Chapter 21
Dean sat his bag down on a bench in a little café in the airport. He sighed dejectedly as he sipped on his coffee. He barely noticed the hot, bitter brew burning the tender insides of his mouth and tongue from the big gulp he took. He was too distracted. His flight was still 2 hours from now. That was the only available flight left with open seats for the night. This wasn't going to work. Seth had given him no time to plan this right. Dean cut his phone back on and waited for it to restart and load. Dean noticed that there were several missed calls from Roman and text. Dean couldn't bear to read the messages. He knew it would hurt too much.
Dean dialed Seth's number and he picked up on the third ring.
"Hello Ambrose, are you gone yet?"
"Trying to be, you didn't give me much time to plan and now I'm sitting at the airport like a sitting duck waiting for my flight."
"FUCK!" Seth said angrily. "You should have taken the first available flight. Where are you heading?"
"I am on the next available flight, the only seat they had left was to Butte, Montana and it doesn't leave for another 2 hours."
"FUCK Ambrose, do I have to think of everything for you?' Seth said irritably.
"Fuck you Seth, you gave me very little notice!"
"Alright!" Seth sighed. "Randy is still in the area, he had some signings to do, he could pick you up."
"What the Fuck! Are you on crack? Is this part of your plan, to have me trussed up and served to Randy on a silver platter? Fuck You!" Dean couldn't believe the nerve of Seth.
"I'm already half way to Raleigh." Seth said. "He won't touch you, I guarantee it!"
"You are seriously fucked in the head if you think I will let that SICK FUCK near me again!" Dean looked around and saw a few people staring at him. He realized that he was being too loud.
"Hey Ambrose, calm down! Randy will not touch you ok! I promise that. He will just bring you to me."
"Like I feel any safer with you." Dean spat.
"Listen we can continue to argue with me and sit around waiting to be discovered and Roman becomes a lumberjack for my main event match at Wrestlemania or let Randy give you a ride to the arena and then we will figure out what to do from there. Randy will not touch you and I will not touch you either. Listen, this is my deal, I would want to make sure it goes smoothly."
Dean sighed. "Fine but if Randy even looks at me the wrong way, I'm slitting his throat."
"Fair enough. I am going to call him and I will get back to you. Stay put for now."
The phone went dead and Dean sighed. He didn't know why he was trusting those snakes but he felt like he had no choice; but the thought of being on the same bus as Randy made his heart pound. He didn't know what to do though. He was losing all control of his own life. He felt like he wasn't in charge of any decisions that involving him and that was frightening. Dean nearly jumped when his phone went off. He took a deep breath and answered.
"Hello?"
"Dean, Randy will be there in 10 minutes to get you. I caught him just in time. He was just getting ready to leave."
"Great." Dean's voice sounded dull. "Did you talk to him?"
"Yes, you will be fine. He promised to be on his best behavior and even said you can have his room. He will hang out in the living room. He said you can lock yourself in or whatever as long as you don't trash his bus since he leases it."
"OK!" Dean sighed dejectedly. He really didn't want to do this but he had no choice. It took so long to even get to the airport since there was a festival in town and the city as full of tourist and then the long wait for his flight, he would surely be discovered.
"He wanted to know where you were at in the airport."
"The café."
"OK, I will text him and let him know to meet you there."
"Fine." Dean hung up without saying one more word to Seth.
Dean leaned back against the wall and closed his eyes. He felt so drained. The anxiety was killing him. He covered his face with his hands. He was desperately trying to calm himself down. He sat there anxiously waiting. His tics were coming out and he couldn't stop them. He kept rubbing and scratching his shoulder. He couldn't feel it though, even when he knew that he had to be bleeding beneath the fabric of his shirt.
Dean looked up just as Randy walked in. You couldn't miss Randy Orton, he had an arrogance about him that could take up a whole room. Randy spotted Dean but walked over to the counter first and ordered a large coffee. It took a moment for the cashier to pour the coffee but soon Randy with coffee in hand walked over to Dean. Dean felt like he was about to run.
"Dean!" Randy could tell that Dean was freaking out. He was even more irritated with Seth now. Why he thought he could handle this basket case was beyond him. "Listen, it's about 3 hours to Raleigh and I have a show tonight so we really must go."
Dean looked up at Randy apprehensively. Dean nodded and slowly began to stand up. "Listen, I promise to leave you alone. All I want to do is get some sleep before my match tonight. I had a really long day with signings and appearances so I am too tired to try anything with you plus HHH will rip me a new one. You have nothing to worry about."
"If you are going to sleep, why do you have coffee?"
Randy looked down at the large cup of coffee. "Oh, this is for Charlie my driver. I promised him coffee to help him stay up. I don't want him to fall asleep at the wheel. I buy him coffee whenever we stop. We must go!"
Dean followed Randy to the front of the airport. Randy did seem tired so he hoped that he would just pass out as soon as they got on the bus. They were just passing the Delta counter when they saw Roman and Jey headed straight toward them. Dean stopped in his tracks. Roman looked furious and Dean now realized that being caught with Randy Orton in an airport may have not been the brightest idea Seth had ever had, especially with a large angry Samoan heading straight their way.
This is shortest chapter to date but I decided to break these parts up just for sheer suspense. Do you like the shorter chapters? Anyways, Roman and Jey found Dean but Roman is pissed. So does it look bad for Dean to be caught with Randy in an airport? Please review.