Chapter 24 Final Chapter
-- I Have Loved You--
--6 months later--
Randy's POV
The twins were getting bigger, and healthier everyday. Sure, they were getting up about every other hour during the night, but Natalie and I accepted that, because now we were parents. But, I had talked to Bischoff the other day, and I needed to come back to RAW, Evolution was not the same without me there, and a little part of me yearned to be back in the ring, and Natalie knew this. I asked them to come up with me on the road, but she declined, and came to a decision that we didn't want to raise our kids in a hotel room, and we wanted them to raise them in a stable home.
-- at the airport--
"Hey guys, daddy is going to miss you a lot, and he's going to miss you even more." Randy said looking at his wife.
"She's going to miss him even more, Orton. I love you."
"I love you too, Princess."
"There's my flight, I love you so much, baby."
"Call me everyday, Orton and I mean it."
"You know I will, see ya Princess."
-- 6 months later--
Natalie's POV
6 months have passed without Randy, he calls me everyday and he likes talking to the kids, and listening to their little cries, but I know he's happier because he's wrestling again.
Randy's POV
Evolution was back on top of the RAW roster again. I was down in the dumps sorta some of the time, and of course, the guys realized it. They hounded me to ask Bischoff for a week leave of absence, but I couldn't, I had just gotten back to the top of my game, and I wanted to stay there.
After RAW one night, the guys went out partying as usual, but I stayed at the hotel, and at about 1 am, I got my keys to the rental car, and went driving, I was missing my home, my wife, and my kids.
-- 4 am Natalie's house--
"Hello?" Natalie answered the phone, wondering who could be calling this late at night.
"Mrs. Orton, sorry to be calling you this late at night, but your husband is here at Kansas City Medical Center, in serious condition, due to a car accident, that happened here about two hours ago."
"Omg, Randy.."
Natalie's POV
Three days had passed since the accident, I was sitting there by Randy's bedside, I knew he wouldn't make it, he was on life support, the hospital gave me the decision when to pull the plug. Since the accident, wrestlers and Randy's family have came by to see Randy's lifeless body.
One day, I was just sitting there, and it was him and I. I was sitting there tracing the tattoo on his right arm, and remembering all the memories, that Randy and I had shared, our first date, our first kiss, our first year anniversary, our first time making love, our engagement, our break-up, our wedding, our pregnancy, and now his death, I knew that I wasn't going to wait a long time to pull the plug, I didn't want his body to be like that, and I didn't want to put myself through all the emotional wreckage.
The next day, Randy's family was there and I told them of my decision to pull the plug today, after we all said something to him.
Randy's family, each went in, one by one, first, then I did. And this is what I said--
"Randy, how am I supposed to live without you? For the past five years, there was not a moment of my life, when you weren't in it, how am I going to raise Dylan and Riley by myself? Why do you have to leave me now, Randy? But I guess what is supposed to be will always find a way, and I know you have lived a full life, Randy, look at how much stuff you have been blessed with, and we are all blessed to knowing you in our lives, I love you so much, Orton."
With that said, I picked up the notebook, that I had been scribbling in with words to a song.
And after that, they pulled the plug, and Randy's life on this earth, was over. After we left the hospital, I went back to the hotel room along with Randy's mother, to go through his things. The first thing, when you walked into the hotel room, you could smell him, the Obsession cologne, on the desk was our picture with the kids, and then beside that was a picture when Randy and I were just laying around being lazy the one day, and the other picture was when we first met on our first date, I'm sure you remember the cameras?
His mom gathered up all his stuff and we went through it, most of it was his clothes, that I remembered looked, oh so damn good on him, then I grabbed his wrestling stuff, It had all the famous tights in, and the Randy Orton shirt, in which he was so proud of.
Two hours later, we headed back on a plane to meet the casket for his funeral.
--- the funeral--
The funeral was in the church where we got married, there were huge bouquets of flowers everywhere, Randy's ego would have probably been boosted with all the people that showed up.
I told myself to keep strong at the funeral, not to cry, not to show anger and pain toward him leaving me, and I kept it strong all until his father came up and said his speech.
"I never thought I would see this day, I always thought my son would see the day when his father would be dying, but the tables are turned. My son, despite how young he was, lived a full life. He had a very beautiful and loving wife, two great kids, a great family and friends who loved him dearly, and a career on which he was so very passionate about. I think Randy would have been hollering at us if we were here today, about us spending so much attention on him, although deep down inside, he would have loved it. I was so blessed to have known him and you all should be to, thank you."
At the cemetery, I brought the twins', they were now a year old, three days before Randy died, I always thought that have might been the reason that he went driving because he was depressed, I blamed myself a lot of the time for that, although his mother told me otherwise.
--- 5 years later--
Wow, it's been five years since Randy has been gone, I can't believe it. It seems like yesterday that I got that frightful call from the nurse. The twins are now six, and are doing absolutely wonderful. Dylan, looks so much like Randy, it's unbelievable, and he loves wrestling, loves watching it and playing with the action figures his dad got for him before he was born. Riley, looks a little bit more like me, and acts like me, like a princess.
Shooting Star released another album called "Together", and on it was the lyrics to "I Have Loved You", the song I wrote about Randy… here are the lyrics
Remember that blue crystal sky
The sun reflected in your eyes
Kissed me unexpectedly
A moment I just can't forget
We filled the air with promises
Took them up so tenderly
But life never asks you what you want
It's just gonna have its way
Sometimes it doesn't give like it takes
If I never see your face
If wings take you away from me
And tomorrow never happens, baby
If the world comes tumbling down
And crumbles all around us
Fate turns cruel
You're on your knees
So desperate for one truth
Know that I have loved you
Don't think I'll write another letter
Watching there the pink sunset
Without thinking about you
I take a walk along the blue seaside
How will I sleep at night
How will I wipe the tears from your eyes
If I never see your face
If wings take you away from me
And tomorrow never happens, baby
If the world comes tumbling down
And crumbles all around us
Fate turns cruel
You're on your knees
So desperate for one truth
Know that I have loved you
Without a single hesitation
Without thought or reservation Baby,
I'll be waiting
Even if I never see your face
And wings take you away from me
And tomorrow never happens, baby
If the world comes tumbling down
And crumbles all around us
Fate turns cruel
You're on your knees
So desperate for one truth
Know that I have loved you
I have loved you
If I never see your face
If wings take you away from me
With all my heart and all my soul
The world comes tumbling
And crumbling all around
I have loved you
If I never see your face
If wings take you away from me
I have loved you..
A/N: That song is really off of Jessica Simpson's In this Skin album, it's called I Have Loved You.
Today was Tuesday, and every Tuesday, the kids and I would go up to Randy's grave and put flowers up there.
But today was different, Dylan had his Randy Orton action figure with him, and I asked him why he brought that with him, and he told me that I would see.
We walked up to the grave, and we each said something to him, and then Dylan was the last one, and he said
"This is for you, Dad. I know you would have liked a replica of yourself. I love you."
I about burst into tears there, but I had to stay strong for my kids. We had turned around, and started walking back to the car, when the man that was visiting, what I assumed to be his wife grave, passed us, and he looked incredibly similar to Randy, and he's like
"I think that's beautiful that you and your kids, come up here every Tuesday for what I am assuming to be your husband."
"Yes, we usually see you up here. Anyone who you are up here for?"
"My wife passed away about six years ago, and I visit her grave every Tuesday, my name's Randy, by the way."
"Natalie, nice to meet you."
"Hope to see you again sometime."
"Me too, see ya."
The End
Whoo-wee, it's finally over, I hope you guys didn't need tissues, I know it was sad!