This chapter is long, I couldn't find a good spot to cut it off for Chapter 13, so you just get a really really long Chapter 12. Anywho, I really do appreciate all the reviews and I hope you all are still enjoying the story. (If you have an suggestions please let me know:))

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Chapter 12

On the way to the next city Friday night, they were going to be practicing more with Ryan so they wanted to get to the location earlier, Ryan brought up Randy spending Thanksgiving with Dave and the family. Dave looked over at her with a worried glance and then finally agreed. Ryan smiled as she walked back over to her seat next to Randy and smiled at him.

"So you're having Thanksgiving with the Bautista's this year Mr. Orton…" She smiled.

"I told you, you didn't have to do that…" Randy smirked over at her.

"I know but I wanted to… I couldn't have you spending the holidays alone, could I? Next you're going to tell me that you spend Christmas alone too…" She laughed. Randy looked away and ignored her question. "You're kidding me… you do not…" She stated glancing at him. "Randy that's awful…"

"My younger siblings are busy… and still in school so they get the two week vacations and what not, so my parents are usually taking them somewhere to go skiing or having a good time, or whatever, they did it when I was in school too. I'm a grown man, besides we're usually traveling anyway. At least this year Raw is on Christmas Day, so I won't be all alone…" He laughed slightly looking away.

Ryan could tell he was getting a bit emotional, she punched his arm lightly.

"Well from what I hear my step mom is bringing my sister here for those two weeks, and we'll be in New York, one of my favorite places." Ryan smiled. She saw Randy's smile fade. "Hey you are now going to be an honorary member of the Bautista family on the holiday's, how about that?" She asked trying to cheer him up.

Randy tried his damnedest not to smile but he couldn't help it. Her smiling was contagious even when he was in a bad mood. He was sad that he wouldn't get to spend the holidays with his family, but was glad that she was going out of her way to make him feel more welcomed. He simply nodded his head and watched her laugh at him while slipping on the headphones to her I-Pod. He watched her as she burst in to a fit of giggles; Randy looked at her oddly as she pulled him closer so he could hear what she was listening to.

"Ah, turn that off…" He groaned.

"But I LOVE this song…" She smiled bouncing in her seat like a little child.

"Why, it's old news… I need a new song…" Randy sighed running a hand through his dirty brown hair.

"We should try and find you a new one. One that says how hot your on screen girlfriend is…" She laughed jokingly.

"Hey that's not a bad idea…" He laughed at her.

"Suuuure… I'm sure all the many-a-female fans would just LOVE that…" Ryan laughed.

Randy smirked as they continued with their small talk on the way to Tucson, Arizona.

Landing in Tucson they all headed to the hotel, Dave hadn't let her out of his sight since the phone call from the radio show. He was too worried that her psychopath of an ex-boyfriend might pop out, out of nowhere and try and hurt his oldest daughter.

"I'll meet you down in the gym in about 15, alright?" Randy asked as he walked to his room at the hotel.

"Alright, I'll see you there…" She nodded her head simply as she opened the door to her room.

She disappeared and Randy walked in to his room. Changing in to a pair of black and white track pants and a black wife beater he tied up his black adidas and loosened up a bit. His thoughts rested on Ryan, she had gone out of her way to make sure he wasn't alone for the holidays that had to mean something right? She wouldn't possibly do that for just ANYONE? Would she?

Randy thought back to the bastard that called in to the radio station during the interview, he could see her heart stop as soon as she heard the voice on the other line. He wanted to be able to help her, and protect her, but what could he have done to someone over the phone, not much.

He walked out of his room and saw Ryan closing the door quietly behind her, she smiled over at him.

"Dad's on the phone," She stated.

"He know where you're going?" Randy asked.

"Umm… I think so… but as long as I'm with one of you guys I'm sure I'm ok…" She shrugged as they walked to the elevator.

"I'm going to work you to the bone… are you ready?" Randy asked her.

"Aye, aye Captain Orton…" She laughed.

The two went down to the gym and Randy had her warm up on the treadmill, and then a few free weights. They had a matted area off to the side, the two decided to go through a couple of the wrestling moves. They locked up and she tried her best to get the upper hand on him but he got it on her right away. He had her in a half-nelson, she got herself out of it and whipped him in to the 'corner' doing her cutesy flip and elbow move he took it and acted as if he was backed in to the corner.

She laughed and pulled him out of the corner setting him up for a neck breaker. She imitated Jeff Hardy and held up her make shift hand 'guns' and performed the Twist of Fate. Randy picked himself up off of the ground and looked at her.

"What is that?" he asked.

"Did I ever mention that Jeff Hardy was my favorite wrestler?" She winked at him.

"Oh yeah? Next thing I know you'll be doing a Swanton Bomb on me from the top rope…" He stated.

"Don't give me any ideas Orton…" She laughed.

"That's my girl…" They both heard a familiar voice from the door of the gym. She turned around and saw Amy standing there with a smirk on her face.

"Hey it was all about the Hardy Boyz and Lita in '99 and 2000." She smiled. "Randy Orton wasn't even born yet…" She laughed.

"He was… just in the OVW…" Randy stated defensively.

"Uh huh…" Amy nodded. "You're looking good girl… I should get Jeff to come and show you some of the aerial moves… I think you'll get those pretty easy…" She nodded her head.

"You know I'll swoon..." Ryan smirked over at her.

"She'll get weak at the knees and pass out, is more like it…" Another voice came from behind Amy. Adam poked his head out from behind her laughing.

"Jerk… shut up…" Ryan turned a bright shade of red.

"Ryan Elizabeth Hardy? Hmm… interesting ring to it…" Another voice came from the door.

Ryan froze at the voice and glared at Amy; who simply smiled at her as Jeff Hardy came from behind the door. Ryan wasn't usually the type of girl to get giddy or fanatic about anyone famous, hell she had been around famous people her entire life… but she had always had a thing for Mr. Jeff Hardy, she wasn't sure why but he just always caught her eye.

Ryan stood behind Randy and felt herself turn six shades of red. Randy bit his lip as he watched at how she reacted to Jeff. He smiled and nodded at Jeff in acknowledgement and Amy smirked as she walked over to them.

"C'mon we have to practice…" Amy pulled her from behind the younger superstar and smiled at her. "Don't be shy now…" She laughed.

'You're a Bitch…' She mouth playfully.

"But you love me…" Amy smirked as she glanced over at Jeff. "So why don't you do the twist of fate on me… kinda like a slap in the face during the match?" Amy questioned.

"I was just messin' around with Randy… I can't do that in the match…" Ryan stated objecting while trying her best to keep her cool in front of her favorite wrestler.

"Awe, c'mon I want to see you do it…" Jeff stated with a cheesy smile her way.

Ryan looked at him smile at her and then over at Amy and felt another wave of embarrassment fall over her. She shook her head as she and Amy locked up. She tried to push the fact that Jeff Hardy was in the same room as her out of her mind as she continued to go through the routine with Amy, ending it with a perfect Twist of Fate.

"Wow… I think she does that better than you Jeff…" Adam perked up watching her.

"You might be right…" Jeff nodded his head in agreement.

"She might need to be your tag partner Jeffie…" Amy smirked rubbing her neck.

"By the look on Orton's face he might kill me…" Jeff stated pointing to Orton who was glaring at Amy, Adam and Jeff.

"Loosen up Orton it was a joke…" Amy smirked looking over at him.

Randy just shook his head and glanced over at Ryan she smiled at him and was surprisingly clothes lined by Amy for no reason.

"Hey, what was that?" Ryan complained lying on her backside.

"Improv…" Amy smirked. "You have to expect the unexpected…" She smirked helping the young girl up.

"What did I say before?" Ryan questioned. "You're a bitch…" She laughed.

"And as I said, but you love me…" She laughed as she helped her up and Ryan gave her a bulldog.

"Expect… the unexpected…" She smirked winking at her good friend.

"That needs to be your new motto kid…" Jeff laughed as he walked over to the two women.

"Maybe it will be… I'll have to design a new Evolution shirt…" She smirked giving him a playful smile.

"That's right Amy told me that you design some of the shirts, you'll have to show me some…" Jeff stated smiling at her.

"Definitely…" She nodded looking back down at the ground.

"So, I think I've worked you hard enough, Rye… why don't we go grab something to eat…" Randy asked.

"Uh, ok… you guys want to join us?" She asked nonchalantly looking from Adam, to Jeff, to Amy.

"Sure." Amy nodded her head. "I'm starving…" She smiled over at the younger woman.

Randy sighed and held the door open for everyone to exit the gym. Jeff was walking next to Ryan and he looked down at her.

"I don't think that's what he was shooting for Ryan…" Jeff stated with a smirk.

She simply shrugged her shoulders and looked back at Randy who shoved his hands in to the pockets of his adidas pants. She walked with Jeff talking about art, by the time they reach the cafeteria they realized how much they truly had in common.

"Can you believe how much we have in common? That's insane." Ryan smiled over at Jeff once they both got their food.

"It really is…. So when do you think I can see some of these designs?" Jeff asked her.

"After we're finished eating?" She questioned. "I have all my sketches in my room…" She smiled taking a bite of her food.

"That'd be great…" Jeff nodded.

"Which reminds me, Rye we need to talk about tonight's house show…." Randy commented as he pushed himself in to their conversation.

"What about?" She asked him.

"Well the entrance from last night, Steph and Shane loved it… so that's going to be our new intro… and we need to go over how the end of the match is going to work out…" He smiled over at her.

"Fabulous…" She forced a smile on her face.

They all continued to eat and chat until her cell phone began ringing wildly, everyone noted her ring tone was Triple H's entrance music, indicating it was either him or the Missus.

"Hello Mrs. Levesque…" She answered with a bit of humor in her voice.

"Ms. Bautista how are you ?" Stephanie asked holding back her laughter.

"I'm doing well darling, and you?" She asked in a fake British accent.

"Good, good…" She laughed. "Hey I'm emailing you some new scheduled events for after Thanksgiving. I want to make sure you get them. They're very important. So make sure you call me if you don't get them ok?" She asked.

"Will do. Anything exciting?" Ryan questioned.

"Just a new shoot for Evolutions entrance videos, as well as one for you and Randy…." Stephanie smirked. "And a few more appearances."

"Cool. I'll give you a call when I get back to my room…" Ryan stated looking across the table at Ryan.

"Ok." Stephanie hung up and Ryan looked at the people watching her as she put her phone away.

"What'd Steph want?" Randy asked.

"To let me know about the schedules she was sending me." Ryan answered.

"Anything good?" Randy inquired.

"Not much, shooting a new entrance video and some other appearances…" Ryan shrugged pushing her food around her plate.

"Interesting…" Amy nodded. "I need a new entrance video…" She whined.

"It should be fun, those are always my favorite things to do…"Adam stated. He put his arm around Amy's shoulders.

"You're making me sick…" Jeff pretended to gag. "If anyone needs new music and a new entrance it's me. I've had the same one for like 7 years!" Jeff proclaimed.

"But I like your entrance music. You and Randy are so weird about that…" Ryan laughed.

"She has my theme song on her ipod…" Randy smirked over at her.

"And my dads, and Adam's and John's and Jeff's…" She trailed off looking up at the younger Hardy with a blush on her cheeks.

"She's an entro music addict…" Amy joked.

"I can't help it that I have good taste…" Ryan smiled and sat back in her chair, resting a hand on her full stomach. "I'm stuffed."

"Me too" Amy agreed.

"I've got something I need to do before tonight's show so I'll catch you guys later…" Adam informed as he stood up.

"We'll see you later than Mr. Copeland…" Ryan waved to him. Adam gave Amy a look and she smirked jumping out of her seat.

"I guess that's my queue too…" She laughed before the two walked away hand in hand.

That left Ryan, Randy and Jeff sitting alone and in silence. Ryan stood up and looked at both of the two handsome men before her.

"You want to come check out my designs now?" Ryan asked Jeff.

"Sure… I don't have anything to do until the show tonight… I'd be happy to…" He smiled at her.

"Alright, great. I'll see you later Rand?" Ryan asked turning around and looking at the slightly older man sitting at the table.

Randy simply nodded his head and looked back down at his plate of food. Ryan smirked as she lead Jeff up to her room, sliding her key card they entered the hotel room to see things strewn all over the place. She smiled embarrassed and grabbed her laptop and her sketch books.

"Dad's a mess…" She laughed. She handed him the sketchbooks as she took a seat on the bed next to him with her laptop in hand.

"I still can't get over the fact that your Dave's daughter…" Jeff smirked laying down with the sketchbooks open in front of him.

"I know that's what everyone says." Ryan smirked turning on her computer.

She waited for it to boot up, letting her eyes cast over the eclectic man in front of her, as he flipped through the pages of her books. She felt her cheeks burning as his face showed his amazement at every portrait, every design.

"Ryan, these are incredible…" he stated turning to look up at her.

"Thanks…" She smiled at him. "Something I've always loved to do…"

"You're great at it… I think I'm going to have to talk to Vince and see if I can get in on you doing my merchandise, and I'm sure Matt would like it too…" Jeff stated looking at her as she turned beet red.

"You must have gotten this from your mother, huh?" Jeff asked smiling at her mischievously.

"Actually, dad is really a good artist…" Ryan stated looking down at the sketch books.

"Not that," Jeff stated staring up at her. Ryan looked from the sketch book to Jeff's face, a look of confusion replacing her embarrassed look before. "The shyness" He stated with a small chuckle. Ryan turned away and felt herself turning scarlet.

"I don't know. I've never really gotten like this before…." She stated feeling her cheeks, they were literally on fire. "God this is embarrassing…" She stated trying to hide her face.

"Ah, don't be embarrassed. That's how I looked when I met Hulk Hogan for the first time." Jeff laughed. "I was so red I looked like a damn tomato." He smirked.

"I never have been like this though. I've met Matt, Amy, Adam, Jay, Paul, Randy, John, Hulk but never got this reaction before…" She stated laughing uneasily.

"Are you allergic to me Ryan?" Jeff asked laughing.

"I highly doubt that…" She smirked. "I'm just weird." Smacking her head stupidly.

"Normal is overrated…" Jeff laughed shaking his head.

"Obviously…" She tugged on a piece of his blue hair.

"I like to be different…" He shrugged his shoulders carelessly.

"Me too," She nodded her head in agreement.

A knock at the hotel door broke them of their conversation; Ryan rolled off of her side of the bed and walked over to the door. Opening the door she found the Legend Killer himself standing there with a smirk on his handsome face.

"Ready to go over our next few spots?" He asked. Ryan looked at him and just rolled her eyes.

"I'm still working. I'll come get you when I'm ready…" She stated a bit annoyed.

"Still working?" He asked peering in to the room. He spotted Jeff lying on her bed looking through her sketches. "Ahh, Jeff…" he whispered. "Fine… I'll be at the bar…" He growled before stomping away.

Ryan closed the door while rolling her eyes and sighing at Jeff. Jeff sat up on the bed and looked at her with an amused smiled on his, very well structured face.

"He likes you…" Jeff stated as she walked over to him.

"What?" She asked confused.

"He… likes… you" Jeff smirked pronouncing each syllable.

"Orton?" She scoffed. "He just wants to get one thing…" She glared at the older man.

"No he would have given up on you already if that's all he wanted…" Jeff stated as he looked up at the young girl before him. "He really likes you…" She simply shook her head; Jeff grabbed her arm and made her look at him. "Trust me, I've been in his shoes before…" She stared down at him for a moment and looked away. "He likes you, kiddo" He smiled.

"Guys like Randy Orton use girls like me, Jeff…" Ryan stated glaring at him.

"No. Girls like you are just stubborn when it comes to guys like us, Ryan." Jeff stated before he got up and walked out of the room.


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