Say Goodbye
Superstars: John Cena, Maria, Candace Michelle, The Hardy Boys, Edge etc
Summary: When John Cena first laid eyes on Angel, he knew that she was the girl he wanted to be his manager once he lost the title. But when Angels past comes back to haunt her, she has to risk everything to keep her sanity.
OCs: Keli Austin/Angel Starrs; Tom/Kanyon Cannon; maybe more later...
Sorry in advance for the way that its so close together
AN: This takes place after Wrestle Mania 23.
Chapter Three: The Birth of Angel
Keli was laughing so hard she couldn't breath and there were tears in her eyes.
John was in the bathroom changing his boxers. He wasn't mad, but it did suck that he looked like the wet himself though. But it was okay, maybe his little stunt had finally broken the ice and eased the tension between he and Keli and a little embarrassment was defiantly worth it.
Tom was on his way to work, when he saw her Tracker. He recognized it immediately.
"Keli" he growled.
He jerked his red Corvette off the road and parked beside Keli's car.
The security guards were out to lunch. The parking lot was abandoned and this was Tom's chance to get her back.
He pulled the metal baseball bat out from under the seat car.
Keli giggled as John walked out of the bathroom. She felt like she was back in high school, but she really didn't mind. She was having a lot of fun. John was grinning, not even tying to act mad. He shook his head; at least things weren't awkward any more.
"You're a sly little devil aren't you?" John chuckled.
"Me?" Keli sounded taken aback, "But I'm an angel!" She replied batting her eyelashes innocently.
"Hey, there you go. Angel. That could be part of your ring name" John suggested. "And you look like one" he finished the sentence in his head.
Keli smiled.
"Angel. I like it. It's different. Sort of ironic too, since you might be going bad guy anyway." She felt so good just saying the name out loud, because she was getting closer and closer to the freedom she had been craving for months now. She had a new job, no more waiting tables or being Tom's ring girl in that tiny little bull crap arena for the pathetic wrestling they had there, a new look, and now part of a new identity. Things were good.
"Good" John replied, he looked down at his watch.
"Whoa, we'd better start getting ready its getting close to show time. We have to get changed, talk to Vince and then go work out our entrance and the match I have tonight." John said with a sigh. He wished he could spend more time alone with Keli and learn more about her, but tonight after RAW, maybe she would come back to the hotel with him, John's mind began to wonder.
"Ok. Hey, um what should I do with my bags and stuff? They're in my car outside" Keli asked.
"I'll help you bring them in here, and then we can put them in my car later. No need in us both having to drive to the hotel later, if you don't mind of course, Vince can have your car put in a garage while we're on the road." John replied, he opened the door of the locker room for her.
Keli walked down the long backstage hallway back towards were she had entered the building.
It had been along time since Keli had gotten a chance to just hang out with a guy, or even with one of her friends. Tom had been so strict on her that she couldn't even really go shopping with Amber and Nissa without him managing to show up wherever they were, and it finally got to the point where they hardly ever asked her to come along anymore.
Keli pushed open the back exit door and let the warm sun fill the hallway, she squinted her eyes and stepped out into the sun, then she gasped in horror at what she saw.
Her white Tracker was destroyed. The windshield was smashed in and there where dents all in the hood and along the sides
"What happened?" John asked.
"Tom happened." Keli whispered. He had found her. Tears began to well up in her eyes.
John put his arm around her shoulders, and she just let herself fall back into him, he eased her over to what was once her car.
She peered inside, and her heart fell to her feet. "All of my stuff is gone." She said. Barely able to grasp the concept that all of her possessions were gone now, her clothes, her money everything all she had was the clothes she was wearing and they weren't even hers. She wanted to lash out, to scream, to do something, anything but she didn't. She just stayed in John's arms, and let the tears roll down her face.
So much for Freedom.
"Hey," John said noticing the tears rolling down from her eyes.
"Angels don't cry" His voice was soft. He could feel her body trembling in his arms; she was afraid of this Tom guy whoever he was.
A sudden rush of anger hit Keli and she pulled away from John and kicked the tire of the Tracker.
"I don't see how anyone could have gotten in here, there should be guards everywhere" John said not really to Keli but just out loud. Vince had paid the arena's normal security extra to make sure that no crazed fans got in and that incidents like this didn't happen.
"C'mon. We have to tell Vince about this." John said, he pulled Keli away from her car, and kept a hold of her hand all the way back into the building.
Neither of them wanted to let go.
But before they could enter the Chairman's office they were stopped by Jonathan Coachman.
"Mr. McMahon has someone in his office right now you'll have to wait" He said, glancing at Keli and John's intertwined hands.
Keli and John both sat down in folding chairs on the opposite side of the hallway.
The star that Keli wore around her neck slipped out from under her shirt, and without thinking she started to rub it in her hands gingerly. Rubbing over the initials engraved on the back. A.S.; N.B.; and K.A.
her and her two best friends' initials, she thought back to when she had first met Amber in fourth grade.
Keli had been forced to move back in with her Mother and Step-Father at the end of her Third year in grade school. She had been living with an elderly lady, named Amelia Lockhart as a foster child since she was just a baby. She liked it there. Amelia treated Keli like her own granddaughter, and had tried to raise her the right way, she even home schooled her. Keli was a good kid. But then, Keli's mom got out of rehab and went to court to get Keli back, and unfortunately she did.
Keli's parents, well her Mom and Step-Dad moved her to the tiny town of Pine Needle Village, a mile or so outside of Lakeview. Where they forced her into public school.
But there she met Amber, whom without her, Keli doubted she would still be alive.
Keli was lost in thought, and nearly jumped out of her chair when she heard the loud slamming of Mr. McMahon's office door. Keli looked up to see an angry looking skinny blonde guy.
"Ungreatful piece of shit" he mumbled under his breath.
"What is it now?" John asked, he sounded annoyed.
"Try to help the man, and he is so ungreatfull!" The man, who Keli now recognized as Edge replied. Acting as if he hadn't noticed the annoyance and hint of sarcasm in John's voice.
John pulled Keli up by the hand (that he was still holding onto) and away from Edge, who had finally noticed the pretty red head beside of John. Edge liked redheads.
She smiled at him as she entered Vince's office.
"You need better security guards Vince" John said angrily as he pushed his way into Vince's room.
He and Keli had caught the Chairman off guard.
"What are you talking about?" He asked.
"My car" Keli spoke up. "Someone busted my windshield and stole my stuff"
Vince felt his blood pressure rising, he punched the table.
"Do you have any clue who might have done this Keli?" He asked.
Keli adverted her gaze from Vince's eyes.
"My…Maybe. I'm not really sure." She lied. "It could have been my ex-boyfriend." He did it. She knew he did. But she was afraid that her career as John's manager might end before it ever got started.
"Well I assure you, Everything will be taken care of. Now" Vince nodded as he made a note of what they had just told him
"Since your both in here, do we have a ring name yet?"
"So far, we have Angel for a first name." John spoke up. He was pissed. He hated violence towards women, and he also hated that Keli was lying about knowing who did it. He was going to confront her about it later.
"Hmm. It's a start. Just keep working on it. We need a last name before next RAW at least. We can go with Angel tonight, add a little mystery to you Mrs. Austen. But you also need a wardrobe and an entrance." Vince was checking something off of a piece of paper.
Keli nodded.
"John, me and you need to work out the schematics on her character. I want you to take her to the Diva's dressing room. She needs to meet them, and they can help her with her ring attire and such." Vince waved them off, and picked up the telephone.
When they arrived in the locker room, Lillian Garcia, Maria Kanellis and the woman Keli had me earlier, Candace Michelle, were looking through racks of clothing.
"Girls, this is my new manager. Angel" John told them.
Angel Keli said it to herself. She liked it, she liked it a lot and she loved the way it sounded when John said it. Maybe she should change her name to Angel…
"She needs an outfit for tonight, you guys think you can help her?"
"Sure" Lillan answered smiling at her.
The other girls chorus "Come on in" "Yeah"
Keli stepped nervously intot he room. John winked at her, then closed the door and walked away. She had those butterflies again, she'd heard that the Diva's were pretty hard on new girls.
"Soo, are you and John a couple?" Candace asked.
Keli blushed a little. "No. We just met today actually"
"Oh" Maria spoke up and then scurried away.
"They had a thing last year" Lillian explained.
"Oh." Keli replied.
"So is Angel your real name?" Candace asked looking through a rack of bikini-looking tops.
"No. Its Keli. But I'm actually thinking of changing it to Angel. I'm working on a fresh start" Keli replied.
"You running away from something?" Lillian asked. Trying on a pair of boots.
"More like, someone." Keli said, looking at the ground. She played it off like nothing was bothering her and began to look at clothes.
"Fair enough, so your Angel from now on then?" Candace stated with a smile.
AN: Why is Maria acting so weird? Was it more than just a 'thing'?
Keli is changing her name to Angel, so she'll be Angel from now on? She's going to legally change it in the story soon.