Title: Blink

Author: Dana

Rating: G

Warnings: Injured character

Summary: In the blink of an eye, everything can change.

Time frame: This fic starts March 19 2001. The RAW on that day has been changed. AU rules!

Disclaimer: Don't own them. WWF, WrestleMania, and Raw is War are owned by WWFE. WCW and Monday Nitro are owned by WWFE I guess. Kinda hard to determin at this point. I may not use the wrestlers real names in this fic but everything else is real life. So if you don't like that tough. I have this interest in real life stuff. Or so I have been told.

This chapter takes place at the same time as the first chapter, The Accident.

Nancy Benoit placed her son in his crib and smiled down at him. Her husband, Chris, said he'd be down in maybe a couple weeks. She watched as Daniel fell asleep. Glancing at her watch she realized she was going to miss RAW.

She turned the TV on and watched as Chris made his way out to the ring. She watched the match with a smile but the smile turned quickly into a frown and then fear. 'God please no!' She thought as she watched her husband lying on the floor not moving. 'Get up Chris! It's just part of the match right? No! Please get up!' She watched with tears in her eyes as Dean Malenko and Eddie Guerrero ran down to ringside and knelt next to him.

And then RAW went to a commercial. She couldn't believe they went to a commercial. Didn't they have a heart? She wondered. She started pacing. 'Please let Chris be all right! Please let my eyes have been wrong.' She prayed.

Five minutes later the phone rang. RAW hadn't given her any sort of update on the situation. She picked up the phone. "Hello?" 'Please be Chris!'

'Nancy it's Eddie.'

"Thank God. How's Chris?"

'I don't know. He smacked his back on the edge of the ring. Perry and I are on the way to the hospital. Dean rode with Chris in the ambulance.'

"I'll catch the first plane up there." She said wiping away the tears.

'Okay Nancy. Let me know when you get in and one of us will meet you there. You have my, and Dean's cell numbers right?'

"Yes. Thanks Eddy." She said softly and hung up.

She called United and found out the earliest flight leaving was at 6:40 am and it had a lay over in DC. She'd get into Albany at 10:28. What was she going to do? She needed to get to Albany. It was too far of a drive. She called Eddy back and told him the flight information and hung up again. Eddy said he'd call her with information later.

She was going to go crazy waiting. She was too worried to sleep and actually started straightening up the house. She called her parents to see if they wouldn't mind watching Daniel while she was in Albany.

A few hours later she got the dreaded phone call.