All seemed to be going well in the Cena and Orton households when I say all seemed to be going well I mean World War 3 was not raging or anything. It was about 8 months to the day that little Dani had died and the grief of loosing her daughter had sent Maddie into a deep despair causing her to loose the baby she was carrying but everyone thought it was for the best. She and Randy had worked through their problem and were remarried in a small backyard ceremony 6 months ago. Today was a day to celebrate in a matter of weeks Gracie and Dom would be welcoming their little boy into the world and they had called everyone for a family barbecue to let them know some big news. Ashley predicted that there would be the sound of wedding bells in the air for those two crazy kids.

John was at the grill cooking when Ashley wrapped her arms around his waist.

"Need any help?" she asked.

"Yeah could you grab me a beer from the cooler?" he asked.

"Sure thing babe" she went over to grab her husband a beer.

"It's been a long time since we've had reason to celebrate hasn't it" Ashley mused out loud.

"It's been tough these last couple of years" John said.

"But somehow all of us have made it through with most of our sanity" Ashley joked.

"We really never had much sanity to begin with"

"We are going to be grandparents soon John isn't it exciting?"

John grunted in response, he still didn't care for the idea of being someone's grandfather. But he did admit the idea was growing on him.

"MAMA" Boston yelled from a little ways away.

"The monster is paging you" John grinned at her.

"Yeah I know I'm still deciding if I want to go over there or not" Ashley replied before standing up and walking over to where her youngest daughter was.

"What's the matter baby?" she asked.

"Boo boo" Boston held up her finger which had a scrape on it.

"Come on and mommy will take you inside and clean your boo boo up" Ashley picked the little girl up and brought her into the house. Out of all the children Boston had given Ashley and John the most trouble, she was such an energetic little girl who got into everything. Let's just say she kept them on their toes. She was 22 months old now and her favorite thing to do was yell.

"Ok baby boo boo is all fixed" Ashley put a band aid on Boston's finger and then kissed it. She tickled Boston a little. Boston in turn tried to wiggle out of her mother's grasp but Ashley was too strong for her so she gave up and decided to enjoy her mother's attention while she had it.

"Ashley girl where you at?" Maddie yelled walking into the house.

Ashley gave Boston a quick kiss on the cheek which the baby returned and they both went to go see Maddie.

"Hey girl" Ashley said.

"Hey" Maddie replied.

"You are looking well" Ashley commented.

"Times have been good"

Tyler and Ryan walked in and they both gave their aunt a kiss before going off to find Talon and Christian. Morgan bounded in followed shorty by Savannah.

"Oh Vannah before I forget I got those music sheets you wanted" Ashley said shifting Boston's wait a little so the girl was now resting comfortably against her mother's hip.

"Cool thanks auntie" Savannah said.

"I hope you don't mind but I brought a guest" Maddie said.

"Nope that's cool"

Randy walked in carrying a sleeping Kelel with him and last in was the one person who could turn Ashley's blood cold with just one glance.

"Ashley it's nice to finally meet you" Kelly Carlson smiled lightly at Ashley.

"Yeah you too" Ashley replied

She put Boston down and kneeled down so she was the same size.

"Can you go out and check on daddy for me?" she asked the little girl.

Boston giggled and stuck her thumb in her mouth before taking off towards the backyard.

"What a cute little girl" Kelly said "how old is she?"

"Boston is 22 months old" Maddie replied for Ashley.

"Madeline can't I talk to you in the office?" Ashley asked emphasizing Maddie's full name.

"Sure, Kelly Randy will show you to the backyard" Maddie said before following Ashley into the office.

"What the fuck is the matter with you" Ashley practically screamed once the door was shut behind them.

"Ashley I know what you are thinking" Maddie said.

"Oh do you ..."

"Yes but she isn't after John now" Maddie said.

"You brought the woman who John cheated on me with into my house but I have no right to be mad"

"Ashley don't you think you are being a little paranoid?" Maddie asked.

"I know you did not call me paranoid because you know I will punch you in the face" Ashley's blue eyes were blazing with anger.

Maddie knew she stepped over the line Ashley didn't take well to people calling her paranoid. Most people knew that Ashley was paranoid by nature but chose not to comment on it the few who did usually got the shit kicked out of them.

"I'm sorry ... maybe it was a mistake but all Kelly wanted to do was apologize to you for what happened between her and John and it was a long time ago"

"So let's say you and Matt were still married and I invited Melina to your house how would you react?" Ashley asked.

"That's different" Maddie said knowing that Ashley was right.

"How is it different?" Ashley asked.

"Well Melina is a whore" Maddie blurted out.

Ashley crossed her arms over her chest and glared at Maddie. Maddie had to turn away because Ashley's glare was too much for her, normally she would be able too but she knew she was wrong.

"How do you know her anyways?" Ashley asked.

"We go to the same therapist"

"Why are we standing here when she is out there with John?" Ashley asked.

"You know I asked myself that same question" Maddie quipped.

Both women walked out of the office and ventured to the backyard. Ashley saw John as talking to Kelly but he looked extremely uncomfortable, shifting his weight from one foot to the other. Boston was in his arms resting her head on his shoulder. John cast a pleading glance her way as if to say 'help me'. Ashley felt sorry for him so she went over to him.

"Hey babe do you want me to take her?" Ashley asked pleasantly.

"Yeah she probably needs a nap anyways" John said passing Boston over to Ashley.

She began to walk away and John couldn't help but smirk as he watched her go.

"So you and Ashley ended up getting married I'm very happy for you John" Kelly said.

"No offense Kelly but I'm surprised she even let you in the house"

"That's understandable" Kelly said "but in my own defense I never knew you had a girlfriend till much later"

"I was a selfish asshole back then but I'd like to think I'm better now" both adults shared a laugh.

"So how many kids do you guys have?" Kelly asked.

"Too many to count ... nah we have 7 ranging from ages 2 to 22"

"Wow, damn and I can barely take care of my cat let alone 7 children" Kelly said amazed.

"It's definitely time consuming but they are all great kids so it's easy to love them" John said.

"Now Maddie was telling me some of your kids are adopted" Kelly said.

"Yes I personally have 3 adopted children Gracie, Talon and Ashley's son Frankie"

"Ashley has a son with someone else?" Kelly asked.

"Yeah it's a really long story but basically Ashley was having a baby for some very close friends but they both died so Frankie stayed with her and he's been my son since he was about 3 or 4 months old"

Ashley returned back outside and walked over to Maddie.

"I swear if I even see John alone with her once I will divorce him" Ashley said.

"Ashley what did we say about you being para ... the P word" Maddie said.

"Madeline if you want to live you will not call me paranoid again and I'm not being paranoid but there is obviously something that attracts John to her otherwise he wouldn't have slept with her" Ashley stated.

"Randy, me and Ashley are going inside to make a salad keep an eye on Kelly and John" Maddie said to him.

Randy nodded and Ashley and Maddie went into the house. Ashley was situated right by the window watching Kelly and John like a hawk. She could hear what they were talking about, Maddie definitely thought her friend was loosing what was left of her sanity fast.

"Ashley, you know I love you but you really need to relax" Maddie said.

"You are telling me to relax ... you the person who beat the shit out of me and Randy for one simple kiss are telling me to relax and not to mention all Randy and I did was kiss ... John slept with this woman so how are you going to tell me to relax"

"You seriously need help" Maddie said.

"How about less talking more tossing the salad" Ashley retorted.

"So John how have you been?" Kelly asked.

"He's been married ... happily married" Ashley yelled from the kitchen.

"My wife is literally insane remember that" John said.

Kelly wasn't sure to laugh or be incredibly scared so she stayed quiet and went over to talk to Randy. John went to go talk to his wife.

"Baby as much as I find the whole insanely jealous side of you cute it isn't needed I've been married to you for too long and am too tired from dealing with you to try to bother impressing someone else" he said.

"That kinda sounded like an insult" she said.

"I love you Ash, you need to remember that"

"I know you do and I trust you ... I said I trust you not her, she took you away from me for a whole year John and I can never get that back"

"You need to be heavily medicated baby" he said.

"How about I shove my foot up your ass"

"Oh sounds kinda kinky"

"You are such a pervert" Ashley said crossing her arms over her chest.

"I may be a pervert but you love me that way" John said placing his hands on her hips. He pressed his lips on hers, his tongue sliding over her bottom lip waiting to be allowed access to the sweet depths of her mouth. She allowed his tongue in and they stood there in a heated make out session for some time until someone clearing their throat interrupted them.

"You know there are just somethings I really don't need to see" Gracie stood there with an amused look on her face.

"Go away we're busy" Ashley said.

"Nice to see you too mom" Gracie remarked.

"Is there something we can help you with or do you just like interrupting?" Ashley joked.

"No I just like pissing you off"

"You are grounded" Ashley said.

"You are forgetting I don't live here" Gracie said "besides wouldn't you like to know what the announcement is?"

"Fine" Ashley sighed as she removed her arms from around John's neck.

"We'll finish this later" she said kissing him lightly on the lips.

"You'd better believe it" he smacked Ashley's ass while walking past her.

"Damn I married a pervert" she said to Gracie.

"You are just as bad as he is" Gracie said.

They walked into the backyard and the family get together began to pick up. Ashley was surprised to see that her father and Lilian had also been able to make it up from Georgia to hear the big news. Ashley hadn't seen her dear old dad in a few months.

"Ok ... it's time for you to know the reason that Dom and I called you all here" Gracie said standing up with Dom's help of course.

"As you may know that with our son being born in the next few weeks ... well Dom asked me to marry him and I accepted" Gracie was now beaming.

"Oh Christian pay up I told ya that's what the big news was!" Avery exclaimed.

Ashley rolled her eyes, Avery was still the little extortionist she had always been but she was much better about it. Christian grumbled and handed over the money. No one was really surprised but they all congratulated the happy couple. After that Frankie's band came over and entertained everyone with a bunch of cover songs and a few that Frankie had written himself. Frankie really had a talent for writing music, his band, Everwish, was like any other teenage grunge rock band but they were very good at what they did. Frankie was the lead singer and he also played guitar and keyboard when the need called for it.

"Gracie you ok?" Ashley asked noticing the look of pain Gracie now wore.

"I'm really not sure I've had this back pain all day long and at first I thought it was just indigestion but it's really starting to hurt" Gracie said.

"Probably just false labor I had that all the time when I was pregnant with Boston" Ashley said.

"I think el babe wants to come out"

"Since when do you speak Spanish?" Ashley asked "I tried to teach all of you kids for years and nobody but Frankie cared about it"

"Well Dom speaks Spanish so I've been picking it up from him" she said.

"This kids is going to be bi-lingual if I have to kill myself trying" Ashley said.

"Dom already speaks to the baby in Spanish now" Gracie said rubbing her protruding belly lovingly.

"You'll both make really awesome parents" Ashley said.

"Well we learned from the best you and Dom's mom Angie are both amazing"

"We had good kids to work with" Ashley said wiping a few tears away from her eyes "I can't believe that you grew up so fast"

"But I did mom" Gracie said resting her hand on top of her mother's.

"I know it's just hard knowing that soon you'll be a wife and a mother when it doesn't seem too long ago that you we're my little girl"

"I love you mom" Gracie said leaning over to hug her mother.

"I love you too kid"

Gracie stood up and went over to say hello to Chris and Lilian. Maddie took the seat that Gracie had vacated.

"Makes ya feel old doesn't it?" Maddie asked.

"Incredibly" Ashley replied "I just can't believe it"

"She's an incredible young woman considering her mother was a piece of trash"

"Hey I'm her mother!"

"Ok let me rephrase that for the stupid people namely you ... her biological mother was a piece of trash better"

"Yes much"

"Did you ever think all those years ago we'd be sitting here Mrs. John Cena and Mrs. Randy Orton, with kids running all around and not to mention still best friends"

"I really can't remember life any other way" Ashley replied "and I really don't want to"

Maddie and Ashley spent the next few hours remembering their lives when they were younger. They were so caught up in what they were doing they almost didn't notice Dom rushing Gracie to the car or most of the people following them.

"I'd hate to break up this little love fest but Gracie just went into labor so get your asses up!" John exclaimed.

"It never ends" Ashley said jumping to her feet. Maddie did the same thing and they both jumped into John's truck and raced to the hospital.

A/N: There are only two more chapters to this lovely story ... I can tell you guys are so depressed. But I would honestly like to thank everyone who read Perfect and Perfection and who left reviews and comments. You guys are the best. Next chapter basically deals with Gracie's son begin born and I think you'll find the name she gives him very interesting I know I did when I decided it. The last chapter deals with a wedding but I'm not saying who's ... (hint, it's not Gracie's and I'm being serious it really isn't Gracie's) Also I have been thinking of writing a prequel to Perfect explaining Ashley's life before she met John etc, so review and let me know if you would like to read that. Peace much love.

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