John sat in the comfortable plush couch of the backstage area of the Conan O'Brien show. Smiling, his cell phone was at the moment glued to his ear. His over-zealous two and a half year old son was babbling away.
"Really mommy took you to see Dean play soccer" John exclaimed trying to make it sound like that was the most interesting thing in the world.
A knock on the door caused the three time WWE champ to look up. A stage hand let him know he had ten minutes until he had to be on stage.
"Listen buddy daddy has to go now but I want to tell you good night and I love you"
Phinnigan replied that back that he loved him too and handed the phone over to his mother.
"You gonna watch me tonight?" John asked.
"Maybe if you make it worth while to me" she replied smirking, knowing full well that he was now sporting a frown.
Which of course he was "Fine if you don't want to watch it I can't make you"
"Ok Nancy before you cry yourself to sleep I already have the Tivo set to record" was her reply.
He rolled his eyes "I gotta go but I'll see you guys in two days … are you going to be able to pick me up from the airport?"
"If I can get Fabo to swear to me that he won't smoke while I'm gone then yes I'll come get you"
"Has he been giving you trouble?" John asked.
"Not really, but I do think he hates me trying to take care of him"
"Well do what you can if the man insists on having another heart attack we can't really stop him"
"You are right but I'll still keep my eye on him other than that everything is great, so don't worry about anything and have a good show"
"Ok I'll talk to you later I guess"
He hung up the phone and threw it into his bag. Cracking his knuckles and rotating his neck back and forth to relieve a little tension he was building there. He left the room and made his way down the long corridor that led to the stage. He got to the dark blue curtain that reminded him very much of the curtain he had to stand behind before he made his way out to the ring every night. Upon hearing his name he walked out into the brightly lit stage, smiling and waving at the people as he passed them by. He greeted Conan with a smile and a handshake. They both took their seats and the interview began.
"Thanks for having me back man" John said.
"No thank you for being here" Conan replied.
"Dude you still have the biggest arms I have ever seen" Conan commented as he did every time John was on his show.
John grinned a little bit more "I'm telling ya man all you have to do is spend a little time with me in the gym and you could have arms like these too"
"I seriously doubt that" Conan shook his head a little.
"So it seems like every time you are here you are promoting something so what do you have for us tonight"
"Well Conan tonight I am here to talk about a subject that hits very close to home with me about six months back my niece Atiana was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes which until that time I knew almost nothing about"
"Is she ok?" Conan asked with concern. He after all had two children of his own so he knew how serious something like this could be.
"Yeah she's fine right now" he assured the host "but it really makes you think about things differently, diabetes is very serious"
"So how did you become a spokesman?" Conan asked.
"Well after I found out about Atiana I started searching the net and trying to find out everything I could just incase my kids might have it too and I began calling people who knew about diabetes and finally one day I got a call from a wonderful woman named Beth Pearson, who runs the ADA and she asked me to be the spokesperson" the younger man replied.
"Now how old are your kids?" Conan asked.
"Yeah two of them Phinnigan is two and a half as of yesterday and my little girl Faith is almost 3 months old" the father of two beamed with pride as he talked about his children.
"Now both kids are adopted correct?"
"Yeah, both kids are adopted from the same set of parents, we found Phinnigan abandoned in a parking lot only a few hours after he was born and then a few months ago his birth mother got in contact with us saying she had had another baby and wanted her to be with the same people who had her older brother so their mom talked me into it and that's how Mariah Faith entered our lives"
"Wait let me get this straight you found your son in a parking lot?" Conan asked shocked.
"Yeah, Me, Randy Orton, and my ex-girlfriend Ashley were sitting in my car in a Wal Mart parking lot and I could have sworn I heard a baby crying so we got out to look and there he was"
"Well you know what they say you can find anything at a Wal Mart" Conan joked which earned a nod and a shrug from the WWE superstar.
"So you just decided to adopt him?" Conan asked.
"Well Ashley felt somehow connected to the baby and she convinced me that we needed to do something to help him and two and a half years later he's a happy and healthy toddler who likes to play with his toy cars and get his older cousin Dean in trouble"
"Now Dean is Randy Orton's son right?"
"Right but we consider him a community child because we all share in on the parenting seeing as we all live together"
"So you and your ex-girlfriend live in the same house with your two kids and your best friend and his son live with you too" Conan asked incredulously.
"When you say it like that it sounds kinda crazy but it works for us I guess"
"So you have a boy and a girl do you notice any differences in raising them?" Conan asked.
"Yes, I mean Phinnigan is a boy so he's always running into things and yelling where Faith is more quiet and dainty. When Phinnigan was a baby and we would change him he'd just sit there and show you what he was working with where Faith even though she is so little if you undress her she covers herself up and what not"
"Well that's all we have time for tonight I want to thank you once again for coming onto the show and please give your brother and his wife my best also tell Ashley I said hi"
"I will do that believe me she still talks about meeting you that time backstage and how nice you were which she really didn't expect"
"Really what did she expect?" Conan asked momentarily forgetting about the show's time running out.
"I think she said she expected you to be some pompous jerk that wouldn't stop to talk to a fan"
Conan looked into the camera "Gee thanks Ashley".
"It's all good man she likes you which is more than a lot of other people can say" John shrugged once again "she doesn't like many people"
John knew Ashley was going to kill him the next time she saw him but he was just stating the truth.
"Have Springsteen on and invite her to sit in the audience and you'll be her new best friend … hell she'll love you more than she does me"
Conan shot a glance at Max Weinstein, whom we all know is the drummer for the E Street Band. Max just laughed and shook his head.
"Come on man you'd make her dream come true" John pretended to beg.
"We'll see" Max said.
"Ok now we really have to go but stop by again soon" Conan and John shook hands one more time before the camera stopped rolling.
A/N: I know this chapter sucked big time but I was watching the last John appearance on the Conan O'Brien show that I recorded and I got the idea to write this. So review. By the way I have a few story banners up on my profile so check them out cause they kick ass. More should be up soon if I can think of something worthy of writing.