and I want to be there again. See Trish, thats what I'm afraid of most. That I would be at the top of my game. For the WWE or for you and our babies."
If the flight attendant hadn't chosen that moment in time to tell them to buckle up for the landing of the plane she would surely have jumped into his seat and put all of his worries to rest right then and there. There was no way in hell that she would ever think of John in any way other then the wonderful man he was. The fact that he was so worried about letting her down touched her, but at the same time made her realize that they had a long way to go before John could have complete faith in her.
Michelle may be gone from his life but the affect that she had made on it still remained. It was something they had to work on together for as long as they wanted to be together and it was going to be an uphill battle. One that she was more then willing to walk through for him. She loved him and now all she had to do was show him just how much.
All she had to do now was get off the damn plane and she would. John wouldn't worry about letting their family down anymore and she would finally get the man she loved back into her arms again, the way he had been before Randy's visit. It really was a win/win situation.
She couldn't wait.
