A/N: Thank you to gurl42069, legend thriller, corrs1977 and wrestlenascargirl for reviewing. I'm about 2/3's of the way through this so everything will start to change over the next few chapters. Enjoy-Kiera

Chapter Eighteen: The Best Laid Plans

Ever since she was a child, Ava had always managed the most miraculous escapes at the very last minute. No matter the problem, she could always fix it at the 11th hour. But this was different, for five long months she has been caged up in a house going insane, getting bigger and waiting, praying that John would rush in and sweep her away. What reason did he have not to? Hadn't he got the message which explained everything? Her hope lasted a month, just four and a half weeks and then Ava realised she was going to have to do this herself; she was going to have to pull one hell of a plan out of her ass. So between all of Gloria, Nathen's, Josh's and the Nurse's visits, Ava sat alone and thought. Now you may have thought that after three weeks her plan would have been a masterpiece full of cunning disguises and get away cars. Something, that the best writer would be pleased about right? Wrong. Her plan was relatively simple, it was all in the execution really and basing her idea on the fact she could still get anywhere for free even if her face hadn't graced the pages of a tabloid newspaper in months. She paid the maid 500 in cash to cause some sort of distraction while she bolted out the front door. At first the maid had been sceptical, but Ava was coming back, why I'm not too sure. But she was, there was just somewhere she had to be for a short while she explained to the maid. The maid had then nodded and started a fire in the kitchen, and she has slipped out the front door.

John was lacing up his boots, running through his schedule, calling Amber his girlfriend of exactly three months, and pitching new storylines. He was doing everything he could to try and forget that he was in Hollywood and that Ava was somewhere close, carrying Josh's baby. He didn't want to think about her or them together.

Of course if John and Ava had got what they wanted, this story would be three chapters long and very boring, too clean cut and full of happy ever afters that I've pointed out don't exist. That's why as John were doing a million things at once in his locker room, the door burst open and Ava walked in. His first thought was how different she looked. Her hair was limp and un-brushed, her face was thin and she wore no make up, and she was showing now, just enough that her stomach pushed out the front of her Von Dutch T-Shirt.

"Hey." He greeted, he was trying to stay friendly and not to panic or over react.

"Hey?" She laughed then. "Is that all you can say to me? I've been waiting for you."

"Why?"

"Because it took me three weeks to come up with a plan to get out of the house this long to see you. Where have you been?"

"At home, Ava I have no idea what you're talking about."

She pushed her hair back from her face. "I tried to leave Josh and he dragged me home, so I tried to kill myself and he kept me sedated for three weeks, convincing a Doctor I was crazy and getting me pregnant. I've been a prisoner, I needed you John."

He rolled his eye and pulled on a jersey. "As far as excuses go that one is really feeble. Come on Ava, you've won an Oscar, can't you give me something better then that?"

"John I'm serious! Where do you think I've been for months? I wanted to be with you, I was willing to prove and look what happened!"

She motioned to her stomach and if hadn't been for that moment, with the old Ava showing through in her eyes, John would never have believed her, which is exactly what Josh had been betting on, the fact that what he had done was so outrageous that no one on this Earth would ever have believed it happened. But John did, he could tell she was telling the truth and all he could do was stand there and look at her.

"Ava…."

"I sat everyday in my room going stir crazy waiting for you to come get me and you never did."

"All I heard was that you where pregnant and I didn't want to know anymore."

He sat down, feeling like a failure, almost as though he had been the executioner who had condemned Ava to this fate. She paced the room.

"Don't you want to be with me?" She finally asked

"I can't, not now. You're having someone else's baby and I have a girlfriend now."

"What?"

"Ava you have a husband, what did you expect me to do?"

She shook her head and paced again. "You where my last chance."

John sighed loudly, there where so many voices in his head that he wasn't sure what to do.

"John if you don't want me then I have to go home, I have to go back to Josh and have this baby and stay in this bubble for the rest of my life and I don't think I can. Now I can see the lie, I can't live it, it will kill me."

"That's an awful lot to put on me, you're expecting me to save you when you can save yourself."

Ava shook her head, tears threatened to spill over. "No, I can't, I'm in too deep. What sort of life could I have with someone who drugged me for god's sake!"

"I don't want you to go back to that either," John said. "Look, I'll drive you to the airport and I'll wait with you while you get on a plane and go back to your Mom's."

"I don't want that. I want you, and I know you want me too. You're just too busy thinking of reason's why we can't be together that you're ignoring the reason's we can, the reasons we should."

She was getting upset, distraught even and John didn't like the thought of a pregnant woman getting that upset because of him. He got to his feet and stopped her pacing.

"John I love you." She told him

And even though she had possibly never spoken a truer word it didn't matter. John couldn't, nothing in this world is black and white, John just couldn't be with her now. But now doesn't mean ever and it was only because Ava knew that too did she go home promising to call him if anything happened again. He may not have been prepared to be with her, but John Cena was sure as hell not going to let her rot.