Title: Sooner or Later

Author: Adrian Jade

Summary: John Cena goes to a bar and meets this girl. He doesn't tell her what he does and she doesn't ask. Never did he imagine he would see her again. But he does and the charade begins sooner or later he'll have to tell her the truth. Sooner or later she'll have to do the same thing.

Disclaimer: I own Eve, Zoey and Jayson only. The rest of the people own themselves and their likenesses belong to both the WWE and ECW accordingly.

Eve shivered and pulled one of John's hooded sweatshirts closer to her body. The cool air off the lake seemed to attack her as if it knew what she had done.

"Maybe this was a bad idea" she said to herself.

No matter what she told herself she would never be over this. She could still hear herself screaming Marcus's name.

"Yeah TJ I promise to meet you tonight" 14 year old Eve said talking on her cellphone.

"Evie" 4 year old Marcus Fuller whined.

Eve continued flirting with her boyfriend of 6 months. Marcus busied himself with playing with his toy sail boat.

"I wanna sail my boat" Marcus tugged on his older sister's sleeve.

Marcus looked at his surroundings, Eve had taken him to a local laked so he could play with his new toy sailboat that she had gotten him for his birthday. But being little like he was he began to get impatient. He figured she wouldn't miss him so he ventured towards the lake which was 3 feet away.

"TJ I gotta go" Eve said "no seriously I have to go"

"Ok I'll call you when I get home" Eve snapped her phone shut.

"Ok Marcus lets play with that boat" she said looking around.

"Marcus" she scanned the area but she couldn't see him.

"Marcus" she screamed.

She frantically looked around for her little brother. It seemed to come to her to check the lake, she prayed that he wouldn't have gone near the lake by himself. Marcus wasn't a very good swimmer, she berated herself for letting her eyes leave him for even a second. She knew better than to let him leave her sight, he was a little boy for Christ's sake how could she be so irresponsible. Her mother could kill her if she ever found out about this. She neared the lake and still no sign of him. She was inches away from the lake now and a cracking sound came to her attention she looked down and there was a sail boat with it's now broken mast.

"Marcus" She screamed once again.

"Marcus" Eve screamed for the third time.

Without thinking she dove into the icy water. Although the water stung her eyes she forced herself to open them. The water was murky but she could still see, she forced herself forward through the pain the cold water was causing her muscles. She was running out of air fast but it didn't matter she needed to find Marcus. She headed up for air when she felt someone grab her and pull her into a small boat.

"This lake isn't for swimming" a man, who obviously worked at the park yelled.

Eve's teeth were chattering "s ... sir you do ... don't understand my brother may be in that lake"

The man sensed the urgency "stay here" he grabbed his water proof flashlight and jumped into the lake. Eve thought about what the man had told her "stay here" like she could really go anywhere. She wrapped her arms around herself to get warm. She was so afraid by now, if anything happened to Marcus she would never forgive herself. But as time passed it seemed impossible for Marcus to be ok. The man reemerged.

"Your brother isn't down there" he said climbing back into the boat "I'll take you back to the station and you can call your parents"

"But what about Marcus?" Eve asked.

"He's probably just lost someone will bring him to us" the man said putting an arm around her, she knew he was doing his best to comfort her but it wasn't really working.

"Mama" Eve flung her arms around her mother.

"What's going on?" A frazzled Connie Fuller asked "someone called me from work"

"Mama I took my eyes off him for one minute" Eve was hysterical by this time.

"Eve, what are you talking about?" Connie asked.

"We can't find Marcus ... mama I'm so sorry"

"No" Connie broke down.

Eve went to hug her mother but Connie pushed her away, anger blazing in her eyes.

"How could you" anger laced Connie's voice " I trusted you to keep him safe and you can't even do that my baby is probably scared half to death out there all by himself"

"Mama I am so sorry" Eve whispered.

Eve blinked back a few tears. The gruesome crime scene photos were burned into her memory.

"Look at these" Connie had shouted forcing her barely 14 year old daughter to look at those horrible pictures.

Her baby brother was lying lifeless, the look of fear was evident across his beautiful features. His big brown eyes were dull but the fear and pain was obvious. Some sick person had pressed a blade across her baby brother's throat. To make matters worse he had stabbed her baby brother 14 times but that didn't kill little Marcus no then that sick monster left Marcus to drown in his own blood. There was just so much blood. Eve remembered running to the bathroom and vomiting because those pictures made her sick. Her mother had watched her from the doorway, she didn't even bother to comfort her. It was at that moment that Eve's resentment of her mother came to the surface. Connie Fuller was never the same person after Marcus died but then again neither was Eve.

Eve sank to the ground and brought her knees up to her chest. All the emotions she had bottled up over the years was finally coming out. She cried freely now not caring who saw her, she rocked back and forth in her own little world. She looked around now and it was like seeing everything for the first time, this place didn't haunt her in fact it was the opposite she was reminded of all the fun she and Marcus had had here. Her brother was her whole world and it was very traumatic when she lost him. Eve was still in a dazed state when she felt two strong arms embrace her. She was surprised to see her husband sitting next to her.

"What are you doing here?" Eve asked brushing the tears away.

"Nicole called the house, she was worried about you and I made her tell me what was going on" he replied "why wouldn't you tell me something like that ... having to carry that around with you for so long can't have been good"

"I felt like I needed to do it on my own"

"It wasn't your fault you know what happened to Marcus was an accident"

"I wish I could believe that John but I was supposed to be watching him and instead of doing that I was on the phone ... can you believe that. He was so excited when I told him we were coming here, his whole face lit up. I promised I'd bring him here to sail the boat I got him for his birthday and if I had just used some common sense he'd still be alive. That monster took my brother and slit his throat he must have been so scared and in such pain. Who gave that person the right to decide that it was my baby brother's time to die and not only that Marcus's killer was never caught so his death meant nothing, I promised him he could sail his boat and if I had been more responsible he could have done it. I am a horrible person"

"Eve you were 14 granted you should have been more responsible but you were a little kid"

"He was a baby John ... not much older than Zoey, how can you condone what I did god knows my mother didn't"

"Your mother loves you Eve but loosing a child is never easy" John said.

"Like you'd know anything about it" Eve snapped at him before pulling away to go stand closer to the water. John stood up as well.

"And I thank god for that but you need to calm down because I'm not sure if you realize this but you are pregnant with our baby not to mention his or her life was already in danger so you getting all worked up doesn't help"

"Genevieve I love you but you need to let some people help you there is no use in trying to take on everything by yourself because it is making you sick and as I said before you need to relax"

"You are right I came here for something and I have it now" Eve said.

"What did you come here for?" John asked.

"In a way I needed closure ... forgiveness ... and peace of mind, when it comes down to it I needed to forgive myself because I know Marcus already has"

"Then my beautiful wife lets go home" John said putting an arm around her waist.

"Just give me a minute" Eve said.

John nodded and gave his wife some time to sort out her thoughts alone. Eve opened up the bag that she had brought with her. She reached inside and pulled out the little toy sailboat that had been Marcus's favorite toy. She crouched down by the water before giving it a push. She watched it for a few minutes before turning around and joining her husband. He kissed her forehead and pulled her into a hug before helping her into the car. Then he got into the driver's seat of his rental car and they headed for home. Once again the person dressed in all black emerged from the woods. She looked a the little boat and thought over what she had just heard.

"So Eve is pregnant with John's child didn't see that one coming ... maybe John should know what it feels like to loose a child ... well not just one but three" She laughed evilly to herself "soon I'll have what I want"

Then she thought about TJ.

"Poor dumbass hick when I'm done destroying Eve she'll be praying for death which I will obviously give her I mean after all I am not that cruel. To separate a mother from her children tisk tisk that is just torture.