Chapter 55 – 4th Time Lucky

Lita looked at the sight before her, and what a sight it was. It probably wasn't Randy Orton's favourite job when it came to his 10 month old daughter, Heidi Maree, but he did it anyway. Lita definitely wasn't complaining either as it meant that if Randy was changing Heidi's diapers she didn't have to. Randy had Heidi at the moment on her changing mat on the carpeted floor in the middle of his living room and was making the most ridiculous faces, as usual, at his daughter. However, despite how ridiculous he did look pulling those faces, Lita couldn't help but smile and just stand and watch how happy Heidi was. The little girl's blue eyes absolutely sparkling as she broke out in a wide smile and a giggle. Her legs were kicking excitedly in the air making Randy's job a little harder as he struggled with Heidi to get the new diaper fastened onto her small body. Lita didn't think that anyone would believe that that was Randy Orton before her. He'd really come a very long way from the boy that he was when he was with Evolution a couple of years ago. When he was the playboy of the WWE, chasing anything in a skirt and with commitment being the very last thing on his mind. Fast forward a couple of years and the 3rd generation superstar had really proved himself to be a man. Owning up to his mistakes and taking responsibility for his actions. He'd really grown up and he'd really proved himself to the red head that having a child and starting a family were things that he was going to embrace despite the way that it had all started. And he had embraced it all and made the most of it, putting them both in a really really happy and a really really good place in their lives. Living together in Randy's beautiful house in Louisville with their baby daughter as practically already a family.

Ding Dong! Ding Dong!

"I'll get it!" Lita said as she stood up from her seat on the couch.

Randy's eyes immediately shot up to face the red head almost as if he had been in his own little world until she had spoken, bringing him back to reality. The couple shared a mutual smile as the Legend Killer picked up his daughter in his arms upon the finishing of her latest diaper change. Lita the left Randy and Heidi in the living room as she made her way to the front door when the knocking was coming from. Dragging herself in her sweatpants and fitted T-shirt, the red head arrived at the door and opened it, to be greeted with a familiar set of chestnut eyes and pearly whites.

"Stacy!" Lita exclaimed as she recognised the leggy diva "How are you?"

The red head leaned forward immediately and hugged her best friend tightly.

"Great, Li, how are you?" Stacy said as she returned the hug "How's the extended weekend off been?"

Vince McMahon had been kind enough to let all his employees have an extended weekend off following the success of Sunday night's No Way Out pay-per-view. Lita, Randy, Stacy and the others had generously been given the Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday off. No live events, no promo, no house shows, no nothing. It had given Lita and Randy a change to finally head home to Louisville for the first time in months. Something the pair had been dying to do, especially with Heidi.

"It's been really really good actually," Lita said as the hug ended "Just me, Randy and Heidi at home. Nice and quiet."

"Just the way you like it," Stacy commented.

"Exactly," Lita said smiling at the blonde "What about you? How was yours?"

"Fairly busy," Stacy commented "Went back to Baltimore to spend it with the family and the extended family decided to pay a surprise visit, so I got given the job of babysitting all the children under the age of 7, so that kept me occupied."

Lita laughed.

"Just the way you like," Lita replied, causing the pair to burst into identical smiles once more "Come in! Come in by the way!"

Lita closed the door behind her blonde friend before leading her in the direction of the living room.

"Do you want to drink anything?" Lita said stopping in her tracks, wanting to know if she had to divert to the kitchen before she and Stacy headed to greet Randy and Heidi in the living room "Unfortunately at the moment we only have water, milk, water, champagne and more water."

Stacy couldn't help but laugh and shake her head at the randomness of Lita's final comment.

"Well it's not entirely my fault!" Lita exclaimed rolling her eyes with a smile, placing her hands on her hips "Randy and Lita were BOTH much too lazy to do any grocery shopping so we've pretty much been living off what we already had in the pantry for Heidi and Chinese take out and pizza for us adults."

"Very weird," Stacy commented with a nod.

"I know," Lita said with a shrug before the pair headed back in the direction of the living room, arriving to find another priceless and adorable scene before them.

"Oh my god she's walking!" Stacy exclaimed in excitement, practically jumping up and down as she watched Heidi almost completely confidently walking across the living room carpet towards her father's outstretched arms "Oh my god! Look at her!"

"C'mon Heidi," Randy ushered his daughter towards him, his hands gesturing the same thing.

Lita and Stacy stood and watched, Stacy with a wide open mouth, as Heidi finally reached Randy and was scooping up into the Legend Killer's arms. The small girl erupting with giggles as Randy starting rocking her and making faces once again. With her mouth still wide open in surprise and excitement Stacy turned to face Lita. The blonde immediately shut her mouth as she noticed that Lita was not nearly half as excited as she was.

"What?" Stacy questioned in shock as she stared at Lita, who was still smiling as she looked at her daughter "Why are you not jumping up and down in excitement because your DAUGHTER IS WALKING!"

Lita turned to face Stacy and laughed as she stepped forward to place an arm around her best friend.
"Well I was extremely excited when it first happened," Lita explained calmly to Stacy, who was intently listening to her red headed friend "I was running around the house frantically searching for the video camera as well as the camera. Randy and I were practically jumping up and down for at least ½ an hour."

"Well then how long ago was that if you are clearly not extremely excited about it now?" Stacy questioned curiously.

"About a month ago she started standing," Lita continued to explain, biting her bottom lip as she searched her memory "It started off as 2 or 3 steps soon after and now she's pretty much a pro at it."

"Already?" Stacy inquired, still surprised by what has just happened "I mean she's only what… 9… 10 months old right?"

"Yeah 10 months now Stace," Randy suddenly replied from his spot sitting on the carpet with Heidi still cradled in his arms "By the way hi there."

"Hey Randy," Stacy said with a smile as she turned to face the Legend Killer, before turning straight back to face Lita once more "Dare I ask if she's started talking yet?"

"Oh yeah she started talking ages and ages ago," Lita replied.

"I think she was something like," Randy added as his eyes gazed off for a moment as he engulfed himself in though "She said her first single word about 7 ½ …8 months I think."

"Yeah something like that," Lita finished off.

"That young?" Stacy questioned, her jaw dropping once more in surprise.

Lita couldn't help but laugh at the reactions Stacy Keibler was giving her this afternoon.

"Yes my dear," Lita replied, still laughing at her friend.

"But I mean, babies generally don't start saying their first single words until 10 to 12 months," Stacy stated "I mean 7 months is a long way away from 10 and especially 12 months! I thought Heidi was maybe only just there with the words."

"Nope, she's already started putting words together actually," Randy said proudly with a smile as he stroked the growing head of light brown hair of his daughter "Haven't you Miss Heidi?"

"Daddy," Heidi suddenly squealed in response, cuddling herself further into her father's chest.

"Aww," Stacy swooned as she watched the scene of Randy and Heidi.

"Heidi's doctor even said her being so early with words and walking and standing might mean that we have a gifted child," Randy stated proudly once more, turning to face Heidi's mother, knowing full well what kind of response he was expecting from her "Don't roll your eyes Li."

Stacy immediately turned to face Lita who indeed was rolling her eyes. Her arms folded straight across her chest.

"You don't think that Heidi could be gifted Li?" Stacy inquired, curious as to why Lita was reacting this way.

"It's not that," Lita replied honestly "I just don't like the way that doctor talks about Heidi being a 'genius baby' is all. Gifted I can handle, but genius baby is going a little overboard."

"Mommy!" Heidi suddenly exclaimed, drawing all eyes including Lita's, to the small girl who was absolutely beaming with her outstretched arms pointed at her mother "Come mommy! Come! Come!"

"Aww," Stacy swooned again as her eyes completely lit up.

Lita rolled her eyes with a smile at her best friend before she turned her full attention to Heidi Maree. Lita started walking slowly over to Randy and her daughter with a wide smile on her face.

"Mommy! Mommy!" Heidi started calling excited that mommy was getting closer and closer.

"Coming munchkin," Lita said, pulling a funny face as she bent down on the ground next to Randy, causing Heidi to immediately detach herself from her father in order to get to her mother.

Randy noticed the little girl struggling to climb over his outstretched leg once she had escaped his cradling arms and couldn't help but laugh at the look of determination on her face.

"Come on, let daddy help you silly," Randy said with a laugh as he scooped up the baby before handing her straight over to Lita's waiting and open arms.

Randy watched the absolute joy etched all over his daughter's face as she stared up at Lita. The Legend Killer couldn't help but place a sweet kiss on the Lita's forehead based on their current proximity. Lita smiled back at him as she leaned forward and returned the favour with a sweet kiss straight on the lips of the Legend Killer.

"Sorry guys," Stacy suddenly spoke very tentatively, drawing Randy and Lita's eyes back to the blonde still standing in her same spot "But Randy, it I almost 6pm."

"Already?" Randy asked in surprise as he knelt up on his knees, crawling across the carpet so he could see the wall clock in his kitchen.

"What's happening at 6?" Lita asked, curious as to what was going on that she didn't know about.

"Randy actually has a little surprise for you Li," Stacy replied with a smile.

Lita looked at the blonde and realized for the first time that Stacy was actually carrying a large black bag that looked like one of those garment bags from the dry cleaners. The red head eyed the bag for a moment before turning to face her boyfriend with a cocked eyebrow.

"Surprise?" Lita questioned.

"Indeed," Randy replied, wiggling his eyebrows suggestively.

"What is this all about?" Lita immediately asked in response to the cheeky look on Randy's face.

"There is not time to explain," Randy replied, getting straight to his feet before extending his hand to Lita who was still sitting on the carpet.

Lita took his hand as he helped her to her feet, her daughter still cradled against her chest.

"You have to put this on though," Stacy said handing her the black garment bag in exchange for little Heidi Maree.

"And those blue earrings I bought you for your birthday," Randy quickly added before Lita could say anything else.

"What on earth is going on guys?" Lita asked, a small laugh escaping her lips as she felt Randy practically push in the direction of the staircase.

"Chop! Chop!" Randy instructed as he lifted the red head onto the second step of the staircase "Faster! Faster!"

"I'm going!" Lita exclaimed with a laugh as she turned around to face Randy and Stacy, who was now standing directly behind the Legend Killer, Heidi calmly settled in her arms "Should I be scared?"

"Always darling," Randy replied "Now hurry up! I know it always takes you a year and a half to get ready!"

"Pft!" Lita laughed as she started to scale the staircase slowly "Says you who takes a year and a half in the shower Mr Orton."

"Well it's a good thing that I took a shower this morning then," Randy replied, his signature cocky smirk appearing on his face once more as he watched Lita disappear into the bedroom at the top of the stairs.

½ an hour later…

"Li!" Randy called out from the bottom of the stairs as he buttoned up the cuffs on the blue dress shirt he was currently sporting "We are going to be later if you don't hurry up!"

"I'm coming I'm coming!" Lita called out from the bedroom "Hold your horses Randy! I'm coming!"

"What is it with women and taking forever to get ready?" Randy asked as he turned to Stacy Keibler who was now sitting, completely relaxed on the living room sofa with Heidi perched inbetween her legs. The TV showing the latest episode of American's Next Top Model "And by the looks of it, watching horrendously trashy TV."

Stacy simply shrugged as she glanced at Randy for a moment for turning back to watch the TV screen.

"We're girls," Stacy replied simply, popping another handful of gummi bears into her mouth "That's what we do."

"Are those gummi bears?" Randy inquired, squinting at the glass bowl on the coffee table infront of the sofa, as he headed over "Where on Earth did you find those?"

"Right in the back of one of your cupboards," Stacy replied nonchalantly, turning to face Randy once more "Want some?"

"Eh, why not," Randy replied, grabbing a handful as Stacy handed him the bowl "Thank you."

"You're welcome," Stacy replied, focusing her attention once more to American's Next Top Model.

"What do you think?" Lita's voice suddenly called from the top of the stairs, causing both Randy and Stacy's heads to whip in her direction immediately.

A breath hitched in the Legend Killer's throat as he couldn't help but stare at the vision infront of him. The dress had fit her just like a glove. The black satin material hugging her figure. The V-shaped neckline and the thigh high split just leaving that much to the imagination. Lita smiled as she turned all the way around slowly, revealing the bare back of the dress and her mess of red hair loosely tied in a twist at the back of her head. The blue diamond earrings sparkling as they hung from her ears.

"Li, you look amazing!" Stacy exclaimed from her spot still on the sofa, turning immediately to Heidi and pointing a finger at Lita "Doesn't mommy look pretty."

"Very pretty," Randy replied as he watched with a wide smile as Lita descended the staircase, a bright blue clutch bag in her hand's grasp.

"Don't you clean up nice," Lita replied with a smile as she finally reached Randy at the bottom of the staircase.

"I try my best," Randy replied as he looked straight into her bright hazel eyes, currently level with his eyes due to the fact she was standing two steps higher than him.

"So, where are we going all dressed up and fancy Mr Legend Killer?" Lita questioned as her free hand sought out and entwined with one of Randy's.

"You'll just have to wait and see," Randy replied with a smirk.

5 hours later…

"Enjoy yourself?" Randy asked as he held open the door for the red head, allowing her to pass through before him.

"Yeah I did," Lita replied honestly with a bright smile before glancing down at her feet "However, I'm not so sure that heels were such a good idea."

Randy couldn't help but laugh a little as they walked hand in and hand away from the very nice restaurant they'd just had dinner at. A quiet, romantic dinner. Just the two of them. Getting to sit and eat, and relax and just talk. It was something that their hectic lives and schedules, especially with a 10 month old baby, didn't really give time for much anymore.

"It has been a really really long time since we went out for dinner you know," Lita commented, glancing over at Randy as they headed towards the parking lot where they had left their car for the evening "A really really long time."

"I know," Randy simply nodded, glancing back over at the red head as they continued to slowly stroll through the quiet, streetlit park adjacent to the parking lot.

"It was really nice," Lita added, taking a deep breath of the cool fresh air, still hinting the last of winter in Kentucky "Just getting to be alone together I guess and relax a little."

"Well that was the plan so," Randy replied "I'm glad that you had a good evening."

"I did," Lita replied honestly, drawing Randy's hand in closer to her so that their bodies were now touching.

Randy's arm wrapped around her body as she rested her head against his chest. Despite having reached Randy's car, the pair remained the way they were, Lita turning slightly so that she could wrap both her arms around the Legend Killer's waist, and he could do the same. Bringing her closer so she could press her ear against his chest and listen to his heart beating. Something that she loved.

"You know Li," Randy spoke softly "There was something that I had planned that we actually didn't get to do tonight."

Lita's head immediately shot up. Her eyes locking with Randy's as a curious look crossed her face.

"And what was that?" She asked.

Randy simply smiled as he distanced himself from the red head completely and simply held his hand out to her. A small bow appearing in his posture causing Lita to just stand and stare at him. Completely confused as to what he was doing.

"Can I have this dance?" Randy finally spoke.

Lita smiled.

"But there's no music," Lita said with a small laugh as she took his hand.

"So?" Randy asked, absolutely not seeming to care in the slightest bit as he pulled the red head closer once more.

His arm came to rest on the small of her back, hers coming to rest on his shoulder. Their other hands, with fingers intertwined was pulled close towards their bodies. A small kiss was placed on her forehead followed by her head being slightly buried into his chest to hide her blushing cheeks as they just dance. Moving together, just slowly and in time as if there actually was music playing. Swaying back and forth in the cool night breeze. Lita's eyes were closed, trying to picture a more perfect moment than this one right here. Sharing a dance with the man she loved more than anything in the world in the middle of an empty restaurant parking lot, under the moon and the stars.

"I love you," Randy suddenly whispered in her ear, bringing her back from her thoughts.

"I love you too," Lita replied as she held him tighter.

She closed her eyes once more as she felt herself getting lost in his arms as he too held her tighter. A feeling that made her head spin and her heart beat faster and slower at the same time, occasionally skipping beats altogether. She wanted it to be like this forever. She wanted him forever.

"I want to marry you, Randy Orton," she said as her eyes came to meet his for a split second - blue eyes locking with hazel.

Randy looked almost a little confused, or even surprised at the red head's sudden words. He then suddenly broke away from the red head slightly.

"Hold that thought!" Randy said as he fumbled around in his jacket pocket "At least let me get the proposal right this time."

A smile formed across the red head's face and she almost half laughed as she watched Randy hold the small black box in his hand victoriously as he got down on one knee infront of her, in the parking lot of this very nice restaurant they had just eaten at. He paused for a moment as he looked at the red head. She smiled at him as he took a deep breath before prising open the small black box in his hands to reveal the gorgeous diamond ring that Lita had already seen 3 separate times before tonight.

"Li," he said as took Lita's small hand in his "I love you so much. I wanna be with you forever. Will you marry me?"

Lita smiled. For once the answer was that simple.

"Yes," Lita replied.

A huge smile formed on the Legend Killer's face as he slipped the diamond ring on her ring finger. Randy immediately stood up, picked her up and spun her around. His arms tightly banded around her body, and her arms wrapped surely around his neck. The dress she was sporting was flying out as the Legend Killer continued to spin her around and around.

"4th time lucky right?" Randy whispered in her air, the beaming smile still etched on his face.

Lita couldn't help but let a small laugh escape her lips as she pressed them softly against his in a sweet kiss.

"4th time lucky," Lita repeated with a nod.

And there it was. A moment now more perfect that the once just before. This was the more perfect moment that she had been trying to picture just moments before. This was it. This was perfect. Everything was finally just perfect.

A/N: Hello people! OMFG – they're finally getting married! It only took me 55 chapters to get here but YAY they're getting married! After everything they've been through I mean… exciting right! I just had to post this chapter because I wanted to share this all straight away with all my readers! Thanks to everyone that has reviewed up to this point! READ AND REVIEW! Oh and please check out my newest fanfic entitled 'Pieces Of A Broken Heart' and answer the One Secret poll that I will be putting up on my profile page now! Thanks everyone! Love you! God Bless, Mrs Bridget Orton xoxo