All hell had broken loose. Sofie watched as the stand-by medic team carted Ricky out of the arena. At fist everyone thought he was selling being hurt for the audience until he had alerted the referee he was in genuine pain. The medic team had run out and whispers of what happened were circling backstage. Some were suggesting broken bone, while others were thinking stroke. Lorraine was crying and Vince was incredibly agitated. The other wrestlers were in shock and the Nexus people were trying to apologize, even though it wasn't their fault.
"Sofie, a moment please." Vince beckoned her over so they could speak quietly.
"What's going on, Vince?" she asked worriedly.
"Medic team informed me Richard just had a brain aneurysm." Vince said softly and Sofie gasped.
"I'm heading over to the hospital and I'm sure Lorraine will come as well. I need you to finish up here tonight. Everyone knows what they have to do. Keep things positive, I don't want this spreading. I'm leaving you in charge so call my cell phone if you need anything." He said and Sofie nodded.
"Don't worry about anything here, we'll close chop. Please let me know how he is doing." She asked and Vince agreed. They spoke to the arena manager and Calvin, the equipment manager and Vince let them know to go by Sofie's orders.
Sofie was in a state of shock but managed to continue the show. Cues were lined up and wrestlers were going out into the ring and coming back. The music and graphics team were operating smoothly and everything was lowly getting back to as planned.
It was almost time for the main event and Sofie was thankful, she wanted the night done and over with. She alerted the Money In The Bank contestants who would be doing their 4-man tag team match tonight and they came to the Gorilla Position to stand-by for their cue. She faced Adam, Randy, Chris Jericho, Evan, Teddy & Maryse, Ron, Mike and John Morrison.
Adam's song was cued up and he came up to her and picked up her hand. "I'm sorry for any problem I caused you today. You're beautiful."
He kissed her cheek and she blushed when she noticed the other men staring interestedly. Randy looked furious. Adam's song came on and he walked out into the ring while the others watched him through the monitor. They watched him walk into the ring and climb the ladder. She snuck a peek at Randy and noticed he was still looking angry and quiet. She motioned to Chris Jericho, as his entrance was next and he nodded politely and walked out.
"Miz you're next." She said and laughed at his face.
"I carried a watermelon?" he said reminding her of their texts from last night.
"Don't put your heel down!" She responded and he walked out trying not to laugh. "Teddy, Maryse, you're next lovelies."
The former legacy song came on and Teddy walked out with Maryse who was looking smoking hot. She was also being a lot kinder since hooking up with Ted and Sofie was starting to, well, not dislike her so much. A moment later she came back and smiled at the remaining stars.
"Ron, you next. Don't rap "The Miz."" She said and he laughed.
"I won't." He promised.
"Morrison, you're turn!" she said and he smiled softly at her.
"Thanks, Sofie." She couldn't get over how sad he always looked. Maybe he was bored or something was happening in his private life, but he didn't seem like the regular John Morrison she loved watching. She made a note to seriously sit down with him this week and see if she could help with anything. Remaining were Evan and Randy and Sofie was starting to get nervous. Randy was scheduled to be last which would mean two minutes alone with him.
"All right Evan, it's your turn." He walked out and not a second later passed when Randy's lips were already on Sofie's. They kissed urgently and passionately and Sofie melted at his touch. Sofie's hand clutched his neck and they kissed deeper.
"Randy. Randy go. Randy it's your turn." She spoke between kisses. His song had just started playing and he stopped. He kissed her once more and walked out.
"Oh dear" she sighed and touched her lips.
She noticed there was one person over by the gear and she hoped he hadn't seen Randy kiss her. She looked down to the monitor and watched as Randy walked out. Maybe it was just her but he seemed to be breathing deeply, as if out of breath. She watched as Randy and Edge stared each other down, and she blushed worriedly. The match started and Ted and Morrison were the two legal men in.
"Oh!" she said as Morrison threw Teddy over his head, Ted falling on his back. Morrison took advantage of the situation and dragged Ted over to his team and tagged in Ron. Then Evan came in, his opponent still Ted. He gave him hard kicks to his lower legs and Ted started to weaken, falling to his knees. Ted escaped a pinfall attempt and tagged in Miz. Evan and the Miz fought until Morrison was tagged in, which caused Ted to interfere and Morrison to take out both at the same time with a high fly off the top of the ropes. Edge interfered and chaos seemed to be on the verge of breaking out. The referee took control of the situation and Sofie sighed. The match continued and Sofie was reminded why she loves this company so much. Forgetting all the storylines and everything in between, she remembered the reason she loves watching these matches was for the extreme athleticism these men showed. They were incredible performers and they made the matches so exciting to watch and experience. Randy was tagged in, he RKO's Ted and the match was over. Voices in My Head started to play and Sofie sat down to watch the monitor.
Edge attacked Randy from behind and all chaos broke out. In moments a ladder was introduced to the ring and the eight contestants go for it, a little preview of what's to come and one by one they get wiped out leaving Mike in the ring staring at the briefcase.
Sofie watched Mike grab the ladder and place it right under the case, slowly walking up the stairs. Randy ran into the ring and grabbed the ladder, the two staring at each other and Randy pushed the ladder over causing Mike to fall outside the ring. He straightened the ladder and carefully looked around. He climbed the ladder and unlatched the briefcase. Raw was officially over and Sofie sighed in relief. One more hour and she'd be in her hotel room, in her bed.
The men made their way back and all nodded as they passed her by walking to the locker room. Adam came in and winked at her before disappearing behind the door. Randy was the last one to come back in and he just stared at her, his gaze hot and hungry. He slowly walked towards the locker room, still watching her. She broke the eye contact looking down and when she looked up he was in the locker room. She left the gorilla position to find Calvin to start taking down the equipment.
