Will Things Change

Chapter 8

"The Flight that made him realize"

Randy, John, Stephanie, and Lita all got on the plane. They had four-seat isle. It was John at the window, then Lita, then Stephanie, and then Randy. They were all talking having a good conversation until John got tires and went to sleep. Lita, Randy, and Stephanie just continued talking. "Hey Randy, I have to go to the bathroom." "Okay." He stood up and let Stephanie pass him. Then she suddenly tripped and fell on him. "Oh crap, sorry Randy." "It's okay Steph." Stephanie and Randy exchanged smiles and then she walked to the bathroom. While Stephanie was in the bathroom, Randy leaned over to Lita. "Hey Lita?" "Yeah?" "Don't tell Steph this…But, I think I have feelings for her." "What? Really?" "Yeah, I don't know what it is. There's just something about Stephanie tha-." "What about me?" Stephanie but him off as she returned. "Oh hey Steph, I was just saying that there's something about you that will make you strong in this business." "Oh, okay." Randy let her through and she sat down. There was a moment of silence before they started talking again.

The rest of the plane ride was pretty awkward for some of the part. Randy just kept looking at Lita hoping that she wouldn't accidentally spill the beans and get Stephanie to know what he told Lita. But she didn't tell her. When the plane had landed, Lita was walking behind Randy when they were getting off of the plane. "So, do you want to talk to me about this some more later?" "Yeah, tonight okay." "Okay." They continued walking off the plane.

They entered the airport and went over to the baggage claim. They were all able to find their bags pretty fast. Stephanie walked over to get a drink of water; on her way back a guy approached her. He was tall, long dirty blonde hair, dark brown evil looking eyes. "Hey there baby, how are you doing?" "Please leave me alone." "Maybe I don't want to leave you alone." "Well, just please go away, I didn't do anything to you okay?" "Listen lady, if you just cooperate with me, everything will be okay and you won't get hurt." "Whatever just leave me alone!" Stephanie's voice started to get slightly louder. "Randy!" "Stop yelling you stupid bitch!" Randy was talking to John. "Hey man, did you hear that?" "I think so, where's Stephanie. It doesn't take that long to get a drink of water." "I'll go find her okay." "Alright man." Randy looked around. Stephanie was screaming but couldn't be heard over the man covering her mouth with his hand. "Stop screaming now!" "(Muffling) No!" He was pulling her away and around a corner when a big strong arm grabbed this guy's shoulder and pulled him back. He released Stephanie and started to punch at her knight in shining armor. They were throwing punches back and fourth until her hero finally got the last punch, a security guard came over and took care of him. Stephanie was hiding her eyes crying when she looked up. She was beyond shocked as to who saved her. "Batista?" "Call me Dave." "Oh, Dave. W-why did you save me? And what are you doing here? Aren't you from Washington DC or something?" "Yeah, funniest thing. I actually took the wrong flight. They're sending my bags here though." "Oh, I'm sorry…well do you need a place to stay?" "Oh no, it's okay, I'll just stay at a near bye hotel." "No, I insist you stay with me at my apartment." "Are you sure?" "The least I could do a for a man who saved my life." "Thanks." They walked over to go find her friends. "So how are you and Stacy doing?" "Um…well, actually we're not together anymore." "You're not?" "No, it was kind of hard for us because Hunter kept getting in the way of us even maintaining anything." "Are you serious?" "Yeah, I'll be fine." "Are you sure?" "Yeah." They continued walking over.

Randy returned to John and Lita. "Guys, I couldn't find her. I don't know where she is." John looked over and pointed at the shock. "What the?" Lita asked as her jaw dropped. Stephanie and Dave approached them together. "Steph, what are you doing with him?" "Listen Randy, before you get all mad, he saved me okay. I was being attacked by some jerk off and he was about abduct me when Dave beat him up, got him arrested and saved me at the same time. So please, can you cut him a little slack?" "Steph, you are asking me an awful lot right here. I mean do you know who this is? This is the animal from Evolution." "Randy stop, listen I realize that but he didn't harm me okay." "Steph, I don't want you hanging around with him!" "You know Randy, I'm really shocked at you. I think this is becoming a problem for you because for once. You weren't my hero. Why are you always my hero anyway Randy? Why do you always happen to be where I am waiting for something bad to happen to me? Well guess what, sorry. You missed this one. It's like you follow me around everywhere I go, you're like my stalker or something." "Steph it's not like tha-." "I don't want to hear it Randy, now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go home with my new friend here." Stephanie stormed off and walked out of the airport and went to her car.

They arrived at her place and settled in. she showed him around and showed him where his room was going to be. He put his bags in the room and they went downstairs to the kitchen to get some food. They grabbed some spaghetti and watched TV together while eating. Batista looked over at Stephanie. "What?" "Why are you being so nice to me?" "Because you saved my life, remember. About 3:30 this afternoon, bad guy, real ugly." "Yeah I know, but Randy had a point. I am from Evolution, why are you taking a chance on me?" "Dave, you must think I'm stupid or something." "What?" "Well, I don't know if you your self can see it. But I have seen it for almost a month now." "What are you talking about?" "I'm talking about you and Hunter, and Evolution." "What about that?" "Dave, you know that you want to leave. You want to get out of there. You are so much better then Triple H and you know it. You have so much potential and Hunter is taking that away form you. You shouldn't let him do that to you." "Listen Stephanie, Evolution is on my side okay, I'll be fine." "No they're not Dave, Triple H is just waiting for the right opportunity to get rid of you. He did the same thing to Randy because Randy was better then him. He won the belt and he paid for it. Don't do this to you're self-Dave. Get out of there." "Stephanie, I can't." "Yes you can!" They were getting closer and closer until finally their lips locked and they were in for a passionate kiss. Stephanie broke the kiss and looked at him puzzled. What did I just do?" "I think that we just kissed each other." "No shit, holy crap. I just kissed Dave Batista." "Am I that bad?" "No, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it like that. It's just that, I've never thought that I'd kiss you, and would…like it." They had a moment of silence before locking lips again. They were kissing when he fell on top of her on the couch. They were getting more and more into it. Just when he was about to get her shirt off, the phone rang. "Oh shoot, that's probably important." She got up and left him on the couch. Dave was in dreamland. Stephanie answered the phone. "Hello?" "Listen Steph, I really want to talk to you." "Randy not now okay." "But Steph, I know I was wrong to judge Dave." "It's okay Randy, I know you didn't really mean it. I'm really sorry for what I said too. I didn't mean it at all. I really appreciate what you've done for me. Can you ever forgive me?" "Yes Steph, listen I need to tell you something." "What?" "Um…did you want to? Um." "What Randy? What is it?" "Did you want to bring Dave to have lunch with everyone tomorrow?" "Sure, I'll see you tomorrow." "Okay." "One o'clock." "Okay, bye." "See yah."

Dave was listening to what Stephanie was saying to Randy as he was sitting on the couch. He felt bad for listening to her conversation, but while listening to it he realized something. At that moment, Stephanie hung up the phone. She walked over to Dave and sat next to him. There was a weird moment of silence before Dave broke it. "You know, I'm going to go to bed. I'll probably have my stuff tomorrow, then I'll just get a flight back to DC." "Oh, okay. Well good night then." "Night." Dave went up stairs and went to bed.

(LOOKS LIKE THINGS ARE GOING TO TAKE A DIFFERENT TURN. CHECK OUT THE NEXT CHAPTER TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS.)