Author's note: Hey everybody... I'm awfully sorry that I haven't updated for three months but the last months have been crap for me and I just couldn't get it done... I hope there are still some people out there who want to read it... and I'm sorry that the new chapter is shorter than the older one's... I promise I'll try to update quicker this time and make the chapter longer... but for now have fun with this chapter... oh and Martha if you still out there please give me a sign... I hope everything's going alright for you...

Katie

Disclaimer: Nothing except my OC's belong to me...

Chapter 10: Fears

Alexi flew into the arms of her father. After all that had happened today she was glad to finally see her parents again. She had missed them when they had been in Greece to enjoy their well-earned honeymoon.

"I thought you were coming back tomorrow…" She stated a little confused.

"Hello to you too, sweetheart." Shawn commented with a grin.

Alexi smiled a little.

"Sorry… hey Dad… nice to see ya." She quickly greeted.

Marissa had watched the exchange between father and daughter in silence and with a bright smile on her face. She still couldn't believe how much her life had changed in such a short period of time. About two months ago she's believed she'd never see Shawn again, let alone be married to him and she'd never have thought it possible that her daughter would be able to put aside her hatred for Shawn and the WWE, start a relationship with a wrestler and become a diva herself.

But now all that seemed so far in the past and Marissa wasn't able to imagine a life without Shawn by her side anymore.

She felt totally happy but when she looked from Shawn and Alexi to all the others present she quickly realised that something was clearly out of place here. Chris was chewing thoughtfully on his lower lip, a sure sign that he was distressed over something.

Perhaps he and Martha had an argument. She mused. Alexandria had of course given her and Shawn updates about the growing relationship of the young doctor and her surrogate son while they had been in Greece. Shawn had even participated in that bet that had been going around backstage as to when Chris and Martha would show that they were together.

But then again she guessed that Alexi would have told her that as well so she decided to just wait and see.

Marissa now returned Alexi's hug, who'd finally moved to greet her after having taken her time with her father.

"Hello sweetie… how is it going?" She wanted to know and was a little confused when Alexandria whispered in her ear: "I'm going to tell you later…"

Shawn meanwhile had moved on to greet Randy and the others at the table.

Dhani looked at the Heartbreak Kid in awe. Sure, Alexi had of course told her that Shawn was her father but it was different to come face to face with HBK. The wrestler now looked at her in curiosity. "And who are you honey?" Shawn wanted to know interestedly.

Dhani quickly stood up from her chair, tried to find her voice again and was glad when Alexandria did the introductions.

"Dad, say hi to my best friend Dhani McMillan, the next American Figure-Skating princess." Alexandria introduced Dhani with a bright smile on her face because of course she knew what a big fan of HBK Dhani had always been.

Shawn smiled brightly, of course noticing that this girl standing in front of him was a fan.

"Hey Dhani, nice to meet you." Since HBK was in such a good mood he hugged Dhani and for a second Alexi feared Dhani might faint from shock that Shawn was actually hugging her.

Her eyes were wide and she awkwardly returned the hug.

When Shawn let go of her, Dhani managed to get out: "It's really nice to meet you Mr. Michaels."

Shawn grinned. "Since you're a good friend of my daughter, please call me Shawn… being called Mr. Michaels makes me feel really old…"

"Shawn, finally accept it… you are old." Chris piped up a little amused.

Everybody at the table laughed, even Shawn himself and that helped Dhani to relax.

Before any of them could say anything however, Batista and John returned to the table.

"Hey Shawn… I thought you were still on vacation?" was the first thing Dave asked, taking a seat beside Randy and giving the Legend Killer a short, thoughtful look, which unfortunately Randy noticed.
"Everything okay Dave? Or do I have something in my face?" The Legend Killer questioned.

"Uh… of course everything is okay Randy…" Batista quickly told him, shooting a meaningful look at John.

Randy of course caught that as well and sprung up from his chair, interrupting John's and Shawn's conversation.

"You told him JC, didn't ya?" He questioned angrily.

"Told him what RKO?" John questioned innocently, hoping that Randy would just let it slip.

For a moment the Dr. of Thuganomics had forgotten that the young Orton knew how to read him almost as good as John could read Randy.

He was reminded of that however when the Legend Killer screamed: "And I thought you were my friend… but you're like all the others… I thought you'd be able to keep it a secret… but instead you go and tell him… why the hell did I think I could trust you. You're no better than my father… in fact you're way worse… with my father I at least knew where I stood from the very beginning. I knew I was a nuisance for him…and with you… well I thought you were my friend but I obviously was wrong… I hate you." And with that Randy stormed off again, not caring that he left behind a whole restaurant of confused wrestlers, who all stared after him in shock before they turned to Cena.

John had paled considerably and watched the young Orton run away with a sad expression on his face before he sunk down in the next chair.

"Don't you want to go after him?" Jericho questioned confused.

John just looked at him without really seeing him. The Dr. of Thuganomics just mumbled repeatedly: "He hates me…"

Alexi meanwhile shot an apologetic look at her parents and at Dhani, who all nodded before she ran after Randy, hoping she'd find him quickly.

Nobody stopped her because they were all looking at John who was still only mumbling this one sentence to himself.

"Are you okay John?" Dave put a hand on Cena's shoulder, trying to get a reaction from the other man.

Cena looked up.

"He hates me Dave… I tried everything to help him but I made things way worse… and now he hates me." It took all of John's willpower to keep his voice from trembling.

"Come on John, you know Randy… he often says things in the heat of the moment he doesn't really mean." Chris tried to assure the other.

"You don't understand Jericho… no matter what kind of fallouts me and Randy have had he never told me he hates me… he never really tells people that he hates them, no matter whatever they have done to him… he didn't even tell Triple H that he hates him… the only person Randy's ever personally said 'I hate you' to is Bob Orton jr.… and now he's said it to me… do you know what this means?" John quickly explained.

Y2J didn't really understand what Cena wanted to say with that and the only one who really seemed to know everything what was going on was Batista.

He quickly got up from his chair. "Don't worry John… I'm going to talk to Randy and explain everything to him…"

John shook his head.

"That's no use… he won't listen… at least not now…" He said sadly and then he looked around and was relieved to see that Alexandria obviously had gone after the young Orton. The Dr. of Thuganomics knew that it wouldn't be good for Randy to be alone now and Alexi was perhaps able to keep the young Orton from doing something really stupid.

Jericho looked at John and Batista and wondered what the hell the two were talking about.

Shawn was equally as confused and full of worry for his surrogate son and at the same time his daughter's boyfriend. He figured that he'd missed out on a lot of things around here while he'd been on his honeymoon.

"Okay John, now go and tell me what the hell has gotten into our Randy and where he's gotten all these bruises from." He demanded angrily.

Marissa laid a comforting hand on her husbands shoulder.

"What's gotten into Randy? Cowboy Bob Orton jr…" John told HBK and the others.

"Huh? Care to get a little more precise Cena?" Y2J questioned, finally losing his patience with John. This whole situation was getting on his nerves.

"No… I won't get precise. Randy's story is his to tell and that's final…" The tone of the man's voice made it obvious that there was no way to change his mind.

Shawn and Y2J looked at each other, not sure of what to do now.

"Umm… I better go and see Martha…" Jericho finally said into the silence that had spread over the whole restaurant and his words somehow broke the awful tension in the room.

After Chris the group all went their separate ways since they all had a lot to think about.

Dhani walked over to the elevator and thought about the last minutes and all the revelations she had no real idea how to help Alexandria right at the moment.

I think it's best I go back to my hotel room and call Alexi later to find out if she and Randy are okay... Dhani mused in her thoughts. She felt a little lost because she didn't really know anybody besides Alexi.

So she decided to really go back to her hotel room and perhaps read a little into the new book she'd bought yesterday while she had been waiting for her car to be repaired.

She was waiting for the elevator and was so lost in thoughts that she just walked forward when it finally arrived. Dhani only became aware of her surroundings again when she ran full force into somebody. The person she had run into was equally in a hurry and because he was much bigger than her, Dhani fell backwards and landed hard on the ground.

"Ouch..." She groaned, rubbing her sore elbow that had cushioned the fall.
"Oh shit... I'm sorry..." The man said in apology and offered his hand to help Dhani up.

Just now the girl looked up and realised who she had run into. It was none other than Triple H himself.

She smiled shyly and took the offered hand and Hunter pulled her to her feet easily.

"It's okay... I didn't watch where I was going either..." Dhani assured the other.

"But you sure you're okay and not hurt?" Hunter questioned, still concerned. He knew that Alexi or better Randy would have his head if he had hurt the girl because of course he recognised her as Alexandria's friend he had met earlier.

And now that he was slowly repairing his friendship with Randy the last thing he needed was for the Legend Killer to have another reason to hate him again.

"Yeah... I'm okay..." Dhani said still a little shy since she was still not used to be around all those famous wrestlers.

"Can I perhaps buy you a coffee to make it up to you or do you have to meet somebody?" Triple H questioned, having no real idea why he had just said that but he wanted to get to know Dhani better ever since he'd first laid eyes on her and he knew that this was his chance because if Alexi was around he knew the girl would do everything to keep him away from Dhani. And Hunter really couldn't blame Alexandria after everything he'd caused her in the past months but he desperately wanted to make it up to Alexi too, he had just have to find a way how.

Dhani was speechless and thought she'd misheard him at first. Triple H was not just inviting her to have coffee with him.

Okay, this day had been strange enough until now, so she had to admit it wasn't nearly as impossible as she had thought to meet all her favourite wrestlers in person.

"Um... sure... if I'm not keeping you away from something important." She told the man, trying to sound as casual as possible.

"That's great... and no, you're not keeping me away from something important." Hunter was delighted at the girl's words and lead the young women back to the restaurant of the hotel, glad that all the other wrestlers were gone by now.

Even though Alexi was hot on Randy's heels, her boyfriend was nowhere to be seen when she exited the restaurant and none of the wrestlers who hung around in the lobby had seen him.

Damn Randy… what the hell is going on with you and why can't you just tell me? Alexandria wondered sadly, trying to figure out where Randy had run off to.

Perhaps I should just try his and John's room…

With that she quickly turned towards the elevator, which was luckily empty so that she had all the time in the world to process what Randy had been saying before and to figure out what his words had actually meant. She wasn't very successful at that and she had the distinct feeling that she was missing something really important here while John and Dave seemed to know exactly what was going on.

What frightened her the most was the fact that Randy seemed to grow closer to Triple H again and she wasn't really sure if this was a good thing after everything the Game had put them through ever since she'd first met him.

With a sigh she exited the elevator and walked over to Randy's and John's room.

Alexi knocked and waited. It took a while before there was an answer, and Alexi was nearly tempted to continue her search, assuming that Randy wasn't here. But suddenly she heard Randy's voice: "Who is there?" He sounded so weak and sad, that Alexandria felt tears in her eyes.
"Randy, it's me... please can I come in?" Shawn's daughter pleaded, hoping that her boyfriend wouldn't be too stubborn and let her in.

She could hear steps coming towards the door and a second later Randy opened.

The Legend Killer was even paler than he had been earlier but what surprised her immensely was, that Randy wasn't alone in his room. Instead Martha was sitting in one of the chairs in the room and looked a little uneasy.

"What are you doing here?" Alexi wanted to know, not caring that she sounded rude. She just didn't know what to make of that situation because something was really out of place here and Alexi didn't like that one bit, because when she had entered, Martha had quickly packed something away.

"Umm... I was just leaving... I have a date with Chris anyway." Dr. Cormela told the girl quickly, noticing that she didn't like her being in Randy's room.

"See you later Martha... and thanks for everything..." Randy said with a small smile at the young doctor.

"No problem Randy... and remember to call me later so we can finalise everything." Martha replied and stood up from her chair.

"Bye Alexi, bye Randy..." Martha nearly hurried out of the room, closing the door behind her.

Alexandria looked at the young Orton, the hands crossed in front of her chest.

"So what the hell was all that about? Why can you talk to Martha after you've stormed off so early and why not to me?" She questioned, the hurt evident in her voice.

Randy just now realised what Alexi had to think.

"Lexi, it's not like it seems... Martha was just here by chance... she was looking for me because she wanted to check on me, to find out if I would be fit to wrestle or if my concussion is still there." The Legend Killer quickly told her, not wanting to tell her the whole truth.

Alexandria didn't really believe Randy that he was telling her everything but the Legend Killer just looked so tired that she thought it was better not to argue... at least not right at the moment.

Instead she sat cross-legged down on Randy's bed and looked at her boyfriend expectantly.

"So are you okay? Or what was all that about earlier?" She wanted to know.

She was surprised when Randy sat down beside her and leaned his head against Alexi's shoulder without another word.

The girl put his arm around Randy and kissed his hair.

"Randy, why won't you tell me what's wrong with you? You know that I won't tell people..." Alexi questioned again, even more worried about her boyfriend.

"Yeah... I know that of course Lexi..." Randy smiled and raised his head to kiss Alexi's forehead.

"But I just can't talk about it right now. I have to clear up a few things before I can tell you... please understand that." His voice sounded so weak that Alexandria only nodded, even though she didn't like it.

For a moment there was silence before Randy suddenly told her out of the blue: "You're the best thing that has ever happened to me, do you know that?"

Alexandria blushed and smiled at the Legend Killer.

"Thank you... that's the best compliment I have ever received." She smiled and kissed Randy.

The Legend Killer quickly deepened the kiss and wrapped his arms around the girl.

He then leaned his forehead against hers.

"Will you stay the night?" Randy wanted to know. He really didn't want to be alone tonight... alone with his thoughts... alone with his regrets that he'd nearly revealed everything.

Alexandria didn't answer but instead looked at Randy and smiled softly.

She nodded slowly.

"If you want me to stay..."

Instead of an answer, Randy kissed her again, even more passionately than before, his hand creeping under her shirt.

"Of course I want you to stay..." he whispered into her ear, before he gently lowered her down onto the bed. He looked down at her with a smile.

"Do you trust me Lexi?" Randy wanted to know.
"I do..." was all Alexandria replied with a smile on her face before Randy once again captured her lips in a kiss and started to unbutton Alexi's shirt.

This was the last any of them said for some time.

to be continued if you want it to be continued...