A/N: To all my reviewers, you guys are the one's that rock! It is my pleasure to be able to entertain you guys. To my newest reviewer Maeve's Dark Phoenix, like I say to all my reviewers, you rock! Thank you guys for reading my fic, I'm glad you like it. Again, the song is Holding My Last Breath by Evanescence.

Shane fell to his knees beside the unconscious girl. He head was bleeding profusely, she had blood coming from everywhere.

"Shane," Mark said quietly, "Shane."

Shane thought he might vomit but he choked it back.

Shannon came tearing through the locker room. "Ray!"

"Shannon, go get help." Mark turned him back around.

"Oh my God, I'm late."

"Shannon what are you talking about?" Shane turned around.

"I'll go get help." Adam said, he had turned about three different shades in the thirty seconds they had been staring at his unconscious niece.

"Good Adam." Mark kneeled next to Shane lying a towel over his daughter. He was going to have to be strong for both of them.

"It was her father. He is here somewhere."

"How do you know?" Mark stood back up to his full six feet eleven inches.

"Randy." Shannon said. He looked at Ray, she didn't look good.

Mark's eyes grew dark with anger, "What?"

"Randy told me he gave Ray a gift of the lifetime, her dad."

"Oh my God." Shane said. His baby, his beautiful she would never be his. She looked like she was dying.

The paramedics came through the door, Vince was with them.

"Oh Christ." Vince said, "What happened?"

"We don't know exactly." Adam told him, "We found her like this."

"I barely have a pulse, but there is one there."

"I'm going to kill that boy." Mark cried heading toward the daughter. This is it. He finally found a woman going to jail over.

"Mark!" Shane screamed down the hall. "I need you."

"Shane,"

"Mark your daughter needs you. Ray needs her father, her real father. Not the creature that did this to her."

Mark considered what Shane was saying. That was his baby girl lying on that stretcher. He was going to go be with her, and she had better pull through this.

"We have to get her to the hospital A.S.A.P. Who will be riding with her?"

Mark looked at Shane, "Ride with her, take care of her. I'll go get John."

Shane just nodded, running along side the stretcher holding her hand. He helped them lift her into the ambulance.

"Hey beautiful," he said to her, "what are you doing taking a nap on your birthday? You're supposed to be up riding around with your best friend."

The paramedic touched Shane on his shoulder, "Your girlfriend is going to make it. I've seen weaker people with more severe injuries make it through this."

Shane nodded, "You hear that beautiful, you're strong, you're going to make it."

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"There has a been a breech in security," Vince said gravely as he looked at his locker room, "One of our own diva's has been brutally attacked."

"Oh my God, who?" Trish asked. Amy held her hand, she wondered where Ray was, probably left early, it was her birthday and all.

"Ravyn."

Amy gasped audibly, Trish changed complexions, all the color ran from her face.

"Do we know who it was?" This was Randy, he knew all too well that he sent that man to Ray's room.

"No, Mark and Shane both suspect that it was her father. After all, I'm not sure I'll be sharing this with all of you, but I like to think that we are all of the family that Ray has, so I'll tell you. For those of you wonder about the scar on her back she got it as an infant from her father." The entire crowd seemed gasp at once, "He murdered her mother and tried to kill her. He just recently got out on parole."

"Oh my God." Randy breathed, he had been responsible for Ray's attack.

"Do we know how bad it is?" Paul spoke up. His cheeks were tear stained, his niece, the one that hid his boxers in catering, that turned off all the hot water in the shower, the one that switched his gum with the prank flavor so his breath smelled like vomit. Someone had hurt her, he would kill.

"Well it certainly doesn't look good." Vince said truthfully, "But we all know Ray, she's a fighter, I'm sure she'll make it."

The girls were openly sobbing now, and the boys were coaxing John.

"I knew I shouldn't have left her," he said quietly.

"Well why did you?" Trish asked.

"I was just so jealous. Shane always outdoes me and I can't compete with him anymore."

"John what are you saying?"

"I don't know."

"Who's with her?"

"Shane and Mark I believe."

"Big surprise there." John rolled his eyes.

"I believe the question is why aren't you at the hospital with her?" Mark asked coming into the room.

"How bad is she Mark?" Trish asked.

Mark looked down at the little blonde, "Well I'm not going to lie, she looks bad."

"Oh my God." John put his head in his hands.

"Come on son, we don't have time for your tears right now." Mark put his hand on his shoulder.

John got up and followed the elder man out of the room. He felt terrible about his girlfriend being attacked, but guess who's with her? Who found her? Who's holding her hand at this second? Didn't take a genius to figure this out.

But John, who's fault is that? You leave her and he is always there to do what you were supposed to, he's just doing what you should be.

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"Doctor,"

"Are you family?"

"The only kind she has right now."

The doctor looked down, "I understand. I'm going to be honest with you, she is in pretty critical condition."

"What does that mean? What is the extent of her injuries?"

"Well she has a concussion, I see some broken ribs. She was actually very lucky, she was within inches of puncturing a lung."

Shane sucked in a breath. What the hell did his beautiful girl ever do to deserve such a hard life? He swore from that point on, if she made it through this, he was going to do whatever it took to make sure nobody could ever hurt her again.

"I don't know if you know this, but she has been raped."

Shane's stomach rolled at the sound of that. He knew that Ray was a virgin and this was not the way he wanted his Beautiful to lose her virginity right, with him.

"Any damage?"

"Well she has some rips and tears throughout her vagina. She will have some scarring but I don't foresee any permanent damage."

Shane didn't know whether to be relieved or to cry. "Will she survive?"

"I believe so but it's going to be a critical few days."

"Thank you doctor."

The doctor checked a few charts and walked out of the room.

A tear rolled down Shane's cheek, he looked at Ray. She looked so peaceful even with all the tubes stuck everywhere.

"Hey beautiful," Shane said, "I know you would tell me not to cry, but I'm blown away by how strong you are."

I'm so scared. God Ray, never got to tell you I love. God Ray, please, just open those pretty eyes.

"Hey Beautiful," Shane spoke again. "Are you tired? You must be to sleep so much on your birthday. You better wake up, your father never got to give you his birthday gift."

"How is she?" Mark looked for himself, "Oh God."

Shane turned around to acknowledge the other man's presence. A twin tear rolled down Shane's opposite cheek. "This is my worst nightmare turned reality."

Mark put his hand on the younger man's shoulder, "Mine too son."

"What did she ever do?"

"I don't know son. The doctor say anything?"

"Just that she's in critical condition. She has two broken ribs, she has a concussion, and she's been..." Shane's voice quavered.

"What?" John walked in leaning against the doorframe. He looked at his girlfriend lying there with tubes sticking out at all directions. John felt his heart collapse. Jesus he can't believe this, but it was at this moment that he realized that he loved her and that he was not about to lose her to Shane.

"She's been raped." Mark said quietly knowing all the signs before Shane could even speak.

Shane looked from Ray to Mark to John and fainted.

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"Hold on for me Ray." Shane said.

HOLD ON TO ME LOVE

"Hold me beloved. Please hold me."

YOU KNOW I CAN'T STAY LONG

Shane wrapped his arms around her. He would do anything she wanted him to.

ALL I WANTED TO SAY WAS I LOVE YOU AND I'M NOT AFAID

CAN YOU HEAR ME

CAN YOU FEEL ME IN YOUR ARMS?

"I love you Shane."

I'LL MISS THE WINTER

A WORLD OF FRAGILE THINGS

"Don't cry my love, I feel your love for me."

LOOK FOR ME IN THE WHITE FOREST

HIDING IN A HOLLOW TREE (COME FIND ME)

"Do me a favor Shane."

"Anything."

"Kiss me again. Just one last time." Shane kissed her lips. "I know you love me."

I CAN TASTE IT IN YOUR TEARS

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John punched a wall in the hallway. The other WWE superstars in the area waited in the waiting room. Trish and Amy sobbed openly. Matt held Amy and Shannon held Trish. Jeff was on the phone with Kacey.

"I'm on my way Jeff."

"Kace, I don't think that's a good idea in your condition."

"I'm pregnant not handicapped."

"Kace, please."

"Jeff, I'll see you in the morning." Kacey hung the phone up.

"Damn it." Jeff seethed.

"What's going little brother?" Matt asked as he rubbed Amy's neck.

"Kacey is insisting to come see Ray."

"What's wrong with that?" John asked.

"Have you forgotten my wife is now six months pregnant?"

John jumped in Jeff's face, "Have you forgotten that my girlfriend is lying in a hospital hanging on to life by a thread?"

Jeff, not backing down, "What does that have to do with the fact that I don't want my wife traveling?"

John pushed Jeff, "You asshole."

Jeff went swing back, his arm only to be caught by a more masculine one.

"This is not the time son." Mark told him.

Jeff's green eyes darkened with anger as he glared at John.

"This isn't the time." Mark said again. "Your sister," he swung his head at John, "and your girlfriend needs your help with this."

Jeff being the bigger man put his hands up, "You're right. I'm here for Ray." He said looking John in the eye.

"And you're saying I'm not?" John asked going after Jeff again.

Mark grabbed him by the back of his jersey swinging him nearly across the room. "I said this isn't the time," he stood in John's face. "My daughter is fighting for her life and I don't need this shit."

"Where's Shane?" Jeff looked up at Mark.

"Shane fainted." John told him.

"Is he okay?" Matt asked leaving Amy to sleep on the benches.

"I'll be fine." Shane said holding an ice pack to the back of his head; "It's Ray you need to worry about."

"How is she?"

"Not much better than the last time you asked." John said.

Trish jumped up, "You know what?"

"Trish," Mark let out a breath, "Sit. John, come here."

Trish sat back down next to Shannon.

Mark slammed John against the wall, "If I have to tell you one more time that isn't not about you, that it's about her I am going to make you leave."

"Mark,"

"Don't interrupt me son." Mark was really losing his patience with this boy, "I know you have this competition with Shane but this is not the time for it."

"Mark don't act like you don't know that she loves him. That she loves him in a way that she will never love me."

Mark put his hand up to stop him, "This is not the time for you to whine. But since we are talking about it, I know that my baby has done nothing but put up with your shit. So if you don't straighten up she will leave you with my advice."

Tears welled up in John's throat, he slid down the wall squatting on the floor. "Mark I love her. I love her so much."

Mark looked at the boy on the floor, "Then I would suggest you start acting like it son. Because at the rate you're going, you are about to be alone."

John knew he was right but he didn't know quite what he was doing wrong. But he would find out, he swore it on his life, he was going to make everything right with his girl.

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Ray lay there a prisoner of her own mind. She heard Shane speak but couldn't do anything about, couldn't tell him how much she loved him. To tell him of the torment that her father subjected her to.

CLOSING YOUR EYES TO DISAPPEAR

I disappeared a long time ago. I just want to visit once more to finish what I started.

PRAY YOUR DREAMS WILL LEAVE YOU HERE

Some body has got to take care of daddy Shane. You can't come with me

BUT STILL YOU WAKE AND KNOW THE TRUTH

NO ONE'S THERE

Shane just know whenever you close your eyes, I'll be there for you. I love you.

SAY GOODNIGHT

DON'T BE AFRAID

Don't be afraid of my death Shane, I'm not afraid.

CALLING ME AS YOU FADE TO BLACK